Mike Farmer and Marie Guay assisted with training in dairy farm profitability at Miner Institute in Chazy, NY on February 6th. This training is part of the Advanced Dairy Management class coordinated by Wanda Emerich as part of the UVM/VTC FARMS 2 + 2 Program.
Mike and Marie helped the students in this class prepare for the next Northeast Regional Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, which will be held October 30 - November 1, 2008 at Penn State. They presented a dairy farm case study which had been prepared by Don Rogers. Mike and Marie spent four hours on the 6th going over the case study and talking about how to evaluate farm finances. They will return on the 20th and spend another four hours listening to and evaluating the students' presentations of solutions for the case study.
This is the third year that Mike and Marie have done this, and they say the eight students in this year's class are a great group to work with. We wish them luck in the competition next November!
