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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)  

Read AgWeb Dairy Blogs

Upcoming

 

 

June 14, 2013 
District 4-H Dairy Judging 
Contest and FFA Invitational 
Dairy Judging Contest 
Augusta County

 

June 16-20, 2013
Southeast Dairy Youth 
Retreat, Georgia

 

June 20, 2013
Calf Feeder Open House
Mooreland Farms
Mt. Sidney, VA

 

June 26, 2013
VSDA Field Day
Vanderhyde Dairy
Chatham, VA

 

July 24, 2013
State 4-H/FFA Dairy Youth Field Day
Clarke and Frederick Counties

Current Dairy Industry Stats

 

As of 04/30/13--
VA DHI cows: 57,651
VA DHI herds: 333
VA DHI average herd size:  173

April 2013 Herd Summary

 

Virginia February 2013 
mailbox price: $20.74
more mailbox prices... 
 
 

February 2013--
US cows: 9,225,000
VA cows: 94,000

Due to sequestration, 
cow numbers will not
be released again 
until at least Sept. 2013



VA dairy herds as of  
May 2013--
    Cow: 634
    Goat: 13    
    Sheep: 1 

Virginia Herd Distribution
 


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