Victor E. Cabrera

Professor
University of Wisconsin Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Victor E. Cabrera is an professor and extension specialist in dairy management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Science Department. Dr. Cabrera combines applied research, interdisciplinary approaches, and participatory methods to deliver practical, user-friendly, and scholarly decision support tools for dairy farm management. These scientific tools are aimed to improve dairy farm profitability, environmental stewardship, and long-term sustainability of the dairy farm industry. During his short career, Dr. Cabrera has developed more than 40 decision support tools, published 60+ refereed articles, and 5 book chapters, presented in more than 100 scientific sessions, and given talks in more than 170 extension meetings in Wisconsin, other States, and several other countries. Dr. Cabrera work in the past 8 years has been pivotal to attract more than $4.0 million to support his research and extension initiatives. Dr. Cabrera has been distinguished with the American Dairy Science Association DeLaval Dairy Extension Award, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award, Second Mile Extension award of the Wisconsin Association of County Agricultural Agents, the Pound Extension Award and the Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award from the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Florida School of Natural Resources and Environment, and the Foundation Scholar Award in Dairy Production from the American Dairy Science Association.

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Presentation(s):

• 20 - New Insights on Data Integration and Artificial Intelligence to Predict Primiparous Lactation Curves Capturing Genotype-by-environment Interactions

  Tuesday, June 28, 2022
  3:15 PM – 3:45 PM CT