Attending the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium from the corporate marketing group was Dr. Petra Maas. She is the Technical Manager for Ingelvac CircoFLEX. Her presentation was focused on a behind the scenes look at the research and development of Ingelvac CircoFLEX-MycoFLEX. She says the other speakers presented all the data, she just wanted to let attending veterinarians know more about …
Vaccination Comparison
“Qualifying Animal Responses to Various Immunization Protocols.” That’s the title of the talk given at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium by Dr. Keith Bretey. He’s a professional services veterinarian for BIVI. He says that basically means comparing the negative side effects of different vaccines. The BIVI products Ingelvac CircoFLEX and MycoFLEX were used in the study and he says they …
Vaccinations Make a Difference
Dr. Ernest Sanford came to the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium from Canada. He had some of the hottest new research to present. The title of his presentation was, “Impact of PCV2 Vaccination on Subclinical PCVAD Cases in Canada, France and U.S.” He says this topic has come up fairly recently and they’ve now got some new research data with some …
One Dose Is Enough
One of the speakers at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium was Dr. John Kolb. I met him at the company’s Animal Health Seminar last month. His topic was “Pig Performance with Ingelvac MycoFLEX vs. Two-Dose Vaccines.” At the Flex Symposium he presented research data that compared using this new single dose product vs. some of the competition’s that required two …
PCVAD Overview
The opening speaker at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium was Dr. Edgar Diaz, DVM. He’s a technical manager for BIVI. His task was to provide a scientific overview of PCVAD (porcine circovirus associated disease). Dr. Diaz says that they’ve found the focus to be on vaccinations recently so he was on the agenda to talk about some new research in …
IA State Grad Receives PCVAD Research Award
The other winner of the Boehringer Ingelheim PCVAD Research Awards was Brad Leuwerke, DVM. Brad is an Iowa State University graduate. Brad (center) is pictured with Klaas Okkinga, Boehringer Ingelheim (left) and Dr. Edgar Diaz, DVM, technical manager for PCVAD at BIVI (right). BIVI is providing Brad with a $25,000 cash grant for his research project: * a study to …
Boehringer Ingelheim PCVAD Double Award
There were several PCVAD Research awards presented at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium. A double award recipient was Tanja Opriessnig, DVM, PhD, seen here in front of the attendees. BI is providing $25,000 cash grants to the winners of the PCVAD Research Awards for their projects. Tanja will be working on two different studies as follows: * a study to …
Slovenia Ag Group
While we were in Slovenia at the IFAJ Congress one of our hosts was Ciril Smrkolj who is President of the Slovenia Agriculture and Forestry Chamber, a primary ag group in the country. I spoke with him at our closing dinner. He’s very much a pro-agriculture kind of guy. He says that his organization does work on promotion and marketing. …
Wine Queen of Slovenia
The Wine Queen of Slovenia this year is Svetlana Sirec. She got quite a bit of attention from the boys here in her wine queen dress, complete with red and white grapes. I spoke with her at our last dinner of the IFAJ Congress. She basically works to promote wine in country and I wish I could point you to …
Farm Science Review Corn Harvest Information
Here’s the New Holland crew after just finishing corn harvesting at the Farm Science Review. I spoke to Mike Craig about what they found. He says they had been running for two days and that they were getting between 130 to 150 bushels with 18 to 20% moisture. I asked him what’s new from New Holland and he says it’s …