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An international team of scientists recently published two extensive, peer-reviewed papers in Science that offered the strongest evidence to date that COVID originated in animals at a food market in Wuhan, China.
Livestock, Vet advice

The role animals play in pandemics

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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The world has hardened to COVID-19: the many variants, the masks, public isolation, health precautions and the reminders that SARS-CoV-2 hasn’t gone away. Globally, WHO reported over 500,000,000 cases with 6,400,000 deaths at press time. A total of 12,300,000 doses of vaccine were administered. And the numbers keep climbing. On January 30, 2020, WHO declared […] Read more
The relationship between politics, crime and oligarchy is a tangled web.
Comment/Columns, Vet advice

Oligarchs debase EU agriculture

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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A new week started on the first day of spring 2018. The collection of cars and half tons in the parking lot at the local burger joint meant the “Circle of Wisdom” had already started their daily debate, enriched with weekend news stories and beginning stages of sports playoffs. The Circle is a cluster of […] Read more
Leukotoxin and lipopolysaccharides combined, in the throes of acute infection, are the virulence factors described as “the lips that deliver the kiss of death.”
Bovine Respiratory Disease, Vet advice

Vet Advice: Fatal pneumonia in adult cows

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Shipping fever caused by Mannheimia haemolytica is the most important respiratory disease of cattle in North America, particularly in feedlot animals that have been through the stressful marketing and assembly processes (Pathological Basis of Veterinary Disease). M. haemolytica biotype A, serotype 1 is the etiologic agent most commonly responsible for severe pulmonary lesions. Some investigators […] Read more
A recent global research project looks at the interaction between grazing pressure and climate on soil health.
Livestock, Vet advice

Ranching west of the 100th Meridian

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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Outlanders venturing west were frightened by the Great Plains, with its sweeping grasslands that extended from horizon to horizon. The only inhabitants at that time were small clusters of Indigenous people. In the beginning, great farms stippled majestic forests across Eastern Canada. Western climb gave way to deserts and mountains. Harvey Leifert, in an article […] Read more
Colostrum is an important source of nutrients for newborn calves in addition to providing passive immunity.
Cow-Calf, Livestock, Vet advice

Updating the risk budget for newborn beef calves

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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Looking at the risk budget for newborns brings to mind the adage “I am what I do.” Organizations grow around ideas and things that get done, not people. The adoption of new tools and technology strengthens the industry’s unflagging resolve to improve animal health and welfare. Getting a running start on health starts with nutrition, […] Read more
One of the essential nutrients cattle fall short of grazing dry pastures and consuming crop residue is vitamin A.
Livestock, Vet advice

Drought feeds vitamin A deficiencies

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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Areas from Calgary to Winnipeg are either abnormally dry or facing drought conditions, according to Agriculture Canada’s Canadian Drought Monitor. Producers over much of the Prairie region are anxious about pasture quality and sufficient feed supplies to get them through winter. An open fall in many areas has supported extended grazing on poor pastures, post-harvest […] Read more
The veterinary term for feedlot dust pneumonia is acute interstitial pneumonia.
Animal Health, Bovine Respiratory Disease, Livestock, Vet advice

Dust a risk factor in calf pneumonia

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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When drought and the Great Depression introduced the 1930s, the wheat market collapsed. Oceans of wheat had replaced the sea of prairie grass that anchored the topsoil into place. Once the wheat dried up, the land was defenseless against the winds that buffeted the Plains. The term “dust pneumonia” originated during the Great Depression when […] Read more
A bat, with fruit.
Livestock, Vet advice

Vet Advice: Pandemics lay at the door of human dilemma

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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From a recent article by Jocelyne Piret and Guy Boivin that appeared in Frontiers in Microbiology: The shift from hunter-gatherers to agrarian societies favoured the spread of infectious diseases in the human population. Expanded trade between communities increased interactions between humans and animals and facilitated the transmission of zoonotic pathogens. Increased travel and a growing […] Read more

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