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“I’ve delivered calves in high heels,” says Rosie Cabral, a Ph.D. student at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) interested in improving neonatal calf immunity to positively impact the lifetime production of dairy herds. Cabral conducts her primary research at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, a New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) facility in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) at UNH. In addition, she travels to regional operations to find out what farmers need to know in order to raise the healthiest and most productive milking cows. “People forget you can have long term effects from day one. It’s important to set these animals up for success, especially considering what we need from them,” says Cabral. A single milking...