FISC Ag Forward, a new short course offered by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course program, will be offered Jan. 16-19 on the UW–Madison campus. Participants can sign up for the full four-day short course, or for individual days.
The short course – which centers on the theme “The Dairy Industry in an Everchanging Landscape” this year – provides training in advanced dairy production and management topics. Training sessions will be led by faculty members in the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS).
Each day has a featured topic and speaker(s):
Tuesday, Jan. 16: “Ag Economics” with Paul Mitchell, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Wednesday, Jan. 17: “Dairy Diet and Nutrition” with Luiz Ferraretto, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences; and Marta Moura Kohmann, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Thursday, Jan. 18: “Reproduction, Genetics and Genomics” with Paul Fricke, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences; and Kent Weigel, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences
Friday, Jan. 19: “Animal Welfare” with Jennifer Van Os, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences
Wednesday and Thursday involve full days of programing, and Tuesday and Friday are half-days. A networking lunch will be provided each of the four days. Each faculty-led training session last 2.5 hours, to give ample time for discussion and hands-on experiences. The homebase for the short course is UW–Madison’s new Center for Dairy Research facility, the largest dairy products research center in the United States. All Ag Forward training sessions will occur at the CDR or nearby.
Source: wisc.edu
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