Smart Science Series™ Ruminant Podcasts
Each podcast contains timely nutritional information from Adisseo and industry experts.
The conversational Transition Health series focuses on solutions to transition health concerns.
The previous two series present research highlights from the 2021 and 2022 American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Annual Meetings.
The latest serie focuses on Amino Acid balancing for Lifetime Performance as we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of AA balancing in 2023.
Episodes
32 episodes
Introduction to CNCPS v7 to more cost effectively AA balance
Soon – perhaps before the end of 2023 – we will see the release of CNCPS version 7. This much anticipated update will include many enhancements which should enable dairy producers and their nutritionists to formulate better diets that will impr...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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57:34
Profound affects on dairy herd sustainability
As the dairy industry actively works to reduce its contribution to climate change, a number of avenues are being pursued. While methane mitigation is grabbing the headlines today, one very important avenue is flying under the radar: impro...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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59:41
Advantages on involuntary culling and herd structure dynamics
The objective of this webinar is to create awareness of how different events that happen throughout the lactation cycle impact the herd’s make-up and affect the overall economics of the dairy. Estimating the long-term effects of non-conte...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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33:31
Feeding RPM and calcium salts enriched in omega-3 fatty acids
Abstract 1: METHIONINE AND FATTY ACID SUPPLEMENTATION ON MILK N3FA PERCENT AND YIELD Researchers from Cornell University investigated the effects of feeding RPM and calcium salts of fatty acids enriched with or ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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5:13
New research related to amino acid supplementation and 1) mitigating milk fat depression and 2) altering mammary extraction of nutrients
Abstract 1: Amino acid supplementation as a potential strategy to mitigate milk fat depression Researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison also evaluated if they could help promote milk fat synthesis by suppl...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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5:12
How molecular and gene expression changes in liver tissue from mid-lactation dairy cows supplemented with methionine during a subclinical mastitis challenge
Researchers at Virginia Tech assessed molecular changes in the livers of cows supplemented with methionine during solely a subclinical mastitis challenge. The trial was designed to determine the metabolic response of cows fed Smartamine ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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6:37
How dairy cow immune function and liver functionality index are affected at transition by heat stress and RPM supplementation
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison examined the beneficial effects of supplemental RPM during transition for dairy cows that were exposed to heat stress. Cows were blocked by parity and milk production, and...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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6:15
How dairy cow-calf performance is impacted by rumen-protected methionine supplementation during transition and heat stress
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison examined the effects on cow-calf performance when heat-stressed transition cows received supplemental RPM. Fifty-three cows were fed either a control diet or a control diet with ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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4:26
Strategic use of methionine to impact reproduction
This webinar links nutrition with dairy health and reproduction. Health, particularly after calving, impacts reproductive outcomes two-to-four months later. Poor health and reproductive performance can each lead to undesirable culli...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:11:19
Ensure a good start to the lactation cycle
This webinar gives you an appreciation for the science behind the indexes (LFI, LAI, PIRI) used to gauge the liver health of cows during the transition period. The discussion includes how to use and interpret the indexes, and their importance i...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:21:01
History of Amino Acid balancing and solutions for improved milk and components
This webinar will give you an appreciation for the history of the science behind amino acid (AA) balancing, the amino acids of most importance, and what improvements to expect in milk yield, fat yield and protein yield when effectively achievin...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:02:38
How methionine improves transition health
When the cows’ nutritional requirement for methionine, an essential amino acid, goes unanswered, the incidence of metabolic disease increases. A methionine shortage is also associated with low dry matter intake, lower-than-optimal milk and milk...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:04
How selenomethionine mitigates oxidative stress at transition
During the transition period, dairy cows experience increased disease risk due to oxidativestress factors such as environmental stress (e.g., heat stress), nutrition, body conditionscore, disease challenge, obesity, and increased plasma...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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25:51
How vitamin A enhances immune performance at transition
An enhanced immune performance at transition is one of four ways in which vitamin A helps dairy cattle. The other three are enhanced respiratory, digestive, and reproductive performance. Vitamin A, an essential nutrient, is stored in the liver ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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19:08
How mycotoxin deactivators reduce problems at transition
Even low levels of mycotoxins in rations increase dairy cow problems at transition. Mycotoxin contamination is associated with an increase in the incidences of ketosis, retained placentas, displaced abomasums, mastitis, metritis, lameness, elev...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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28:00
How digestibility enhancers maximize the nutrients available to transition cows
Maximizing the nutrient levels available from feedstuffs advances the cow’s nutritional status. To optimize rumen function, stimulate fiber digestion, and improve production, feed Nutri®-Ferm a unique natural fungal fermentation product.
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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9:04
How essential amino acids positively affect milk fat synthesis
Researchers from Unesp, Jaboticabal, Brazil, sought to evaluate the effects of essential amino acids on de novo milk fat synthesis in bovine mammary epithelial cells. They noted that increased milk fat yield has been observed when dairy cows ar...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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32:19
How balanced amino acid supplementation stimulates milk and component production independently of energy sources
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin – Madison hypothesized that glucogenic energy, by stimulating insulin secretion, may increase the effect of amino acids on the production of milk components. Using a Latin square design with four 28-...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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59:17
How feeding rumen protected methionine during a subclinical mastitis challenge benefits performance and oxidative stress
In a study led by South Dakota State University, researchers evaluated the effects of rumen-protected methionine (Smartamine® M) on lactation performance and liver glutathione of lactating dairy cows during a subclinical mastitis challenge....
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:16
How sodium butyrate improves duodenal development in calves
Podcast only in Portuguese! Go to our website to have the english spoken video: https://www.adisseo.com/en/products/smartline/smart-science-series-ruminant-videos-and-podcasts/.Researchers at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil eval...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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13:50
How methionine and fatty acids enriched in omega-3 improve liver function and enhance lactation
Cornell University researchers delivered two abstracts that investigated the effects of feeding rumen-protected methionine and calcium salts of fatty acids enriched with or without C20:5 and C22:6 (n3FA).For the studies, 79 multiparous H...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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36:36
How life cycle assessment demonstrates the environmental benefits of optimizing amino acids in dairy cow diets
Research from France evaluated the cradle-to-farmgate environmental performance of dairy production using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) calculations performed in the dairy module of the Animal Production Systems tool from Blonk Sustainability Too...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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16:25
How ration amino acid balancing improves the environmental impact of nitrogen from dairy cows
European researchers described how the EU Project Dy+Milk investigated better efficiency of metabolizable protein use by reducing dietary metabolizable protein content through less use of soybean meal from Brazil and balancing the profile of di...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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10:18
How Non Essential Amino Acids Affect Transition
Non essential AA play an important role in early postpartum milk production and protein synthesis. Research results point to the importance of the supply of certain non essential amino acids for maximizing early postpartum milk production...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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12:36
How Sodium Butyrate Compares to Monensin
Researchers compared the effects of supplementing sodium butyrate, monensin, or both to post-weaned heifers. The addition of either additive conferred positive effects in terms of greater dry matter intake, body weights and lower coccidia oocys...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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