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Wellness in Cattle Practice: Better Managing Success (Health) in Animals, Client Systems and One's Self Along the Continuum Extending Beyond the Dichotomous Absence of Failure (Disease) Outcomes
Dr. T Robin Falkner
The objective of the presentation is to assist practitioners who desire to transition mental models from dichotomous disease or failure-based perspectives to ones grounded in managing wellness or success supporting variables. Despite "continuous improvements" and investments in animal health products, diagnostics, services, and management, many undesirable and unacceptable animal, operational, practice, and human outcomes are either refractory to improvement or increasing. These outcomes are associated with animal wastage, welfare concerns, increasing antimicrobial use, and high human costs among both veterinarians and their clients. This lack of progress brings into question the fitness of current failure focused dichotomous veterinary paradigms for improving many critical outcomes in complex adaptive biological systems. Systems Thinking tools are used to model a shift from mental models based on management for fewer failure outcomes to ones that manage success supporting variables on a continuum. In this new Systems Practice paradigm, the notion of health (success) as the reduction of disease (failure) is rejected and replaced with perspective of disease (failure) as symptomatic of systems that insufficiently identify, support and manage wellness (success). |
Friday, September 22, 2023
1:45:00 PM |
Animal Handling Effects on Health and Performance
Thomas H. Noffsinger
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Friday, September 22, 2023
2:45:00 PM |
Cow-calf Vaccinations – When it Comes to Immunology What Makes Sense and What Doesn’t
Dr. Christopher C.L. Chase
Provide updates on the latest understanding of colostral antibody for calf protection, reproductive vaccination for cows and vaccinating the young calf. |
Friday, September 22, 2023
4:15:00 PM |
Effective Utilization of Vaccination to Protect against Viral Reproductive Pathogens
Dr. Paul H. Walz
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and Bovine alphaherpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) have long been recognized as a major cause of reproductive disease in beef and dairy cattle. Enhancing immunity through prebreeding vaccination provides an important contribution to limiting reproductive losses associated with viral infections and is also an important control procedure to limit transmission of these viruses among cattle populations. While providing efficacy, prebreeding vaccination should also be safe. Safety concerns are often associated with the BoHV-1 fractions, while efficacy concerns are associated with BVDV fractions of multivalent vaccines. The objectives of this presentation are to 1) summarize research evaluating safety of modified-live viral vaccines administered prior to breeding and 2) review vaccination-challenge experiments evaluating efficacy. |
Friday, September 22, 2023
5:15:00 PM |
Genetic Improvements in a Sustainable Food System
Mr. Banks Baker
The pressures on animal agriculture are significant, improved animal welfare, increased antimicrobial stewardship, food affordability & availability, all while being asked to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of production. What role do genetic improvements play in sustainable food? We’ll discuss how genetic improvements, including those achieved through gene editing help address the pressures being placed on the food system while improving production efficiencies at the farm level. |
Saturday, September 23, 2023
8:00:00 AM |
Use of Genomic Tools to Improve Production Efficiency, Health Resilience and Carbon Footprint of Beef Production
Dr. John Basarab
Join John Basarab to learn more about “Genomic tools for commercial beef production”.
Genomic tools and accuracy of molecular breeding values (MBVs) for economically important traits continue to improve and are being applied in the commercial crossbred beef cattle industry. John will discuss how genomic breed composition and genomic retained heterozygosity on an individual and herd-basis (e.g., using DNA pooling) can be used to improve female fertility, stayability, lifetime productivity and calf health resilience. But this is just the first step. Within specific crossbred populations, researchers with Livestock Gentec have used large numbers of cattle phenotypes and genotypes, combined with advanced statistical genomic analyses to generate MBVs for 18 traits with moderate accuracy (0.35 to 0.45). This accuracy is equivalent to 10 to 20 progeny records. These MBVs are economically balanced into multi-trait profit indices such as the Feeder Profit Index and the Replacement Heifer Profit index. The use of these genomic tools will improve the sustainability of beef production by improving profitability, lowering the carbon footprint, and improving an animal’s ability to adapt to changing environments. John’s presentation will outline how the research was conducted, the potential benefits to those using the technology as well as some of considerations that need to be taken when deciding when and where to use these new tools.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023
9:00:00 AM |
Beef on Dairy Cattle – Industry Benefits and Opportunities
Dr. Nick Hardcastle
Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic shift in the number of calf-fed Holsteins harvested in the United States to a larger representation of Beef and Dairy crossbred cattle. This transition has resulted in a number of opportunities and challenges for the beef industry. This secession will cover an in depth look at Beef on Dairy cattle post-harvest, and how these animals impact the industry and its stakeholders. |
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:30:00 AM |
Cow-calf Chuteside Data Collection in the Field and Its Role in Cow-calf Consultation
Dr. J.D. Folsom
I going to show how we collect chuteside data accurately and efficiently while working large groups of Cattle and how we use the data we collect to consult the cow/calf producer. |
Saturday, September 23, 2023
2:00:00 PM |
Bloodborne Pathogens in Beef Herds – A Kansas Practitioner's Perspective
Dr. Nora Schrag
This session will cover management strategies for common blood born pathogens (BLV and Anaplasmosis) in US beef herds. An updated review of epidemiology and pathophysiology will be provided, but will remain focused on information that is practically applicable to managing beef herds in the US. Comparative summaries of diagnostic options will be provided for both the individual and group level. This will include timing, sample collection, type of testing, etc. Herd level control measures (both therapy and prevention) will also be discussed, especially as they relate to what evidence currently exists for common practices. |
Saturday, September 23, 2023
3:00:00 PM |
Prescription Platform and Autogenous Vaccines – What are They and What is the Difference?
Dr. Christopher C.L. Chase
Objective: Provide background on development, application and regulatory oversight for Prescription Platform and Autogenous vaccines.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023
4:15:00 PM |
Calf Care & Quality Assurance Program – Best Management Guidelines for the Calf-raising Sector
Dr. Julia Herman
The Calf Care & Quality Assurance (CCQA) program was developed to align training and education guidelines for the growing industry of calf raisers. This program was developed in partnership by the Beef Quality Assurance, funded by the Beef Checkoff, National Dairy Farmers Assuring Responsible Management, Veal Quality Assurance, funded by the Beef Checkoff, and Dairy Calf and Heifer Association’s Gold Standards programs. CCQA provides an education framework for caring for calves in areas of calf health, management and care, animal handling and stockmanship, and employee training and emergency preparedness that veterinarians can use in herd health and employee training programs. |
Saturday, September 23, 2023
5:15:00 PM |
