May 4, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
Wondering how you can help? CDQAP, NMPF & USDA all have resources. May is national Mental Health Awareness month and between flooding, activists, milk prices and passing of friends, there is no shortage of stress for California farmers. CDQAP – CDQAP has...
May 4, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts
After 37 years of service to the dairy industry, George Salsa returns home. George Salsa died on Monday, May 1st of natural causes. That day the dairy industry and the CDQAP family lost one of their truest friends and greatest assets. The grief we share in the...
Apr 21, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
By Dr. Michael Payne, UC Davis, School of Vet. Medicine; Director, CDQAP Producers impacted by historic storms are still struggling to recover, even as they face the continued threat of flooding from spring snow melt. On April 11, USDA and CDFA delivered a webinar...
Feb 28, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
By Dr. Michael Payne, UC Davis, School of Vet. Medicine; Director, CDQAP Producer’s wanting to reduce antibiotic use should consider Selective Dry Cow Therapy, but it won’t be for everyone. Since the 1940s, as human medicine’s dependence on antibiotics has...
Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
By Dr. Michael Payne, UC Davis, School of Vet. Medicine; Director, CDQAP While anti-livestock activists commonly misrepresent animal care practices, to exploit farmers wrestling with natural disasters seems particularly manipulative. Following a levee breech a Merced...
Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
Actions producers can take in-between rain storms. By Dr. Michael Payne and Denise Mullinax, CDQAP Any producer who’s wrestled with local flooding, corral ponding and mud knows it’s easier to take preventative measures before the storms than it is to address them once...
