Fiona Calvert is Technical Support (Agriculture) at Hill Labs, providing assistance both internally and externally on methodology and understanding of tests for soil, plant, feed and compost analysis services, to a wide range of primary sector clients. Fiona’s agricultural science career began in 1980 with MafTech/AgResearch as a soil research technician then expanded into plant
Dr Charlotte Reed is a DairyNZ scientist working across a range of projects, including environmental risk indicators and mitigations, heat stress in dairy cows and making the most of cow wearables. Charlotte has a background in reproductive physiology and completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington on the impact of oocyte quality on dairy
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
Dr. Marjan Sprock, a registered and practising vet on the west coast, showcased a case study and the process in which she went through to diagnose a severe mycotoxin challenge. This step by step encounter was used as a case study to show the symptoms that arose, and the process taken to review and diagnose
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
The method is very important and cannot be over-looked.
Fibre is important in the ruminant diet, however with increasing fibre in the diet comes a decrease in energy which impacts on production. In high performance animals it is hard to satisfy both the high energy requirements to support milk production and get enough physically effective fibre in the diet to support rumen health. In
Using in-vitro gas production analysis.
