One-day on-farm program offered

This one-day program provides on-farm training for dairy farm employees and managers who want to learn more about and improve the feeding process. Each site will feature hands-on activities and demonstrations, presented in both English and Spanish.

Topics

• Economics and importance of feeder center analysis
• Dry Matter and feeder math-basics, how to measure, work it into ratio, refusals, adjust ration based on DM, feed software
• Feed consistency – TMR audits
• Troubleshooting mixer wagons
• Bunker management, drone demonstration/map out bunk, bunk silo management, packing
• Density and preservation
• Safety

Dates

Northern NY 
Wednesday, November 2nd – CCE North Country Regional Ag Team
Murcrest Farm
31721 NY-12
Copenhagen, NY

Central NY
Thursday, November 3rd – CCE Central NY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team
Morning: Tally Ho Restaurant
Afternoon: Woodlawn Dairy Farm
156 Main St
Richfield Springs, NY 13439

South Central NY
Friday, November 4th – CCE South Central NY Dairy & Field Crops Team
East River Dairy
4979 E River Crossing Rd
Cortland, NY 13045

Tuesday, November 8th – CCE South Central NY Dairy & Field Crops Team
Oakwood Dairy
1290 Chamberlain Rd
Auburn, NY 13021

Wednesday, November 9th – CCE Southwest NY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team
Karr Dairy Farm
1451 Dennis Rd
Hornell, NY 14843

Northwest NY
Thursday, November 10th – CCE Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team
Old Acres Farm
7863 Route 39
Perry, NY 14530

Friday, November 11th – CCE Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team
Bonna Terra Farm
2460 Cox Rd
West Bloomfield, NY 14469

Registration 
Cost: $50 per person

Register through the local CCE links

More information
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