Workshop: Develop a Plan to Reach Your Farm’s Dairy Cow Replacement Needs
Event Details
Date
April 7, 2025
Time
10am - 1pm
Location
Meadow Acre Farm
583 County Road 36
Guilford, NY 13780
Cost
Free Registration : Free
Host
Central New York Dairy and Field CropsCornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County, in collaboration with CNY Dairy, Field Crops and Livestock Team
Workshop: Develop a Plan to Reach Your Farm's Dairy Cow Replacement Needs.
Date: April 7th, 2025 Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Cost: Free. Location: 583 County Road 36, Guilford NY. "The Norwich Guilford Road"
Meadow Acre Farm, the Alan Troyer family
10 am - 11 am: How many Dairy Replacements do you REALLY need? Betsy Hicks, Regional Dairy Management Specialist
How to come up with a replacement strategy? We have moved away from raising every heifer to focusing on the quality of the calves we keep. Plus, the value of replacement heifers has soared in addition to the price for beef X dairy calves.
How do you choose who stays and who goes? The bottom line is to make sure you have enough heifers, at different stages to move into the milking herd.
11pm - 12pm: Improving Land Use - Matching Forage, Acres, Stock, and Storage. Joe Lawrence, Cornell Dairy Forage Specialist
Regardless of the dairy's herd size, there is one key theme that applies to everyone, a land base that matches the number of cows and heifers in the herd. Today's goal is to provide a tool for farmers to align these areas so that acreage planning is optimized, storage shrink is minimized and livestock are allocated the best feed possible for the diets formulated.
12 pm - 1 pm: Come prepared to work with your own data. Take advantage of this opportunity to work with experts to develop and improve or make adjustments to meet your farms' goals.
• Total number of cows, heifers, calves (cull rates, calvings), Total acres of land, Diets
Cost: free, but please call and sign up at:
(315) 866-7920
(315) 749-3486
607-334-5841 ext. 1111
Registration deadline: Friday April 4th
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