New additions to the website include two new virtual tours, a Wisconsin Blueprint page with recommendations for automated group nursery calf barns, a new partial budget calculator for transition cow facilities and updates to many existing pages to help dairy producers remodel and build facilities that promote health, productivity and animal well-being. Over 1,400 active users with more than 11,000 daily logins to the website are putting the concepts of The Dairyland Initiative into practice on farms worldwide. With an interactive teaching style, participants hear, see and then do the very things taught in these programs. The Dairyland Initiative has expanded its in-person education component this year, having presented three workshops on designing supplemental positive pressure ventilation tube systems and two for transition cow facility planning – and new this fall was a seminar on remodeling dairy barns.
What new additions or changes were made to the program in 2012? Whether producers are looking to build new or remodel existing facilities, they are able to access a variety of useful tools and resources on the website. This article discussed the information that producers could expect to find on the program’s website. In the fall of 2010, the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine launched The Dairyland Initiative program.
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