How Nutrition Impacts Dairy Performance with Silvia Abel-Caines
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines is a Veterinarian with a Ph.D. in Ruminant Nutrition, who is currently working as the Staff Ruminant Nutritionist for Organic Valley. She has researched neonatal immunity and colostrum supplementation in dairy calves and has also performed research on improving the fatty acid profile of milk through nutrition.
Combining the knowledge from her experience with ruminants and her technical training and research, Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines provides grazing insights and key information on maximizing dairy production by managing all aspects of cow health.
On this episode of the podcast, Silvia and I talk about
- The roles of key trace minerals in plant health and performance
- The science behind immunity with nutrition
- How the lack of key mineral access leads to plants being largely comprised of nitrogen
- Animal behavior and the feeding sequence
- How farmers can change what ruminants graze for by what they are fed prior to letting them out to pasture
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Resources
The Farm as EcoSystem by Jerry Brunetti
Grass, the Forgiveness of Nature by Charles Walters
Management-Intensive Grazing by Jim Gerrish
The Art and Science of Grazing by Sarah Flack
Soil, Grass, and Cancer by André Voisin
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. I'm John Kemp hosting this podcast. I am passionate about developing regenerative |
| 0:06.1 | agriculture systems that improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases |
| 0:11.8 | and insects, and produce fruit of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate |
| 0:16.9 | conversation about growing food as medicine. I've discovered that there are many people |
| 0:22.2 | with incredible knowledge and information about soil and plant systems and how to develop |
| 0:27.8 | regenerative agriculture systems. However, much of this knowledge and this information is scattered. |
| 0:33.4 | It's found all over the place. Some of it has been published in peer-reviewed publications, but there are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge that has not been published, and that hasn't been shared with many people. |
| 0:44.7 | I started advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion and incorporated into products and growing systems that growers |
| 0:56.7 | can easily put into practice. It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agricultural |
| 1:01.6 | systems become adopted globally and become the mainstream, the status quo, against which |
| 1:07.4 | all other growing systems are compared. To help achieve this goal, I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last decade |
| 1:15.3 | and make it available to everyone. |
| 1:17.5 | While we have developed products at AEA that embody the principles of regenerative agriculture systems |
| 1:22.5 | and make them easier for growers to apply, this knowledge and these principles can be applied |
| 1:27.3 | anywhere. |
| 1:28.3 | And when they are applied properly, they will always increase farm profitability and |
| 1:33.7 | resilience to climate stress. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or ideas, |
| 1:40.5 | topics that you would like for me to discuss, please connect on LinkedIn or on Twitter, where |
| 1:45.5 | my username is at Vision Builder 7, or you can also email me at John at Jonkemp.com. |
| 1:53.8 | I would very much like to hear from you and to hear your feedback. |
| 1:57.2 | Be sure to subscribe to this podcast, and thank you very much for listening. Enjoy the show. |
| 2:02.9 | I'm here with a veterinarian and dairy nutritionist, Dr. Sylvia Abel-Kaines, who is the staff |
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