Digest This! We all know that we need fiber in our diet.  Just run a web search on “dietary fiber” and you will find a plethora of sites espousing its virtues.  The benefits range from improving weight loss to lowering blood sugar.  Apparently cows also benefit from dietary fiber.  The digestibility of the feed and [...]

We extend a warm VMTRC welcome to the first group of Dairy Production Medicine Students of the 2012 – 2013 academic year.   Conner Enz and Steffani Hall are from UCDavis, Eric Rooker from Wisconsin, and Haley Andersen from Penn.  They will be studying under the direction of Dr. John Champagne and our resident clinicians.

Dave Caetano, Instructor at the Tulare Joint Union High School District Farm brought four members of the Future Farmers of Japan to visit our site 26 July 2012.  Dr. Terry Lehenbauer welcomed the guests and communicated the teaching research, and service missions of the VMTRC.  Dr. John Adaska described the mission of the CAHFS Laboratory [...]

UC Davis and The Education & Agriculture Together Foundation, commonly known as the E.A.T. Foundation, joined together on July 10, 2012 to help increase the knowledge and experiences of educators in the Agriculture industry.  Dr. Pat Blanchard, CAHFS Tulare Branch Chief described the breadth of the CAHFS diagnostic services which are used in disease surveillance [...]

Thank you again to the EAT Foundation, for bringing Elementary- Middle- and High- School teachers to our site.  The 26 educators were introduced to the disease surveillance activities of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System by Dr. Pat Blanchard.  They heard an overview of the preparation for Veterinary School and the training [...]