Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
 August 1, 2010
By:Mark L. Alley, DVM, MBA
In the current economy, one thing that has become abundantly clear is that things are going to change. One of the changes occurring rapidly is the increased interest in allowing the animal (cattle) to harvest the forage growing in the pasture.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Virginia R. Fajt, DVM, PhD
The Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA CVM) approves drug labels. The Environmental Protection Agency approves pesticides and products used on premises.
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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
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:Virginia R. Fajt, DVM, PhD
At the time of this writing, the focus on farm animals by the media (and likely therefore consumer perception) seems to be on antimicrobial use in animal agriculture and on farm animal welfare.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM
Because one goal of proper heifer development is to improve second parity pregnancy percentage, a beef producer may ask "what is the impact of higher pregnancy percentages during the second breeding season on costs and income?" Table 1 displays the effect of changing pregnancy percentage for first-calf heifers in 5-percentage point increments on the percent of the herd that must be replaced each year and the average age of the herd. In general, given the assumptions in the table, for every 5-percentage point improvement in first-calf heifer pregnancy percentage, the number of replacements needed for the herd decreases by about 1 percentage point and average cow age increases by .01 years.
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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:Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM
Many veterinarians express frustration when trying to provide their clients with the best advice on which diagnostic tests to recommend for purchased cattle or the resident herd. The goal is to screen apparently healthy cattle to identify carriers of infectious disease that could cause reproductive losses and other health problems in the herd.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:David A. Rhoda, DVM
Production medicine probably means something different to each of us, which has also been the case with written treatment plans definitions, our standards for accountability of welfare, defining the KPI's to monitor, and our drug protocols.
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