The Nutritionist 2021

Dr Phil Cardoso, University of Illinois, USA

The Transition Cow on the Farm 

With his focus on transition cow issues, Dr Cardoso from the University of Illinois will take us on farms and look at issues related the transition period.

Massoud Aoun, Director, Idena, France

Lamb Fattening in Europe, Between Tradition and Industry

One of the formost experts in the field of small ruminant nutrition, Dr Aoun, will look at growing lambs in systems common to Europe. His focus will be with the most common breeds and examine animal needs and formulation in suckling lamb and intensive production systems.

Dr Philippe Hassoun, INRAE, France

Dairy Sheep Nutrition, Systems and Formulation Using the French System

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

Dr. Vadim Bakhchevnikov, Director NovaLab, Russia

Farm Tours of Russian Dairies and Beaver Creek Farm, USA

Vadim 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.

Dr Rick Grant, Director, Wm H Miner Institute, USA

Cow comfort and animal behavior in the barn

This will be the third talk from Rick 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.

Dr Sotirios Karvountzis, Director, MENDIP Veterinary Services, UK 

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! 

Dr Heinri Spangenberg, Director, Westside Consultancy, South Africa

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.

Daniel Scothorn, Lead Nutritionist Scothorn Nutrition, Canada

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.

Dr Tom Tylutki, President & CEO, AMTS, LLC, USA

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.