Keynote Speaker: Richard E. Muck

XVIII International Silage Conference

24-26 July 2018

Bonn, Germany

Richard E. Muck | ISC 2018 | Bonn

Richard E. Muck

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

Biography

Richard E. Muck was educated at Cornell University and Purdue University in agricultural engineering and environmental engineering, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in agricultural waste management. He worked for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, as a research agricultural engineer his whole career. He initially worked on dairy cattle waste management at Cornell. Five years into his job, an opportunity arose to work on a project modeling processes in the silo. When ARS transferred him to the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, silage became the sole focus of his research until his retirement in September 2014. His research has spanned a wide range of issues: documenting silo losses, improving silage density, comparing silo covers, enhancing protein preservation during ensiling and studying the effects of silage additives. He is currently a professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has continued to write, speak and consult on silage research. Together with Prof. Wilkinson, Dr. Muck will give a presentation on the future of ensiling: Challenges and opportunities.


Meet our Keynote speakers

Enno Bahrs | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Enno Bahrs
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

"Economical evaluation of silages"

Giorgio Borreani | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Giorgio Borreani
University of Turin, Italy

"New technologies to monitor and improve silage quality from field to feed-out"

João Daniel | ISC 2018 | Bonn
João Daniel
State University of Maringa (UEM), Brazil

"Production and utilization of silages in tropical areas"

Dave Davies | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Dave Davies
Silage Solutions Ltd., UK

"New technologies to monitor and improve silage quality from field to feed-out"

Sasha Hafner | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Sasha Hafner
Aarhus University, Denmark

"Volatile organic compounds: sources, emission and mitigation"

Kenneth Kalscheur | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Kenneth Kalscheur
U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

 

Bärbel Kroschewski | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Bärbel Kroschewski
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

"Statistics and experimental design in silage research"

Tim McAllister | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Tim McAllister
Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Alberta, Canada

"Molecular techniques to develop additives and characterize the microbial ecology of silages"

Richard E. Muck | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Richard E. Muck
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

"The future of ensiling: Challenges and opportunities"

Thomas M. Pauly | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Thomas M. Pauly
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

"Methodology of ensiling trials and effects of silage additives"

Jyoti Prakash Tamang | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Jyoti Prakash Tamang
Sikkim University, India

"Global fermented foods: Ethno-microbiology to next generation sequencing"

Karl Schedle | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Karl Schedle
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

"Fermentation of feed in monogastric animal nutrition"

J. Michael Wilkinson | ISC 2018 | Bonn
J. Michael Wilkinson
Nottingham University, UK

"The future of ensiling: Challenges and opportunities"

Ueli Wyss | ISC 2018 | Bonn
Ueli Wyss
Agroscope, Posieux, Switzerland

"Methodology of ensiling trials and effects of silage additives"