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Published on: 2/23/2005
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Research centre manager Nelson Dinn says his facility is drawing more and more scientists and graduate students like (rear, left to right) Kiyomu Ito and Miriam Gordon.
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Research centre manager Nelson Dinn said the centre is attracting students and researchers from around the world, and Agriculture Canada recently transferred four more scientists to work at the station, specifically within the dairy field. As a result, the requirements for updated facilities have dramatically increased, he explained, noting the centre has changed considerably in terms of infrastructure since UBC took over in 1997, but it still has "the same great staff." The feed intake barn, completed this month, contains about a half-million dollars worth of equipment that allows researchers to accurately measure the animals' feed and water consumption patterns and monitor their behaviour continuously throughout the day "in response to various management practices, sub-clinical and clinicial disease, and choice of feed."The barn houses animals in ten pens containing up to 12 heifers or cows.Pen floors are covered with 1-inch-thick rubber matting."What we are trying to do is improve the cows' environment," Dinn explained.
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Dinn said the new technology set in the barn's 'free-stall' environment will allow researchers here to obtain more precise information regarding individual feeding habits in this sort of 'commercial' environment.
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The milk is sold to pay for day-to-day operations, according to Dinn.
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