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Overview

Kenneth Kalscheur is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on agronomy and crop science, genetics, molecular biology, animal science, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, gut microbiota and health, milk quality and mastitis in dairy cows, fatty acid research and health, reproductive physiology in livestock, and effects of environmental stressors on livestock.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Amélie Fischer, Naomi K. Fukagawa, John W. Finley, Garret Suen, and Xiaoxia Dai. Kalscheur has contributed considerably to several publication venues, prominently in the Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Dairy Science, Current Developments in Nutrition, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Key Considerations for the Use of Seaweed to Reduce Enteric Methane Emissions From Cattle (2020), Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Symposium review: Nutrition strategies for improved health, production, and fertility during the transition period (2020), Journal of Dairy Science
  • Validating the Use of Bovine Buccal Sampling as a Proxy for the Rumen Microbiota by Using a Time Course and Random Forest Classification Approach (2020), Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Effects of ruminal protozoa on methane emissions in ruminants-A meta-analysis (2022), Journal of Dairy Science
  • The bovine epimural microbiota displays compositional and structural heterogeneity across different ruminal locations (2020), Journal of Dairy Science

Best Publications

  • Effect of dietary forage concentration and buffer addition on duodenal flow of trans-C18:1 fatty acids and milk fat production in dairy cows.

    K.F. Kalscheur;B.B. Teter;L.S. Piperova;R.A. Erdman

  • Feeding Glycerol to Transition Dairy Cows: Effects on Blood Metabolites and Lactation Performance

    J.M. DeFrain;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur;P.W. Jardon

  • Evaluation of dried and wet distillers grains included at two concentrations in the diets of lactating dairy cows.

    J.L. Anderson;D.J. Schingoethe;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen

  • Duodenal and Milk Trans Octadecenoic Acid and Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Isomers Indicate that Postabsorptive Synthesis Is the Predominant Source of cis-9-Containing CLA in Lactating Dairy Cows

    Liliana S. Piperova;Joseph Sampugna;Beverly B. Teter;Kenneth F. Kalscheur

  • Fish Oil and Extruded Soybeans Fed in Combination Increase Conjugated Linoleic Acids in Milk of Dairy Cows More Than When Fed Separately

    L.A. Whitlock;D.J. Schingoethe;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur

  • Invited review: The use of distillers products in dairy cattle diets.

    D.J. Schingoethe;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen;A.D. Garcia

  • Evaluation of models to estimate urinary nitrogen and expected milk urea nitrogen.

    R.A. Kohn;K.F. Kalscheur;E. Russek-Cohen

  • Evaluation of various sources of corn dried distillers grains plus solubles for lactating dairy cattle.

    D.H. Kleinschmit;D.J. Schingoethe;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen

  • Feed efficiency of mid-lactation dairy cows fed yeast culture during summer.

    D.J. Schingoethe;K.N. Linke;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen

  • Fatty acid profiles of milk and rumen digesta from cows fed fish oil, extruded soybeans or their blend.

    A.A. AbuGhazaleh;D.J. Schingoethe;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur

  • Effect of fat source on duodenal flow of trans-C18:1 fatty acids and milk fat production in dairy cows

    K.F. Kalscheur;B.B. Teter;L.S. Piperova;R.A. Erdman

  • Ruminal and intestinal degradability of distillers grains plus solubles varies by source.

    D.H. Kleinschmit;J.L. Anderson;D.J. Schingoethe;K.F. Kalscheur

  • Effects of Dietary Crude Protein Concentration and Degradability on Milk Production Responses of Early, Mid, and Late Lactation Dairy Cows

    K.F. Kalscheur;J.H. Vandersall;R.A. Erdman;R.A. Kohn

  • Milk Conjugated Linoleic Acid Response to Fish Oil Supplementation of Diets Differing in Fatty Acid Profiles

    A.A. AbuGhazaleh;D.J. Schingoethe;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur

  • Milk production of dairy cows fed differing concentrations of rumen-degraded protein.

    K.F. Kalscheur;K.F. Kalscheur;R.L. Baldwin;B.P. Glenn;R.A. Kohn

  • Key Considerations for the Use of Seaweed to Reduce Enteric Methane Emissions From Cattle

    Sandra Vijn;Devan Paulus Compart;Nikki Dutta;Athanasios Foukis

  • Slow-release urea and highly fermentable sugars in diets fed to lactating dairy cows.

    G.L. Golombeski;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen;D.J. Schingoethe

  • Feeding lactose increases ruminal butyrate and plasma β-hydroxybutyrate in lactating dairy cows

    J.M. DeFrain;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur;D.J. Schingoethe

  • Nutrition and feeding of dairy cattle

    Peter S. Erickson;Kenneth F. Kalscheur

  • Conjugated linoleic acid and vaccenic acid in rumen, plasma, and milk of cows fed fish oil and fats differing in saturation of 18 carbon fatty acids.

    A.A. AbuGhazaleh;D.J. Schingoethe;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur

  • Ruminal degradability and intestinal digestibility of protein and amino acids in soybean and corn distillers grains products.

    K. Mjoun;K.F. Kalscheur;A.R. Hippen;D.J. Schingoethe

  • Conjugated linoleic acid increases in milk when cows fed fish meal and extruded soybeans for an extended period of time.

    A.A. AbuGhazaleh;D.J. Schingoethe;A.R. Hippen;K.F. Kalscheur

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold Hippen
Arnold Hippen South Dakota State University
D.J. Schingoethe
D.J. Schingoethe South Dakota State University
David P. Casper
David P. Casper South Dakota State University
Richard A. Erdman
Richard A. Erdman University of Maryland, College Park
Richard A. Kohn
Richard A. Kohn University of Maryland, College Park
George A. Perry
George A. Perry Texas A&M University
A.J. Heinrichs
A.J. Heinrichs Pennsylvania State University
Duane H. Keisler
Duane H. Keisler University of Missouri

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