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Have You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 255 – New World Screwworm UpdateAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Chris Ashworth, Global Veterinarian for Zinpro Performance Minerals and Dr. Dave Sjeklocha, technical services veterinarian for Merck Animal Health to discuss New World Screwworm (NWS). Recently, the United States Animal Health Association and National Institute of Animal Agriculture hosted an NWS symposium in Kansas City which was sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Foundation, Merck Animal Health and Elanco. Both of our guests attended and are providing an update from that symposium. NWS was recently discovered in Nuevo Leon, Mexico which is 70 miles south of t...
2025-10-1331 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 254 – AABP Member Survey ResultsAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich reviews some of the survey results available on the AABP website. Find all survey results under the Member Resources tab of the AABP website or directly at this link. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and the 360° coverage mastitis portfolio. From prevention to treatment options designed for judicious antibiotic use, the 360° coverage mastitis portfolio has the products you need to defend udders at every angle. Find out more information by visiting this link. AABP administers a survey to graduating seniors to collect data on thei...
2025-10-0640 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 253 – Feedback from the 58th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides information about the 58th AABP conference and feedback from the post-conference survey. If you have feedback that you would like to provide for consideration in future conferences, you can email fred@aabp.org before October 31. Eighty-eight percent of respondents ranked the conference good or great indicating a successful AABP annual conference providing continuing education, a trade show, great beef and dairy products, and networking opportunities. Gingrich reminds attendees of the conference that CE certificates are available by logging in to the AABP website, hover over...
2025-09-2922 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 252 – Tips for Attending the 58th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director joins you from Omaha, Neb. to welcome everyone to the 58th AABP Annual Conference and provide some tips for your planning.Arrivals at the Omaha airport can take ride share (Uber/Lyft) or taxis from the airport to the hotel area. The airport, as well as areas around the hotels, are under construction and ride share pickups are in the lower ground level of the parking garage at the airport. The airport is a 10-minute ride from the hotel area. Preconference seminar attendees should go directly to their seminar room to get t...
2025-09-0837 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 247 – Certified Semen ServicesAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Lahmers, Chief Veterinary Officer, and Dr. Tony Good, Vice President of Production Operations, from Select Sires, Inc. Both Good and Lahmers also serve on the Board of Directors of Certified Semen Services. This episode of Have You Herd? is brought to you by the AABP Reproduction Committee. Certified Semen Services (CSS) was established in 1976 and is a subsidiary of the National Association Animal Breeders. The primary purpose of the program is to prevent the spread of disease through semen and is considered to be t...
2025-08-0419 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Have You Herd? Podcast – Epi. 244 – What Do Your Clients Need to Do to Prepare for an ICE Raid?AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Rick Naerebout, executive director of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association to discuss the impacts of immigration raids on dairy and beef operations. Veterinarians play a key role in working with their clients on a variety of labor issues. Helping clients prepare for a potential ICE raid is a conversation that veterinarians may consider having as they work with the caregivers on these operations. The intent of this podcast is for general advice and discussion purposes and not be construed as legal advice which should come from a l...
2025-07-1421 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Have You Herd? Podcast – Epi. 243 – 58th AABP Annual Conference with Dr. Callie WillinghamAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Callie Willingham, AABP President Elect and chair of the 2025 AABP Annual Conference program. The theme of the conference is “Focus on Value” which was taken from the Warren Buffet quote, “Cost is what you pay for something, and value is what you get.” The conference will be held at the CHI Convention Center in Omaha, Neb., September 11-13. The keynote speaker is Natasha Nicholes from “We Sow, We Grow”, an urban garden collective on the south side of Chicago. Nicholes will present “Bridging Fields: Aligning the Values of U...
2025-07-0740 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Have You Herd? Podcast – Epi. 242 – 2025 AABP Preconference Seminars with Dr. Mark HiltonAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President Dr. Mark Hilton. In his role as vice president, Hilton manages the preconference seminars for the 2025 AABP Annual conference. Preconference seminars are small group sessions with a focused continuing education topic. Each seminar is approved for eight hours of continuing education per day. The advantages of seminars include additional continuing education for attendees, teaching a specific set of skills on topics relevant to bovine practitioners, and networking and engaging with faculty and attendees who are interested in the same subject. Seminars are in-depth a...
2025-06-3044 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 241 – Incomes and Satisfaction among Bovine Focused Veterinary Practitioners in the United States and Canada – Sponsored by Boehringer IngelheimAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Sarah Wager, Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean at Texas Tech University College of Veterinary Medicine. Wagner is the principal investigator for a survey of bovine veterinarians and the results of this research were published in the AABP peer-reviewed journal The Bovine Practitioner. This episode of Have You Herd? is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Bacteria can strike udders from any angle. The dairy health portfolio that rises to the challenge is Mastitis 360 by Boehringer Ingelheim. It offers powerful solutions for lactation through dry-off. So, manage udder health wi...
2025-06-2335 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 240 – Mentorship and its Impacts on Mental Health and Well-beingAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Jackie Graber, chair of the AABP Mental Health and Well-Being Committee, Dr. Gabe Middleton and Dr. Alissa Wilhelm. This podcast is brought to you by the AABP Mental Health and Well-Being Committee. Graber discusses the importance of this committee for AABP members and committee resources and activities. Find AABP committee resources on this page and information about the committee here. Volunteers are needed for this committee, and our guests encourage any members interested in the committee to go to the committee page and click on the email...
2025-06-1646 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 238 – AABP Edwin Robertson Beginning Embryo Transfer SeminarAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Bill Croushore and Dr. Greg Schueller to discuss the upcoming AABP embryo transfer seminar. The seminar will take place at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., July 28-30, 2025. The seminar has been approved for 24 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. This seminar will include didactic lectures to introduce concepts of embryo transfer including scheduling donors, physiology of superovulation and synchronization, non-surgical embryo collection, cryopreservation, recipient synchronization, non-surgical transfer and principles of in vitro fertilization (IVF). The group will then be provided with a...
2025-06-0234 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 236 – AABP Stocker Management SeminarAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the faculty that will teach the upcoming AABP Stocker Management Seminar. The faculty include Dr. John Groves, Dr. Dan Cummings and Dr. John Richeson. The seminar will take place in Ashland, Ohio at AABP headquarters July 11-12, 2025. Details about this seminar, including the schedule of events, registration link and hotel information can be found under the Continuing Education menu then select Seminars or directly on this page. This seminar has been approved for 15.5 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. The fee for the seminar is $450 and...
2025-05-1926 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 233 – AABP Dues and Membership UpdateAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides an update on AABP membership dues in this episode of Have You Herd? The mission of the AABP is to provide support, continuing education and advocacy for current and future veterinary professionals and the cattle they serve. The vision of AABP is to serve society as leaders in cattle health, welfare and productivity. The current AABP dues year is July 1 to June 30. This dues year was established by the AABP Board of Directors in 1983 to reflect the timing of the Annual Conference in the fall. Much has changed at...
2025-04-2823 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 232 - Creating a Structured Internship Program in Your PracticeAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Drs. Al Martens and Nick Mayer from Waupun Veterinary Services in East Central Wisconsin. We are also joined by Katelyn Belding, a third-year student at Iowa State University who participated in a summer internship program at Waupun Veterinary Services. Our guests discuss the importance of externships for exposing students to cattle practice, providing experiences for them, making connections for future employment opportunities, and is a way for veterinarians to give back to the future generation of cattle veterinarians. We discuss the differences between an externship, which i...
2025-04-2132 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 229 – Assessing Bull Breeding Soundness Exam Parameters Following Vaccination with Modified-live or Killed VaccineAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Chance Armstrong and Dr. Jennifer Koziol to discuss a paper published in the AABP peer-reviewed journal The Bovine Practitioner. The journal is available open-access and the target audience is practicing veterinarians. Veterinarians performing bull breeding soundness exams are often asked when they can vaccinate bulls, and much of the available research focuses on type and timing of vaccination on females. The objective of this study was to determine if and how multivalent vaccines (modified-live and killed) affect spermatogenesis in bulls, measured by the percentage o...
2025-03-3121 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 228 – AABP Milk Quality SeminarIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Brandon Treichler and Dr. Justine Britten to discuss the upcoming AABP Milk Quality Seminar. The seminar will be held in Ashland, Ohio, May 16-17, 2025. This seminar is approved for 15 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. The fee for the seminar is $450 and a local hotel block has been secured for just $129 per night which includes breakfast. Attendees are also provided lunch on both days of the seminar. AABP is offering these seminars outside of the annual and recent graduate conference to expand...
2025-03-2423 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEp. 227 - Dairy Transition Cow Nutrition and Management SeminarAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Phillip Jardon, extension veterinarian at Iowa State University and a member of the AABP Nutrition Committee. The goal of our podcast today is to discuss the upcoming Dairy Transition Cow Nutrition and Management Seminar. The seminar will be held in Ashland, Ohio, on April 25-26, 2025. This seminar is approved for 15 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. The fee for the seminar is $450 and a local hotel block has been secured for just $129 per night which includes breakfast. Attendees are also provided lunch on both days...
2025-03-1716 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 222 – Sedation, Analgesia and Anesthesia – Practical Tips for Cattle VeterinariansAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Matt Miesner, Clinical Professor in the Livestock Services Section at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Safe restraint of cattle is important for human and animal safety but is also an important animal welfare consideration. Restraint is not only about chemical immobilization and the veterinarian should also consider how to handle the patient in a low-stress manner utilizing available facilities, but also other methods of physical restraint. Miesner provides information about the importance of understanding what each drug provides in terms of sedation, analgesia and anesthesia a...
2025-01-0646 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 221 – Making Cows Comfortable to Improve Lameness and Welfare AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Nigel Cook from the University of Wisconsin. Cook is a past-president of AABP, current member of the AABP Lameness Committee, and a life-long advocate for improving welfare of cows specifically focusing on lameness and facility design for cow comfort. Lameness is a significant welfare concern on dairy farms and Cook states that up to 22% of cows in the U.S. dairy herd walk with a noticeable limp. It is also often under-reported on dairy farms with producers underestimating the prevalence of lameness on their farms and missing c...
2024-12-3039 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 219 – 2024 Year in ReviewAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides and end-of-year update and a look forward to what AABP will have for its members in 2025. Gingrich begins by providing an update on the current HPAI outbreak affecting dairy cattle and reminding members of the resources available to them on the H5N1 page located here. The USDA dashboard of affected cases, funding opportunities, federal orders, biosecurity documents, and webinar recordings are available to AABP members. He encourages all veterinarians to familiarize themselves with the disease and the surveillance testing programs that have been implemented. AABP will also have a webinar to...
2024-12-1625 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 216 – Update on the HPAI Dairy Cattle Disease OutbreakAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP members Dr. Pat Gorden and Dr. Keith Poulsen to provide a situational update on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 disease outbreak in dairy cattle. This podcast is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim 3600 coverage. Every lactation cycle, cows are up against the threat of mastitis. Which really means you’re up against it, too. Thankfully, Boehringer Ingelheim has you covered with 360° coverage solutions. From prevention to treatment options designed for judicious antibiotic use, the 360° coverage mastitis portfolio has the products you need to defend udders at eve...
2024-11-181h 13Have You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 215 – 2025 AABP Vice President CandidatesIt is time to vote for your 2025 AABP Vice President leader. AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the candidates for a question-and-answer period so members can get to know their candidates and cast their vote. Candidates for the 2025 ballot are Dr. Jen Roberts and Dr. Elizabeth Quesnell Kohtz. AABP provides several opportunities to get to know your candidates during the election period. This includes an introductory speech at the AABP Annual Conference, a question-and-answer document in the November newsletter, and a podcast with questions for each candidate. The candidate with the most vo...
2024-11-1122 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 214 -- 8th AABP Recent Graduate Conference -- Be the BeginningAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the program committee for the upcoming 8th AABP Recent Graduate Conference. The program committee includes Dr. Cody Sacquitne, committee chair and AABP Emerging Leader, Dr. Colleen Potter, dairy chair, Dr. Patrick Schmitz, cow-calf chair, and Dr. Annika Johnson, feedlot chair. The conference will be held February 14-15, 2025 at the Embassy Suites in Norman, Oklahoma. There will also be pre-conference seminars on February 13 which offer additional CE opportunities. The conference is open to AABP members who graduated between 2017-2024. All AABP members will have access to the r...
2024-11-0431 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 213 - AABP Update from AABP President Dr. Dave SjeklochaAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich has a conversation with current AABP President Dr. Dave Sjeklocha. We start with a little background about our president who is a graduate of Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Sjeklocha is currently a technical services veterinarian for Merck Animal Health and has focused his career on feedlot medicine and consulting. We start our conversation by discussing AABP Guidelines and Position Statements. These documents are publicly available under the ‘About’ menu of the AABP website. The president reviews these guidelines and opens them for a formal scientific review every 3-5 years...
2024-10-2840 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEp. 212 - What do You Need to Know about Extra Label Drug Use and Using Aspirin in Cattle?AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the Dr. Alison Vander Plaats, chair of the AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues (CPBI). This podcast was created to update cattle veterinarians and farmers about extra label drug use (ELDU) and FDA’s stance on the use of aspirin in cattle. With the current HPAI H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle, it is critical that veterinarians understand how to develop treatment protocols that are in compliance with current regulatory positions. Veterinarians should make sure they full understand the federal Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act of 1994 (AMD...
2024-10-1424 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 211 – Post Conference Wrap-UpAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides a wrap-up of the 57th AABP Annual Conference. Gingrich walks through registration numbers and answers some of the questions and comments submitted in the post-conference feedback survey. Eight-six percent of respondents to the survey rated the conference four or five stars. He also discusses how AABP books conference locations and some of the requirements placed on the organization for food and beverage costs as well as hotel room block requirements. AABP is changing preconference seminar offerings to reflect the changing needs of members. AABP Vice President Dr. Mark Hilton will w...
2024-09-2327 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Have You Herd? Podcast -- Epi. 210 -- Information for Attendees of the 57th AABP Annual ConferenceAnnual 57th AABP Annual Conference Helpful Hints AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich welcomes you to Columbus, Ohio, for the 57th AABP Annual Conference. Special thanks to the program committee, led by Dr. Dave Sjeklocha and seminar chair Dr. Callie Willingham for planning the scientific CE for this conference. The theme of the conference is “Challenging the Norm”. Gingrich walks through some of the sessions and events from the conference, including thanking our sponsors for their support of our meals and events:Boehringer Ingelheim for sponsoring the Wednesday welcome reception and the 5K Stampede Fun Run.
2024-09-0732 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 206 - AABP Guidelines for Practicing Veterinarians Providing Milk Quality and Mastitis Control Program Services to Dairy CattleAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the chair of the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee, Dr. Pam Ruegg, to discuss a new resource available to AABP members that was developed by the committee. This episode is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and their 360 mastitis portfolio. Find out more information at this link. Join us in Columbus, Ohio at the 57th AABP Annual Conference and visit the BI booth in the trade show and attend the opening reception on Wednesday, September 11 sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. The resource document we discuss provides guidelines fo...
2024-08-1233 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 204 – Challenging the Norm at the 57th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP President Elect and AABP Annual Conference Program Chair Dr. Dave Sjeklocha. Sjeklocha thanks his program committee who are volunteer AABP members who develop the content for the conference. The theme of the conference is “Challenge the Norm” and Sjeklocha states he picked this theme to encourage members to challenge themselves with what they are doing for their clients and continue to improve and advance their practice. The keynote speaker, Dr. Shawn Baker, will challenge the norm on assumptions about eating an animal-sourced diet and help our members advoca...
2024-07-1544 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 203 - Seminars at the 57th AABP Annual Conference AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President and Preconference Seminar chair Dr. Callie Willingham to discuss the many opportunities for advanced learning in seminars at the upcoming AABP conference, Sept. 12-14, in Columbus, Ohio (preconference are Sept. 8-11, others are during conference). Seminars are small group meetings led by an expert faculty and are approved for 8 hours per day of additional continuing education credits. We discuss how seminars that we have taken have advanced our practice skill set, provided opportunities for new or expanded services for clients, created billable hours, and allowed n...
2024-07-0832 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 197 - Practice Applicable Beef Cow NutritionAABP 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 the annual and recent graduate conferences. The purpose of these seminars are to offer a small group setting where attendees can go home and immediately offer a new service or improve and expand a service they are currently offering to clients. We walk through the top...
2024-05-1324 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 193 - An Iterative Approach to the Development of a Sole Ulcer Induction Model in Holstein CowsAABP 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 choose360coverage.com. The topic of the discussion is to walk through a research project that was funded by the AABP Foundation to investigate a model for inducing sole ulcers in dairy cattle. Sole ulcers are one of the major causes of lameness in...
2024-04-1521 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 192 - Tips and Guidance for AABP Foundation Scholarship ApplicationsIn 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. Students who qualify for a scholarship should consider applying using the links on the Students menu of the AABP website. We discuss the requirement for a CV/resume for some scholarships, and what to consider including in that document. Questions are also a...
2024-04-0825 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEpi. 191 – AABP Member Update and Dues Renewal AnnouncementIn 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 membership dues and we utilize dues revenue to provide resources to our members. Gingrich reviews three major buckets of activity from the organization:1. Continuing Education. This is our major member resource. Historically, AABP has hosted an a...
2024-04-0114 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsEp. 183 - Treatment of Digital DermatitisAABP 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 feedlots and cow-calf operations. Even though the disease has been identified on many farms for many years, we do not know the exact mechanism of the disease or if the Treponema bacteria is the sole implicating factor...
2024-01-2224 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsVaccination in the Face of Maternal AntibodiesAABP 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 Ingelheim, sponsor of the Welcome Reception at the AABP Annual Conference. Our guests review maternal antibody protection for the calf and how it protects calves versus how vaccination protects calves. Vaccinating calves early in life for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is important, but it is important to u...
2024-01-0132 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP End-of-Year Updates with Dr. Fred GingrichAABP 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 dues receipts and your donation receipts for tax purposes by hovering over your name and selecting the appropriate option. To donate to the AABP Foundation, go to this link. AABP members can comment on guidelines and p...
2023-12-2530 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts7th AABP Recent Graduate ConferenceAABP 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 seminars are planned by recent graduates to ensure that these sessions are relevant to the attendees. The conference will be held in Knoxville, Tenn., February 9-10, 2024 with preconference seminars on Feb. 8.This conference includes a keynote presentation titled “Good Husbandry of t...
2023-12-0433 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts2024 AABP Vice President Candidates – Dr. Brandon Treichler and Dr. Mark HiltonAABP 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 vote for this elected position. The candidate with the greatest number of votes will be seated as the AABP vice president at the 2024 Annual Business Lunch in Columbus, Ohio, on September 14, 2024. The vice president serves for four years and ascends through each office of the...
2023-11-2732 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Building Excellence in Rural Veterinary Practices WorkshopsAABP 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. Qualifications to apply for the grant-funded workshops are being a U.S. citizen who graduated from 2014-2023 and have at least 10% of revenues from food animal. We discuss the history of the workshops and why AABP is devoting resources to teach practice management...
2023-11-2050 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsImproving Belonging and Retention in Bovine Practice Through Cultural Competency – Sponsored by Merck Animal HealthAABP 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 presented at the 56th AABP Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. in the Veterinary Practice Sustainability session, chaired by Dr. Lauren Mack. AABP members can view presentations from all AABP conferences by clicking on the purple cow head logo at the bottom of any AA...
2023-11-131h 07Have You Herd? AABP PodCasts56th AABP Annual Conference – Feedback and Wrap-UpAABP 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 offers a special thanks to AABP staff, the program committee, moderators, and the chairs of the conference which include Dr. Michael Capel and Dr. Dave Sjeklocha. If you attended the conference, you can access your CE certificate by logging in to the AABP website, hover over your name in t...
2023-10-0940 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsComparison of Lidocaine Alone or in Combination with a Local Nerve Block of Ethanol, Bupivacaine Liposome Suspension, or Oral Meloxicam to Extend Analgesia after Scoop Dehorning in Holstein CalvesAABP 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 the result of the cattle welfare research grant through the AABP Foundation. This episode of Have You Herd? is brought to you by Merck Animal Health. When your clients come to you with a BRD issue, turn t...
2023-09-1835 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsSpecial AABP Have You Herd? Podcast: 56th AABP Annual Conference – Evolving Expectations 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 555 Wells St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There are parking garages next to the hotels and the downtown area is located 8 miles from the Milwaukee airport. The airport has Uber, Lyft or taxi service to downtown. When you arrive, go to the ground floor of the c...
2023-09-1640 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsOvercoming Challenges with Recruitment and Retention of Veterinarians in Bovine Practice Sponsored by Heritage Veterinary PartnersAABP 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 chair of the AABP Membership Committee which has discussed the workforce shortages in rural bovine or mixed practice and developed initiatives for AABP to address this issue. Our guests discuss the challenges of rural bovine/mixed animal practice and the evolving role of the ve...
2023-08-0743 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsUsage of Genomics in Beef Cattle Production – Producer PerspectivesAABP 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 calves the most complete BRD coverage in a single dose. Find our more information by visiting this page. The AABP Genetics and Genomics Committee develops resources for AABP members on the importance of genomics in the beef and d...
2023-07-0326 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts56th AABP Annual Conference – Preconference Seminars with Dr. Dave SjeklochaAABP 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 education courses that are led by a team of faculty experts. Attendance for seminars is limited, which allows for great discussion and networking opportunities. These courses teach skills and techniques that can be immediately implemented in your beef or dairy practice to provide services to your c...
2023-06-2639 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts56th AABP Annual Conference with Dr. Michael CapelAABP 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, small ruminants, practice management, students, clinical skills, research summaries and practice tips sessions. The conference will offer 24.25 hours of continuing education with additional CE hours available for the clinical forum breakfasts on Thursday September 21 and preconference seminars that will be held prior to the conference.
2023-06-1958 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Guidelines for the Humane Euthanasia of CattleAABP 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 and reviewing all AABP guidelines and position statements to ensure they remain relevant and consistent with current science. The documents are used not only to advocate for best practices within our industry but also used by other organizations as our official position on a...
2023-05-2253 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Legislative Advocacy UpdateAABP 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 AVMA to support the veterinary association that represents all veterinarians in the U.S. The AVMA Government Relations Division (GRD) is based in Washington, D.C. and has a staff the advocates both the federal and state legislative level as well as working with regulatory agencies...
2023-05-0849 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsCreate a Great Externship OpportunityAABP 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 animal practice. It is important for practices to have a well-defined program and to ask students what their goals are for the externship experience. Anderson suggests having an externship coordinator in your practice who will manage the program. Practice liability is always a concern...
2023-05-0156 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsA Conversation with Elizabeth Peterson – AABP Student MemberAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by student AABP member Elizabeth Peterson. Elizabeth is in the inaugural class at Texas Tech University College of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, Texas. We discuss how students can react to generalizations about recent veterinary graduates and students. She shares challenges that students face today and what the next generation of veterinarians wants for their professional career. She wants to be in a practice that is mostly cattle where she can grow, get support, mentorship and learn from the inevitable mistakes we all make. Peterson describes the financial realities of tuition today, a...
2023-04-0353 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsWhat's on Dr. Barnhardt's Mind?This episode of Have You Herd? is an audio recording of the closing presentation at the 6th AABP Recent Graduate Conference with Dr. Tera Barnhardt. Barnhardt shares her thoughts on bovine practice while displaying the morning sunrise view from her truck as she starts her day as a mom, wife and bovine veterinarian. Her inspirational presentation to the attendees at the conference reminds them to pause and enjoy that moment and shares her inner critic’s voice with the attendees so we can all understand that each of us has struggles that we can overcome. The introduction of t...
2023-03-2014 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsPaid Student Externship Opportunities In this episode of have You Herd, AABP Executive Director is joined by two AABP student members. Mary Jo Cody is a 3rd year student at University of Madison Wisconsin and Kaitlyn Reinhardt is a 3rd year student at the University of Minnesota. Both students shared some of the challenges that students face in securing valuable externship experiences and the most common issues are housing, finding externships that are available, and finding paid externship opportunities. AABP President Dr. Sandra Godden shared in her president’s message in the December 2022 AABP newsletter that paid externships are a wonderful opportunity for bot...
2023-03-0622 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsCultural Awareness for Veterinarians Working with LatinX Livestock CaretakersThis episode of Have You Herd? is guest hosted by Dr. Kendra Wells, a dairy veterinarian from northeastern Wisconsin. Wells was the dairy coordinator the 2023 6th AABP Recent Graduate Conference and was joined at the conference by Dr. Noa Roman-Muniz to follow-up from her presentation at the conference. Language differences can limit effectiveness of training but is not the primary challenge to effective communication. Our guests discuss tips for training and presenting to LatinX employees and how to recognize cultural differences that can be celebrated not as a limitation, but as an opportunity for making personal connections. Roman-Muniz suggests...
2023-02-2738 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsPaid student externship opportunitiesIn this episode of have You Herd, AABP Executive Director is joined by two AABP student members. Mary Jo Cody is a 3rd year student at University of Madison Wisconsin and Kaitlyn Reinhardt is a 3rd year student at the University of Minnesota. Both students shared some of the challenges that students face in securing valuable externship experiences and the most common issues are housing, finding externships that are available, and finding paid externship opportunities. AABP President Dr. Sandra Godden shared in her president’s message in the December 2022 AABP newsletter that paid externships are a wonderful opportunity for bo...
2023-02-0622 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsDr. Dan Grooms – Cattle Veterinarian, AABP Past President, DeanAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the dean of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Dan Grooms. Grooms discusses his career as a mixed animal veterinarian in Ohio after graduating from The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Veterinary Medicine and the mentors he had that encouraged him to become involved in organized veterinary medicine. He started his volunteer service to AABP as a member of the Amstutz Scholarship Committee, became president in 2014, and currently serves on the AABP Foundation Board. He returned to OSU and was on faculty at Michigan State University...
2023-01-0235 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts6th AABP Recent Graduate Conference February 9-11, 2023AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the program committee for the 6th AABP Recent Graduate Conference. The program committee members are Dr. Tommy Ware (AABP Emerging Leader and chair), Dr. Alex Pop (beef and practice management sessions), Dr. Michael Rohde (beef sessions) and Dr. Kendra Wells (dairy sessions). The conference offers a unique CE opportunity for AABP members who graduated from 2015-2022. The theme of the conference is “Competence to Confidence” and offers CE sessions on practice management, small ruminants, clinical skills, beef and dairy. The keynote address will be delivered by AABP member Dr. Eric Rook...
2022-12-2637 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Member Benefits and ResourcesAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich discusses AABP member benefits and resources in this episode of Have You Herd? The AABP website has many resources available to members and Gingrich discusses how to access some of the resources on the website. These include contact information for staff and AABP directors and officers, guidelines and position statements, committee and task force resources, and classified advertisements. He also discusses how to access recorded sessions from conferences and webinars and how to participate in AABP-L, webinars, participate in the mentorship program and access AABP publications. Members can also access the AABP Foundation...
2022-11-1430 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts2023 AABP Vice President CandidatesAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the candidates for the 2023 AABP Vice President Election. The candidates are Dr. Jessica Gernhard and Dr. Callie Willingham. The ballot is open and current AABP members can cast their vote online by going to https://aabp.org/ballot/default.asp. The ballot will close on December 30, 2022, at 5 pm Eastern. You can view the candidate biographies on the ballot as well as the video presentations from the Long Beach conference. Our goal in providing biographies, candidate introduction videos, candidate question and answers in the November newsletter and this podcast is to...
2022-10-3125 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsHelpful Hints for the 55th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich provides some helpful hints to assist attendees of the AABP Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif. We discuss coordinating travel from the airports to the convention center hotels. Attendees can voluntarily input their travel information on this page. You can then find other attendees with similar travel times to assist you in coordinating travel. Pick up your registration pack and name badge at the registration desk located on the main level of the convention center. You can only access the convention center through the main doors located in the middle of the facility...
2022-09-1923 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsThe Bovine Practitioner - AABP's Peer-Reviewed JournalAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the associate editors for The Bovine Practitioner in this podcast to discuss the peer-reviewed journal published by AABP. The associate editors are Drs. Sarah Capik, Virginia Fajt, Miles Theurer and Aurora Villarroel. The Bovine Practitioner has been published by AABP continuously since 1967. There have been two previous editors of the journal, Dr. Eric Williams and Dr. Robert Smith. The journal is open access using the online journal system (OJS) through an agreement with Texas A&M University Libraries, and all volumes have been scanned into PDFs and are searchable at...
2022-08-0844 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsExtra-label drug use and FARAD resourcesAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by three AABP members on this episode of Have You Herd? where we discuss decision-making for utilizing extra-label drug use, working with producers for ensuring appropriate oversight of antimicrobial use, and utilizing resources from the Food Animal Avoidance Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD). The three guests are current AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues members including Chair, Dr. Kevin Jacque from The Ohio State University, Dr. Virginia Fajt from Texas A&M University and Dr. Fiona Maunsell from the University of Florida and FARAD. We start the conversation by d...
2022-07-1843 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsMental Health Resources for AABP MembersAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Murray Gillies, AABP Board of Directors representative to District 12, and Dr. Charlie Gardner, chair of the AABP Mental Health Task Force, for this episode to discuss mental health and well-being initiatives being developed by AABP. Gillies proposed the creation of a Mental Health Task Force to provide support to AABP members and create resources to aid in the prevention of mental illness and promotion of mental health. We discuss that there is a stigma associated with mental illness and normalizing the conversations around mental health can support our colleagues i...
2022-07-1141 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts55TH AABP Annual Conference – Preconference SeminarsAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice President and Preconference Seminar Chair Dr. Michael Capel to discuss the preconference seminars that will be offered at the upcoming AABP Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif. The seminars are held Sunday through Wednesday Sept. 18-21, 2022 prior to the conference Sept. 22-24. We discuss how the seminars we took during our careers tremendously impacted our practice lives, both in continuing education content teaching us skills to advance our practice, as well as networking and meeting experts and colleagues in the field. Preconference seminars can be added to a...
2022-06-2746 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsGathering the Herd for the 55th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the 2022 AABP program chair and AABP President-Elect Dr. Sandra Godden, and AABP President Dr. Pat Gorden, to discuss the 55th AABP Annual Conference September 22-24, 2022, in Long Beach, Calif. The theme for the conference is a nod to our desire to get together as cattle veterinarians again after two years of challenges for “Gathering the Herd”. Gorden discusses the board’s decision to offer the conference in-person only and the challenges of continuing to offer a hybrid conference in terms of labor resources and financial risks to the organization. Godden discusse...
2022-06-2056 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsRural veterinarian shortage, recruitment and retentionAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Brad White from the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University. White is also the chair of the AABP Veterinary Practice Sustainability Committee. In this episode, we discuss studies and surveys on the topic of rural food animal or mixed animal veterinarians, shortage situations, job outlook and factors that impact recruitment and retention of veterinarians in cattle practice. According to AVMA data, less than 10% of veterinarians in the U.S. are employed in food animal practice in some capacity. A survey of Kansas cow-calf producers revealed that 60% of the pr...
2022-05-0252 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsDairy veterinary practice in the southwest USAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by recent graduate AABP member Dr. Katie Gutierrez , to talk about dairy veterinary practice. Gutierrez is a 2015 graduate of Washington State University and returned to New Mexico and eventually become a partner in Bovine Veterinary Alliance in Clovis, N.M. We discuss some of the unique characteristics of working with large dairy operations and calf ranches in the southwest U.S. and how she works with the employees on these operations to manage the care of their cattle. Gutierrez also has utilized many AABP resources such as participating in the practice m...
2022-04-2541 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsImpact of meloxicam on respiratory virus titers and health outcomes when administered concurrently with a modified live respiratory vaccine in abruptly weaned beef calvesAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Homerosky to discuss a research project that was funded by the AABP Foundation through the Competitive Research Grant program. Her purpose in conducting this research trial was to investigate if administration of meloxicam on arrival to calves would decrease their ability to respond to a viral vaccine. The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of meloxicam on vaccination response and health outcomes on a larger scale in a field setting. Calves enrolled in the study were from commercial farms in Alberta, Canada and were abruptly...
2022-04-1134 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP DEI Task ForceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by two members of the AABP Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force, Dr. Emma Bratton and Dr. Whitney Knauer. The DEI Task Force was created in 2021 by the AABP Board of Directors to provide education to our members on DEI and develop resources to assist our members in their area of bovine medicine. We discuss that at the 2021 AABP Annual Conference, several members of the task force and AABP leadership wore buttons that said “Ask me about DEI”, and the one thing we learned is that many members do not know...
2022-02-2834 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Student Externship Grants - Beef Experiences“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin FranklinAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by two student AABP members who received externship grants and visited beef practices in the U.S. and Canada. Hannah Jarvis, a 4th year student at The Ohio State University, and Tatie High, a 2nd year student at The Ohio State University, discuss the importance of this funding for student externships and the experiences they had at AABP member practices. The AABP Foundation provides $40,000 per year for student externship grants to offset the financial barriers of participating in exter...
2022-02-0735 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Student Externship Grants - Dairy Experiences“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Franklin D. Roosevelt AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by two student AABP members who received externship grants and went to western U.S. dairy practices for their experiences. Phusita Nakphairat Davidovich, a 3rd year student at The Ohio State University, and Gabrielle Brewster, a 4th year student at Cornell University, discuss the importance of this funding for student externships. The AABP Foundation provides $40,000 per year for student externship grants to offset the financial barriers of participating in ex...
2022-01-1737 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsA Conversation with AABP President Dr. Pat GordenAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich talks with current AABP President Dr. Pat Gorden today. We learn about when Gorden decided to become a veterinarian, his past private dairy practice experience and his current professional role at Iowa State University. Gorden talks about his early volunteer work on the AABP Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee and Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues. He suggests that members contact us if you want to get involved with AABP by telling us about your interests. AABP members can join committees by going to the AABP website and review the committees listed...
2022-01-1052 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts5th AABP Recent Graduate ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by the 2022 AABP Recent Graduate Program Committee. The committee includes Dr. Adlai Schuler (chair), Dr. Kelsey Savell (dairy sessions), Dr. Nick Van Engen (feedlot sessions) and Dr. Chelsea Bland Smith (cow-calf sessions). The program committee are recent graduates who plan the continuing education sessions, events and preconference seminars to provide relevant continuing education to AABP members who graduated from 2014-2021. The conference will be held at the Hilton Riverside in New Orleans, La., February 17-19, 2022. In-person registration is limited to 300 attendees. Virtual conference registration is available to any AABP m...
2021-12-2755 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Vaccine Guidelines for CattleIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Justin Kieffer, former chair of the AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues (CPBI). Dr. Kieffer led a team of AABP members in the development of the first bovine vaccination guidelines produced by AABP. We discuss the development of this resource document that is available exclusively to AABP members to assist them in developing vaccine protocols for beef and dairy operations. We discuss how veterinarians can consult with producers in optimizing the immune response to vaccines as well as minimize adverse events and what to do...
2021-11-2253 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts2022 AABP Vice President CandidatesIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich has a conversation with the candidates for the 2022 AABP Vice President election. The candidates are Dr. Dave Sjeklocha and Dr. Fred Muller. We ask the candidates to introduce themselves, tell us what being an AABP member has meant to them, ask their ideas about how AABP can support our members and improve recruitment and retention of cattle veterinarians, and what initiative they would support as a leader in the organization. We thank both Dr. Sjeklocha and Dr. Muller for their past service to AABP and for accepting the nomination for A...
2021-11-1519 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsThat’s a wrap! 54th AABP Annual ConferenceAABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich reviews the final 2021 AABP 54th Annual Conference attendance numbers, how to access recorded sessions, and your CE certificate in this post-conference podcast. We encourage all attendees to provide feedback by going to https://www.sli.do/ or download the free Slido app. Go to the “Conference Feedback and Ideas” room and provide feedback and rate the conference. All members can provide input and ideas for future conferences. The 2022 Program Committee will meet October 30th to begin planning for next year, so get those ideas submitted! Gingrich also discusses some of the bylaw...
2021-10-1231 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsFinal Details and Information for the 54th AABP Annual ConferenceIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich discusses several tips and pointers for those who are attending the 54th AABP Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, or those who are attending virtually. Onsite registration for in-person attendance is available to AABP members. Virtual registration will remain open until Wednesday October 6 at 5 pm Mountain time. Go to this link to register for virtual attendance. All in-person and virtual attendees will receive a CE certificate for up to 22.5 hours of RACE-approved CE. The virtual conference website is http://saltlake.aabp.org. If you are an AABP m...
2021-09-2728 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Practice Management Workshops – Implementing ChangeAre you a practice owner who is struggling to understand the finances of your practice? Do you aspire to become an owner but want to implement change? Do you develop a practice culture that retains veterinarians and staff? In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director, is joined by Dr. Lila Grallert, a 2018 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Grallert joined a practice after graduation that she describes as an “adventure” job. She became the owner of the practice but felt she was not prepared to manage a practice successfully. Dr. Grallert attended the USDA grant funded “Manage...
2021-08-3035 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsScience with Practice - The 54th AABP Annual ConferenceAre you ready for an in-person bovine CE event? Join us in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 7-9, 2021 for the 54th AABP Annual Conference. Learn about everything that is happening at the conference in this episode where Dr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director, is joined by AABP President Dr. Carie Telgen and Vice-President Dr. Pat Gorden who serves as the program chair for the conference. The theme of the conference is “Science with Practice” and sessions will offer clinical skills continuing education with scientific reviews to support their practical application. Dr. Telgen welcomes all members to attend the conf...
2021-07-1945 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Preconference Seminars with Dr. Sandra GoddenIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP Vice-President Dr. Sandra Godden. Dr. Godden is responsible for coordinating the pre-conference seminars for the AABP conference. The seminars will be held Sunday October 3rd through Wednesday October 6th. We discuss the high level, targeted continuing education that is tailored to small groups of 30 or fewer people. Dr. Godden discusses that we have 13 seminars available and 9 of these are new or redesigned with 4 standards that are repeat seminars with prior success. Preconference seminars are approved for 8-hours of continuing education and will be for in-person attendees...
2021-07-0639 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsVeterinary practice valuationIn this episode of Have You Herd? Dr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director discussed veterinary practice valuation with David McCormick from Simmons and Associates. David has worked with AABP in the practice management workshops as well as presented in the Practice Management sessions at the AABP Annual Conference. We discuss that the three methods of valuing practices which are asset valuation, market valuation, and income valuation. Income valuation is the most used method to value veterinary practices and is based on a multiple of the profit of the practice. David states that it is the responsibility of the seller...
2021-05-3143 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsImproving practice profitability using managerial accountingDr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director, is joined by Dick Lewis, a businessman for over 40 years in large and small companies. Dick met AABP member and past president Dr. Roger Saltman on an airplane in 2013 and became involved with our organization, volunteering his time to teach practice management to veterinary practice owners to improve profitability. Veterinarians in rural communities will not be able to provide services to their clients if their practice is not profitable. Unfortunately, many practices only utilize tax-based accounting which is a prescribed treatment of numbers so that every business has some degree of standardization for...
2021-05-1745 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsVeterinary Practice Ownership with Dr. Tera Barnhardt, Dr. Cassandra Gewiss and Dr. Lesley MoserAVMA data shows that 41% of veterinary practice owners are female even though they comprise over 60% of the veterinary profession. This is an increase from 29% female practice ownership in 2007. In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director, has a conversation with three female practice owners – Dr. Tera Barnhardt, Dr. Cassandra Gewiss and Dr. Lesley Moser. Each guest discusses the advantages, disadvantages, challenges and opportunities of practice owners and the paths they took to ownership. We also discuss managing work-life integration and how they manage work time versus family or free time. They also discuss how each of them have ex...
2021-05-031h 04Have You Herd? AABP PodCastsStop chasing bugs!In this episode, Dr. Mark Hilton suggests that veterinarians stop doing two things – stop chasing bugs and stop telling producers what to do! We discuss what it means to chase bugs, why veterinarians get trapped into doing this when working up herd disease outbreaks or production problems and how veterinarians are equipped with the expertise and knowledge to holistically evaluate a herd problem. Dr. Hilton suggests that you ask the producer what the problem is and then listen. Write down what they say and then offer suggestions. We walk through the steps to investigate calf scours and bovine respiratory di...
2021-04-1245 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsA Conversation with AABP President Dr. Carie TelgenDr. Carie Telgen is the fourth female president of AABP, the youngest AABP president and the first Amstutz Scholarship winner to become president of AABP. After listening to this podcast, this will likely not surprise you because Dr. Telgen is an energetic, thoughtful, and passionate advocate for AABP. She describes growing up on a dairy farm and always has wanted to be a cattle veterinarian, other than a brief interest in pathology when the family dog died! Dr. Telgen talks about how she become involved with AABP in the Membership Committee and task force, being elected to serve in...
2021-03-1535 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsBRD Diagnostics and Lung UltrasoundDr. Terri Ollivett joins us to discuss how to develop pathogen profiles for herd based and individual animal diagnostics. She provides recommendations on selecting which calves to test. Physical exams and respiratory scoring are not as accurate as utilizing lung ultrasound to find calves to test for BRD pathogens. Dr. Ollivett provides some tips for learning lung ultrasound including viewing her presentations on the AABP BCI CE portal (click on the purple cow-head logo at the bottom of any AABP page) or viewing training videos on The Dairyland Initiative #weanclean website. Dr. Ollivett recommends incorporating lung ultrasound into “herd he...
2021-03-0833 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Bovine PracticeThe American Association of Bovine Practitioners is an international association of veterinarians serving society as leaders in cattle health, welfare, and productivity. We welcome and support any veterinarian or veterinary student, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation or any other demographic, to participate in all opportunities that our organization provides. As leaders in the cattle industry, we encourage all veterinarians with an interest in cattle to join us and participate in our organization. In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich, AABP Executive Director is joined by Dr. Liz Brock, AABP board member representing District 1 a...
2021-01-2538 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCasts4th Annual AABP Recent Veterinary Graduate ConferenceThe Recent Grad Program Committee joins us today to talk about the upcoming 4th AABP Recent Veterinary Graduate Conference which will take place February 12-13, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri. The program committee consists of chair Dr. Aaron Pospisil, dairy coordinator Dr. Blaine Melody, cow-calf coordinator Dr. Lesley Moser, and feedlot coordinator Dr. Julia Herman. The theme of the conference is based on resiliency. Dr. Pospisil discusses that getting together with your peers, especially after the isolation we have all faced over the past year, is important to share stories and support one another. The conference will provide 15.5 hours of...
2020-12-2839 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsQ&A with the 2021 AABP Vice-President CandidatesListen in as AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by 2021 Vice-President candidates Dr. Randall Spare and Dr. Michael Capel. Each candidate provides their background and professional activities to introduce themselves to our members. They are asked how their membership in AABP has impacted their career, what they would say to a bovine practitioner that is not a member of AABP, and what initiatives they want to take on as a leader of AABP. Information about Dr. Spares practice, Ashland Veterinary Center in Ashland, Kansas, can be found at https://bit.ly/36BP3ge. Inf...
2020-11-2326 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsQ&A with the 2021 AVMA Delegate CandidatesListen in as AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by 2021 AABP candidates for AVMA Delegate, Dr. Bryan Halteman and Dr. Hunter Lang. Each candidate provides their background and professional activities to introduce themselves to our members. They are asked how their membership in AABP has impacted their career, what role they envision as an AVMA delegate, what experiences they have to bring to the position, and what they believe are the major issues that are important for AABP advocacy working with the AVMA. Information about Dr. Halteman’s practice, Lander Veterinary Clinic, located in Turlock, CA...
2020-11-2323 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsDairy Cattle Lameness with Dr. Gerard CramerLameness in dairy cattle remains a major issue on many farms. In this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by AABP member and lameness expert Dr. Gerard Cramer from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Cramer states that lameness is a major animal welfare issue and relieving the pain associated with lameness in individual cattle is a major treatment goal. He references a paper in the Journal of Dairy Science, “Evaluation of treatments for claw horn lesions in dairy cows in a randomized controlled trial” by Thomas et. al. which studies that use of NSAID’s for relief...
2020-10-1246 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsSuccessful BVD Prevention Strategies focus on Type 1b - Sponsored by Boehringer IngelheimIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich talks with AABP Past President Dr. John Davidson. Dr. Davidson is the senior associate director of beef professional veterinary services with Boehringer Ingelheim (BI). BI is a platinum level sponsor of the 53rd AABP Annual Conference. Dr. Davidson reviews the history of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in the US and the shift from Type 1a to Type 1b. BI has developed a website to track sample submissions for typing BVDV and results show 72% of samples submitted are Type 1b. We discuss the prevention and control s...
2020-09-0740 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsIntranasal Vaccines with Dr. Chris ChaseIn this episode, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich discusses the use of intranasal vaccines with Dr. Chris Chase. This podcast was created by the AABP Committee on Pharmaceutical and Biologic Issues to educate our members on the history, proper use, and science of intranasal vaccines. Dr. Chase is a world-renowned immunology expert. We discuss the new single-tier vaccine labeling claim from USDA APHIS Center for Veterinary Biologicals. You can search for veterinary biologic’s product summaries at https://bit.ly/3gzShUE. Dr. Chase discusses the type of immune response from intranasal vaccines as well as providing som...
2020-08-3148 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsA Review of Branding in CattleIn 2019, the AABP Cattle Branding Working Group was created with members of the AABP Animal Welfare Committee and Beef Health Management Committee, along with representatives from the AABP Board of Directors. The working group was chaired by Dr. Tiffany Lee and was formed due to conversations among the Animal Welfare Committee regarding branding. The goal of the working group was to review the literature for studies on branding, develop resources discussing branding, and provide a document that outlined each state’s branding regulations. On this podcast, AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by members of the working gr...
2020-08-2658 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsAABP Preconference Seminars with Dr. Pat GordenIn this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich discusses with 2020 AABP Preconference Seminar Chair Dr. Pat Gorden the preconference seminars that will be offered at the 53rd AABP Annual Conference in Louisville, Ky. Seminars will be held Sunday, September 20 through Wednesday, September 23. What are preconference seminars? What topics will be offered this year? We provide a brief description of each seminar and the content that will be taught by the expert faculty members. All seminars are RACE approved for eight hours of continuing education per day. Seminars will offer you skills that you can immediately incorporate into your practice in a...
2020-08-2140 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsBelieve. Engage. Connect. - 53rd AABP Annual ConferenceIn this episode, AABP President Dr. Calvin Booker and AABP President Elect and program chair Dr. Carie Telgen discuss the 53rd AABP Annual Conference. We discuss the conference theme of Believe. Engage. Connect and why this theme was chosen as well as how it fits into the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Booker discusses how the AABP Board of Directors evaluated the situation and arrived at the conclusion to have a hybrid conference where there will be an in-person option as well as a live stream of sessions for virtual attendance. Dr. Telgen discusses some conference highlights...
2020-08-1743 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsMentorship, Mentees, and AABPDr. Gabe Middleton, chair of the AABP Membership Committee, joins AABP members Dr. Lindley Reilly and Dr. Kendra wells to discuss mentorship. We discuss our definitions of mentorship, opening lines of communication with your mentee, and finding more than one mentor to fill the various aspect of your growing professional and personal life. Listen to each of us talk about who we have as mentors and how they have guided and shaped our careers. Our group also discusses mental health and well-being, taking care of each other, and how to intervene if you see a colleague who is struggling...
2020-08-0546 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsFARM 4.0 – How can Veterinarians Prepare their Clients?In this episode, Dr. Fred Gingrich speaks with AABP members who are part of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) FARM Technical Writing Group. Drs. Karen Jordan, Kate Lott and Brandon Treichler join NMPF staff Emily Yeiser-Stepp and Beverly Hampton-Phifer to discuss the specific standards that will be implemented in FARM 4.0 audits. FARM is a producer-driven program with a goal of continuous improvement in the dairy industry. Veterinarians are a critical component of the program in assisting producers to prepare to meet the standards. Find out more information at nationaldairyfarm.com. AABP guidelines discussed in the podcast can be...
2020-05-0458 minHave You Herd? AABP PodCastsDr. Calvin Booker Discusses AABPListen to this episode with AABP President Dr. Calvin Booker discussing what he does in his private practice life at Feedlot Health Management Services, LLC, in Okotoks, Alberta, and the unique services they offer in their consulting-based practice. We also discuss many opportunities that veterinarians have as AABP members such as publications and continuing education resources. Dr. Booker also provides his perspective on AABP advocacy efforts for bovine veterinarians and encourages all bovine veterinarians to join our organization.
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