Putting Science into Practice: Applied Nutrition Platform Session and Symposium at #ADSA2025

Are you a practicing nutritionist seeking cutting-edge, applicable insights to optimize dairy rations for your clients? Join us at the 2025 ADSA Annual Meeting for our first-ever applied nutrition symposium and panel discussion focused on feeding high oleic soybeans and balancing diets for milk fat.

Gain practical strategies you can implement immediately. Learn from leading experts on soybean processing, nutritional economics, and the latest on high oleic soybeans and milk fat optimization research. Leave with actionable insights to improve your clients’ bottom line. 

Maximize your ADSA experience with targeted, in-depth learning. Choose from flexible one-day registration options—that can be bundled together—and discounted hotel options designed to fit your busy schedule and budget. 

 

Join us

Monday A.M.

ruminant nutrition
forages and pastures
Applied Nutrition Platform Session: Leveraging High Oleic Soybeans for Dairy Cow Profitability

Applied Nutrition Platform Session: Leveraging High Oleic Soybeans for Dairy Cow Profitability

Join us for an educational platform session designed to enhance your knowledge and practical skills in using soybeans for optimal dairy performance. Gain a deep understanding of advanced soybean-processing techniques, the economics of incorporating soy products into dairy diets, and the biological impact of fatty acids, with a focus on the unique advantages of high oleic soybeans.

A presentation of the latest emerging science from selected abstract presentations will be included so attendees leave with current and future takeaways on this topic.

ruminant nutrition
forages and pastures
Applied Nutrition Symposium: Strategies for Enhancing Milk Fat Production to Increase Dairy Farmers’ Bottom Line

Applied Nutrition Symposium: Strategies for Enhancing Milk Fat Production to Increase Dairy Farmers’ Bottom Line

Roll up your sleeves for a practical session and discussion on balancing diets for milk fat! A team of ruminant nutrition experts will distill the latest scientific advancements as they present advanced scenarios and modeling approaches for optimizing milk fat production along with the economics of milk fat pricing at the individual herd and market levels.

Take away actionable insights and feedback during the panel discussion addressing the complexities of formulating diets for milk fat optimization within the broader context of variable and dynamic milk markets.

Come prepared with your pressing questions on fatty acids and milk fat! 

networking
Hot-Topic Panel: Breeding for the Future

Hot-Topic Panel: Breeding for the Future

This interactive panel discussion—which will be held in the theater stage of the #ADSA2025 exhibit hall—offers a chance to hear experts discuss breeding for the cow of the future, followed by an audience Q&A.

Tuesday A.M.

ruminant nutrition
Ruminant Nutrition Symposium: Joint ADSA-NANP-ASAS-PSA Session—Anomalies in Analyzed Nutrient Composition of Feedstuffs
Joint symposium with the National Animal Nutrition Program (NANP), the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), and the Pou

Ruminant Nutrition Symposium: Joint ADSA-NANP-ASAS-PSA Session—Anomalies in Analyzed Nutrient Composition of Feedstuffs
Joint symposium with the National Animal Nutrition Program (NANP), the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), and the Poultry Science Association (PSA)

Improving nutrient utilization by livestock is important for the economic and environmental sustainability of producing animal-based products. Once the physiological requirements of the animal have been estimated, precise delivery of nutrients requires an understanding of nutrient utilization and an accurate analysis of feed nutrient composition. However, even after 130 years of continual evolution in methodology for the analysis of feed nutrients, nutritionists are still unable to fully account for the entire organic matter composition of feedstuffs when summing the nutrients. The purpose of this symposium is to present our current understanding of nutrient composition in a historical context and discuss current thoughts on the intricacies of nutrient analysis and the nutritive value of feeds. Additionally, we will highlight the work of the NANP Feed Composition Committee in unifying the nutrient composition of feedstuffs for use in nutrient-requirement models and diet formulation. This half-day symposium will be presented in a way that will be of interest to academics and industry professionals alike.

Speaker, Affiliation Presentation Title
Fred Owens, Youngstown State University Unassigned organic matter in feed
David Mertens, Mertens Innovation & Research LLC Neutral detergent fiber analysis
Glen Broderick, University of Wisconsin–Madison Protein fraction analyses
Mary Beth Hall, The Cows Are Always Right, LLC Starch and other nonfiber carbohydrate analyses
Nicole Schlau, Dairyland Laboratories Inc. Assessing accuracy and validity of assays from commercial feed analysis laboratories and AOAC acceptance of procedures
Ryan Dilger, University of Illinois Development of an evergreen, interactive, and consolidated dataset of feedstuff nutrient composition
ruminant nutrition
forages and pastures
Ruminant Nutrition Platform Session: Alternative Feed Ingredients for Dairy Rations

Ruminant Nutrition Platform Session: Alternative Feed Ingredients for Dairy Rations

Coming Soon!

Speaker, Affiliation Presentation Title
Luciano Pinotti, University of Milan Alternative foodstuffs in dairy ruminant nutrition: Basic concepts, recent issues, and future challenges
Zhengxia Dou, University of Pennsylvania Alternative feed for livestock: Opportunities and challenges to support a circular food system
Eduardo Rico, University of Pennsylvania Of cows and bugs: Using insects as alternative feeds in dairy cattle nutrition

Wednesday A.M.

JDS
ruminant nutrition
Feed Additives to Mitigate Methane Symposium: Recommendations Published in a Journal of Dairy Science Special Issue (half day)

Feed Additives to Mitigate Methane Symposium: Recommendations Published in a Journal of Dairy Science Special Issue (half day)

This year, the Journal of Dairy Science released a special issue synthesizing decades of nutrition innovation on feed additives for methane reduction to help scientists, dairy professionals, product developers, producers, and consumers fill knowledge gaps and build trust around feed additives. This symposium will focus on each of the six articles’ detailed technical recommendations—covering the full spectrum of additive development and implementation—and actionable best practices.

Speaker, Affiliation Presentation Title
David Yáñez-Ruiz, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Recommendations for identification and selection of bioactive compounds to develop antimethanogenic feed additives
Alexander Hristov, The Pennsylvania State University Recommendations for testing enteric methane-mitigating feed additives in ruminant studies
Jan Dijkstra, Wageningen University & Research Modeling the impact of feed additives on enteric methane emission of ruminants—Approaches and recommendations
Alejandro Belanche, University of Zaragoza A guideline to uncover the mode of action of antimethanogenic feed additives for ruminants
Juan Tricarico, Dairy Management Inc. Regulatory frameworks and scientific evidence requirements for the authorization of feed additives to mitigate ruminant methane emissions
Agustin del Prado, Basque Center for Climate Change Assessment of feed additives as a strategy to mitigate enteric methane from ruminants—Accounting; How to quantify the mitigating potential of using antimethanogenic feed additives

Wednesday P.M.

ruminant nutrition
animal health
Joint Ruminant Nutrition and Animal Health Platform Session: NC2040—The Gut as a Gateway; What We Know, What We Don’t, and Where We’re Going

Joint Ruminant Nutrition and Animal Health Platform Session: NC2040—The Gut as a Gateway; What We Know, What We Don’t, and Where We’re Going
Joint session with the NC2040 multistate research project

Gut health has become a key topic of discussion at the farm-gate and in research circles. This growing interest in gut health has driven deeper investigations into the physiology and immunology of the ruminant digestive tract. In this platform session, co-hosted by ADSA and the NC2040 multistate group, we will highlight recent research on dairy cow gut health and outline future directions for optimizing digestive health in dairy cattle.

Speaker, Affiliation Presentation Title
Anne Laarman, University of Alberta Gut health in ruminants: Where to from here?
Greg Penner, University of Saskatchewan Background and gaps in data for gut health