Dairy professionals will learn how to help their producers manage higher 2007 profits and threats to the tools on which they rely at October’s Dairy and Advocacy and Resource Team, or DART, meetings hosted by the Center for Dairy Excellence. DART meetings provide sales and service representatives with up-to-the-minute information to help the producers they work with regularly make timely decisions to improve farm efficiency and increase their bottom lines.

The resource meetings will focus on “best practice recommendations” for allocating 2007 profits. Increased profits from higher milk prices provide a unique challenge to farmers who would like to reinvest these new profits.

The schedule for the October DART meetings in Pennsylvania is:
— Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 2-5 p.m. at AgChoice Farm Credit, 4504 West Branch Highway, Lewisburg
— Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 7:30-11:30 a.m. at AgChoice Farm Credit, 109 Farm Credit Drive, Chambersburg
— Thursday, Oct. 11, from 2-5 p.m. at Lancaster Farm and Home Center, Aracadia Road, Lancaster
— Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 2-5 p.m. at Edgewood Restaurant, 565 Elmira Street, Troy
— Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Meadville Extension Office, 13444 Dunham Road, Meadville
— Thursday, Oct. 18, from 1-4 p.m. at the Arena Restaurant off I-76 in Bedford

The meetings qualify for continuing education credits from the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists and in veterinary medicine. For more information, click on the “DART” logo at www.centerfordairyexcellence.org. Make reservations with Cerrita Reed at c-creed@state.pa.us or 717-346-0849.