GILAD ASHBELL Ph.D.

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939. I graduated with a B. Sc. degree in Agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in 1963. In 1972 I received a M.Sc. degree in "Food Engineering and Biotechnology" from the Technion in Haifa Israel, the title of my thesis being "Examination of the nutritive value of poultry manure for poultry".
• Between 1979 and 1981 I spent 2 years of research at the Federal Research Center of Agriculture (FAL), Institute of Grassland and Forage Research, Braunschweig, Germany, where I studied the chemical and nutritive changes during fermentation of wheat for silage.
• In 1985 I received a Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the title of my thesis being "Chemical and Nutritive Changes During Fermentation of Wheat for Silage".

• I have spent sabbaticals at:

1. Kansas State University, Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, with Prof. K.K. Bolsen (Research subject: Top Spoilage Losses in Horizontal Silos)
2. The Brazilian Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Research Organization (EMBRAPA) Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil, with Dr. R. Wanderley (Research subject: Conservation of Agricultural By-Products for Ruminants Feeding)
3. The Agricultural Western Australia, Dairy and Apiculture Industry Development Program, WA, Australia, (research subject: Improving methods of conserving pasture as silage).
• I recently took sabbatical leave to teach a graduate students class on forage preservation during the fall semester, with Professor Vivien. G. Allen, (August 2002 - December 2002).
• In addition I have traveled widely, my most recent assignments being to the Phillipines (2003) and Japan (2005) where I gave lectures at research institutes and Universities in each country.
• In 2003 I was invited to the FAO Rome for 3 months where I was a consultant on forage preservation in developing countries.
• In 1964 I established the "Feed Quality Control Department in the Ministry of Agriculture, Israel, and I headed this Department until 1979, when I was asked to set up a "Forage Preservation and By-Products Research Unit" in the Department of Storage Products, Agricultural Research Organization, at the the Volcani Center in Bet Dagan, Israel. This unit I headed until 2005.
• During the course of my career I have published some 180 papers in scientific journals and Conference Proceedings, and have contributed chapters on forage and silage to 9 books.

You can obtain much detailed information on silage and forage preservation through the following links, and if you wish you may contact me directly.

My Recent Research Papers 1991 -2004

Technology of Forage and By-Products Preservation A detailed manual and guide