News
Dairy industry, Discover Education launch education initiative 
In an effort to educate students about the innovative dairy community and where their foods come from, the National Dairy Council (NDC), America's dairy farm families and importers and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, launched a partnership to introduce an educational initiative, Undeniably Dairy: Caring for Cows & Nourishing Communities. The initiative kicked off this week with a virtual field trip to a dairy farm, where students followed third-generation farmers Chuck and Nora Feldpausch of Greeley, Colo.
Grad students benefit from industry/university collaborations
A new study has found that graduate students garner significant professional benefits from being trained as part of research consortia that bring together university and industry partners.

The study focused specifically on Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRCs) that operate with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The research is part of a larger, ongoing effort to develop alternative metrics for measuring the innovation capacity of the U.S.

"IUCRCs are collaborative research centers that pull together industry and university personnel to tackle basic research questions in engineering and computer science," said Olena Leonchuk, a postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper describing the work. "There are clear benefits to both industry and universities, but our fundamental question was: To what extent do graduate students benefit from being part of an IUCRC while in grad school?"
Reseachers explore complex carbohydrates to protect water quality
Brainstorming sessions between a food chemist and a hydrologist at South Dakota State University have produced an innovative, potentially money-saving idea that will put nutrients back in crop fields.

Through a grant from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture Nutrient Research & Education Council, assistant professors Srinivas Janaswamy of the department of dairy and food science and Laurent Ahiablame of the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering will explore the use of polysaccharides - complex carbohydrates commonly used in food products - for absorbing nitrates and phosphorus.
ADSA News and Happenings
ADSA Members - It's Time to Renew
 Attention ADSA members , you should have recently received a reminder that it is time for our ADSA Membership provides many benefits.  Two of the most obvious are the Journal of Dairy Science® and the Joint Annual Meeting, but there are others that may be overlooked.  During the coming weeks we will highlight many of the benefits and encourage you to take advantage of all that ADSA has to offer.
Did you know that your membership includes discounted member registration rates to the very popular ADSA Discover Conferences?  Attend a single Discover Conference, and you've recovered 45% of your dues!
Graduate students members can attend Discover Conferences at a special low rate, limited to ten on a first-come first-served basis.  In addition, up to ten graduate students per Discover Conference receive up to a $250 travel award, thanks to the Discover Conferences Travel Award Fund, initiated by Bill Baumgardt and supported by ADSA members.  For more information on travel awards, contact Cara Tharp carat@assochq.org  at ADSA headquarters.
Two conferences will be held in 2018. The 34th Discover Conference - Reexamining Amino Acid & Energy Interactions in the Dairy Cow will be held May 29-June 1 at the Eaglewood Resort & Spa in Itasca, IL It will focus on the interactions of amino acids (AA) and energy in lactating dairy cattle. Details are available at: https://www.adsa.org/Meetings/DiscoverConferences/34thDiscoverConference.aspx . It will be followed by the 35th DISCOVER Conference - Effects of Stress on Health and Production in Dairy Cows that will be held October 29-November 1, 2018 at the Eaglewood Resort & Spa in Itasca, IL. The conference will concentrate on the activators and consequences of immune activation. For details visit https://www.adsa.org/Meetings/DiscoverConferences/35thDiscoverConference.aspx  
The DISCOVER Conferences provide a unique environment and format fostering interactive presentations and discussions with an attempt to involve all conference participants.  If you've never attended a Discover Conference, you need to add attendance to your professional "bucket list"!  Act early, as registration is capped to ensure maximum interaction, and these highly-rated meeting normally sell out early.
Thank you for being a member of ADSA!  If you are not yet a member, now is a great time to join and begin gaining the benefits of membership.  Click here to join. .


News and Updates for the 2018 Annual Meeting
2018 ADSA® Annual Meeting special events webpage is now open and accepting submissions. Please click on the link below to submit your request if you would like to hold an event during the ADSA Annual Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Please remember, a special event is any type of committee meeting, board meeting, or any other type of event that will require meeting space at the ADSA Annual Meeting. Please get your requests in early so that we can accommodate your preferred meeting location and time!
The deadline for ticketed events is November 30, 2017.
The 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting website ( http://www.adsa.org/2018/) will be updated frequently with the latest meeting information, so bookmark the site and visit often. Housing will open in late October 2017, and meeting registration will be available in early February 2018.
The 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting scientific program will feature 1,100 oral and poster presentations from around the globe. Make sure yours is included, as 1,900 scientists from 50 countries meet in Knoxville. Benefit from symposia, workshops, and preconference events presented by the world's leading animal and dairy scientists. Topics include dairy food science, dairy production, animal health and well-being, animal and human nutrition, livestock transport, food safety, and production and management. As always, the success of the ADSA Annual Meeting begins with the quality of the science presented-we look forward to your contributions to this global gathering of animal and dairy scientists.
We hope to see you in Knoxville!
 
LARGE DAIRY HERD MANAGEMENT (3RD ED.)
Get your copy now
Large Dairy Herd Management  (3rd ed., e-book) is now available for purchase exclusively from the American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) at student and professional (member and nonmember) rates.  Past editions have been among the most widely used dairy information resources in the world.  This edition was developed to help meet the growing information needs of dairy farmers, service professionals, and students from around the world. It brings peer-reviewed dairy science and management information to users in a readily accessible, easy-to-use format. The e-book includes 97 chapters in 15 sections. Detailed information about the sections, section editors, book sponsors and other information on the e-book is available at http://ldhm.adsa.org/ .
This new edition is fully updated and includes numerous color figures, videos, and separate metric and imperial versions. The book is available in both PDF and fixed-layout ePub formats. With purchase of the e-book, both metric and imperial versions in both file formats may be downloaded.  To purchase the book now visit: https://secure.fass.org/prod_ADSA_LDHM_eBook.asp
For more information, contact
Ken Olson, PhD, PAS
American Dairy Science Association
Phone: +1-630-237-4961
 
2017 Annual Meeting Recorded Symposia are now Available
If you were not able to attend the 2017 ADSA Annual Meeting, you can now do the next best thing: subscribe for access to one or more recorded symposia (speaker audio synchronized to presentation). All recorded presentations are now available to ADSA members and non-members. Please click here to subscribe :https://secure.fass.org/sub_2017_ADSA_Symposia_Recordings_intro.asp.

Plan now to join us for the 2018 Annual Meeting in beautiful and historic Knoxville, Tennessee, from June 24 to 27.
 


Are you or your employer looking for the best and the brightest to fill a job, assistantship, or internship? The resource you need is myDairy Career, a complimentary online job resource center created by the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Graduate Student Division, where employer needs and student interests are matched instantly. Your next employee, graduate student, or intern could be searching for your open position, so don't delay.
Sign in at  http://careers.adsa.org/ to post job, assistantship, or internship opportunities and gain access to high-quality undergraduate and graduate dairy science students in both dairy foods and dairy production. And did we mention myDairy Career is FREE of CHARGE!
Once you are on the myDairy Career website:
  1. Click on "Recruiters" and enter your ADSA member username and password, or create a new account.
  2.  Edit "Your Profile" to include key company information.
  3.  Explore "Your Positions" to post your job openings (full-time, part-time, internships, etc.) and view any candidate matches for active positions.
  4.  View the "Search Candidates" tab to look at all student profiles or search by keywords. Recruiters can even set up email notifications to be alerted when a candidate profile matches your position.
Helpful hints:
  • "Your Profile" information will help candidates find you, so please describe your company adequately.
  • "Your Positions" have many options, and by choosing all that apply you can increase the chances of matching with candidates!
  • Use the upcoming ADSA Annual Meeting as a great place to connect with potential job candidates.
If you have any questions about myDairy Career, and the potential benefits to you and your company, please feel free to contact Brittany Casperson, ADSA GSD Career Development Chair, at  bcaspers@purdue.edu.
 
 
Would you like to help the animal and dairy science community and attend the 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting for free?
Referrals are the most tried-and-true way businesses grow, and the same is true for FASS. Do you know a colleague working with an animal science group that is in need of high-quality, cost-effective support services? Help them out by referring them to Jeremy Holzner, FASS Executive Director at jeremyh@assochq.org .

Help them benefit from the shared resource concept and the 264 years of collective experience the FASS staff have in working with non-profit animal science organizations. If your referral becomes a FASS customer prior to June 1, 2018, ADSA will comp your registration to the 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting that will be held June 24 to 27, 2018 in Knoxville, TN.  It's win-win-win.

For more information about services offered by FASS, click here.
 
 
Have you tried S-PAC® yet?
The Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences (S-PAC) has something for everyone. In addition to abstracts from past ADSA meetings, here are just a few examples from among the 61 conference now included in S-PAC:
Nutrition - Cornell Nutrition Conference, Florida Ruminant Nutrition Conference, Minnesota Nutrition Conference, Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, International Symposium on Dairy Cattle Nutrition, California Nutrition Conference
Management - Western Dairy Conference, Western Canadian Dairy Seminar, Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference, North American Conference on Precision Dairy Management, Virginia Tech Feed and Nutritional Management Cow College
Herd Health - AABP, USAHA, International Colloquium on Paratuberculosis
 
Visit https://spac.adsa.org/ to learn more about S-PAC and all the information it makes available.
Welcome to S-PAC!  
 

ADSA® on Linked In continues to Grow - Are you included?
Our ADSA Linked In group continues to grow. We now include 1,618 members from around the world, are you one of them? It's a great place to get information about ADSA and industry activities as well as to network with other dairy professionals from around the world.  Check it out here.

Join us for the 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting
Calendar of Events
Oct 24-25, 2017  Vat Pasteurizer and the science of cheese course. Cornell University. For more information and to register, click here .
Oct 24 - 26, 2017   Global Cheese Technology Forum, Peppermill Resort, Reno, NV, for more information visit www.globalcheesetechnologyforum.org
Oct 24 - 26, 2017   Pasteurizer Operators Workshop, Erickson Food Science Building, Penn State University, For more information click here
Oct 24 - 29, 2017    2017 ADGA Annual Meeting & Convention, Hilton Airport Convention Center,  Atlanta GA, For details visit   http://adga.org/   

 Oct 27, 2017 - 5:30 - 6:30: Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge. For details contact
Sara Kitchen                                          Rebecca Shaw
Northeast NAIDC Publicity Co-Chair       Northeast NAIDC Publicity Co-Chair    
717-675-0199 (cell)                                    814-327-4422 (cell)     
570-441-1973 (cell)                                    rebecca_shaw@cargill.com 
Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2017   IDF World Dairy Summit, Belfast, Northern Ireland. For more information, click here.
Nov 2 - 5, 2017    International Conference on Communications in Veterinary Medicine 2017: Innovating in Clinical Communications, Hockley Valley Resort - Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, for more information click here
Nov 3, 2017 - 1 pm Central. "Using Activity Monitors in Dairy Herd Reproductive Management" DCRD webinar with Stephen LeBlanc, population medicine professor at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. Canada. For details and to register, visit www.dcrcouncil.org/webinars
Nov 8-9, 2017  Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) Annual Meeting, Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, Reno, NV, Click here for more information and registration.

Nov 8-10, 2017   The Wisconsin Cheese Grading Short Course UW-Madison, Babcock Hall, Room 205, Madison, WI, For more information click here
Nov 13-15, 2017   Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals, St. Louis, Mo., For more information click here
Nov 13 - 16, 2017  The Science and Art of Cheese Making Short Course, Rodney A. Erickson Food Science Building, Penn State University, For more information click here
Nov 15-16, 2017     Pennsylvania Dairy Cattle Nutrition Workshop, For more information click here
Nov 29-Dec 1, 2017    The Ice Cream Makers Short Course, UW-Madison, Babcock Hall, Room 205, Madison, WI, For more information click here
Dec 5-6, 2017   "Making Consistent, Quality Cheese with Concentrated Milk," a CDR short course, Babcock Hall, Room 205. For more information, click here.

Jan 17-18, 2018  Pacific Northwest Animal Nutrition Conference, Grove Hotel, Boise, ID. For more information, click here.

Jan. 31 - Feb 2, 2018  The National Mastitis Council 57th Annual Meeting, Hilton El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, Tucson, AZ. For more information click here
Feb. 6-7, 2018  29th Annual Florida Ruminant Nutrition Symposium*, Gainesville, FL. For more information and registration, click here.

Feb. 7-9, 2018   Southwest Nutrition Conference*, Crowne Plaza Resort Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort. For more information, https://sw-nc.com/

Mar 6-7, 2018  High Plains Dairy Conference*, Embassy Suites-Amarillo, TX. For more information, contact Ellen Jordan, e-jordan2@tamu.edu
Mar 22-25, 2017  International Conference on Communication in Veterinary Medicine, Hockley Valley Resort - Orangeville, Ont., Canada. For registration and more information, click here.

May 29-June 1, 2018  34th ADSA Discover Conference* on Food Animal Agriculture - Reexamining Amino Acid & Energy Interactions in the Dairy Cow*, Eaglewood Resort & Spa, Itasca, IL. For more information, click here.

June 4-7, 2018  Fundamentals of Food Science Short Course, Erickson Food  Science Building, University Park, PA Click here for details.

June 24-27, 2018 ADSA Annual Conference and Tradeshow, Knoxville, TN, For more information click here
Sept 3 - 6, 2019     ISRP 2019 - International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology, KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo Leipzig, Germany, For more information click here
*An S-PAC Partner Conference
If your organization's conference isn't among the ever growing list that contribute proceedings and presentations to S-PAC®, ask your conference organizer to contact Ken Olson for more information about the benefits of participation.
If you would like to have an event included in the "Dates to Note," please contact Ken Olson.

Thanks to our Corporate Sustaining Members
                                 We appreciate your ongoing support of ADSA and the  Journal of Dairy Science ®.
Ag Processing Inc.
Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition
Dairy Nutrition Plus
Darling International Research
Diamond V
DuPont Pioneer
Elanco Animal Health
Grande Cheese Company
JH Biotech, Inc. 
Lallemand Animal Nutrition
Nutriad, Inc.
Papillon Agricultural Company
Quali Tech, Inc.
Renaissance Nutrition Inc.
Zinpro
Zoetis
Zook Nutrition & Management Inc.
ADSA Membership Benefits                                  
                                            
Did you know that your ADSA Professional Membership provides you with:

*        Electronic access to the Journal of Dairy Science®

*        Joint Annual Meeting at member rates

*        Discover Conferences at member rates

*        S-PAC: Free access to JAM and ADSA divisional abstracts

*        S-PAC subscription at member rates

*        Access to recorded symposia library                                                                       

*        ADSA News (association newsletter)

*        ADSA Dair e-news (ADSA industry newsletter)

*        Access to member directory

*        Peer recognition through ADSA and Foundation Award Program

*        Discounted page charges in Journal of Dairy Science®

*        A strong voice of advocacy for the animal sciences, animal agriculture and agriculture research

*        Broad author recognition through ADSA/Elsevier press release program

*        Linked In and You Tube sites for ADSA

*        Quality networking with academic and industry professionals

*        Travel awards for all graduate students attending Discover Conferences

*        Opportunity to serve peers via committee and officer positions

 
For more information on your benefits please visit: http://www.adsa.org/join.asp
To join now and gain these member benefits, visit: http://www.adsa.org/join.asp

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