Life Member - Professor KL (Jock) Macmillan

Jock Macmillan has conducted research wide ranging research on the reproductive performance of dairy cattle, mostly in New Zealand, but also in Australia and the USA. He defined the management differences between year-round calving patterns and seasonal ones; commercialised the development of tailpainting; and developed the CIDR insert, in particular its use for treating anoestrus. He was a Research Officer with the NZ Dairy Board from 1967 to 1977 before transferring to Ruakura, first with MAFFTech until 1988 and then with the DRC until 1997. He has been the Dairy Australia Professor at the University of Melbourne since 1997.

He was awarded the CP McMeekan Memorial Award (1983), the International Dairy Production Award by the American Dairy Science Association (1991), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1995), Life Membership of the NZ Large Herds Association (1997), Honorary DSc by Massey University (2003) and Life Membership of the NZ Society of Animal Production (2004). He held a Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship at the University of Florida in 1987/88.

The ISI Web has classified him as ranking in the leading 1% of the World’s animal scientists for the last 10 years based on his record of scientific publications and the frequency with which they are cited by other scientists. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Animal Reproduction Science that is currently ranked second out of 45 research journals related to dairy, veterinary and animal sciences. By contrast, he also writes regularly for dairy industry publications and had his own column in the Dairy Exporter (Breeding Briefs) for 25 years. Thirty postgraduate students have conducted their research under his supervision.