What is the Cause of Milk Fat Depression in Layman's Terms?
Have you ever been perplexed by the milkfat production on a dairy and it's lack of correlation to known risk factors? Join Dr. Tom Jenkins as he kicks off a new series on managing milk components. This first episode lays the foundation for understanding the cause of milkfat depression and is the first step in managing for better outcomes.
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What's Next?
Dr. Jenkins has an exciting curriculum planned for this series, including exploration of each of the key risk factors for milkfat depression, as well as nutritional impacts on other milk components.Dr. Jenkins attended Penn State University for his BS and MS degrees, and received a Ph.D. at Cornell University. After a postdoc at The Ohio State University, he then moved to Clemson University where he continued work on dairy cattle nutrition for over 30 years. Dr. Jenkins taught undergraduate and graduate courses in nutrition and coordinated a research program on use of fat in diets for dairy cattle including basic work on rumen lipid metabolism. He has published extensively in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and has given numerous invited presentations across more than ten countries on lipid metabolism in dairy cattle and the practical aspects of fat feeding. Dr. Jenkins has received several awards from Clemson University and The American Dairy Association for his research accomplishments in rumen lipid metabolism.
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