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I-29 Moo University Winter Workshop Series

From Field to Bunk: Growing and Feeding Dairy Quality Foragese

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9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Lifelong Learning Center at Northeast Community College
601 East Benjamin Ave.
 Norfolk NE 68701
Contact:
Kim Clark, (402) 472-6065, kimclark@unl.edu
The I-29 Moo University collaboration will be offering their Winter Workshop Series January 8-12, 2018. They encourage all dairy producers, students, stakeholders and industry personnel to attend.

The series focus is From Field to Bunk: Growing and Feeding Dairy Quality Forages. The workshop series will take place in five locations including: Mandan, North Dakota; Watertown, South Dakota; Pipestone, Minnesota; Orange City, Iowa and Norfolk, Nebraska.

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Agenda

9:30 am – Registration & Refreshments
10:00 am – New Forage Genetic Lines and How they Impact the Dairy Industry - Bruce Anderson, UNL Extension Forage Specialist
Learn how forage genetic improvements in corn silage, sorghums and cover crops can influence the soil health and dairy diet performance in your operation.
10:45 am – Cover Crops – Incorporating Them into Your Forage Production System – Sara Berg, SDSU Extension Agronomy Field Specialist
Learn about cover crop incorporation into your fields, rotation considerations and planting methods.
11:30 am – Break
11:45 am – Incorporating Cover Crops into Dairy Rations – James C. Paulson, Associate Professor Forage Specialist and Nutritionist
Incorporate the nuts and bolts of cover crops into your dairy farm, maximizing nutrition and profitability.
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – Sponsor Recognition
2:00 pm – Silage Pile Safety Training for You & Your Employees – Keith Bolsen, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Kansas State University, “The Silage Man”, Nationally known speaker in silage production and safety practices.
Is your silage program safe? Silage safety practices and considerations to come home safely at the end of the day for you, your employees and family members.
2:45 pm – Evaluating Dairy Diets from the Nutritionist, to the Employee, to the Cow. – authored by Fernando Diaz, DVM, PhD – Dairy Nutrition and Management Consultant – Rosecrans Dairy Consulting, Co-presented by Tracey Erickson, SDSU Extension Dairy Field Specialist & Jim Salfer, U of M Regional Extension Dairy Educator,
Understand feeding inefficiencies as you deliver diets to your dairy herd.
3:30 pm – Summary and Evaluation

https://dairy.unl.edu/i29_2018_winter_workshop

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