A look at Dairies in Brazil

Dr. Ramos was one of the first distributors for AMTS and was the spark for this Nutritionist series. He will take us on a tour of Brazilian dairies with a discussion of special challenges to profitability in his region.

April 8 2021 16:00 PM

Dairy Sheep Nutrition, Systems and Formulation Strategies

Dr Hassoun offers his guidance and advice in formulating dairy sheep diets based on performance expectations and production systems common in Europe. His research has focused on updating existing information on dairy sheep requirements in the INRAE system and developing a robust feed information website.

April 15 2021 16:00 PM

Farm Tours of Russian Dairies

Dr. Bakhchevnikov wears many hats! He is our distributor for Russia where he manages NovaLab, a Cumberland Valley Lab affiliate. In ordinary time, Vadim splits his time between Russia and the US where he manages Beaver Creek Farms, a 8000 cow dairy in Michigan, USA. We can look forward to tours of both Russian Dairies and Beaver Creek in his talk.

May 9 2021 16:00 PM

Cow comfort and animal behavior in the barn

This will be the third talk from Dr. Grant in our Nutritionist series. His research and focus at the Miner Institute is practically bent and of much use to the on farm nutritionist. We get to go to the farm and see how behaviors will affect production.

June 10 2021 16:00 PM

Cow-side discussions of Nutritional considerations to maintain best cow health

Dr. Karvountzis is a tremendous teacher in his paractice in UK and reaches a worldwide audience from his educational LinkedIn posts. Sotirios does so many things we wonder if he sleeps. His professional time is split between Cow Signals Training, parlor testing, insemination training, veterinary endocopy training, hooftrimming courses, to name a few. He is fortunate to hold a helicopter commercial piolot licnese should he need to get to work quickly.

July 8 2021 16:00 PM

Dairy Nutrition Troubleshooting in Italy and USA

Dr. Elena Bonfante, AMTS Distributor in Italy and Dr Bill Prokop, a noted US veterinarian/nutritionist have partnered to form Dairy Innovations, LLC, a nutritional consultancy opperating primarily in the US, Italy and parts of Europe. Long-time attendees of The Nutritionist will remember Bill’s Diet Forensics presentation in 2016 for its practical nutritional advice.

August 12 2021 16:00 PM

Fractionated or Precision Feeding of Dairy Cattle

Dr. Spangenberg has long worked as an academic and commercial nutritionist in South Africa. In his talk he will focus on using common sense in feeding the individual cow and how that is expanded to conside whole farm nutritional management.

September 9 2021 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM EDT

How do you look at your Herd’s performance?

Daniel Scothorn, through his LinkedIn posts, is a superb teacher for other nutritionists. in his hugely popular Canola Council of Canada webinar last year, Daniel set a new record for attendee questions. His talk will be a great chance for us to see what he looks for when he walks the cows on his farms.

October 14 2021 16:00 PM

Farm Tour Follow-up: Digging Deeper, Part 2

He’s Back. We are asking Tom to present again as this webinar season of  farm tours winds down. We have one more to go but we thought it good to have Tom bookend our talks with his thoughts and approaches to dairy nutrition for maximum profitability with focuses on cow comfort, health, and feed utilization.

November 11 2021 17:00 PM

Robot Start-up Experiences and Precision Feeding

Sam Fessenden will finalize our year of Farm Tours offering insights on nutritional management in a robot dairy based on his personal experience in a green robot start-up as well as through consulting on other robot dairies. Sam continues to serve as a consultant for AMTS with his intimate knowledge of the CNCPS model, as he has demonstrated in his past webinars in 2017 and 2019. Let’s see how cold it is in Minnesota in December.

December 9 2021 17:00 PM