Schumacher Livestock Day creates educational opportunity

Twenty-five livestock operators heard from an outstanding group of speakers for the annual Jim Schumacher Memorial Livestock Day on Monday, February 6. Dr. Rick Levesque spoke about the recent Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Canada where 10,000 head of cattle were depopulated in 2016.

TB has many forms and people can get it from cattle and vice versa. During the 19th century, one out of every seven people in the world died of TB. Through this time frame in the US five-percent of the cattle were infected. Through effective eradication efforts by local, state, and federal authorities less than .00...