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NMC Regional Meeting – Guelph

The National Mastitis Council (NMC) Regional Meeting, hosted jointly with the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners (OABP) and the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), will provide the best current mastitis and milk quality information to dairy producers, veterinarians, and advisors.

This year’s conference theme is “Solutions To Emerging Milk Quality Issues” and conference organizers have put together a 3-day program to include:   a variety of short courses  and evening banquet with a keynote speaker on Wednesday, June 20;  a day of formal presentations on Thursday, June 21;  a bus tour on Friday, June 22.    Key topics to be covered include:  implementation of selective dry cow therapy programs, bedding options and their impact on udder health, and maintaining the highest milk quality when transitioning to robotic milking systems.

Source : Ontario Association of Bovine Practioners

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Four Star Pork Industry Conf - Back to Basics: Fundamentals drive vaccine performance

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At a time when disease pressure continues to challenge pork production systems across the United States, vaccination remains one of the most valuable and heavily debated tools available to veterinarians and producers.

Speaking at the 2025 Four Star Pork Industry Conference in Muncie, Indiana, Dr. Daniel Gascho, veterinarian at Four Star Veterinary Service, encouraged the industry to return to fundamentals in how vaccines are selected, handled and administered across sow farms, gilt development units and grow-finish operations.

Gascho acknowledged at the outset that vaccination can quickly become a technical and sometimes tedious topic. But he said that real-world execution, not complex immunology, is where most vaccine failures occur.