NAAB In September, I gave an invited presentation, “Animal welfare: Current trends for dairy cattle and relevance to the AI sector” for the 27th National […]

Here’s a retrospective on the month of August New Van Os lab Master student! At the beginning of August, Kim Reuscher from Texas joined our […]

Here’s a retrospective on the month of July: Marshfield Agricultural Research Station July started off with a visit to the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station (MARS), […]

Here is a belated recap for the month of June: First student member of the Van Os lab! At the beginning of June, the Van […]

Here is a belated recap for the month of May: Dairyland Initiative workshops At the start of May, I attended the Dairyland Initiative workshops in Green […]

Here is a belated recap for the month of April: Farm Visits As UW-Madison’s new extension specialist in dairy animal welfare, I’ve been eager to […]

It’s been a whirlwind few months as I’ve been settling into my role at UW-Madison! The website has a new name (www.DairyAnimalWelfare.org) and I established […]

I am honored and thrilled to join the Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in […]

Last week, we published a paper in PLoS ONE on the motivation of feedlot cattle for roughage. (This was the topic I presented at the 100th […]

We recently published a paper in the Journal of Dairy Science on sample sizes and cow-selection strategies for on-farm dairy welfare assessments. (This was the topic […]