University
of Maryland Horse Conference Saturday, November 19, 2005
Carroll Community College, Westminster, Maryland
We are excited to announce the First Annual University of Maryland Horse
Conference to be held Saturday, November 19, 2005 at Carroll Community
College in Westminster. Keynote speaker, Dr. Temple Grandin will speak
to us about Equine Behavior and Welfare. Other topics cover Health and
Nutrition, Equine Business, and Pasture Management. Please see the list
of speakers and topics below, handouts are also available - click on
the title for a PDF version. Thank you to all the folks that attended
- we had a great turnout! We would also like to thank all our sponsors
and the vendors for participating.
Click
on the speaker's name to get contact information as well as a brief
bio, if available.
Health Care for the Novice
Horse Owner Dr. Bill Hawkins, United States Department of Agriculture
Sponsored by Right Lead Tack Shop, Westminster, Maryland
Speakers
for the 2005 University of Maryland Horse Conference
Amy Burk, PhD Assistant Professor/Extension
Horse Specialist
Department of Animal and Avian Sciences
1117 Animal Science Center
College Park, MD 20742
Tel.: 301-405-8337; Fx: 301-405-8831
E-mail:
PhD - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001
Dr. Amy Burk grew
up in Anne Arundel County, MD, riding and competing horses while a member
of the Maryland 4-H and U.S. Pony Club. She received a B.S. in Biology
from James Madison University in 1995. She completed her graduate work
in Animal and Poultry Sciences as a Pratt Fellow in Animal Nutrition
at Virginia Tech, earning an M.S. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2001. The main
areas of her equine nutrition research were digestibility of hay and
pasture species by horses, and folate status and supplementation in
the horse. Dr. Burk joined the faculty of the Animal and Avian Sciences
Department at the University of Maryland in August 2001. She teaches
equine science and horse management courses, coordinates the graduate
training program and equine nutrition and physiology research, and provides
statewide educational leadership to the Maryland 4-H Horse Program.
Dr. Burk dabbles in eventing with her 7 yr old Thoroughbred gelding
named Chief.
Michael Daney Shareholder
Lord & Whip, PA
Attorneys at Law
Charles Center South, 10th Floor
36 South Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201-3020
Tel.:
E-mail:
Michael Daney graduated
from the University of Delaware and received his law degree from the
University of Kentucky. He served as counsel to the Delaware Racing
Commission for four years before entering private practice. His primary
practice areas are civil litigation, workers' compensation, regulatory
law, legislation and equine-related matters. He represents his equine
clients in insurance-related matters involving negligence claims, veterinary
malpractice, mortality insurance disputes, premises liability and fertility
insurance disputes. He prepares and handles contracts and contract claims
involving purchase agreements, ownership rights, stallion syndications,
boarding contracts, leases and sale disputes. He also represents clients
before the Maryland Racing Commission involving medication rules disputes,
licensing issues, riding infractions and eligibility and claiming issues.
He also is involved with legislative oversight and lobbying for a variety
of clients.
Mr. Daney has appeared
as a speaker for the National Equine Law Seminar, the University of
Baltimore Equine Law Symposium, and the Maryland Pleasure Horse Seminar.
Mr. Daney is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky. He is also a member of the Equine Law Committee
of the Kentucky Bar Association.
Elmer is a graduate
of Penn State University, College of Agriculture who has worked on pasture
and livestock management issues for over 25 years while being employed
by the SCS / NRCS in Montana, Rhode Island, and Maryland. He coordinates
all issues involving pasture management in all of the Federal technical
and financial programs in Maryland. Elmer is the developer of the NRCS
Maryland Grazing Handbook and manager for the C-Graz grazing planning
tool in Maryland, He has been around horses all his life and has hunted
for elk on horseback in the Scapegoat Wilderness of Montana. He balances
his time between family, church, and natural resource management.
Dr. Grandin is
a designer of livestock handling facilities and an Associate Professor
of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed
are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia,
New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the
cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed
for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for
cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other
principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce
stress on thier animals during handling.
She has also developed
an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs
at meat plants. This scoring system is being used by many large corporations
to improve animal welfare. Other areas of research are: cattle temperament,
environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises,
bull fertility, training procedures, and effective stunning methods
for cattle and pigs at meat plants.
She obtained her
B.A. at Frankin Pierce College and her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona
State University. Dr. Grandin received her Ph.D in Animal Science from
the University of Illinois in 1989. Today she teaches courses on livestock
behaviour and facility design at Colorado State Univeristy and consults
with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling,
and animal welfare. She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20,
48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, and has been featured in People Magazine,
the New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and Time Magazine.
Interviews with Dr. Grandin have been broadcast on National Public Radio.
She has also authored over 300 articles in both scientific journals
and livestock periodicals on animal handling, welfare, and facility
design. She is the author of "Thinking in Pictures", "Livestock
Handling and Transport," and "Genetics and the Behavior of
Domestic Animals."
Dr.
Grandin's travel and presentation is sponsored by the Maryland Horse
Industry Board.
Eric Hines Conservation Planner
Carroll County Soil Conservation District
Eric Hines is a Conservation Planner in Carroll County Maryland with USDA/NRCS.
In 1995 he earned a BS from the University of Maryland in Agronomy, Soil
and Water Conservation. He served for 2.5 years in West Africa as a Sustainable
Agricultural Extension Agent with the United States Peace Corps. Since
1999 he has work as a Conservation and Agricultural Planner in Howard,
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Carroll Counties where he has been assisting
landowners and agricultural producers, including many equine operations,
to plan, design, and install Conservation Best Management Practices to
help improve soil and water quality. As a Conservation Planner Eric works
regularly with many of the Federal, State, and Local conservation cost
share programs that are available to agricultural operations and landowners.
Erin Petersen,
MS, PAS Lecturer/Extension Horse Specialist
Institute of Applied Agriculrure
2115 Jull Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Tel.: 301-405-4690; Fx: 301-314-9343
E-mail:
Erin Petersen was
born and raised in Loveland, Colorado. She earned a BA degree in Political
Science from The University of Colorado in 1994. She also holds a BS
degree in Equine Science from Colorado State University (2000). Petersen
remained at Colorado State University, earning an MS degree in Animal
Science in 2001. Her research focus was aimed at investigating nutrition
of the growing horse as it relates to bone development. Ms. Petersen
is a state Extension Horse Specialist and the Program Coordinator for
the 2-year Equine Business Management Program at the Institute of Applied
Agriculture. She teaches courses in Equine Nutrition, Health Management,
Reproduction, Behavior and Pasture Management. Erin is owned by three
cats, one dog (who thinks she's a person) and three horses who like
to occasionally take her on trail rides or practice Dressage.
Shea Porr, PhD Equine Nutritionist
Maryland and Virginia
Buckeye Nutrition
330 E. Schultz St.
Dalton, OH 44618
Tel.: 740-272-6077
E-mail:
Dr. Shea Porr gained
her early horse experience riding at various Army base riding schools
across the country. She finally settled in Texas, gaining a B.S. degree
in Animal Science at Texas A&M in 1990. She earned her Masters in
Equine Nutrition with a minor in Exercise Physiology from the University
of Florida in 1992 and her PhD in Equine Nutrition at Virginia Tech
in 1996. Her graduate research focused on the effects of dietary mineral
balance and exercise on bone mineral changes in both young and mature
horses. More recently her studies evaluated the effect of massage as
a recovery method for exercising horses. In 1997, Dr. Porr accepted
a position at The Ohio State University, where she taught classes and
worked in extension for several years before taking on her current duties
with Buckeye Nutrition. She is now the district manager for Maryland
and Virginia, and currently consults with horse owners and veterinarians
on nutritional management of horses.
Ken Sechler is
a graduate of West Virginia University. He is a senior agronomist with
Southern States Cooperative, with 28 years agronomy experience in crops
production. Ken has worked with all types of forage production in the
mid-Atlantic region.
Doug Tregoning Senior Agent, County Extension Director
Doug Tregoning grew up on a dairy and grain farm in Montgomery County,
Maryland. He received in BS Degree from West Virginia University in Agribusiness
and Agronomy in 1977. He received his Masters Degree from the same institution
in 1979 in Agricultural Economics. He has worked as an Extension Agent
for Maryland Cooperative Extension out of the Montgomery County Office
since 1980. He has worked with equine Extension audiences on pasture/forage/business
management issues since 1989. He worked in conjunction with NRCS personnel
and Extension personnel in establishing field demonstrations on three
separate farms on rotationally grazing horses. He is noted for his presentations
on toxic plants and pasture establishment.
Keith Wills is an
account executive for MidAtlantic Farm Credit, one of the largest ag and
rural lenders in the mid-Atlantic region. He works in MidAtlantic’s
Bel Air office, and focuses on loans to the equine industry.
Keith Wills has been involved in the equine community for almost fifteen
years. In November, he was appointed by Governor Robert L. Ehrlich,
Jr. to the Maryland Horse Industry Board, a group created to promote
the horse industry in Maryland. He is also a board member of Baltimore
County Farm Bureau, the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, and the Maryland
Horse Council. He serves as treasurer of the following organizations:
Baltimore County Farm Bureau Agricultural Education Foundation, Baltimore
County Extension Advisory Council, and Baltimore County Agricultural
Resource Center.
MidAtlantic Farm
Credit has fifteen offices throughout central Maryland, the Eastern
Shore of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, as well as southeastern Pennsylvania.
We
would like to extend a great big thank you to our Sponsors. Without
their support, there wouldn't be a conference!!!
Conference
Sponsors ($1000 or more):
Sponsors
of Refreshment Breaks/Lunch ($500+):
Sponsors
of Speakers ($350+)
Right
Lead Tack Shop
842 Littlestown Pike
Westminster,
MD 21157
410-848-2220; Toll Free 877-848-TACK
Southern States
Cooperative
Pennington Seed Company
Vendors:
Naden/Lean,
LLC -- Accounting
Baltimore County Farm Bureau
USDA NRCS MD GLCI
The Ranger Foundation
Maryland Department of Agriculture
The Mill of Bel Air
Land O Lakes Purina Feeds
McCauley Brothers Feeds
