Inaugural Cornell Dairy Center of Excellence Spring Seminar Series – 2016 This twice monthly seminar series covers a broad range of dairy industry topics such as preventative medicine and herd health, dairy production management, food safety, epidemiology, worker training, industry relations and more. Seminar speakers will include Cornell faculty and invited guests. Want to propose a topic or speaker for an upcoming semester? Contact elizabeth.goldberg@cornell.edu All seminars will be held Mondays from 4-5 PM in Stocking Hall 146
Date | Speaker | Department | Topic |
Feb 8 | Quirine Ketterings | Animal Science | Whole farm nutrient mass balances for dairies in New York; Dairy Sustainability and Progress |
Feb 22 | Nicole Martin | Food Science | Systems approaches to dairy product quality |
Mar 7 | Tom Maloney | Applied Economics and Management | Agricultural Workforce Mega Trends and their Implications for Dairy Managers |
Mar 21 | Larry Chase | Animal Science | Cows, methane and global warming |
April 4 | Heather Huson | Animal Science | Dairy cattle genetics and genetic evaluations |
April 18 | Jenne De Koster | Department of Obstetrics, Reproduction and Herd Health, Ghent University | Insulin resistance in transition dairy cows |
May 2 | Jeff Tester | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | TBD – Energy recovery from dairy wastes |
This series is also offered as course VTPMD 7081