Ahdb Cereals & Oilseeds

259: Temple Grandin’s top tips for cattle handling

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In this podcast Stephen West, AHDB knowledge exchange manager for AHDB Dairy talks to Dr. Temple Grandin, a globally respected animal behaviourist from Colorado State University, who changed the way the US handled cattle. He finds out Grandin’s top tips for handling both beef and dairy cattle. We also held a webinar in February, which can be viewed on YouTube Cattle handling with Temple Grandin. More information Improving cattle handling for better returns  templegrandin.com About Temple Grandin, Ph.D Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and o