Iowa Brakke Family Farmed CWD livestock update July 3, 2013
Iowa
CWD Crisis Update
July 3, 2013
330 Acres Quarantined until December 2017; Litigation Scheduled for Late
Summer
The American Cervid Alliance would like to offer an update regarding the
ongoing CWD crisis in Iowa since last summer. Tom & Rhonda Brakke, owners of
Pine Ridge Lodge, originally found a positive CWD buck in their hunting ranch in
July 2012.
By January 31, 2013, all animals were depopulated and tested in compliance
with the Iowa DNR Agreement. Also according the agreement, the decontamination
procedures were followed and completed during the first week of April. Pine
Ridge was responsible for expenses incurred from the testing, storage of
carcasses in reefer, disposal, and decontamination. These procedures were
directly ordered as suggested by Part B of the CWD Standards working document.
Part of the decontamination process was the removal of 4 inches of top soil in
areas of their farm and other requirements consistent with standards working
document Version 22.
According to the Brakke’s, without any options provided to maintain breeder
or preserve facility operations to generate income, the Brakke’s legal
representatives contacted the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land
Stewardship (IDALS) and Iowa DNR to discuss future options for the preserve
property. Because there were no options provided by the state, the Brakke's
canceled their hunting preserve license and 30 days later opened the gates
planning to remove the fences. The Brakke’s stated their intentions to remove
the fence were to generate income from the property. During that 30 day
cancelation time period, they were not contacted by the Iowa DNR or IDALS.
On June 6, 2013, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) served an
Emergency Order stating that the preserve is subject to quarantine and among
other things, requiring the Brakke’s to close the gates and maintain the fence.
The emergency order stated the Brakke’s eight foot fence must remain in place
and maintained until December 28, 2017. The date is based off five years after
the last positive was found.
The Brakke’s are involved in a contested case proceeding with the IDALS
regarding their breed facility animals. In the proceeding with IDALS, the
Brakke’s are seeking to set aside the quarantines issued by IDALS and if such
quarantines are not set aside, they are seeking appropriate compensation from
the state for the loss of their property. The contested case hearing with IDALS
is set for August, 2013.
The Iowa DNR is requesting open access to the Brakke’s 330 acre property
for a period of 4 weeks in order to destroy any wild cervids that have entered
the property. The Brakke’s are challenging the DNR’s actions and request. In
addition, the Brakke’s are seeking appropriate compensation from the state
should the DNR’s action be upheld. Due to the Emergency Order, the Brakke’s
expect at least a portion of the issues involving DNR will be heard by an
administrative law judge on July 3rd, and possibly a full hearing on the merits
at a later date.
ABOUT the Brakkes and CWD in Iowa ;
State Issues Iowa: On July 26, 2012, Iowa breeders Tom & Rhonda Brakke
were notified of a positive case of CWD from an animal taken during their
harvest season in December 2011. Their herd was CWD monitored for ten years and
remained a closed herd for more than ten years. The Iowa Department of
Agriculture quarantined their breeding herd of 450 animals and their 330 acre
hunting preserve for a minimum of five years. The Brakke's entered into an
agreement with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the 330 acre hunting
facility to allow them to accommodate the hunters that had made arrangements to
hunt with them during the 2012 hunting season. In this agreement, the Brakke's
purchased a reefer trailer, paid for 50% of the electric standoff fence
surrounding the preserve, and paid for 100% of the CWD testing for all animals
harvested. They were allowed to purchase animals from other breeders and harvest
those that were already on the property. All animals are to be harvested on the
preserve property no later than January 31, 2013. To date, 170 of animals from
the preserve have been tested and they have found two positives, both bucks.
Effective January 1, 2012, the USDA has dropped all CWD indemnity and
declared their lack of understanding and scientific knowledge for CWD. The
Brakke's have raised whitetail deer for twenty years with more than $2.5 million
invested in the industry.
The Brakke's met with the IA Department of Agriculture and the Iowa
Department of Natural Resources on several occasions in hopes of developing a
plan to depopulate their breeding herd and were unsuccessful. It was their
intent to obtain indemnity for their herd through their hunting preserve with
control factors to mitigate the risk of spreading the disease. The IA Department
of Agriculture will not accept live rectal biopsy testing, as the test is not
approved by the USDA and the Iowa DNR hunting preserve regulations include
language that all deer must come from CWD free herds. It is their belief that
the Brakke's should pay to destroy their own herd, pay for the testing and
clean-up, which includes removing 2" of top soil on the entire property. The
Brakke's are currently spending $3,000 per week to feed their animals and are
quarantined for five years. Because they were not able to come to an agreement,
the Brakke's recently entered into litigation with the state of Iowa for
compensation for the breeding herd. The suit should reach the courts in Summer
2013.
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
Friday, September 21, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD raises concerns about deer farms in Iowa
Updated: 21 September 2012 | 6:30 am
Disease raises concerns about deer farms in Iowa
Most cases found so far in state tied to confined animals
Iowa’s first seven cases of chronic wasting disease — all directly related
to confined whitetail deer — have put a bull’s eye on the backs of the state’s
deer breeders and the pay-to-shoot facilities they supply.
see video ;
Iowa residents raise concern about CWD
by Monisha Bruner
Posted: 10.02.2012 at 10:25 PM
OTTUMWA, IOWA -- It’s the first formal public meeting since chronic wasting
disease was found in Iowa, and residents were not too pleased about it.
Hundreds of residents attended Tuesday night’s meeting in Ottumwa, and many
questioned why this was the first meeting on the topic.
They were told because the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and
lawmakers had to go over several things first.
CWD was discovered in captive deer in pens in three counties: Davis County,
Cerro Gordo County and Pottawattamie County.
It appears all three cases are a result of deer being transferred from a
breeding pen owned by Tom Brakke in Cerro Gordo County.
The Department of Agriculture has quarantined several other pens around
Iowa that have deer from Brakke's facility.
Iowa State Representative Curt Hanson of Fairfield said this was an
important meeting.
“(The) responsibilities between the breeding pens and the preserves are
divided,” Hanson said. “So, we need to have some openness and discussion about
what's happening and (the) purpose of this meeting is to find out what's really
being done, what can be done, what we need to plan for and if there needs to be
different legislation enacted.
When one resident asked if Iowa needs new legislation, one official said
"yes."
Iowa’s first case of CWD was found July 16, 2012.
Officials said that, as of Tuesday, there is a 3 wire electric fence around
the deer that are being quarantined so they don't spread the disease to wild
deer.
Officials also said all the deer will die at the pen by the end of January
2013.
I think mr. brakke could handle a little loss. He owns brakke implement out
of clear lake plus he has 3 deer farms!! I think its time to shut it down!
Iowa recorded its first CWD case in July at the Pine Ridge Hunting Lodge
near Bloomfield in Davis County.
The Department of Natural Resources, which regulates hunting preserves, and
the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, which regulates breeding
facilities, have since confirmed six more positive tests — all but two related
to the Davis County hunting preserve and to a Cerro Gordo County deer breeding
facility, both owned by Tom and Rhonda Brakke of Clear Lake.
The Clear Lake facility has recorded a positive test, as have three deer
raised at that facility and shipped to a combination shooting and breeding
facility in Pottawattamie County, according to State Veterinarian David Schmitt.
The other two positive tests at the Pottawattamie facility involved a deer
acquired from another Iowa breeder and a deer that was a natural addition to the
herd, Schmitt said. ...snip
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A Growing Threat How deer breeding could put public trust wildlife at risk
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The New Hornographers: The Fight Over the Future of Texas Deer
interesting article ;
Max Dream, the Madera Bonita Ranch's prized buck, is a semen-producing cash
cow. Mike Wood
Max Dream, the Madera Bonita Ranch's prized buck, is a semen-producing cash
cow.
In magazine advertisements in which Max is backlit in messianic grandeur,
his value can be determined in other ways. Wood sells half-cubic-centimeter
straws of the animal's cryogenically frozen semen (or about a tenth of a
teaspoon) for $5,000 a pop. And breeders will pony up just for a shot at a fawn
boasting the great Max Dream as sire. Bear in mind, a buck in his prime with an
electroejaculator inserted in his rectum can produce 60 straws at a time.
Though Max never leaves the confines of Madera Bonita, FedEx spreads his
cryogenically frozen seed far and wide.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The New Hornographers: The Fight Over the Future of Texas Deer
SEMEN AND TSE INFECTIVITY
Saturday, February 11, 2012
PrPSc Detection and Infectivity in Semen from Scrapie-Infected Sheep
FOR THOSE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEE MORE SCIENCE HERE ON CWD TSE prion disease
;
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The New Hornographers: The Fight Over the Future of Texas Deer, Captive
shooting pens, and the CWD TSE prion disease
My name is Terry S. Singeltary Sr., and I wish to submit this data on
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD in Cervids, and risk factors there from.
AS a layperson, I have wasted 15 years daily (it seems at times), going
from state to state, country to country, warning of this dreaded disease. not to
many folks listened.
It’s mostly a political disease, spread by political and industry greed.
I lost my mother to the Heidenhain Variant of the Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
hvCJD, a rare subtype of the sporadic CJDs in humans, and these phenotypes are
mounting, and they are of unknown origin, and NOT simply a happenstance of bad
luck, or a funked out twisted protein that just happen to make this twist on
it’s own, this in 85%+ of all human TSE disease i.e. sCJD, thus, I will never
believe this hypothesis. in other words, the UKBSEnvCJD only theory was trash.
I came across this thread, and thought I must respond.
please use this science and information as you wish. I simply wanted to
share, the rest of the story here about the cwd tse prion disease.
the shooting pen livestock industry will not like what I have to say, and
what science I present.
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD, and other TSE prion disease, these TSE prions
know no borders.
these TSE prions know no age restrictions.
The TSE prion disease survives ashing to 600 degrees celsius, that’s around
1112 degrees farenheit.
you cannot cook the 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 TSE Prion agent will survive in the
environment for years, if not decades.
you can bury it and it will not go away.
The 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.
I go from state to state trying to warn of the CWD and other TSE prion
disease in other species, I just made a promise to mom. back then, there was no
information.
so, I submit this to you all in good faith, and hope that you take the time
to read my research of the _sound_, peer review science, not the junk science
that goes with the politics $$$
right or left or teaparty or independent, you cannot escape the TSE prion
disease.
there is a lot of science here to digest, but better digesting this _sound_
science, instead of the junk political science you will hear from the shooting
pen industry.
I don’t care what you eat, whom you eat, or what party you are affiliated
with, my problem is, when you consume these TSE prions, and then go enter the
medical, surgical, dental, blood and tissue arena, then you risk exposing _me or
MY_ family to the TSE prion disease via friendly fire, the pass it forward mode
of transmission mission, or what they call iatrogenic CJD. all iatrogenic CJD
is, is sporadic CJD, until the route and source of the TSE prion agent is
proven.
I am NOT anti-hunter, I am or was a hunter (disabled with neck injury and
other medical problems), I am a meat eater.
I just don’t care for stupid, and sometimes you just can’t fix stupid, Lord
knows I have tried.
I do NOT advertise on these blogs, they are there for educational use.
please read the science, maybe read it again, try and understand it, most is not
rocket science, and then you have to make your own decisions, but it’s just good
when your making these decisions about CWD, policy making there from, that you
have all the science, and not just part of it.
I have much to say, there is over 15 years of daily research of the
science, updated, transmission studies, FOIA requests, confidential documents,
dockets submissions, and more on the CWD, TSE, prion disease. so instead of
posting a million pages of data on this, I have put this science in different
blogs. please sort by topics of your concern, and then _please_ read the source
data, where these studies were done, and what they consisted of. I do not
pretend to know everything, and I am not here pretending this, I simply am here
to try and educate, with what I have learned over the past 15+ years of daily
research and debate on this topic of CWD, TSE prion, aka mad cow type disease.
now the shooting pen owners, the sperm mills, antler mills, captive
livestock breeders, they all will be up in arms over this post, then you will
have others say that I am a scare monger, a tree hugger, a vegan, anti this and
that. I am none of these. you will ultimately have to make your own minds up.
...
Good Luck !
we will start here, my submission to the state of Missouri recently ;
My submission as follows ;
snip...
I guess we will start with the question, how much money can one state
afford for one CWD infected game farm, and the ramifications there from ?
I will list one example here ;
how many states have $465,000., and can quarantine and purchase there from,
each cwd said infected farm, but how many states can afford this for all the cwd
infected cervid game ranch type farms ???
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD WISCONSIN Almond Deer (Buckhorn Flats) Farm
Update DECEMBER 2011
The CWD infection rate was nearly 80%, the highest ever in a North American
captive herd.
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board approve the purchase of 80 acres of land for
$465,000 for the Statewide Wildlife Habitat Program in Portage County and
approve the restrictions on public use of the site.
SUMMARY:
SEE MORE USAHA REPORTS HERE, 2012 NOT PUBLISHED YET...TSS
Thursday, June 20, 2013
atypical, BSE, CWD, Scrapie, Captive Farmed shooting pens (livestock), Wild
Cervids, Rectal Mucosa Biopsy 2012 USAHA Proceedings, and CJD TSE prion Update
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
please see what the U.K. DEFRA recently said ABOUT CWD RISK FACTORS ;
Friday, December 14, 2012
DEFRA U.K. What is the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease CWD being introduced
into Great Britain? A Qualitative Risk Assessment October 2012
snip...
In the USA, under the Food and Drug Administration’s BSE Feed Regulation
(21 CFR 589.2000) most material (exceptions include milk, tallow, and gelatin)
from deer and elk is prohibited for use in feed for ruminant animals. With
regards to feed for non-ruminant animals, under FDA law, CWD positive deer may
not be used for any animal feed or feed ingredients. For elk and deer considered
at high risk for CWD, the FDA recommends that these animals do not enter the
animal feed system. However, this recommendation is guidance and not a
requirement by law.
Animals considered at high risk for CWD include:
1) animals from areas declared to be endemic for CWD and/or to be CWD
eradication zones and
2) deer and elk that at some time during the 60-month period prior to
slaughter were in a captive herd that contained a CWD-positive animal.
Therefore, in the USA, materials from cervids other than CWD positive
animals may be used in animal feed and feed ingredients for non-ruminants.
The amount of animal PAP that is of deer and/or elk origin imported from
the USA to GB can not be determined, however, as it is not specified in TRACES.
It may constitute a small percentage of the 8412 kilos of non-fish origin
processed animal proteins that were imported from US into GB in 2011.
Overall, therefore, it is considered there is a __greater than negligible
risk___ that (nonruminant) animal feed and pet food containing deer and/or elk
protein is imported into GB.
There is uncertainty associated with this estimate given the lack of data
on the amount of deer and/or elk protein possibly being imported in these
products.
snip...
36% in 2007 (Almberg et al., 2011). In such areas, population declines of
deer of up to 30 to 50% have been observed (Almberg et al., 2011). In areas of
Colorado, the prevalence can be as high as 30% (EFSA, 2011).
The clinical signs of CWD in affected adults are weight loss and
behavioural changes that can span weeks or months (Williams, 2005). In addition,
signs might include excessive salivation, behavioural alterations including a
fixed stare and changes in interaction with other animals in the herd, and an
altered stance (Williams, 2005). These signs are indistinguishable from cervids
experimentally infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Given this, if CWD was to be introduced into countries with BSE such as GB,
for example, infected deer populations would need to be tested to differentiate
if they were infected with CWD or BSE to minimise the risk of BSE entering the
human food-chain via affected venison.
snip...
The rate of transmission of CWD has been reported to be as high as 30% and
can approach 100% among captive animals in endemic areas (Safar et al., 2008).
snip...
In summary, in endemic areas, there is a medium probability that the soil
and surrounding environment is contaminated with CWD prions and in a
bioavailable form. In rural areas where CWD has not been reported and deer are
present, there is a greater than negligible risk the soil is contaminated with
CWD prion.
snip...
In summary, given the volume of tourists, hunters and servicemen moving
between GB and North America, the probability of at least one person travelling
to/from a CWD affected area and, in doing so, contaminating their clothing,
footwear and/or equipment prior to arriving in GB is greater than negligible.
For deer hunters, specifically, the risk is likely to be greater given the
increased contact with deer and their environment. However, there is significant
uncertainty associated with these estimates.
snip...
Therefore, it is considered that farmed and park deer may have a higher
probability of exposure to CWD transferred to the environment than wild deer
given the restricted habitat range and higher frequency of contact with tourists
and returning GB residents.
snip... see full text report here ;
Friday, December 14, 2012
DEFRA U.K. What is the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease CWD being introduced
into Great Britain? A Qualitative Risk Assessment October 2012
snip...see my full submission to the state of Missouri on CWD here ;
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Missouri House forms 13-member Interim Committee on the Cause and Spread of
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The New Hornographers: The Fight Over the Future of Texas Deer, Captive
shooting pens, and the CWD TSE prion disease
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
National Rifle Association and the Unified Sportsman of Florida support a
Florida ban on the importation of captive deer and cervids into Florida
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
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Effects of Chronic Wasting Disease on the Pennsylvania Cervid Industry
Following its Discovery
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Could avian scavengers translocate infectious prions to disease-free areas
initiating new foci of chronic wasting disease?
Prion. 2013 Jul 3;7(4). [Epub ahead of print]
Thursday, June 20, 2013
atypical, BSE, CWD, Scrapie, Captive Farmed shooting pens (livestock), Wild
Cervids, Rectal Mucosa Biopsy 2012 USAHA Proceedings, and CJD TSE prion Update
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Intranasal Inoculation of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with
Lyophilized Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Particulate Complexed to
Montmorillonite Clay Research Article
Friday, February 08, 2013
*** Behavior of Prions in the Environment: Implications for Prion Biology
please remember, captive cervids are now considered _livestock_ $$$
Final
Rule: Traceability for Livestock Moved Interstate January 11, 2013 Summary of
General Requirements by Species Effective Date: March 11, 2013 The Traceability
for Livestock Moved Interstate rule establishes minimum national official
identification and documentation requirements for the traceability of livestock
moving interstate. The species covered in the rule include cattle and bison,
sheep and goats, swine, horses and other equines, captive cervids (e.g., deer
and elk), and poultry. The covered animals moved interstate, unless otherwise
exempt, would have to be officially identified and accompanied by an interstate
certificate of veterinary inspection (ICVI) or other movement document. The
requirements do not apply to livestock moving:
Sunday, July 21, 2013
*** As Chronic Wasting Disease CWD rises in deer herd, what about risk for
humans?
Friday, December 14, 2012
IOWA Second Deer Positive for CWD at Davis County Hunting Preserve Captive
Shooting Pen
Friday, September 21, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD raises concerns about deer farms in Iowa
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Agreement Reached with Owner to De-Populate CWD Deer at Davis County
Hunting Preserve Iowa
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Additional Facility in Pottawatamie County Iowa Under Quarantine for CWD
after 5 deer test positive
Friday, July 20, 2012
CWD found for first time in Iowa at hunting preserve
TSS
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