8th Annual Dairy Info Day - January 24, 2019
Reports:
- Dairy Advisory Board – Jack Ford
- Rayner Operations – Jay Olyniuk, Manager, Rayner Dairy Facility
Presentations:
- Considerations in barn design to optimize cow behaviour and comfort - Trevor DeVries, University of Guelph
- Genetic improvement of alfalfa - Bill Biligetu, Plant Sciences
- Better treatment option for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) - Jian Yang and Meena Sakharkar, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
- Undergraduate thesis project: An update on flax seed and meal for use in dairy cow diets - Maddy Lazurko
- Undergraduate thesis project: Bovine leukemia virus, the tip of the iceberg - Miriam Ter Borgh
- Salmonella dublin update - Chris Luby, WCVM
- Optimizing feeding management of dairy cows - Trevor DeVries, University of Guelph
- Whole crop faba bean plant as silage for ruminants - PhD candidate Víctor Hugo Guevara Oquendo
- Opportunity starch sources for dairy diets - Rex Newkirk
- Optimum inclusion levels for camelina meal in dairy cow diets - Tim Mutsvangwa