Uncaster Firming, Saturday, May 16,1981
State adopts reduced-dosage calfhood brucellosis vaccination
HARRISBURG - A modified
dosage calfhood vaccination pro
gram, aimed at eliminating many
past problems with the brucellosis
program, went into effect last
month, according to State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
HalloweU.
“Farmers are encouraged to
utilize Pennsylvania’s voluntary
brucellosis vaccination program,”
HalloweU said. “The new reduced
dosage vaccine wdl help minimize
undesirable effects caused by the
fuU dose, which tended to over
whelm calves’ immune systems.
Reduced dosage wdl also minimize
persistent immune body titers
when animals reach 18 months of
age,” the Secretary said.
The only changes in the way
calves are vaccmated wdl be that
dosage will be decreased and the
vaccination age wdl be changed to
four through eight months of age,
according to Dr. Max Vanßuskirk,
Jr., VMD, director of the Depart
ment’s Bureau of Animal Industry.
The reduced dosage program
has been adopted by aU Nor
theastern states.
“Accredited veterinarians have
been instructed to dilute available
vials of vaccine to achieve the
proper dose until a new standard
dose vial is available from com
mercial sources,” Vanßuskirk
said.
Farmers are encouraged to
contact their veterinarian fc
specific details and benefits w the
new vaccination program.
Brucellosis is a bacterial in
fection m cattle which affects the
reproductive system. It is a con
tagious (iiAtdov tw til i .in),
is referred to as unuoiaiu tever.
Undulant fever is most commonly
spread through unpasteurized
milk.
“Vaccination of heifer calves
with Strain 19 vaccme has been our
mam line of defense against the
disease,” Vanßuskirk said. “It is
estimated that 65-70 percent of the
vaccinates will be immune to any
average exposure to bruceUosis.”
Ten states presently require
cattle entering their state to be
official vaccinates. This
requirement, along with the in
creased market value of vac
cmated animals, adds significance
to the program.
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture supports the
brucellosis vaccination program
by supplymg vaccme free of
charge to accredited state
veterinarians and by paying
veterinarians $l.OO for each calf
vaccmated.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
keeps records of all official vac
cinates for use m approvmg health
charts and mam tains a computer
record of each eartag iden
tification of vaccmes. Herd owners
are suppled with an mdividaul
vaccmation certificate for each
calf.
Vanßurskirk suggested several
additional precautionary
measures to protect cattle from
possible exposure from
brucellosis:
—Don’t buy animals that may
have been exposed.
—lnsist on a health certificate
for purchased additions.
—lsolate and retest all
replacement animals 45-120 days
after purchase.
—Deal with persons you know
and trust.
—Ask your veterinarian to test
Marketing needs ‘elbow room’
DALLAS, Tx. Livestock
marketing is big business, but it
needs more “elbow room” to do a
better job for the entire industry,
the president of Livestock
Marketing Association said here
recently.
Lemmy Wilson, speaking before
the annual meeting of the
Livestock Marketing Association
of Texas, pomted to the 1980
Volume and Value of Livestock
Transactions Study to show “the
impressive size and scope of the
marketing sector.”
The survey, done annually by
LMA, showed that last year the
value of U.S. marketing tran
sactions tut $53.6 billion. ' The
volume of those transactions, on
cattle, hogs and sheep, was 238.5
million head.
The survey is unique in that it
measures each tune there is a
change of ownership on one head of
livestock. This method of sur
veying provides a better picture of
the size of the livestock industry
than other methods, Wilson said.
The survey also showed that the
percentage of U.S. cattle and
calves slaughtered that' were
handled by marketing firms, was
66 percent in 1980, he said.
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mnot enough.
—Consider raising your own
replacement stock.
This parallels “all the attention”
currently being given to
marketing, Wilson told the May 3
meetmg.
“You can’t pick up an industry
newspaper or magazine today
without reaadmg that one of the
best roads to profitability in
agriculture is paved with more
attention given to marketing,” he
said.
That is a position the marketing
sector has taken “for years,”
Wilson said, adding that marketing
businessmen “have been waiting”
for the rest of the industry to come
to the same conclusion.
“But while we’ve been waiting,
we haven’t been just marking
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—Practice good sanitation
everywhere, including proper
disposal of dead calves, fetuses
and placentas.
—Have all cows freshen in in
dividual maternity pens.
“And one of the major con
clusions we’ve reached is that if
we’re to have the elbow room we
need, to do the job we do, we’ve got
to get the government off our
backs and out of our wallets.”
Pointing out that the marketing
sector “has always been on the
cutting edge of innovation and
change in the livestock industry,”
Wilson said LMA’s national
campaign to refQrm and moder
nize livestock marketing laws will
benefit the entire industry.
Wilson also called upon the
group to help him “tell
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the livestock industry. The
marketing sector must create an
“increased awareness of its vital
role within the industry” if it is to
reach its legislative goals, be said.
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