Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada 2026

Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra, University of Alberta

Grains, pulses and tubers may serve as feedstuffs but are also processed into human food, fuel, and bio-industrial products. Simultaneously, feed co-products such as distillers dried grains with solubles, canola meal and expeller, and wheat millrun and bran are produced.

Dr. Robert J Gruninger, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Liver abscesses (LA) are a major health and economic challenge for Canada’s beef sector, affecting nearly 30% of feedlot cattle and costing producers an estimated $61 million each year. These costs do not include the losses that occur due to reduced feed efficiency and growth in animals with severe abscesses.

Dr. Ivan Rychlik, Veterinary Research Institute of Czech Republic

The highest mortalities in chicken production are recorded during the first week of chicken life. This status quo is a consequence of hatching chicks in hatcheries. Such chicks are colonised by microbiota of environmental origin and remain sensitive to pathogens of intestinal tract, e.g. Salmonella.

Dr. Luis Tedeschi, University Texas A&M

Global agriculture faces a dual imperative: to increase food production to meet rising demand while simultaneously reducing environmental impacts and resource inefficiencies. Addressing this challenge requires repositioning rumen nutrition as the intelligent nexus linking crop and ruminant production within Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (ICLS).

Dr. Su A Lee, University of Illinois

Dr. Bart Lardner, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Obioha Durunna, Lakeland College, University of Saskatchewan

This study compared the nutritive values and cattle growth outcomes associated with swath-grazing forage systems (FS) under cereal monoculture (OMC, CDC-SO1 oats) or polycrop (PC) comprising oats, brassicas (turnip and rapeseed) and forage pea.

Dr. Martin Nyachoti, University of Manitoba

Diets for monogastric animals are formulated to contain a wide range of feed ingredients that supply energy and nutrients to meet specific production goals. In addition to fulfilling this objective, many ingredients bring into the diet specific attributes with unique effects on digestive physiology and specific functions of the gut that are related to its health and function.

Dr. Reza Abdollahi, Massey University

To achieve the genetic potential of modern meat-type birds, feed intake (FI) must be tightly monitored and maximised. Any strategy capable of increasing feed consumption and alleviating the FI stressors will improve broiler growth.