Event Details

Date

December 14, 2018

Time

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. with lunch provided

Location

Genesee County Cooperative Extension Boardroom/Lunchroom
420 East Main Street
Batavia, NY 14020

Cost

$30.00 per person
(additional attendee $25.00 ea.)

Host

Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Program

Pre-Registration Deadline: December 7, 2018

EVENT HAS PASSED

2018 Feed Dealer Seminar with guest speakers Dr. Tom Overton and Dr. Kristan Reed, Ph.D.

December 14, 2018


The Feed Dealer Seminars are specifically targeted for nutritionists, veterinarians, crop and management consultants, extension educators, and dairy producers with specific interest in nutrition-oriented topics. They are designed to blend the latest concepts in feeding and other management aspects of dairies with field level application. They have been conducted annually as a road show with multiple sites in New York for many years with an additional Vermont location held during the past several years in collaboration with the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance. 

Topics:
- Maximizing milk fat on the dairy
- RuMUNations on nitrogen efficiency (aka, Strategies for assessing and improving nitrogen efficiency through the entire lactation)

Speakers:
- Dr. Tom Overton, Professor of Dairy Management and Director, PRO-DAIRY program, Cornell University
- Dr. Kristan Reed, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance Partners Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow 

Register via link above or by calling Linda Risewick, (585) 343-3040 ext. 138. 



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