The University of Illinois offers a comprehensive on-line asynchronous learning experience in small animal dentistry for veterinary students. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) enforced a new mandate requiring all AVMA accredited colleges to include veterinary dentistry as part of their core curriculum. This course, along with hands-on laboratories and clinical rotations, will help provide veterinary […]
Online Courses Guide Animal Health Career Success Developing innovative educational programs to advance careers has a long history at the College of Veterinary Medicine. From the EVP certificate program for livestock practitioners, introduced in 1991, to our integrated veterinary curriculum, begun in 2009, the college has created distinctive credentials that deliver value for graduates. The […]
Change is coming for the meat industry. Consumers and governments are increasingly asking meat producers to track and report their antibiotic use per kilogram of meat. It’s not a matter of if but when penalties for noncompliance start. That doesn’t have to be a pure cost to producers, though – if producers manage to get ahead of the tracking, they can plan their data management
Prices for eggs and chicken meat will increase, but you probably don’t have to worry about the disease hopping to humans. Dr. Lowe explains in The Round Barn podcast that the flu receptors in humans (and pigs) are in different places than in birds, meaning that it’s possible but challenging and unlikely for the disease […]
The main live hog market in the U.S. is the lean hog market. Slaughter facilities for these hogs are located predominantly in pig-dense regions, and 95% of the animals are moved directly from farm of origin to a slaughter facility. In contrast, cull sows are gathered through a network of local collection points over a […]
In this week’s episode of The Round Barn, Dr. Jim Lowe and Dr. Ashley Mitek discuss African swine Fever (ASF) – how it evolved, what it means for the swine industry, where it’s spreading, and how that spread can and can’t be affected by human intervention. ASF is an extremely contagious viral disease. You won’t […]
With companion animal extension veterinarian Dr. Ashley Mitek and ASF expert Dr. Jim Lowe Each year about 1 million dogs arrive in the U.S., imported from other countries, according to 2019 estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although more recent data are not available, it’s likely that even more dogs entered the […]