Join us June 3-4, 2026 in La Crosse, WI!
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About Us
Conference 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
Committee Members
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