ADSA Student Affiliate Division

Pipeline Newsletter


Spring 2004


Important Dates and Deadlines Checklist

May 1, 2004   The following must be postmarked and mailed to ADSA-SAD:

___         Membership Application, Roster of Dairy Club members, and dues ($5.00 each) for individuals wishing to be ADSA members.

___         Outstanding Student and Advisor nomination forms.

___         Yearbook/Scrapbook entry form.

___         Activities symposium entry form.

___         Chapter Display needs (electricity, etc.) You are responsible for bringing your own extension cords.

May 15, 2004

___         Chapter Web Site Competition entry form deadline.

 

May 30, 2004

___         Annual Report Title Page must be postmarked and mailed to ADSA-SAD.

 

The month of June

___         SAD Chapter Web Site Contest Judging

July 1, 2004

___         Deadline for undergraduate students to register at the complimentary ($0) rate. Go to the online registration form at www.adsa.org/sad.asp

Four weeks prior to the meeting

__           Clubs not attending the meeting but wishing to compete in the Annual Report, Yearbook and Scrapbook judging competitions should mail their materials to ADSA Headquarters.

 

June 14, 2004

___         Housing forms due

 

June 15, 2004

___         Dairy Quiz Bowl Team Entry forms due.

 

July 24-27, 2004

___         SAD Meeting at the American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri

 
July 26, 2004

___         Complete Annual Report with attached Title Page, Yearbooks and Scrapbooks should be submitted at the meeting for the judging competition.

 

                                                               



A Note from the SAD President
Jeremy Moyer, Virginia Tech



Hi everybody!  Spring is here and hopefully warm weather is on its way if you are not already enjoying it.  Before you know it we will be having our national meeting, which I am sure everyone has heard about after attending their regional meetings.  I just recently returned from the Southern Regional meeting which was held in Kentucky this year.  It was a great time and I am sure all of the other regional meetings went well.  We had several new schools such as NC State and Clemson that joined us at the Southern meeting. 

                Hopefully, everyone can make it to the ADSA-SAD national meeting this year, and if you cannot, you can make it to the regional meetings next year.  These meetings are a great way to meet new people with the same interests, learn about new research and topics affecting the dairy industry, and have a lot of fun.  This year’s national meeting will be held July 24-27 in St. Louis, Missouri and is shaping up to be a good time.  The format is close to the past year’s meeting, but includes going to a Cardinal baseball game and some new social events along with the usual competitions.  Hopefully everyone will get to participate in these events.  I hope the rest of your semester goes well and I look forward to seeing you in St. Louis.

 

Jeremy Moyer

National ADSA-SAD President  

 

 

 

 

2004 Joint Annual Meeting

American Dairy Science Association – American Society of Animal Science – Poultry Science Association

July 25-29, 2004

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ADSA Student Affiliate Division

Tentative Schedule of Events*

July 24-27, 2004

St. Louis, Missouri

*Please note: This is a tentative schedule.

Consult the meeting web site (http://www.adsa.org/sad.asp) for the latest program information.

 

Saturday, July 24

11:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.           SAD Tour: Monsanto Biotechnology Research Facility (Eat before the tour!)

3:05 p.m.                 SAD Bleacher Block at Busch Stadium: St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Francisco Giants

 

Sunday, July 25

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.              Student Dairy Clubs Set Up Exhibits

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.          Advisor-Officer Meeting

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.            SAD Midday Mixer and Pizza Party

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.              Dairy Quiz Bowl Seating and Preliminary Rounds

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.              Quiz Bowl Final Round

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.              ADSA-ASAS-PSA Opening Session

8:30 - 10:30 p.m.                    ADSA-ASAS-PSA Opening Reception

9:00 p.m.                                 ADSA-SAD Informal Mixer (location tba)

 

Monday, July 26

7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.               Student Dairy Clubs Set Up Exhibits

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.               Student Affiliate Division Business Meeting

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.              Student Affiliate Judging of Yearbooks, Scrapbooks, Annual Reports

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.             Interviews for Outstanding Student and Advisor Awards

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.             Student Activities Symposium

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.          SAD Undergraduate Paper Presentations (Original Research)

12:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.           Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.              SAD Undergraduate Paper Presentations (Production)

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 pm               SAD Undergraduate Paper Presentations (Dairy Foods)

9:00 p.m. – 12:30 a.m.           Undergraduate Student Dance: Location TBA

               

Tuesday, July 27

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.               Student Affiliate Division Business Meeting - Election of Officers

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.             Student Careers Symposium

12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.          Student Awards Luncheon

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.              SAD Pictures

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.              SAD Committee Meeting: Old & New Officers and Advisors

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.              Open to Attend Scientific Sessions

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.              Tear-down SAD Exhibits

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.            ADSA Awards Ceremony, Ice Cream Social and Fun Auction

 

Wednesday, July 28

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.              Scientific Sessions and Exhibits

 

Thursday, July 29

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon          Scientific Sessions



ST. LOUIS EVENT NOTES

Saturday, July 24

SAD Tour: Monsanto's Biotechnology Research Facility

Bus leaves from Holiday Inn Express

Time tba

A departure from the traditional farm tour, this year the SAD will tour Monsanto’s Biotechnology Research Facility in Chesterfield, MO. Students and advisors will travel by motor coach from the SAD headquarter hotel, Holiday Inn Express, to Monsanto’s Chesterfield Village Research Center. This facility is one of the world’s largest devoted to plant biotechnology. In 250 laboratories, over 100 plant growth chambers and 2 acres of greenhouse space, top researchers from around the world are working to help achieve sustainable agriculture and to help make possible the vision of abundant food in a healthy environment. The tour will return in time for the Cardinal baseball game at 3:05. Space is limited to the first 55 registrants. This tour does NOT include lunch, so eat before you come! Ticket price: $7.00

 

            SAD Bleacher Block: Cardinals vs. Giants

            Busch Stadium

3:05 p.m. Game Time

Game time is 3:05 Saturday, July 24 when the St. Louis Cardinals take on the San Francisco Giants.  You won’t want to miss this one! Watch your email for more information on reserving your seat in the SAD bleacher block! Tickets in this block are limited to students and their advisors and will be ordered via email. Ticket price: $12.00

 

 

Sunday, July 25

Midday Mixer and Pizza Party

Convention Center

12 Noon

Free pizza and soda are on tap for all undergrads. Come help us launch the student meeting with this opening mixer and luncheon. See who else has come to the meeting, and get information you’ll need to help you prepare for the coming days. Best of all, lunch is on us! Registration is free, but required.

 

Dairy Quiz Bowl

1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Final Round: 6:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Calling all Dairy Clubs! Get your team together now and brush up on your knowledge of the dairy industry. All schools are encouraged to enter a 4-person team in this event. A seating test will be given on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The competition will begin immediately following the seating and will continue throughout the afternoon. The final round will be held immediately prior to the Opening Session Sunday evening. Check the SAD web site for more information and to enter.

 

t-Shirt x-Change  NEW!!

Convention Center

12 Noon (during the SAD Pizza Party)

Do want a chance to receive a Dairy Club T-shirt from another club?  Bring one T-shirt for each registered undergraduate participating in the 2004 National Meeting to the pizza party at noon on Sunday, July 25th.  This will give everyone a great opportunity to meet your fellow ADSA-SAD members.  Remember, the funnier the shirt the better!

 

SAD Informal Mixer

Location and time to be announced

More information to come!

 

 

Monday, July 26

SAD Dance

Location and time to be announced

8:30 p.m. – 12:30 a.m.

Come ready to rock on Monday, July 26 at the SAD Dance. Plan now to be a part of this cheap night of dancing, drinks, food and fun. This event is open to all meeting attendees, including students, advisors and anyone else looking for a fun evening.  Ticket price: tbd.

 

 

Tuesday, July 27

Leaders in Training: Student Careers Symposium

Convention Center

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

            This program is still being developed. More information to come!

 

            SAD Luncheon and Awards Program

            Convention Center

            12 Noon – 2:00 p.m.

Dr. Jennifer L. Garrett, Ph.D., Technical Services Director for Monsanto Dairy Business will be presenting the keynote address for the student luncheon. Both students and professionals are encouraged to attend. There will also be an awards program for the students. This is a wonderful chance to get to know the next generation of the dairy industry.  Ticket price: Professionals -- $30, Students -- $23.

 

Free Registration for SAD Members

Again this year, Undergraduate Student Members will receive free registration. However, the complimentary offer is only valid until July 1. After that date, registration will be $25.  Nonmember rates are very steep. This is a very good time to encourage students to join, as SAD membership is only $5.00! To join, go to www.adsa.org/sad/



Stay Where the Action Is -- Make Your Club’s Housing Reservation Today!

Many have commented over the years about the desire to get all the students in one hotel. This year, as in the past, a hotel has been designated at the Student Headquarters Hotel: the Holiday Inn Select. Although it is designated as the student hotel, the housing bureau cannot deny any meeting participant’s (student or professional) reservation request if space is available. In order to get as many students as possible in one hotel, it is up to the clubs to make their reservations early.

 

You may make your club’s reservations by going to the meeting housing page,

 

http://www.fass.org/2004/house.asp

 

On the web site you will find the housing form and a link to the online housing reservation system. The Holiday Inn Select is offering room rates of $115 single/double, $141 quad. The hotel is very close to other hotels and the convention center, as well as many restaurants and nightclubs.

 

You may make your reservations by either printing out the form and returning to the Housing Bureau, or by using the online housing reservation system. This is a secure site operated by the CVB and is very similar to making hotel reservations online through individual properties or a travel service.


News from the Regions . . . .

 

 

 

Southern ADSA/SAD

Southern ADSA/SAD Annual Meeting

University of Kentucky

March 5 – 7, 2004


 This was the third year the Southern Regional ADSA-Student Affiliate Division met in a university setting since the Southern Regional ADSA decided to discontinue holding their annual meetings.  Although not our largest showing, we had a great turnout with an estimated 50 attendees for this meeting of the Southern Regional ADSA-SAD.  We had students and advisors from 6 schools.  They were Louisiana State University, University of Kentucky, University of Georgia, Clemson University, NC State, and Virginia Tech.

We began the meeting on Friday evening with a student mixer and the Quiz Bowl competition.   Our Saturday morning began with the business meeting and paper competitions. After the paper presentations were done, we toured Keeneland horse racing track. We finished the day with a great meal followed by a social gathering filled with plenty of fun and festivities.  An Awards Breakfast concluded the meeting Sunday morning.

                Winners of Southern ADSA/SAD competitions include:

·         Dairy Foods Paper Presentation:  Bridget Lyons of LSU, 1st; Jennie Woodcock of UK, 2nd,  Lauren Daubert of Va Tech, 3rd.

·         Dairy Production Paper Presentation:  Brooke Core of UK, 1st; Justin Roberts of LSU, 2nd;  Frank Jackson of UGA, 3rd.

·         Chapter Award: Va Tech, 1st; UK, 2nd; and LSU, 3rd.

·         Most Miles Traveled: LSU

Congratulations to all our winners!



Midwest ADSA/SAD

Midwest ADSA/SAD Annual Meeting

Purdue University, West Lafayette

February 13- 14, 2004


Purdue University hosts the 2004 Midwest Regional ADSA/SAD

                “Grazing Past-ure Education”: Revealing Udder Sides of the Dairy Industry was the theme of the 2004 Midwest ADSA-SAD, which was held over Valentine’s Day weekend at the Purdue University.  The Purdue Memorial Union Hotel was the headquarters for the event, which brought over 500 students from fifteen universities to the great state of Indiana.  Schools attending included: University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University, Iowa State University, Purdue University, The Ohio State University, Kansas State University, Ohio State-ATI, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota-Crookston, and University of Wisconsin Farm and Industry Short Course.

                Luckily, the cold weather did not discourage schools from attending the event.  Many visited different farms along their way to Purdue, including Golden Oaks Farm, the Purdue University Dairy Farm, and the elusive “Big Unit”.  Once all schools arrived on Friday night, the fun began.  The first event was an Improv Comedy group that involved the entire crowd of students.  Later in the evening, a dance was held and each school competed for bragging rights in the annual Karaoke contest.

                Saturday began with a continental breakfast and the business meeting.  New officer elections were held and the host school for next year was chosen.  The Midwest ADSA-SAD will be heading to South Dakota State University in 2005, under the leadership of their new president, Molly Florent of UW-Madison.  After the meeting, several breakout groups were available to students.  Some of these included: embryo transfer, “who will get grandpa’s farm”, and robotic milking.  Each session gave students an insight for the future, and good ideas to take back home.

                Shortly after lunch, the quiz bowl contest began.  There were 14 senior teams and eleven junior teams in the competition.  After some intense and close matches, the University of Illinois emerged victorious in both divisions.  Following the quiz bowl competition, the students got ready for the evening’s formal banquet.  Several excellent speakers kept students interested after a great meal, including an ice cream dessert.  The award winners for the evening included: Iowa State University, Spirit Stick; South Dakota State University, Most Student Miles; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Best Yearbook; and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Big Unit Award for the largest attendance.

                Another dance capped off the 2004 Midwest ADSA-SAD that evening, before students packed up their bags and headed home on Sunday morning.  Along with new T-shirts, awards, and sleeplessness, the students also took with them new friendships and memories, as well as the excitement of planning for next year’s meeting at South Dakota State University.

 

Submitted by Andy Lenkaitis

University of Illinois

 

Note: The date has been set for the 2005 Midwest SAD Meetings in Brookings, SD. Mark your calendar for February 18, 19, and 20, 2005. The meeting hotel will be the Brookings Inn.  More information will be sent to schools in the Midwest region so that they can plan for the meeting and home school activities.

Northeast ADSA/SAD

Northeast ADSA/SAD Annual Meeting

University of Maine

Pineland Farm in New Gloucester, ME

February 28, 2004

The University of Maine was the host for the 2004 Northeast Student Affiliate (NESA) Competition which was held February 28 at Pineland Farm located in New Gloucester ME.  Participating at this year’s competition was Delaware Valley College (5 teams), Penn State University (8 teams), Rutgers University (5 teams), University of Connecticut (4 teams), University of Maine (6 teams), University of Massachusetts (4 teams), University of New Hampshire (4 teams), University of Rhode Island (3 teams), University of Vermont (2 teams), and Vermont Technical College (2 teams).

                The day began with the livestock competition, where each team placed classes including commercial Angus heifers, lactating Holstein cows, an open class of Geldings, Katahdin yearling ewes, exhibit Bantam hens, and a surprise tie breaking class of dairy cattle embryos.  For the judging contest, University of Maine took 1st place with a score of 824.  Team members included Chris Boegel, Seth McGee, Tanya Farrington, and Meredith Spiller.  In second place was University of Massachusetts team D with a score of 796, and third place was given to Rutgers University Team B with a score of 790.  High individuals for the contest were: 1st place: Christine Gardiner from the University of Rhode Island with a score of 221, 2nd place: Elizabeth Cottrell from Rutgers University with a score of 217, and 3rd place was taken by John Lowell, also from Rutgers University with a score of 217.  The second and third place judgers tied as well in the tie breaker and placing was determined by a coin toss.

                Following the judging competition was the quiz bowl competition in buzzer-style single-elimination rounds, where two Penn State teams went head to head in the finals.  Topping quiz bowl was Penn State H with team members of Luke Zerby, Emily Cloninger, Ben Logan, and Nadine Hershey.  For paper presentations, the 1st place award was given to Burke Neely from Penn State with his talk on Mycotoxins, 2nd to Luke Zerby of Penn State, and 3rd to Meredith Spiller from the University of Maine.
         Awards were presented at the banquet which concluded the contest. In the overall competition (an aggregation of judging, quiz bowl, and paper presentations), Penn State University placed first among the 37 teams and 10 participating schools, followed by the University of Massachusetts in 2nd, and the University of Maine in 3rd. Outstanding Senior award went to Kimberly Such from the University of Massachusetts. The evening ended with some relaxation and dancing before all schools returned home on Sunday.  Thank you to the University of Maine for hosting this year’s competition, and all those who competed!

 

Jess Worobey
Penn State University