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2010 Maryland Dairy Convention

Managing Successfully in Difficult Times

 

** NEW LOCATION **

 

MD Dairy Industry Assoc. and Dairy Shrine

Joint Annual Meeting

and

Junior Dairyman Contest

Frederick County Fairgrounds

Frederick, MD

Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010

 

8:30 a.m.          Registration/trade show/continental breakfast

9:30 a.m.          Dairy Animal Care and Quality Assurance

                          Scott Updike, University of MD, College Park

9:45 a.m.          Dairy Quality Audit on the Farm

                          Matt Iager, Mid-MD Dairy Veterinarians

10:05 a.m.        Dairy Promotion and Product Update

                          Laura England, Mid-Atlantic Dairy Assoc.

10:20 a.m.        30-minute break

10:50 a.m.        Feeding Strategies in Today’s Economic

                          Environment

                          Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois

                          !!LIVE AND IN PERSON!!

11:45 a.m.        MDIA business meeting, election, awards

                          Scott Youse, MDIA president

12:15 p.m.        Lunch

1:15 p.m.          New Horizons in Milk Marketing

                          Robert Gray, Council of NE Farmer Co-ops

2 p.m.                Managing Cows Successfully with Robotic

                          Milking

                          Doyle Waybright, Mason Dixon Farms

2:20 p.m.          Robotic Milking on a Small-Sized Dairy

                          Vernon Horst, Chambersburg, PA

2:40 p.m.          Ice cream social

3:15 p.m.          Tour, Mason Dixon Farms

6:30 p.m.          Milk punch reception

7 p.m.                Milk toast from the MD Dairy Princess

                          Maryland Dairy Shrine Dinner

8 p.m.                Dairy Shrine Annual Meeting and Awards

                          Program           

                          Live auction and silent auction award winners

9:30 p.m.          Adjourn

 

Convention registration form

(Please include number of tickets needed for each category)

 

Day meeting adult (on or before 2/19) $15:                                      

Day meeting adult (after 2/19) $30:                  

Day meeting youth (No charge):                                         

Junior dairyman contest (No charge):                                                

Banquet adult (over age 18, on or before 2/19) $15:     

Banquet youth (ages 8-18, on or before 2/19) $10:       

Banquet adult (over age 18, after 2/19) $30:                   

Banquet youth (ages 8-18, after 2/19) $15:                      

Banquet youth (under age 8) (No charge):                       

 

Total $ amount:

 

Attendee names (include youth ages):

 

 

Address:

 

Phone:                                       E-mail:                                                                                                         

                

Please send with check made to Maryland Dairy Industry Association to Laurie Savage, 23301 Mount Ephraim Road, Dickerson, MD 20842.

23301 Mount Ephraim Road

Dickerson, MD 20842

 

Contact us:

Phone: 301-349-0750

E-mail: secretary@
marylanddairyindustry.org