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NEW Summer Edition of WSU Livestock Round-Up
The latest issue of the Washington Animal Agriculture Team and Washington State University Extension's newsletter is now on-line for your reading pleasure, including an exposé on the secret lives of dung pats and the ecosystems therein, "Bessie, What Have You Dung for Me Lately?" At right: field researchers floating beetles out of dung pats; field researcher examining dung in-situ.
Field Researchers with Dung
Link to 2007 LIWC Poster NEW Progress on Cattle Pest Work Presented at 2007 LIWC Conference
The first year of a three-year partnership between Washington State University and the USDA FCIC Risk Management Agency is presented in this engaging poster. The poster highlights the accomplishments of various team members and explains the pest management work completed so far. To view a miniature version of this poster, click here or on the image at left.

Spring Edition of WSU Livestock Round-Up
The Washington Animal Agriculture Team and Washington State University Extension have released their May 2007 Newsletter. Articles include discussion of horn fly and face fly on cattle, recognizing and treating colic in horses, identifying and eradicating scrapie in sheep and goats, and three pasture management articles (controlled grazing, grazing for weed control, and the merits of grazing stock on forage kochia).

Collage from May CWAAT newsletter
New Extension Bulletin Surveys Pest Management Practices
Our research team conducted a survey of Washington State beef cattle producers in the fall and winter of 2005/2006 to assess cattle pest prevalence and pest control product use and effectiveness. The resulting data were analyzed and are presented in Washington State University Extension Bulletin EB2017E, Survey to Assess Parasite and Fly Control Methods Utilized by Washington Beef Cattle Producers*. The document is available free of charge as a PDF download. It includes a brief overview of the state’s beef cattle industry. describes the major internal and external parasites/pests, and summarizes the results of our survey. The data will serve as a foundation toward addressing increasing concerns among cattle producers about inefficient and unsustainable pest management practices.

Survey Poster Presented at Livestock Insect Workers Conference
In June 2006, our team presented preliminary results of our cattle producer survey at the national Livestock Insect Workers' Conference in Amarillo, Texas. View a miniature version of this poster by clicking here or on the poster image at right. These survey results are summarized in the 16-page Extension Bulletin publication above.

Link to 2006 LIWC Poster
Newsletter Articles
The cover story in the July 2006 edition of the Central Washington Animal Agriculture Team's Central Washington Round-Up newsletter (pictured top left) was Dr. Holly Ferguson's announcement of the completion of the cattle pest management survey* described in the above poster and Extension Bulletin. In the April 2006 edition of the newsletter (pictured below left), Dr. Ferguson discusses safer feed-through methods for fly control* are discussed in an article by Dr. Holly Ferguson on p. 3 of the April 2006 edition of the Central Washington Animal Agriculture Team's Central Washington Round-Up newsletter. You can also access the newsletter as well as other information about animal agriculture in Washington on the team's home page.
A 3-Year Research Project began in 2006 to reduce risk in rangeland beef cattle production. This poster explains the basic parameters of the research and outlines the deliverables planned by the IPM Livestock Team in charge of the project. Directed by Dr. Doug Walsh, the research now underway will address internal and external pests identified as most economically important by Washington State rangeland beef producers. This project is funded by and conducted in partnership with the USDA Federal Crop Insurance Corporation's Risk Management Agency. Link to Poster

 


(*You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader or another Adobe Acrobat product to view these files. You can download Acrobat Reader free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html . If you have any trouble accesing these files, contact Sally O'Neal Coates, 509-372-7378.)

 

 

                             
                             
                             
 

Contact us: Doug Walsh 509-786-9287, Holly Ferguson 509-786-9233, Carrie Foss 253-445-4577
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