Event Details

Date

December 10, 2019

Time

6-9 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 10, 2019

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2019 Feed Dealer Seminar~Ballston Spa

December 10, 2019


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, Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY
  • Dr. Kristan Reed, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance Partners Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Topics:
  • Managing challenges to forage quality and quantity
  • Increasing diet precision through feed variation management

Registration link above is for the Ballston Spa location only. To see all the locations and registration information, go to https://ansci.cals.cornell.edu/news-events/feed/

Note: When registering online, your transaction may take up to 60 seconds to complete. To help avoid duplicate payments, please wait and do not click the "Register for Event" button more than once.

If you receive a "blank" registration confirmation, please email herkimer@cornell.edu and we will email you the correct confirmation.

Please call 315.866.7920 if you have any questions.





2019 Feed Dealer Seminar Ballston Spa (PDF; 900KB)


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