Pre-Conference Sessions

Pre-Conference Sessions on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Pre-conference sessions will be held at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott in Bloomington, MN, the University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus and the Dairy Education Center in New Sweden Township, Nicollet, County.
This year's Planning Committee has lined up three sessions with real-life application that you will be able to easily implement once back at work.
Pre-conference seminars have limited enrollment and require an additional registration fee.

DiSC Training
1:00pm-5:00pm (earn 4.2 CE hours)
Limited Space: 35 participants
Cost: $120 early registration; $170 regular registration
Location: Minneapolis Airport Marriott
Audience: Any interested dairy professional including producers and veterinarians
Speaker: John Koch, Senior Territory Business Manger, Zoetis
DiSC is one of the most successful and widely used personal and professional development instruments providing the leading edge approach to improve self-awareness, relationships, performance, productivity, communication, teamwork, and leadership. It gives valuable insight into one's own behavior as well as the behavior of others by examining and understanding people’s different behavioral styles.

Digital Surgery
1:00pm-5:00pm (earn 4.2 CE hours)
Limited Space: 20 participants
Cost: $190 early registration; $230 regular registration
Location: University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus
Audience: Veterinarians only
Speaker: Dr. David Anderson, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Description:This seminar focuses on recognition and treatment of diseases of the foot of cattle. The emphasis of the discussion seminars focuses on diseases and injuries that can be managed through corrective procedures or surgical interventions. The laboratory portion of the seminar will include examination of the foot, surgery of the tendons and digital sheaths; surgery for infection of the distal interphalangeal joint and navicular bone, and a discussion of case selection for digit salvage vs digit amputation. 
 

Using On-Farm Culture Systems to Manage Clinical Mastitis
8:00am-3:00pm (earn 6.9 CE hours)
Limited Space: 20 participants
Cost: $ 190 early registration; $ 230 regular registration
Location: Dairy Education Center, New Sweden Dairy, Nicollet, MN
Audience: Producers and veterinarians

Speakers: Dr. Sandra Godden, Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, CVM-UMN
Jennifer Timmerman, Assistant Scientist, Laboratory for Udder Health, Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, CVM-UMN
Dr. Erin Royster, Instructor in Dairy Production Medicine, Veterinary Population Medicine, CVM-UMN

On-farm culture (OFC) systems have proven themselves valuable in allowing for rapid diagnosis of clinical mastitis pathogens and can be used to successfully guide strategic treatment decisions for clinical mastitis cases. Controlled field studies have demonstrated that use of OFC systems to guide strategic treatment decisions for clinical mastitis can result in a significant (40 to 50%) reduction in intramammary antimicrobial use while maintaining the future mammary health, production potential and longevity of the cow.

By the end of this short course you will…
- Understand how OFC systems work and their potential application(s) on farms for guiding clinical mastitis treatment decisions, and learn about on-farm research results describing quarter and cow-level outcomes (cures, future performance) when using on-farm culture systems to guide strategic treatment decisions
- Understand the overall accuracy (strengths and limitations) when interpreting OFC plates
- Learn how to set up and operate an on-farm lab for success
Practice plating milk and interpreting plates