A2O-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, March 1996 Lancaster VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Lancaster County Exten sion held two Dairy Day events the past two weeks providing speakers with strong programs for develop ing strategies for successful dairying. The first program focused more on disease control while the sec ond program, held Tuesday, main ly featured Dr. Gordon Jones, a Wisconsin veterinarian who has been mostly involved with dairy animals and operations similar to those in Lanpaster County. The main speakers for the first Dairy Day program, held February 27 were Dr. Victor Cortese, a man aging technical services veterina rian with Pfizer Inc. who is well known for his expertise in bovine immunology, and Dr. Brian Reed, a local practicing dairy veter inarian with Agricultur al Veterinary Associates in Manheim The message from Cortese was that dairy herds are all different and while a common theme should form the basis of vaccination programs and disease control, each farm is should have a tailored program, according to the veterinarians speak ing at the first of two Lancaster County Dairy Day programs. The challenge to dairy herd managers then is to develop a program in conjunction with a veterinarian that minimizes the introduc tion of disease and cost of fighting it, while at the same time protecting the herd. 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