Dr Andreas Foskolos, Assistant Professor in Animal Science at the University of Thessaly, will present a special two-part The Nutritionist focused on Dairy Goats. Dr Foskolos’ research at the University of Thessaly has a emphasis in Cow Breeding and focus on Environmental Pollution Mitigation Strategies. He graduated from the Department of Animal Production at Technological Institute, Larisa. Afterwards, he completed his MSc studies in Animal Science, Wageningen University. his PhD with Professor Sergio Calsamiglia at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He worked as a Postdoc Researcher at Cornell University, under Professor Michael Van Amburgh supervision. There, his research field focused on dairy cows’ nutrition, improving the CNCPS, while he participated on several in vivo and in vitro trials. From 2015 until 2019, he worked as a Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University, Wales, focusing on dairy cows’ precision nutrition.

This first of two webinars focusing on dairy goats will look at the genetics, nutrition and production systems that work well for dairy goats. Dr Foskolos will also work in the Small Ruminant model in AMTS.Farm. If you are working with any goats in your consultancy, you won’t want to miss this webinar series.

Join us for the presentation followed by live question and answer session on November 12. The presentation will start at 9:00 am EST.

Registration required; contact Mariann to sign up.