Complete: Benchmarking Calf Growth on NNY herds
Funding source: DAP 2021
Principal Investigators: Casey Havekes & Lindsay Ferlito
The main objective of this project was to help farms track pre-weaned calf average daily gain and passive transfer levels. 8 dairy farms in NNY participated in this small peer-to-peer discussion group. The cost of raising heifers for each participating farm was also investigated during this project. Please see final report here.
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