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Insuringthe future
FOOD SUPPLY SAFE FROM BSEMad Cow Disease reported in California.PAGE 4
CONTROVERSIAL BAN REMOVEDRestrictions on young workers dropped.PAGE 8
IT'S NO FLUKEDr. Wikse talks liver fluke prevention.PAGE 12
STRATEGIC PLANNING NEEDEDUse caution in rebuilding cattle herds.PAGE 19
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PLANNING AHEADFOR APOTENTIAL DROUGHT
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From the General Manager
My first vehicle wasa 1983 ChevroletCustom Deluxe
pick-up truck. It had astraight six and a three-speed, column-shift trans-mission. It didn’t have anair condi-tioner, butit camewith anAM radio.I learned
a lot fromthat truck.I learnedhow faryou could go on E, and Ilearned a gas can and com-fortable shoes are goodthings to have. And Ilearned about insurance.
If I was to drive, then Ipaid my own gas andinsurance. Insurance pre-miums for a 16-year-oldmale are outrageous. I
worked all summer andsave money. I had a lot ofanger toward insuranceback then, and even todayI wince sometimes at mypremiums, but I knownow that it is better tohave it and not need itthan to need it and nothave it.
In this issue we coverdrought insurance. Aftergoing through a year likewe just had, it is a goodidea to be prepared for theworst. Our cover articlegoes into detail on theoptions you have and howit can help you manageyour pastures.
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Officials: Food supply safeafter cow found with BSE
By TRACIE CONEand GOSIA WOZNIACKA
Associated Press
HANFORD, Calif. — Thediscovery of mad cow diseasein a dead dairy cow came soonafter it arrived at a non-descript building in the heartof California’s dairy country.
The finding is the first newcase of the disease in the U.S.since 2006 and the fourth everdiscovered in the country.The test was performed whenthe animal was brought to thebuilding, a transfer facilityfor a processing plant nearHanford.
The cow had died at one ofthe region’s hundreds ofdairies. A plant official saidthe cow hadn’t exhibited out-ward symptoms of the dis-ease: unsteadiness, incoordi-nation, a drastic change in
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“It’s important for domesticconsumers and foreign tradingpartners to note the animal didnot enter into the food chain, andthe American food supply is safeand has not been impacted bythis recent detection.
“Thanks to a firewall of safe-guards in place, American con-sumers can remain confident ourfood supply is the safest in theworld, and Texas beef is as safeas ever,” Staples said.
Ag CommissionerStaples says Texasbeef herd is safe
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behavior or low milk produc-tion. When the animal arrivedat the facility with a truckload
of other dead cows on April18, it met criteria for govern-ment testing: older than 30months and a fresh corpse.“We randomly pick a num-
ber of samples throughout the
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A truck enters Baker Commodities transfer station in Hanford,Calif., where a cow with mad cow disease was discovered lastmonth. Health authorities said the animal never was a threat to thenation's food supply.
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year, and this just happenedto be one that we randomlysampled,” Baker Commodi-ties executive vice presidentDennis Luckey said. “Itshowed no signs” of disease.The samples went to the
food safety lab at the Uni-ver-sity of California, Davis. ByApril 19, markers indicatedthe cow could have bovinespongiform encephalopathy, adisease that is fatal to cowsand can cause a deadlyhuman brain disease in peo-ple who eat tainted meat. Itwas sent to an AgricultureDepartment lab in Iowa forfurther testing.Days later, federal agricul-
ture officials announced thefindings: the animal had atyp-ical BSE. That means it didn’tget the disease from eatinginfected cattle feed, said JohnClifford, the Agriculture De-partment’s chief veterinaryofficer.It was “just a random muta-
tion that can happen everyonce in a great while in ananimal,” said Bruce Akey,director of the New York StateVeterinary Diagnostic Labor-atory at Cornell University.“Random mutations go on innature all the time.”In humans, experts say it
can occur in one in 1 millionpeople, causing sponge-like
holes in the brain. But theysay not enough is knownabout how and how often thedisease strikes cattle.The California Department
of Public Health and the stateDepartment of Food andAgriculture quickly workedto assure consumers that thefood supply is safe. The cowhadn’t been destined forhuman consumption and peo-ple cannot become ill fromdrinking milk, experts say.The building where the cowwas selected to be tested sendsanimals to a rendering plants,which process animal partsfor products not going into thehuman food chain, such asanimal food, soap, chemicalsor other household products.Among the unknowns a-
bout the current case iswhether the animal died ofthe disease and whether othercattle in its herd are similarlyinfected.“It’s appropriate to be cau-
tious, it’s appropriate to payattention and it’s appropriateto ask questions, but now let’swatch and see what theresearchers find out in thenext couple of days,” saidJames Culler, director of theUC Davis dairy food safetylaboratory.The mad cow cases that
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Department drops proposedban on young farm workers
By SAM HANANELAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — Underheavy pressure from farmgroups, the Obama adminis-tration said it would drop anunpopular plan to preventchildren from doing haz-ardous work on farms ownedby anyone other than theirparents.The Labor Department said
it is withdrawing proposedrules that would ban childrenyounger than 16 from usingmost power-driven farmequipment, including trac-tors. The rules also would pre-vent those younger than 18from working in feed lots,grain bins and stockyards.While labor officials said
their goal was to reduce thefatality rate for child farmworkers, the proposal hadbecome a popular politicaltarget for Republicans who
called it an impractical, heavy-handed regulation that ig-nored the reality of smallfarms.“It’s good the Labor
Department rethought theridiculous regulations it wasgoing to stick on farmers andtheir families,” said Sen.Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “Toeven propose such regula-tions defies common sense,and shows a real lack ofunderstanding as to how thefamily farm works.”The surprise move comes
just after the Labor Depart-ment modified the rule in abid to satisfy opponents. Theagency made it clear it wouldexempt children who workedon farms owned or operatedby their parents, even if theownership was part of a com-plex partnership or corporate
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American Farm BureauFederation, the NationalFarmers Union and 4-H todevelop an educational pro-gram to reduce accidents toyoung workers.Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., a
grain farmer known to till hisfields on weekends away fromWashington, had come outstrongly against the proposedrule. The Democrat continuedto criticize the Obama admin-istration rule even after itwas tempered earlier thisyear, saying the LaborDepartment “clearly didn’tget the whole message” from
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Just in caseRange forage insurance is a good investmentBy JANELLE SMITHERMAN FEARS
Special to The Post
Changes in the way the U.S.Department of Agriculture sub-sidizes farmers and producers
are coming.“Subsidies will be provided through
programs that pay based on lowprices, low yields or both,” said JoeOutlaw, professor and extension econ-omist in the department of agricultur-al economics at Texas A&M Univer-sity, at the 22nd Annual Outlook forTexas Land Markets meeting in SanAntonio. “Pasture range forage insur-ance will continue to be one of theUSDA offerings,” Outlaw said.
Program developmentThe pasture range forage insurance
program was implemented during the2007 crop year. Two new insurancepackages were included in the pro-gram.The rainfall index insurance pro-
gram was pilot tested in 220 countiesin Colorado, Idaho, Pennsylvania,South Carolina, North Dakota andTexas and was based on rainfallindices as a means to measure expect-ed production losses.A vegetation index insurance pro-
gram was tested in 110 counties inColorado, Oklahoma, Oregon,Pennsylvania, South Carolina andSouth Dakota and was based on satel-lite imagery that determines acreageproductivity as a means to measureproduction losses.
Together, these pilot programs wereavailable to provide coverage onapproximately 160 million of the 640million acres of grazing and hay landin the United States.The programs were expanded for
each of the 2008 and 2009 crop years,making them available for 18 states.They were expanded again for the 2010and 2011 crop years with additionalstates and counties.
In any state where pasture rangeforage insurance is offered, coveragefor forage losses is based on one of thetwo standardized measures: rainfall orvegetation greenness. Only one ofthese measures is used within a state.For instance, vegetation greennessindex is the measurement applied inNew Mexico, but in Texas, the rainfallindex is used.
“There are not likely to be anychanges in the programs for the 2012crop year,” said Outlaw. “The 2012Farm Bill is making very littleprogress through Congress and Iexpect the 2008 bill to be extended.
Even though Congress is working onit, we probably won’t see the new farmbill until spring of 2013.”
Current plan“Rainfall index is the only pasture
range forage insurance program avail-able in Texas, but it is offered in allcounties,” said Clay Wolter, sales rep-resentative for Helena Chemical Co.which offers pasture range forageinsurance as one of many products.“Grids obtained from the National
Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration are used to determineexpected and final rainfall which isused in premium cost and forage losscalculations. Indemnities are based ondeviation from normal for each grid.“A payment is made only if the final
grid index for the insured unit is lessthan the producer’s trigger or expect-ed grid index. Each grid is 12 by 12miles, identified by longitude and lati-tude and assigned an identificationnumber. Many counties contain multi-ple grids and a ranch may lie in two ormore grids,” Wolter said.
Wolter said, “You must select atleast two 2-month time periods forinsurance coverage. These time peri-ods are called index intervals and a
maximum of six can be selected forcoverage within any given year. Theintervals are January-February,February-March, March-April, April-May, May-June, June-July, July-Au-gust, August-September, September-October, October-November or No-vember-DecemberProducers cannot choose a month
twice, so for coverage during theentire year, the intervals are January-February, March-April, May-June,July-August, September-October andNovember-December.“This selection provides insurance
for the entire year without overlap-ping months,” Wolter said.
Coverage level“The producer selects a coverage
level and protection factor for each ofthe crop types in the county,” Woltersaid. “For a person strictly in the cat-tle business, there are two crop types:pasture and hay. A coverage unit is allinsured acres within a grid ID for eachcrop type and index interval.“Coverage levels are available from
70 percent to 90 percent in 5 percentincrements. This means that a mini-
Insurance against lack of rainfall is a risk-management tool worth considering.Although changes are coming in USDA subsidies, the pasture range forage programwill continue. Sept. 30 is the deadline for applying fr 2013 program insurance.
Photo courtesy of RJ Consultant Services
• See INSURE/Page 11For a producer strictly in the cattle business, types of crops are pasture and hay. InTexas, pasture range forage insurance uses rainfall to determine coverage.
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mum of 70 percent of the finalrainfall grid index can beinsured and a maximum of 90percent.
“Protection factors are per-centages of crop values and 60to 150 percent can be selectedin one percent increments.Crop values are set by coun-ties and are used in manyways, including assessment ofproperty taxes,” Wolter said.
The Kelly NewtonInsurance Co. website pro-vides a good example of howinsurance coverage is calcu-lated, based on grazing land:
• County Base Value = $7.41.• Coverage Level = 85 per-
cent (selected by the producerbetween 70 and 90 percent).
• Protection Factor = 150percent (selected by the pro-ducer between 60 percent and150 percent).
• $7.41 X 0.85 X 1.50 = $9.45,
the dollar amount of produc-tion coverage per acre.
Kelly Newton said the pre-mium on pasture range forageinsurance is relatively inex-pensive, ranging from $0.25through $1.50 per acre on graz-ing land in most counties.
Wolter said that most pro-ducers insure at maximumcoverage levels and produc-tion factors due to the low pre-mium costs. The federal gov-ernment pays approximately55 to 60 percent of the premi-um and the producer pays 40to 45 percent.
“The deadline for applyingfor 2013 pasture range forageinsurance is Sept. 30 and pre-miums are due July 1, 2013,”Wolter said.
Since drought is common inTexas, insurance against thelack of rainfall is a risk man-agement tool worth consider-ing.
Additional information anda list of agents is available atFarm Service Agencies.
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There are ways to test forand eliminate liver flukes
Question: “I’m worriedabout liver flukes inmy cattle because of
an article I read in Beef.According to the article, liverflukes are spreading all overthe place. What sort of pas-ture conditions would makeme think I may have them onmy ranch?And, is therea test I can doon my cowsto tell if theyhave flukes?”
Answer:Yup, there isan article onliver flukesin the Aprilissue of Beefmagazine titled “EncroachingVillains.” Our own veteri-nary parasitologist, Dr. TomCraig, and our TexasAgriLife Extension veterinar-ian, Dr. Buddy Faries, arequoted in the article. Yourquestions are good onesbecause the excellent article
did not emphasize fluke habi-tat and diagnosis.We have both the bovine
liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica)and the deer liver fluke(Fascioloides magna) in theBrazos Valley. Their lifecycles are quite similar. Theyare present only on someranches and infected ranchesdon’t necessarily have both.
Liver fluke habitatThe answer to your first
question is your pastureswould need to have standingwater during springtime tobe favorable habitat for liverflukes.Here’s how it works. Cattle
liver fluke eggs passed inmanure drop into water andhatch into larvae in two tofour weeks at warm tempera-tures.To complete their life cycle,
within 24 hours the larvae
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must enter a small snail ofthe genus Lymnea called a“mud snail.” The snails canburrow into mud to surviveas standing water comes andgoes, which means continualstanding water is not neces-sary for completion of the lifecycle of the liver fluke.The fluke larvae mature
and reproduce in the snailand in two months many tad-pole-like larvae emerge intothe water. These larvae swimto blades of grass and developinto cysts resistant to drying.Cattle become infected whenthey ingest the cysts alongwith grass.This means you would
need standing water for onlythree months in the spring tohave good snail and liverfluke habitat your ranch, asFaries stated in the Beef arti-cle.
Craig stated in anotherpublication that “liver fluke-infested pastures tend tohave clay soils and are con-stantly or periodically flood-ed but not inundated.” Heavyclay soils result in highwater tables. This type ofarea could simply be adepression in a pasture or itcould be bottomland.Even bar ditches along
ranch roads can hold waterthat makes good fluke habi-tat. Typically, favorable habi-tat on a liver fluke infestedranch is only 1 percent to 5percent of the total land area.The Texas A&M Beef
Center along the BrazosRiver has a long swampyswale running through sever-al pastures. I autopsied a cowfound dead on the edge ofthat swamp. The cow died ofredwater and its liver wasloaded with deer liver flukes.
Detrimental effectsLiver fluke infections have
a range of impacts on the
health of cattle depending onthe number of flukes that setup housekeeping in the liver.Mild to moderate infestationsresult in reduced growthrates and feed efficiency inyoung stock, and lower bodycondition in adults.
Liver fluke infections havebeen shown to lower preg-nancy rates in replacementheifers along the Texas coast.This is due to a combinationof depressed growth ratescausing fewer heifers toreach their target breedingweight plus interference withbreakdown of sex steroids inlivers damaged by migratingfluke larvae.Heavy fluke infestations
occur in a small number ofcows in infected herds. Thesecows become very thin andshow clinical signs of diar-rhea, rough hair coat, palemucous membranes and col-lection of edema fluidbetween their jaws (bottlejaw). No matter how muchgrain you feed them they
keep getting thinner andweaker. Death can occur,especially in lactating cows.These signs are not specific
for liver fluke infection.Identical clinical signs areseen in cows with advancedstomach worm infections orJohne’s disease.
DiagnosisThe answer to your second
question is there are, indeed,tests that can be done to diag-nose liver flukes. Rancherssometimes discover they
have a problem without test-ing when their calves’ liversare condemned at slaughterfor liver fluke damage orliver flukes are found in cat-tle autopsied on the ranch.Autopsies of most cattle thatdie will give you a goodmeasure of the parasite sta-tus of your herd.The most common way
bovine liver flukes (Fasciolahepatica) are diagnosed onbeef ranches is by laboratory
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testing of fecal samples. It’simportant to know that liverflukes are diagnosed by afecal egg sedimentation testthat is different than the fecalegg floatation test for stom-ach worms.
The fecal test for stomachworms tells nothing aboutliver fluke infection. To diag-nose liver flukes, fecal sam-ples from 15 cows should beexamined by the TexasVeterinary Medical Diagnos-tic Laboratory with the inex-pensive Flukefinder sedimen-tation test.
Deer liver fluke (Fascioloi-des magna) infections of cat-tle cannot be diagnosed byfecal egg sedimentation testsbecause eggs of deer flukes incysts of the livers of cattle areblocked from entering bileducts and reaching the intes-tine. There are no eggs in the
manure of infected cows.Deer flukes can be diagnosedin cattle only by autopsy.
Bottom lineCattle and deer liver flukes
occur on selected ranchesthroughout the Brazos valley.These parasites can causesignificant disease and eco-nomic losses.
If you have pastures thatare favorable habitat forflukes on your ranch plus theherd problems discussedabove that may be caused byliver flukes your cattle proba-bly are infected.
The good news is it is possi-ble to control the disease.Your veterinarian can collectsamples for diagnostic confir-mation and set your ranch upwith a successful parasitecontrol program.
• Dr. Steve Wikse is a retiredprofessor of large-animal clinicalsciences in the College of Vet-erinary Medicine and BiomedicalSciences at Texas A&M.
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By BLAIR FANNINTexas AgriLife Communications
Experts with the TexasAgriLife Extension Serviceare advising beef cattle pro-ducers to use caution andstrategic planning whenthinking about restockingherds after drought.Though rainfall has been
received throughout the east-ern portion of the state andpromoted growth of forageson pastures, cattle producersneed to be careful when eval-uating their operations.“I think so far people are
being really cautious,” saidDavid Anderson, AgriLifeExtension livestock econo-mist. “I think producers arewaiting to see if this rain isgoing to last. They should beasking themselves questionslike ‘How long is it going totake for your pasture torecover?’ and ‘What is goingto happen once we get intothe summer?’”
Anderson said there arealso financial constraints toconsider, such as how muchwas spent feeding hay andother feedstuffs through the2011 drought.“There’s also sticker shock
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