Livestock Trust Course
The livestock industry faces a crisis; there is a shortage of veterinary students opting for large animal practice. Then consider that 80 percent of graduates from vet school are women, many from urban environments and it’s easy to see why Dr. Don Hoglund who teaches at the University Of Minnesota College Of Veterinary Medicine is passionate about his new course called Livestock Trust. He’ll be back with me after the break. Veterinarian Dr. Don Hoglund MS, ,DVM and his partner Dr. Paul Rapnicki DVM MBA have developed a course they call Livestock Trust that they hope will give young veterinary students, (the majority women) the skills they need to excel in the profession. According to Hoglund,
“ Right now we concentrate on senior veterinary students but our major thrust in the coming years is to concentrate on practicing veterinarians. In the near future you will hear about this course coming to the universities to target practicing veterinarians who then can go back to their dairies and beef production facilities and use these techniques. It’s a science based application, but it’s also a “senses” based application as well. We want to talk to you and teach you hands–on, 95 % of the time, how you can apply behavior principles and conditioning to move cattle. Its nothing new, it’s what the old time drovers used to do but we don’t live with our animals anymore and so we don’t know them as well as we used to. The Livestock Trust Course is bringing the old back to the new.” For more information on this collaborative industry wide effort led by Dr. Paul Rapnicki (Clinical Professor Dairy Production Medicine and Dr. Don Hoglund (Adjunct Faculty UMN and NCSU email: rapni001@umn.edu
