Proposals could focus on:

• Individual Animal Medicine – to enable practitioners to further  his/her knowledge and skills in basic animal medicine, including  diagnosis, treatment, surgery, case management, pain management or  patient welfare.

• Production Medicine – for veterinarians  seeking to developing or implement herd protocols that enhance health  and profitability, including records analysis, disease prevention,  production enhancement, benchmarking, biosecurity, or food safety.

The  recipients were Dr. Amber Itle, Dairy Continuing Education Award  winner, and Dr. Eric Behlke, Beef Continuing Education Award. Itle works  with dairy cattle at the Kulshan Veterinary Hospital, a mixed practice in Lynden, Washington. Behlke works for Feedlot Health Management Services primarily in animal health and feedlot production in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  

—From AgriLabs news release

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Dr. Eric Behlke