Priority Area: Ensuring animal health and welfare

Sumner-Davis’s project will use a downdraft table that will allow for forage and grain grinding indoors. This will avoid the logistically challenges and undesirability of grinding outdoors during the winter…

Kehoe’s project will use a handheld, portable blood gas machine to measure levels of various gases found in blood. This machine opens up a multitude of research opportunities on calf…

Kelm’s project will determine the accuracy, accessibility, and commercialization ability of Cal-Meter, a cowside meter used to determine calcium levels in cattle blood serum. After calving, serum calcium levels drop…

Zwald’s project will build a weaned calf structure to provide housing for calves from 9 weeks t0 5 months transitioning from the individual hutch to the heifer barn. This is…

Zwald’s project will renovate the Dairy Learning Center storage room into a research lab at Mann Valley Farm. This lab would allow for benchtop experiments and analyses to support dairy…

Zwald’s project will expand and renovate the calf barn facility at Mann Valley Farm at UW–River Falls to increase calf research capabilities. The new facility will be able to hold…

Zwald’s project will purchase and install 42 calf pens to replace the current calf housing system at UW–River Falls. This is part of a larger project aiming to increase Mann…