Event Details

Date

March 2, 2017

Time

9:45 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Location

Wyoming County Ag & Business Center - CCE Office
36 Center Street Suite B
Warsaw, NY 14569

Cost

$35.00


$30.00 Additional person from same farm

Includes Lunch & Materials

Host

Zach Amey
585-786-2251

Pre-Registration Deadline: February 23, 2017

Milk Quality: Make it Pay!

March 2, 2017

Milk Quality: Make it Pay!

English Session
  • Udder Dissection
  • Mastitis Bugs & Quality - Rick Watters, PhD
  • Cost of Mastitis, Record Keeping - Dr. Michael Capel
  • Producer Panel on Milk Quality Goals - John Davies, Spring Hope Dairy, Bob DiCarlo, FaBa Farms & Meghan Hauser, Table Rock Farm
  • Milk Price & Marketing Trends - Andy Novakovic, PhD




Spanish Session
  • Biology of Milk Production - Dr. Susan Greenbaum
  • Udder Dissection
  • Mastitis & SCC - Dr. Michele Barrett
  • Milking Procedures - Libby Eiholzer
  • Cost of a Case of Mastitis & Economics of Milk Quality - Libby Eiholzer
NOTE: Classes will be capped at 20 participants per session

To register on-line: 
https://pub.cce.cornell.edu/event_registration/main/events_landing.cfm?event=Milkquality.ItPays_256

For more information or questions:

Rick Watters: 585-786-2555

Jerry Bertoldo: 585-281-6816


Milk Quality Flyer (PDF; 842KB)


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