Miner Institute

Today, we're getting into miners' 30-70 mix research and the dangerously thin margins at higher feed costs.

So our mission today is to really look at this newly published trial from the Miner Institute and just run the actual barn-level math out loud.

We need to see if chasing this higher protein output by manipulating these forage ratios actually pays the feed bills on a commercial operation.

Because before we get to the mixing errors and the twisted stomachs, which we will definitely get to, we have to look at the baseline biology of what Sarah Morrison, Rick Grant, and their colleagues were actually trying to achieve here.

So name is Andrew LaPierre.

I originally hail from upstate New York, just outside of Miner Institute.

Folks still dairy up there.

I did a PhD in amino acid nutrition and then liked it so much that I renewed my lease with Dr. Mike Van Amburg and stayed on to do some CNCPS development work.

So lots of different ways of doing this.

And actually, Kate and her PhD, after I finished at UBC, when I was down in Ohio, we worked with the Minor Institute in New York.

And we wanted to see if cows would hide in a group pen as well, because I'd only to that time done individual pens or two cows in a pen.

But a lot of people calve in groups.