News
AABP releases antimicrobial stewardship guidelines 
Cattle veterinarians are committed to preserving the effectiveness and availability of antimicrobial drugs, which is the essence of antimicrobial stewardship. The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) has created a document, "Key Elements for Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship Plans in Bovine Veterinary Practices Working with Beef & Dairy Operations," to provide bovine veterinarians with best practices for designing, implementing and monitoring antimicrobial stewardship programs with their clients.
Small protein offers big insight into FMD virus
Scientists in the U.K. have determined that a tiny protein that plays a major role in the replication of foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus demonstrates a greater level of genetic economy than previously reported.

Researchers from the University of Leeds and The Pirbright Institute identified a new role for a small viral protein -- called 3B3 -- that reveals how these viruses can copy themselves efficiently. FMD is an animal pathogen of great economic importance, and the findings could lead to the development of more effective vaccines against the disease in the future.

Cow and bull beef audit shows continued progress
In the U.S. beef industry, sales of cull breeding animals now contribute up to 20% of operational gross revenue for both beef and dairy operations. The reasons for marketing these dairy and beef animals are varied, but the 2016 National Beef Quality Audit, which is commissioned by the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program, revealed that it is imperative for the industry to understand the factors that lead to improved quality and minimize economic losses. BQA and the National Dairy FARM Program shared the results during a news conference this week at the 51st World Dairy Expo (WDE) in Madison, Wis.
ADSA News and Happenings
ADSA at World Dairy Expo
 Thanks to everyone who assisted at the ADSA booth and to all who stopped by to visit. It is always a great opportunity to meet visit with folks from around the country and the world, sharing news of ADSA and seeing what is new in the dairy world. We hope to see you at the 2018 World Dairy Expo, October 2-6 in Madison, WI.
 

News and Updates for the 2018 Annual Meeting
The abstract submission site for the 2018 ADSA Annual Meeting is now open! Visit  https://www.adsa.org/2018/call to submit your abstract. Submission instructions, quality standards, answers to frequently asked questions, and student competition guidelines are available on the page.
New for 2018-Platform Sessions.  In a platform session, an invited speaker leads off a themed or topical oral session with a 30- or 45-minute talk, which is then followed by general submission abstract presentations. This type of session can result in higher levels of engagement of oral session submitters/presenters, while disseminating the most current research. Platform sessions provide a third oral session option, somewhere between a symposium and a general oral session. When submitting your abstract(s), be sure to look for platform sessions that may incorporate your research. For 2018, two sections will be accepting abstracts for Platform Sessions. The first is the Small Ruminant section, and the platform session theme is "Addressing management challenges and improving performance in small ruminants." The second is the Animal Health and Well-Being section, with a topic of "Assessment of affective states of dairy cattle."
The deadline for abstract submission is February 21, 2018, at 11:59 pm (CST).
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.
The 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.
We hope to see you in Knoxville!
 
An Added Member Benefit - Reduced Page Charges
ADSA is pleased to announce that, starting in 2018, page charges paid by ADSA members for  Journal of Dairy Science ® (JDS) articles will decrease from $85 to $65 per page.
The JDS Endowment Fund was created in late 2008 with a goal of eliminating page charges for ADSA members once the fund objective of $8 million was reached. The fund surpassed the $8 million threshold in January of this year. The journal, however, has doubled in size since the original plan was devised, while interest rates have declined over time. The original goal of fully eliminating page charges with interest from the fund, therefore, is no longer viable. A partial reduction in page charges is possible, however, based on the current size of the journal, the monetary value of the fund, and the anticipated investment income for the foreseeable future. Based on conservative estimates, to sustain the fund, the ADSA board voted to reduce JDS page charges for members from $85 to $65. The reduced page charges will apply to papers published in 2018 (volume 101) and thereafter.
The board also voted to sunset the JDS Member-Author Loyalty Program after 2018. This program was created to support ADSA's most prolific member authors until the JDS Endowment Fund reached its goal and page charges were reduced. The program was implemented in 2014 when Roger Shanks, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, was editor-in-chief of JDS. Almost 300 authors have received the award to date. The last group of authors to qualify will be notified in early 2018 (for qualifying papers published in 2015, 2016, and 2017) and those awards must be redeemed for papers published or accepted in 2018.
This year, we commemorated 100 years of publishing the Journal of Dairy Science, first by recognizing the inaugural class of JDS Club 100 authors and soon with the forthcoming special issue papers in December. The ADSA Board is pleased to celebrate this milestone by reducing page charges for our members as we anticipate the next 100 years of the journal.
Karen Schmidt, ADSA President             Matt Lucy, JDS Editor-in-Chief
 
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.
 
Mark your calendar for 34th DISCOVER Conference:
 Reexamining Amino Acid & Energy Interactions in the Dairy Cow
The 34th DISCOVER Conference that will be held May 29-June 1, 2018 at the  Eaglewood Resort & Spa in Itasca, IL It will focus on the interactions of amino acids (AA) and energy in lactating dairy cattle. For details visit https://www.adsa.org/Meetings/DiscoverConferences/34thDiscoverConference.aspx
 
 
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.  
 
For our International Readers:
Have you considered e-Membership?
ADSA e-Membership is available through ADSA Global Partner organizations and to individuals who reside outside of the US and Canada.  This electronic membership was designed for those who have an interest in dairy science, but may not have the time or budget to attend ADSA's meetings, or cost-justify full membership in ADSA due to a different area of specialization. The ADSA e-Membership rate is USD 55 (a 50% discount from ADSA professional membership dues), and runs for 365 days from date of sign-up.  With their membership an ADSA e-Member receives:
  • Electronic access to the Journal of Dairy Science®, (and a paper copy, if desired, for an additional fee);
  • Access to a treasure trove of Joint Annual Meeting symposia (synchronized recordings from 2003-2015, with more added each year);
  • Access to searchable Joint Annual Meeting abstracts for 1998-2015, with more added each year, plus ADSA annual meeting abstracts from 1935-1997, as well as ADSA divisional meeting abstracts;
  • The opportunity to purchase the Large Dairy Herd Management (3rd ed., e-book) at the ADSA member rate.
  • The opportunity to subscribe to S-PAC® (Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences) at the ADSA member rate. See more about S-PAC below.
Learn more about e-membership and other types of ADSA membership at: http://www.adsa.org/Membership/MembershipTypes.aspx
 
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
 
A quick reminder, if you attended the 2017 ADSA Annual Meeting, one of the added benefits was 90 days of complementary access to S-PAC. Have you tried it out yet? You still have time to do it as it runs until today October 9.  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 9-13, 2017    Cheese Tech Short Course, UW-Madison, Babcock Hall, Room 205, Madison, WI, For more information click here
Oct 10-12, 2017   UHT/HTST Pasteurizer Operator Workshop, Cornell University. To register, click here.

Oct 12-18, 2017   121st USAHA/AAVLD Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, For more information click here
Oct 17-18, 2017   The Dairy Ingredient Applications Short Course, UW-Madison, Babcock Hall, Room 205, Madison, WI, For more information click here
Oct 17-18, 2017  Dairy Science and Sanitation Workshop, VT Department of Health, Colchester, VT. For more information contact Omar Oyarzabal at 802-524-6501, ext. 452 or email omar.oyzrzabal@uvm.edu
Oct 18, 2017     Southwest Dairy Day, Wildcat Dairy, Comanche Co. TX, For more information contact Dr. Ellen Jordan, Ellen.Jordan@ag.tamu.edu 
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 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
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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