Champaign, IL (May 12, 2025)—The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) is pleased to announce Simon Dufour as the 2025 recipient of the West Agro Inc. Award. The award will be presented on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, during the awards ceremony at the ADSA Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
The West Agro Inc. Award was created to recognize outstanding research of milk quality as affected by control of mastitis, management of milking, and practices in the production of milk. The winner must have made meritorious scientific or technical contributions in research of one or more of the areas of mastitis, including epidemiology, microbiology, prophylaxis, therapy, immunity, anatomy, and physiology of the mammary gland; milking management and systems related to hygiene, udder health, and milk quality; milk yield, composition, flavor, and microbiological quality as related to feeding or management; detection or analysis of foreign substances in milk or of abnormal milk; prevention or elimination of milk adulteration, particularly by those contaminants that have significance to public health; or product technology. The winner must have made the contribution within the five years immediately preceding nomination and have been a member of ADSA for at least five successive years.
Simon Dufour is a professor of veterinary epidemiology on the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Université de Montréal. He currently leads the Op+lait research group. With a strong focus on the epidemiology of mastitis and other infectious diseases, he is also dedicated to monitoring antimicrobial use in dairy animals. Dufour is an expert in diagnostic strategies and the development of data visualization tools for health monitoring and benchmarking. He has played a key role in mentoring many graduate students (most survived). Above all, he is passionate about both learning and teaching.
It is with great pleasure that ADSA and West Agro Inc. present Simon Dufour with the 2025 West Agro Inc. Award.
About the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA)
The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) is an international organization of educators, scientists, and industry representatives who are committed to advancing the dairy industry and keenly aware of the vital role the dairy sciences play in fulfilling the economic, nutritive, and health requirements of the world’s population. It provides leadership in scientific and technical support to sustain and grow the global dairy industry through generation, dissemination, and exchange of information and services. Together, ADSA members have discovered new methods and technologies that have revolutionized the dairy industry. www.adsa.org