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DCHA Webinar to Explore Growth Promotion in Dairy Calves

Wednesday, 01/05/2019

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New Delhi, May 02, 2019: Dairy Calf Growth-enhancement Tools headline Dairy Calf and Heifer Association’s (DCHA) inaugural webinar. This one-hour educational offering starts at noon Central time on May 10.

Grant Crawford, beef cattle technical services manager with Merck Animal Health, will lead the webinar. Prior to joining Merck, Crawford spent 12 years with the University of Minnesota as an adjunct professor and beef feedlot extension educator according to the reports published in bovinevetonline.com.

During the one-hour webinar, Crawford will address:
What growth-promoting implants are and the broad array of options and uses available to cattle producers.

The estrogen question, its residue in meat and its impact on human health.

Research currently available in wet calves and suckling calves, and their applicability to dairy calves.

Strategies to best use growth-promoting implants in dairy calves and what implants can be used in wet calves and dairy steers.