Dec 13, 2024 | Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
By Deanne Meyer, Ph.D., Livestock Waste Management Specialist Dept. of Animal Science, UC Davis and UC ANR After more than a decade of legal discussions and analyses, the State Water Resources Control Board issued its remand draft Order for the Central Valley Dairy...
Aug 23, 2024 | Blog Posts, Quality Assurance Update
New research explains spread, financial assistance now available Surveillance sampling, including bulk tank and individual cow samples, has not yet detected HPAI in California. Across the nation however 192 U.S. dairy herds have been confirmed infected with “Bird...
Aug 1, 2024 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
The CDQAP will host free educational workshops in Del Norte, Humboldt, and Sonoma Counties for dairy producers in the North Coast (RB1 and RB2) to discuss getting the most out of manure nitrogen management. New results are available to share about manure nitrogen...
Apr 23, 2024 | Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Quality Assurance Update
Based on laboratory and epidemiologic studies disease investigators have concluded that wild birds introduced Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI, or “Bird Flu”) into one or more Midwestern dairy herds. The same viral strain isolated from clinical cows has also...
Apr 23, 2024 | Quality Assurance Update
HPAI in cattle has not been detected in California so the PPE precautions described below are not at this time required on our dairies. What to expect from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) should we start to see cases of HPAI on California dairies....
Apr 23, 2024 | Quality Assurance Update
By Dr. Michael Payne, UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine and Director, CDQAP For many producers there is a no more pressing concern than the identification of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle. As of this writing there has been laboratory...
