Laura Krause
– BDC Off-Campus Advisor
Laura
Krause joined BDC as the off-campus advisor in the fall of 2007.
Originally from a small dairy farm in Germantown, Laura is a
December 2001 graduate of UW-Madison with a degree in Dairy
Science and Agriculture Journalism. While in school, she was
active in BDC, the Association of Women in Agriculture and the
UW-Madison Homecoming Committee. For the past two years, she
has worked for Alltech, providing marketing assistance to customers
in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. She works closely with two
other marketing coordinators in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Prior
to joining Alltech, she worked at the Fond du Lac Association
of Commerce, with the Agri-Business Council and Ag Ambassador
Program, and before that at Agri-Nutrition Consulting.
David K. Combs
- BDC On-Campus Advisor
Professor
Combs conducts research in forage utilization and ruminal digestion
of fiber by dairy cows. He researches the utilization of pastures
and development of energy and protein supplement programs for
grazing cattle as well as the intake regulation in high producing
dairy cows.
