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Still Stronger Together
Minnesota Dairy Growth Alliance SummitJune 22, 2017
S. Godden, E. Royster, G. Cramer,
T. Goldsmith, J. Schefers, S. Wells, T. Ames
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Land Grant Mission of Ensuring:
Healthier Animals, Healthier Economy and Healthier Minnesotans
Dairy Cattle (MDA, 2016)
• No. 6 dairy state in number of cows
• 3,470 farms; 460,000 dairy cows; 9.5 billion lbs milk/year
Economy
• Dairy is 2nd largest livestock sector after hogs
• 12% of the state’s agricultural cash receipts
• 8th largest exporter of dairy products among U.S. states
Minnesotans
• Assuring a safe food supply
• Preventing zoonotic diseases
• Farm worker safety
• Increasing quality of life
College of Veterinary Medicine
We do this through:
i) our graduates
ii) research
iii) outreach
iv) service
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College of Veterinary Medicine
DVM Training400 DVM students (100/year)
15 DVM/MPH and 5 DVM/PhD combined degree students
Pre Clinical
Curriculum yrs
1-3
Clinical
Rotations yr 4
Veterinary practitioners who directly join the work force must
be practice ready and bring value to employers!
Additional Training (~35% internships, residencies, grad school)– Specialty Practice
– Veterinary Public Health
– Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Device Industry
– Government Agencies
– Higher Education
Pre-vet
Requirements
3-4 years
Veterinary College
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4th Year Clinical Rotations
Many 4th year rotations to
select from with 5 major tracks
– Food Animal (dairy, swine, beef,
poultry)
– Equine
– Small Animal
– Mixed Animal
– Public Health, Research, Industry
Tracking produces
practice ready graduates!
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Topics Covered in depth in 4th Year
Dairy Rotations at UMN
• Clinical skills in diagnosis,
treatment and surgery
• Reproductive diseases,
techniques and management
• Mastitis and milking system
evaluation
• Animal housing systems and
environmental management
• Disease control programs
• Proper drug use, protocols and
drug management
• Animal stockmanship and welfare
• Transition cow management
• Lameness and hoof care
• Nutrition
• Record systems, epidemiology,
herd investigation and evaluation
• Calf health and management
• Heifer health, reproduction, and
management
• Dairy applied economic decision
making
• Post-harvest food systems, food
safety and security
• Communication skills (including
Spanish), personal development,
and presentation skills
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Dairy Veterinary Education Center
A private / public partnership
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Bovine Faculty at the CVM
• Faculty devoted to dairy research, education, service and
outreach at the CVM• Gerard Cramer DVM DVSc- lameness and animal welfare, transition cow
management
• Tim Goldsmith DVM MPH, DACVPM - production systems, judicious antibiotic use,
emergency preparedness
• Erin Royster DVM MSc- mastitis, udder health laboratory and milking equipment
• Sandra Godden DVM DVSc- calf health and wellbeing, milk quality and mastitis
prevention, and Johne's disease control, antibiotic use
• Jeremy Schefers DVM PhD- ruminant diseases and diagnostics
• Scott Wells DVM PhD, DACVPM - Control of infectious pathogens of cattle (e.g. TB)
• Reproductive specialist TBD
• Welfare/behavior specialist TBD
• Numerous other faculty in pathology(4), microbiology(5), food safety(3), large animal
medicine(3) and large animal surgery(2) have some effort focusing on dairy student
teaching, research
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Research at the CVM• External and internal funding mechanisms: e.g. USDA, industry,
Agriculture Experiment Station, Rapid Agriculture Response Funds and
MnDrive Global Food Funds, MN DHIA.
• Research is both basic and applied
• Field research sites:
• The Dairy Education Center: 10,000 calvings and 6,000 heifer
calves born per year
• Other commercial dairies: Over one dozen MN dairies currently
participating in various research projects
• There are currently 4 graduate students, 1 post doc student, and
multiple summer scholars projects (7 DVM students) involved in
summer research projects.
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A Few Research Highlights
• Lameness - Dr. Cramer
– Prevention strategies
– Improved hoof trimming techniques:
How and how often should we trim feet?
• Mastitis Control – Drs. Godden and Royster
– Multi-herd study (188 herds in 19 states) to describe:
• Relationship between bedding bacteria counts and udder health
• Desired bedding characteristics and bedding management
practices to improve udder health
• Calf Health – Drs. Godden and Knauer
– Randomized trial in 5 MN herds / 1,264 calves
– Describe effect of offering ‘full milk allowance’
from day 1 (versus traditional ramp-up program)
on calf health & growth
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Service
Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory:
• Mission is providing disease surveillance to the livestock industry
and protecting the food system including dairy, egg and meat
products
• Bovine submissions to the VDL in 2016 (mostly dairy)
– 184,826 procedures performed (132,086 in 2014)
Udder Health Lab:
• 113,173 tests (milk, bedding, towels)
Herd Investigations:
• Mastitis/milk quality – 12; Dr. Royster
• Youngstock/Cow health – 12+; Drs. Schefers/Godden/Cramer
• 12+-
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Extension/Continuing Education
• Programs supported by UMN Extension and other sponsors.
• Minnesota Dairy Health Conference - Annual conference for dairy
veterinarians, producers and industry professionals highlighting the latest
developments in dairy health management
• CE for Dairy Veterinarians and Dairy Professionals at the DEC- The DEC is
unique in the nation; providing housing, classroom, laboratory, and on-dairy
experiences
• Public Tours of the DEC
• Provide general education to improve the public’s understanding and
acceptance of current best practices on dairy farms.
• Support the public’s positive perception of the dairy industry, promoting
milk and dairy products, and preserving the social license to operate
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• Producer training example
– E.g. Adoption of Rapid On-Farm Culture systems to
guide mastitis treatment decisions
– Can reduce antibiotic use by 50% while maintaining
future udder health/performance
(Lago et al., JDSci. 2011)
• Producer trainings in Midwest:
– 2015: 1
– 2016: 4
– 2017: 7
• Numerous extension talks, extension articles
Extension/Continuing
Education (con’t)
MN EasyTM Culture System
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Center for Animal Health and Food Safety
National Center for Food Protection and Defense
Upper Midwest Safety and Health Center
Centers
The Raptor Center
- Key role in protecting people from animal disease and food-borne illness.
- Develop response plan for FMD outbreak ; Surveillance strategies (e.g. TB)
- Address vulnerability of nation’s food system to attack through intentional
contamination with biological or chemical agents
- One of 9 centers of excellence dedicated to control of zoonotic disease,
farm injury and cattle handling research, education and prevention.
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As we look into the future…
Opportunities for CVM and UMN
to Continue to Support
the Minnesota Dairy Industry
Produce Graduates that:
• Provide service to dairies: clinical, routine health management services,
regulatory services, management team member
• Serve as source of information and support in technology adoption
• Can advise on animal care and conduct welfare certification
• Develop treatment protocols and provide oversight of drug use, residue
avoidance, “best practices” certification
• Are capable of assuming management of larger dairies
• Perform non-clinical service roles in the dairy industry and food industry
• Provide community service: 4H, FFA, other local service and volunteer
participation
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Opportunities for CVM and UMN
to Continue to Support
the Minnesota Dairy Industry (Con’t)
• Provide state and regional level resources to deal
with infectious diseases including:
o Diagnostic service to dairy farms
o Respond to infectious disease outbreaks including research, test
development, vaccine development, and control strategy development
(e.g. new Veterinary Isolation Facility)
o Support efforts for business continuity and convene industry government
agency planning (Center for Animal Health and Food Safety)
o Provide information to dairy industry
• Serve as spokespeople for dairy industry
• Help policy makers interpret science (Food Policy Research Center)
• Conduct research to support productivity, ensure health, define and promote
welfare, enhance feed/food safety
• Help industry certify supply chains (farm to table)
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Thank you!