Missouri's Voluntary CWD Program Receives National Approval
April 17, 2013
Missouri's Voluntary CWD Program Receives National Approval
The Missouri Department of Agriculture's efforts to minimize the spread of
Chronic Wasting Disease were recently recognized and approved by the USDA.
Missouri's voluntary program has been designated an Approved State Chronic
Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program by the USDA Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
"The Missouri Department of Agriculture takes its role in protecting the
health of Missouri's livestock very seriously and continues to work to prevent,
identify and, as necessary, eradicate disease throughout the state," said
Director of Agriculture Dr. Jon Hagler.
More than 180 Missouri farms currently participate in the voluntary
program, which includes inspections, testing and detailed recordkeeping. Through
their participation in the voluntary program, Missouri producers shipping
cervids, including deer and elk, interstate have the opportunity to certify
their herds as being low risk for the neurological disease.
Missouri's herd certification program was developed in 2002 to protect and
manage captive cervids. The Department applied for approval through the
USDA-APHIS Approved State CWD Herd Certification Program in 2012, shortly after
the federal program became available. Missouri's program approval is good for
five years and may be renewed.
CWD is a fatal neurological disease found in deer, elk and moose. There is
no evidence CWD can be transmitted to humans or non-cervid animals, such as
livestock and household pets. The first known case of CWD in the U.S. was
identified in South Dakota in 1997. It has since been found in a dozen states.
For more information on CWD and other animal health programs, visit the
Department online at mda.mo.gov.
Missouri's Voluntary CWD Program Receives National Approval and will be a failure from the start.
key word here ‘voluntary’.
this program is a failure before it ever gets started.
any voluntary measure will not work with the TSE prion disease, in my
opinion. ...tss
I think this was 2010 ;
There are 294 cervid farms in Missouri. (LF 250, 313).
The study identified four general purposes for cervid farms: “breeding
stock operations, trophy hunting preserves, commercial venison producers, and
commercial scent collection.” (LF 250, 313).
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Products from a deer breeding operation like Appellant’s include antler
racks after they are shed, semen “straws” from super bucks, fawns that carry the
super genetics other breeders are looking for, and adult bucks and does that
have proven their productivity. (LF 250). There is a national market for these
products. A straw of semen can go for $1,500 to $30,000 per straw depending on
the productivity of the buck. Antler racks sell for $1,000 to $20,000 or more,
depending on the size and quality. (Id.) Weaned buck and doe fawns with the
desired genetics sell for $7,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Id.) A
mature buck that has shown the ability to grow extraordinary antlers can sell
for over a half-million dollars. (Id.) Super does with proven genetics can sell
for $40,000 to over $200,000. (Id.)
referenced here ;
3. Effective January 1 of each year, one hundred percent (100%) of all elk,
elk-hybrids, mule deer, and white-tailed deer over twelve (12) months of age
that die of any cause within a big game hunting preserve operation, shall be
tested for chronic wasting disease at a federally approved laboratory, up to an
annual total of ten (10) animals in the aggregate; except that one hundred
percent (100%) of all elk, elk-hybrids, mule deer and white-tailed deer that are
imported into Missouri that die of any cause within a big game hunting preserve
shall be tested for chronic wasting disease at a federally approved
laboratory.
4. All permits issued by the state veterinarian's office allowing cervids
to enter Missouri and all chronic wasting disease test results must be kept by
the permittee and are subject to inspection by an agent of the department at any
reasonable time. All test results documenting a positive case of chronic wasting
disease shall be reported immediately to an agent of the department.
5. The permittee may exercise privileges provided in 3 CSR 10-9.353 only
for species held within breeding enclosure(s) contained within or directly
adjacent to the big game hunting preserve. Any such breeding enclosure(s) shall
meet standards specified in 3 CSR 10-9.220. Breeding enclosures may be separated
from the hunting preserve by a public road, but must be directly adjacent. Other
breeding enclosures not contained within or directly adjacent to the hunting
preserve are not covered under the privileges of this rule.
Captive Deer & Elk (Cervids) in Missouri Captive Cervids: Elk,
elk-hybrids, red deer, roe deer, sika deer, white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose,
and related species in the Cervidae family, raised under confinement or
agricultural conditions for the production of meat or other agricultural
products or for sport or exhibition, and free-ranging cervidae when they are
captured for any purpose.
The majority of farm-raised cervidae in Missouri are either Rocky Mountain
elk, considered livestock which fall under the regulations of the Missouri
Department of Agriculture, or White-tailed deer, wildlife, which fall under the
regulations of the Missouri Department of Conservation.
For information concerning health requirements governing the admission of
CWD status herds of Elk, elk-hybrids, red deer, roe deer, sika deer,
white-tailed deer, mule deer, and moose sold, traded, exchanged, leased,
donated, relinquished or otherwise involved in a change of ownership contact the
Division of Animal Health at (573) 751-2267, or e-mail Shelly.Witt@mda.mo.gov.
Missouri provides more evidence against deer farming
Posted February 11, 2012 at 7:16 p.m
Tennessee politicians are reacting to the news that Chronic Wasting Disease
has been found in captive and wild white-tailed deer in Missouri by trying to
make it legal to have captive whitetails in Tennessee.
And that's not even the bad news.
While Rep. Frank Niceley is leading the charge to make it legal to farm
deer in Tennessee, the information coming from the Show Me State should be a
wake-up call in the state legislature.
But there's a reason politicians as a whole have approval ratings on about
the same level as foot fungus.
Missouri's story is this: In 2010, the Missouri Department of Conservation
found two cases of CWD in captive white-tailed deer at two private facilities.
Both were pay-to-hunt preserves, one in Linn County and the other in Macon
County.
Based on those two cases, the MDC decided to test deer killed by hunters
during the 2011 season and took samples from 1,077 deer. Macon County just
happens to be the most productive in Missouri for deer hunters.
Of the nearly 1,100 samples — roughly a fifth of all the deer killed in
Macon County — two bucks were found to be infected with CWD. And as an
oh-by-the-way, the two deer that had CWD were bagged not too far from where the
disease was found in the captive deer.
According to MDOC, the two bucks were killed less than a mile apart and
within two miles of the Heartland Wildlife Ranch, one of the facilities where
CWD was found the year before. Since CWD is transmitted via feces, urine,
saliva, nose-to-nose contact or other direct and indirect contact, all the bucks
had to do was rub noses with an infected deer on the other side of the Heartland
Wildlife Ranch fence.
Some biologists will say there's no link between captive deer and CWD. Most
of those biologists are being paid by people who are desperate not to find a
link between captive deer and CWD. But the vast majority of states where CWD has
been found allow deer farming of one kind or another, and the vast majority of
biologists believe the two go hand-in-hand.
Missouri will now implement a plan the Department of Conservation put in
place in 2002 which includes more testing and a herd management strategy for the
area where the disease has been found. In other states with a CWD problem, herd
management has meant herd reduction, often by big numbers.
That's not any concern of Rep. Nicely or Sen. Becky Duncan Massey from
Knoxville, who is sponsoring the bill on the Senate side. Niceley's deer farming
bill was beaten back in the legislature last year — and was strongly opposed by
deer hunters — and that has led to a feud between a handful of legislators and
the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission, the agency, backers of the agency,
etc.
This year's deer-farming bill is much more wide open and less restrictive
than the one that couldn't even get out of the Conservation or Agriculture
subcommittees last year. The bill that goes before the full House Agriculture
Committee on Tuesday, skipping subcommittees altogether, leaves it up to the
Department of Agriculture to set the rules and regulations for deer
farmers/breeders. If Ag doesn't want any rules or regs, there won't be
any.
Since Niceley is the chairman of the Agriculture Committee, its chances of
getting to the House floor are pretty good.
But he and other supporters of deer farming in Tennessee say this is a jobs
bill. They're right about that.
In Missouri, where the economic impact of deer farming has been negligible,
according to recent media reports, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is in
talks with deer farmers/hunting preserve owners to buy them out and close the
operations because of CWD.
Who says there's no money to be made from deer farming?
Commission Meeting: The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission approved
the 2012 special elk hunting season and the addition of a permit for one state
resident youth to participate in the elk hunt.
TWRC met Thursday and Friday and decided to add one youth elk tag to the
state's limited but popular elk season.
The youth hunt will be Oct. 20-21 following the five-day elk hunt Oct.
15-19. Again this year, four participants will be randomly drawn for the regular
hunt and one elk tag will be auctioned off by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources
Foundation. The drawing for the youth tag will take place after the general
drawing.
The application process for the 2012 elk hunt will be held April 1-May
31.
Bob Hodge is a freelance contributor.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Tennessee Launches CWD Herd Certification Program in the wake of
legislation for game farms
Monday, April 15, 2013
Deer farmers in the state of Louisiana are under a quarantine due to
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Cervid Industry Unites To Set Direction for CWD Reform and seem to ignore
their ignorance and denial in their role in spreading Chronic Wasting
Disease
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Politicians ignore alarming CWD spike in Wyoming valley Wisconsin
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
*** A Growing Threat How deer breeding could put public trust wildlife at
risk
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
CWD Missouri remains confined to Linn-Macon-County Core Area with four new
cases
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Missouri sixth case CWD documented northwest Macon County
Friday, October 21, 2011 Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Captive Deer
Missouri October 20, 2011
Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Captive Deer
The Missouri departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Health and Senior
Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a captive
white-tailed deer in Macon County, Missouri has tested positive for Chronic
Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is a neurological disease found in deer, elk and
moose.
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The animal that tested positive for CWD was a captive white-tailed deer
inspected as part of the State's CWD surveillance and testing program.
Preliminary tests were conducted by the USDA National Veterinary Services
Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.
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In February 2010 a case of CWD was confirmed in Linn County on a captive
hunting preserve operated by the same entity, Heartland Wildlife Ranches, LLC.
The Linn County facility was depopulated and no further infection was identified
at that facility. The current case was identified through increased surveillance
required by the management plan implemented from the previous CWD incident.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Captive Deer Missouri
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
CWD found in two free-ranging deer from Macon County Missouri
Friday, February 26, 2010
Chronic wasting disease found in Missouri deer
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Three more cases of CWD found in free-ranging deer in Macon County
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:26 PM
To: warhovert@missouri.edu
Cc: abbottjm@missouri.edu ; waltermr@missouri.edu ;
John.McLaughlin@missouri.edu ; connerek@missouri.edu ; contact@dnr.mo.gov ;
Shelly.Witt@mda.mo.gov ; Animal.Health@mda.mo.gov ; acfa@mda.mo.gov ;
animalid@mda.mo.gov ; Linda.Hickam@mda.mo.gov
Subject: re-Missouri officials seek states' advice on chronic wasting
disease in deer
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Missouri MDC staff will provide information on five recently found cases
of CWD in free-ranging deer in northwest Macon County June 2, 2012
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Missouri MDC seeks hunters’ help when processing harvested deer and
preventing CWD
Thursday, December 20, 2012
MISSOURI Initial CWD sampling test results available online from MDC so far
one adult buck has tested positive for the disease
Friday, October 12, 2012
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) is Now Accepting Comments on Rule
Proposals for “Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)”
TO: comments@tahc.state.tx.us; Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)
Comment from Terry Singeltary
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:24 PM
To:
Subject: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals: Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program (Document ID
APHIS-2011-0032-0001)
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and
Approvals: Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program (Document ID
APHIS-2011-0032-0001)
I believe that any voluntary program for CWD free herd certification from
game farms will be futile, as was the partial and voluntary mad cow feed ban of
August 4, 1997. That failed terribly, with some 10,000,000 of banned blood laced
MBM being fed out in 2007, a decade post August 4, 1997 partial and voluntary
ban.
Game farms are a petri dish for CWD TSE Prion disease, with Wisconsin
having documented 9 CWD infected game farms, with one having the highest CWD
infection rate in the world, 80% CWD infection rate.
I believe that all game farms should be SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY.
CWD TSE prion disease survives ashing to 600 degrees celsius, that’s around
1112 degrees farenheit.
you cannot cook the CWD TSE prion disease out of meat.
you can take the ash and mix it with saline and inject that ash into a
mouse, and the mouse will go down with TSE.
Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel
Production as well.
the TSE prion agent also survives Simulated Wastewater Treatment Processes.
IN fact, you should also know that the CWD TSE Prion agent will survive in
the environment for years, if not decades.
you can bury it and it will not go away.
CWD TSE agent is capable of infected your water table i.e. Detection of
protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area.
it’s not your ordinary pathogen you can just cook it out and be done with.
that’s what’s so worrisome about Iatrogenic mode of transmission, a simple
autoclave will not kill this TSE prion agent.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD WISCONSIN Almond Deer (Buckhorn Flats) Farm
Update DECEMBER 2011
Monday, January 16, 2012
9 GAME FARMS IN WISCONSIN TEST POSITIVE FOR CWD
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD cervids interspecies transmission
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Environmental Sources of Scrapie Prions
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
flounder9@verizon.net
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Saturday, June 09, 2012
USDA Establishes a Herd Certification Program for Chronic Wasting Disease
in the United States
TSS
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10:25 AM
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