picture Strathmore High Ag Science Class Visits the VMTRC

On Monday, 7 May, 2012, Instructor Jean Myers brought students from her Ag Science class over.  Dr. Lehenbauer  introduced them to our mission and how that is applied to ag science in our clinical programs, post graduate work, and laboratories.  Dr. Moeller, from the California Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) Laboratory System showed them [...]

picture UC Davis, U Illinois, and Ross U represented in 5 new students

Five new Dairy Production Medicine students are here for a few weeks.  Jen Arnall is a return student from UC. Davis, Erika Wiemer, Dallas Duncan and Natalie Schramer are here from University of Illinois.  Here from Ross University in the Caribbean is Allison Pustelak.

picture Nice Publicity for the The Dairy Heat Stress Road Show

The National DHIA magazine, DAIRYBUSINESS has an article on the Dairy Heat Stress Road Show.  Please follow this link to see their review.   http://dairybusiness.com/seo/headline.php?title=heat-stress-road-show-visits-vmtrc-tulare&date=2012-04-17&table=features

picture BSE Detected in the U.S.

USDA Chief Veterinary Officer, John Clifford, has confirmed that a routine surveillance sample obtained from the carcass of a dairy cow from California’s Central Valley was positive for the atypical strain of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Press releases and information about BSE can be found on USDA’s web site at www.usda.gov/BSE or the CA Department of Food & [...]