In this episode of Cornell Convos, Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Betsy Hicks interview John Winchell, Territory Sales Rep., Alltech about opportunities and considerations for winter forages and first cutting. To give suggestions for future topics, enter them here: cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_…0mJo62tFans2 ..read more

In this special episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Team Dairy Specialist, Dr. Kaitlyn Lutz, interviews Dr. Rob Lynch, Pro-Dairy’s Dairy Herd Health and Management Specialist, to discuss the recent outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle. Show notes: Cornell’s PRO-DAIRY (Biosecurity document, video presentations and other resources): https://cals.cornell.edu/pro-dairy/our-expertise/herd-health CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/mammals.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20since,reported%20on%20March%2025%2C%202024. USDA: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avi ..read more

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, CCE North Country Regional Ag Team Dairy Specialist, and Camila Lage, CCE Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Program Dairy Specliast, interview Dr. Jennifer Van Os, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Animal Welfare on the faculty of the Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Van Os discusses the benefits of pair housing calves, management tips, and challenges and potential solutions. She provides more resources on her website: https://animalwelfare.cals.wisc.ed ..read more

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos Daniela González Carranza, CCE Dairy Management Specialist and Kathryn Barrett, Sr. Extension Specialist, Cornel PRO-DAIRY interview Tom Overton, PhD, Professor and Chair, Animal Science Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell PRO-DAIRY program. Dr Overton outlines the key factors dairy farmers should be looking at to evaluate their farm businesses as we head into the new year. To give suggestions for future topics, enter them here: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHF0mJo62tFans2 ..read more

In this third episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Betsy Hicks discuss the opportunities and challenges for farmers surrounding the beef x dairy industry in New York as well as the latest national trends. To give suggestions for future topics, enter them here: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHF0mJo62tFans2 ..read more

In this second episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Team Dairy Specialists, Margaret Quaassdorff and Kaitlyn Lutz, interview Jimena Godoy, Animal Welfare Specialist and manager at Aurora Organic Dairy, to discuss preventative health care for cows, the importance of technology and training, and compassion for both employees and cows on both conventional and organic dairy farms. To give suggestions for future topics, enter them here: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHF0mJo62tFans2 More Resources: Aurora Organic Dairy: https://www.auroraorganic.com/about-us/ Aurora Orga ..read more

Dry Cows CCE Dairy Specialist, Casey Havekes, is joined by Dr. Tom Overton, Professor of Animal Science and director of PRO-DAIRY at Cornell University, in this episode to discuss troubleshooting issues during the dry period. Topics discussed include target body condition score at dry off and throughout the dry period, nutritional and feeding management of dry cow diets, dry period length, and non-nutritional factors that play a role in a successful dry period ..read more

This episode covers how producers can approach hoof health and troubleshooting lameness on their dairies. CCE Regional Dairy Specialists Lindsay Ferlito & Betsy Hicks will focus on lameness as a scale, causes of lameness, troubleshooting lameness between pens, targeting protocols with treatments, and methods of tracking lameness. Analysis of records and tying this information with cull rates will also be covered to help producers best manage hoof health ..read more

Facilities and ventilation have a significant impact on the health of dairy animals. This episode focuses on how to identify when the physical environment is having a negative impact on your dairy cows. Lindsay Ferlito and Dave Balbian, CCE Regional Dairy Specialist lead this discussion ..read more

In this episode, CCE Dairy Specialist Casey Havekes interviews Trevor DeVries of the University of Guelph on lactating feeding behavior. Factors that will be discussed include the types of feeding behaviors that producers should watch out for, learned behaviors, and how to manipulate feeding behaviors through feeding management. Pen management and the effects on feeding behavior will also be a focus in this episode ..read more