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Bengt-Ove Rustas

Presentation

Research Interests:

Ruminant nutrition
Precision livestock farming, especially precision feeding
Methods for, mainly real time, monitoring of individual animal response on nutrient supply

Research Goal:

Develop methods for adapting nutrient supply and management to the requirement of individual dairy cows

Research Skills:

Design and analysis of experiment with dairy and growing cattle

Activity in the scientific society:

Coordinator of research, education and visits at the Swedish Livestock Research Center
Member of the organizing committee of the Nordic Feed Science conference.

Activity with stakeholders outside the scientific society:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Group of 'NorFor' – the Nordic feed evaluation system

Teaching in animal science at undergraduate level, Supervision of Master student.

On-going projects:

Title	Project managers
Milk urea concentration relative to rumen protein balance and urinary N excretion - How is the relationship influenced by ration mineral content and by diurnal variation?	Torsten Eriksson
Hydrogen sulfide as a marker for protein degradation	Torsten Eriksson
Drinking water intake as an estimate of feed intake, optimal milk urea concentration and health in dairy cows	Torsten Eriksson
Utveckling av modeller för NorFor plan för beräkning av optimal utfodringsnivå till högt avkastande mjölkkor i Skandinavien	Jan Bertilsson
Indicators of positive welfare in dairy cows: grooming behaviour and use of mechanical brushes as potential measures for onfarm welfare assessment	Linda Keeling

Researcher at the Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare; Feed science

Telephone: +4618671663, +46722446955

Postal address:

Box 7024

750 07 Uppsala

Visiting address: Ulls väg 26, Uppsala

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