Protein and amino acids are important parts of the cow’s ration. Meeting the cow’s requirements without oversupplying these nutrients ensures three things: optimum productivity, best-cost rations and sustainable rations.

One of my favourite stories to tell is about the time my grandmother made pancakes with a dead mouse.

“Invited review: Sensor technologies for real-time monitoring of the rumen environment.” Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 105 No. 85, 2022. This invited review article, from researchers from the universities of Pennsylvania, Purdue and Virginia Tech, aims at summarizing the current knowledge regarding sensor technologies for real-time monitoring of the rumen environment. 

An American farmwoman who moved from Florida to become part of a family farm in the cornfields of Iowa called me one day to say, “Elaine, I am tired of all the ranting on social media about problems with in-laws. Something needs to shift, and we need to see solutions.”

Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University, has garnered worldwide attention for her work in autism and animal behaviour. Grandin promotes better livestock handling and care, developing practical solutions to improve the welfare of livestock on farms and in processing facilities.

Inbreeding results when two related animals, with a shared ancestor in their pedigree, mate. The degree of inbreeding, or homozygosity, is a measure of how closely related the ancestors were along the sire and dam lines.