UDDER TOPICS

A Global Organizaon for Mass Control and Milk Quality
Cornell Hosts Udder Health Symposium
The Center for Dairy Excellence at Cornell University is presenng a symposium, Assessing Udder Health Opportunies,
Oct. 26‐28 at Cornell's teaching dairy barn in Ithaca, N.Y. The facility is a 180‐cow freestall barn
with a double‐10, parallel parlor.
Designed for milk quality consultants, dairy producers, milking equipment personnel, milk inspectors and veterinarians,
the symposium offers connuing educaon credits. Course content is rated intermediate to advanced.
Presentaons include:
What is mass?
Know the bugs (common and emerging pathogens)
Key performance indicators and udder health risk assessment
NMC vacuum and airflow methods
Milking center efficiency
Short‐term teat dynamics/Vacuum and unit alignment
Cowside evaluaon
Milking center sengs and automaon
Dairy Comp 305 parlor analysis
Transion cow immunity
Bedding materials and pathogens in your bulk tank
Communicang with your clients
Development and support of a milk quality team to monitor people, milking equipment, facilies and cows
will aid in providing useful feedback to dairy producers. Compleng an udder health risk assessment and
milking me audit helps owners and managers develop standard operang procedures to maintain or improve
milk quality.
Class size is limited to 30 parcipants. To learn more about this symposium, go to: hps://dairy.cornell.edu/
extension/udder‐health.
NAHMS Publishes Milk Quality Report
Naonal Animal Health Monitoring System released “Dairy 2014 Milk
Quality, Milking Procedures, and Mass on U.S. Dairies, 2014.” To view
the report, go to: hps://t.co/o5piB8vpyQ.
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