The Interaction of Nutrition and Health in Beef Cows

The original intent of this presentation and paper was to address the interaction of cow nutrition and subsequent health status and immunity. The problem is that there is just little direct research that address beef how nutrition and health. There is a body of work that addresses dairy cow nutrition and health status, but in my opinion that is an entirely different model. Therefore, this presentation and paper will emphasis some general nutrition principles that relate to health and immunity. In cattle all physiological processes in the body, the immune system included, are influenced by the nutritional status of the animal (Carroll and Forsberg, 2007). Therefore the past and present nutritional status is an important modulator of the immune function in cattle that can influence the performance and reproduction of beef cattle.