Trich testing

Trich testing

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Dr. Scott Leibsle is the state Veterinarian and administrator of the division of Animal Industries at the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Leibsle says he often works with the livestock industry.

 “We’ve got the oldest Trich program in the county. The cattle industry came to the Department of Ag 30 years ago and said we’ve got a problem with this disease. 

We established a mandatory trich testing program, the disease is trichomoniasis and the fact that we had 29,000 tests conducted last year and we identified 1 positive out of that, that’s a very successful program, and so I think that’s where the industry working cooperatively the regulatory agency like ISDA can produce a very favorable result. And so we don’t have a problem with trich here in Idaho. Other states do that don’t have the same type of program that was put in place. But we’re very proud of that and the industry support behind that is what yielded such a positive result.”

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