NMC Regional Meeting – Guelph

May 08, 2018

The National Mastitis Council (NMC) Regional Meeting, hosted jointly with the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners (OABP) and the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), will provide the best current mastitis and milk quality information to dairy producers, veterinarians, and advisors.

This year’s conference theme is “Solutions To Emerging Milk Quality Issues” and conference organizers have put together a 3-day program to include: a variety of short courses and evening banquet with a keynote speaker on Wednesday, June 20; a day of formal presentations on Thursday, June 21; a bus tour on Friday, June 22. Key topics to be covered include: implementation of selective dry cow therapy programs, bedding options and their impact on udder health, and maintaining the highest milk quality when transitioning to robotic milking systems.

Source : Ontario Association of Bovine Practioners

Video: 2026 T.K. Cheung Lecture in Animal Science - Dan Weary

T.K. Cheung Lecture in Animal Science: "Using science to assess and improve the welfare of dairy cattle"

Dan Weary is a Professor at the University of British Columbia. Dan did his BSc and MSc at McGill and Doctorate at Oxford before co-founding UBC’s Animal Welfare Program where he now co-directs this active research group. His research focuses on understanding the perspectives of animals and applying these insights to develop methods of assessing animal welfare and improving the lives of animals. His work has helped drive changes in practices (including the adoption of higher milk rations for calves and pain management for disbudding) and housing methods (including the adoption of social housing for pre-weaned calves). He also studies cow comfort and lameness, social interactions among cows, and interactions between cows, human handlers and technologies like automated millking systems that are increasingly used on farms. His presentation will outline key questions in cattle welfare, highlight recent UBC research addressing them, and showcase innovative methods for improving the lives of cattle and their caretakers.