Mike Apley

How you will be able to obtain antibiotics for use in feed and water for food animals is changing. On May 28, the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) released the final Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) rule, which...

This column differs from what I typically write, and it’s taken about two years for me to get to where I could write it. It’s a personal story about the kind of people we live among out here in Kansas where we raise...

One of my prized connections to the past is a single-bladed, folding knife given to me by my grandfather. It belonged to his uncle who wasn’t a veterinarian but helped a lot of neighbors work cattle. Today, I hold...

I lost a 6-year-old cow this summer. She started to lose condition and was a couple of condition scores behind her herdmates when we put in the fly tags in early June. There was nothing really remarkable on a physical...

Last December, the Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) released its final draft of Guidance for Industry (GFI) 213. This is the road map for companies to enact the voluntary actions...

Did you think you left the tyranny of fractions behind in school? In truth, numerators and denominators still drive our view of the world, as well as the legislation and regulations that are changing our way of life...

If you’re putting a fluoroquinolone antibiotic into cattle for anything other than respiratory disease, you’re breaking the law. This class of antibiotics includes enrofloxacin (Baytril 100®) and danofloxacin (Advocin...

Antibiotics rely on the ability of the animal to contribute to the resolution of infectious disease. To be effective, the antibiotic must be able to inhibit the growth of the pathogen, or kill it, by interacting with...