For your convenience, our meeting venue is also the place where you can reserve a room to stay for the extent of the conference. We have worked out a special price with Treasure Island for conference attendees, so rooms need to be reserved separately from the conference registration.
Reserve your room as soon as they are available because room rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
The hotel rooms contain two queens or a king with approximately 400 sq. feet. Rooms offer pillow-topped mattresses, wireless internet, and a small refrigerator. In addition to the room rate, there is a daily resort fee of $32.
Robb Bender is a consultant and partner in GPS Dairy Consulting LLC. Robb provides independent nutrition and whole-farm management consulting to dairies in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Robb will cover the World Class Feed Management Goals identified by the GPS Dairy Consultation group through their experience in feed management and dairy production performance. Through these goals, the participant will be able to rank their own feed management practices and determine areas that need to be improved.
Gerald Poppy works for Diamond V leading the development and implementation of strategic marketing plans to drive growth.
Dr. Poppy will speak to us drawing upon the last 37 years working on special projects to improve profitability on dairies. His emphasis is on how to understand data and the underlying uncertainty in information and how knowing this can help us make better, more profitable decisions.
Jennifer grew up on a research feedlot and has been working in industry since 2012. She received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Ruminant Nutrition focusing on immunology and vaccine efficacy, carcass quality and beef nutrition value, and feedlot management practices. Jennifer joined Chr. Hansen in 2017 as their Technical Services Manager.
Dr. Schutz will be discussing “optimizing health” in the animal. Her talk will focus on the role probiotics play in keeping the gastrointestinal tract healthy and the importance of the immune system for keeping an animal healthy and productive.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Software updates for Consultants and others who bring laptop computers
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Registration and individual one-on-one consultations by appointment
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast/Registration
8:00 - 9:50 a.m.
General Session
9:50 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
General Session (continued)
10:55 - 12:00 p.m.
Breakout Classes: Block 1
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Breakout Classes: Block 2
2:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 - 5:00 p.m.
Breakout Classes: Block 3
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Breakout Classes: Block 4
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
General Session: A Case Study - Using tools beyond the basics to dig into the performance of your dairy and identify opportunities.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
End Conference
This year's conference attendees will be receiving jackets. During the registration process, you will be asked for your jacket size. For your reference, here are the sizing guides:
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