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DAIRY NUTRITION
GROUP FORMS
Linda L. Smith
Communications Specialist
Penn State
When Dick Adams retired near
ly three years ago, he cut back his
work week from 70 hours to 40.
Adams had led Penn State
Cooperative Extension’s dairy
nutrition program for nearly 40
years. Ongoing faculty and staff
have had to reorganize to make up
for this change.
Penn State’s Dairy Cattle Nutrition Extension Group
Department of Dairy and Animal Science
A. Jud Heinrichs (814-863-3916)
Professor of Dairy and Animal Science
Lisa A. Holden (814-863-3672)
Assistant Professor of Dairy and Animal Science
Virginia A. Ishler (814-863-3912)
Extension Assistant, Dairy and Animal Science
Gabriella A. Varga (814-863-4195
Associate Professor of Animal Science
Lawrence D. Muller (814-863-4205)
Professor of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
Primary Contracts ...
Calves
Heifers
Milking cows
Dry cows
Forages
Concentrates
Minerals
Pastures
Additives, forage
Additives, concentrate
Trouble-shooting
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Make no mistake, Dick Adams
was a tough act to follow. He was
an innovator, leader, driving force,
pioneer, professional-among
professionals, cutting-edge scien
tist, and a creative leader in the
development of modem dairy
farming throughout the world (see
“Adams Steps Back, Not Down”).
To help fill the void left by
Adams, his colleagues have come
together to continue serving the
needs of the dairy industry. With
combined expertise of five indivi
duals, the Penn State Dairy Cattle
Heinrichs, Holden
Heinrichs
Heinrichs
Ishler, Heinrichs, Muller
Heinrichs, Ishler
Heinrichs, Holden, Ishler
Ishler, Heinrichs
Holden
Holden, Muller
Varga
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Jud Heinrichs
Professor
Dairy And Animal Science
Nutrition Extension Group will
use a team approach to support
Pennsylvania producers.
According to group leader Jud
Heinrichs, “Where this group is
concerned, the whole is definitely
greater than the sum of the parts.”
Gabriella Varga
Associate Professor
Animal Science
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Lisa Holden
Assistant Professor
Dairy And Animal Science
Others who comprise the group are
Lisa Holden, Virginia Ishler,
Gabriella Varga, and Larry Muller
(see chart for areas of emphasis).
With the coming of the informa
tion age and the opening of global
markets, the dairy industry is
Larry Muller
Professor
Dairy Science
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Extension Assistant
Dairy And Animal Science
experiencing many changes. To
meet the challenge, methods for
education and technology transfer
must keep up. According to Hein
richs, the emphasis for this new
Penn State group has shifted to
empowering educators and profes
sionals who are strategically posi
tioned to work with producers one
on-one. For instance, whereas a
few University extension experts
used to provide routine dietary
information to individual produc
ers, now they will spend more time
training feed industry profession
als, county agents, and
veterinarians.
A prime focus of the group’s
efforts will be to work with these
intermediaries to identify prob
lems in dairy cattle nutrition before
they become widespread, seek out
solutions, and then provide proac
tive training for those individuals
who interface regularly with
producers.
One such problem in particular
was identifying proper forage and
TMR particle size and characteriz
ing particle-size distribution so
feed recommendations could be
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