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The latest publication from the National Johne's Disease Education Initiative.
USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford today released the following statement on the detection of BSE in the United States
Veterinarians learn clinical skills in wet lab setting.
The first Dairy Cattle Welfare Symposium, hosted by the University of Guelph and its Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, is pleased to invite you to this unique and important event for the dairy industry.
Whether you're a cattle producer, veterinarian, scientist, politician, global trading partner, or consumer, you will benefit from attending this important symposium that focuses on beef cattle welfare and the future of the beef cattle industry.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is receiving reports from various segments of the agribusiness community related to unusually high levels of the mycotoxin DON (deoxynivalenol) in this year’s corn crop.
A cooperative effort of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services, in association with the National Johne's Working Group & United States Animal Health Association.
The Animal Diagnostic Laboratory (PADLS-PSU) and Veterinary Extension at the Pennsylvania State University invite you and the veterinarians in your practice to attend our annual Practitioner’s Meeting. A variety of topics will be presented, including Animal Diagnostic Laboratory and Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife updates and regulatory information of importance provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an order that prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys effective April 5, 2012.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not found in samples taken from hunter-killed deer during the state's 2010 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. "We are pleased to report that Pennsylvania continues to have no confirmed or suspected cases of CWD in wild deer or elk," Cottrell said. "By conducting these tests from a random sample of hunter-killed deer and on all hunter-killed elk, we continue our efforts to find the disease in wild deer and elk in the state."
Members of the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department will be presenting a short presentation at Ag Progress Days entitled Antibiotics in Agriculture: Blessing or Curse.
3rd Annual Animal Welfare Forum, co-sponsors PVMA and Penn Ag Industries Association, met in Hershey, PA on August 12, 2010.
