AABP Executive Director is joined by Dr. Justin Kieffer, a Clinical Veterinarian Associate Professor at The Ohio State University to discuss a paper published in June 2023 in Translational Animal Science. The paper evaluated a water-based medium-expansion foam as a method for depopulation of adult cattle. Kieffer defines depopulation and euthanasia…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jeffery Hall, a technical services veterinarian with Huvepharma and the coordinator for an AABP seminar titled "Practice Applicable Beef Cow Nutrition.” AABP recognizes the challenge of attending seminars before the conference and has expanded our CE offerings to include seminars outside of…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Clint Stonecipher, a rangeland management specialist with the US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service - Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory. Stonecipher was the first author of the paper published in Volume 58 Number 1 in the Bovine Practitioner. Salvia reflexa is a pla…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by guest Dr. Sharif Aly, an epidemiologist at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare, Calif. Aly graduated from Cairo University and practiced in Egypt before coming to the United States for advanced studies in preventive medicine and epidemiology. His team developed and pu…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Pat Gorden and Dr. Michelle Buckley from Iowa State University to discuss two publications from the Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2, 2023. Links to the published papers are at the end of the podcast show notes. Our guests review the use of internal teat sealants and some of the chall…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Gerard Cramer, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and current chair of the AABP Lameness Committee. This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their 360 mastitis portfolio. What’s in your cattle tool care kit? Experience the power of complete mastitis care at choo…

In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Michelle Barrett and Dr. Becky Funk. Both guests have served on the Amstutz Scholarship Committee and Funk is the past-chair of the AABP Foundation. Our guests discuss the scholarship application process, how scholarships are reviewed, and offer tips for filling out the application. S…

In this episode of the AABP Have You Herd? podcast, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an update for AABP member resources. The AABP dues renewal season is now open. We welcome all cattle veterinarians, veterinary technicians and veterinary students to join AABP or renew their dues by going to this link. AABP is primarily funded by …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Juan Rodrigo Pedraza, AABP member and Zoetis Technical Services Veterinarian. This episode is brought to you by the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee. Pedraza starts by explaining what is parlor efficiency and throughput and why it is important for dairy farms. He cautions that r…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP member Dr. Keely Shine in this episode to discuss the importance of physical health and activity to improving sustainability in bovine practice. Shine graduate from the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2022 and immediately opened her own mixed large animal ambula…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Felipe Peña Mosca and Dr. Sandra Godden for this episode to discuss a paper that is available in the online first edition of The Bovine Practitioner, “Methods of processing recycled manure solids bedding on Midwest dairy farms II: Relationships between bedding characteristics and bedding ba…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Lee Jones, technical services veterinarian with Boehringer-Ingelheim. Dr. Jones was previously an extension veterinarian at the University of Georgia and the attending veterinarian for this clinical case report published in The Bovine Practitioner, Volume 57, Number 2. Hairy vetch (Vicia vi…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Conrad Schelkopf to discuss a recent paper published in The Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2. Conrad is a dual DVM/PhD student at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The title of the paper is “Comparison of electronic nose and conventional cow-side diagnostic tools for…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Clair Windeyer, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This podcast is brought to you by the ad hoc AABP Cattle Youngstock Committee. If you are interested in joining an AABP committee, please go to the committee page on the AABP website to find a c…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Reinaldo Cooke, a professor at Texas A&M Animal Sciences Department. Cooke was one of the investigators on a paper published in the AABP Bovine Practitioner Volume 57 Number 2, “Effect of maternal bovine appeasing substance on health and performance of preweaned dairy calves”. Maternal appe…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Anne Murphy and Dr. Karin Orsel in this episode to discuss a common cause of lameness, digital dermatitis. Our guests start by describing this disease that was first identified in 1972 and has spread around the world. The disease is seen in most dairy farms in the U.S. as well as in feedlot…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Miles Theurer from Veterinary Research and Consulting Services. Theurer was the lead author of the paper “Evaluation of the treatment efficacy of generic enrofloxacin compared to pioneer enrofloxacin for first treatment of naturally occurring bovine respiratory disease in a commercial feedl…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Hubert Karreman. This podcast is brought to you by the AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues. Dr. Karreman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and has many years of experience working with organic production systems as a veterinarian. Karreman discusses what…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Joe Gillespie, Senior Professional Services Veterinarian with Boehringer Ingelheim, and Dr. Chris Chase, professor at South Dakota State University, to discuss vaccination of calves for bovine respiratory disease in the face of maternal antibodies. This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer In…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an end-of-year update for AABP members. If you need your CE certificates to submit for your license renewal, go to https://aabp.org then hover over your name in the upper right corner and select "My CE Certificates" to view, print or save your CE certificates to your files. You can also find your d…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jennifer Koziol, a board certified theriogenologist from Texas Tech University, to discuss the publication in The Bovine Practitioner on sample collection for Tritrichomonas foetus. This project was funded by the AABP Foundation Competitive Research Grant. The AABP Foundation funds clinical…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jesse Robbins and Dr. Brett Boyum to discuss this recent publication in the AABP peer-reviewed journal The Bovine Practitioner. This is a follow-up publication that evaluated a secondary method for euthanasia using a penetrating captive bolt (PCB) in youngstock to validate this procedure in…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the program committee for the 2024 AABP Recent Graduate Conference. The chair of the committee is Dr. Nicholas Shen and he is joined by the other beef coordinator Dr. Andy Harding and dairy session coordinators Dr. Rachel O’Leary and Dr. Ryan Wood. The conference CE sessions and preconference s…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the 2024 candidates, Dr. Mark Hilton and Dr. Brandon Treichler, for the office of AABP Vice President. The ballot is now open and will close on December 29, 2023 at 5 pm Eastern. All AABP members who are veterinarians, honor roll, graduate students and veterinary technicians are eligible to vot…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP treasurer and member of the Veterinary Practice Sustainability Committee, Dr. Brian Reed to discuss the practice management workshops that AABP will offer over the next three years. The workshops are funded by a USDA NIFA grant and attendance is free for those applicants selected to attend…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Maurice Cottman, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine. This episode of Have You Herd is sponsored by Merck Animal Health. Visit this link to find out more about the BRD solutions available from Merck Animal Health. Cottman pre…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Hans Coetzee, Professor and Head, Anatomy and Physiology at Kansas State University, and Dr. Lowell Midla, technical services veterinarian for Merck Animal Health. Coetzee reviews why pain and fever management are important in cattle and the challenges associated with managing pain in cattl…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Geoffrey Smith, a Technical Services Veterinary for Zoetis and member of the AABP ad hoc Cattle Youngstock Committee. If you are interested in joining the Cattle Youngstock Committee, please go to the committee page and click the link to send an email with your request. Include a brief bio …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides a wrap-up from the 56th AABP Annual Conference, held in Milwaukee, Wis., September 21-23, 2023. We had a total of nearly 1,500 attendees at the conference including attendees, guests, students and exhibitor booth representatives which is consistent with our pre-pandemic attendance numbers. Gingrich…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Bob Smith, Dr. Kathy Bjork and Marlene Azvedo to discuss the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. We start the conversation by describing the VMLRP history and funding. The VMLRP is…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Miriam Martin, Director of Animal Health and Welfare and the North American Meat Institute, and Dr. Michael Kleinhenz, Clinical Associate Professor in Dairy Cattle Production at Texas A&M Vero for this episode to discuss the paper that was published in the Journal of Dairy Science that was …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides information and tips for those attending the conference in Milwaukee September 21-23, 2023. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Allflex. Find out more information by visiting this page. The conference will be held at the Wisconsin Center District which is the convention center located at…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Wrenn Calcutt who graduated from Virginia Tech College of Veterinary Medicine in 2021. This podcast is supported by Merck Animal Health and the Bovilis Vista Once SQ vaccine. To find out more information, visit this page. Calcutt provides some guidance for veterinarians who are seeking new …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP President Dr. Sandra Godden. This episode of Have You Herd is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their portfolio of 3600 mastitis coverage. Find out more at this link. Dr. Godden was an author on the paper published in the AABP peer-reviewed journal, The Bovine Practitioner. The journal…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Merck Animal Health Technical Services Veterinarian Dr. Deana Hardee for this episode to discuss uses of florfenicol in cattle practice. We start this episode with a brief overview of the different classes of antimicrobials used in cattle and how they might fit into a bovine respiratory disease…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by veterinarians from Heritage Veterinary Partners which is a veterinary partnership specializing in large and mixed animal practices. Guests on this episode include Dr. Dan Cummings from Tennessee, Dr. Oliver Irons from West Virginia and Dr. Amanda Onan from Wisconsin. Cummings also serves as the…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Matthew May, Director of Production Services at Feedlot Health Management Services by Telus Agriculture. This episode of AABP's Have You Herd? podcast is sponsored by Lactipro. Lactipro is a rumen-native probiotic consisting of a live, stable and naturally occurring strain of Mega e. Lactip…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP registered veterinary technician member Pamela Armstrong. Armstrong is the author of a case study novel treatment paper published in The Bovine Practitioner titled “Urolithiasis: Review and case description of a Wagyu feeder steer with struvite crystalluria and urolithiasis treated with ca…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by two beef producers – Craig Bieber of Beiber Red Angus and Cole Ratzburg of Bobcat Angus. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Merck Animal Health, makers of Bovilis Vista Once SQ. It’s shown effective against the major causes of BRD plus Pasteurella multocida and BVD Type 1b. Give cal…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President Dr. Dave Sjeklocha to discuss the preconference seminars at the upcoming AABP Annual Conference Sept. 21-23 in Milwaukee, Wis. Preconference seminars are offered Sunday through Wednesday of the conference and provide an opportunity for members to take advanced continuing edu…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP President-Elect and program committee chair Dr. Michael Capel to discuss the 56th AABP Annual Conference which will be held September 21-23, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wis. AABP is appreciative of the efforts from the program committee to plan the continuing education sessions for beef, dairy, sma…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich has a conversation with District 1 Director Dr. Liz Brock on how mindfulness meditation has impacted both of their lives in a positive way. They share their stories about their messy lives and how they have incorporated meditation practice to improve mental health, reduce stress and anxiety, manage work-lif…

-AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Josh Szasz, a veterinarian with Five Rivers Cattle Feeding. Szasz is the lead author on the paper published in The Bovine Practitioner Volume 56 Number 2 titled “Health and performance outcomes from a randomized clinical trial of post-metaphylactic intervals following tildipirosin metaphyl…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Merck Animal Health Technical Services Veterinarian Dr. Brent Meyer. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Merck Animal Health. Could your cattle be more covered for BRD? If you’re not using Bovilis Vista Once SQ, the answer is yes! It’s shown effective against the major causes of BRD …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by members of the Animal Welfare Committee to discuss the recently revised Guidelines for the Humane Euthanasia of Cattle. Joining us in this episode is Dr. Liz Brock, District 1 Director and Vice-Chair, Dr. Meggan Hain, Chair, and Dr. Brett Boyum. Brock discusses the AABP policy for developing an…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Alexis Thompson, the lead author on the paper published in The Bovine Practitioner Vol. 56 No. 2 titled “Failed transfer of passive immunity is a component cause of pre-weaning disease in beef and dairy calves: A systematic review and meta-analysis”. The objective of the paper was to conduc…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an advocacy update for the membership in this episode of the AABP Have You Herd? podcast. Gingrich begins the podcast by explaining how AABP staff and volunteers work with allied organizations to advocate for veterinary issues important to cattle practitioners. He encourages our members to join AVM…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Pippa Gibbons, chair of the AABP Food Animal Educators Task Force, and Dr. Arn Anderson, AABP Board of Directors representative for District 8. Our topic is discussing the importance of externships for veterinary students and how this can impact retention and recruitment in bovine or mixed …

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members from the Saskatoon Colostrum Company Limited (SCCL), Dr. Travis White, Director of Veterinary Technical Services, and Dr. Mike Nagorske, Director of Research. This episode is sponsored by SCCL and you can find information about their company on their website. If you are an AABP mem…

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Eric Moore, an AABP member who is Director of Technical Services at Norbrook. Guidance for Industry (GFI) #263 is part of the FDA’s five-year plan which will move the remaining medically important antimicrobials under veterinary oversight. This means that all medically important antimicrobi…