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Thoughts and Recommendations on Metaphylaxis in Commercial Feedyard Settings with an Emphasis on Drug Selection and Post-Metaphylaxis Intervals
Josh Szasz
To help guide practitioners towards accurate metaphylaxis drug and PMI selection.
Draft Proceedings
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Friday, September 13, 2024
1:45:00 PM |
Feedlot Pen Floor Design, Management and Production Implications
Eric Behlke
This presentation will highlight some of the different feedlot pen floor designs. The advantaged and disadvantages of the different pen floors will be discussed. This presentation will include data for veterinary and production outcomes that have been observed in the different production scenarios.
Draft Proceedings
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Friday, September 13, 2024
2:30:00 PM |
FARAD: Current Updates and Future Directions
Danielle Mzyk
The overarching goal of FARAD (Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank) is to provide current and accurate scientific information to veterinarians thereby ensuring animal‐derived human foods are devoid of unsafe chemical residues, including drugs, pesticides, natural toxins and environmental contaminants. This session will review current research priorities and discuss new and future developments in residue avoidance for bovine practitioners.
Draft Proceedings
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Friday, September 13, 2024
3:15:00 PM |
Relevance: Consideration for Evolving and Adapting Beef Veterinary Practice Models
Dale M. Grotelueschen
Changes in the beef industry are immense. At the same time, traditional production practices remain in common use. Generational change has brought with it contrasting values and points of view that are impacting veterinary businesses. These are multifaceted issues requiring attention at various levels in the system. Adapting beef veterinary practice models may be a strong point of leverage.
Draft Proceedings
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Friday, September 13, 2024
4:15:00 PM |
Current and Emerging Diagnostic Approaches to Infectious Diseases of Cattle
Dustin Loy
The objective of this presentation is to describe current and emerging diagnostic methods for infectious diseases of cattle. New methods and technologies such as real time PCR, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and next generation sequencing will be discussed. Applications of these new technologies will be reviewed including syndromic panels, pathogen typing, antimicrobial resistance testing, and pathogen discovery.
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Friday, September 13, 2024
5:15:00 PM |
Resilience and Sustainability in Beef Production Systems
Jason Sawyer
The problem of 'sustainability' has become a common part of the public conversation. In this session, we will discuss a framework for sustainability as a forecasting problem, and the opportunities that managers and professionals have to enhance the likelihood of sustaining the output from these systems. Resilience is the property of a system to withstand or adapt to disruption. We will also consider the relationships among resilience and sustianability in the context of beef systems, and key leverage points where resilience can have the greatest impact on sustaining beef production.
Both managers and professionals contribute to these outcomes, and identifying leverage points increases value for both.
Draft Proceedings
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
8:00:00 AM |
Why is there a persistently increasing gap in the availability of livestock veterinarians in the rural U.S.?
Ben Turner
Veterinary shortages in rural United States represent a major challenge for all stakeholders in the cattle industry, particularly those on the production side. Poor accessibility to veterinary services leads to animal health problems and decreased productivity and ultimately impacts producers' bottom line due to the multiple complications this entails. This presentation demonstrates a Systems Thinking approach to investigate and discuss how interactions among systems have created the veterinary shortage. A vital aspect of the analysis conducted was the identification of stakeholders, mental models, endogenous and exogenous variables, and leverage points where long-lasting interventions could be formulated. Through the Systems Thinking process, flaws in the system were identified in a manner that can explain the underlying causes why current policies aimed at fixing the issue do not seem to be effective. A Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) was utilized to visualize the relationships between the cattle industry, the veterinary labor market, and the education system, which intends to prepare upcoming generations of veterinarians. Some insights discussed from this model illuminate how multiple interconnected conditions lead to the perceived disproportionate growth of veterinary school graduates opting to work with small companion animals rather than livestock, the need for more qualitative metrics to determine shortage areas, and why some existing interventions are less effective than desired. The role of mental models was also captured to describe the reasoning behind the decisions, policies, and attitudes different stakeholders (students, veterinaries, ranchers, policymakers) in the system possess and which influence behaviors over time.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
8:45:00 AM |
“Wait, I’m the professor now?”
Brittany Berry
This session will cover the strategic integration of distributive model veterinary students into your practice. Main topics for discussion will cover logistics of hosting students, day to day scheduling tips and clinical teaching. Attendees will be provided resources to take back into their clinics and implement immediately.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
9:30:00 AM |
Challenging the Way We've Always Done Things: Managing Chronic Pens, Fitness to Transport and Other Welfare-type Issues on the Feedlot
Mariana Maupome
During my career as a feedlot consultant, I have had the opportunity to observe many chronic and hospital pens of large commercial feedlots in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. There are three major welfare issues that are related to this specific type of housing. They are (1) problems with basic husbandry; keeping cattle comfortable and clean, (2) lack of continuous monitoring, and (3) issues associated with cattle density. Fortunately, there are easily implemented solutions for most of these problems. This talk will cover the animal welfare issues associated with these types of housing and will identify critical points where welfare indicators should be evaluated with numerical scoring.
Draft Proceedings
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
10:30:00 AM |
Novel immunological approaches to improve cattle health
Amelia R. Woolums
New developments in science are making it possible to identify little known immune pathways that appear to influence whether high-risk cattle develop disease. Additionally, advancements in RNA technology are supporting the development of new approaches to preventing or treating disease in cattle, especially at mucosal surfaces. Examples of recent discoveries based on these approaches will be presented, with discussion of their implications for cattle health.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
2:00:00 PM |
Management of Bovine Respiratory Disease in Beef Stocker Calves: An Overview of the Current Evidence
Brent C. Credille
This session covers the physiologic, immunologic, and metabolic of high-risk beef stocker calves and how deviations in homeostasis increase the risk of BRD in this population of animals. Management of BRD risk through judicious use of antimicrobials and vaccination is the focus, with some discussion on use of immunomodulators to follow. Important concepts related to clinical pharmacology of antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial susceptiblity testing, and multi-drug antimicrobial resistance in common BRD pathogens will be reviewed.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
3:00:00 PM |
Challenging the Way We've Always Done Things: Nutrition Guidance for Small Farms that Actually Works for Practitioners
W. Mark Hilton
This discussion will have a two-pronged approach. First, we will explore how you can position your veterinary business to become a trusted advisor of your beef producers with specific requirements for the smaller producers. Benefits to the owner, their animals and your business will be highlighted.
Second, we will discuss how to help the producer accept suggested changes in their beef business. The goal is for practitioners to help identify producers that truly want help with their beef business and then to work together to make a plan for optimizing nutrition in their herd. We will explore how to initiate a nutrition discussion. Then we will discuss how to improve the nutrition of the herd while reducing the overall cost and how to get paid for your advice.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
4:15:00 PM |
Mountainview Veterinary Services: Mixed Animal Practice Synergy
Isaiah Smith
The goal of this session is to provide an overview of a thriving mixed animal veterinary practice in rural West Virginia and to describe the realities of veterinary practice, while encouraging and engaging practitioners who are on the front lines of veterinary medicine.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
5:15:00 PM |
