Contact Dr. Victor E. Cabrera, Assistant Professor and
Extension Specialist in Dairy Management
 Victor
E. Cabrera, PhD
Assistant Professor and
Extension Specialist in Dairy Management
279 Animal Sciences Bldg
1675 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1284
Phone/Fax: (608) 265-8506
Email: vcabrera@wisc.edu
B.S. & Eng., La Molina Agrarian University, Peru
M.S.,University of Florida
Ph.D., University of Florida
Post-Doc, University of Miami
Assistant Professor and Extension Dairy Specialist, New Mexico State
University
Biographical Information
Dr. Victor E. Cabrera was born and raised in the Inca’s land
of Cusco, Peru. After finishing High School, he moved to Lima to
pursue his B.S. and Engineering degrees from La Molina Agrarian University.
After graduation, he worked for three and a half years as a
professor in an agricultural college. During that time he completed
a 3-month post-graduate course on administration of agrarian schools
in Spain and France. In 1997, Victor was awarded a fellowship from
the Kellogg Foundation to pursue a M.S. degree in Farming Systems
Research and Extension at the University of Florida Department of
Agricultural Communication and Education. His M.S. research focused
on improving small farm livelihood systems using alternative agronomic
practices, which were evaluated with linear programming techniques.
After finishing his M.S. degree, Victor accepted a 6-month interim
position at the University of Florida Food and Resource Economics
Department.
Victor returned to Peru in 1999 where he worked as a
consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank for two years.
In 2001, he came back to the U.S.A. to pursue his Ph.D. at
the University of Florida School of Natural Resources working as
a research and teaching assistant in the Food and Resource Economics
Department. During
his Ph.D. program, he became deeply involved with dairy farm systems
in North Florida developing a comprehensive decision support system
(DyNoFlo)
to help dairy producers cope with increasing environmental restrictions
while maintaining profitability. In 2004, right after graduating,
Victor accepted a Postdoctoral position with the University of Miami,
where he worked performing risk analyses of using climate information
under government farm programs. In early 2006, Victor accepted the
position of Assistant Professor and Extension Dairy Specialist with
the New Mexico State University where he worked for two years performing
applied research focused on environmental decision-making for the
growing dairy industry in New Mexico and Western Texas. In April
of 2008, he joined the faculty team of the Dairy Science
Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant
Professor and Extension Specialist in Dairy Management with 70% Extension
and 30% research appointment split.
During his short career, Victor
has authored 12 peer-reviewed publications, 12 Extension publications,
25 proceeding papers, and developed more than a dozen of scientific ‘tools’ for
decision making. Victor has also been invited as speaker and consultant
to Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Victor
is a member of the American Dairy Science Association, the American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and the American
Agricultural Economics Association.
Victor's ultimate goal is to help rural
people to improve their life quality through applied bio-physical,
socio-economic, and environmental research. Coming from a farm, he
has always been linked to the agricultural and rural sectors and
his studies and works have always focused on enhancing farming systems.
Victor is committed to providing leadership in dairy management decision-making
related to cost-efficiency, profitability, and environmental stewardship.
Victor believes in ‘participatory
research and Extension’ as a way to deliver research-based
responses to real needs. A primary focus of Victor’s Extension
work is the creation and delivery of computerized
decision support system tools.
 VE Cabrera abbreviated CV (September 08) 
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