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Online Courses

Guide your own experience on your own time.

PRO-DAIRY has successfully launched a series of well-received online courses attended by students from across the country and across the world. Over seven weeks students enhance their dairy management skills in a flexible learning environment where they can guide their own experience on their own time. Some dairy production management background is helpful, but the courses include basic to advanced content taught by leaders in the field.

Students spend up to three hours per week on discussions, readings and assignments in a virtual classroom. Webinars provide an opportunity to meet weekly and ask questions in real-time. They are always recorded, so can be viewed after the live feed. Continuing education credits are offered along with a certificate of completion.

On-Demand Course Registration

The following courses are now available in an on-demand format. You may begin the course whenever you want and will have 6 months to complete it once enrolled.

Online Course Offerings

See course for dates and information.

This course covers the basics of calf and heifer management.

Online CEU

Crop Management

For crop advisors and other technical service providers, this course includes a wide range of topics, from basic agronomics to advanced practices and new research on crop management.

CEU Online

Forage Management

This course begins with agronomic factors that influence forage quality and follow key strategies for harvest, preservation and feedout of quality feed. 

Online CEU

Milk Quality

The Milk Quality Online Course covers basic milk quality, milking parlor and mastitis management principles lead by Quality Milk Production Services (QMPS). 

Online CEU

This course discusses aspects of dairy cattle reproductive management.

Online CEU

Curso en línea de gerencia reproductiva en español.

Online CEU

This self-paced training certificate program is designed to develop the workforce skills needed on a modern dairy farm.  All materials are presented and written in Spanish.

Certificate Online

In this course, you will learn the basics of transition cow management, then quickly build from there.

Online CEU

Online Dairy Programs News Highlight

Rob Lynch, DVM, dairy herd health and management specialist, and Kathy Barrett, senior extension associate in the Department of Animal Science, direct the PRO-DAIRY online courses program and speak to its success.

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I appreciate PRO-DAIRY offering this venue for the class. This is a first for me and it has been very encouraging for me to see people from all over the world participating. Thank you for the chance to engage with these people. The dairy industry is better off because of the efforts people like yourself put in.
Steven Taber, Online Dairy Management Course Participant

For More Information

Kathy Barrett
Course Coordinator
kfb3 [at] cornell.educlass="spamspan"

Rob Lynch
Course Coordinator
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