Andre was born and raised in Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais. He received his Veterinary Medicine degree in 2009 and started consulting for several farms, working with herd health, reproduction recommendations, economic consulting, and nutrition. In 2010, Andre went to Louisiana State University for an opportunity to do a Master’s degree in dairy cow nutrition where he worked with dry distillers grains and amino acid balancing. Andre then went to the University of New Hampshire for his PhD and his doctoral research focused on the relationships between energy and amino acid balancing by feeding a variety of byproducts to dairy cows in an effort to improve production efficiency while reducing costs. After graduate school, Andre worked for a feed company, focusing on the development and countrywide training of their feed software. He then worked for an amino acid company as a business manager in Wisconsin and Minnesota and most recently spent time working with a team of nutritionists to develop nutritional and economic strategies to optimize milk production for herds serviced in the region.
Andre lives in Lino Lakes, MN with his wife Audrey and son Oliver. In their free time, they like to go camping and travel.
When Feeding Cows, Are You a Shotgun or a Rifle?Click to open When Feeding Cows, Are You a Shotgun or a Rifle?
When it comes to hunting, using the right tool for the job is very important. In some regions of dense vegetation and close-range, a shotgun without a scope can be practical, but imprecise and less effective. For more precision, a rifle with a scope may work better. Being a better hunter depends on patience and practice, just like dairy farming. So, what does this have to do with feeding cows? When it comes to nutrients in the diet, be a scoped rifle, not a shotgun.
Developing Self-LeadershipClick to open Developing Self-Leadership
In this month’s vlog, Andre discusses what happens when you put a leader in the right place. What’s the difference between a “boss” and a “leader”? What is self-leadership? Watch the vlog to see Andre go over what happens when you put a leader in the right place and what that means for your farm’s standards, goals, benchmarks and team development.
Technology and the Innovation CurveClick to open Technology and the Innovation Curve
In this week’s GPS Dairy vlog, GPS Dairy consultant Andre Pereira, PhD, BVetMed walks you through the innovation curve, the growing pains of implementing new technology and what’s coming next.