TOPIC: FACTORS AFFECTING STARCH DIGESTION IN DAIRY COWS AND ITS IMPACT ON PRODUCTIVITY.
Luiz Ferraretto will talk about the various factors that affect the digestibility and utilization of starch from corn grain and corn silage, and how it affects cow productivity.
Dr. Luiz Ferraretto is a Ruminant Nutrition Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his research interests are applied dairy cattle nutrition and management with emphasis on starch and fiber utilization by dairy cows, forage quality and digestibility, and the development and evaluation of assays for feed and forage analysis.