Associate of Applied Science - Dairy Production and Management

Among many other things, students in this program learn to: • Prepare a management plan for a dairy enterprise that includes skills for positive handling, care and management of animals within the herd • Recognize dairy animals’ health and wellness, and be able to choose appropriate prevention and treatment techniques to optimize the production of the herd • Identify and describe animal nutritional requirements and translate these needs into accurate ration formulations, then to evaluate the effectiveness of the ration • Relate the needs and outputs of the dairy herd to the forage and crop resources available • Analyze dairy industry record systems to determine and implement a decision-making strategy that will maximize the profitability of the herd • Become (and remain) thoroughly up-to-date regarding current breeding and reproductive methods and practices in the dairy industry and use them to evaluate the genetic merits of individual animals for selection decisions