The American Jersey Cattle Association is proud to announce two seminars focused on dairy calf and applied genomics research at the Association’s winter meetings on March 8-9, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. Reservations for the seminars can be made by contacting the Association.

The first program, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, will be presented by Mike Van Amburgh, Ph.D., dairy cattle nutritionist and Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Curtis P. Van Tassell, Ph.D., research geneticist at the Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory at the Animal and Natural Resources Institute of the Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Md., will present the second seminar at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 9.

Dr. Van Amburgh’s seminar is entitled: “Calculate What’s Needed, Feed to It” and Dr. Van Tassell’s seminar is entitled: “Genome-Enhanced Evaluations: The Future Has Arrived.”