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New Dairy Specialist for CSU Department of Animal Science

The Department of Animal Sciences and CSU Extension has recently hired the new state Dairy Specialist, Noa Roman-Muniz.  Noa comes from her post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Frank Garry's ILM program in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State.

Prior to arriving at the Department of Animal Sciences, Noa was a part of the pre-veterinary program at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  She then received a degree as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Wisconsin in 2001 and a Master of Sciences in adult education from CSU in 2004. She was an intern with the food animal group at CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 2001-2002. Since 2004, Noa has been an instructor in both Animal Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at CSU.

Dr. Roman-Muniz will assume duties as Dairy Extension Specialist August 2008. Her position will be largely involved with the Colorado Dairy Industry. Noa has a great background in training and educating Latino workers. She will continue these efforts along with a teaching assignment in Animal Sciences, a capstone dairy management class and will coordinate a disease management course. In addition, the hope will be to have her involved with the on-farm gross necropsy course in Animal Sciences. She will continue to research areas of employment education and human safety occupational issues.

Please join the Animal Sciences Department in welcoming Dr. Roman-Muniz to our livestock industry. Noa will be a great asset to the well-being of Colorado's very progressive dairy industry.

William Wailes,
Chair, Department of Animal Science
former CSU Dairy Extension Specialist

Global Agricultural Supply and Demand

USDA recently issued a report on the factors contributing to recent increase in food commodity prices. Historically, the average food commodity prices track closely the prices of the four major crops (wheat, corn, rice and soybeans) in an oscillating pattern. Will the 60% price increase of food commodity prices in the last 2 years be followed by a fall, or are the factors causing this rise fueling a new pattern?

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Business Insights: A World Leader in Strategic Market Analysis Releases Report on the Top Ten Dairy Companies

Since 1997, Business Insights (formerly Reuters Business Insight) have been providing blue chip companies around the world with market analysis and insight to help them gain a competitive edge and ultimately make more successful business decisions.

Some key questions answered by this report on The Top Ten Dairy Companies...

• What are the trends in the global dairy industry?
• Who are the top 11 to 20 companies? 
• Which regions and segments offer the leading dairy companies the greatest growth opportunities? 
• How do the leading dairy companies compare in terms of financial performance and coverage by country and category? 
• What are the key strategies of the leading dairy companies and how do these strategies drive revenue and market share?
  

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Trichomoniasis in Colorado

Trichomoniasis, commonly referred to as trich, is a venereal disease of cattle caused by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas fetus. Spread by breeding, trich causes infertility, abortions, and, occasionally, chronic uterine infection in dairy and beef cattle. Losses include reduced milk production, reduced calf crop, and delayed breeding. The main clinical indications of the disease are repeat breeding at both regular and irregular intervals, and occasional abortion. These are fairly observable in dairy cattle.

The State Veterinarian's Office recently released a brochure concerning Trich.

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In-Depth Reproduction Articles from Journal of Dairy Science

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