Jul 14, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
CDFA funds CDRF research to pave the way for emergency carcass composting. By Dr. Michael Payne, UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine and Director, CDQAP Every producer who has experienced a rendering service disruption has shared the same frustration. When the...
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...
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...
