Table of Contents
| Preface | Advisory Committee | Sponsors |
Session I: Sustainable Dairy for Society’s Challenges
Trends and Opportunities in Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Dairy Farms
Tim McAllister
Building Public Trust in Food and Farming
Kim McConnell
Inbreeding: New Solutions for an Old Problem
Christine Baes
Session II: Adopting New Trends/Technologies to Bolster On-Farm Nutrition
How Can Automation be Used to Optimize Cow Nutrition?
Trevor DeVries
Session III: Reproduction
Transition Period Health and Reproduction: Preparing for a Successful Pregnancy
Stephen LeBlanc
What Activity Monitors Can and Cannot do Today
Ronaldo Cerri
Session IV Student Research
Increasing fitness for transport in cull dairy cows
Nicole Burdusco
The effect of dietary cation-anion difference and dietary buffer for lactating dairy cattle during mild heat stress
Claire Bertens
Effects of offering free choice timothy hay in addition to TMR during the first five days postpartum on health and performance of dairy cows
Lauren Engelking
Effects of supplementing colostrum beyond the first day of life on growth and health factors in preweaned Holstein heifers
Hannah McCarthy
Exploring persistence of non-aureus staphylococci in the mammary gland using a lactating cow model
Dennis Vu
Session V: Producer Panel and Virtual Farm Tours
The Big Change – Producer Panel
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Session VI: Preventing Diseases in the Future
Importance of Selective Antibiotic Use: Drying Off and Clinical Mastitis
Herman Barkema
Prevention and Control of Salmonella in Dairy Cattle
Luc Bergeron
Session VII: Calf Management
Starting Calves Off Right: Back to the Basics on Colostrum Management
Sarah Parsons
Optimizing Health and Welfare in the Pre-Weaned Calf
Charlotte Winder
Session VIII: Healthy People, Healthy Cows
Wellbeing and Productive Farming
Cynthia Beck
Session IX: Emerging Trends
Minimizing Stress to Enhance Cow Health and Productivity
Meagan King
Managing Health and Rumination Data: Getting the Most Out of your Technology
Jake Vermeer
Beef on Dairy Crosses: Diversification and Income Potential
Kee Jim
Poster Competition Abstracts
Postpartum health is associated with detection of estrus by activity monitors in dairy cows
T. C. Bruinjé, E. I. Morrison, E. S. Morrison, D. Renaud, R. Couto Serrenho, and S. J. LeBlanc
Effect of transition diet starch content, parity, and milking number on total sialic acids in the protein and carbohydrate fractions of colostrum and transition milk of Holstein dairy cattle
A. J. Fischer-Tlustos, J. Haisan, W. Shi, K. Naratana, C. Tomiyama, S. Bakker, J. O. Cant, M. Oba, W. F. Zandberg, and M. A. Steele
Assessment of hindgut microbial functional shift related to nutritional diarrhea in postpartum dairy cows
Y. Hao, L. Guan, and S. Li
Effect of iodine source on dairy cow colostrum production and growth and health of their calves
K. R. Johnston, D. C. Reyes, K. N. Klobucher, T. C. Stahl, P. S. Erickson, and A. F. Brito
Do transition milk and colostrum feedings provide benefits to dairy calves’ gastrointestinal tract after transportation?
M. Tortadès, S. Marti, M. Devant, and M. Terré
Effects of weaning strategies on health, hematology, and productivity in Holstein dairy calves
A. Wolfe, P. Rezamand, B. C. Augstinho, D. E. Konetchy, and A. H. Laarman
Within-herd transmission of Mycoplasma bovis infection in 20 Dutch dairy herds
M. M. Biesheuvel
The use of an optimized protocol to isolate eight novel bacteriophages with the ability to lyse MAP
V. Harman-Mckenna and J. de Buck
Assessing herd-level Johne’s disease prevalence based on environmental samples
L. Martins, K. Orsel, J. de Buck, and H. W. Barkema
Herd-level prevalence of bovine leukosis and neosporosis in Alberta dairy herds using bulk tank milk samples
W. Shaukat, E. de Jong, K. D. McCubbin, M. Biesheuvel, K. Orsel, and H. W. Barkema
The effect of high and low progesterone exposure treatments in a crossover trial on estrous expression and ovulation timing in Holstein heifers
A. L. Boyle, J. C. S. Marques, S. M. Moore, A. Bega, J. Denis-Robichaud, A. M. L. Madureira, T. A. Burnett, C. F. Baes, and R. L. A. Cerri
The impact of progesterone concentrations during superovulation of Holstein heifers in a randomized trial
J. C. S. Marques, J. P. O. Maciel, J. Denis-Robichaud, R. A. Conceicao, A. M. Bega, S. Moore, and R. L. A. Cerri
Effects of raw and steam pressure toasted faba bean seeds in diets of high producing dairy cows
M. E. Rodriguez Espinosa, D. Christensen, R. W. Newkirk, Y. Ai, A. H. Guevara Oquendo, and P. Yu
General Abstracts
Associations between personality traits of dairy cows and their heifer offspring
S. C. Czachor, A. J. Schwanke, J. E. Brasier, B. J. Van Soest, and T. J. DeVries
Effects of weaning and tyndallized Lactobacillus helveticus supplementation on dairy calf behavioral and physiological indicators of affective state
B. K. McNeil, D. L. Renaud, M. A. Steele, L. R. Cangiano, M. F. Olmeda, and T. J. DeVries
Effect of dairy cow personality traits on feeding and milking behaviour of cows milked in automated systems
A. J. Schwanke, J. E. Brasiert, and T. J. DeVries
Associations of herd-level housing and management practices during the dry period with early-lactation udder health in herds with automated milking systems
C. A. Wagemann-Fluxá, B. J. Van Soest, D. F. Kelton, and T. J. DeVries
Optimizing GnRH-based protocols for timed-AI in Holstein heifers
M. G. Colazo, R. J. Mapletoft, and A. Behrouzi
Comparison of two intravaginal progesterone-releasing devices in Holstein cows synchronized with a 5-d GnRH-based TAI protocol: preliminary results
M. G. Colazo, R. J. Mapletoft, and A. Behrouzi
Factors associated with estrus expression determined by an activity monitoring system in dairy cows administered prostaglandin F2α
M. G. Colazo, A. Behrouzi, and M. Gobikrushanth
Evaluating the optimum timing of insemination in dairy cows identified in estrus by an activity monitoring system
M. G. Colazo, A. Behrouzi, and M. Gobikrushanth
Implementation, impacts and economic aspects of selective dry cow therapy and selective treatment of clinical mastitis in Canadian dairy herds
J. S. Bodaneze, K. D. McCubbin, E. de Jong, K. Orsel, J. de Buck, D. Renaud, C. Ritter, D. Nobrega, and H. W. Barkema
Determinants of antimicrobial resistance patterns in bovine mastitis Streptococcus isolates from Canadian dairy herds
B. Caddey, D. Nobrega, J. de Buck, and H. W. Barkema
Identifying reservoirs of bacteria involved in digital dermatitis in dairy cows and farms with different disease status
A. Dias, K. Orsel and J. de Buck
Clearance of a genetically modified Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis strains from calf tissue and partial protection against infection
R. Eshraghisamani and J. de Buck
Bovine mastitis and S. chromogenes; concerns, conundrums, and characteristics
M. Ghanduri
Evaluation of calves testing strategy to support Johne’s disease control programs and early disease detection assays
A. C. Pereira, K. Orsel, J. de Buck, and H. W. Barkema
Bovine leukemia virus proviral load as a measure for selective removal of cattle for bovine leukosis control
S. Shrestha, K. Orsel, H. W. Barkema, G. van Marle, M. F. Abdul-Careem, and F. van der Meer
Understanding the effects of different types of outdoor access on dairy cow health
A. M. C. Smid, B. Traub, and H. W. Barkema
The impact of farm tours on public knowledge and perception of dairy farming
A. M. C. Smid, H. W. Barkema, B. Traub, and B. A. Ventura
The effect of exogenous GnRH at the time of artificial insemination on luteinizing hormone in lactating Holstein cows
R. S. Conceicao, A. Bega, J. C. S. Marques, S. Moore, J. Denis-Robichaud, C. F. Baes, and R. L. A. Cerri
The effect of high or low concentration of progesterone during diestrus and its association with intensity of oestrus in lactating Holstein cattle
R. S. Conceicao, A. M. L. Madueira, J. C. S. Marques, J. Patu, A. M. Bega, S. Moore, C. F. Baes, and R. L. A. Cerri
The effect of high or low concentration of progesterone during diestrus and its association with the LH surge and PGF2α metabolite in lactating Holstein cattle
R. S. Conceicao, A. M. L. Madueira, J. C. S. Marques, J. Patu, A. M. Bega, S. Moore, C. F. Baes, and R. L. A. Cerri
Investigating the importance of subclinical ketosis in robotic milking systems
S. M. Moore, R. Conceicao, J. C. S. Marques, J. Denis-Robichaud, and R. L. A. Cerri
Nutritional evaluation of energy value, total digestible nutrients and feed milk value of chickpea varieties growth in western canada for dairy cows
L. Cerna and P. Yu
Nutritional evaluation of metabolizable protein and degraded protein balance of chickpea varieties growth in western Canada for dairy cows
L. Cerna and P. Yu.
How does the duration of low feed intake affect the ruminant gastrointestinal tract?
K. Lambert, A. C. Chagas, K. Burakowska, D. Watanabe, K. Hare, and G. B. Penner
Effects of processing severity for reconstituted high moisture barley with variable kernel size on ensiling characteristics and in vitro ruminal fermentation
B. Lynch, T. Mutsvangwa, R. O. Ribeiro, and G. B. Penner
Processing induced change in feed milk value of oat grain in comparison with common barley grain for lactating dairy cows: Effect of technological treatments
M. R. Tosta, L. L. Prates, M. E. Rodriguez Espinosa, and P. Yu