AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Jeffery Hall, a technical services veterinarian with Huvepharma and the coordinator for an AABP seminar titled "Practice Applicable Beef Cow Nutrition.” AABP recognizes the challenge of attending seminars before the conference and has expanded our CE offerings to include seminars outside of the annual and recent graduate conferences. The purpose of these seminars are to offer a small group setting where attendees can go home and immediately offer a new service or improve and expand a service they are currently offering to clients.  

We walk through the topics that will be taught during this seminar and their importance to veterinarians. Hall describes how veterinarians can get involved with the vitamin and mineral nutrition program for the beef cow producer clients and make an impact on health, productivity, economics and immune function. This seminar is also being taught by Dr. Chris Chase, who will review the impacts of nutrition on immunology. Dr. Dave Rethorst will discuss cow-calf nutrition and impacts on fetal programming as well as some ration balancing skills for veterinarians. Attendees will also learn about feeding cows and evaluating feedstuff opportunities during drought situations. 

This seminar was conducted at the 2023 AABP Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., and has been expanded to a two-day course based on feedback from participants. Additional topics included in this seminar will cover fly control and coccidiosis control for cow-calf ranches. Hall also discusses the wet-lab portion of this seminar where attendees will learn how to perform a liver biopsy on live beef cows. Attendees will be able to go home and implement this service to their cow-calf clients as well as interpret and make management recommendations to their clients. 

This seminar will be held at The Ohio State University Marysville Large Animal Ambulatory Clinic June 27-28, 2024. This facility recently underwent a remodel with an excellent handling system to perform the wet-lab. The seminar has been approved for 15 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. A hotel block has been reserved for attendees to secure rooms. The cost of the seminar is $450 and includes lunch each day.  

Attendance is limited to 20 attendees and we encourage interested AABP members to register today. For more information and to register for this seminar and book your hotel room, visit this link.