Mandi McLeod is an international consultant on animal welfare in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Mandi holds international certification from the Professional Animal Audit Certification Organisation (PAACO), and is a Cow Signals® Master, and is trained in animal sentience for expert witness testimony. Mandi has been involved with the expert review panel for
Trish is a consultant nutritionist based in Auckland, New Zealand. With an Honours degree in Agriculture from Nottingham University in UK and gained many years’ experience working in the UK dairy and animal feed industries before immigrating to New Zealand in 1997. After working as a nutritionist for Nutritech for 4 years and as a
Dr Megan Abeyta recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Lance Baumgard focused on the impact of inflammation. To set the scene, Dr. Abeyta outlines the importance of the GIT in every animal. With 70% of the immune system located in the GIT, any damage to the protection barrier throughout the track can lead
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
Laura has joined PGG Wrightson after a 10-year career as a farm vet. Her passion is all things animal nutrition. During her veterinary career Laura has seen how good nutrition translates into great production, reproduction and animal health outcomes. Laura is a firm believer in setting good foundations of nutrition and building from this base
This is a project looking at the foraging behaviour of cattle using GPS technology to track cattle set stocked and rotationally grazed systems.
Stacey focused on techniques for measuring energy efficiency to calculate Metabolisable Energy in grazing cattle and explained a new method that is measuring energy efficiency in the field, using an automated head chamber system that measures methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen in the breath of animals as they put their head in a trough to
The “tall-grass” grazing model has a focus on building grass cover and using lower inputs.
Bridget Maclean of Fonterra shared insights around the Fat Evaluation Index with NZARN.
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