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Susan Keller is ready to spend more time with her family, cows and horses. The long-time North Dakota state veterinarian will retire from the position the end of June. As the state veterinarian for the N.D. State Agriculture Department and Board of Animal Health, she has served the state for nearly a quarter century, for two agriculture commissioners and many State Board of Animal Health members. When her veterinary career started, she never thought she’d serve in a governmental capacity. Growing up on the family dairy and beef farm near Kelly, Kansas, in the northeast corner of the state, she came to North Dakota after her junior year of college at Kansas State University for an externship at the Midway Veterinary Clinic in Bismarck. ....
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St. Louis Public Radio Cattle farmer Darvin Bentlage on his farm near Golden City, Missouri. His livestock are tagged with metal and plastic tags, and he is opposed to being forced to use electronic identification chips instead. Using electronic tags to track livestock is widespread in Europe. Proponents say it helps prevent and contain food-borne illnesses, but the idea is finding a mixed and often chilly reception in the United States. Radio frequency identification, or RFID tags, can be put on an animal’s ear similar to the metal identification clips currently used to identify animals and track them for inventory and health purposes. ....
USDA Aerial view of USDA s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Future FMD research will be moved inland to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas. Zoetis seeks approval to bring live Foot and Mouth Disease virus into the U.S. mainland to develop a vaccine. Livestock industry groups are supportive of USDA’s proposal to adopt new technology in Foot and Mouth Disease vaccines, as well as the establishment of a robust FMD vaccine bank. In new comments submitted Jan. 4, additional comments were made by the National Pork Producers Council and the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association on a Zoetis-manufactured vaccine on the review process and the manufacturing of the vaccine domestically. ....