Pasture Based Dairies in Missouri
Welcome to the Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference web page! The target audience for the conference was dairymen who want to graze in the U.S. and the theme of the conference was “Managing the System”. The conference was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in Joplin, Missouri and had presentations from university faculty, industry and dairy producers as well as farms tours to local pasture-based dairy operations. Approximately 300 people attended the conference in 2009 from a total of 26 states across the U.S. and four countries.
Sponsors
Our thanks to all of our sponsors for their valuable support of this conference.
Agenda and Proceedings
Redesigning our Dairy Industry
Randy Mooney, Dairy Producer, Chairman of National Milk Producers Federation, and First Vice Chairman of DFA’s Board of Directors, Rogersville, Missouri
Keys to the Most Profitable U.S. Dairy Grazing Operations
Jason Karszes, Farm Management Specialist, Cornell University, New York
Efficiency by Design - Layout, Facilities, Labor
Charles Fletcher, Dairy Producer, Purdy, Missouri
Developing Systems for Monitoring and Managing
Peter Gaul, Dairy Producer, Dexter, Missouri
Grazing Across the World
Michael Murphy, Dairy Producer, Ireland
Supplements - How Low Can You Go?
John Roche, Principal Scientist of Animal Science, DairyNZ, New Zealand
Impact of Importing Feed on the System - Management Implications
Stacey Hamilton, Dairy Specialist, University of Missouri Extension and
Producer Panel: Dale Carter, Missouri; Jeff Hayes, Missouri; and Kevin van der Poel, Missouri
Impact of Importing Feed on the Farm Nutrient Balance
John Lory, Environmental Nutrient Management Specialist, Commercial Ag Program, University of Missouri Extension
Application of DNA Technology in Dairy Farming
Richard Spelman, LIC, New Zealand
Tools for Managing Pasture
John Roche, Principal Scientist of Animal Science, DairyNZ, New Zealand
Systems Impact on Health Issues
Tessa Marshall, Clinical Teaching Professor, Vet Medicine, University of Missouri
Scott Poock, Dairy Veterinarian, Commercial Ag Program, University of Missouri Extension
Dairy Career Paths (PowerPoint)
Dairy Career Path (Paper)
Joe Horner, Dairy Economist, Commercial Ag Program, University of Missouri Extension and
Producer Panel: Jeff Hayes, Missouri and Larry Tranel, Iowa
How to Economically Use Fertilizer in Pasture-Based Dairy Systems
Rob Kallenbach, Forage Specialist, University of Missouri Extension
Grassland Dairying: Controllable and Uncontrollable Factors
Ken Bartlett, LIC, New Zealand
Contacts
For more information about the conference, please feel free to contact our conference coordinators:
Tony Rickard: (417) 847-3161 or RickardT@missouri.edu
Ryan Milhollin: (573) 882-0668 or MilhollinR@missouri.edu
Stacey Hamilton: (417) 637-2112 or HamiltonSA@missouri.edu
Joe Horner: (573) 882-9339 or HornerJ@missouri.edu
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Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference 2006 Proceedings
Trends
in Today’s Dairy Industry Joe Horner , University of Missouri
Trends in the U.S. Dairy Industry Paper Joe Horner, University of Missouri
Why
has Pasture-Based Dairying Developed in Missouri Charles Fletcher, Dairy Producer, Missouri
Opportunities
in Pasture-Based Dairying in Missouri Stacey Hamilton, University of Missouri
Pasture-Based
Dairies-A Systems Approach (PDF File) John Roche, DairyNZ, New Zealand
Systems Approach to Dairy Grazing Kevin van der Poel, Dairy Producer, Missouri
Forage
Systems for Dairy Grazing Rob Kallenbach, University of Missouri
Design and Operation of the Milking Platform Bernie VanDalfsen, Dairy Producer, Missouri
Perfect Grazing Cow Michael Murphy, Dairy Producer, Ireland
Genetic Results from the Strain Trials John Roche, DairyNZ, New Zealand
Dairy
Nutrition for the Pasture-Based Cow Tony Rickard, University of Missouri
Feeding the Grazing Dairy Cow Paper Tony Rickard, University of Missouri