Mohammad Al-Khateeb

I have 32 years of experience in Dairy Cows Farm Management. Effective advisor communicates well with people of all ages and backgrounds. Excellent eye for detail enabling quick identification of areas for improvement and suggesting strategies to help businesses reach goals. Focused on introducing efficient systems and processes.

• GMS Genetic Management System (ABS Global) Issued Oct 1999/USA
• Expert Certificate Jordanian Agriculture Engineers Association in dairy cow farms projects & managements

• In one year, time, milk production was increased from (20,000) liter per day to (28,500) liter per day (without importing new animals) (1998)
• Improved pregnancy rate
• Reduced feeding cost and improved overall profitability
• Increase rolling herd average from 7,700 liter to 9,160 liter
• Contributed to farm renovation of housing system, milking, and feeding & herd management
• Improve herd functional traits such as udder traits
• Decrease lameness problem in the herd by good management practice

1) Cattle Judgment from ABS Global-USA in (1999)

2) Genetic Management System School - ABS Global in USA in (1999), a system to improve next generation traits by evaluating dam traits & sire selection.

3) Selecting & changing the system for milking, feeding & management of the dairy cow farm in (1999) that is in operation today.

4) Supervising design changing the existing Dairy cow’s houses.

5) Designing dry cows houses & and new farm for raising heifers.

6) Alpro Training (Herd Management System Program) in Lebanon (2002).

7) Selecting pregnant heifers from Sweden, (373) heads in (2003), & (592) heads in (2004).

8) Selecting (650) pregnant heifers from Holland & Denmark in (2007).

9) Contributed in new project planning in Lebanon in (2007) with dairy farm consultant from Sweden (name can be supplied upon request), the project was not completed because of the political situation in Lebanon.

10) Start using sexed semen on first insemination heifers in (2008).

11) Planning to use embryos transfer with sexed semen on high yielding cows to fasten herd productivity & efficiency.

12) Shared in Upgrading Alpro program from (DELAVAL) since (2001) till (2008).

13) Alpro training for Al-Salam Dairy – Egypt March 20013.

14) Technical consultancy for Al-Ghadeer dairy farm in QATAR September 2013 (Nutrition, milking, breeding, farm economics).

15) Technical consultancy for Haroon dairy farm November 2013 (Suckling Calf Rearing & Nutrition management).

16) Technical consultancy for United National Dairy in KSA April-May 2014 (A dairy farm with almost 6,000 milking cows) reduce feed refusal for one group of 450 cows from 1400 kg to Zero in 3 days’ time without reducing feed quantity, measures taken were applied to all milking groups ).

Technical consultancy for several farms in Lebanon, including farm designs, feeding, milking, calves rearing, breeding.

• Dr. Khaled Daoud, Global Advance Consultations, +962795008854
• Mr. Hatem Mohammad, Delaval Egypt, +201222190237
• Dr. Jamal Khaza’al, Liban Vet, +9613873659

Reading new science articles & studies related to dairy cow farming.

International Seminars/Expo Attended:

1- World Dairy Expo. October (1999) in Wisconsin-USA.

2- Agriculture & Dairy Show, February (2003), Malmo-Sweden.

3- Composting Training, February (2003), Lintz-Austria.

4- All Holland Show July (2004) Utrecht-Holland.

5- International ABS Large Dairy Herd Seminar May (2005), Toronto- Canada.

6- Sahara Agricultural expo September (2006), Cairo-Egypt.

7- The First Dairy IDF Summit, June (2008) Edinburgh-Scotland.

8- Alta Genetics Seminar September (2010), Groningen - Holland.

9- US Grain Council Conference November (2011) Geneva - Switzerland.

10- Alltech-Dairy Academy III 09-12 April (2015) Antalya-Turkey.

11- Boehringer-Ingelheim- Mastitis Reduction Conference 14 April (2015), Amman-Jordan.

12- MSD- Creating Connection, 20-24 April (2015), Beirut-Lebanon.

13- Delaval- Dairy Farming Academy, 04-08 May (2015) Istanbul-Turkey.

14- US Grain Council Conference November (2015) Istanbul - Turkey.

15- Kemin International conference April (2016) Rome – Italy.