Author: pmfricke

May Hoard’s Dairyman webinar

I had the opportunity to speak for the May, 2016 Hoard’s Dairyman webinar series. The video of the webinar is linked on my web site here: Videos

Bovine Veterinarian Magazine May/June 2016

I made the cover of the May/June issue of Bovine Veterinarian magazine. Looks like we can have high milk production AND high fertility in lactating dairy cows.  

Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference

The 2016 Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Seminar will be held on June 15-16 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. The final brochure of the program including a registration form can be downloaded here. I will be presenting on Thursday morning. This program is a collaborative effort of Cooperative Extension members from Iowa State University, the …

Grow Magazine

The Spring 2016 issue of Grow Magazine featured my work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on reproduction in dairy cows. You can read the article online here.

2016 Four-State Dairy Nutrition & Management Program

I will be speaking at the 2016 Four-State Dairy Nutrition & Management Conference in Dubuque, IA this year on Thursday morning, June 16. The 2016 conference runs from June 15-16 and includes both pre-conference and Post-conference symposia this year. You can download an overview of Four State Program by clicking on the embedded link. The program is …

Blood and milk PAG testing for pregnancy

An article I wrote entitled “Timing is Everything in Pregnancy Diagnosis” has been published in the October 25, 2015 issue of Hoard’s Dairyman. The article describes results from a recent research trial in which we assessed factors affecting levels of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins in blood and milk during early pregnancy and their implications for nonpregnancy diagnosis in dairy …

American Association of Bovine Practitioners Annual Meeting

I had the opportunity to address the dairy practitioners attending the American Association of Bovine Practitioners annual meeting in New Orleans, LA on Saturday, September 19. The title of my talk was: “Double Vision: Management of Twinning in Dairy Cows.” I have uploaded a draft of my proceedings paper as well as a pdf of my slides …

Zoetis Dairy Symposium, Grand Rapids, MI

    I had the opportunity to address a group of dairy farmers and veterinarians in Grand Rapids, MI today. My first talk was entitled: “New Technologies for Managing Reproduction in Dairy Cows” in which I discussed our recent data on heat detection systems and blood and milk pregnancy tests. My second talk was entitled: …

UW Extension Transition Cow Meetings in Trempealeau and Jackson Counties

Steve Okonek from Trempealeau County UWEX and Trisha Wagner from Jackson County UWEX hosted a Transition Cow meeting in Blair, WI for dairy farmers. I presented a talk on the effects of body condition score change and mastitis during the postfresh period on reproductive performance, Dr. Gary Oetzel from the UW School of Veterinary Medicine spoke …

Hoard’s Dairyman summary of my breakout session at the Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference

Hoard’s Dairyman summarized my breakout session on blood and milk pregnancy tests for dairy cows at the Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management meeting in Dubuque last week. A paper that accompanied a version of this talk that I presented at the Western Dairy Management conference is posted under the Meetings Proceedings section of my web site here.