About Applied Biotech

Dr. Blaine Ellison is a veterinarian and expert in cattle health who has focused on beef & dairy cattle health and performance, particularly regarding stress responses and nutritional strategies to improve cattle management. He has contributed insights on the 21-day cortisol surge and its impact on cattle, as well as nutritional tools to support herd health.

Dr. Ellison has been a prominent figure in the food animal industry for 45 years. He has practiced, taught, consulted, worked in tech service and product development. His research and insights are valuable for improving cattle management and production efficiency.

His work is essential for producers looking to optimize their cattle operations through science-based strategies.

As a veterinarian for more than four decades, he has seen many vaccines developed to help with infectious disease. Antibiotics have also been developed and marketed. All have eventually seen bacterial resistance eat away at their value, eventually leaving the industry eagerly looking for the new “flavor of the day.”

Protocols for treating at-risk cattle in both the beef and dairy sector have been created with the help of veterinarians and consultants. It is easy to be critical of the science behind many of these plans. Unless you understand the desperation and frustration between producers, veterinarians and consultants. Look at a hundred sites and you might well see a hundred strategies — because nothing seems to work or it doesn’t last. This is how we got here.

There is a better way. Let’s get started.