The first study published?

First published in Growing Points in Ethology

Henry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap yards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back with reports of almost every kind of breakdown: axles, brakes, pistons – all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to one notable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left ...

First published January 2005 in the Michigan Dairy Review

Some dairy farmers look at their employees as a cost factor, which needs to be kept minimal. Others see their employees as a resource. With proper management, employees can help keep a farm successful in the long run. How a farmer looks at his or her employees determines how employees will be managed and what role labor will play on a farm. If you are the kind of farmer who sees employees as a ...

First published Jan . 2004 in the Michigan Dairy Review

All living things share the basic biological principal that tens of thousands of genes encoded in the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) are used at specific developmental stages in response to hormones, nutrients, infections, and other important physiological stimuli to make proteins that determine an animal’s functional status. This genomic response (i.e., geneuse response) of relevant cells to such...

First published April , 2007 in the Michigan Dairy Review

The daily challenge of getting cows pregnant is nothing new to any dairy producer. What is new is the variety of approaches that researchers are taking to understand the mechanisms underlying this problem and propose effective solutions to it. Our applied reproductive research program is focused on controlling ovarian physiology to optimize fertility of lactating dairy cows. Our goal is to deve...

Methyldopa poisoning. Report of the first published fatal case.