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The Holstein Foundation Education Workbooks are a series of nine workbooks designed to provide basic knowledge in a wide range of topics relating to the dairy industry. They are ideal for use by all ages, from junior dairy project member to a coach or leader seeking reference materials.
Most of the workbooks can be downloaded free of charge from the Web site in a PDF format.
"The Rules are Black and White – And They Apply to All Breeds" is available by calling 800.952.5200, ext. 4124, or submitting a request online. The workbook itself is free of charge, but a nominal shipping fee is requested to cover the cost of mailing the workbooks.
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Dairy Cattle Marketing highlights the various aspects needed to establish an effect cattle marketing program, including setting goals, evaluating your cattle, and advertising.
20 pages
Last updated: August 2006
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Dairy Judging serves as an excellent introductory reference for anyone interested in learning more about evaluating dairy cattle. It covers the PDCA Unified Scorecard, terminology, preparing and presenting oral reasons, and linear evaluation. Practice exercises and resources are provided.
44 pages
Last updated: Feb. 2010
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Effective Group Leadership highlights skills needed to serve as effective leaders in a variety of situations. It includes examples and activities to help young people assess and their personal leadership skills.
20 pages
Last updated: Feb. 2002
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The Path to Your Future, designed to help your people develop potential career objectives, provides in-depth descriptions of a variety of challenging and exciting jobs available in agriculture.
14 pages
Last updated: April 2002
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Pedigree Questions & Answers assists young people in learning about pedigree formats, reading pedigrees, and acquiring basic skills in comparing and evaluating pedigrees. Several practical exercises are included.
24 pages
Last updated: Feb. 2010
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Understanding Genetics and the Sire Summaries was developed to help individuals learn more about genetics and genetic evaluations. This workbook presents definitions of genetic terms, a basic explanation of official sire summaries, sire comparison, selection exercises, and genetics in the future. More comprehensive information on genetics, genetic measures and sire selection is available from each breed association.
29 pages
Last updated: March 2010
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Working with Dairy Cattle provides information that will help make young people's experience of raising a dairy calf both educational and successful. It discusses basic principles such as feeding and caring for an animal, record keeping, marketing, developing and showing animals, developing good personal character and gaining leadership experience.
27 pages
Last Updated: Sept. 2009
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World of Dairy Cattle Nutrition serves as a basic introduction to ruminant nutrition for young dairy enthusiasts. This workbook and corresponding exercises outlines the digestive system and how it affects individual cow and herd management.
41 pages
Last updated March 2003
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| The Rules are Black and White focuses on teaching ethical decision-making skills. This workbook highlights the steps to ethical thinking, and offers suggestions to adult involvement with youth preparing for a show. The workbook is fun, educational, and is appropriate for use with dairy clubs, agriculture educators, and for dairy farming families. |
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To obtain copies of this workbook, call 800.952.5200, ext. 4124, or submit a request online using the form to the right. The workbook itself is free of charge, but a nominal shipping fee is requested to cover the cost of mailing the workbooks.
30 pages
Printed in 2003 |
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