The Babcock Institute is the leader in international dairy research, development, and education. Founded in 1991, our mission is to link the dairy industry of Wisconsin and the United States with dairy industries around the world to improve the quality of life and foster market development. We seek to transform emerging dairy industries and strengthen the US dairy industry through international partnership, training, and research.
Sharing U.S. Dairy Expertise
The Babcock Institute designs and implements customized training for dairy leaders, educators, and producers from around the world identify. We draw upon the depth and breadth of expertise in Wisconsin's dairy industry, collaborating with a host of dairy-related programs, institutes, and centers including the University of Wisconsin. Learn more.
Building Lasting Partnerships Through Research Collaboration and Exchange
The Babcock Institute fosters research collaborations and exchanges with industry leaders, educational institutes, research institutes, etc. in many countries. In Mexico, a partnership established with the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores Monterrey-Campus Querétaro (ITESM-CQ) as a result of the UW's three-year grant under USAID's TIES/ENLACES program includes student study tours and internships in Wisconsin and Mexico, as well as planned training programs for dairy cooperatives in Mexico.
The Babcock Institute also partners with China Agriculture University, Beijing. A joint Sino-US Dairy Research Center was established in 2004. This cooperative effort brings together research collaborators, and fosters faculty and student exchange. Learn more.
Multilingual Publications
The Babcock Institute works closely with the University of Wisconsin's Department of Dairy Science, Extension, and the UW Dairy Team to develop and translate new publications in both print form and CD formats. We plan to distribute more of our current and new publications via electronic download, allowing users to access publications locally and from remote parts of the world.
Babcock publications are available in as many as seven languages at a number of different levels. Practical Dairy Essentials and Technical Dairy Guides are available online, on CD and in print. Dairy Updates report recent faculty research findings with practical application. The Electronic Dairy Herd Management Short Course is a collection of lectures from the Institute's short courses, available on CD with slides and audio. Institute Discussion Papers provide dairy industry leaders with international dairy market developments. The Dairy Worker Training Modules provide detailed instruction with narration and video for many standard dairy jobs.
Electronic Outreach
The Institute launched its first multilingual dairy site on the internet in 1996,. The site was redesigned to be completely bilingual (English and Spanish) in 2000. A revised and updated version was then launched in 2009. The site provides technical dairy information in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Russian, and Portugese. Many multilingual dairy-related publications are available at no cost on the web site — they appear in PDF and HTML formats.
International Short Courses and Consulting Services
The Babcock Institute offers courses from a half day to two weeks in length on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus or overseas. These technical dairy courses are specially created to meet the needs and educational requirements of course participants. Course participants include dairy producers, veterinarians, agribusiness representatives, farm workers, dairy processors, government leaders, and others. To date, the Babcock Institute has conducted more than 117 courses with 4560 participants from over 68 countries.
Conferences and Workshops
The Babcock Institute brings global best practices to the domestic industry through international conferences and workshops, in which experts from around the world share knowledge on best practices for dairy production. View a list of conferences.
