Part 1: Megasphaera elsdenii & Milk Fat Depression: Monensin, Rapidly Degradable Starch and Rumen Bacteria Community – Dr. Paul J. Weimer

May 26, 2017

Monensin, Rapidly Degradable Starch and Rumen Bacteria Community

Check out this segment from Dr. Paul J. Weimer, from the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, as he dives into his first segment of a four part series on Megasphaera elsdenii & Milk Fat Depression: A good bug gone bad. This is an evolving story, that will hopefully lead us to a solution that is a significant economic problem for the dairy industry.

What you will learn:

• Are specific rumen microbes associated with milk fat depression?
• How different rumen microbe populations respond to varying levels of starch degradability and monensin.

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Dr. Paul J. Weimer

Research Microbiologist
U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Dr. Paul Weimer received his BS in Biology from Carroll College (WI), and MS and PhD in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After 10 years at the Central Research and Development Department at DuPont, he joined the USDA-ARS Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI in 1988. His research interests include rumen microbiology and the role of rumen microbes in determining milk composition and feed efficiency; microbial fiber degradation; and microbial production of volatile fatty acids.

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