The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking for public comments for their new deer management plan. The plan sets a statewide harvest target of 200,000 deer, increases citizen participation in deer management, and outlines ways to keep the population and habitat healthy.
CAHFS Weekly Update: Urban bow hunting; New sources of conservation funds; Influenza in South Africa
Governor Mark Dayton has proposed a new rule that would restrict the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers in the fall and winter in areas with porous soil, which are most vulnerable to groundwater pollution.
River Valley Sprouts in Houston, Minnesota announced a voluntary recall for several of its alfalfa sprouts due to possible Salmonella contamination.
ProgRESSVet (Programa Regional de Educación Sistemática de Servicios Veterinarios), the online education program of CAHFS and CEBASEV (Centro Buenos Aires para la Capacitación de los Servicios Veterinarios), launched its 2018 program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 8-9, 2018. The program brings together a new cohort of 11 participants from Veterinary Services of the Latin American region, from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
The 47th Midwest Poultry Federation Convention gathers more than 3,000 poultry experts, scientists, veterinarians and exhibitors from all sectors of the poultry industry in the Minneapolis Convention Center.
This semester on the St. Paul Campus, CAHFS will present Webcast viewings of the events in the lecture series Antibiotic Resistance: Policy Challenges & Solutions, provided by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. The third event, “Antibiotic Resistance Policy Challenges and Solutions," is April 3rd.
USDA's Farm Service Agency recently reminded ranchers to maintain good livestock records.
Ivan Oransky will give a public seminar April 19th entitled "Retractions, Post-Publication Peer Review, and Fraud: Scientific Publishing’s Wild West," as a contribution to the Research Integrity and Trustworthy Science research ethics event.
Minnesota’s Attorney General had been seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M to help clean up the company’s disposal of industrial chemicals in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area over the past 40 years.
