John Clay
Bio
Clay is the director of Dairy Records Management Systems that provides aggregation, editing, and computational services for DHI records plus on-farm management software to 25 dairy farmer cooperatives with 26 laboratories and 11,000 dairy farmer customers with more than 2.1M cows nationwide. In addition, he manages a staff of 35 FTEs at NC State and Iowa State University plus contractors who develop, test and support software that helps dairy farmers manage their dairies’ day-to-day operation and info analytics.
Publications
- Characterization of semen type prevalence and allocation in Holstein and Jersey females in the United States , Journal of Dairy Science (2023)
- Associations between dry period length and time to culling and pregnancy in the subsequent lactation , JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE (2021)
- Intergenerational cycle of disease: Maternal mastitis is associated with poorer daughter performance in dairy cattle , Journal of Dairy Science (2021)
- Piecewise modeling of the associations between dry period length and milk, fat, and protein yield changes in the subsequent lactation , JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE (2020)
- Distribution of seasonality of calving patterns and milk production in dairy herds across the United States , Journal of Dairy Science (2020)
- Periconceptional Heat Stress of Holstein Dams Is Associated with Differences in Daughter Milk Production during Their First Lactation , PLOS ONE (2016)
- A Genome-Wide Association Study for Clinical Mastitis in First Parity US Holstein Cows Using Single-Step Approach and Genomic Matrix Re-Weighting Procedure , PLOS ONE (2015)
- Periconceptional Heat Stress of Holstein Dams Is Associated with Differences in Daughter Milk Production and Composition during Multiple Lactations , PLOS ONE (2015)
- Short communication: Genomic selection for hoof lesions in first-parity US Holsteins , JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE (2015)
- Genomic selection for producer-recorded health event data in US dairy cattle , JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE (2014)