Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
 August 1, 2010
By:David A. Rhoda, DVM
Anyone can and everyone does deliver key performance indicators (KPI's) to the dairy who is a stakeholder of the dairy either as an employee of the farm or as a business that is supplying materials or working for the dairy.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Virginia R. Fajt, DVM, PhD
The science of how drugs work on the body (or the microorganism or parasite) is pharmacodymanics (its counterpart being pharmacokinetics, how the body works on the drug). In this section, the basic concepts of drug concentration and drug action are followed by a review of the mechanisms of action of the major drug groups used in food animal practice including NSAIDs, glucocorticoids, reproductive drugs, antimicrobials, and parasiticides.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:David A. Rhoda, DVM
Opponents of food animal use rhetoric and disturbing images to incriminate lack of welfare, criticize drug usage, and incriminate modern care practices if they weren't the same method of care as in the past. They have an audience of consumers that have little or no knowledge of food animal care.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By: David A. Rhoda, DVM
The agricultural community is an extremely small percent of the general population and much of that population lives in densely populated areas of the country. They draw their perceptions of food animal care from their experiences and perceptions about zoos, their own companion animals, and the visual stories presented electronically from opponents of the animal industry.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM
Pathogens differ in their virulence, contagiousness, and their modes of transmission. These differences exist not only between pathogens, but for virulence and contagiousness, can also differ between strains of the same species of pathogen.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM
Productivity for beef cattle herds has been shown to be increased when a high percentage of heifers become pregnant early in the first breeding season. A producer's heifer selection and development program should result in most heifers in the replacement pool reaching puberty at least 42 days prior to the start of breeding because the conception success to first service is lower on the puberal estrus compared to the third estrus.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Tom Noffsinger, DVM
For those of us who are tolerating bawling calves for four or five days in a row, tolerating buller rates of over a half a percent, please listen and see if some of these things might be helpful.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Michael D. Apley, DVM, PhD, DACVCP
These proceedings present data related to the question of how long to wait after administering a single injection antimicrobial before applying success/failure criteria. More accurately, we will evaluate success/failure and mortality data based on administering a uniform regimen and then waiting different periods before applying success/failure criteria, and the animal subsequently being eligible for further therapy.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By: David A. Rhoda, DVM
Supervision of the drug usage on the dairy is a foundation stone for achieving the VCPR and is referenced frequently in the regulatory documents that we are obligated to comply with. In 1996 the Animal Medical Drug Usage Clarification Act (AMDUCA) became the law that regulates extra-label drug usage (ELDU).
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