Anna Edvardsson Rasmussen

Started doctoral studies at SLU in 2018 and defended the thesis in 2023 titled "Extended voluntary waiting period before first insemination in primiparous dairy cows: effects on milk production, fertility, and health". Employed as a postdoctoral researcher since January 2024 at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Reproduction.

• Assistant course leader together with Torsten Eriksson in the PhD-course "Advanced use of Excel" in 2024.
• Taught udder anatomy and physiology in the course "Veterinary Propedeutics" (VM0125) for 4th-year veterinary students during 2021–2024.
• "Biology of Lactation" (HV0194), course leader together with Sigrid Agenäs in 2023, participated in teaching in 2021 and 2022.
• Teaching reproduction for 4th–5th year veterinary students in the veterinary program in 2024 and 2025.

The "Indilact" project investigates the effects of extended and individually adapted lactation length in first-calving cows.

In the project "Cow and Calf Together", researchers examine, among other things, how fertility in cows and their heifer calves is affected when the calves are allowed to stay with the cow for a longer period after calving.

Referencegroup (Indilact): Ann-Theres Persson, Växa Sverige, Carl Oskar Paulrud, DeLaval, Hans Stålhammar, Viking Genetics and Hans Andersson, Department of Economics, SLU

Veterinarian, has since graduating in 2012 worked as a district veterinarian, at small animal clinics, and at the Swedish Food Agency as an Official Veterinarian at various slaughterhouses and with inspections of different food establishments. Attended Jälla Agricultural Upper Secondary School and also worked there with the dairy cows and pigs.

• Main supervisor for a master's thesis of Mikaela Würtz in 2019: "Field study of the drought’s impact on feeding strategy and biological parameters in early lactation dairy cattle."
• Writing group leader in "Independent Project in Animal Science" (G2E EX0865), in 2022.
• Assistant supervisor in 2025: Master's thesis on extended calving intervals.

• Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., Holtenius, K., Båge, R., Strandberg, E., Åkerlind, M., Kronqvist, C., 2023. A randomized study on the effect of extended voluntary waiting period in primiparous dairy cows on milk yield during first and second lactation. Journal of Dairy Science 106, 2510–2518.
• Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., Båge, R., Holtenius, K., Strandberg, E., von Brömssen, C., Åkerlind, M., Kronqvist, C., 2023. A randomized study on the effect of an extended voluntary waiting period in primiparous dairy cows on fertility, health, and culling during first and second lactation. Journal of Dairy Science 106, 8897–8909.
• Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., Holtenius, K., Båge, R., Strandberg, E., Åkerlind, M., Kronqvist, C., 2024b. Preproof: Customized voluntary waiting period before first insemination in primiparous dairy cows. Effect on milk production, fertility and health. Journal of Dairy Science.
• Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., 2023. Extended voluntary waiting period before first insemination in primiparous dairy cows: effects on milk production, fertility, and health. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae. 
• Edvardsson Rasmussen A., Båge R., Strandberg E., Åkerlind M., Holtenius K., Kronqvist C., 2022. INDILACT – Förlängd frivillig väntetid för förstakalvare. Del 1: randomiserad kontrollerad studie. Swedish National Data Service (SND). (accessed 3.10.23).
• van Knegsel, A.T.M., Burgers, E.E.A., Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., 2024. Extended lactations in dairy cows and the effects on fertility and production. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 59, e14690. 
• Churakov, M., Karlsson, J., Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., Holtenius, K., 2021. Milk fatty acids as indicators of negative energy balance of dairy cows in early lactation. Animal 15, 100253.

Indilact: https://www.slu.se/en/faculties/vh/research/forskningsprojekt/not/indilact-individually-adapted-lactations-lengths/ 

Cow and calf together: https://www.slu.se/en/faculties/vh/research/forskningsprojekt/not/cow-and-calf-together-old/