Submitted by Mark Varner, University of Maryland 1) Western Canada Dairy Seminar Proceedings Seminars are often the best way to stay current with the fast pace of developments in dairy production, but it’s difficult to find the time to attend every seminar. The Western Canada Dairy Sem inar is held every March in Alberta, and is one of the top dairy sem inars in North America. They always have several top presentations concerning various aspects of dairy cattle health, and the proceedings from the conference are outstanding. Users of the site can search for papers on their topic(s) or browse by topi c/author. www.afns.ualberta.ca/wcds/ 2) Johne’s Information Center Johne’s is an economically important dairy cattle disease that has the potential to threaten the positive image in the eyes of the consumer that is currently enjoyed by dairy products. It is in the best interest of dairy producers to eradicate Johne’s from their herd, and the Johne’s Information Center is the best site on the In ternet devoted to a dairy-related disease. www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/johnes/index.html 3) Dairy Publications by the Univ. of Florida Universities have a long tradition of providing high quality research-based publications concerning dairy cattle, and that trad ition continues into the new millennium. One of the states with the best set of publications on-line is the University of Florida. They have a special section, Reproduction and Health, that has a com prehensive set of publications, with some new fact-sheets concern ing metabolic diseases of dairy cattle. www.edis.ifas.ufi.edu/MENU DStREPRODUC 4) Nebraska Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Newsletter The University of Nebraska newsletter leads the way for dairy health-related veterinary newsletters. Important changes in policy are announced and the site contains summaries and interpretive reviews of cattle-related veterinary publications. This newsletter is intended for the well-informed reader and provides an outstanding entrc into the latest scientific advances in the expert-reviewed re search literature. www.unl.edu/ianr/nvdls/newslet.htm S) Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine Dr. M.E. White, from the Cornell University College of Veteri nary Medicine, has been a pioneer in applying the computer princi ples of artificial intelligence to veterinary medicine. He has made his pioneering program. Consultant, available for users on the WWW, which represents the first of many programs that will likely become available. Consultant has been run on various types of computers over the years, and its database of information has been expanded to in clude over 500 signs or symptoms, over 5,000 diagnoses, and about 18,000 literature references. http;//www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp Animal Health Websites 6) Penn State’s Dairy & Animal Science Home Page Penn State’s Dairy and Animal Science Department have been a pioneer in publishing their information on the Internet, and their latest revision of the Department's home page makes it one of the best on the WWW. Some of the highlights include the “Monitoring Dairy Heifer Growth” publication that sets the standard for Hol steins in the US, the Dairy Digest newsletter, outstanding publica tions concerning dairy reproductive problems. Team Dairy information, the proceedings from the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Man agement and Dairy Feed Industry Seminars, an on-line computer program that calculates the expected net revenue from one unit of semen, and some fun items like sending an e-mail postcard of a cow to a friend. http://www-das.cas.psu.edu/ 7) Ken Bailey’s Dairy Outlook Dairy marketing is playing an increasingly important role to the profitability of dairy farms. Before herds can make informed deci sions concerning various health-related issues, the overall financial picture of the dairy farm must be considered. Dr. Ken Bailey started providing a weekly analysis of trends/opportunities in dairy marketing when he was at the University of Missouri, and he’s continued that trend since coming to Penn State. Besides his weekly analysis and graph of milk prices, Ken provides Microsoft Excel computer spreadsheet that examines various dairy market ing strategies and includes links to other valuable sites. http://www.aers.psu.edu/dairyoutlook/ 8) Jim Quigley’s APC Calf Notes Dr. Jim Quigley started making his very valuable calf-related in formation available via the WWW when he was at the University of Tennessee, and he’s continued that approach since joining the American Protein Corporation. Now with the name APC Calf Notes, Jim maintains the most complete set of calf-related infor mation on the Internet. A separate health and management section has fifteen outstanding articles in just this section, and there are special sections for colostrum and colostrum feeding, calf starters and rumen development and liquid feeding for calves www.americanprotein.com/calf/calfnotes/APCcalfnotes.htm 9) Net Vet’s Cow Links When you start using the Internet, most people begin by examin ing what’s available. Dr. Ken Boschert, a veterinarian at Washing ton Univ. of St. Louis, is the pioneer in providing an up-to-date comprehensive set of links to the various sites on the Internet. He termed his site “Net Vet,” and it’s won most of the awards for WWW sites. Ken maintains his Cow Links, and it’s one of my rec ommendations for people just getting started on the Internet. http://netvet.wustl.edu/cows.htm 10) Dairy-L Home Page Dairy-L is an email list serv that brings together dairymen and industry representatives to address the latest issues in dairying. The Dairy-L home page has information on subscribing, searching the archives of past messages and getting the most out of Dairy-L. http://www.wam.umd.edu/-markv/dairy-L.html
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