AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the Dr. Alison Vander Plaats, chair of the AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues (CPBI). This podcast was created to update cattle veterinarians and farmers about extra label drug use (ELDU) and FDA’s stance on the use of aspirin in cattle. With the current HPAI H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle, it is critical that veterinarians understand how to develop treatment protocols that are in compliance with current regulatory positions...
Oct 14, 2024•24 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides a wrap-up of the 57th AABP Annual Conference. Gingrich walks through registration numbers and answers some of the questions and comments submitted in the post-conference feedback survey. Eight-six percent of respondents to the survey rated the conference four or five stars. He also discusses how AABP books conference locations and some of the requirements placed on the organization for food and beverage costs as well as hotel room block requirem...
Sep 23, 2024•27 min
Annual 57th AABP Annual Conference Helpful Hints AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich welcomes you to Columbus, Ohio, for the 57th AABP Annual Conference. Special thanks to the program committee, led by Dr. Dave Sjeklocha and seminar chair Dr. Callie Willingham for planning the scientific CE for this conference. The theme of the conference is “Challenging the Norm”. Gingrich walks through some of the sessions and events from the conference, including thanking our sponsors for their support ...
Sep 07, 2024•33 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by three veterinarians from Heritage Veterinary Partners, Dr. Luke Strehle, Dr. Tera Barnhardt and Dr. Dan Cummings. Cummings also serves as the AABP Membership Committee chair. This episode is sponsored by Heritage Veterinary Partners, a community of rural mixed animal and food animal veterinarians. Find out more information about Heritage Veterinary Partners at this link . Rural veterinary practice can be isolating, especially for recent grad...
Sep 02, 2024•26 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Brad White from the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute to discuss a paper published in the Bovine Practitioner titled “Risk factors Associated with Case Fatality and Treatment Success following Initial Bovine Respiratory Disease Treatment in Feedyard Cattle”. This paper was a retrospective analysis of existing feedyard data to identify potential relationships between risk factors known at the time of initial treatment for bovi...
Aug 26, 2024•32 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Eric Moore from Norbrook Laboratories, and Dr. John Sharpe, a practicing veterinarian in Kansas and a 2023 graduate of Kansas State University. This podcast is sponsored by Norbrook. Having the right antibiotics is critical to successfully treating seasonal diseases. Norbrook offers a variety of effective and value driven solutions such as Noromycin 300 LA, Norfenicol Injectable Solution, Tulieve Injectable Solution, Enroflox 100 Injecta...
Aug 19, 2024•34 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the chair of the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee, Dr. Pam Ruegg, to discuss a new resource available to AABP members that was developed by the committee. This episode is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their 360 mastitis portfolio. Find out more information at this link . Join us in Columbus, Ohio at the 57th AABP Annual Conference and visit the BI booth in the trade show and attend the opening reception on Wednesday, Sept...
Aug 12, 2024•33 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. John Angelos, University of California-Davis, and Dr. Dustin Loy, Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center, to discuss infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), commonly referred to as pinkeye. This is a multi-factorial disease that can sometimes be difficult to manage during outbreak situations. Our conversation begins as a review of the major pathogens associated with IBK which includes Moraxella bovis and Mycoplasma bovoculi which ar...
Jul 22, 2024•41 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP President Elect and AABP Annual Conference Program Chair Dr. Dave Sjeklocha. Sjeklocha thanks his program committee who are volunteer AABP members who develop the content for the conference. The theme of the conference is “Challenge the Norm” and Sjeklocha states he picked this theme to encourage members to challenge themselves with what they are doing for their clients and continue to improve and advance their practice. The keynote spe...
Jul 15, 2024•45 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President and Preconference Seminar chair Dr. Callie Willingham to discuss the many opportunities for advanced learning in seminars at the upcoming AABP conference, Sept. 12-14, in Columbus, Ohio (preconference are Sept. 8-11, others are during conference). Seminars are small group meetings led by an expert faculty and are approved for 8 hours per day of additional continuing education credits. We discuss how seminars that we have ...
Jul 08, 2024•32 min
In this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Richard Doak to discuss the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their 360 coverage mastitis portfolio. For more information, visit this link . Doak begins the discussion by explaining why it is important to have a national dairy farm audit program to demonstrate continual improvement to mi...
Jul 01, 2024•43 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Isaac Jumper, Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine to discuss the paper “Case-control study to identify management practices associated with morbidity or mortality due to bovine anaplasmosis in Mississippi cow-calf herds” published in the Bovine Practitioner and available open-access in the online first edition. Jumper starts by discussing bovine anaplasmosis and the challenges associated wit...
Jun 11, 2024•31 min
In the 200th episode of the AABP Have you Herd? podcast, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jessican Klabnik, a theriogenologist on faculty at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. Klabnik was one of the authors on a paper published in the Online First edition of the Bovine Practitioner. This case series paper evaluated the surgical success and reproductive performance of bulls undergoing surgery for correction of penile deviation. Klabnik reviews penile devia...
Jun 03, 2024•18 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP member Dr. Dave Krahn to discuss a disease that may be unfamiliar to many listeners – infection from hematogenous mycoplasma species. Krahn has been a practicing dairy veterinarian in central Wisconsin since graduating from veterinary school in 1989. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Addison Biological Laboratories, manufacturers of MAXI/GUARD Pinkeye Bacterin and Moraxella bovoculi bacterin to protect your herd before pink...
May 27, 2024•34 min
AABP Executive Director is joined by Dr. Justin Kieffer, a Clinical Veterinarian Associate Professor at The Ohio State University to discuss a paper published in June 2023 in Translational Animal Science. The paper evaluated a water-based medium-expansion foam as a method for depopulation of adult cattle. Kieffer defines depopulation and euthanasia as well as describing the differences between the two terms. Euthanasia methods can be used for depopulation, however limitations can make them diffi...
May 20, 2024•37 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jeffery Hall, a technical services veterinarian with Huvepharma and the coordinator for an AABP seminar titled "Practice Applicable Beef Cow Nutrition.” AABP recognizes the challenge of attending seminars before the conference and has expanded our CE offerings to include seminars outside of the annual and recent graduate conferences. The purpose of these seminars are to offer a small group setting where attendees can go home and immediat...
May 13, 2024•25 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Clint Stonecipher, a rangeland management specialist with the US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service - Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory. Stonecipher was the first author of the paper published in Volume 58 Number 1 in the Bovine Practitioner. Salvia reflexa is a plant in the mint family sometimes known as lance leaf sage and often is seen on dry range pastures. Stonecipher reviews this case report which affected ...
May 06, 2024•16 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by guest Dr. Sharif Aly, an epidemiologist at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare, Calif. Aly graduated from Cairo University and practiced in Egypt before coming to the United States for advanced studies in preventive medicine and epidemiology. His team developed and published the BRD 100 and BRD 10K studies to identify various risk factors for Bovine Respirator Disease (BRD) in dairy calves. Aly explains the inciden...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 3 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Pat Gorden and Dr. Michelle Buckley from Iowa State University to discuss two publications from the Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2, 2023. Links to the published papers are at the end of the podcast show notes. Our guests review the use of internal teat sealants and some of the challenges with producer use of internal teat sealants. We also review the importance of equivalence studies for practicing veterinarians, who are the targ...
Apr 22, 2024•38 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Gerard Cramer, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and current chair of the AABP Lameness Committee. This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their 360 mastitis portfolio. What’s in your cattle tool care kit? Experience the power of complete mastitis care at choose360coverage.com . The topic of the discussion is to walk through a research project that was funded by the AABP Foundation to investigate a model fo...
Apr 15, 2024•21 min
In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Michelle Barrett and Dr. Becky Funk. Both guests have served on the Amstutz Scholarship Committee and Funk is the past-chair of the AABP Foundation. Our guests discuss the scholarship application process, how scholarships are reviewed, and offer tips for filling out the application. Students who qualify for a scholarship should consider applying using the links on the Students menu of the AABP website. We discuss the requirement fo...
Apr 08, 2024•26 min
In this episode of the AABP Have You Herd? podcast, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an update for AABP member resources. The AABP dues renewal season is now open. We welcome all cattle veterinarians, veterinary technicians and veterinary students to join AABP or renew their dues by going to this link . AABP is primarily funded by membership dues and we utilize dues revenue to provide resources to our members. Gingrich reviews three major buckets of activity from the organizati...
Apr 01, 2024•15 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Juan Rodrigo Pedraza, AABP member and Zoetis Technical Services Veterinarian. This episode is brought to you by the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee. Pedraza starts by explaining what is parlor efficiency and throughput and why it is important for dairy farms. He cautions that recommendations to improve parlor efficiency should not sacrifice quality milk production and veterinarians can consult dairy clients on steps to impro...
Mar 25, 2024•44 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP member Dr. Keely Shine in this episode to discuss the importance of physical health and activity to improving sustainability in bovine practice. Shine graduate from the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2022 and immediately opened her own mixed large animal ambulatory practice. She is also the owner of a CrossFit gym and is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and currently serves in the Navy Reserves. Shine defines func...
Mar 18, 2024•31 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Felipe Peña Mosca and Dr. Sandra Godden for this episode to discuss a paper that is available in the online first edition of The Bovine Practitioner, “Methods of processing recycled manure solids bedding on Midwest dairy farms II: Relationships between bedding characteristics and bedding bacterial count.” This is a companion paper that we previously discussed on Episode 165 of Have You Herd? which evaluated recycled manure solids process...
Feb 26, 2024•25 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Lee Jones, technical services veterinarian with Boehringer-Ingelheim. Dr. Jones was previously an extension veterinarian at the University of Georgia and the attending veterinarian for this clinical case report published in The Bovine Practitioner, Volume 57, Number 2. Hairy vetch ( Vicia villosa ) is a forage, and intoxication from the plant has been described in the literature, although this is a very unusual case. This case affected o...
Feb 19, 2024•25 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Conrad Schelkopf to discuss a recent paper published in The Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2. Conrad is a dual DVM/PhD student at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The title of the paper is “Comparison of electronic nose and conventional cow-side diagnostic tools for detection of ketosis in early lactation dairy cows”. We review the various types of ketones that are measure by different diagnostic tests in dairy c...
Feb 12, 2024•32 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Clair Windeyer, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This podcast is brought to you by the ad hoc AABP Cattle Youngstock Committee. If you are interested in joining an AABP committee, please go to the committee page on the AABP website to find a committee of interest and on each committee page is a contact button to let us know you would like to join. We start our podcast by explaining the diff...
Feb 05, 2024•28 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Reinaldo Cooke, a professor at Texas A&M Animal Sciences Department. Cooke was one of the investigators on a paper published in the AABP Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2, “Effect of maternal bovine appeasing substance on health and performance of preweaned dairy calves”. Maternal appeasing pheromone is secreted by the mammary gland of all lactating animals and the MBAS is an analog of that pheromone for use in cattle. The subst...
Jan 29, 2024•25 min
AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Anne Murphy and Dr. Karin Orsel in this episode to discuss a common cause of lameness, digital dermatitis. Our guests start by describing this disease that was first identified in 1972 and has spread around the world. The disease is seen in most dairy farms in the U.S. as well as in feedlots and cow-calf operations. Even though the disease has been identified on many farms for many years, we do not know the exact mechanism of the disease...
Jan 22, 2024•24 min
