2018 Dairy Research Symposium

• Dairy Research for a Healthy World - Highlights

  Isabelle Neiderer, Director, Nutrition and Research, Dairy Farmers of Canada

·     Dairy and prevention of type 2 diabetes - Anthony Hanley, University of Toronto

Fact Sheet:  Milk products may help in the prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

·     The effects of dairy on subjective appetite and post-prandial glycemia - Harvey Anderson, University of Toronto

·     Dairy products and bone health - Hope Weiler, McGill University

·     Dairy and metabolic syndrome - Hassan Vatanparast, University of Saskatchewan

·     Dairy products and cardiometabolic health: the role of dairy matrix - Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier, Laval University 

Fact Sheet: Dairy and cardiometabolic outcomes

Genetics and Genomics - Tools for Dairy Business Improvement

• Automatic Milking Systems: Rising up to the challenges of transition and production - Trevor DeVries (University of Guelph) and Ed Pajor (University of Calgary)
• Facilitator: Julie Baillargeon (Valacta)

• The costs of mastitis and emerging strategies for prevention - Simon Dufour (University of Montreal) and Herman Barkema (University of Calgary)
• Facilitators:  Steven Roche, ACER Consulting and Hélène Poirier CBMQRN
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Resources - The costs of mastitis and emerging strategies for prevention

• Benchmarking dairy cattle comfort and new practices for calf care - Doris Pellerin (Laval University),  Elsa Vasseur (McGill University), Derek Haley (University of Guelph)
• Facilitators:  Doris Pellerin and Marianne Villetaz Robichaud (Laval University) 

·     Dairy Sustainability: Water - Andrew VanderZaag, AAFC - Ottawa

·     Increasing the energy of Canadian forages fed to high producing dairy cows - Annie Claessens, AAFC - Quebec

·     Balancing dairy rations for protein: filling the gaps and updating formulation models to reduce protein intake - Hélène Lapierre, AAFC - Sherbrooke

• Resources to come