DASC-141NP In this issue: Educational Workshops about Automated Milking Systems; The Prevention and Treatment of Navel Ill in Dairy Calves; Upcoming Events. The Dairy Pipeline is published once per month by the Department of Dairy Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. This Dairy Pipeline contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear.Archived newsletters can be accessed from: http://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/newsletter-archive/.