Medina County Farm Bureau

17th Annual NE Ohio Dairy Conference
2016-02-24 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Buckeye Event Center, 624 Henry Street, Dalton, OH, 44618, United States
Responsible Animal Stewarship
Making the Right Choices for Animals
Proposed Schedule
9:00-9:55 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, Visit with Exhibitors
9:55-10:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks – William Yost, D.V.M./KVVMA President
10:00-10:45 AM Featured Speaker – Dr. Shearer
Euhanasia -The Kindest Act
10:45-11:15 AM Break & Visit Exhibits
11:15-12:00 PM Featured Speaker – Dr. Shearer
Causes & Consequences of Lameness in Dairy Cattle
12:00-1:30 PM Lunch (provided) & Visit Exhibits
1:30-2:15 PM Featured Speaker – Dr. Shearer
Prioritizing Performance, Prifit and Animal Welfare
2:15-2:45 PM Break & Visit Exhibits
2:45-3:30 PM Featured Speaker – Dr. Shearer
Questions and Answers
3:30 PM Door Prizes (must be present to win)
Adjourn
Reminder – reservations for lunch are due by Friday, February 19th.
About the Trade Show
In past years, the trade show featured booths and presentations by more than 40 exhibitors and we expect similar numbers this year. The conference was attended by over 300 dairy producers, specialists, and service providers.
About the Speaker
Jan Shearer, DVM Professor & Extension Veterinarian – Iowa State University
Dr. Shearer is currently Professor and Extension Veterinarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He received his BS degree from Ashland University in 1971 and his DVM degree from The Ohio State University in 1975. Upon graduation, he joined the Orrville Veterinary Clinic, Inc., in northeast Ohio, where he served as an Associate Veterinarian for 4½ years before returning to OSU to pursue graduate studies in nutrition. He completed his Master’s Degree in 1981 and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University that same year.
In 1982, he relocated to the University of Florida where he became Professor and Dairy Extension Veterinarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Shearer served the University of Florida for 27 years before accepting his current position at Iowa State University. His primary research and extension interests are lameness and welfare issues of cattle. He is a past Chair of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners Animal Welfare Committee (AWC), and is presently serving as Chair of the Food Animal Working Group of the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Panel on Euthanasia.

Medina County Farm Bureau Board Meeting
2016-02-23 08:00 - 22:00 UTC | Lafeyette Town Hall, 6776 Wedgewood Road, Medina, OH, 44256, United States

Private Pesticide Applicator Recertification
2016-02-23 00:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Sprunger Building at Kidron Auction, 13071 Emerson Rd., Kidron, OH, 44636, United States
Three hours of recertification is required every three years to maintain your license.
Contact: OSU Extension Wayne & Holmes County at 330-264-8722 to register for a three hour session.
Categories Offered: Core, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
*Please call the Wayne County Extension Office to pre-register
There is a $35.00 fee paid at the training site you attend. You must also send the $30.00 fee to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This covers your applicators license for 3 years.
Fertilizer Application Certification Training 10:00 to Noon **
(New 2 hour training for current holders of a Pesticide Applicator License).
IF attending, packing your own lunch is recommended due to time constraints.

Private Pesticide Applicator Recertification
2016-02-19 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Farmerstown Auction Barn, 2807 State Route 557, Baltic, OH, 43804, United States
Three hours of recertification is required every three years to maintain your license.
Contact: OSU Extension Wayne & Holmes County at 330-264-8722 to register for a three hour session.
Categories Offered: Core, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 *Please call the Holmes County Extension Office to pre-register
There is a $35.00 fee paid at the training site you attend. You must also send the $30.00 fee to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This covers your applicators license for 3 years.

Helping Employees be Successful: Establishing and Supporting Good Communication on the Farm
2016-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Jake’s Steakhouse, 6655 E. Lincoln Way, Wooster, OH, 44691, United States
The February Dairy Manager Discussion group meetings will be held on Thursday, Feb. 18 at Jake’s Steakhouse located at 6655 E. Lincoln Way, Wooster. Participants will order and pay for their own meals. The “established” dairy manager group meeting is scheduled for 12:15 pm and the “dairy managers of tomorrow” group is scheduled for 7:00 pm. Gustavo Schuenemann, OSU Extension dairy veterinarian will be the speaker for both groups but presenting a different topic for each group.
For the 12:15 pm group, Dr. Schuenemann will be presenting the topic; “Helping Employees be Successful: Establishing and Supporting Good Communication on the Farm.” In his work as a veterinarian Dr. Schuenemann was finding many herd health and herd production problems could be traced back to farm employees and managers not being consistent in good management practices, not doing tasks in a timely manner, or even just plain doing the wrong thing. When he began to talk with employees and ask them about what they were or were not doing he discovered that communication problems; miscommunication, misunderstanding, language barriers and personality conflicts were the real root causes of many herd health and production problems. This will be a good session for any dairy business that employs and/or works with employees.
During the 7:00 pm meeting Schuenemann will be discussing and demonstrating a calving management app designed for hand-held smart devices. The eCalving APP was developed to capture calving-related events associated with stillbirth and calf development. Novel components of the APP include: 1) Login screen for individual herds, 2) Capture of selected calving-related events for both dam and calf (e.g., parity, breed, BCS, hygiene of perineum, calving ease, sex of calf, presentation, personnel), 3) Rolling list of active cows with an alarm to monitor calving progress and time in labor, 4) Rolling list of active calves (single or multiple) within 24 h after birth, and 5) Colostrum management practices (quality, quantity, time of administration, and personnel) as well as calf vigor and birth weights.

Private Pesticide Applicator Recertification
2016-02-12 12:45 - 15:45 (America/New_York) | Fisher Auditorium, OARDC, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH, 44691, United States
Categories Offered: Core, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
*Please call the Wayne County Extension Office to pre-register
There is a $35.00 fee paid at the training site you attend. You must also send the $30.00 fee to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This covers your applicators license for 3 years.

Fertilizer Application Certification Training 10:00 to Noon **
(New 2 hour training for current holders of a Pesticide Applicator License).
IF attending, packing your own lunch is recommended due to time constraints.

OFBF Annual Meeting
2015-12-02 - 2015-12-04
Contact the Medina County Farm Bureau today if you are interested in attending!
