Category: Research: It’s Applied

    • Methane emissions project

      In conjunction with the feed efficiency effort that the White Lab spearheads, a significant offshoot of that project was recently funded by the Greener Cattle Initiative to measure methane emissions…

    • Featured Research on RPC

      Research focusing on rumen protected choline (RPC) out of the White Lab earlier this year was featured in this month’s Progressive Dairy magazine. The article focuses on the effects supplemental…

    • Sampling On-Farm!

      On one of the hottest days of the year, Dr. White went to a small dairy farm in northern Illinois to sample cows with Erin and Sophia Green. The farm…

    • Progressive Dairy Canada: July 2020

      Understanding the importance of metabolic health during the transition period in dairy cows is of the upmost importance. After “Feed efficiency and metabolic health: How might we improve them both…

    • Progressive Dairy: May 2020

      As part of the series of publications in Progressive Dairy, Dr. Heather White and Michael DeVeth continue to discuss nutritional interventions in the article titled “Nutritional intervention improves feed efficiency…

    • Progressive Dairy: Feb 2020

      A follow-up article has been published in Progressive Dairy called “Feed efficiency and metabolic health: How might we improve them both in the transition cow?“. Dr. Rafael Caputo Oliveira was…

    • Progressive Dairy: Dec 2019

      In the most recent issue of Progressive Dairy, Dr. Heather White was formally mentioned for two things: becoming the Dairy Innovation Hub faculty director and researching the effects of ammonium…

    • Overview of Subclinical Ketosis Talk at Form-a-Feed Conference

      Dr. Heather White had given a talk at the annual Form-a-Feed conference in Red Wing, MN in January 2019 on subclinical ketosis. Her topics included defining specificity vs. sensitivity and…