{"id":16419,"date":"2026-05-08T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:10:57","slug":"biosecurity-reduces-disease-risk-workshop-teaches-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/connections\/biosecurity-reduces-disease-risk-workshop-teaches-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosecurity reduces disease risk. Workshop teaches defense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Biosecurity is important to mitigate illness in mixed species farms. Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Small-scale farmers can learn about biosecurity strategies to reduce the risk of disease in livestock. UMES Extension will hold a free workshop Saturday, June 27,<\/strong> from 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s Research, Extension and Teaching Farm in Princess Anne, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith recent detections of avian influenza affecting not only poultry but also goats on mixed-species farms, biosecurity must be a top priority for all livestock producers. When animals share the same pasture, water or environment, the risk of disease transmission increases significantly, especially for young, more vulnerable animals. This underscores the critical need for proactive biosecurity practices across poultry, sheep, goats, and other livestock systems,\u201d said David Brown, assistant professor of animal science at UMES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown and co-presenter Jennifer Timmons, associate professor and poultry specialist, will provide attendees with steps to \u201cprotect animal health, improve farm longevity and prevent costly disease outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop is free, but pre-registration is required at www.umes.edu\/extension\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event is part of a series supported by a Northeast Extension Risk Management Education project award no. 2025-70027-45395 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. For more information, email dbrown7@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Stephens, agricultural communications and media associate, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension, <\/em>gcstephens@umes.edu<\/em><\/a>., 410-621-3850.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small-scale farmers can learn about biosecurity strategies to reduce the risk of disease in livestock. UMES Extension will hold a free workshop Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s Research, Extension and Teaching Farm in Princess Anne, Maryland. \u201cWith recent detections of avian influenza affecting not only…Read more Biosecurity reduces disease risk. Workshop teaches defense<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":45,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}