Dr Andreas Foskolos,University of Thessaly on Dairy Goat Nutrition .
Dr Foskolos gave the first of a two-part webinar mini-series on dairy goat nutrition. This webinar acted as an introduction to management systems, breeds, and seasonal differences in nmanaging dairy goats and serves as the foundation for the second webinar on December 10. It was an excellent and detailed presentation followed by extensive questions. The next webinar will cover nutrition and give attedees an opportunity to see the functionality of the Small Ruminants modle in AMTS.Farm.SmallRuminants. Dr Tom Tylutki, of AMTS will join in the discussion. Dr Foskolos would value information on what attendees would like to have covered. Send suggestions in an email.
His presentation in pdf form:
This educational series would not be possible without the support our generous sponsors. We hope you will look to them when you have nutritional needs.
Our Gold Sponsors are:Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition and The Canola Council of Canada
Silver Sponsors are: Ajinomoto Heartland, Virtus, and DairyLand Laboratories, Inc,
Bronze Sponsors are: Dairy One Forage Laboratories,Perdue AgriBusiness, Adisseo, AminoMax, PMI, and SoyChlor.
The webinars are transmitted globally in multiple languages. Mariann Fessenden from AMTS is the host and producer. A Spanish language webinar is hosted by Paula Turiello of Ifina in Argentina, Marcelo Hentz Ramos of 3RLab in Brazil hosts in Portuguese, Marcos Neves Pereira of Universidade Federal de Lavras submits questions from the Brazilian audience, Mandarin translations and hosting in China is with Shawn Li of AnSciTech, Vadim Bakhchevnikov of Novalab hosts for the Russian audience, and Elena Bonfante of Dairy Innovations Italia joins from Italy, and Hüdayi Kavuşturan of Zirve hosts for the audience in Turkey.
