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Four State Dairy Nutrition & Management Conference

Four State Dairy Nutrition & Management Conference

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About Us

Four State Dairy Nutrition History

Professor Shaver was key in starting the current Four State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference. Randy, as an UW Assistant Professor with encouragement and cooperation of former Vita Plus nutritionist Rod Martin, started the Wisconsin Veterinary Nutrition Symposium in Madison, WI in 1989. 


Around the same time, Ron Orth of Iowa State coordinated the Tri-State (IA, IL and WI Extension) Professional Dairymen’s Management Seminar in Dubuque, IA. Eventually Minnesota joined the group and these events were hosted by the four dairy extension services. 


Until 2003 when the Grand River Conference Center opened in Dubuque, the conferences operated in alternating years as the Four-State Applied Nutrition & Management Conference in Lacrosse, WI in the odd years and as the Professional Dairy Management Seminar held in Dubuque, IA in the even years. 

Dr. Randy Shaver

Dr. Randy Shaver

Four State Dairy Nutrition Committee

Chair-Jim Salfer, University of Minnesota                 Dr. Marcia Endres, University of Minnesota
(612) 360-4506                                                              (612) 624-5391
salfe001@umn.edu                                                        miendres@umn.edu


Dr. Phil Cardoso, University of Illinois                       Dr. Derek Nolan, University of Illinois
(217) 300-2303                                                              (217) 244-7637
cardoso2@illinois.edu                                                    dtnolan@illinois.edu


Fred Hall, Iowa State University                                  Dr. Gail Carpenter, Iowa State University
(712) 737-4230                                                               (515) 294-9085
fredhall@iastate.edu                                                       ajcarpen@iastate.edu


Dr. Paul Fricke, University of Wisconsin                   Dr. Luiz Ferraretto, University of Wisconsin
(608) 263-4596                                                               (608) 265-5352
pmfricke@wisc.edu                                                         ferraretto@wisc.edu


Administration-Denise Vike, Wisconsin Agri-Business Association
(608) 223-1111
denise@wiagribusiness.org 


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