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Section A Wednesday 8:00 Welcome 8:10 No Room at the Inn: Stocking Density and Time Rick Grant Miner Institute Budgets 8:50 Animal Welfare: How Can We Assure the Consumer? Jim Reynolds University of California- Davis 9:30 Making the Most from Manure Deanne Meyer University of California 10:10 Break 10:30 The Latest on Cross Ventilation of Barns—Panel Joe Harner Kansas State University Discussion 11:30 Improving Dairy Cattle Welfare: Implications of Marina von University of British Columbia Freestall Housing on Behavior and Health Keyerlinkgk 12:10 Lunch 1:40 Straddling the Barbwire Fence: How Dairy Farmers Can Ben Yale Yale Law Office Legally Employ Immigrant Labor 2:20 Production and Markets: What Part of the Roller Mary Ledman Keough Ledman Associates Coaster are We on? 3:00 Break 3:30 Recognizing Stress, Anger, Depression, and Suicidal Robert Fetsch Colorado State University Thinking and Knowing What to do Next? 4:10 The Future of Ag Biotechnology: Who Prevails? Terry Etherton Pennsylvania State University 4:50 The Latest on Transition Cow Management Mike Overton University of Georgia 5:30 Adjourn Thursday 7:30 Reproductive Efficiency and Economics of Timed AI Carlos Risco University of Florida vs. Natural Service 8:10 Heat Detection and AI Technician Evaluation Joe Dalton University of Idaho 8:50 National Heifer Supply and the Effects of Sexed Semen Albert DeVries University of Florida 9:30 Break 10:00 Managing the Costs of Cow Mortality Frank Garry Colorado State University 10:40 What’s the Connection Between Animal Diseases and Bill Sischo Washington State University Consumers? 11:20 On Farm Culturing the Better Milk Quality Pam Ruegg University of Wisconsin 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Managing Feed and Milk Price Risk: Futures Markets Dillon Feuz Utah State University and Insurance Alternatives 2:10 How to Make ID Technology Work for You Matt VanBaale UltiMilk Dairy Company 2:50 Break 3:30 DMI Assuring Dairy’s Viability in a Changing World: Panel • Dairy/Consumer Trends and the Resulting Charlie Arnot CMA Agriculture and Dairy Disconnects, Challenges and Opportunities • “Building Bridge” from Trends and Issue to Stan Erwine Dairy Management, Inc. Positive Dairy Action • Animal Well Being and Maintaining Dairy’s Jan Shearer University of Florida Social License • Dairy Sustainability Issues and Initiatives Rick Naczi Dairy Management, Inc. • Dairy Production Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities Gatz Riddell AABP • Human Resource Issues Facing the Dairy Industry Jorge Estrada Leadership Coaching Intn’l 5:30 Adjourn Friday 8:00 Is a One TMR Approach Right? Mike Hutjens University of Illinois 9:00 The Effects of Heat Stress on Nutritional and Lance University of Arizona Management Decisions Baumgard 9:40 Feeding $10/Bushel Corn for Fun and Profits Normand St. Ohio State University Pierre 10:20 Solving Bad Water Problems for Thirsty Cows David Beede Michigan State University 11:00 Don’t Let Shrink Kill You with High Feed Prices Mike Brouk Kansas State University 11:40 Adjourn Western Dairy Management Conference 1 Section B Wednesday 8:00 Welcome 8:10 Reproductive Efficiency and Economics of Timed AI Carlos Risco University of Florida vs. Natural Service 8:50 Heat Detection and AI Technician Evaluation Joe Dalton University of Idaho 9:30 National Heifer Supply and the Effects of Sexed Semen Albert DeVries University of Florida 10:10 Break 10:30 Improving Dairy Cattle Welfare: Implications of Marina von University of British Columbia Freestall Housing on Behavior and Health Keyerlinkgk 11:10 The Latest on Transition Cow Management Mike Overton University of Georgia 11:50 Lunch 1:20 Production and Markets: What Part of the Roller Mary Ledman Keough Ledman Associates Coaster are We on? 2:00 Animal Welfare: How Can We Assure the Consumer? Jim Reynolds University of California- Davis 2:40 Straddling the Barbwire Fence: How Dairy Farmers Can Ben Yale Yale Law Office Legally Employ Immigrant Labor 3:20 Break 3:50 Managing the Costs of Cow Mortality Frank Garry Colorado State University 4:30 The Latest on Cross Ventilation of Barns—Panel Joe Harner Kansas State University Discussion 5:30 Adjourn Thursday 7:30 Recognizing Stress, Anger, Depression, and Suicidal Robert Fetsch Colorado State University Thinking and Knowing What to do Next? 8:10 The Future of Ag Biotechnology: Who Prevails? Terry Etherton Pennsylvania State University 8:50 Making the Most from Manure Deanne Meyer University of California 9:30 Break 10:00 No Room at the Inn: Stocking Density and Time Rick Grant Miner Institute Budgets 10:40 How to Make ID Technology Work for You Matt VanBaale UltiMilk Dairy Company 11:20 Managing Feed and Milk Price Risk: Futures Markets Dillon Feuz Utah State University and Insurance Alternatives 12:00 Lunch 1:30 What’s the Connection Between Animal Diseases and Bill Sischo Washington State University Consumers? 2:10 On Farm Culturing the Better Milk Quality Pam Ruegg University of Wisconsin 2:50 Break Please See Section A 2 March 11-13 Reno, NV Meal Sponsors Schaefer Ventilation Equipment Standard Dairy Consultants CHR Hansen, Inc. ($5,000) Virtus Nutrition, LLC Elanco ($7,500) Silver Sponsors ($750) Reception Sponsors Accelerated Genetics Intervet/Schering Plough A-H Agpro, Inc. Pfizer Animal Health Beco Dairy Automation, Inc. Biomin, USA Break Sponsor BioTracking, LLC Dairy Management, Inc. (Cheese) CRI Dairy Enterprise Services Platinum Sponsors ($3,000) Dairy Records Management Systems Alltech Dairy Works, LLC Arm & Hammer® Animal Nutrition Group Edstrom Industries, Inc. Bou-Matic Feedstuffs Cargill Animal Nutrition Global Diary Systems Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. I.D. Ology Diamond V® Mills J & D Manufacturing Fort Dodge Animal Health McLanahan Corporation GEA Farm Technologies / WestfaliaSurge Milk-Rite USA Intervet/Schering Plough A-H Min-AD, Inc. Land O’Lakes Purina Feeds, LLC MultiMin® USA, Inc. Mycogen Seeds Novus International Performance Products, Inc. Paul Mueller Company Pfizer Animal Health Poultry Protein & Fat Council Pioneer Hi-Bred Roto-Mix Rabobank / Rabo AgriFinance Select Sires, Inc. West Central Coop Soy Best Zinpro Performance Minerals Tom Fuhrmann, DVM Western KS Rural Economic Development Gold Sponsors ($1,500) Alliance A.L. Gilbert Co. Western Yeast Company ABS Global, Inc. Aerotech Ventilation Systems Media Sponsors (Advertising) Ag Processing Inc. / Amino Plus DairyCast AgriLabs® Dairy Herd Management Associated Feed Dairy Today Balchem Hoard’s Dairyman Calf-tel by Hampel Corp. Hoard’s WEST DeLaval, Inc. Progressive Dairy Publishing DHI-Provo Western DairyBuisness Farm Credit of New Mexico 2009 Sponsors Laird Manufacturing Western Dairy Management Conference 3 4 March 11-13 Reno, NV 2009 Western Dairy Management Conference Proceedings Welcome to the Western Dairy Management Conference- Thank you for attending. Please turn off or silence your cell phone during presentations. Video taping is not allowed. Each author’s permission is required for the use of their visuals. Page 7 Stocking Density and Time Budgets Rick Grant, Miner Institute 19 Making the Most from Manure Deanne Meyer, University of California 27 In the Thermoneutral Zone: Potential Benefits of LPCV Buildings Joe Harner, Kansas State University 43 Improving the Welfare of Dairy Cattle: Implications of Freestall Housing on Behaviors and Health Marina von Keyserlinkgk, University of British Columbia 53 Employing Aliens: Straddling the Barbed Wire Fence Ben Yale, Yale Law Office 75 Recognizing Stress, Anger, Depression, and Suicidal Thinking and Knowing What to do Next? Robert Fetsch, Colorado State University 83 The Future of Ag Biotechnology: Who Prevails? Terry Etherton, Pennsylvania State University 91 Transition Management Checklist Mike Overton, University of Georgia 103 Reproductive Efficiency and Economics of Timed AI vs. Natural Service Carlos Risco, University of Florida Western Dairy Management Conference 5 117 Heat Detection Accuracy and AI Technician Evaluation Joe Dalton, University of Idaho 131 National Heifer Supply and the Effects of Sexed Semen Albert DeVries, University of Florida 141 Adult Dairy Cow Mortality Frank Garry, Colorado State University 145 What’s the Connection Between Animal Diseases and Consumers? Bill Sischo, Washington State University 149 On Farm Culturing for Better milk Quality Pam Ruegg, University of Wisconsin 161 Managing Feed and Milk Price Risk: Futures Markets and Insurance Alternatives Dillon Feuz, Utah State University 175 How to Make ID Technology Work for You Matt VanBaale, UltiMilk Dairy Company 185 Is a One TMR Approach Right? Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois 191 The Effects of Heat Stress on Nutritional and Management Decisions Lance Baumgard, University of Arizona 203 Feeding $10 Corn for Fun and Profit Normand St. Pierre, Ohio State University 217 Solving Bad Water Problems for Thirsty Cows David Beede, Michigan State University 227 Don’t Let Shrink Kill You with High Feed Prices Mike Brouk, Kansas State University 6 March 11-13 Reno, NV Stocking Density and Time Budgets Rick Grant W. H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute P. O. Box 90 Chazy, NY 12921 Phone: 518-846-7121 x116 Fax: 518-846-8445 Email: [email protected] Dairy Cow’s Daily Time Budget Essentially, the 24-h time budget represents the net response of a cow to her environment. Deviations in any herd from these benchmarked behavioral routines represent departures from natural behavior and can serve as a basis for estimating the performance and economic loss due to poor management strategies. Table 1 illustrates a simplified daily time budget for lactating dairy cattle adapted from Grant and Albright (2000) for cows in a free-stall environment. Table 1. Typical daily time budget for lactating dairy cow. Activity Time devoted to activity per day Eating 3 to 5 h (9 to 14 meals/d) Lying/resting 12 to 14 h Social interactions 2 to 3 h Ruminating 7 to 10 h Drinking 30 min Outside pen (milking, travel time) 2.5 to 3.5 h Albright (1993) measured the daily behavioral time budget for a cow (Beecher Arlinda Ellen) during the lactation in which she set a world record for milk production while housed primarily in a box stall.