Free CAST Webinar: Zoonotic Diseases in Animal Agriculture and Beyond: A One Health Perspective

CAST is releasing a special publication on zoonotic diseases in animal agriculture and hosting a webinar to introduce it.

By looking through the lens of One Health, the webinar will identify key lessons learned in the dynamics of zoonotic diseases including their transmission and prevention. With this knowledge and the insights from the vignettes presented in this paper, it will be possible to make more effective recommendations to address the growing challenges of zoonoses. Finally, the paper discusses the need and benefits for agriculture to become more engaged in One Health activities and opportunities to better manage the global threats of zoonotic diseases.

Dr. Lonnie J. King, DVM, MS, MPA, Diplomate ACVPM, and Dean Emeritus of The Ohio State University will be presenting the information on Thursday Nov 17 at 12:00 PM CST. Other members of the task force who authored the paper will be participating in a facilitated question and answer session following the presentation. Register Now! 

White House hones in on U.S. food and ag security

President Biden has signed a National Security Memorandum to strengthen the security and resilience of the U.S. food and agriculture sector. The memorandum builds on the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing work to ensure Americans have access to safe, affordable food, that U.S. producers are able to get their goods to market, and that the U.S. food and agricultural system is better prepared for threats that may harm the health of crops and livestock and cause shocks to the cost or availability of food. Read more

APHIS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection unveil strategic plan

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have released the 2022 – 2026 Joint Agency Strategic Plan for their shared Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program.

The AQI program plays a critical role in protecting U.S. agriculture and the environment by preventing the introduction and spread of potentially devastating plant pests and animal and plant diseases. It protects America's 1.1 trillion-dollar agricultural and food economy, the 2 million farms across the country and the 331 million people living in the United States that rely on agricultural security to survive. Read more

2023 ADSA Annual Meeting Call for Abstracts

The abstract submission site for the 2023 ADSA Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is open! You can now submit your abstract. Submission instructions, quality standards, answers to frequently asked questions, and student competition guidelines are available on the page. There is no abstract submission fee to submit an abstract to the ADSA Annual Meeting.

The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (CST).

The 2023 ADSA Annual Meeting website will be updated frequently with the latest meeting information, so bookmark the site and visit often. Housing will open in November 2022, and meeting registration will be available in early February 2023.

The 2023 ADSA Annual Meeting scientific program will feature 1,200 oral and poster presentations from around the globe. Make sure yours is included, as 2,000 scientists from 50 countries meet in person in beautiful Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Benefit from symposia, workshops, and preconference events presented by the world's leading animal and dairy scientists. Topics will include dairy food science, dairy production, animal health and well-being, animal and human nutrition, food safety, and production and management. As always, the success of the ADSA Annual Meeting begins with the quality of the science presented; we look forward to your contributions to this global gathering of animal and dairy scientists.

Thank you!

2023 ADSA Annual Meeting Program Committee

JDS Communications is now on PubMed Central

JDS Communications is now live on the PubMed Central website at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/4321/. PubMed Central^® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). All JDSC papers will therefore also have a PubMed record. Having JDSC indexed on PubMed enables the journal to join a diverse body of works stored and cross-referenced in a common format within a central repository. PubMed users can quickly search the entire collection of full-text articles and readily locate all relevant material.

44^th ADSA Discover Conference on Food Animal Agriculture:

Why Cheese from Milk?

March 7-9, 2023

Northern Illinois University Conference Center in Naperville, IL and presented virtually

This ADSA Discover Conference^SM will inform some of the latest research on the nutritional and health promoting aspects of milk and cheese. The overarching goals of this conference are to provide attendees with the following opportunities:

•       Access to the latest science-based information from dairy science experts

•       Engage with production and dairy foods colleagues in the cheese sector

•       Gain access to evidence-based messaging about dairy

Conference Topics

·      What is Milk and its Role in a Healthy Human Diet

·      Health Aspects of Milk and Milk Components

·      Cheese to Deliver Nutritional and Health Benefits

·      Consumer Messaging Based in Science and the Next Steps

Who Should Attend? Various stakeholders in the cheese industry including cheesemakers, dairy farmers, cheese retailers, allied organizations, as well as university and industry scientists are encouraged to participate. Graduate students and early career professionals are especially encouraged to attend. Both in-person and virtual participation options are available.

Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2023

Registration fees increase by $100 after February 7.

For Complete Conference Information https://www.adsa.org/Meetings/44th-Discover-Conference

Nov 16-17, 2022     Ice Cream and Frozen Dessert (Advanced Level), Cornell Dairy Foods Extension, Click here for more information

Dec 1, 2022 at 10 AM       56th Florida Dairy Production Conference, Straughn IFAS Extension Professional Development Center, Gainesville, FL, Click here for information and registration

2023

Jan 10-11, 2023 Coffee, Tea, and Creamers - The Science and Art of Milk in Beverages, Chapman University, Ranney Processing Lab, Orange, California. Contact: Robyne Kelly (714) 289-2040 rokelly@chapman.edu. 

Jan 16-17, 2023     Pacific Northwest Animal Nutrition Conference, Grove Hotel, Boise, ID, Click here for more information.

Jan 17-20, 2023. Better Process Control School - Dairy Processors. Chapman University, Ranney Processing Lab, Orange, California. Contact: Robyne Kelly (714) 289-2040 rokelly@chapman.edu. For more information visit https://www.chapman.edu/scst/graduate/ms-food-science/better-process-control-school.aspx

Feb 9-10, 2023. Dairy Operations Workshop. Dairy Products Technology Center, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA.  For more info: klees@calpoly.edu Registration: https://dairy.calpoly.edu/short-course-symposia

Mar 7-9, 2023  44th ADSA Discover Conference on Food Animal Agriculture: “Why Cheese from Milk?”, Northern Illinois University Conference Center, Naperville, IL, Click here for more information

Mar 13-15, 2023   ADPI Dairy Ingredient Technical Symposium, Hilton Beachfront, Santa Barbara, CA, Click here for more information

April 10-12, 2023    Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference*, Grand Wayne Center Fort Wayne, IN, Click here for more information

April 23-25, 2023   ADPI/ABI Annual Conference, Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, IL, Click here for more information

*An S-PAC Partner Conference

If your organization’s conference isn’t among the ever growing list that contribute proceedings and presentations to S-PAC®, ask your conference organizer to contact Ken Olson for more information about the benefits of participation.

If you would like to have an event included in the “Dates to Note,” please contact Ken Olson at keolson@prodigy.net or keoagconsulting@gmail.com