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Workgroup Information Dairy Quality Assurance
Summary	The workgroup supports the Regulatory/Industry/UC partnership, the California Dairy Quality Assurance Program. The purpose of the CDQAP is to encourage science-based farming & management practices which promote the health of the consumer, the environment and the animals.

Workgroup Chair Information

Name	Deanne Meyer (Chair)
Phone	(530) 304-1092
E-Mail	dmeyer@ucanr.edu
Unit:
Location:	,

Name	Michael Payne (Chair)
Phone	530-304-09306
E-Mail	mpayne@ucdavis.edu
Unit:

Name	Betsy Karle (Co-Chair)
Phone	(530) 865-1156
E-Mail	bmkarle@ucanr.edu
Unit:	Glenn County

Membership List
AES Scientist
ALY, SHARIF		Veterinary Medicine Teaching & Research Center
	PROFESSOR-SFT-VM	Epidemiology and Biostatistics
CHIGERWE, MUNASHE		Medicine & Epidemiology
	Assistant Professor
DePeters, Edward		Animal Science
	Distinguished Professor	Ruminant nutrition of dairy cattle; mammary gland synthesis of milk protein and fat; nutrient digestion, absorption, and metabolism; evaluation of by-product feedstuffs and forage quality.
Lehenbauer, Terry
	Professor and Director	Dairy cattle herd health & disease prevention; epidemiology; antimicrobial stewardship; animal welfare
Pereira, Richard		Program Planning & Evaluation

Zhang, Ruihong		Biological & Agricultural Engineering
	Professor	Bioenvironmental engineering. Treatment of agricultural and food wastes for pollution prevention and resource utilization; air quality control for animal and human environments; study of biological, physical, and chemical processing techniques for organi
CE Advisor
Clark, Nicholas		Kings County
	Agronomy and Nutrient Management Farm Advisor	Agronomic Cropping Systems and Nutrient Management
Fulford, Anthony

Heguy, Jennifer		Stanislaus County
	Dairy Farm Advisor and County Director
Karle, Betsy		Glenn County
	Dairy Advisor & County Director	preweaned calf management, antimicrobial stewardship, environmental sustainability
Lewis, David		Marin County
	Director, Advisor	Water and Watershed Management and Research, Community Development, Sustainable Agricutlure
Marsh, Brian		Kern County
	County Director/Farm Advisor	Agronomy, cotton, small grains, corn and silage, weed control
Mccullough-Sanden, Blake		Kern County
	Farm Advisor Emeritus (Retired)	Irrigation, soil, water, agronomy, blackeyes, sugarbeets, safflower, alfalfa
Munk, Daniel		Fresno County
	Farm Advisor	Irrigation, crop nutrient management and cotton production systems
Stackhouse, Jeffery		Humboldt County Office
	Livestock and Natural Resource Advisor
CE Specialist
Gerry, Alec		Entomology (UCR)
	Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Veterinary Entomology	Veterinary Entomology
Harter, Thomas		Hydrology Program
	Distinguished Professor & Distinguished Professor in Cooperative Extension	Flow and transport processes in groundwater and in the vadoze zone; non-point source pollution of groundwater; numerical and statistical modeling of non-point source pollution at the agriculture-groundwater nexus; sustainable groundwater management; integrated water management.
Hutmacher, Robert		Department of Plant Sciences
	Cooperative Extension Specialist / AES Agronomist (retired)	cotton production issues, irrigation mgmt, drip irrigation, sorghum, industrial hemp, water stress, nutrient mgmt
Lundy, Mark		Department of Plant Sciences
	Associate CE Specialist	Grain Cropping Systems, resource use efficiency, integrating technology into production practices, nitrogen and carbon cycling in crop-soil systems, genotype x environment x management interactions, phenotyping, remote/proximal sensing technologies
Meyer, Deanne
	Livestock Waste Management Specialist	Livestock waste management
Mitloehner, Frank		Animal Science
	Professor and CE Specialist	Livestock systems air quality; quantification and mitigation of Ag air pollutants
Oltjen, James		Animal Science
	CE Specialist	Computer decision support software; beef quality assurance; standardized performance analysis for cattle and sheep ranches. Animal management systems; resource use in animal agriculture; beef cattle growth.
Putnam, Daniel		Department of Plant Sciences
	Cooperative Extension Specialist, Agronomist in the AES	Alfalfa and forage crops systems, forage quality and utilization, alternative field crops, cellulosic energy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus) crop ecology.
Robinson, Peter		Animal Science
	CE Specialist	On-farm animal management systems; on-farm implementation of strategies to reduce the environmental impact of cows.
Silva Del Rio, Noelia		Veterinary Medicine Extension
	UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Extension Specialist	Dairy
Van Eenennaam, Alison		Animal Science
	CE Specialist Animal Biotechnology and Genomics	Animal genomics, biotechnology, beef cattle, genetic engineering, animal breeding
Zaccaria, Daniele		Land, Air & Water Resources
	Associate Professor and Agricultural Water Management Specialist in Cooperative Extension	Agricultural water management and irrigation
Other ANR
Dahlberg, Jeffery		Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center
	Director-UC-ANR-KARE	Plant Breeding and Genetics
Payne, Michael
	Outreach Coordinator	Food Safety
Non-UC
Ahlem, Charles		Hilmar Cheese Co./ CDQAP
	Founding Partner/Chairman
Mullinax, Denise
	CDQAP, Asst. Director
Membership Totals
Number of Members		31
ANR Members		29
Non-ANR		2
Info Only		0