Position Vacancy Announcement - University of California Livestock Advisor
LOCATION HEADQUARTERS: Sonora, Tuolumne County, California SUBMISSION DATE: To ensure full consideration, submit materials by August 28, 2019. Those received after August 28, 2019 may be considered if the position has not yet been filled (open until filled). POSITION PURPOSE: The Area Cooperative Extension (CE) advisor for livestock and natural resources will conduct a multi-county based extension, education and applied research program that will focus on livestock production
House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Livestock and Poultry
Chairman Costa of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture opened a meeting of this body the other day with a prepared statement. That statement included the following: “Today’s hearing builds on the previous work of this subcommittee, including a hearing we had two months ago with USDA Under Secretary Greg Ibach on our ability to prevent and respond to animal pests and diseases, including the implementation of a new suite of animal health prog
Organic Livestock Research Needs
I was reading through the 2016 National Organic Research Agenda (NORA) Report and discovered a short section on the research needs for ORGANIC Livestock Production. The Report states the following priorities, three or four of which may pertain to veterinary entomologists: • Efficacy of available treatments, therapies, and approved products.
• Impact of grass-based systems on animal disease (long-term study).
• Incidence of lameness on organic farms, causes, nutrition, symp
