The Nutritionist 2021
Each hour session is held on the second Thursday of the month at 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EST, during February, March, November, and December and 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM EDT, April through October. A link to the complete recording of each seminar will later be posted here. Pre-registration is required. For more information and registration, contact webinars@agmodelsystems.com
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.
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 and Food Production, The Canola Council of Canada, Idena, Protekta
Silver Sponsors are: Ajinomoto Heartland, Virtus, and DairyLand Laboratories, Inc, Dairy One Forage Laboratories, Adisseo, Micronutrients
Bronze Sponsors are: Perdue AgriBusiness, AminoMax, Origination, Inc., Phileo, Milc Group, and Balchem
2021 Webinars
September 9 2021 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM EDT Completed/Processing
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.
October 14 2021 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM EDT
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.
November 11 2021 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EST
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.
December 9 2021 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EST
Dr Sam Fessenden, AMTS, LLC and partner, Silver Spirit Farm, USA
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.
Archived Recordings of Completed Webinars
The Nutritionist 2021 webinar Elena Bonfante & Bill Prokop
Dr Elena Bonfante and Bill Prokop tour us through three farms making milk for cheese production in Italy.
The Nutritionist 2021 Sotirios Karvountzis
The July webinar with Dr Sotirios Karvountzis was a great overview of how nutritionists, veterinarians, and dairy managers can work together to optimize animal performance.
The Nutritionist 2021 Rick Grant
Dr Rick Grant delivered a great farm tour and talked about cow comfort specifics.
The 2021 Sheep Nutritionist Winchell
Follow the Read More link to listen to the archived webinar recording
The 2021 Nutritionist May 13 Bakhchevnikov
Enjoy a realistic farm tour of a Michigan, USA 8200-cow dairy and a large dairy in Russia with our host Dr Vadim Bakhchevnikov.
The 2021 Sheep Nutritionist April Hassoun
Dr Philippe Hassoun, INRAE (France) teaches us about feeding milking sheep in the INRAE system. Read more for the recording.
The Nutritionist 2021 April 8 Ramos
Click Read More to listen to the recording of Marcelo Hentz Ramos as he talks about the Brazilian dairy industry.
The Sheep Nutritionist Massoud Aoun March 18
Mr Aoun provided an excellent, well constructed webinar with information on selection, traditions, and nutritional considerations for profitable fattening and marketing of sheep.
The Nutritionist 2021 Mar Cardoso
Dr Phil Cardoso’s March 2021 The Nutritionist webinar was a great look at the details of researching transition cow issues.
The Nutritionist 2021 Feb Tylutki
Dr Tom Tylutki takes us on another farm tour in the inaugural The Nutritionist 2021 webinar. After a very snowy walking of the barns and discussion of the groups, Tom answers questions on his approach to nutritional troubleshooting.
The Nutritionist 2021 Season Roster
We have an exciting season of farm tours traveling, virtually, from North America to Brazil, to Russia, UK, South Africa, France and places in between. Robots and Sheep and many cows! Read more to see the roster.
The series is a unique, multi-language presentation held in English, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Noted ruminant nutritionists present in English hosted by Mariann Fessenden of AMTS in the United States; Marcelo Hentz Ramos hosts a simultaneously translated webinar in Portuguese, Shawn Li hosts in Mandarin, Vadim Bakhchevnikov hosts in Russia, Elena Bonfante in Italy, Hüdayi Kavuşturan in Turkey, and Paula Turiello hosts a Spanish language webinar.
The purpose of these webinars is to provide access to technical seminars on a range of topics delivered by internationally recognized speakers to a global audience.
Key Points About the Nutritionist
The presentations are delivered in English on Zoom webinar platform and approximately 60 minutes in length.
The Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Russian language webinars are simultaneously translated and transmitted on other platforms.
Questions are fielded from English language listeners as well as form listeners in Argentina, Brazil, Russia, China, and Italy. The flow of the talk is not interrupted for translation.
The audience is global. To better accommodate listeners in all time zones, the recorded webinar is played with live question opportunities offered in both morning and night sessions on the webinar day.
Archived recordings of past webinars are available for on our website. Recordings are also available as podcasts.
All webinars and recordings have received CEU credit approval from ARPAS