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- Ag Animal Health Newsletter, Winter 2026 Highlighting a few updates to the previous FY2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity.
- Ag Animal Health Newsletter, Fall 2025 Since our last newsletter I have had the opportunity to participate in several Continuing Education events.
- Ag Animal Health Newsletter, Summer 2025 In May I had the opportunity to attend the American Dairy Science Association’s 47th Discover Conference on “Dairy cow resilience: Mitigating stress impacts to welfare, health and production.”
- Ag Animal Health Newsletter, Spring 2025 I recently renewed my accreditation through the National Veterinary Accreditation Program, and it highlighted a couple of things. The first is that there are some really informative training modules within the accreditation list. One of the modules I completed this year was the “The Role of Veterinarians in Honey Bee Health”
- From the Editor, January 2025 If you’re looking for CE opportunities keep in mind that our 2025 WSU CVM Spring Conference will be held here in Pullman from March 21-23.
- From the Editor, October 2024 Aside from HPAI, one of the most interesting presentations within the Extension meeting was given by Dr. Rosie Busch from UC Davis regarding her experience incorporating Communities of Practice (CoPs) into educational workshops for Spanish speaking farm workers. The phrase “communities of practice” was coined by educational theorists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (Lave and […]
- From the Editor, July 2024 As I write this, we’re settling in for a heat wave and I anticipated leading off with an article regarding heat mitigation, or perhaps the impacts of heat stress on livestock.
- From the Editor, April 2024 It seems as if the past few weeks have been filled with discussions regarding dairy cattle infected with avian influenza virus Type A H5N1. The good news is that to date the infection in cattle has not led to high morbidity and mortality as it does in birds. This is clearly a developing situation and […]
- From the Editor, January 2024 As I write this we’re getting prepared for subzero temperatures here on the Palouse. Hopefully by the time you read this we’re all on the other side of the cold snap and with spring on the (distant) horizon. I’ll use that as a segue to mention that a cadre of veterinary students has come together […]