Tag: livestock
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Live Export Ships
You may have read my blog posts about the Live Export Ban in Australia and the conditions that led to its initiation. If you haven’t, you may want to familiarize yourself with the issue. Read this first and this second. Ok – now that you’re caught up. Hubsy and I have had the privilege of being hosted in Perth for the past six…
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Herds of Hope
As I’ve mentioned on another blog, I’ve been working as a livestock assistant at the Royal Melbourne Show for the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. Thus far, I’ve scooped a lot of manure and answered the phone. It hasn’t been too strenuous. The breeding cattle show has been going on all week, so we’ve been fielding frantic phone…
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Delving Further into Antibiotic Use
Happy Monday! As a brief follow up to this post, I found a podcast about antibiotic use in food animals from the AVMA media website. In this podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, an associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans. He does…
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Dr. Grandin Visits NW Ohio
As you know, I’m a pretty big fan of Temple Grandin; evidenced here, here and here. About 3 weeks ago, Temple visited Ohio for the Northwest Ohio Autism Summit in Bowling Green. The night before, she visited a farm in Cygnet, Ohio to talk to producers and consumers — while there she held an animal…
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Meeting Ag Tweeps Down Under!
Earlier this week, Hyatt and I had the privilege of meeting Grahame Rees. Grahame is the co-owner and operator of KLR Marketing, a program that, among other things, educates producers about how to successfully market their livestock and protect their equity, in Loomberah, NSW. Grahame briefly spoke to us about his Low Stress Stockhandling schools and invited us…