ATI Dairy Farm

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ATI Dairy Farm

• Nathan Goodell
• Summer of 2004
• Advisor Dr. Zartman

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About ATIs Dairy

• Located in Wooster, Ohio
• Part of The Ohio State University
• About a 5 minute drive from ATIs campus
• Used as an educational laboratory for students
  learning about Dairy Management

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About ATIs Dairy

• Milk about 110 cows
• Half Holstein
• Half Jersey
• Also a few Brown Swiss
• Management
• Gary Crocker - Manager
• Mark Bardall Assistant Manager

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Daily Activities

• Two Positions
• Crew leading
• Milking
• Two Shifts
• AM 400-800
• PM 400-730

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Crew Leading

• Moving Cows to and from parlor
• Scraping free stalls

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Crew Leading

• Feeding calves milk replacer

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Crew Leading

• Feeding Calves pellets

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Crew Leading

• Clean up!

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Crew Leading

• Tail chalking
• Heat Detection

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Crew Leading

• Clean and Bed Sick Pen

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Crew Leading

• Other Jobs
• Scrape holding pen
• Feed heifers up the road
• Help treat sick cows/calves

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Milking

• Start Up

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Milking

• Milking
• Prep
• Milk
• Post dip
• Check production average

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Milking

• Shut Down/Wash

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Records

• Write everything down

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Computers
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Skills Learned

• Diagnosis/Treatment of Cows
• Treat Scours in Calves
• Drive Skid Steer
• Heat Detection

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Value of Internship

• Comparison to my home farm
• New ideas
• New skills
• More experience

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What I Learned I Need to Learn

• Breed cows
• Formulize feed rations
• Better Diagnosis and Treatment Skills

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Future

• Integrate knowledge and experience from
• Classes
• Honors project
• Internship
• Studies abroad
• Student organizations
• Return home and successfully manage the family
  farm by intensively grazing