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This time on On Call Medical Radio - a discussion about current mammogram and pelvic exam recommendations with Medical Editor Doctor Rick Holm and Doctor Patti Giebink, an OBGYN from Chamberlain.  (TRT: 2 min 55 sec) MP3

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Contact: Tami Watson, (605)-688-5620

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SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Landowner and producer feedback sought for supplemental farm real estate survey

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Input from South Dakota landowners and crop producers can help researchers conducting a new survey on agricultural leases and their structures.

That's according to South Dakota Cooperative Extension Farm Financial Management Specialist Burton Pflueger, who is hoping landlords and tenants will go online and complete the survey over the next few weeks.

Pflueger: "This new survey deals with the structure of rental agreements in South Dakota. We're looking at both cash leases and share leases and trying to gather as much additional information about how those leases are structured for South Dakota  producers." (TRT:16 sec) MP3

Pflueger: "Our targeted audience for this survey is going to be landlords and tenants within South Dakota, or landlords that have property in South Dakota that they lease out. We're really concerned with gathering as much information as we can on the structure of those leases, so we're asking for responses from both landlords as well as tenants." (TRT: 21 sec) MP3

Pflueger: "In order for landlords and tenants to take part in the survey, we'd ask them to go to the Web site, this is an online survey so they can access it through the Internet, the Internet address is 2010rentalsurvey dot questionpro dot com. And we hope to have that link to the survey through several media sources so landlords and tenants should be able to find that survey and participate in it just by going to the Internet." (TRT: 33 sec) MP3

Pflueger: "One of the things we were trying to achieve by doing an online survey was to maintain confidentiality for all respondents. So those people who have access can be assured that responding to an online survey will ensure that their responses remain confidential. For those who don't have Internet access and would like to participate, we would ask them to go to their local county Extension office and gain some help from the local Extension educators there to participate in the survey, and again, even though they may participate in the survey through the Extension office, those responses will still be confidential. We will not be tracking back any response back to any one individual." (TRT: 44 sec) MP3

Pflueger: "One of the reasons why we're conducting the survey this year is that we have tried to target a survey on the structure of agricultural leases every 10 years. So it's been a little bit over 10 years since we last looked at the structure of agricultural leases, in particular, provisions of share leases, some of the timing of payments, those types of issues with cash leases, and so, to keep the data current, we need to examine the issue now at this time. As I mentioned, it's been a little over 10 years since we last looked at that. We know there's been changes to the way leases have been structured in South Dakota and we'd like to get as good of information on how those leases are structured today as we can." (TRT: 44 sec) MP3

Pflueger: "The survey will be open until April 1^st, we figure that we'll allow two to three weeks for individuals to respond to the survey, and then at some point we'll close that survey and that is around April 1. If people would like more information, they can contact me through the university, through South Dakota State University through the e-mail address there, or simply by calling me at area code 605-688-4863." (TRT:30 sec) MP3

Contact: Burton Pflueger, 605-688-4863
Author: Jarett Bies, (605) 688-4642

On our broadcast this time, On Call Medical Radio covers the topic of exercise.  Medical editor Doctor Rick Holm and Doctor Thomas Braithwaite, a hospitalist with the Sanford Clinic in Sioux Falls, discuss the real value of staying active.  (TRT: 2 min 53 sec) MP3

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Contact: Tami Watson, (605)-688-5620  

AGBIO COMMUNICATIONS UNIT

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Producers facing challenging calving season still have options to improve calf health

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Cattle producers that are about to start the calving process may face challenging conditions over the next few weeks.

That's according to South Dakota Cooperative Extension Veterinarian Russ Daly, who said snowy and wet conditions could make scours more likely.

Daly:  "We hear the term scours a lot and that doesn't have anything to do with cleaning out the calf its diarrhea is what we're dealing with and unfortunately one of the major issues that calves have, baby calves have, their first few weeks of life is diarrhea disease or intestinal diseases that cause diarrhea."  (TRT: 20 sec) MP3
 
Daly:  "Well with the snow fall we've had this winter, producers aren't able to utilize all the areas that they would like to normally use to put their cows out to have their baby calves. This means that we'll have more confined areas where cows will be calving in and when we have those more confined areas we have more of a chance of build up of germs weather they be viruses or bacteria or protozoa that can cause diseases like scours or diarrhea in baby calves. The other issue we have this winter too is the snow we have out there is going to melt someday and that is going to result in very muddy, moist, wet conditions and those really favor the survival of those scour causing germs too."  (TRT: 54 sec) MP3
 
Daly:  "One way we can help baby calves get a good start to life is to actually vaccinate the cow and what we're vaccinating the cow for are the same, against the same organisms that would cause calf scours. The cow responds with her immune system and puts antibodies into the milk or colostrums for the baby calf who then drinks those antibodies in the milk and then is able to be more protected form those organisms that it might encounter out in the environment."  (TRT: 34 sec) MP3
 
Daly:  "The cow doesn't start utilizing the antibodies from her blood steam and putting them in the milk until about five weeks before calving and this process of pumping the antibodies from the mother's blood stream into to the milk for the calf occurs all the way from that period all the way up until she has her calf and makes that first colostrums. So the time frame we're looking at is to try to buster the cow's immunity as close to that time period as possible. Insuring the cow has a high enough antibody level in her blood stream at about five weeks before calving and all the way until she calves, is going to be the best strategy for the best time to vaccinate these cows."  (TRT: 54 sec) MP3
 
Daly:  "For a lot of cows and a lot of producers it's not going to be too late to give those cows a booster of their scours vaccine or their pre-calving vaccine. It really doesn't become too late biologically. The cow, even if we vaccinate her fairly close to when she has her calf, as long as we give her a few days at least to respond to that vaccine, she's going to utilize those antibodies and get those antibodies put into her colostrums. The real thing here is the calf has to drink the colostrums and get the benefit from what we've given to the cow earlier. Paying attention to that calf after he's born and making sure he gets a good dose of colostrums in that first milking form the mother is going to be very important this calving season."  (TRT: 55 sec) MP3
 
Daly:  "Well there are going to be producers that are kind of caught behind the eight ball this spring; not being able to have the facilities open to get their cows in to vaccinate, maybe being a little pressed for time, maybe having some limitations as far as their calving areas too. In those cases I really encourage them to have a conversation with their veterinarian and see if there are some strategies that they can provide to the baby calf right at birth. There may be some antitoxin products, some antibody products that can be given to those calves right away at birth. There several of those products that may help prevent some these scours issue from happening in baby calves. There's no body better than your local veterinarian to help guide you as far as making real prudent product choices, when it comes to using some of those preparations on baby calves."   (TRT: 57 sec) MP3

Contact: Russ Daly, 605-688-6589
Author: Jarett Bies, (605) 688-4642

This time on On Call Medical Radio our physicians discuss acne.  Doctor Rick Holm talks with dermatologist Doctor James McGrann about the role that hormones play in causing acne.  Doctor McGrann practices at Dakota Dermatology in Sioux Falls.  (TRT: 3 min 2 sec) MP3

For more information about On Call medical radio contact:

Contact: Tami Watson, (605)-688-5620