Central Plains Dairy Expo 2010 - Sect. 2

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Special Edition 2nd Section

March 13, 2010

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Refuel on faith at the Ag Prayer Breakfast Central Plains Dairy Expo features new morning event

By Krista M. Sheehan Staff writer

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Vickie Franken hopes the newest event at this year’s Central Plains Dairy Expo will rejuvenate dairy producers and start their day on a positive note.

The Western Iowa Dairy Alliance and the Central Plains Dairy Association are sponsoring the newest event at the expo – the Ag Prayer Breakfast titled “Perseverance in Agriculture,” which will be at 6:45 a.m. on March 31.

“It’s awesome how everything has come together,” Franken said about the planning of the event.

The idea for the Ag Prayer Breakfast stems from the same-named event held annually at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., which Franken and her husband have attended the last five years.

“It became the highlight of our trip,” Franken said. “It is so powerful and brings all these people in ag together from all over for an hour of fellowship, to praise the Lord and really be refreshed in their walk.”

Franken, a WIDA board member, wanted to bring a similar event to the Midwest. She thought it would be a great event for the WIDA organization, which is only in its third year of existence. During a WIDA board meeting last summer, Franken brought the idea forward.

“I thought, ‘I have nothing to lose,’ so I threw it out on the table,” Franken said.

Of the 190 ideas suggested that day, an Ag Prayer Breakfast took a spot in the top five. Since then, the growing 80-member organization has been busy

preparing and planning for March 31.

The group first asked permission from the organizers in Tulare if they could use a similar program.

“They (the organizers in Tulare) said, ‘This is what it’s all about – to help build community and bring focus to the Lord inter-denominationally across the country,’” Franken said. “They have helped us in any way they possibly can.”

WIDA then contacted the Central Plains Dairy Association. The board agreed the event would be a good addition to the expo.

Scott Hillman, one of the founders of the Ag Prayer Breakfast in Tulare is going to be the keynote speaker and Jim Wooster from Sioux Falls will be the master of ceremonies at the breakfast during the Central Plains Dairy Expo.

Vickie Franken

The Ag Prayer Breakfast will also feature a testimony WIDA board member of faith from Gerrit Davalaar, who dairy farms with his family in Inwood, Iowa. He will share his story about persevering in agriculture and faith in his life.

“I think our faith is getting to be more important all the time,” Davalaar said. “Our nation is moving away from faith, so I think we have to go back to our faith and our roots.”

Davalaar said God and prayer fits into his family’s life every day.

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“We know He’s in control. Nothing happens without God,” he said. “As a dairy farmer, I am so dependent on the Lord. I think we (dairy farmers) are closer to Him because we see Him constantly in our work.”

Another large aspect of the Ag Prayer Breakfast will be music. The Brown family, who dairy farm and are a professional singing group from Le Mars, Iowa, will be providing upbeat and meaningful songs throughout the event.

Franken said an event like the Ag Prayer Breakfast is important for the dairy community that is rebuilding.

“The economy and especially animal agriculture in the last couple years – particularly last year – has been extremely difficult.” Franken said. “Because of that, everyone is very receptive of getting back to the basics.”

She said one of those basics is faith.

“Everybody comes from a different way of expressing their faith and living their lives, but faith is the common strength,” she said. “It’s a common denominator that will bring us together.”

An event like the Ag Prayer Breakfast could help dairy producers and people in the industry support each other in the future, she said.

“This (event) gives us the opportunity to celebrate the importance of faith and prayer in our personal and professional lives and to be refueled for the year to come,” she said. “It’s a time to encourage each other because it’s been tough.”

Faith and prayer has been a large part of Franken’s life.

“It helps me get through every day,” she said. “It’s that connection with the Lord through prayer that gives me the strength to take each day and rejoice in each day. [Prayer] is a great way to start your day.”

She hopes the prayer breakfast can help strengthen other people’s faith – in an upbeat style.

“It’s going to be a great time,” she said. “It’s going to be upbeat and hopefully give many the refueling they need to move ahead.”

“Everybody comes from a different way of expressing their faith and living their lives, but faith is the common strength. It’s a common denominator that will bring us together.”

- Vickie Franken, Western Iowa Dairy Alliance

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What do you enjoy most about attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? We enjoy talking with the different sales people and getting new ideas from them. We also always seem to run into a lot of other dairy producers we know and can talk to them about dairying.

How do you spend your time while at the CPDE? We attend seminars in the morning and afternoon and in between we check out all the booths.

What seminars or booths are you especially interested in seeing this year? We are always looking for updated information on calf care and cow vaccinations. Also, we are planning on looking at cattle headgates.

What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you've taken back and incorporated into your farm? It seems like every year we come home with something new to try. We have tried new milking procedures, learned about giving more colostrum to calves, and new shots for the cows. We needed to remodel our parlor a couple years ago. We got lots of ideas and plenty of helpful information.

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Good records first step to reducing lameness DeFrain brings real life examples to presentation

By Andrea Borgerding Staff Writer

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Born and raised on a Nebraska dairy farm, Dr. Jeff DeFrain knows listening to research on cow lameness may not be the most appealing for dairy producers.

That is why he focuses on real life examples of troubleshooting lameness.

“We have worked with several dairies in the western U.S. to collect data from hoof trimming records. These are good examples to show dairy producers how to connect the dots in what is causing lameness,” DeFrain said. “Whether it's a management change or an adjustment in cow comfort, sometimes it's the small changes that can significantly reduce lameness in a herd.”

But often these small adjustments are not implemented because of a lack of supporting data and recording protocols. That is why DeFrain promotes keeping hoof trimming records and supports the use of several methods, from software to a pen and paper.

During his presentation, “Hoof Trimming Records: The Key to Reducing Lameness in Your Herd,” at the Central Plains Dairy Expo, DeFrain will present the problem with current hoof trimming records in the industry, data analysis from several herds, and will demonstrate how this data can be used to aid in reducing cow lameness. The presentation will be offered

twice during the expo – first at 11 a.m. on March 31 and again at 2:30 p.m. on April 1.

DeFrain earned his BS and MS degrees in animal science from Kansas State University and his PhD in animal science from South Dakota State University. Prior to joining Zinpro in 2004, DeFrain was serving as an on-farm nutritionist for a multi-site dairy operation in the Midwest.

Today, his duties at Zinpro inDr. Jeff DeFrain clude overseeing Zinpro dairy research projects and providing technical services and support to the western U.S., South America and the Middle East.

“We have focused on herds working with hoof trimming record protocols – and have collected data to show these dairies how they are able to determine what factor has the biggest impact on lameness on their specific dairy,” DeFrain said. “Most importantly, these records will tell us whether the lameness is infectious or non-infectious in nature.”

For example, if there is a high incidence of ulcers in a herd’s records, DeFrain said this generally suggests the cows are not getting off their feet.

Standing too long causes stress on the sensitive areas of the claw.

Lameness in dairy cattle results in significant losses in performance – and ultimately negatively affects the profitability of a dairy operation. Proper hoof trimming records along with locomotion scoring is useful in determining the degree of lameness in the herd as well as identifying cows with claw lesions.

“Zinpro has collaborated with the International Lameness Committee in developing a Claw Lesion Identification poster,” DeFrain said. “We want to get producers to hang this poster somewhere on the dairy for a reference to aid in simplifying and standardizing claw lesion identification in the dairy industry.”

Proper identification diagnosis and recording of the different possible claw lesions provides a means for determining the causative factors of lameness within the herd. Identifying and addressing factors contributing to the claw lesions present in the herd will ultimately improve the performance and profitability of the herd.

“I would say nine out of 10 producers don’t keep hoof trimming records or do but the records are so messy that they can’t make sense of them,” DeFrain said. “I want to show producers how to simplify the process for any herd size from 50 to 5,000 cows.”

DeFrain said there are many collec-

tion systems producers can use, ranging from a pen and paper to a computerized, more automated collection method.

Examples of how to incorporate hoof trimming records into herd management software such as Dairy Comp 305 will be discussed. Regardless of method of collection, this data will work in concert with FirstStep from Zinpro, a methodical software program designed to identify trigger factors of lameness on a dairy operation.

DeFrain will be giving examples of various recording systems during his seminar with the assistance of Supervisor Systems’ Keith Sather.

The presentation will be helpful for any dairy producers looking to target reasons for lameness in a herd, develop or fine tune hoof trimming record protocols or for more information on identifying claw lesions for proper diagnosis.

DeFrain is looking forward to sharing the data collected from the herds involved in his research.

“Sharing real life examples of using claw lesion data to troubleshoot dairy lameness has been a real motivator for dairy owners to implement some sort of record management system,” DeFrain said. “Dairymen like to see examples of how claw lesion records have been proven useful to other dairymen. That is what I am bringing to my presentation – real life examples.”

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How many years have you attended the Central Plains Dairy Expo?

I've missed it one year due to weather; now that Marla and the kids started going, they try to miss school for it.

What do you enjoy most about attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? Running into other dairy producers we haven't seen in a while and finding out we not the last one out there.

How do you spend your time while at the CPDE? We mostly walk the exhibit floor looking at new products.

What seminars or booths are you especially interested in seeing this year? Currently we're planning on going back to the tiestall barn and getting away from parlor and freestalls, so I want to improve some stall mats and tunnel ventilate the barn.

What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you've taken back and incorporated into your farm? Improvements on milking procedures.

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Finding the hidden resources

Anderson will discuss calf raising at Central Plains Dairy Expo

By Krista M. Sheehan Staff writer SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Lewis Anderson said raising calves can be easier if producers know where to find the answers.

“Some resources we overlook.

Many times the resources we need are right underneath our feet in the every day things we do,” said Anderson, the president of the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association, and national sales manager and calf management consultant at Calf-Tel.

Anderson will present the seminar, “How to Better Utilize Your Resources in Raising Quality Heifers and Bull Calves,” at 4 p.m. March 31 and 9:30 a.m. April 1 during the Central Plains Dairy Expo in Sioux Falls, S.D. “We’re going to be talking about resources, but we’ll be taking this in a different manner,” he said.

During the seminar, Anderson said he will talk about the need to have proper protocols and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). He stressed that these are important resources many

dairy producers and calf raisers miss.

Anderson will use demonstrations to share how proper protocols and SOPs are important and effective on the farm.

This will be mixed with some other topics in calf care such as colostrum management and proper nutrition.

“How do we write the proper protocols or SOPs to match these resources?”

Anderson said.

“The Lewis Anderson President, Dairy Calf greatest resources are the animals and Heifer coming up to fill Association our barns in the future. If we’re not taking care of those resources, we will never succeed.”

Another main topic of the seminar will be employees. Anderson said producers need to give them proper training and put them in a position to work to their greatest potential.

“Success is not only animals as resources, but our people that we’re working with every day,” Anderson

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said. “If these people don’t know what their clear expectations are, how can we expect them to succeed?”

In the seminar, he will also talk about the importance of developing a reporting and recording process.

“I always tell people, ‘A goal unwritten is only a wish,’” Anderson said.

Producers won’t only be listening during the seminar, they’ll be participating.

“We’ll have several interactive aspects as we go through this,” said Anderson, who will be asking a lot of audience questions during the seminar. “A lot of it will be determined by who’s in the audience. We try to involve people as much as they can and want.”

do.”

Anderson said his seminar can help producers and calf raisers make those changes to make their operation better.

“Whether we’re in good times or hard times, whether we’re profitable or we’re struggling, we always have to be learning and understanding what there is available to us,” he said. “We need to know how these learning experiences will make us even more successful than we are now.”

Anderson grew up on a dairy and beef farm in Utah. Although he has an education degree, Anderson realized his place was in the dairy industry.

After working on a 250-cow dairy in northern Idaho, he moved to California

“The greatest resources are the animals coming up to fill our barns in the future. If we’re not taking care of those resources, we will never succeed.”

- Lewis Anderson, Dairy Calf and Heifer Association president Calf managers who take care of the youngstock and the owners of these operations are the best people to attend the seminar, Anderson said. These people will benefit from the presentation because many of them usually do not know mortality rates or what percentage of their calves have been treated for certain diseases, he said.

“How can you fix something if you don’t know what you are dealing with and what effect it is having on your operation?” Anderson said. “ … The best way to change is to start setting goals, start developing proper protocols that will help you achieve what you want to

where he managed around 25,000 head at a large calf ranch. He also worked in the maternity area of a dairy where calves were born every 32 minutes. He moved on to his next opportunity in Wisconsin where he helped build Calf Source and for the last two years, Anderson has been working for Calf-Tel. Working with young calves has been a long-time passion for Anderson.

“Even while managing a dairy farm, I always gravitated towards the youngstock,” Anderson said. “I always liked figuring out ‘What can we do better?’ and ‘How can we get a better quality animal into the milking barn?’”

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We’ll be at Booth #196!

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Dairy Star asks: What booths are you interested in at Central Plains Dairy Expo?

“I look forward to seeing the robotic milkers.”

Mark and Kimber Sipma shown with sons, Johnathan and Justin Hull, Iowa, 50 cows

How many years have you attended the Central Plains Dairy Expo? Six years.

What do you enjoy most about attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? Being able to attend the quality keynote speakers.

How do you spend your time while at the CPDE? CPDE has the top analysts/professionals in the country and I feel privileged to sit in on their speeches. We like to hit all of the vendors and get free ice cream from AMPI. Thanks AMPI!

What seminars or booths are you especially interested in seeing this year? I look forward to seeing the robotic milkers to find out what kind of changes are coming to the dairy industry. I would also like to purchase a vertical mixer, so I will probably do some investigation on those.

What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you've taken back and incorporated into your farm?

I don't know if the changes are so much my farm or me.

But I have heard Bob Cropp speak a few times now and paid attention to his predictions. I learned when Bob Cropp speaks, you listen!

Tell us about your farm. My wife, Kimber, and I have two boys: Johnathan (3) and Justin (1). We milk 50 Holstein cows in a rented freestall/stanchion barn. We buy all our feed, rent all our equipment and raise our own heifers. We both grew up in town and bought the cows two years ago.

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take advantage of the lester difference!

Dairy Star asks: What do you enjoy about the Central Plains Dairy Expo?

“The contacts you can make with potential suppliers and businesses.”

Lester Buildings Dealer

Dennis and Jeff have been building dairy facilities for more than 15 years. They specialize in a variety of dairy projects, and have built facilities that ranged in size from small to large.

712-439-1101 Dennis: 712-470-3147 Jeff: 712-470-1400 Fax: 712-439-1116

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Give them a call today and let them bid your new expansion dairy facility!

Visit us in Booths 117-118

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Kevin and Cari Knapp Larchwood, Iowa, 120 cows

How many years have you attended the Central Plains Dairy Expo?

Four years.

What do you enjoy most about attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? The contacts you can make with potential suppliers and businesses as well as seeing the latest products available.

How do you spend your time while at the CPDE? We usually spend three to four hours visiting with exhibitors and viewing the trade show.

What seminars or booths are you especially interested in seeing this year? The Quickbooks seminar, possibly, and all the booths.

What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you've taken back and incorporated into your farm? We have tried several products demoed there. Some we have continued to use, while others we have not.

Tell us about your farm. We milk 120 cows in a 95 cow tiestall barn with automatic takeoffs. The majority of our herd is registered Jerseys with a few Brown Swiss. We raise all our own youngstock, as well as our elite Jersey bulls we raise for selling as breeding bulls. We have four children ages 6, 5, 3 and 1.

Visit us for the rst time at the Central Plains Dairy Expo, Booth #99

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Directions to the Central Plains Dairy Expo The Convention Center is located at 1101 N. West Ave., Sioux Falls, S.D.

From the east: Take I-90 to I-29 South. Get off I-29 South From the North: Get off I-29 South at Exit 81 and go east at Exit 81 and go east (left) approximately 1.5 miles to N. (left) approximately 1.5 miles to N. West Ave. Turn right.

West Ave. Turn right. The Sheraton Hotel and Convention The Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center is on the right.

Center is on the right.

From the South: Get off I-29 North at Exit 81 and go east From the west: Take I-90 to I-29 South. Get off I-29 South (right) approximately 1.5 miles to N. West Ave. Turn right. at Exit 81 and go east (left) approximately 1.5 miles to N. The Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center is on the right.

West Ave. Turn right. The Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center is on the right.

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