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Learn How Their Research Can Give You Results
The Selenium iCast is an interactive, web-based broadcast focusing on selenium and animal health. Airing from www.Sel-Plex.com, each Selenium iCast features prominent researchers who are interviewed using questions you submit to Sel-Plex@alltech.com in the weeks leading up the broadcast.
The purpose of the Selenium iCasts is to bridge the gap between research and real world application. Industry research is rarely made applicable for the average farmer or integrator, but the Selenium iCast is a source of firsthand information about what research really means for businesses. Researchers featured on Selenium iCasts share their experiences and answer your questions, providing information that can translate research into results for business operations.
Technical Information:
iCasts use a Windows Media video stream designed for broadband
users (DSL or faster).
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Can improved immune function lead to improved milk production? Dr. Alan Harrison, Coordinator of Field Research for Alltech interviews Dr. Bill Thatcher, Emeritus Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida. Thatcher and his counterpart, Dr. Jose Santos of University of California, Davis, administered 2 separate trials comparing sodium selenite against organic selenium (Sel-Plex). Both on large commercial dairies, these two trials used a very similar protocol in Florida and California respectively. Both trials looked at parameters such as uterine health, reproduction, immune response, milk production etc. Date: 10-October-2006 |
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Managing Sow Reproductive Health with Selenium Sarah Muirhead, editor of Feedstuffs, interviews leading researchers Gene Gourley and Jay Lampe of Swine Graphic Enterprise, a 25,000 sow farrow-to-finish company based in Webster City, Iowa. Lampe and Gourley administered 2 separate trials comparing sodium selenite against organic selenium (Sel-Plex). With almost 1,000 sows on each side, these 2 trials looked at parameters such as still born, mummified, pigs weaned/sow, prewean mortality etc. Date: 14-July-2006 |
