Bill Stone
Director, Technical Service, Diamond V
Dr. Bill Stone is a technical service director and field research for Diamond V. He grew up on a beef and hog farm in southeastern Wisconsin. After obtaining a DVM degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he practiced veterinary medicine for 3 years in Monroe, Wisconsin. He moved to Cornell where he received his PhD on applied dairy cattle nutrition and management. He was a dairy nutritional and management consultant in central New York. From 1998 to 2007, Dr. Stone worked in a veterinary herd health/nutrition position with the PRO-DAIRY program at Cornell University. He then joined Diamond V where he directs the company’s dairy research and technical support programs and works with agribusiness and dairy producers throughout the United States and internationally. His primary areas of interest are dairy cattle nutrition and feeding management, forage management, and identification of bottlenecks on dairies.