Posted: October 3, 2007 at 4:41 pm
By News Editor
There’s a new online resource available for the dairy industry. DAIReXNET is a national, extension-driven web resource designed to meet the educational and decision-making needs of dairy producers, allied industry partners, extension educators and consumers. Check it out!
DAIReXNET Goals:
To provide relevant, cutting-edge information and learning opportunities that are science-based and peer-reviewed.
To develop educational materials and learning opportunities that address the needs of all segments of the dairy industry.
To create collaboration among dairy industry professionals resulting in a resource that provides valuable and valued educational materials benefiting the user.
To be a resource that responds promptly to requests for new information from the dairy industry and to changes in the industry.
Key DAIReXNET Resources:
Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) and user-submitted queries on various aspects of dairy cattle production.
Ask the Expert–Users ask dairy professionals questions when answers are not available in the FAQ’s or resource material.
Current in-depth, peer-reviewed articles covering various topics in dairy production.
State and regional dairy newsletters, the latest news releases and highlighted news stories from across the country.
Longer term, DAIReXNET will also provide spreadsheets, calculators, decision-making tools and online learning modules.
Posted: September 27, 2007 at 10:31 am
By News Editor
Dairy professionals will learn how to help their producers manage higher 2007 profits and threats to the tools on which they rely at October’s Dairy and Advocacy and Resource Team, or DART, meetings hosted by the Center for Dairy Excellence. DART meetings provide sales and service representatives with up-to-the-minute information to help the producers they work with regularly make timely decisions to improve farm efficiency and increase their bottom lines.
The resource meetings will focus on “best practice recommendations” for allocating 2007 profits. Increased profits from higher milk prices provide a unique challenge to farmers who would like to reinvest these new profits.
The schedule for the October DART meetings in Pennsylvania is:
– Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 2-5 p.m. at AgChoice Farm Credit, 4504 West Branch Highway, Lewisburg
– Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 7:30-11:30 a.m. at AgChoice Farm Credit, 109 Farm Credit Drive, Chambersburg
– Thursday, Oct. 11, from 2-5 p.m. at Lancaster Farm and Home Center, Aracadia Road, Lancaster
– Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 2-5 p.m. at Edgewood Restaurant, 565 Elmira Street, Troy
– Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Meadville Extension Office, 13444 Dunham Road, Meadville
– Thursday, Oct. 18, from 1-4 p.m. at the Arena Restaurant off I-76 in Bedford
The meetings qualify for continuing education credits from the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists and in veterinary medicine. For more information, click on the “DART” logo at www.centerfordairyexcellence.org. Make reservations with Cerrita Reed at c-creed@state.pa.us or 717-346-0849.
Posted: May 1, 2007 at 7:14 pm
By News Editor
The 2007 National Dairy Leaders Conference in Stevenson, Washington was a huge success! The conference, hosted by National Milk Producers Federation, hosted almost 200 industry leaders.
The three-day conference focused on many of the high-profile issues affecting the dairy industry today, including the development of the next Farm Bill, organic marketing trends, animal biotechnology, cheese industry economics, and the push for renewable farm-based energy sources.
Steve Krikava of Land O’Lakes moderated a session on what various agricultural groups are seeking in the 2007 Farm Bill. Mary Kay Thatcher spoke about the American Farm Bureau Federation’s approach to this year’s farm bill.
There were two separate farm tours during this year’s NDLC. One group traveled to Pacific coast and visited Tillamook County Creamery and the Martin’s Dairy farm. The other group went east to Sunnyside Washington, where they visited the Darigold cheese facility, the Dan & George DeRuyter farm, as well as a local winery.
William Jorgenson, Michael Marsh and Dr. Brian Perkins participated in the renewable energy panel discussion. The panel explored how farmers all over the country farmers are looking for new ways to produce and conserve energy. NMPF’s Rob Byrne moderated a session on animal identification. The panel featured Dr. David Morris with USDA to give the perspective of the federal government.
Posted: January 23, 2007 at 6:19 pm
By News Editor
Wisconsin producers, get ready for the second annual Dairy Business Association Expansion Symposium, January 31-February 1, 2007 in Green Bay. Hosted by the Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin, the symposium, “Expand to Compete,” will draw hundreds of producers from around the state. And if the packed schedule isn’t enough, attendees will have the opportunity to take a personal tour of Lambeau Field!
The schedule includes presentations on the mega cheese industry from Donald DeJong, CEO of AgriVision Farm Management, Rich Scheuerman, President and CEO of Alto Dairy and Dean Sommer from the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research will focus on Wisconsin’s current cheese industry; 2007 milk pricing forecast from Mary Keough Ledman of Keough Ledman Associates. Improving your profit while losing basis from dairy producer Jim Ostrom of MilkSource; revolutionizing free stall barns from John Smith, PhD, from Kansas State University and a Central Sands Update from Gordon Jones DVM, owner of Central Sands Dairy. Two producer panels will share their knowledge about Single Site vs. Multi-Site Dairies and candid and truthful remarks about their on-site digesters. For more information or to register for the DBA Expansion Symposium, contact Michelle Oskey at 920-759-9543.
Posted: November 20, 2006 at 7:27 pm
By News Editor
Get ready for an action packed event, January 14-17, IDFA’S Dairy Forum in Orlando, Florida.
The Dairy Forum will highlight a variety of legislative, business and marketing issues currently facing the dairy industry. Producers, processors, cooperative leaders and suppliers will meet to discuss hot topics, such as immigration, federal spending, the 2007 farm bill, the organic and natural phenomenon and trends in energy sustainability — to name just a few. Click here for more information and to register.
This event also features tennis and golf tournaments, a spouse tour and special IDFA discounts for participants who want to visit Walt Disney World attractions.
Posted: March 3, 2006 at 1:14 pm
By Andy Vance
How well do you know your nutrition program? Are you squeezing every drop of potential production out of your milking string? I just read an article discussing how your profitability will suffer if you either over or under estimate forage requirements for your herd. With that in mind, you might consider making plans to join me in Fort Wayne later this Spring.
Purdue, Michigan State, and The Ohio State University invite you to the 15th Annual Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference at the Grand Wayne Convention Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Universities are joined by experts from a whole host of University and industry areas of expertise. The Conference, held April 25 & 26, will feature discussions on nutrition and animal health, ration formulation and forages, and nutrition and the environment. The overall theme of the conference, “New Developments in Dairy Nutrition and Feeding Systems,” will be extremely relevent because of the impact of dairy farms and dairy nutrition on the environment and the public perception of agriculture.
Some specific session topics include feeding corn disteller grains and the maximum inclusion rate, recent research on energy intake and reproduction, digestibility of fat supplements, in-vivo digestibility of forages, and starch digestibility of corn and corn silage. Speakers will hail from Cornell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois, Elanco, USDA, Utah State, South Dakota State, K-State, Penn State, and Virginia Tech.
Registration is $130, and is due by April 7th.
Posted: January 5, 2006 at 5:15 pm
By Chuck
The University of Illinois is offering an online series of training modules as part of their Dairy Certificate Program. The next one kicks off at the end of this month. You can find out more here.
The Dairy Certificate Program in Dairy Science includes a series of structured courses delivered by the Internet using an interactive course delivery system and supplemented by CDROM modules.
AnSc 423: Advanced Dairy Nutrition
Time: Mondays, 7:00-8:00 pm (CST)
Starts: January 23, 2006
Ends: April 10, 2006
AnSc 499: Milk Secretion, Mastitis, and Quality
Time: Tuedays, 7:00-8:00 pm (CST)
Starts: January 31, 2006
Ends: April 18, 2006
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