**CANCELLED ** FARM Updates & COW$ - New Tools for Improving Individual Cow and Herd Profitability
Event Details
Date
August 12, 2024
Time
10 - 12 pm
Location
Walnut Ridge Dairy
100 Brown Hill Rd
Lansing, NY 14882
Host
South Central New York Dairy & Field CropsDonette J Griffith
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email Donette J Griffith
FARM Updates & COW$ - New Tools for Improving Individual Cow and Herd Profitability
FARM Updates & COW$ - New Tools for Improving Individual Cow and Herd Profitability
When: August 12th, 2024
Time: 10-12 pm
Where: Walnut Ridge Dairy, above parlor, 100 Brown Hill Rd, Lansing, NY 14882
Speakers: Dr Julio Giordano, Cornell University & Lindsay Ferlito, Cornell PRO-DAIRY
Cost: FREE
Topics:
FARM 5.0 updates & common action plan items
Strategies for offering Continuing Education & training
Hands-on cow model demonstrations, available for training with CCE
Cow$ - New tools and data for improving individual cow and herd profitability
Who should attend? Owners and managers of dairies, who work with both employees and cows
Lindsay Ferlito of PRO-DAIRY will start the meeting with updates to FARM 5.0 and offer strategies for helping dairy farmers provide continuing education to their employees in stockmanship, calf care, euthanasia, and down cows. Models available from CCE and PRO-DAIRY will be on hand for participants to demo, including the calf tubing model, injection model, disbudding model and calving model.
Dr. Julio Giordano will then showcase his new program, Cow$, which shows daily profit/loss by cow. In this presentation, we will discuss how data from precision livestock farming technologies can be used to learn about and improve the profitability of individual cows and herds. We will also discuss recent research on the effects of health and reproductive management on cow profitability. Learn how automated health monitoring programs and targeted reproductive management can help increase profitability of herds and subgroups of cows.
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