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What are some of the issues facing animal agriculture? Issues like improving animal identification and its systems, emergency management, emerging diseases, and global animal health are top of mind.

Who is involved in PRRS detection and elimination? Dr. Bob Morrison, Professor, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, provides a series of update on regional PRRS elimination efforts.

How does antimicrobial use in poultry production work? Dr. Hector Cervantes, Senior Manager for Poultry Technical Services, Phibro Animal Health, shares how subtherapeutic levels are used to prevent subclinical diseases to maintain enteric health. Dr. Cervantes contrasts this with therapeutic levels to treat and control diseases like necrotic enteritis or systemic E. Coli infections.

What does the proposed restructuring of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) look like? Dr. Lanny Pace, Executive Director, Mississippi State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, aims to provide broad exposure of the NAHLN restructuring and answer questions.

Veterinarians and computer IT folks don't speak the same launguage. Yet, information technology plays a critical role in animal identification, standards, and software to help pull together efficient and accurate animal identification systems.

Creating a disease database can help sites better understand disease impact. It also can help production staff react quicker. Dr. Tom Painter, Cargill Pork, provides an update on such a disease collection project, focusing on SIV, PRRS, and Mycoplasma Hyopneumoniae, and how they used the database.

Who are the players in the use of electronic interstate certificates of veterinary inspection (a.k.a. eICVIs)? Dr. Jim Logan, Wyoming Livestock Board, shares his perspective and highlights the players in the industry.

What are some of the swine health programs run under the USDA and how are they doing? Dr. Troy Bigelow provides an update on the programs, where additional surveillance is needed, and what the future looks like. Take away: surveillance activities will continue to evolve and become more comprehensive.

There are few drugs labeled for use by goats. What are goat farmers to do? Tom Boyer, President, American Goat Federation, shares an update and highlights the value of goats as a versatile farm animal. He then points out some of the challenges to keeping goats healthy with off label use of pharmaceuticals.

Knowing how the environmental cycle works is important to those that depend on grazing lands. Dr. Jack Morgan provides some insight on the environmental science and what farm / ranch managers need to know when selecting grasslands and forage options.

Gary Baise paints not a very rosy picture of agriculture. He suggests that the social contract between agriculture and America has been broken.

How do vets, managers, inspectors, and service providers take on using electronic interstate certificate of veterinary inspection (eICVI) and make data exchange easier for everyone?