Bovine Science with BCI

Bovine Science with BCI


Latest Episodes

Diving into Diets: Essential Oils in Rations, Part 2
November 03, 2025

In this episode of Bovine Science, Dr. Phillip Lancaster continues the series with an article that looks into the use of essential oils in feed rations. In part two of the Essential Oils in Rations se

Tox Talk: High Culling Rates
October 27, 2025

A 2,000 cow dairy is seeing high culling rates due to lameness but not the typical lameness they are used to. What is wrong? Dr. Brad White and Dr. Scott Fritz will discuss. The toxicology website and

Diving into Diets: Essential Oils in Feed Rations
October 20, 2025

In this episode of Bovine Science, Dr. Phillip Lancaster brings an article that looked into the use of essential oils in feed rations. The experts go over this paper and the styles of research groups

After the Abstract: Backfat and BSEs
September 29, 2025

On this episode of After the Abstract, Dr. Todd Gunderson brings a research article which looks at the effects of backfat thickness on results of a breeding soundness exam. Dr. Brad White and Dr. Gund

Diving into Diets: Yeast
September 22, 2025

For this episode of Bovine Science Dr. Phillip Lancaster brings an article which looks at feeding live yeast. This episode is based on a listener question, if you have a listener question email in to

Pasture Pulse: Lame Calves
September 15, 2025

For this edition Dr. Brad White is joined by Dr. Matt Miesner to discuss lame calves. When a calf gets stepped on, kicked or ran over it can be a costly loss for producers. They go over the different

Tox Talk: Death of Young Calves
September 08, 2025

When a large dairy operation finds seven young calves dead, they seek help from the toxicologists. What happened and how can they prevent it from happening in the future? Brad White and Scott Fritz go

After the Abstract: Tritrichomonas
September 01, 2025

This week on After the Abstract Todd Gunderson brings an article which analyzes the different methods for tritrichomonas testing in bulls. They break down the research and look at the findings as well

Diving into Diets: Bromaform
August 25, 2025

On this episode of Bovine Science Phillip Lancaster and Brad White discuss a recent research paper from UC Davis which looks at a bromoform based feed additive. They discuss the papers findings as we

Herd Health: Value of Records
August 18, 2025

In this episode of Bovine Science, Dr. Bob Larson and Dr. Brad White discuss keeping records. They go through surveys which analyzed which records are more important to producers. They also discuss ti