PRESS RELEASE: March 2, 2012<\/p>\n
Winter Dairy Management Group-Housed Calf Conferences in NNY March 21 and 22<\/strong><\/p>\n How does a dairy calf\u2019s pre-weaning daily rate of weight gain impact her milking performance as an adult? How can you improve your barn\u2019s ventilation to protect calves\u2019 lungs? How has raising their calves in groups and free-access milk-feeding systems benefitted Northern New York dairy farmers?<\/p>\n \u201cIf you feed calves right early, you can add 1,700 lbs of milk in their first lactation,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> says Cornell University Dairy Nutrition Extension Professor Dr. Larry Chase.<\/p>\n Chase and a full line up of educators, veterinarians and farmers using group housing systems will share their experiences and knowledge at the 2012 Winter Dairy Management Conferences in Carthage and Chazy, NY, on March 21 and 22 respectively. The 10:30am to 3pm sessions, organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension associations of Northern New York, will be held at the Carthage Elks Club on March 21 and at Miner Institute in Chazy on Thursday, March 22.<\/p>\n Cornell PRO-DAIRY Dairy Housing and Waste Management Engineer Curt Gooch will present advances in draft-free ventilating for barns to protect calves\u2019 young lungs.<\/p>\n Gooch says, \u201cThe success in group-housed dairy animals has always hinged on a viable ventilation system and it is even more important with calves which are susceptible to the drafts common in the winter months in Northern New York.\u201d<\/p>\n In Carthage, veterinarian Dr. Mark Thomas of Countryside Veterinary Clinic, Lowville, NY, will talk about how group feeding and housing of calves mimics nature.<\/p>\n In Chazy, veterinarian Dr. Bob Ceglowski of Rupert Veterinary Clinic, Rupert, VT, will share how group feeding and housing moves calf raising closer to \u201cnature\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n In Carthage, Mary Kelly of Kelly Farms, Renssalaer Falls, NY, will share how converting to group housing has benefitted her dairy business.<\/p>\n In Chazy, Mark and Jenny Cary of Woody Hill Farm in Salem, NY, will offer their farm as a case study for finding success with group calf systems.<\/p>\n In Chazy, Animal Science Extension Specialist John Conway of Cornell\u2019s PRO-DAIRY Program will compare mob feeders, robotic autofeeders and farm-fabricated self-feeders, and Kim Morrill, Ph.D., the new Cornell Cooperative Extension Dairy Specialist for St. Lawrence, Franklin and Clinton counties, will talk about how baby calf rate of gain affects lifetime performance in the milking herd.<\/p>\n A ready-made \u201cwarm box\u201d will be on display at both events.<\/p>\n The $30 registration fee includes lunch and how-to materials from the sold-out December 1, 2011 Dairy Calf Group Housing Symposium in Syracuse.<\/p>\n Register for the Carthage conference by March 16 with Ron Kuck, CCE Jefferson County, 315-788-8450. Register for the Chazy conference by March 17 with Kim Morrill, CCE St. Lawrence County, 315-379-9192. # # #<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESS RELEASE: March 2, 2012 Winter Dairy Management Group-Housed Calf Conferences in NNY March 21 and 22 How does a dairy calf\u2019s pre-weaning daily rate of weight gain impact her milking performance as an adult? How can you improve your barn\u2019s ventilation to protect calves\u2019 lungs? How has raising their calves in groups and free-access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1798","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1798\/revisions\/1801"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}