2025

CAHNRS News | New WSU research is shaping a first-of-its-kind metric to track how illness and injury affect dairy cows’ well-being and productive days.

Since our last newsletter I have had the opportunity to participate in several Continuing Education events.

An area of interest to me that falls outside our normal frequency measures of disease is the concept of summary measures of health.

I mentioned in my opening editorial that I was recently exposed to content well outside of my comfort zone. Hang onto your hats, because I am about to bring small animal medicine into the conversation!

New literature regarding heat stress abatement from the Journal of Dairy Science.

Liver abscesses (LA) continue to represent a major challenge in beef production systems, with significant economic and welfare implications.

This collection features recent research on dairy cow health, nutrition, and productivity, with studies exploring metritis, microbial supplements, milk supply security, and feed efficiency.

Explore veterinary student studies covering reproductive efficiency, neonatal calf care, oxytocin use, high-altitude disease, and humane euthanasia in cattle.

Washington producers, veterinarians, and consumers can be confident that WSDA is doing the work needed to protect animal health, safeguard the food supply, and preserve Washington’s TB-free status.

From my perspective the conference’s initial discussion regarding the definition of resilience was particularly useful as it highlighted differences between resilience and robustness. If resilience is based on coping with variability alongside short-term flexibility and elasticity, then robustness is based on coping with harshness alongside long-term plasticity and/or resistance. It occurred to me that while […]