NEWS

Welcome to Colorado Dairy News 3.0!

With this edition of the Colorado Dairy News, we are launching a design that will hopefully make CDN more readable and useful. This new format also allows us to bring you multi-media content to reach out to the dairy industry in ways that were not possible with the old format.

To help inagurate this new direction, Bill Wailes and Frank Garry sat down for an informal chat to reminisce and to answer questions submitted by CDN readers. Click below to watch!

We are also very eager to hear your feeback, so please contact us with you comments and suggestions.

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New Faces in Animal Science

In the last 6 months 4 new faculty members have joined the Animal Science department. Drs Larry Goodridge and Kendra Nightingale have added expertise in microbiology and food safety. Drs Shawn Archibeque and Hyungchul Han have strengthened the nutrition section of the department. For more information on each of these individuals, please click on their names. The search for a faculty member specializing in environmental management is almost concluded.

Best Test for Johne's Disease

Dr. Mike Collins from the University of Wisconsin summarizes a report from the four leading Johne's experts on testing methodology for Johne's Disease. In this summary article Dr Collins simplifies a very confusing aspect of Johne's Disease control.

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Original Best Test article from JAVMA

For those yearning for more information on testing for Johne's Disease, reprinted here is the original article which Dr Collins has summarized.

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E coli 0157 at Agricultural fairs

Dr. Tom Wittum received his PhD at CSU in Animal Science. Since then he has become a faculty member at Ohio State University in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. He lectured at the Annual CSU Veterinary Conference held in January in Fort Collins. One of his lectures focused on the problem of attendees to agricultural fairs being exposed to livestock shedding shiga-toxigenic E. coli 1057 at agricultural fairs.

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AgWeb.com

Up to date information on agricultural news can be found on: http://www.agweb.com/News.aspx.

To read more on the latest USDA Farm Bill proposals and dairy product prices:

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Salud de vacas frescas

"Fresh Cow Health"

by Dr Noa Roman-Muniz
At the 2007 Dairy Days held in conjunction with the Colorado Farm Show, Dr. Noa Roman-Muniz of the ILM held a 2 hour Spanish presentation for dairy workers on Fresh Cow Health.

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UDDER MATTERS

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information about ILM activities

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