{"id":45069,"date":"2013-04-20T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=45069"},"modified":"2013-04-20T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:28:23","slug":"morrisville-state-college-students-put-dairy-knowledge-talents-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=45069","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State College Students put Dairy Knowledge, Talents to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dairy<\/a>Members of the Morrisville State College\u00a0North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) team pose during the 12th\u00a0Annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) held recently in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Pictured, front row from left:\u00a0 David Johnson, Steve Mooney (coach and assistant professor of dairy science).\u00a0<\/i>Back row from left: Zachary Calhoun, Anna Cline, Christopher O\u2019Connor<\/i><\/p>\n

(Morrisville, NY \u2013 April 2013) A team of Morrisville State College students brought home a fourth-place finish from the 12th Annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) held in Fort Wayne, Ind. April 4-6.<\/p>\n

Three Morrisville State College students also participated in the Dairy Academy, which was held in conjunction with the dairy challenge competition.<\/p>\n

The NAIDC is a two-day competition in which four-person teams evaluate a well-managed dairy farm business and then recommend management enhancements to a panel of judges comprised of industry and academic professionals.<\/p>\n

The competition enables students to apply theory and classroom learning to real-world situations and facilitates an exchange of ideas among students and dairy producers to help maintain and develop the industry.<\/p>\n

A total of\u00a0128 students participated in the competition and 98 participated in the academy, from 32 colleges from across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

The Dairy Challenge Academy is an intensive three-day program which uses the educational component of the Dairy Challenge contest without the competition.<\/p>\n

In the dairy challenge, teams were first presented with a dairy summary and detailed production, financial, nutrition and reproduction records, then traveled to one of the contest dairies to evaluate the farm\u2019s cows, facilities and management practices.<\/p>\n

After a two-hour visit at the farm, teams returned to analyze data, develop recommendations\u00a0for nutrition, reproduction, milking procedures, animal health, housing and financial management improvements. The teams presented their recommendations to owners, while being evaluated by a panel of five judges comprised of dairy producers, veterinarians, farm finance specialists and industry personnel.<\/p>\n

Morrisville\u2019s team placed fourth out of the eight teams in their group that evaluated the same farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team did a good job looking at the farm and put together a solid presentation that addressed the mission statement of the farm,\u201d said Steve Mooney, coach and assistant professor of dairy science. \u201cThey came away with a better appreciation of how many people can look at the same thing and all come up with different opinions without any of them being wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morrisville State College\u2019s Dairy Challenge team was comprised of:<\/p>\n

Anna Cline,\u00a0of Kennedy, agricultural business development B.B.A.<\/p>\n

Zachary Calhoun, of Alexandria Bay, agricultural business development B.B.A<\/p>\n

David Johnson, of Owego, dairy management B.Tech<\/p>\n

Christopher O\u2019Connor, of New Haven, agricultural business development B.B.A<\/p>\n

Attending the Dairy Academy from Morrisville State College were:<\/p>\n

Courtney Furst,\u00a0of Moravia, dairy management B.Tech.<\/p>\n

Megan Hazel,\u00a0of Montoursville, Pa., dairy management B.Tech<\/p>\n

Dakota Warrren, of Greene, NY,\u00a0dairy management B.Tech<\/p>\n

The event also included a career fair, company seminars, and an awards banquet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an important learning process for students and an opportunity for them to network with industry experts while also meeting people in the industry they may buy products from in the future,\u201d Mooney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the Morrisville State College\u00a0North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) team pose during the 12th\u00a0Annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) held recently in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Pictured, front row from left:\u00a0 David Johnson, Steve Mooney (coach and assistant professor of dairy science).\u00a0Back row from left: Zachary Calhoun, Anna Cline, Christopher O\u2019Connor (Morrisville, NY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-bIV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}