Invited review: Bovine leukemia virus—Transmission, control, and eradication

Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Control and Eradication

BVDV is estimated to cost an average dairy between $20 and $160 per adult cow per year. These losses include medication and labor to treat acute infections, milk production losses in lactating cows, infertility due to decreased conception and early embryonic death, abortions, loss of weak, abnormal, or persistently infected calves. Large scale herd outbreaks such as occurred in the early 1990s ...

Vision for a Bovine Tuberculosis Control and Eradication Strategy

Economic Impacts, Control and Eradication of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus

Infections with Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVD) are endemic in cattle populations worldwide and result in major economic losses; hence, many countries have begun BVD eradication programs. The authors estimated the losses caused by BVD, and the estimated annual losses in 2012 amounted to 4.5 million EUR in Hungary. In a dairy cattle farm with 1000 cows the acute clinical BVD could cause more ...

Invited Review Warehouse design and control: Framework and literature review

In this paper we present a reference framework and a classi®cation of warehouse design and control problems. Based on this framework, we review the existing literature on warehousing systems and indicate important gaps. In particular, we emphasize the need for design oriented studies, as opposed to the strong analysis oriented research on isolated subproblems that seems to be dominant in the cu...

Bovine tuberculosis eradication.

Sec. 457. On or before October 15, 2008, and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the department shall report to the senate and house agriculture committees, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on agriculture, and the senate and house fiscal agencies on the department’s progress toward meeting USDA requirements as outlined in the March 2007 bovine TB program review. The report shall i...