The Ohio Dairy Health and Management Certificate Program
(Description of Modules)
Module 1: Dairy Reproduction and Record Interpretation (May 1-3, 2014)
- Overview of the estrus cycle and its control
- Dairy records interpretation and trouble-shooting
- Evaluating and monitoring reproductive performance
- Ultrasonography and uterine structures
- Agenda-Module 1
Module 2: Advanced Dairy Reproduction (Aug 7-8, 2014)
- Strategies to improve fertility in dairy herds
- Designing and implementing protocols
- Breeding soundness evaluation (BSE)
- Replacement heifer management
- Agenda-Module 2
Module 3: Dairy Cattle Nutrition (Dec 4-6, 2014)
- Basic and applied principles
- Feed components, analysis, and interpretation
- Metabolic changes of transition cows
- Agenda-Module 3
Module 4: Advanced Dairy Cattle Nutrition (Mar 19-21, 2015)
- Ration formulation through lactation cycle
- Monitoring feeding programs
- Prevention, management, and control of nutritional pathologies
- Calf feeding programs
- Agenda-Module 4
Module 5: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness (May 28-29, 2015)
- Working with Hispanic labor
- Personal effectiveness and programming
- Team problem-solving
- Record keeping systems
- Agenda-Module 5
Module 6: Milk Quality & Udder Health (Dec 3-5, 2015)
- Milk systems, equipments, and parlor efficiency
- Monitoring milk routine and milk quality assurance
- Udder health and mastitis control programs
- Bacteriology, sampling, and diagnostics
- Agenda-Module 6
Module 7: Economics of Dairy Business (Mar 10-11, 2016)
- Understanding basic concepts
- Setting production and economical benchmarks
- Factors affecting business decisions
- Agenda-Module 7
Module 8: Organic Dairy Health & Management (Aug 25-26, 2016)
- Health & preventive medicine
- Working with standards and regulations
- Adding clients
- Agenda-Module 8
Module 9: Record Analyses (Feb 2-3, 2017)
- Benchmarking and evaluation of data
- Resources and approaches to assess records
- Metrics to assess records
- Agenda-Module 9
Module 10: Vaccinology and Immunology (May 4-5, 2017)
- Identify resources and approaches to prevent and control infectious diseases within beef and dairy herds.
- Be able to develop and assess a vaccination program for dairy cows and replacement heifers.
- Identify resources and approaches for cattle disease diagnosis.
- Identify resources for a secure milk supply.
- Agenda-Module 10
Module 11: Dairy Cattle Welfare Assessments (Aug 17-18, 2017)
- Identify resources to build or improve facility designs for transition cows (e.g., free-stall barns).
- Identify facility design barriers negatively affecting “comfort” in transition dairy cattle.
- Identify tools to assess transition cow comfort and performance.
- Agenda-Module 11