“Getting the Most for the Least” is the theme for this year’s annual Missouri Dairy Profit Seminars set around the state Feb. 23-27. The program addresses the severe financial crunch facing Missouri’s dairy producers with their milk prices sagging to half of what it was six months ago.
The five regional seminars are sponsored by the Missouri Dairy Association, the Commercial Agriculture Program and University of Missouri Extension. In this area the meeting is Feb. 25 at Laclede County Electric Cooperative at Lebanon.
Registration is at 9:30 a.m., and the program begins promptly at 10 a.m.
The morning program features two nutrition presentations with Matt Waldron of the University of Missouri on “optimized nutrition – knowing when to spend money to make money” and Nick Adams, North American MTB-100 champion, Alltech, Fresno, Calif., on “Feed Quality: Real Costs,” followed by Dave Drennan, executive director of the Missouri Dairy Association and Missouri Dairy Growth Council with an “Issues Update.”
The afternoon program will consist of Scott E. Poock, DVM, UMC, on “Better Reproduction Performance,” results of a research project sponsored by the Missouri Dairy Growth Council; Joe Horner, UMC, with “Overcoming Barriers to Entry and Exit in the Dairy Business” and “Growing Better Heifers” by Scott T. Nordstrom, DVM, manager of Veterinary Technical Services, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, Middlebrook, Va.
There is a $20 registration fee, payable at the door, to cover meeting expenses including lunch. Luncheon reservations must be made by calling 417-741-6134.