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2020 Proceedings

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2020

  • Tuberculosis among dairy workers in Texas – Anabel Rodriguez
  • Agricultural water use in Texas – Dana Porter and Jourdan Bell
  • Farm Animal Care 4.0
  • Why heifer maturity matters? – Gavin Staley
  • Understanding stress and its effect on dairy cattle– Jeff Carroll
  • Feeding dairy cows the best we know: It starts with the rumen – Jeff Firkins
  • Manipulating the duration of the VWP to optimize herd performance and profitability – Julio Giodano
  • Dairy replacement heifer economics – Kevin Dhuyvetter
  • Practical pain management on dairies – Michael Kleinhenz
  • A state veterinarian’s experience with, and perspective on recent TB cases – Ralph Zimmerman
  • No cows are sacred, but all cows have a sacred time – Steve Bodart
  • CoBank Dairy Outlook – Will Sawyer
  • Transition cow management and nutrition: the latest producers need to know – Jose Santos





2020 HPDC
Coordinating Committee
Robert Hagevoort, Co-Chair
New Mexico State University
806-786-3421
dairydoc@nmsu.edu
Juan Piñeiro, Co-Chair
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
806- 677-5610
juan.pineiro@ag.tamu.edu
Jim Abacherli
South Slope Dairy
575-799-2739
dairydude@hotmail.com
Kyle Grigsby
J.D. Heiskell
806-367-1389
kgrigsby@heiskell.com
David Anderson
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
979-845-4351
danderson@tamu.edu
Joe Harner
Kansas State University
785-532-2900
jharner@ksu.edu
K.R. Averhoff
Blue Sky Farms
806-470-4540
kra@blueskyfarms.com
Bill Head
Zoetis
806-831-9477
william.head@zoetis.com
Jourdan Bell
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
806-677-5600
jourdan.bell@ag.tamu.edu
Luis Mendonca
Kansas State University
651-600-1532
mendonca@ksu.edu
Todd Bilby
Merck Animal Health
254-434-1777
todd.bilby@merck.com
Clyde Olmstead
DeLaval, Inc.
816-405-5230
Clyde.olmstead@delaval.com
Jeff Brose
Dairy Consultant
970-215-4513
JeffBroseDVM@gmail.com
Dana Porter
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
806-746-6101
dporter@ag.tamu.edu
Dwain Bunting
L. Dwain Bunting LLC
806-543-0002
dwainbunting@suddenlink.net
Noa Roman-Muniz
Colorado State University
970-491-6022
noa.roman-muniz@colostate.edu
Jeff Elliott
Balchem
806-570-0873
jelliott@balchem.com
Andy Schaap
Little Creek Dairy
806-759-3324
awschaap00@hotmail.com
Curt Greer
Zinpro
806-252-6730
cgreer@zinpro.com
Jennifer Spencer
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
254-968-4144
jennifer.spencer@ag.tamu.edu