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A forum for improving milk quality and animal health
The National Mastitis Council 53rd Annual Meeting will be held January 26-28, 2014 at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. The NMC annual meeting brings together more than 400 dairy industry professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and information on udder health, milking management and milk quality.
The conference begins Sunday afternoon (January 26) and ends Tuesday evening (January 28). Committee meetings and open discussion groups meet Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The general sesssions, featured symposium, poster session, and research and development summaries session will be held Monday and Tuesday. Short courses will be held Sunday afternoon/evening and Tuesday evening.
The schedule of events, short course topics, and general session/symposium topics can be viewed below.
Detailed program and registration information will be mailed to all NMC members in mid-October, and will be posted on the website as it becomes available.
Information on submitting manuscripts for the Technology Transfer Session (poster session) will be posted soon. The deadline for submissions is October 25, 2013.
Short Courses [held Sunday and Tuesday]
- Dairy Stockmanship: Reconnecting the People with the Cows
- Bulk Tank Milk Analysis: Window to the Milky Wo
- Analyzing and Troubleshooting Dairies: Seeing the Forest and Not Just the Trees
- Middle Management Motivational Training
- Good Management Records for Milk Quality
- Milk Quality and Mastitis Control on Organic Dairy Farms in the United States
- Unlocking the Potential of Precision Dairy Farming Mastitis Detection Technologies
- Failure of Mastitis Therapy: Is It the Drugs, Bugs, Cows or Us?
- Using On-Farm Culture Systems to Manage Mastitis
- Milk Quality Beyond the Udder -- System Cleanup Issues
General Sessions [held Monday and Tuesday]
Analytical Approaches to Managing Mastitis
- Treating Mastitis: Balancing Cure, Money, Welfare and Resistance
- Managing Mastitis Through the Lens of Production Records
- Treatment and Non-Treatment Approaches to Tackling Mastitis
Treatment Methods and Protocols for Clinical Mastitis with Consideration for Cow Welfare
- Treat or Not Treat? Efficacy and Economics of the Use of On-Farm Culture for Clinical Mastitis
- Dry Cow Therapy: Does It Still Deserve a Blanket Recommendation?
- Transition Cow Risk for Post-Partum Disease, Including Mastitis
- Genetic Selection for Mastitis Resistance
Milk Quality Reports from Around the Globe
- China
- India
- US Food and Drug Administration Milk Sampling Survey
- The Glogal Milk Marketplace
Featured Symposium: New and Not-So-New Technologies for Detecting and Managing Mastitis
- Molecular Diagnostics and Mastitis: From PCR to -Omnics and Back to the Farm
- Panel Discussion: Use of PCR-Based Tests in Mastitis Diagnostics
- Automated Milk Differential Cell Count and Mastitis Detection
- What Do I Want From a Mastitis Detector?