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Madison, WI 53706
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BS, Meat & Animal Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1973
MS, Meat & Animal Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1975
Ph.D., Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1979
Evaluation of factors that increase beef production in grazing systems and to examine strategies for feedlot management that enhance animal health, production efficiency and food safety.
Recent Publications
Nieman C. C., M. P. Popp, D. M. Schaefer, K. A. Albrecht, and J. G. Franco. 2020. A simulation study on the effects of sod-seeding annuals into perennial cool season pasture on cow-calf operation economics in the Upper Midwest. J. Amer. Soc. Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers pp. 165-174.
Nieman, C. C., K. A. Albrecht, and D. M. Schaefer. 2020. Corn and sudangrass intercropped with Kura clover for Midwestern pastures. Agron. J. 112:2905-2915. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20244
Nieman, C. C., D. M. Schaefer, M. Maroney, K. Nelson, and K. A. Albrecht. 2020. Hepatogenous photosensitivity outbreak after coccidiosis in grazing Holstein steers. Vet. Sci. 7 (4):186. doi: 10.3390/vetsci7040186
Moreira, L. C., T. L. Passafaro, D. M. Schaefer, and G. J. M. Rosa. 2021. The effect of life history events on carcass merit and price of cull dairy cows. J. Anim. Sci. 99 (no. 1):1-13. doi:10.1093/jas/skaa401
Moreira, L. C., G. J. M. Rosa, and D. M. Schaefer. 2021. Beef production from cull dairy cows: a review from culling to consumption. J. Anim. Sci. 99 (no. 7):1-18. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab192
Karls, C. W., D. K. Combs, M. Liou, and D. M. Schaefer. 2022. Alfalfa biotypes with putative enhanced cell wall digestibility and effects on performance of growing beef steers. Transl. Anim. Sci. 6:1-10. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac032
Karls, C. W., K. J. Shinners, and D. M. Schaefer. 2022. Intake of corn stover botanical parts by growing and finishing beef steers. Transl. Anim. Sci. (accepted). doi.org/10.1093/tas/txac055
Shutske J. M., R. A. Larson, D. M.Schaefer, and L. Y. Binversie, S. Rifleman, and C. Skjolaas. Notes from the Field: Death of a Farm Worker After Exposure to Manure Gas in an Open Air Environment — Wisconsin, August 2016. 2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 66:861–862. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6632a6
Shutske, J. M., D. Schaefer, R. Larson, K. Erb, C. Skjolaas, S. Leonard, J. Nelson, E. Binversie, and S. Rifleman. 2018. Investigation of a worker death while agitating manure in a non-enclosed storage. J Agromedicine. 23:10-19.
Nieman, C. C., K. D. Floate, R.-A. Düring, A. P. Heinrich, D. K. Young, and D. M. Schaefer. 2018. Eprinomectin from a sustained release formulation adversely affected dung breeding insects. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201074.
Nieman, C. C., K. A. Albrecht, and D. M. Schaefer. 2019. Temporal composition of alfalfa-grass pastures and productivity response of Holstein steers. Agron. J. 111:686-693. doi:10.2134/agronj2018.06.0375
Schaefer, M. R., K. A. Albrecht and D. M. Schaefer. 2014. Stocker steer performance on tall fescue or meadow fescue alone or in binary mixture with white clover. Agron. J. 106:1902-1910.
Lin, M., W. Guo, Q. Meng, D. M. Stevenson, P. J. Weimer and D. M. Schaefer. 2013. Changes in Rumen Bacterial Community Composition in Steers in Response to Dietary Nitrate. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 97: 8719-8727.
Lin, M., D. M. Schaefer, G. Q. Zhao and Q. X. Meng. 2013. Effects of nitrate adaptation by rumen inocula donors and substrate fiber proportion on in vitro nitrate disappearance, methanogenesis, and rumen fermentation acid. Animal 7:1099-1105.
Shinners, K. J., G. C. Boettcher, D. M. Schaefer and A. M. Troutman. 2013. Cattle preference for hay from round bales with different wrap types. Prof. Anim. Sci. 29:665-670.