Livestock & Range

Gaby Maier is the UCCE Specialist for Beef Cattle Herd Health and Production at UC Davis . She is conducting a study looking at antimicrobial resistance in bacteria in the feces of mother cows and unweaned calves.

On July 1, 2019 two laws related to ammunition went into effect in California: 1) California State Assembly Bill AB 711: Hunting: nonlead ammunition and 2) California Proposition 63: The Safety for All Act of 2016 (see page 163).

On June 6, 2019 UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) and burn boss Phil Dye led a 2.7-acre prescribed burn on a ranch in Bitterwater.

A research project on service-grazing by sheep and goat producers is being conducted by Erin Campbell-Craven, a graduate student in the Department of Animal Science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

The Animal Science Department of University of California, Davis is conducting a survey in order to design an effective rancher educational program. All collected information will remain anonymous, and will be used to improve educational programs as well as continue to benefit to the beef industry.