Announcements & New Information

May 2013 Dairy Pipeline -- The VTDairy Newsletter

Calf Feeder
Group housing and feeding systems for calves-opportunities and challenges
Feeding Recommendations for automatic calf feeders
from the calf autofeeder meeting in Rocky Mount 3/20/12

Managing heat stress in dairy heifers, by Dr. Bob James presented at the 
National ADSA - Southern Division sponsored symposium

"It's the little things in calf management, by Dr. Bob James presented at the 
EPL meeting, Lynden, WA 01/20/13

Pasteurizer use for calf feeding, presentations by Dr. Bob James 

New trends in calf feeding and housing, by Dr. Bob James
presented at the Land O'Lakes/Purina Feed Meeting, 6/12

Group housed calf systems--better recruiting and training is required
Felix Soriano, MS, PAS, APN Consulting, LLC 
(former Virginia Tech Dairy Science graduate student)

Group housing and feeding systems for calves-opportunities and challenges 
by Dr. Bob James  and Kayla Machado  slides | paper

2012-2013 Area Dairy Conference materials

2013 Virginia State Feed Association Convention & 
Nutritional Management "Cow College" materials 

Organic Milk Production Handbook

Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis: Cause, Detection, & Control
New Extension publication by: C.S. Petersson-Wolfe, I.K. Mullarky, 
and G.M. Jones

Reference Guide for Mastitis-Causing Bacteria
New Extension publication by: C.S. Petersson-Wolfe and J. Currin

Advances in Precision Phosphorus Feeding Webcast webcast

"Clean Colostrum and Ig Absorption" by Dr. Bob James

"Managing the Pre-weaned Calf" by Dr. Bob James

What we are learning about reducing Nutrient Excretion in the Mid-Atlantic...(Webinar)  

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