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Adapted by Dr. Michael Payne - Director, CDQAP Now is the time to manage corrals to reduce mud before El Nio is upon us.

Betsy Karle, UCCE Dairy Advisor, Northern Sacramento Valley Figure 1: BRD scoring system chart, available at: http://www.vmtrc.ucdavis.edu/.

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The landscape of pharmaceutical use on dairies is changing. Federal regulation that will require veterinary oversight for feeds, including milk replacer, containing medically important antibiotics (those that are also used in human medicine) will be fully implemented by January 1, 2017.

Adapted by Jennifer Heguy, UCCE Merced, Stanislaus & San Joaquin Counties Noelia Silva-del-Rio, UCCE Dairy Herd Health Specialist In summer 2014, we visited twenty San Joaquin Valley dairies during corn silage harvest, and sampled and composited five, consecutive truckloads of corn silage for nutrie...

Adapted by Deanne Meyer, Ph.D. - UCCE Livestock Waste Management Specialist, UC Davis Its the time of year again where the California Dairy Quality Assurance Program (CDQAP) goes through and checks the list of dairies certified in the Environmental Stewardship module of CDQAP.

Adapted by Dr. Jeff Dahlberg, Director UC-ANR Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.

Adapted by Rosala Lpez-Lpez, DVM & Noelia Silva-del-Ro, UCCE Dairy Herd Health Specialist When calcium demand for colostrum and milk production exceeds the calcium available in plasma, cows might suffer milk fever or hypocalcemia.

Adapted by Dr. Patricia Blanchard, California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory Salmonella can cause diarrhea in dairy cows and calves.

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