Chris Church
The 'Business' of Dairy Farming: How do production and profit relate? AND How can you make better use of your advisors?
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Chris is a three-time graduate of the University of Guelph (OAC96, OVC00, and Lang23). He practiced as a dairy veterinarian for 15 years and spent six years with Elanco Animal Health, where he focused on improving farm businesses. He recently completed his Master’s in Business. His research focused on linking production to farm profits. He is a farm business coach and the owner of Central Dairy Solutions, where he provides producers with teaching and benchmarking to improve financial clarity.
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John Gerbitz
“You Can’t Hide a Lame Cow in Your Robot”
Cow Corner helps to develop elite robotic dairies by stressing the importance of dairy herd management fundamentals. We all recognize the importance of bunk management, cow comfort, transition management, and efficient reproduction on any dairy. Each of those is more important on robotic dairies because all of them influence whether or not cows come to the robot. This presentation will explain how.
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John Gerbitz is self-employed as a robotic milking management consultant for Cow Corner LLC. He created Cow Corner to help customers improve performance and profitability of their box robotic milking systems with a structured monitoring and consultation program. Before creating Cow Corner, John worked as a Dairy Advisor for DeLaval. He was also a technician, trainer, product manager, and reproductive management consultant for a Select Sires member cooperative. John began his 40 year dairy industry career as a dairy farmer. He and his wife Christine live in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. They have four daughters, one son, and nine grandchildren.
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Keith Dicker
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Nigel Cook
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Pete Erickson
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Sara Pederson
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Sarah Stock
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Sponsored by: Lallemand Animal Nutrition

