PRECISION DAIRY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Complete conference proceedings for the first North American Conference on Precision Dairy Management are now available free of charge on the Precision Dairy Management website.

The Proceedings include 57 plenary and session papers, as well as abstracts of posters and the dairy farmer panel. The conference held in March, 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, attracted leading researchers, technologists, private industry, and dairy farmers from across North America and 18 countries around the world to share the latest research and experiences with precision dairy farming and using precision technology.

Precision dairy management is automation using sensor-based management tools that define animal needs and robotic equipment that automatically delivers individual cow management applications. In the same way that mechanization and expansion have improved productivity in the last 20 years, precision technologies will drive dairy industry progress in future. The conference brought together presentations from world class research and development in precision dairy farming in nutrition, robotic milking, automation, dairy cattle health, reproduction, mastitis control and milk quality, calf feeding and management, housing and novel technologies and has made a great contribution to advancing applications of precision dairy farming.

Go to the Precision Dairy Management website www.precisiondairy2010.com and click on “Conference Proceedings” to access all presentations. For anyone wanting to purchase a copy of the Proceedings there is a limited number still available using the downloadable form on the website.

Conference organizers have remodeled the Precision Dairy Management website as a place to showcase new and emerging precision dairy technologies. We will be posting submitted articles, papers, media releases and links to information about new technologies on a regular basis. Contributions of information or links may be submitted to info@precisiondairy2010.com. We will review it for suitability and post all material that we feel contributes in a positive fashion to knowledge and understanding of precision technologies in the dairy industry.

June 23, 2011

New Precision Dairy Management Web Pages!

 A new communications forum for dairy precision management via the internet was unveiled today.  The Precision Dairy Management website www.precisiondairy2010.com developed as an extension of the highly successful North American Conference on Precision Dairy Management that was held in March, 2010, will be a source of news, new products, and the latest research and developments in the area of precision dairy farming.

 The First North American Conference in 2010 brought together key people in precision technology and related aspects of dairy production from around the world and it has served as a turning point for acceptance of precision dairy technology as a mainstream component of modern dairy farming in North America.  There have been a lot of positive spin-off and tangible benefits from that Conference in the form of researchers being invited to be involved in joint programs in other countries, companies expanding their reach, and forming new linkages, and increased awareness in the industry in general of the potential that this technology has to offer.  Already we have seen cooperative efforts in milk recording and genetic improvement, cow behaviour, reproduction, cow welfare and renewed interest in precision nutrition.

 Ontario has been one of the world leaders in adoption of precision dairy farming and robotic milking and we believe it is very important to stay involved in this rapidly changing technology, share our experiences and use our position to advantage to increase and improve the benefits of robotics and precision technology on North American dairy farms.   This increased awareness and appetite for information on new developments in this exciting technology has led to the re-development of the Precision Dairy Management website to be a clearinghouse for the latest information from research and industry product development.

 Precision Dairy Management is bringing about a new era in dairy cattle management, where technology is being used for individual cow monitoring and management regardless of herd size, to achieve not only more efficient production but also improved animal health and welfare.   It is very important that the excitement and collective energy generated by the Conference be continued and generate new ideas and new cooperative efforts to benefit the dairy industry.

 The website is sponsored in part by the Progressive Dairy Operators with editorial assistance from dairy specialists of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs.  Web hosting is courtesy of CanWestDHI.  Check out the Precision Dairy Management website at www.precisondairy2010.com

 November 8, 2010