PRO-DAIRY sets 2010 Winter Dairy Management Workshop Tour
PRO-DAIRY’s 2010 Winter Dairy Management Workshop Tour will feature tools farms can use to optimize farm income by monitoring and managing milk quality, foot health and overall herd wellness. The tour will stop at 11 locations across New York between Jan. 11-29.
At any milk price, no one likes to see dollars that could be held onto leaking away. Quality Milk Production Services’ new bulk tank surveillance program used in concert with proven milk quality assurance tools can help dairymen to maximize saleable outputs (milk). Dietary nutrients (inputs) will produce more salable product when they are not being siphoned off to fight disease. Dairy managers will be rewarded by capturing the maximum quality premium and probably making a little more milk too. An opportunity to get yata at a reduced rate will be included with the registration information.
A herd-level foot health assessment can help point you towards health and comfort issues that can often be improved with minimal investment. This new tool from the New York Cattle Health Assurance Program brings uniformity to the measuring technique. Once learned it can be used to gauge foot health improvement made through changes to the many interwoven aspects of herd management that impact lameness in dairy cattle. Sound feet and legs are a key indicator for the animal welfare audit programs welling up in the countryside. Capturing more on-farm dollars is the primary reason to use foot health assessment to get to the bottom what is causing lameness in a herd. Having a “leg up” on any kind of welfare scoring is a bonus.
The workshop agenda is detailed below. Locations and contact information for each site across New York State will help you to register early. Most sites will run from 10:30 am – 3:00 pm with lunch. A reduced-cost bulk tank mastitis pathogen panel is offered to registrants so they can have their own farm’s data to analyze. Details on that offer will be available from your local site manager.
· Money-on-the-Table… Workshop Focus, Case Farms and Your Farm’s Data Dr. Jerry Bertoldo and Collin McCarthy, NWNY Dairy & Field Crops Team , John Conway, PRO-DAIRY & Joan Petzen, Wyoming CCE.
· Catching Pathogens at “Stage 0”. QMPS’ New Bulk Tank Surveillance Program is the Perfect Complement to Cow Level Tools that Help Grab Dollars. Tonya Van Slyke, Dr. Frank Welcome, Dr. Linda Tikofsky, Dr. Gary Bennett and Dr. Mike Zurakowski, QMPS
· Feet Talk. NYSCHAP Foot Health Assessment and Root Cause Diagnoses help this New Module Keep Management’s Feet to the Fire. Kathy Finnerty, NYSCHAP, Dr. Paul Virkler, Cornell Vet School Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences & Frans Vokey, Lewis CCE
· Proud of the Job you are doing Assuring the Health and Well-being of your Herd? Why not tell the Consumer how good your Farm is doing with a Whole Herd Animal Welfare Audit? Kathy Finnerty, NYSCHAP & Dr. Paul Virkler , Cornell Vet School Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences
· Your Farm’s Surveillance Data – Question, Answer and Discussion Session with all of the Presenters
Date Location Contact
Jan. 11 Geneva Collin McCarthy 585-394-3977 cgm2@cornell.edu
Jan. 12 Batavia Jerry Bertoldo 585-343-3040 grb23@cornell.edu
Jan. 13 Portageville Joan Petzen 585-786-2251 jsp10@cornell.edu
Jan. 14 Randolph Lisa Kempisty 716-664-9502 ljk4@cornell.edu
Jan. 15 Bath Kerri Bartlett 607-664-2300 ksb29@cornell.edu
Jan. 18 Cortland John Conway 607-547-2536 jfc6@cornell.edu
Jan.y 19 Richfield Springs Dave Balbian 518-762-3909 drb23@cornell.edu
Jan. 20 Ballston Spa Sandy Ferry 518-746-2560 slf10@cornell.edu
Jan. 21 Chazy (Miner) Emily Myers 518-353-4949 erm35@cornell.edu
Jan. Carthage Frans Vokey 315-376-5270 fjv2@cornell.edu
or Ron Kuck 315-788-8450 rak76@cornell.edu
Jan. 29 Middletown Larry Hulle 845-344-1234 lrh6@cornell.edu
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John Conway 607-547-2536 ext. 237 V
PRO-DAIRY Program, Cornell University 607-547-5180 F
123 Lake St. 607-435-8020 C
Cooperstown, NY 13326 jfc6@cornell.edu