Existing New England Regional Dairy Program
UNH offers a fully integrated curriculum that demonstrates interrelationships among cows, crops, disease, nutrition, environment, management practices and profitability.
Options for Learning at All Levels
Collaboration among the faculty and staff provides an academic pathway for students at the Associate, Baccalaureate, Graduate levels and includes Extension into the community of farmers and citizens in New England.
Two year program in Animal Science: Thompson School
Students gain a firm foundation in the science and business of dairy farm operation, health care and management through field exercises in land management, forage production, computer administration, ratio balancing, disease identification and treatment, and bull proofing. Along with active learning, this program emphasizes teamwork and outreach.
Four-year program in Dairy Management: College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
Dairy management students receive training in areas such as nutrition, reproduction, diseases, genetics, lactation physiology, forages, agribusiness finance, personnel management, computer science, and public relations. Students are given complete responsibility for managing the UNH teaching herd with other students, thereby acquiring actual management experience along with their basic subject matter training.
Graduate Studies and Research
Master of Science Degree in Animal Sciences, a Master of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Animal & Nutritional Sciences. We have a diverse department that includes faculty doing a wide variety of scholarship with human and animal studies of mammalian physiology and pathology, nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, immunology and genetics, cellular biology and metabolism, reproduction and endocrinology, and dairy nutrition and management. Students specialize in one of these areas, but have the opportunity for exposure to all these research topics.
Dairy Program: Cooperative Extension
Provides community members with information whether it is a large farm or just a cow or two as a 4-H project, on: Dairy Herd Management; Dairy Production & Financial Records; Forage Analysis & Ration Balancing; Pasture Management; Public Awareness of Agriculture; and Farm & Rural Safety.
CREAM (Cooperative Real Education in Agricultural Management)
CREAM is a student-run cooperative in which 15-20 students operate and manage a 26 cow registered Holstein dairy herd. It provide students with a unique experiential learning model that will help them understand the applications of science to the management of a dairy herd, how to work with other team members in a cooperative venture, the work and decision-making skills required in production agriculture and how to manage and operate a small business.
