Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference coming up

The 2012 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference will be held April 24-25 in Fort Wayne, Ind.

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

• Nutrition and immunity
• Water quality
• Economic value of milk components
• Issues related to milk sampling and analysis
• Circadian patterns of feed intake and milk composition variability
• Bioactive supplements for relief of milk fat depression
• Milk fat variation in fresh cows
• What's new with corn silage for dairy cattle?
• Feeding value of different grasses
• Advantages and disadvantages of homegrown forages
• Food Modernization Act - What it means to the feed and livestock industries
• Management tips for calves fed with automated milk feeders
• Variation in feed and diet composition
• Harvesting and storing high moisture corn
• Managing a profitable dairy farm

The conference also includes a student research competition with presentations by graduate students from Michigan State University, Purdue University and The Ohio State University.

For more information or to register, click here.

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