Resource Available for Livestock Owners To Learn More About VFD Requirements

Oregon State University extension recently released publication that will help inform livestock producers about the 2017 Veterinary Feed Directive or VFD. When it comes to feeding livestock medically important antibiotics, there are some changes coming at the first of the year that producers need to be aware of. No longer will medicated feed be labeled for growth promoting.
OSU Extension Livestock and Rangeland field faculty member Dr. Sergio Arispe says livestock producers need to be thinking and preparing now for the January first change.
Arispe: “It is going to be mind set change. One — that now the veterinary client/patient relationship needs to be firmly established. Livestock producers are going to need to go and make sure that their veterinarian is familiar with their animals and familiar with their production setting and if they are not — they need to establish that sooner rather than later. One of the things that is suggested here is to ask the vet different scenarios. What is going to happen — before I wean. Livestock producers are going to have to provide different scenarios to their vet before 2017 so they know what to expect.”

 

Here is a link to the publication