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hello everyone this is a final presentation for the 2019 2020 Darry unit i'm jeremy gute Knecht and i'm privileged to be the general manager of the dare unit this year and I'm Alex McDonald and I'm the assistant leader so this year our team consisted of 28 students divided into six subcommittees these subcommittees included health reproduction production and technology nutrition finance and finally public relations there are 28 students spanning from five provinces and two countries Canada and India this year emissions statement as a team was to strive to produce quality man raised healthy animals focusing on production and efficiency while gaining skills and knowledge to be used in the industry we will now go over a SWOT analysis of the Lakeland College dairy and the Canadian dairy industry as a whole SWOT SWOT stands for strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats we will begin with strengths our strength is diversity within our large team as mentioned there are many students with a lot of different backgrounds which are an asset to the team the next drink would be the new facility at Lakeland with lots of advanced technology proaction is a strength because it holds the Canadian dairy industry accountable and to a high standard and our firm team is a strength because they have a wealth of knowledge and are able to guide us in our work with strengths come weaknesses and some of these for us include a lack of training on available technology this was more so a problem in the beginning of the semester which give us a slower start but has now been improved a lot also owed the increased turnover just because every year there's a new set of students and consistency is very important for cows so that just makes a small weakness within our herd also a report our dry cow housing is less than ideal and this year our corn silage just likes some nutrients so it was a weakness for our feed quality we will now move on opportunities dairy innovation West is a processing plant being built in Alberta it offers an opportunity to offer the dairies because it will have the capacity to process 300 million litres of milk per year more efficiently there is also an opportunity to improve genetics at Lakeland through the use of elevate and optima programs which the reproduction team will go into further detail we have had many opportunities to network in industry through this events guest speakers and visitors at the college and we have an opportunity to improve the nutrition program by working with our nutritionist we can improve our rations and feed the best quality ingredients thread Sur is false activism just because there's been some events in the last year so it is a threat within our industry also the public perception Andheri and this is because some people choose other alternatives which is fine but affects our industry of it also biosecurity is a large threat because there's many people going in and out of the lakeland facility and so there's always risk of spreading diseases whether it's taking it out of our facility or bringing it to our facility Cova 19 is also a threat just because we're not in control of what's going to happen in the future and are not sure what to predict for the future also our limited land base is currently a threat last year's team left us with five recommendations cab from improvement which the health team will go on we'll talk about later in the presentation genetic improvement and elevate which you will hear from the reproduction committee later on improving the ensiling process which you will hear from nutrition and increasing the PR presence as this year in this year we were able to create many videos and post on social media and you'll hear more about those by our PR manager and I'm very proud to say that I believe our team has completed all these recommendations hello everybody my name is Stan Yzerman and I'm this year's leader of the production and technology team and our goal this year was to analyze how to best utilize the technology on farm to maximize production so here's just a little overview of some of the technology in our barn and the top left is our laylee vector feeding robot on the right side in the middle of the screen we have the deal evolved VMs milking robot which is currently hooked up to the herd navigator system on the bottom left you can't see it in the picture but we have a parallel double 8 D level milking parlor and on the bottom right also can't see it in the picture but that is where our calf rooms are and in the calf rooms we have a deal of all automatic cat feeder also in the calf rooms and in the entire barn we have a Maximus ventilation control system I am such an Patel I mean this year we have right now 65 on parlour side 55 on robot side we have 20 dry cows we have 36 bred hipper and we have 100 young store hi my name is Tyler Van Dyke and this is the herd comparison Albert Ayler BMS robotic milking system compared to industry standard so on the parlor we have an average days of milk of 211 they get milked an average of 2 times a day which leads to an average of 30 point 9 on the robot we have an average days of milk of 126 which is shorter because we sort them based on earlier lactation as well as higher production and robot ready conformation to increase efficiency which leads to an average of two point seven six milkings per day and an average of 41 point four which full sites together average 35 point four which shows to be equal to industry average quota management this is something we instilled here at the college to better compare our cow's productivity based on leaders and butterfat well we want to accomplish with this is to see more consistency with cage East perc Alfred there's a previous year's and hold an average of 1.5 kg smear round which as you can see we're currently producing 1.42 compared to industry which is one point four seven alright so here are some of the numbers throughout the year for our butter fat and our protein percentages as you can see for a protein we started the year off of a three and managed to get up to a three point two percent we've gotten pretty close to our goal of three point three which is also the industry standard for butter fat we started the year off of a three point eight percent and towards the end of the year we reached our goal of staying consistently about four percent and beat the industry standard by hitting at four point two percent hi I'm Curtis horseman and this is our somatic cell count out for this year as you can see in June we had a spike in somatic cell count and that is due to Luca lackest Aldrin Jimenez stalls installed in is the powder that we used to reduce the moisture on the stalls our goal is currently set at consistently under 120,000 average per year average for the year and industry average is around 200,000 this is our Maximus ventilation system for our calf rooms at zero days they start at 10 degrees and have 45 days they start to decline at around 1 degree every 5 days until they're weaned at 5 degrees then from there they go from 5 degrees down to 1 degrees after they're weaned hello everybody I'm Chris Durham and I am this year's nutrition step you any leader our goal for this year was to improve the consistency and quality of feed being delivered to her dairy herd in the second semester we had made a few changes to our lactating ration we switched from having two separate lactating rations to having the same ration for both herds for a more consistent diet also changing the particle size of the hay adding corns 20:19 corn silage into the ration and going from a pelleted supplement to a mass supplement after putting the 2019 corn into the lapped hitting ration the milky urea nitrogen went up due to less protein in the silage you can see you were the star it peaked enemy in the beginning of January January 21st we switched to a new feed company and had a more balanced ration about the MU ends back down hi my name is Govinda so as shown in graph the PMI drop in early March was because of vector breaking down and PMI intake for VMs will be higher because of high producing cows consider a table for both group are same however because they are low producing cow and a higher dry matter intake a compiler will offer less than the VMs side a new feed table for concentrate was implemented on March 21st you so we changed the Russian from here to star the causes it is more consistent and another potential benefit is it increases the human film which helped to reduce the incident of the just've disorder include including displaced abomasum moreover it also reduced the dietary cation anion difference which helped to reduce the risk of milk fever and also we use the mesh supplement and all this made that transition easier hello I'm TIA cost camp and I will be talking about calf nutrition and our far-off and Hoffer nutrition our old calf plan was the 75 day plan the calves started at 6 liters and over seven days increased to 9 metres they stayed at this nine litres for approximately 52 days and the and over just over a week we would gradually decrease some from the 9 liters down to the 2 layers this was costing us $378 very fast we switched it to a 60-day plan where calves start at 6 liters and over the first week that gradually increased to 9 liters they stay at 9 litres for 40 days and then over a week they're decreased to 2 liters this costs us 296 dollars our nan lady lactating herd has feet available for 24 hours now they used to be restricted fed due to body condition scoring we had ich we switched to canola meal to lower our cost for our protein source and then we rebalanced all the nutritional values and we incorporated the this year silage hello my name Nicko Frick for silage 2020 we are making some improvements to improve air quality we will be adding weighted tractors this year to increase our competitor packs and we will also be adding an oxygen barrier to reduce the amount of seepage through plastic we're also adding semi tires to increase the load over the plastic and create an evening seal for some silage management we practice daily we remove all the Rob before feeding so no rot rotted silage can get to the cows we practice proper face management which means an even clean face but keeps it clean over the whole period of 24 hours in the bottom right corner you can see the picture of what we're talking about we also when we're using when we're expecting our Styles we do a minimal internet deduction of air so that the face stays fresh for the next state you hello everybody I am Leticia Kenyon and I am honored to be this year's health team leader our goal this year was to monitor and improve the health status of the herd ensuring our best future performance potentials my team and I have worked very hard this year on the following various elements well everyone my name is Fritz Peterman and I was responsible this year for keeping track of transition cow problems in the herd and then reporting back with the numbers to my subcommittee if you look at the graph on your screens you can see a high prevalence of ketosis milk fever and retained placenta in the early part of last semester these the main problems that we are trying to fix since mid-september our subcommittee has been working on a decreasing these problem by creating a new fresh cow SOP by better monitoring our fresh cows by changing or calcium boluses and by working closely which the nutrition subcommittee as you can see we have had no displaced I will miss them so far and our team has been able to significantly diminish the size of our other problems since we got here we believe this is due to the measures we put in place however there is still a problem and we need to and it needs to be worked at in order to get down to industry standards hello my name is Robert lucuma and at the start of the year we knew that a priority to have issues with the health of the calves and our three calves rooms and we knew that this was an issue that we wanted to address we decided to measure this bun monitoring monitoring the average daily gain of the cows as well as a number of bony cases they were having as you can see in October we had some issues that was when the overhead doors were closed for the first time since summer and together we worked with the technology team and Maximus and since then everything's been fairly consistent and with industry averages and in February at Mia's boyfriend who we switched milk replacer and that caused the day of the average a game but they have since recovered hello everyone my name is Teresa giemo and I will be reporting on our bet costs our year-to-date vet costs are currently sitting at three hundred and fifty four dollars per cow while provincial average is at one hundred and eighty three dollars per cow as for hectoliters we are sitting at three dollars and sixty cents a hectoliter while provincial average is at a dollar ninety three proactol ear as a team we have discussed these costs and have come up with actions that will help to reduce these numbers for next year one of them being that we started purchasing materials from the college's animals health clinic at cost which is much cheaper than purchasing them from our vet hello everyone my name is Pompeii Singh this year one of the main focus of our health team is controller wellness or digital dermatitis in our heart it is infectious disease which affects production rate as well as health of animals in starting of this year we had nearly 41% animals with DD which was quite a big number so to lower down these numbers our team had decided to treat these animals on a weekly basis with treatments we have seen positive results in her her now the current numbers are 21% which was quite a big draw in number of infected animals currently we are just 1% above industry recommendations as Pompey mentioned we have decreased our amount of DD significantly we changed our focus schedule back in October and have recently got new insight to adjust it to what you can see on the screen here Monday we run a foot bath for Mondays and Tuesdays we run a foot bath Wednesdays we use a hoof spray Thursdays we run through the herd to check whoo-whoo-whoo we will be rapping on Fridays and on Monday the raps come off and the foot baths start again we also have decided to use the two existing foot baths in the parlor as a pre bath then add a plastic foot bath we will use in the returned alley for foot bath solution we decided to add this to our routine for a few reasons more focus on whose was weekly spring and rapping sessions and there is no use of formalin antibiotics acids or offensive smells in the new spray or treatment methods although as didi improves we can adjust the foot bath protocol to what the bar needs we have made a lot of progress so far as you saw on the slide before but with this new hoof care protocol we plan and lessening that number even more we reached our goal and have now adjusted our goal to less than 10% didi cases in there hello everyone I'm Nick Schreiber and I'll be talking about the updated vaccination program creating an updated vaccination protocol was an immense step in our health committee this critical change will eventually lead to improvements in our herd and health overall in scours respiratory disease mastitis as you can see on the slide the course of action is establishing and ensuring all calves and cows receives the proper vaccinations on time and that they are properly admitted at the right dosage amount you hi my name is Erin Chad Ike and I had the privilege to be this year's recollection leader our goal is to improve the overall reproductive performance and increase our economic efficiency on farm on this pie chart we are showing the three main categories that build up our breeding criteria if you had the chance to watch our mid-year presentations you will see that we have made some changes to this at the beginning of our school year we decided to have 40% on both production and confirmation and 20% on health this was because one of our starting goals was to improve the genetics of our herd since then we have gotten a better understanding of our herd I realized where we needed to focus the most we have now changed our criteria to 40% on production and 30% both on health and Confirmation we have done this an effort to help some of our bigger health issues that our herd is facing I'm Tressa Dykstra from October to December our heat detection rate was 69% it was so high because there were many open cows and heifers as student breeders were looking for heats often on the computer then it dropped to 45% mainly because there was less open cows since we caught up we were also having some issues with high first showing visual needs so we worked with DeLaval to fix the collars and with the nutrition team to adjust the ration another thing was that we got a new group of student reads hello my name is Franz Peterman this semester the reproduction team bought some new activity colors we decide to buy 25 used a.m. to deal of all activity monitors along with new neck bands and weights we got our activity monitors from van iron farms and since they were all still under warranty we didn't think there was a big risk in all I used my monitors the reason we bought activity colors is because we didn't have enough colors to be monitoring our herd in the way we wanted to our goal is to have a collar on all of our open house until they were a hundred days confirmed pregnant as well as on all of our heifers that were 12 months old and older until they were 100 days confirmed pregnant the used activity called monitors cost us fifty five dollars apiece and the new neck bands cost twenty six dollars apiece this added up to total costs of 1898 dollars I am Andre Peters 9kl c1 and in this video we are showing you how we tissue sample our heifer calves first a tissue sample is loaded into the gun and a bar gold barcode is scanned to ensure traceability it is important that while you are doing this that a calf is properly restrained so you don't hit a vein in the ear then once the gun is loaded you will punch a circular hole through the ear of the calf and that'll be your tissue sample as you can see the calf hardly notices the sampling process the sample is then shipped off to the lab tab the DNA analysis is completed this data allows us to estimate future projections of an animal's productivity and efficiency the data is also used in correlation with observation which is a breeding program that helps us match up our animals with the best bowls to create a stronger future generation automate takes the guesswork out of site selection and allows us to make well-informed decisions when selecting bolts these selections are based off our lakeland cow criteria hello my name is Cheyenne Reno today we will talk about be talking about a heifer inventory so at the beginning of the school year we started off with 158 heifers and this was too much for herd as we were feeding unnecessary heifers so I had to bring that number down to a 15% buffer zone so in order to do that we had to sell 20 heifers we have now reached our 15% buffer zone we are now at 137 heifers and we want to keep decreasing it to 10% buffer zone we use elevate results in conformation traits to look at which heifers we will be getting rid of and this will help us reduce feed costs and overcrowding hello I'm Jennifer past Inc due to having such a high buffer zone with to any heifers we decided to reduce our buffer zone to 15% by selling twenty surplus heifers as a team we sold that twenty heifers for $1,000 per cow to a private buyer around the new year and the graph listed there below is the age category that the 20 heifers left our facility at as you can see the highest percentage came from heifers that are 16 months of age and older due to them not being able to meet our Ringgold a goal for our subcommittee was to involve more health traits into the genetics we are choosing currently 90% the Bulls we are using have been classified as immunity plus immunity Plus Bulls are tested for a high immune response which helps combat disease and infection another reason we chose to start using immunity plus bulls was because it is a very heritable trait so we will be able to see genetic gain faster within our herd hello my name is Carmen Vogel and I am one of the finance managers this year for the dairy unit hi my name is Bailey Mahler on the other Finance Manager for the dare unit this year and our goal was to make this unit financially viable business and you'll find information in a booklet on page 18 and 19 this year's income was that 1 million 195,000 one hundred and forty thousand so we had a variance of 56 thousand mostly due from surplus heifers and higher milk sales than what they predicted us a hat when we were calculating the cost of production we started by figuring out the return to equity we calculated this by subtracting our total income by our total production cost we took this number of around fifty seven thousand dollars and divided it to return per cow and return per hectare leaders sold we compared these numbers to industry average for northern Alberta from a two thousand eighteen dairy cost study included it in the industry numbers our capital cost which we did not include for the dairy unit we have calculated the total sum of money needed for the production of our output we need ninety five cents to produce $1 our return on feed this year our net revenue per cow per day was $26 in our cost for feet per day was about ten dollars so that gave us a return on feet of sixteen dollars that we could spend on the vet costs and other stuff and industry average is usually twelve and a half for a turn on feet our finals expenses totaled at around 1 million $138,000 we ended up 26 thousand dollars over budget due to labor manure management and hoof trimming costs our top three biggest expenses our feed costs at 47% labor at 21% and milk deductions at 7% our other category is broken down to breeding registration hoof trimming bedding chemicals and garbage disposal costs our fiscal year was from April 1st 2019 to March 18 2020 which is a bit shorter than expected due to circumstances following kovat 19 this year we have made a net income of fifty seven thousand dollars which is almost 31 thousand dollars more than budgeted we predict next year's team to make a net income of forty six thousand dollars we budgeted for a decrease in livestock sales increase in hoof health feed costs and bedding hello I am Johanna bay amen I am honored to be this this year's public relations manager my goal as public relations manager is to increase social engagement of the dairy unit with public and industry this hearing increased our following to 635 followers and our most successful post was our Canadian egged a video with 16,000 people reached and two point four thousand engagements we got to attend many industry events including the Western Canadian dairy seminar where we got to participate in farm tours presentations and speakers cows signals training which was hosted at our own dairy Learning Centre Drecker was also hosted at our dairy Learning Centre and we also got to attend the annual general meeting so with all listen with uh listen for me shouldn't from the team we came up with five recommendations to pass on to next year these recommendations include to maintain solid quality because there's always room for improvement with silage quality and the better quality silage a more potential for production you can get also to continue improving the hoof health you were able to see our progress with hoof health and we want to recommend to continue doing so also taking a look at quota more so this year we'd like to recommend that we make the herd production strategy ing to the quota quotas the basis of our business also we'd like to recommend to improve heat detection with the use of the activity callers as well as the herd navigator system and lastly we'd like to recommend to improve the dry cow care this is because we mentioned in our weaknesses that the dry cow facility is a weakness and also you were able to see our transition issues and we'd like so finally we'd like to recommend to improve the dry cow care said we'd like to thank our advisors Keisha paddock and Caroline till now as well as our current farm team amber sayers Daytona Ference and eco-freak and the rest of the members we'd also like to thank Jeff Brown and Josie van Lent and our sponsor New Holland and finally we'd like to thank you for listening to our presentations and if you have any questions please use a comment form below or feel free to read so tiny Darius and my student once again thank you for listening you you