Faculty Member, Animal Sciences
Assistant Professor of Dairy Sciences
About
JUDE L. CAPPER, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Dairy Sciences in the Department of Animal Sciences at Washington State University. Born in the UK, she undertook her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harper Adams University College (UK) where her post-graduate research focused on the relationship between ruminant nutrition and neonatal behavior. Following a two-year lectureship in Animal Biology at the University of Worcester (UK), her post-doctoral research at Cornell focused on two areas: ruminant lipid metabolism, and modeling the environmental impact of dairy production. Within the lipid metabolism field, her research is upon the effects of nutrition on milk fat depression and changes in milk fatty acid composition. For the past two years Jude has been working with Dr’s Bauman and Cady (formerly Monsanto, now Elanco) to develop a deterministic model of the environmental impact of dairy production, based on the NRC (2001) nutrient requirements for dairy cows. The initial focus was on productive efficiency, and the potential for biotechnology (rbST) to mitigate environmental impact of milk production. This was followed by a study comparing the environmental impact of dairy production in 1944 (the “good old days”) to 2007. The group’s current project evaluates the contribution made by various on-farm management practices (e.g. age at first calving, cow longevity, somatic cell count) to the environmental impact of milk production. Jude intends to continue current dairy modeling work at WSU, as well as extending the work to develop equivalent models for beef production.
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