 A Long-term Commitment to Quality Livestock
This issue of Bovine Health Watch focuses on several important challenges facing cattle producers today – BVDV prevention and control, reducing the stress of weaning, marketing your calves for additional profit, and using animal identification to help improve your bottom line. As always, our goal is to provide up-to-date information that is timely and valuable to the management of your operation. We are sure you will find this issue of Bovine Health Watch all of that and more.
For example, Dr. Dan Grooms from Michigan State University talks about establishing an integrated approach to BVD control and developing a PI testing plan. Clint Peck, the director of Beef Quality Assurance at Montana State University discusses Montana’s BVD-PI Herd Biosecurity Project, a program designed to assist ranchers with biosecurity practices to help prevent transmission of BVD virus within breeding herds. Plus, three prominent producers will tell you about the success they have had with their own biosecurity programs.
One of the most stressful events in the life of both cows and calves is weaning. Find out how fenceline weaning might reduce that stress, while leading to healthier, more productive calves. And while we’re talking about herd management practices, we also offer some feeder-calf marketing tips that may just increase your bottom line.
Finally, we have included information on livestock identification, the value of generic products, and a brand few product AgriLabs has launched to help get calves eating quickly and reduce stress at the same time. AgriLabs is uniquely positioned to support your operation with an array of products designed to offer the latest technology in a cost-effective manner. Today’s industry is willing to pay for solid documentation, quality genetics and proper care.Through our exclusive partnerships with companies providing  cutting-edge research and development, AgriLabs is able to bring you health-care products that support your genetics, management, and marketing, assuring the highest quality calves you can possibly deliver. An excellent example of these types of partnerships is our newest product RESPOND™, which can be used during any stressful event and will help stimulate appetite, keep calves eating, and ensure a healthy and efficient start.
AgriLabs continues to be active in the commercial development of pre-harvest interventions as part of our commitment to food safety. Examples are products like the conditionally licensed SRP Salmonella Newport and SRP E.coli O157 cattle vaccines, which are labeled to reduce shedding of these economically important food safety pathogens.
We trust that you will enjoy reading this issue of Bovine Health Watch. And we also hope you will provide us with your comments. We are committed to bringing you the highest quality products and information to help you produce the highest quality beef possible.
Steve Schram
President/CEO
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