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CAFRE Calf 2020 – Sustainable Calf Rearing Webinar 1 – Calf House Design

19 Nov 2020

Online - WebEx

Thursday 19th November, 8.00pm – 9.00pm

CAFRE are hosting a series of three webinars on Sustainable Calf Rearing. You are invited to the first webinar on Thursday 19th November from 8.00pm – 9.00pm. This event will focus on new calf house design and modifications to existing calf housing.

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Chair


Don Morrow , CAFRE Head of Dairy, Pigs, Poultry and Crops




Panel:


Martin Mulholland, Senior Dairying Technologist, CAFRE, will make a presentation on the design of the new CAFRE calf rearing facilities.



Aaron Brown, PhD student, AFBI Hillsborough is involved in the OptiHouse project and will make a presentation on the modifications made within calf housing on local commercial dairy farms involved in the OptiHouse project



The Q & A panel discussion after the presentation will also include


Dr Gillian Scoley, Calf Research Scientist at AFBI Hillsborough



Michael Graham, Farms Manager at Greenmount Campus CAFRE.



Please feel free to put questions to any of our panellists during the meeting or send them in advance to Stephen.Gilkinson@daera-ni.gov.uk.

You can join the event from 7.45pm onwards.