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Dr Brian Sloan – The Potential of Amino Acid Balancing in Maxamising Cow Performance on a Pasture Based Diet

Dr. Brian Sloan is the Director of Ruminant Business at Adisseo, bringing over 36 years of industry experience. He began his academic journey in biological sciences, shifting to agricultural biochemistry for his undergraduate degree and completing a Ph.D. working with dairy cow trials at Newcastle University. Dr. Sloan’s expertise in ingredients, agribusiness, and agriculture has

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November 25, 2025 No Comments

Dr Brian Sloan – Protein Nutrition in a Pasture Based Diet

Dr. Brian Sloan is the Director of Ruminant Business at Adisseo, bringing over 36 years of industry experience. He began his academic journey in biological sciences, shifting to agricultural biochemistry for his undergraduate degree and completing a Ph.D. working with dairy cow trials at Newcastle University. Dr. Sloan’s expertise in ingredients, agribusiness, and agriculture has

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November 25, 2025 No Comments

Paul Sharp – Feeding food waste to cows

Paul’s years of experience working with farmers who have access to food waste coming from the human food chain shone through in his session. Paul talks about what type of waste products he uses on a common basis as well as some of the alternative products. He steps through how to review different feed options

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September 24, 2024 No Comments

Transition cow diets and phosphorus – Pip Gale

Pip scene set this presentation by proposing that we are hit with “data overload/decision paralysis” around what to do with options facing us regarding transition cow management programmes. “Winning” with regard to good outcomes from excellent transition management means limiting the of incidence of metabolic disease to <1%, supporting optimum DMI through understanding the “HOT”

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March 20, 2024 No Comments

Transition Cow NRC 2021 Update, Prof. Bill Weiss

Dr. Bill Weiss is a Professor emeritus of dairy cattle nutrition at The Ohio State University. He worked extensively in the areas of minerals and vitamins on cow health, forage, feed evaluation and methods to incorporate variability into ration formulation for dairy cattle. Dr. Weiss has published more than 140 journal articles and 450 proceedings

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September 22, 2022 No Comments

A varied diet for improved animal performance, nutrient use efficiency, and welfare

K. Garrett, A. Greer, C. Logan and P. Gregorini, Lincoln University Hypothesis: Conventional farming aims to meet nutrient requirements of the average animal. Dietary diversity and variety could improve health and welfare, product quality and bring environmental benefits. Methods: 7 rams were allocated each to 1. variety, 2. monotonous mix, 3. monotony ryegrass for 40

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November 26, 2019 No Comments

Optimising Dairy Farming – Ministry for Primary Industries Farm Systems Change Case Studies

Jane Davidson and Albert Hanson presented a summary of the Farm Systems Change Dairy initiative. This project aims to close the gap between top performaing dairy farms and the
rest of the industry. MPI is working alongside top performing dairy farmers to understand how they have improved farm performance and producivity.
While each farm in the study was different, a number of themes, principles and practices have been identified that can contribute to the discussion about how to enable more dairy
farmers to improve their environmental, animal welfare and financial outcomes.

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August 15, 2018 No Comments
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