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Speakers & Presentations
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Kathleen Shore, Grober
Nutrition: New Developments in Kid Feeding Research at
the Young Animal Development Centre
Kathleen is a graduate from the University of Guelph
with an undergraduate Science degree majoring in Animal
Science, and then a post graduate degree in Ruminant
Nutrition. Throughout her university career she worked
on various dairy farms performing the every day tasks of
feeding calves and heifers while maintaining their
health records. In 2006, she started working with Grober
as a Nutritionist with a focus on milk replacer
formulation, research and development in young animal
nutrition. Kathleen is also leading the Quality
Assurance Lab and HACCP program for Grober. In 2009,
Grober embarked on a new initiative: The Young Animal
Development Centre where Kathleen has been one of the
project leaders. Through this initiative, young animals
(calves and lambs) have been employed for nutritional
and management research purposes in order to provide
current and practical information for producers. |
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Christoph Wand, OMAFRA: TMR:
The Nutritional and Performance Benefits as well as the
Challenges of using Total Mixed Rations in Goat
Production
Christoph was raised on a farm near Powassan, and
received his Bachelor of Science (Nutritional Sciences)
and Master of Science (Animal Science - Ruminant
Nutrition) from the University of Guelph. He has been
employed with OMAFRA in his current capacity since 1998.
Christoph is now located with the University of Guelph’s
Animal Science Department, and has a special interest in
labour and nutrient efficient feeding systems, and cost
effective feeding strategies. |
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Dr. Paul Plummer, Iowa State
University: Vaccination Programs – Are they for
Everyone?
Dr. Plummer grew up breeding Toggenburg dairy goats
under the herd name Neshaminy Acres. His family has been
breeding goats for almost 45 years. He graduated from
The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary
Medicine in 2000. After graduation he completed a Large
Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at Texas A&M,
followed by a residency in Large Animal Internal
Medicine at The University of Tennessee. He is board
certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal
Medicine. His clinical practice focuses on the internal
medicine of ruminants and he is particularly interested
in infectious disease and small ruminants. He also has a
PhD in Veterinary Microbiology and has a research
program focused on zoonotic and infectious disease of
ruminants. Currently he works as an assistant professor
at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State
University where he works both in the hospital ruminant
and camelid clinic managing the internal medicine
residents and has a research laboratory with 9
employees. He and his wife continue to breed purebred
dairy goats in Iowa with their two children. |
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Dr. Richard Ehrhardt, Michigan
State University: Late Gestation Issues in Does
Dr. Ehrhardt has been the small ruminant specialist at
Michigan State University since 2009 holding a joint
appointment between the departments of animal science
and large animal clinical sciences. He received his MS
and PhD (1997) from Cornell University where he studied
pregnancy biology in sheep. After post doctoral
appointments, he returned to Cornell as a research
associate studying metabolic regulation in ruminants.
This work included the study of leptin regulation and
action as well as, the central regulation of appetite
and metabolism in these species. His interest in
outreach and applied research were fostered by his
experiences managing his own flock of commercial ewes on
an accelerated lambing program for the past 9 years,
shearing professionally since his early teens, raising
purebred sheep through his college years and doing field
research in New Zealand and Australia. His interest in
pregnancy and lactation were fostered early in life
working in his own lambing barn and in the dairies in
southern Wisconsin |
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Shannon Meadows, University of
Guelph: Update of Q-Fever
Shannon Meadows is currently a Master of Science
Candidate in the Department of Population Medicine at
the University of Guelph. Her project consists of
determining the prevalence of Q Fever in Ontario sheep
flocks, goat herds and their farm workers and analyzing
the risk factors associated with infection. Prior to
exploring the small ruminant industry, Shannon completed
an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Biology
at the University of Guelph.
Shannon’s experience in the small ruminant industry
began while volunteering on a project which studyied the
epidemiology of Gastro-Intestinal Nematodes in organic
sheep flocks in Ontario. From there she moved on to work
at OMAFRA, where she gained knowledge about the process
of genetic improvement while administering the Sheep
Flock Improvement Program. She then worked on a large
Rideau sheep flock where she assisted with lambing, and
also configured new capabilities of the on-farm flock
software, scale reader and RFID tags. Since then,
Shannon has worked as the research and projects
assistant at the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency (OSMA)
where she organized research proposal and evaluation
process, conducted literature reviews of current and
upcoming projects, contributed articles for the Ontario
Sheep News Magazine and administered the production
management survey for OSMA’s Benchmarking project. |
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Dr. Mario Baracaldo:
Non-Surgical ET
Dr. Mario Baracaldo is a veterinarian who specializes in
Theriogenology (animal reproduction). He is originally
from Bogota, Colombia and received his DVM from the
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His interest in
learning more about animal reproduction took him to
Saskatoon to study a Master's degree in Theriogenology
at the University of Saskatchewan. In August 2010 he
started his own reproductive veterinary practice,
offering services to owners of different animal species. |
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Mamoon Rashid, Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: Goat Welfare
Mamoon Rashid is the Business Development
Specialist-Small Ruminants (sheep/goats) at Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives based in
Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is with the MAFRI since last four
plus years and providing support and guidance to
Manitoba’s sheep as well as goat industries for their
sustainable development. Mamoon is providing extension
support to both industries on broad range of topics
including but not limited to: husbandry, health,
welfare, business planning, marketing, and food safety.
Manitoba is one of the few provinces having such a
valuable resource available to the livestock industry.
Mamoon is a veterinarian by education and has two
masters level post graduate degrees under his collar. He
has years of experience working in one of the world’s
most populous goat and sheep regions. He is currently
working on number of projects related to small ruminants
in the province. |
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Jason Emke, Farm Credit Canada:
Industry Trends
Jason Emke has worked for FCC as a Relationship Manager
for 7 yrs within the Listowel District, out of the
Walkerton office. With an increase in the small
ruminants over the last 4 years, Goats and Sheep have
allowed for market expansion during a stalemate within
the dairy sector at present. A changing demographic in
Canada, Goat milk and meat are an ever increasing
preference of the urban consumer. Lenders are looking to
these industries for continued growth in the years to
come as the industry stabilizes and progresses. Jason's
interest in the small ruminants also stems from being a
fourth generation sheep farmer on his family farm with
his wife Lisa and daughter Ava raising purebred
Hampshire and North Country Cheviot Sheep. Jason is an
active director with OSMA District 2 as well as sitting
on the OSMA Audit Committee and OSMA's Research Advisory
Committee. 2010 and 2011 have added the responsibility
of Chair of the Sheep Committee at the Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair. |
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Dr. Paul Plummer (see
bio), Iowa State
University: Udderly Healthy
Art Hill, University of Guelph: Components of Milk
Art completed a BSc in Agr (spec Dairy Science) and both
MSc and PhD in Food Science at Guelph and joined the
faculty at Guelph in 1986. Art was promoted to full
professor in 2007, and after several terms as Acting
Chair, was appointed Chair Department of Food Science in
2008. During the 2003/2004 academic year, Art was
President of the University of Guelph Faculty
Association.
Art’s research relates to gelation and cheese making
properties of milk, nutritionally functional dairy
products, and milk analysis
Beyond the campus, Art’s hands on short course in cheese
science and technology continues a 100 year tradition at
Guelph. Art and a colleague, Prof Mansel Griffiths, are
also the lead instructors for a short course in food
safety designed for food industry managers. Further
outreach activities include consulting and
troubleshooting; Art has influenced government and
industry policies on issues such as milk pricing, safety
of cheese curds and raw milk cheese, import of dairy
ingredients, and recently, implementation of regulations
designed to limit the amount of dried milk ingredients
used in cheese making. |
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Chris Perry, DHI: How Milk
Recording Can Help Your Operation
Chris started working with CanWest DHI after completing
a Masters in Agriculture at the University of Guelph.
His initial focus at DHI was with the Dairy Comp Herd
Management Software. In 2009 Chris changed roles to a
District Manager and focused on milk testing and field
services for Western Ontario. Chris currently resides in
Guelph with his wife and two kids. |
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Dr. Will R. Getz, Professor and
Extension Specialist-Small Ruminants, Georgia Small
Ruminant Research and Extension Center: Genetic
Improvements and Crossbreeding in Meat Goats
Dr. Getz currently lives in Georgia and serves as a
tenured professor and Extension specialist in Animal
Science with an emphasis on goats and sheep. He is
affiliated with the Georgia Small Ruminant Research and
Extension Center at Fort Valley State University. He has
administrative responsibilities at FVSU as interim
Extension program leader for agriculture and natural
resources. In the U.S. small ruminant industry he serves
on the Executive Board of the American Sheep Industry
Association (ASI) as Region II Director (Southern
Section) and on the 11-member founding Board of the
newly formed American Goat Federation.
Dr. Getz got his graduate training at Ohio State
University concentrating in animal breeding and
genetics. He completed his dissertation on the combining
ability of Suffolk, Columbina and Targhee breeds of
sheep in 1970. In 1971 he served for eight years as an
animal scientist involved in teaching and breeding
research work in Tanzania through both the Near East
Foundation and West Virginia University. He then worked
four years on the faculty at North Carolina A&T State
University where he taught and collaborated in research
with swine, beef cattle and sheep. For 15 years he
served as a program officer and animal agriculture
systems specialist with the Winrock (Winthrop
Rockefeller) International Livestock Research and
Education Center/Winrock International Institute for
Agricultural Development based on Petit Jean Mountain in
central Arkansas. Since 1997 he has served as specialist
for the small ruminant sector in Georgia, the southern
USA, and in several countries overseas. |
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Dr. Paula Menzies, University
of Guelph: Coccidiosis: the Silent Killer
Dr. Paula Menzies is Associate Professor at the Ontario
Veterinary College, University of Guelph where she
teaches small ruminant health management to DVM students
and also participates in clinical practice. She is the
Small Ruminant Research Coordinator at the University of
Guelph and a Diplomate in the European College of Small
Ruminant Health Management. Dr. Menzies’ current
research in goats includes studies on Q-Fever, Johne's
and udder health. Her current sheep research also
includes overwintering of gastrointestinal parasites,
anthelmintic resistance, risk factors for Cysticercus
ovis, and detection of maedi visna Infection. |
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Haider Khattak, IFANCA: The
Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America
Haider Zaman Khattak received his BSc (Hons.) and MSc (Hons.)
in Food Science & Technology from NWFP Agricultural
University, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1998 and attended
postgraduate courses at The Royal Veterinary &
Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2000.
He has been working with IFANCA since 2001, first as a
Food Scientist, and more recently as a Director and
Halal Auditor with IFANCA Canada. He is a contributing
writer for Halal Consumer magazine and monthly Halal
Highlights - IFANCA Canada's newsletter. He also
attended various professional courses including ISO
9001:2008 Quality Management System offered by
International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA),
UK; and Nuclear & Other Advanced Techniques in Food &
Agricultural Research organized by Nuclear Institute for
Food & Agriculture (NIFA), Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr.
Khattak is also a member of the Institute of Food
Technologists (IFT) and Canadian Institute of Food
Science and Technology (CIFST). |
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Entertainment: Derek Edwards,
rural comedian
Stand-up comedian Derek Edwards is proof positive that
you can take the boy out of the country but you can't
take the country out of the boy. His award-winning rural
humor has made him the hottest property in Canada.
Identifying himself with the ordinary working guy, his
comedic gift is making the ordinary extraordinary. He
creates enchanting tales based on everyday subjects and
delivers them with polished style and impeccable timing. |
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