2008
Overview
- November 12-13, 2008
- Holiday Inn, Grantville, PA
- List of 2008 Exhibitors (pdf)
- Continuing Education credits
ARPAS - 19
Veterinarians - 15
Proceedings
Zinpro Performance Minerals
Pre Conference Symposium
- Dairy Financial Times - Mr. Gary Genske, Genske, Mulder & Co. LLP
- Role of Trace Minerals in the Immune System - Dr. Dana Tomlinson, Zinpro
- Time Budgets for Dairy Cows: How Does Cow Comfort Influence Health, Reproduction and Productivity - Dr. Nigel Cook, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Meeting the Trace Mineral Needs of Dairy Cows - Dr. Mike Socha, Zinpro
Penn State Nutrition Workshop
- Nutrition with Six-Dollar Corn - Dr. Normand St-Pierre, The Ohio State University
- Farm Injury: A Number One We Don't Want - Dr. Dennis Murphy, Penn State
- Corn Biochemistry: Employing Cereal Chemistry Techniques in Grain and Corn Silage Analysis - Mr. Pat Hoffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Johne's Disease, Crohn's Disease and Your Health - Dr. Robert Whitlock, University of Pennsylvania
- Mycotoxins in Forages: Potential Sources of Contamination to Lactating Dairy Cattle - Dr. Duarte Diaz, Novus Int.
- Precision Feeding - What is the Potential? - Dr. James Ferguson, University of Pennsylvania
- What Are We Learning about Phosphorus Feeding in Virginia? - Dr. Charles Stallings, Virginia Tech
- Communicating with Consumers: Effective Risk Communication - Dr. Monique Mitchell Turner, University of Maryland
Breakout Sessions
November 12
- Nutrition and Management Factors Affecting Immune Competence of the Dairy Cow - Dana Tomlinson, Zinpro
- Water Quality Issues for Dairy Cattle - Bryan Swistock, Penn State
Interpreting drinking water tests for dairy cows | Gas well drilling and your private water supply - Transition Cow Facility Design: Minimizing the Bottlenecks to Optimize Health and Productivity - Nigel Cook, University of Wisconsin
- Nutrient Movement through the Soil and Manure Sampling - Robb Meinen, Penn State
- Are the Right Cows Leaving the Herd? - Mike Socha, Zinpro
- The ABCs of Developing Your Dairy Workforce - Lisa Holden, Penn State
- Basic DHI Records Analysis: Reading and Interpretting the 202 Reports - Brad Hilty and Ken Griswold, Penn State
- Shrink the Shrink - Bill Stone, Diamond V
- Dairy Detectives: Putting Data to Work - Gabriella Varga, Penn State and Tom Nauman, Hoober Feeds
- PDMP Corn Silage Hybrid Testing - Dave Hileman, Hilecrest Farm; Chris Canale, Cargill; and Greg Roth, Penn State
Link to the PDMP silage evaluations from FORAGE data - Metabolic Disease and Immunity in the Transition Cow - Jesse Goff, Iowa State
- Forage Analyses 101 - Sarah Dinh, Penn State
Recommended dry matter concentrations and example forage reports
Panel Discussion: Finding the Right Balance, Mineral Supplementation of Prepartum Diets
- Mineral Disorders of the Transition Cow - Jesse Goff
- Zinpro Trace Mineral Recommendations - Mike Socha
November 13
- Managing Injury Hazards and Risks on Dairy Farms - Dennis Murphy, Penn State
- Novel Feeding Systems for Dairy Replacement Heifers - Pat Hoffman, University of Wisconsin
- Protein Degradability in the NRC 2001 Model - Alex Hristov, Penn State
- Assessing the Value of Feeds Using the Sesame Software - Normand St-Pierre, Ohio State
Download the Sesame program - Mycoplasma Herd Infections: Easy to Get, Hard to Get Rid of - Dave Wolfgang, Penn State
- Controlling Feed Variation - Normand St-Pierre, Ohio State
Download the Columbo tool - Using Income Over Feed Costs to Manage Profit on PA Dairies - Mark Douglass, Penn State
- Remember the Basics When Evaluating Reproductive Performance - Mike O'Connor, Penn State
- Forage Analysis: Beyond the Basics - Ralph Ward, CVAS and Paul Sirois, Dairy One
- Take Your CPM Skills to the Next Level - Bill Chalupa, Global Dairy Consultancy Co. Ltd.
- Lameness: A Puzzle with a lot of Pieces - Ernest Hovingh and Bob VanSaun, Penn State
- Advanced DHI Data Analysis - Brad Hilty and Rob Goodling, Penn State
Ins and Outs of PSU Dairy Data Analysis Tools (Goodling) - FNMP$: Economics of Feed Management Planning - Joe Harrison and Becca White, Washington State University
