AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President Dr. Mark Hilton. In his role as vice president, Hilton manages the preconference seminars for the 2025 AABP Annual conference. Preconference seminars are small group sessions with a focused continuing education topic. Each seminar is approved for eight hours of continuing education per day. The advantages of seminars include additional continuing education for attendees, teaching a specific set of skills on topics relevan...
Jun 30, 2025•45 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Sarah Wager, Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean at Texas Tech University College of Veterinary Medicine. Wagner is the principal investigator for a survey of bovine veterinarians and the results of this research were published in the AABP peer-reviewed journal The Bovine Practitioner. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Bacteria can strike udders from any angle. The dairy health portfolio that r...
Jun 23, 2025•35 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Jackie Graber, chair of the AABP Mental Health and Well-Being Committee, Dr. Gabe Middleton and Dr. Alissa Wilhelm. This podcast is brought to you by the AABP Mental Health and Well-Being Committee. Graber discusses the importance of this committee for AABP members and committee resources and activities. Find AABP committee resources on this page and information about the committee here . Volunteers are needed for this commi...
Jun 16, 2025•47 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Linda Tikofsky, Senior Associate Director, Cattle Professional Services with Boehringer Ingelheim, and Dr. Amy Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Services at Cornell University with the Quality Milk Production Services (QMPS). This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim as part of their sponsorship package of the 2025 AABP Recent Graduate Conference opening dinner reception. For years, common mastiti...
Jun 09, 2025•32 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Bill Croushore and Dr. Greg Schueller to discuss the upcoming AABP embryo transfer seminar. The seminar will take place at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., July 28-30, 2025. The seminar has been approved for 24 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. This seminar will include didactic lectures to introduce concepts of embryo transfer including scheduling donors, physiology of superovulation and synch...
Jun 02, 2025•34 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Renee Dewell and Dr. Grant Dewell to discuss a paper published in the Bovine Practitioner Vol. 29 No.1. The objective of this paper was to validate the effectiveness of a penetrating captive bolt when positioned behind the poll as a single-step method for humane euthanasia of cattle. We start by reviewing the three main methods of humane euthanasia for cattle which include gunshot, penetrating captive bolt and chemical. Chemical euthanas...
May 26, 2025•30 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the faculty that will teach the upcoming AABP Stocker Management Seminar. The faculty include Dr. John Groves, Dr. Dan Cummings and Dr. John Richeson. The seminar will take place in Ashland, Ohio at AABP headquarters July 11-12, 2025. Details about this seminar, including the schedule of events, registration link and hotel information can be found under the Continuing Education menu then select Seminars or directly on this page . This semina...
May 19, 2025•27 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich reviews a paper published in The Bovine Practitioner with the first author Madeline Mancke from Kansas State University. The objective of this study was to determine potential associations between Cardiac Troponin I (cTnI) serum concentration of cattle at initial bovine respiratory disease (BRD) treatment with the risk of retreatment or mortality at 60 days. BRD is the most significant disease in beef cattle and is a major cause of morbidity and mortalit...
May 12, 2025•27 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Chris Chase, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Curt Vlietstra, Senior Professional Services Veterinarian with Boehringer Ingelheim. This episode is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, manufacturer of the Pyramid line of cattle vaccines. Find more information about Pyramid/Presponse vaccines by visiting this page . Adjuvants are a critical component of vaccines, but they can be an overlooked...
May 05, 2025•31 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an update on AABP membership dues in this episode of Have You Herd? The mission of the AABP is to provide support, continuing education and advocacy for current and future veterinary professionals and the cattle they serve. The vision of AABP is to serve society as leaders in cattle health, welfare and productivity. The current AABP dues year is July 1 to June 30. This dues year was established by the AABP Board of Directors in 1983 to reflect t...
Apr 28, 2025•24 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Drs. Al Martens and Nick Mayer from Waupun Veterinary Services in East Central Wisconsin. We are also joined by Katelyn Belding, a third-year student at Iowa State University who participated in a summer internship program at Waupun Veterinary Services. Our guests discuss the importance of externships for exposing students to cattle practice, providing experiences for them, making connections for future employment opportunities, and is a way...
Apr 21, 2025•32 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AVMA President Dr. Sandra Faeh Butler, AVMA Associate Executive Vice President and Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Gail Golab, and AVMA Associate Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy Officer Dr. Kent McClure. Faeh updates us on the current AVMA membership, which includes over 108,000 veterinarians and represents at 2.9% increase in membership over the past year. One very important aspect of AVMA activities to bovine veterinarians is advo...
Apr 14, 2025•36 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Sigrid Johannes from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association to discuss the updated USDA Animal Disease Traceability Rule which took effect in November 2024. This rule is an update of the 2013 rule and there was significant stakeholder input and collaboration with USDA to develop the final rule. It is important for veterinarians to understand the rule to work with their clients to ensure they are in compliance with the regulations. The mai...
Apr 07, 2025•57 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Chance Armstrong and Dr. Jennifer Koziol to discuss a paper published in the AABP peer-reviewed journal The Bovine Practitioner. The journal is available open-access and the target audience is practicing veterinarians. Veterinarians performing bull breeding soundness exams are often asked when they can vaccinate bulls, and much of the available research focuses on type and timing of vaccination on females. The objective of this study was...
Mar 31, 2025•21 min
In this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Brandon Treichler and Dr. Justine Britten to discuss the upcoming AABP Milk Quality Seminar. The seminar will be held in Ashland, Ohio, May 16-17, 2025. This seminar is approved for 15 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. The fee for the seminar is $450 and a local hotel block has been secured for just $129 per night which includes breakfast. Attendees are also provided lunch on bo...
Mar 24, 2025•24 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Phillip Jardon, extension veterinarian at Iowa State University and a member of the AABP Nutrition Committee. The goal of our podcast today is to discuss the upcoming Dairy Transition Cow Nutrition and Management Seminar. The seminar will be held in Ashland, Ohio, on April 25-26, 2025. This seminar is approved for 15 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. The fee for the seminar is $450 and a local h...
Mar 17, 2025•17 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Michelle Schack, the keynote presenter for the 8th AABP Recent Graduate Conference. Schack grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, with no access to cattle farms or 4-H and FFA programs. She decided to become a veterinarian early in life, but then realized companion animal practice did not suit her needs and she became interested in large animal medicine as an undergraduate and cattle production medicine at University of California-Davis ...
Feb 17, 2025•38 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Yung-Yi Mosley from the University of Georgia to discuss a recently published paper from the Bovine Practitioner to study the prevalence of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVD) on Florida and Georgia dairy farms. The purpose of the study was to do a follow-up investigation from a previous study that demonstrated a 38% prevalence of BVDV in those states in 2015-2016. Mosley walks through a general overview of BVDV including diagnostic testin...
Feb 10, 2025•31 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP member and Texas rancher Dr. Chris Womack to discuss the concerns about the New World Screwworm discovery in the southernmost state of Mexico. Womack discusses the history of this fly and an interesting story from his childhood of it being found on his father’s ranch in the mid-70s. New World Screwworm strikes live tissue in all mammals and can be a serious risk to newborn calves as well as adult animals. Flies are attracted to fresh wo...
Jan 27, 2025•36 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Past President Dr. Pat Gorden, a professor of dairy production medicine and clinical pharmacology at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. We review the meaning of violative drug residues and the most common medications used in cattle that have historically been associated with violative drug residues. Gorden also reviews both how animals are selected for testing and how withdrawal intervals are determined by drug sponso...
Jan 20, 2025•48 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Matt Miesner, Clinical Professor in the Livestock Services Section at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Safe restraint of cattle is important for human and animal safety but is also an important animal welfare consideration. Restraint is not only about chemical immobilization and the veterinarian should also consider how to handle the patient in a low-stress manner utilizing available facilities, but also other meth...
Jan 06, 2025•47 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Nigel Cook from the University of Wisconsin. Cook is a past-president of AABP, current member of the AABP Lameness Committee, and a life-long advocate for improving welfare of cows specifically focusing on lameness and facility design for cow comfort. Lameness is a significant welfare concern on dairy farms and Cook states that up to 22% of cows in the U.S. dairy herd walk with a noticeable limp. It is also often under-reported on dairy ...
Dec 30, 2024•40 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Justine Britten, a PhD animal scientist working at Udder Health Systems Inc . This episode is brought to you by the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee. AABP members with an interest in milk quality are invited to volunteer to serve on the committee. Find out more information about the committee by visiting this page . Staph aureus is a contagious mastitis pathogen and Britten states that every dairy is affected to some degree b...
Dec 23, 2024•44 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides and end-of-year update and a look forward to what AABP will have for its members in 2025. Gingrich begins by providing an update on the current HPAI outbreak affecting dairy cattle and reminding members of the resources available to them on the H5N1 page located here . The USDA dashboard of affected cases, funding opportunities, federal orders, biosecurity documents, and webinar recordings are available to AABP members. He encourages all veterin...
Dec 16, 2024•25 min
AABP Membership Committee chair Dr. Dan Cummings is the guest host for this episode of Have You Herd? on One Health. Guests for this podcast include AABP member Dr. John Groves, an exclusive beef cattle veterinarian in central Missouri, and Dr. Greg Gray, a human physician and Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Read Dr. Gray’s profile at this page . Our guests define what One Health means to them and how it applies to a pra...
Dec 02, 2024•29 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Sara Linneen, a PhD ruminant nutritionist on the beef cattle technical consultant team at Elanco Animal Health. The overarching theme for this episode is “nutrition is everything”, and Linneen walks us through how nutrition impacts all aspects of cow-calf production. We discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for wintering beef cows and determining how to supplement cows over the winter. Linneen also discusses how drought affect...
Nov 25, 2024•46 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Pat Gorden and Dr. Keith Poulsen to provide a situational update on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 disease outbreak in dairy cattle. This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim 3600 coverage. Every lactation cycle, cows are up against the threat of mastitis. Which really means you’re up against it, too. Thankfully, Boehringer Ingelheim has you covered with 360° coverage solutions. From prevention to treatme...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 14 min
It is time to vote for your 2025 AABP Vice President leader. AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the candidates for a question-and-answer period so members can get to know their candidates and cast their vote. Candidates for the 2025 ballot are Dr. Jen Roberts and Dr. Elizabeth Quesnell Kohtz. AABP provides several opportunities to get to know your candidates during the election period. This includes an introductory speech at the AABP Annual Conference, a question-and-answer d...
Nov 11, 2024•23 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the program committee for the upcoming 8th AABP Recent Graduate Conference. The program committee includes Dr. Cody Sacquitne, committee chair and AABP Emerging Leader, Dr. Colleen Potter, dairy chair, Dr. Patrick Schmitz, cow-calf chair, and Dr. Annika Johnson, feedlot chair. The conference will be held February 14-15, 2025 at the Embassy Suites in Norman, Oklahoma. There will also be pre-conference seminars on February 13 which offer addit...
Nov 04, 2024•32 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich has a conversation with current AABP President Dr. Dave Sjeklocha. We start with a little background about our president who is a graduate of Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Sjeklocha is currently a technical services veterinarian for Merck Animal Health and has focused his career on feedlot medicine and consulting. We start our conversation by discussing AABP Guidelines and Position Statements. These documents are publicly availa...
Oct 28, 2024•40 min
