Join Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) for its next webinar on May 13, starting at 2 p.m. Central time. Ricardo Chebel, University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine associate professor, will address “Using digital technology to optimize health and reproductive management.” The one-hour webinar is free.
The May 13 webinar will address:
- Review of available health sensor technologies
- How to use data to help enhance dairy cattle repro programs
- Recommendations on what to look for in a sensor technology system
To register for this webinar, go here and follow the prompts. If you are a DCRC member and cannot attend the live program, you may access the webinar HERE after May 27.
One Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) credit for this DCRC webinar was granted by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards.
Chebel earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Universidade Paulista in Brazil. He completed his dairy production medicine residency at the University of California-Davis in 2004. He held teaching positions at Washington State University, University of Idaho, University of California-Davis and University of Minnesota before moving to Florida. Chebel served on the committee that organized and created DCRC, and is a past DCRC vice president and president. Chebel’s research encompasses dairy cattle health, management and welfare, with an emphasis on periparturient cow health and behavior, automated devices for monitoring periparturient cows and pre-weaned calves, reproductive physiology and management, automated devices for estrous detection and improvement of fertility.
For more information about DCRC’s webinars, e-mail Luciano Caixeta, DCRC Education Committee chair, at: [email protected] or e-mail DCRC at: [email protected].
The Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council is focused on bringing together all sectors of the dairy industry – producers, consultants, academia and allied industry professionals – for improved reproductive performance. DCRC provides an unprecedented opportunity for all groups to work together to take dairy cattle reproduction to the next level.