Event Details

Date

December 11, 2018

Time

1-4 pm

Location

CCE Saratoga County
50 West High St
Ballston Spa, NY 12020

Cost

$20.00
(additional attendee $20.00 ea.)

Host

Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Program

Pre-Registration Deadline: December 7, 2018

EVENT HAS PASSED

2018 Feed Dealer Seminar

December 11, 2018


This Feed Dealer Seminar is specifically targeted for nutritionists, veterinarians, crop and management consultants, extension educators, and dairy producers with specific interest in nutrition-oriented topics. It is designed to blend the latest concepts in feeding and other management aspects of dairies with field level application. This seminar has 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.

Speakers:
  • Tom Overton, Ph.D., 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. She is our newest faculty member.
Topics:
  • Maximizing milk fat on the dairy
  • RuMUNations on nitrogen efficiency (aka, Strategies for assessing and improving nitrogen efficiency through the entire lactation)

PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS IN YOUR COMPANY 

Registration is $20 per person, which includes lunch. Pre-registration is required!

Pay online with credit card with link above.

Or fill out the registration form on the attached pdf and return it along with payment to:
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Herkimer County
5657 State Route 5
Herkimer, NY 13350.
Make checks payable to: Cornell Cooperative Extension

Please call 315.866.7920 if you have any questions.

Registration must be received in the office by Friday, December 7, 2018 

Registration allows us to communicate any cancellations or changes in arrangements.

*Note to Yahoo email users: The registration confirmation may come through as a blank message. If you receive a blank message and would like a corrected confirmation, please email your request to herkimer@cornell.edu



2018 Feed Dealer Seminar (PDF; 1006KB)


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