Online Courses

Online, on-demand

PRO-DAIRY offers a suite of dairy production online courses that are completed by students from across the country and around the world. Some dairy production management background is helpful, but the courses include basic to advanced content taught by leaders in the field.

Courses are offered in an on-demand format, enabling students to begin the course at their convenience and complete it within six months of enrollment, on their own schedule. Through the virtual classroom, students have access to pre-recorded presentations and supplemental materials and assessments are integrated within course modules to reinforce concepts. Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion and can request continuing education credits from the Cornell University School of Continuing Education.

Course registration

Participant course fee: $250

Register for on-demand access

Course Offerings

This course covers key agronomic principles and practices for field and forage crop production, focusing on grains and forages common to NY and the Northeast U.S.

This course provides dairy farm personnel with knowledge and practical skills in calf and heifer management, covering nutrition, health, genetics, and housing.

Tractors packing a bunk of harvest grass silage

This course provides practical information for managing forage crops on a dairy farm, including silage science to forage quality, harvest, preservation, and feed-out.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of basic milk quality, milking parlor and mastitis management principles and treatment considerations.

This course covers aspects of managing transition cows including physiology and biology, nutritional and non-nutritional management strategies, and tools for effectively monitoring health.

This self-paced certificate program develops essential skills for modern dairy farm workers, with modules focusing on common responsibilities. All materials are presented in Spanish.

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.

Read about the impact

Holstein feed management — Pro-dairy online courses

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