Event Details
Date
March 20 - March 21, 2017
Location
Holiday Inn
441 Electronics Parkway
Liverpool, NY 13088
Cost
$175.00 Pre-registration before 02/20/2017
$275.00 Registration after 02/20/2017
Host
Northern NY Regional Ag Team
Tatum Langworthy
315-788-8450
email Tatum Langworthy
Pre-Registration Deadline: February 19, 2017
Cow Comfort Conference
March 20 - March 21, 2017
The Keynote Speaker is: Dr. Gordie Jones, a partner in Central Sands Dairy, LLC in Wisconsin, and an internationally known consultant on dairy herd performance, nutrition, dairy housing and facilities, expansion, dairy management, SOP's, and cow comfort.
Other speakers include:
- Dan McFarland, Agricultural Engineering Educator, Penn State Extension
- Dr. Heather Dann, Research Scientist, Miner Institute
- Emily Yeiser Stepp, Director, National FARM Animal Care Program, National Milk Producers Federation
- Dr. Albert De Vries, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida
- Dr. Rob Lynch, Dairy Herd Health & Management Specialist, PRO-DAIRY
Topics include:
- Understanding the importance of cow comfort
- Maximizing cow comfort through facility design
- Understanding when to retrofit and when to rebuild
- The economics of cow comfort
- Using on-farm automation to improve cow comfort
- Update on National F.A.R.M. Program
- Producer panel discussing on-farm automation, manure solids bedding, and retrofitting barns
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