Dairy Impact December 2023

  • A Dairy-Forage Day Meeting in collaboration with local Forage Council and Midwest Forage Association for dairy farmers, herd managers, crop managers, agronomists, nutritionists, and other agriculture service providers, where participants learned about dairy markets and policy; optimizing cover crops strategies to optimize forage, soil, and water quality goals; forage quality from field to the feed bunk; and impact of copper sulfate footbath use on WI soil, manure, and forage copper concentrations to improve farm business viability, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare.
  • A presentation for dairy farmers, herd managers, crop managers, agronomists, nutritionists, and other allied ag professionals, where they learned the impact of copper sulfate footbaths on WI manure, soil, and forage copper concentrations to improve business viability, economic sustainability, and food safety through animal welfare.
  • A webinar for dairy owner/operators, herds managers and employees, and agribusiness professionals where they learned how to rethink employee training and onboarding and interactively train employees to move cattle to improve farm business viability, environmental sustainability, and food safety while maintaining animal welfare and wellbeing.
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