Gail Carpenter: You can’t outfeed bad management
Update: 2025-09-09
Description
In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, Gail Carpenter, who is an assistant professor and state dairy specialist at Iowa State University, and host Kimmi Devaney discuss a variety of topics ranging from dairy nutrition, reproduction, silage management and advice for dairy youth.
Visit the Iowa State Extension Dairy Team website for resources.
Here is an episode overview:
- [~0:55 ] Meet Gail Carpenter
- [~2:45 ] “You can’t outfeed bad management” and back to basics on stocking density, cow comfort, water trough management and more
- [~10:30 ] Research: the impact of molasses supplementation on sorting with transition cows
- [~13:45 ] Strategies to improve fiber digestion
- [~15:05 ] Silage: disease pressure and silage inventory
- [~17:35 ] Considerations for silage season
- [~19:30 ] Planning for the 2026 silage season
- [~20:35 ] Heifer performance strategies
- [~24:20 ] Tips to reduce involuntary culling
- [~28:00 ] Top challenges Carpenter is hearing from producers
- [~31:50 ] Greatest opportunities for dairy producers right now
- [~36:35 ] What Carpenter is most excited about with the next generation of the dairy industry
- [~39:15 ] The collegiate dairy activities that had the greatest impact on her and set her up for success in her career
- [~34:10 ] Carpenter’s advice for students and young people interested in a dairy career
- [~50:55 ] Rapid-fire questions
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