Madison Kindberg

Madison Kindberg is a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Davis. She works with Dr. Frank Mitloehner specializing in beef cattle production and livestock sustainability. Her master’s degree investigated the enteric gaseous emissions, performance, and fatty acid profile effects between terminal beef-on-dairy calves, and traditional beef calves. Her Ph.D. will build on this research with a life cycle assessment of the environmental and economic sustainability of beef-on-dairy cattle.

In addition to her research studies, Kindberg recently senior-authored a grant for the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Livestock Enteric Methane Emissions Reduction Research Program (LEMER-RP). She was awarded $1.25 million towards funding her Ph.D. research which will investigate early-life intervention strategies in calves and look at the impact it has on reducing lifetime enteric gaseous emissions from terminal beef cattle.

Kindberg has been awarded numerous awards including the Frank G. Rue Award, a number of California Cattlemen’s Association scholarships, and the Lallemand Animal Nutrition Scholarship. In her free time, she tends to her own personal beef cattle, volunteers with the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, and is a graduate advisor for the Young Cattlemen’s Association at UC Davis.