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Session I. WCDS and Dairying: A 30 Year Perspective
Highlights of the Past and a Look into the Future of Dairy Nutrition
Mike Hutjens
Highlights of the Past and a Look into the Future of Dairy Reproduction
Matt Lucy
What We Have Learned About Optimizing Efficiency of Dairy Production
Normand St-Pierre
Agriculture, Food and Society – Philosophy to Nanotechnology
Paul Thompson
Session II. Reproduction
Importance of Health and Fertility Traits – A Producer’s Perspective
Don Bennink
Perspectives on Bovine Embryo Transfer
Reuben Mapletoft
Resynchronization Programs for Dairy Cows
Matt Lucy
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Dystocia in Dairy Cattle – With Emphasis on Confinement Systems
John Mee
Session III. Finance, Management, and Economics
Achieving Excellence in Dairying
Gordie Jones
Employee management and labour retention on dairy farms
Karen Gingras
“We’ve got to Do Something”…An Adventure in the Dairy Farm Transfer Process
Reg Shandro
Discuss the Undiscussabull™ – Tools for Talking About Tough Issues in Farm Transfer™
Elaine Froese
Session IV. Calves to Cows
Bovine Neonatal Survival – Is Improvement Possible?
John Mee
Health and Immune Function of Dairy Calves
Ken Leslie
Dairy Stockmanship – Reconnecting the People with the Cows
Gordie Jones
New Concepts in Dry Period Management
Daniel Lefebvre
Session V. Nutrition
How Variation in Diets Affects Productivity
Normand St-Pierre
Efficient Use of Forages and Impact on Cost of Production
Karen Beauchemin
Lessons Learned From Dealing with High Feed Prices
Mike Hutjens
Feeding for Milk Components
Adam Lock
Session VI. Dairy Health
Overcoming Barriers to Lameness Control on Dairy Farms
Becky Whay
Meeting the Challenges of Improving Health in Periparturient Dairy Cows
Burim Ametaj
An Update on the Alberta Johne’s Disease Initiative
Herman Barkema
Should You Treat Them or Should You Eat Them? How to Improve Mastitis Treatments
Pamela Ruegg
Session VII. Dairy Production and the Environment
Dairy’s Carbon Footprint and Sustainability
Frank Mitloehner
Managing Cows, Milking and the Environment to Minimize Mastitis
Pamela Ruegg
Bedding Options for Dairy Cows
Marcia Endres
Public and Producer Attitudes to Contentious Topics in Dairy Farming
Dan Weary
Abstracts
Fertility in dairy cows subjected to two different intervals from presynchronization to initiation of Ovsynch protocol
M.G. Colazo, P. Ponce-Barajas, and D.J. Ambrose
Replacing barley grain with wheat DDGS (dry distillers grains with solubles) reduced multiple ovulations in postpartum dairy cows
E. Subramaniam, M.G. Colazo, A.L. Ruiz-Sanchez, P. Ponce-Barajas, M. Oba, M. Dyck, D.J. Ambrose
Effect of precision processing barley grain on dry matter intake, milk production, rumen pH and nutrient digestibility in lactating dairy cows
N. Schlau, T. McAllister, W. Z. Yang, L. Duineveld, and M. Oba
Benefit-cost analysis of NIRS feeding initiative for the Alberta livestock and crop industry
Scott Jeffre, Henry An, Jim Unterschultz, Mary-Lou Swift, David Zinner and Zheng Li
How to control milk iodine concentration
P. Lacasse S. I. Borucki Castro, and R. Berthiaume
Comfort and longevity in Quebec dairy operation
F. Bécotte, E. Vasseur, J. Gibbons, D. Lefevbre, A.-M. de Passillé, J. Rushen, D. Pellerin
Assessment of the potential of different sources of hydrolysable and condensed tannins to manipulate rumen fermentation and methane production in vitro
F Hassanat and C Benchaar
Lameness in dairy cows: using gait score as a predictor for claw lesions
Laura Solano, Herman Barkema, Ed Pajor, Steve Mason, AnneMarie dePassille, Jeffrey Rushen, Jenny Gibbons, Elsa Vasseur, Margriet Krom and Karin Orsel
Independent effects of chemical fibre and physical fibre on dairy cows
W. Z. Yang and D. Sauvant
Stall dimensions and prevalence of cow injuries on Canadian free-stall dairy farms
Jessica Zaffino, Clémence Nash, Trevor DeVries, David Kelton, Stephen LeBlanc, Jenny Gibbons, Jeff Rushen, Anne Marie de Passillé, Laura Solano, Herman Barkema, Karin Orsel and Derek Haley
The carbon footprint of dairying in Eastern Canada: A case study
E. J. McGeough, S. M. Little, H. H. Janzen, T. A. McAllister, S. M. McGinn and K.A. Beauchemin
Sampling cow to assess lying time in tie-stall and free-stall dairy herds
E. Vasseur, A. M. de Passillé, D. Haley, J. Rushen
Improving cow comfort to increase longevity in Canadian dairy herds
J. Gibbons, E. Vasseur, D. Pellerin, D. Haley, D. F. Kelton, K. Orsel, H. W. Barkema, E. Pajor, D. Lefebvre, D. Weary, M. A. G. von Keyserlingk, J. Rushen, A. M. de Passillé
High-total nonstructural carbohydrates timothy enhanced performance of mid-lactation dairy cows.
A. F. Brito, G. Régimbald, G. F. Tremblay, A. Bertrand, Y. Castonguay, G. Bélanger, R. Michaud, C. Lafrenière and R. Berthiaume
Herd-level association between antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in bovine mastitis Staphylococcus aureus isolates
Vineet Saini, J Trenton McClure, and Herman W. Barkema
Age and dose dependent susceptibility to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in dairy cattle
Rienske Mortier, Herman W. Barkema, Karin Orsel, Michelle Drissler, Robert Wolf, Jeroen De Buck
Genotyping of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis to understand the epidemiology of Johne’s disease in Canadian dairy herds
Ahlstrom, C., Barkema, H.W., De Buck, J.
Benchmarking dairy heifer management practices and producers’ awareness of the Dairy Code: Two recent research projects developed by the University of Calgary.
Guilherme Borges Bond and Edmond A. Pajor
Bottlenecks in best management practices identified in the Alberta Johne’s Disease Initiative (AJDI)
Wolf, R, Barkema, HW, McDonald, E, Mason, BS, Ollis, G2, Slomp, M, De Buck, J, Pickel, C, and Orsel, K
A comparison between water buffalo (Khuzestani) and cow rumen fluids in terms of the in vitro digestibility of steam treated sugarcane pith
Jabbari, S. Eslami, M. Chaji, M. Mohammadabadi, T. and Bojarpour, M.
Whole-farm balances of P and K on dairy farms
D. Fulawka, T.L. Garner, K.H. Ominski, D. Flaten, and J.C. Plaizier
Training veterinarians for the western Canada dairy industry
Christopher Luby, Katelyn McIntyre, Murray Jelinski
Effects of Different Severities of Short-Term Feed Restriction in Cattle
Siping Zhang, Jörg R. Aschenbach, Daniel R. Barreda, Gregory B. Penner
Effect of carbohydrate conformation in hulless barley on carbohydrate availability in dairy cows
Ling Yang, David Christensen, John J. McKinnon, Brian Rossnagel, Aaron Beattie, Peiqiang Yu