CCE DAIRY EDUCATORS

Dr. Laporta is an assistant professor of lactation physiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After completing her PhD, Dr. Laporta spent five years on faculty at the University of Florida, so she is no stranger to heat stress! Over her career, so has studied the effect of heat stress on many animal classes. In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, CCE Regional Dairy Specialists Daniela Gon...

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, Cornell PRO-DAIRY’s Dairy Animal Welfare Specialist and Dr. Kaitlyn Lutz, Dairy Management Specialist with CCE Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Team, interview Katie Ballard, Research Director at the William H. Miner Institute. They discuss the impacts of heat stress in dairy cows in NY, the takeaways from Katie’s research in th...

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and Daniela Gonzalez Carranza, CNY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, interview Dr. Julio Giordano, Cornell University, about the appropriate integration of automated health monitoring systems on dairy farms. To give suggestions for future topi...

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 her...

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-hea...

Healthy Herds – Disease Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recording In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, CCE North Country Regional Ag Team Dairy Specialist, and Besty Hicks, CCE South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, interview Dr. Michael Capel (Perry Veterinary Clinic) and Dr. Tracy Potter (independent herd consultant). They discuss a recent project they c...

Pair Housing Calves from a Farmer’s Perspective In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, CCE North Country Regional Ag Team Dairy Specialist, and Kaitlyn Lutz, CCE Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Program Dairy Specialist, interview Sam Peetz, Youngstock manager of Rosy-Lane Holsteins, LLC. in Watertown, Wisconsin. Sam shares his experience with managing pair housed...

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. D...

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...

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 to...

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...

Episode 1: Welcome to Cornell Cow Convos! In this first episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Dairy Specialists Lindsay Ferlito and Betsy Hicks briefly cover what to expect in this new on-going series, introduce the other hosts and hear about their areas of specialty, and present topics for the first few episodes. To give suggestions for future topics, enter them here: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/j...

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...

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...

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.

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 foc...

In this episode, CCE Regional Dairy Specialists Dave Balbian & Betsy Hicks cover issues around production in lactating cows on the dairy. Factors including nutrition and facilities will be covered, as well as troubleshooting by analyzing herd records. Culling parameters and strategies will also be discussed to help producers determine the approaches that might work best for their farm. M

Dr. Rob Lynch, DVM, Herd Health and Dairy Management Specialist, Cornell PRO-DAIRY discusses how to investigate reproductive issues your lactating cows maybe experiencing.

CCE Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and PRO-DAIRY veterinarian, Dr. Rob Lynch focus on troubleshooting issues during the post-fresh period. Topics discussed include tracking fresh cow health and rumination data including using software monitoring systems, evaluating fresh cow pen management and dynamics, as well using tools to troubleshoot fresh cow nutrition and feeding behavior.

Dr. Wieland and Dr. Lynch continue their discussion on methods to identify mastitis problems on your dairy. Presenters: Dr. Matthias Wieland DVM, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Rob Lynch, DVM, PRODAIRY, Cornell University

The discussion in this episode focuses on different techniques for accurately trouble shooting mastitis issues. Presenters: Dr. Matthias Wieland DVM, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Rob Lynch, DVM, PRODAIRY, Cornell University.

This episode's discussion centers around how to trouble shoot transition cow problems. Casey Havekes and Margaret Quaassdorff, CCE Regional Dairy Specialists lead the discussion.

CCE Dairy Specialists Casey Havekes and Margaret Quaassdorff discuss challenges during calving. Margaret describes the stages of normal calving, as well as when to intervene, and Casey discusses the impact a difficult calving may have on the newborn calf. Management strategies that can help the dam and the calf following a difficult calving are also discussed during this episode.

Dr. Julio Giordano, DVM, PhD, Faculty Cornell University describes how to identify problems that impact heifer reproductive performance.

In this episode we discuss how to trouble shoot disease and growth issues that impact post weaned heifers. Presenters: Rob Lynch, DVM, Herd Health and Management Specialist, Cornell PRODAIRY program. Dave Balbian, Regional Dairy Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Central New York.