Cesar Matamoros

Cesar Matamoros, Ph.D., is PRO-DAIRY’s precision dairy nutrition specialist. Having worked with dairy farms of different scales, dairy nutritionists, technical specialists and feed mills across the region, Matamoros has extensive experience in practical and applied dairy nutrition, management and forage production. Matamoros focuses on increasing production and nutrient use efficiency of dairy farms in New York to meet the growing demand of milk and milk components within the region. Growing up in Honduras, he has a broad understanding of different dairy nutrition production systems and focuses on training all shareholders across farms, regardless of their background, on key aspects of dairy production.

Matamoros holds a B.S. in Agricultural Sciences and Production from Zamorano University and completed his Ph.D. with a focus on ruminant nutritional physiology and lactation biology from The Pennsylvania State University. He also completed USDA-funded predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships focusing on characterizing novel strategies to increase milk fat production.