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2025 Cayuga Dairy Day Workshop

• Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Raising dairy replacements takes a good deal of time and money. Times have changed and dairy farmers are now striving to reducing the number of heifer calves being produced and raised. If you are, what is the right number of heifers to raise?

The Cayuga County Dairy Day Workshop is designed to provide you the tools in answering many farm specific questions before you can determine the number of calves to keep. This will be an activity based program. (Worksheets will be provided)

Register: Call/Text 315-704-8810 or email rak76@cornell.edu

Topics

How many Dairy Replacements do you REALLY need?

With Betsy Hicks, Regional Dairy Management Specialist. Today’s dairy farms are now breeding an increased number of healthier, genetically superior calves from the same number of cows. We have moved away from raising every heifer to focusing on the quality of the calves we keep. Plus, the value of replacements heifers has soared in addition to the price for beef X dairy calves. How do you choose who stays and who goes? The bottom line is to make sure you have enough heifers, at different stages to move into the milking herd.

Improving Land Use - Matching Forage, Acres, Stock, and Storage

With Joe Lawrence, Cornell Dairy Forage Specialist. Regardless of the dairy's herd size, there is one key theme that applies to everyone, a land base that matches the number of cows and heifers in the herd. Today’s goal is to provide a tool for farmer to align these areas so that acreage planning is optimized, storage shrink is minimized and livestock are allocated the best feed possible for the diets formulated.

Home Grown Grains-the economics of growing energy and protein. 

With Janice Degni, Regional Field Crops Specialist.  Dairy operations need to be "custom tailored" to the resources available.This includes exchanging forage acres for grain production. Considerations for success includes understanding true cost of production versus cost of purchased grain and will time devoted to this come at the expense of taking care of cows?

Fee

$25 (lunch and program materials included)

Location

Potters Farm to Fork
1951 NY-31
Port Byron, NY 13140

Last updated February 11, 2025