Dairy News AUSTRALIA december, 2012
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Global experts talk shop Wednesday, january 23 9am
“New innovations for improving teat health and greater milk production” Guest Speaker – Derek Davies, Export Sales Manager – Dairy with Avon Rubber Derek Davies has a wealth of experience in the dairy industry from 1970 to date, from hands on installation of milking equipment, milk processing and packaging equipment, sales area management, dealer management, sales and marketing and exhibitions, to company management and human resources. Milkrite is a trading name of Avon Rubber and currently manufacture 60% of the worldwide requirement of liners. In 2008, Milk-Rite became the largest global selling brand of Dairy liners 10am
What’s Coming Next for Genomics Guest Speaker - Dr Ben Hayes Dr Ben Hayes has a wide ranging career designing genetic improvement programs for beef cattle, sheep and Atlantic salmon. However, his focus for the past five years has been the development of genomic selection methods, particularly for dairy cattle. Recent work has addressed the challenges of optimal breeding program design with genomic selection, incorporating whole genome sequence information into genomic selection in the 1000 bull genomes project, as well as improving feed conversion of dairy cattle. Dr Hayes currently leads the dairy cattle genetics program in the Dairy Futures Cooperative Research Centre. Midday
Making Better informed and More Profitable AI and Reproduction Decisions using MooMonitor (Also speaking, Jan 24, 10am)
Guest Speaker – Kevin Jorgensen Kevin Jorgensen currently serves as the Director of Dairy Programs for the East Central regions at Select Sires in the United States. His responsibilities include managing the Evaluator and Select RePro Solutions staff, consulting with clients as well as conducting Select Mating Services work for herds mainly over 400 cows. Jorgensen also works with herds on business strategies relating mainly to heifer populations and profitability. Along with several other members of the Select Sires team, he markets and services the Select Detect (MooMonitor) heat detection system. Additionally, his knowledge and expertise is used in working with international tours for World Wide Sires.
that will dramatically change the way our clients look at developing their own operation’s genetic strategies,” says Brad Sayles, Semex Vice President Global Marketing.
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Mastitis in the Modern Australian Dairy Cow Guest Speaker - Dr Neil Charman Neil Charman has worked as a dairy veterinarian for most of his career and he completed his Masters in Dairy Medicine in 1995 and his MBA in 2006. He has been working for Pfizer in the area of Clinical Development since 2007 where his clinical research has been strongly focused on positive outcomes for dairy cattle and the dairy industry.
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Immunity+ Sires: Offering Dairymen a Genetic Option for Natural Disease Resistance Guest Speaker – John McDougall All dairy producers want more healthy cows. The challenge has been that until today, health traits have been very difficult to improve genetically. For over a decade, Semex has been supporting immune response research at the University of Guelph in Canada under the direction of Dr Bonnie Mallard, BSc (Agr), MSc, PhD, Professor Immunogenetics, Department of Pathobiology. This research has resulted in a new product at Semex known as Immunity+ sires. With heritability comparable to productivity traits, Semex’s Immunity+ sires will produce cattle with a broad based resistance to the bacterial and viral based pathogens that cattle are exposed to on a daily basis. Additionally, their daughters will produce colostrum that passes on more antibodies and they will respond better to vaccination protocols. “This is an industry first. And, Semex is proud to exclusively offer a product
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7 Mistakes to Avoid in Designing Free Stall Cattle Housing Guest Speaker – Mike Creek Mike has had 30 years’ experience in the dairy industry, starting in the AI industry for 12 years, six years of dairy herd management, last 12 years dairy equipment Industry, with focus on the design and building of dairy cattle housing and milking facilities. Have helped designed and build units, ranging from specialised units for pedigreed cows, to large free stall barns for commercial dairies, and barns for robotic milking. Currently Mike provides support to GEA Total Solutions on Cattle Housing units internationally.
Neil works with the Farm Group, which is responsible for managing the way Dairy Australia invests in farm related research, development and change. He is responsible for managing Dairy Australia’s investments in extension across the industry’s eight supply regions, and The People in Dairy program. Prior to starting with Dairy Australia in June this year Neil worked with Fonterra Australia’s milk supply team, and prior to that with Bonlac Foods as a field officer in Northern Victoria. Over 15 years his roles in milk supply involved working with farmers directly and managing teams who were involved in supporting farmers and their businesses. Driven by achieving positive outcomes for farmers and the industry, Webster is looking forward to continuing to make an impact in his role with Dairy Australia. He will discuss extension tools models and people development resources including the people in dairy website which can support farmers in the businesses Thursday, january 24 10am
Building Dairy Infrastructure in Challenging Environments Guest Speaker – Dr Ed Koppel Based in the USA, Dr Edward Koppel, a veterinarian specialising in animal nutrition, is founding president of Dairy Services International, a global consultancy providing unique expertise in the custom design of high yielding dairy cattle, milking parlours and related infrastructure, and milk production operation of large-scale dairy production systems. Dr Koppel has led the development and project management of 17 large scale dairy herd and dairy farm projects over the past 15 years in countries 4pm Extension & People Development in including Canada, Chile, Germany, India, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Saudi the Dairy Industry Arabia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Guest Speaker - Neil Webster Neil Webster is Dairy Australia’s Pro- United States, and Uruguay. Dr Koppel has overseen the expangram Manager – Extension and Change.
sion of dairy herds from 2000 to over 45,000 milking cows. With increasing scale these projects have delivered improvements in per head milk productivity by over 50%, reduced the incidence of mastitis by 90%, and doubled successful pregnancy rates. He brings to projects the technology, genetic selection processes, and best management practice in animal welfare, milk productivity, and farm health practices to deliver the commercial and environmental sustainability required of modern large-scale cattle raising and dairy farming operations. Midday
Using Top Genetics as a Revenue Generator for Commercial Herds Guest Speaker - Tim Abbott Tim Abbott is no stranger to the dairy world. A 1987 graduate of the University of Vermont in Dairy Cattle Genetics, Abbott worked for American Jersey Cattle Association for five years as field man, Director of Field Services and Manager of Jersey Marketing Service. He began work for ABS Global as regional sire analyst in 1992 and continued covering different parts of the US for ABS for 15 years. In 2007, he took over as General Manager of ABS Canada and St. Jacobs ABC and ran all operations of ABS’ Canadian business. In June 2011, Tim and his wife, Sharyn, purchased the company he was running, St Jacobs ABC, from the group of cooperative members that owned it. Today, St. Jacobs samples 15 bulls per year, mostly Holstein and RW Holstein but a few Jerseys. St. Jacobs unit sales have grown from 50,000 units to 500,000 units in the past decade. Through his business, Abbott currently owns 100 head of elite females and has recently worked with cows like Tri Day Ashlyn, Talent Barbara and Dundee Hezbollah. The STJ business is beginning to market embryos around the world, has had several successful sales in the US and is also planning to have an Embryo Silent Auction, in conjunction with ABS Australia, at IDW.
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