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IDEFA JOURNAL

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The official publication of the Indiana Deer & Elk Farmers’ Association

Summer 2020

IDEFA Fundraiser & Annual Summer Picnic NEW DATE!! Saturday, AUG. 8TH, 2020 Hosted at:

Springfield Whitetails Grabill, IN

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2019-2020 IDEFA Board of Directors President

Director

Vice president

Director

Brad Osswald Osswald’s Whitetails 14733 E 266th Street Arcadia, IN 46030 Cell: (317) 407-6057 hunters@copper.net

Lester Eicher Springfield Whitetails 14905 Springfield Ct Rd Grabill, IN 46741 Cell: (260) 341-3614 springfieldwts@gmail.com

Secretary

Nelson Miller Antler Ridge 71396 CR 25 New Paris, IN 46553 Cell: (574)-312-1349 Email: nelmiller26@gmail.com

Andy Aker Whitetail Odyssey 18903 Lincoln Hwy W Plymouth, IN 46563 Cell: (574) 780-0342 andy.aker@oasisbath.com

Josie Borkholder Lone Pine Whitetails 1656 2B Rd Bremen, IN 46506 Home: (574) 248-2675 Fax: (574) 546-4211

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Lavon Yoder Hidden Cover Deer Farm 3690 N 400 W Shipshewana, IN 46565 Phone: (260) 768-9155 Fax: (260) 768-9182 lavon@1-888-418-6159.net

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Jeff Eastridge Stewart Creek Whitetails 5304 Daily Rd New Albany, IN 47150 Cell: (502) 376-1583 jeffe@ccerecycles.com

John Stoltzfus 5 Star Genetics 5835 N 1000 W Shipshewana, IN 46565 Phone: (574) 596-2347 jdwhitetails@gmails.com

Weldon Miller Midwood Creek Farms 1855 S 200 E LaGrange, IN 46571 Cell: (260) 350-8929 Weldon7883@yahoo.com

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Lonnie Whetstone Whetstone Brothers Premiere Whitetails 69850 W Countyline Rd Nappanee, IN 46550 Phone: (574) 248-0790 Fax: (574) 773-2371

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IDEFA Committees: 2019-2020 Hunting Preserve/Legislative

Chair: Dr. Ragland Committee: Jeff Eastridge

Fundraisers/Summer Picnic

Public Relations

Chair: Andy Aker Committee: Trevor Vance

Chair: Josie Borkholder Co-Chair: Lonnie Whetstone Member Relations: Erica Bratton Food: Jerry Schwartz Committee: Weldon Miller, Lavon Yoder, Brian Bratton, John Stoltzfus

Audit/Ethics & Bylaws

Budget Committee

Chair: Josie Borkholder Committee: John Stoltzfus

Chair: Nelson Miller

IDAC

Committee: Myron Miller, Andy Aker

Chair: Dr. Ragland Committee: Shelly Chavis, Shawn Shafer

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Advertisers / Table of Contents ARTICLES: Administration Report........................................................................7 Amazing Recipes Venison Backstrap.........................................................................10 Humic Acid - Degrades CWD Prions in Soil!...................................26 IDEFA: 2020 Benefit Auction....................................................................6 BOD / Committees.......................................................................1 Membership Form......................................................................32 Prime Advertising Spots.............................................................23 Oklahoma Deer Farmers - Feeling Resilient About 2020................15 Medgene Lab - Offering Experimental EHD Vaccines.....................12 Payroll Protection Program..............................................................19 President’s Message.........................................................................4 Robbie Troyer Benefit Auction...........................................................7

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President’s Message Summer 2020 IDEFA Journal Greetings, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy from the COVID-19 pandemic and the problems this virus has caused. I know some of our members may or may not have had the virus, but some of us know those who have. It has changed the world we now live in and I don’t believe things will ever be the same. Please continue to follow the CDC Guidelines on keeping you and your family safe through these difficult times and hopefully we can get back to our “new” normal.

The fawning season is now upon us. Please continue to check on your deer and elk every single day and keep good records of who needs attention.

The IDEFA Board of Directors has met and decided to combine the 2020 Picnic and Fundraiser on the same day. The Picnic and Fundraiser will be held on Saturday August 8, 2020 at the home of Lester Eicher. Lester and his farm, Springfield Whitetails, has graciously agreed to have this event at his farm. The farm is located at 14905 Springfield Center Rd., Grabill, IN 46741. The event will start at 8:00 A.M. with lunch being served at approx. 11:00 A.M. The auction will begin right after lunch. There will be lots of activities for the whole family so please share this with all your friends and family. Also, make sure you have updated your membership so you can vote for our new board members.

Don’t forget to visit our website and Facebook page. Both sites have great information available and offer a wide variety of topics. Please let us know how we can help or answer any questions.

I look forward to seeing you at the picnic and hope everyone has a great fawning season.

Sincerely, Brad Osswald President of IDEFA

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IDEFA BENEFIT AUCTION ANNUAL PICNIC SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 STARTS: 8AM COFFEE, JUICE, DONUTS FARM TOURS: 8:30 - 11:00AM LUNCH: 11AM PROVIDED BY SPRINGFIELD WHITETAILS

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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT Good Day Everyone!!

I hope that each and everyone of you and your families are staying safe. It appears that Spring has finally reached us with some good weather here as of right now.

With the current circumstances in our Nation right now, several events have been postponed as well as cancelled. Our Annual Meeting and Fundraiser was postponed from the May 1st date.

This year we will combine the Annual Meeting and Fundraiser with our Annual Membership Picnic. Please see opposite page for details.

This is also the time to renew memberships, the form for this is in the journal. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to let me know.

Membership dues have remained the same.

Would you like a position on our Board of Directors? Each year four seats are up for election. Election is a three-year term, please let me know so that we may through your name in the hat. Per our By Laws, there are certain qualifications to be considered for a seat on the Board.

Wishing everyone a very safe and successful summer!

Erica Bratton Administrative Secretary Cell: 574-220-5652 Fax: 952-955-6022 indianadeer@gmail.com

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Preheat your grill to 450-475 degrees. Lightly brush olive oil on both sides of the backstrap to ensure full coverage. The olive oil helps to keep moisture in to prevent the venison from drying out. Grill for 3½ minutes on one side, and then flip for an additional 3 minutes. For maximum flavor and tenderness, cook to medium rare or on the rare side. Place on a warm platter and immediately cover with tin foil to rest on the counter with a towel on top for 10 to 15 minutes.

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OFFERING EXPERIMENTAL EHD VACCINES By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by WOL

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research laboratory turned immunological services provider/ vaccine manufacturer, Medgene Labs, anticipates having 150,000 doses of an experimental EHD vaccine available for use in 2020.

The company, based in Brookings, South Dakota, has been the answer to several deer farmers’ prayers, and although their vaccine is still considered experimental, it’s shown promise thus far at holding off Serotype 2 of the usually fatal disease.

Since the development and release of the experimental vaccine, deer farmers in South Dakota, Florida, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana have used it, according to Ashley Petersen, Clinical Research and Development Lead Scientist at Medgene Labs.

in those herds occurred in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. In those settings, the vaccine was shown to cause little to no adverse reactions in the deer and was able to elicit the intended immune response.

Based on those studies, the USDA granted Medgene permission to test the vaccine across the U.S., shipping directly to livestock producers and veterinarians.

Confidence to develop vaccines began taking shape when Medgene Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alan Young, was asked to develop a vaccine for Rift Valley Fever, a foreign animal disease affecting hooved animals in Africa. “If the disease ever makes it into the U.S., it could present a real problem and we want to be ready,” Petersen said.

“In the beginning of the summer of 2019 we got permission to field test the experimental EHD vaccine with interested livestock producers in the U.S.,” Petersen said. “It’s still considered experimental because we don’t yet have a license for it.” The first vaccine shipment went to the state of Florida at the end of July. Under the direction of Dr. Samantha Wisely and Dr. Juan Campos of the Cervidae Health Research Initiative (CHeRI) in Gainesville, Florida, CHeRI provided the vaccine and diagnostic testing to several Florida deer farmers at no cost. By the end of 2019, about 7,000 doses of experimental EHDV-2 vaccine had been distributed throughout the U.S., including the doses used under the direction of CHeRI.

Dr. Young, in collaboration with Dr. Juergen Richt of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases at Kansas State University, developed and tested an experimental vaccine against Rift Valley Fever virus for sheep and cattle. Following this success, Medgene took the technology further, receiving two substantial grants from the Department of Homeland Security and creating a Rift Valley Fever vaccine that could be commercially licensed. Using the same platform technology, Medgene began working on a vaccine for EHD, and Dr. Young expanded his previous relationship with NADeFA that had focused on helping deer farmers understand the emergence and spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in the U.S.

However, prior to ever testing the vaccine on a widespread basis, NADeFA Executive Director Shawn Schafer offered to test his deer with the experimental vaccine, as well as Chuck Blain of Twin Creek Farm in Fedora, South Dakota. Preliminary testing

“EHD is very devastating and the worst thing deer farmers have to put up with,” said Daniel Thomas of Daniel Thomas Whitetails in Springhill, Louisiana. Thomas, having purchased 310 doses of Medgene’s EHDV-2 vaccine last year, administered it to

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his herd in February, followed by a booster shot three weeks later. As expected with any vaccine, his deer were a bit lethargic and backed off feed for a few days after receiving it. However, within a week after receiving the vaccine, all were behaving and eating normally again, he said.

“One of my favorite veterinarians told me this,” Thomas said. “Less will get sick if you vaccinate and less of the animals that get sick will die.”

By this coming November, Medgene will have collected sufficient data to understand the role their vaccine played in holding off EHDV-2 and EHDV-6 and may acquire the necessary data for the final approval for the vaccine license. “We have had feedback from farmers who feel it did work,” Petersen said. “Although there is a lot of criteria to consider.”

In order to handle the anticipated number of doses needed by deer farmers this year, Medgene has added vaccine production staff, and is continuing ongoing vaccine research in five other animal species. Since inception, the company has grown to over 20 employees who are dedicated to the health and well-being of animals and the farmers and veterinarians they serve.

“We’ve had many celebrations here because we realize we are making a difference,” Petersen said. “I’m glad we can make a difference to an industry that perhaps doesn’t get the attention of bigger companies.” For more information or to order the EHD vaccine, please contact Ashley at ashley@medgenelabs.com or call 605-692-1268.

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FEELING RESILIENT ABOUT 2020 By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by WOO

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he demand for deer is high in the state of Oklahoma this year, concurring with an available vaccine for EHD. “We’ve had a lot more ranches open up,” said Whitetails of Oklahoma President Chris Ezell. “No one here is going to be selling their deer outside of Oklahoma. We’ve got too much demand right here. The price of our deer will be top dollar.”

That’s great news and a welcomed way to forge ahead in 2020, according to Ezell and various members of WOO. Events in 2019 challenged the resolve of virtually every Oklahoma deer farmer as unusual amounts of rain, an EHD epidemic and the inability to acquire the EHD vaccine caused many farmers to lose insurmountable deer and subsequently “close up” shop. However, several established deer farms have ridden out the storm.

Their optimism will be rewarded.

Through the networking efforts of NADeFA and Executive Director Shawn Schafer, an EHD vaccine is available this year through Medgene Labs located in South Dakota. While the vaccine is still considered experimental, it has been produced as a result of meticulous technology and numerous hours of field testing, in an effort to ensure its safety and effectiveness, said Ashley Petersen, Clinical Research and Development Lead Scientist at Medgene. In fact, Schafer’s own deer herd in Turtle Lake, North Dakota served as a test group in the late fall of 2018.

News about the vaccine and the recent national annual convention for Whitetails of Oklahoma held January 31st – February 1st helped to reignite

enthusiasm for the deer industry in Oklahoma and also served as a vehicle to welcome a new set of guests also holding their national annual convention – The North American Elk Breeders Association. Close to 40 members of NAEBA representing approximately 30 farms joined forces with WOO for a first-time event.

“We wanted to do something in the southern region and chose Oklahoma as they have been very active in recent years with CWD research,” said Brenda Hartkopf, office manager for NAEBA. “We wanted to support them in their efforts.” As a result, NAEBA members staffed six booths at the convention.

As popular as raising whitetail may be, raising elk has begun to rise in popularity. States well-known for raising elk include Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho, according to Hartkopf.

Although NAEBA routinely explores various other areas of the country for their national convention “we would certainly consider joining with (WOO) again in the future,” she said.

Likewise, Oklahoma deer farmers are joining together to make 2020 the year where optimism and perseverance pay off. “I’d say we’re a seven in terms of optimism,” Ezell emphasized. Although rain amounts this year are “keeping pace” with rain amounts from 2019, the vaccine will help substantially combat the forces of Mother Nature, Ezell reassured. “We will do business with any state that does business with us,” he added.

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PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM OFFERING SHORT-TERM ASSISTANCE IN A COVID-19 ERA By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by NYDEFA

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ederal loans are available to offer hope and relief to small business owners. The Payroll Protection Program (PPP), a recently initiated federal loan program, is accepting applications from now until June 30th, 2020. Any business with less than 500 employees, any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, any 501(c)(19) veteran’s organization, any Tribal business concern (sec. 31 (b)(2)(C) of the Small Business Act with the greater of 500 employees, any NAICS Code that begins with 72 (hotels and restaurants), any sole proprietors, independent contractors and those self-employed may apply for a loan in an amount deemed necessary to maintain and pay employees, rent, interest on mortgages and utility bills. Determination for loan amounts should be based upon the lesser of $10 million dollars or two and a half times what it has cost a business to maintain their operation for one month during the previous year of business.

Included in payroll costs are hourly wages and salaries, commission, other work-related compensation, payment of equipment costs, cash tips, vacation and sick leave, group health care benefits as well as premiums for worker’s compensation. All employee wages are capped at $100,000 and all mandatory federal and income taxes still apply.

In New York, a state hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, these small business loans are offering a sense of much needed hope, said David Vanderzee, President of the New York Deer and Elk Farmer’s Association. As a consultant offering professional advice and assistance to his clients “we share stories with clients about what others are doing to get

through this,” Vanderzee said. “People feel paralyzed and are wondering how they are going to survive. These small business loans can truly help.”

“Those businesses that have incurred a supply chain disruption, or decrease in sales, or closure or employee or staffing problems are eligible,” Vanderzee said.

While an initial $3.49 billion was allocated

by Congress for the PPP, $2.5 billion of additional funds are speculated to be added to that amount. Perhaps one of the best and most important components of the PPP is that many loans could be forgiven (not paid back) if the money is solely spent to keep employees on the payroll and/or to pay rent, mortgage interest and utilities if used in an eightweek period after receiving funding. Loans can also be used on business related or equipment debts accrued prior to February 15th, 2020. However, at least 75% of a loan qualifying for forgiveness must have been used only for payroll, Vanderzee said. He also strongly advises potential loan recipients to open a separate bank account, should a business receive funding, so as to not co-mingle the money with other accounts and perhaps have a greater chance of loan forgiveness. Forgiveness may be declined if the number of employees or wages has decreased during the required eight-week fund disbursal period.

Businesses receiving loans will have deferred payments for six months, should payback be required, and will also have between two and ten years to pay the loan back at a mere 1% interest rate. Amortization begins at the time a business applies for a loan. If granted, no

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prepayment penalties are incurred and no fees or administration costs are added to the loan. Businesses can apply for a loan through any existing SBA lender such as your local bank, a federally insured depository institution or a participating Farm Credit System.

“A lot of deer farmers have other businesses and their farm is just a piece of their total business operations,” Vanderzee said. “They need to realize the benefits of this loan.”

Perhaps the greatest silver lining with any received loan is that “the cancelled debt is excluded from gross income,” Vanderzee emphasized. “This could truly be free money.” In addition, the filing deadline for 2019 taxable earnings has been extended until July 31st.

Dave Vanderzee offers advisor and/or consultant services through his business.

If any deer farmer is seeking these services during this difficult time they can reach Dave at 518/210-8889.

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HUMIC ACID DEGRADES CWD PRIONS IN SOIL!

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WD is a disease that seems to be increasing in prevalence throughout North America and beyond. This is especially important to deer farmers who are affected by burdensome regulations and restrictions. It can ultimately put us out of business if we have the misfortune of having a positive test.

It has definitely stifled our once overwhelming enthusiasm for what we do. There is hope.

Although the route of transmission is still unknown, it has been hypothesized that CWD can be transmitted indirectly through environmental contamination, most commonly believed, through contaminated soil.

The CWD prion is thought to be very resilient. It has been shown to exist in soils for many years. The Centers for disease control (CDC) states that the CWD prion can remain in the soil for a very long time. It is termed PrP resistant, because of its resistance to harsh chemical treatments, as well as its inability to be degraded naturally in the body. Autoclaving, a common method of sterilization has proven ineffective on the CWD prion.

ALONG COMES HUMIC ACID. HUMIC ACID is a naturally occurring component of soil. Through years of abusing our soils with herbicides, pesticides and pollution we have depleted the once sufficient amounts in our soils. In 2018, Judd Aiken at the University of Alberta demonstrated that humic acid at various concentrations degraded the CWD prion in infected brain tissues. Even though, humic acid degraded the prion in brain tissues, Aiken was un-able to conclude that humic acid would degrade the prion in soil, due to the complexity of soils.

Many of us believed that humic acid would degrade the prion in the soil and wanted to test this theory. If confirmed we believed it would give deer farmers a major tool to fight CWD. There were many skeptics, but the United Deer Farmers of Michigan was not one of them. They stepped up and committed to funding a project, to verify if humic acid was capable of degrading prions in the soil.

METHODS Wilderness Whitetails of Wisconsin, a longtime leader in the Deer Farming community agreed to allow testing at one of their facilities. Greg and Shorty Flees had already been involved with helping to find a solution to CWD, through their involvement in resistance research with Dr. Haley. Testing sites were focused on feeding and watering areas. Samples were taken with a 1 inch diameter stainless steel soil sampling probe at depth of 1 inch. Twenty Four samples were taken. These samples were packaged and sent to CWD Evolution for prion testing.

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RESULTS Testing was done using RT-QuIC. The initial testing indicated that 3 of the 24 samples contained prions. The samples were retested with the same results.

These positive samples were then treated with humic acid. The humic acid was dissolved in deionized water at the equivalent concentrations of those used in the Aiken study for comparison purposes. These concentrations were the equivalent values of 2.5 grams/ liter, 15 grams/liter and 25 grams per liter of humic acid. The humic acid source did vary from the Aiken study.

Obtaining pure chemical grade humic acid was expensive and problematic. It would also be cost prohibitive for future practical application. The decision was made to use the New Mexico Mesa Verde Humates source, seeing this is easily available and affordably priced. The incubation period was also extended from 24 hours to 72 hours, reasoning that this increased period is not significant to practical deer farming purposes.

ALL SAMPLES TREATED TESTED NEGATIVE for CWD prions. The humic acid at the highest concentration (25 g/l) interfered with positive results and therefore the negative values obtained at that concentration could not be used.

However, all samples treated tested negative so we could assume that the highest concentration would also be negative at 25 g/l. These results show a 10 fold increase in the degradation of the prion at the extended incubation period used, verses the Aiken study.

INTERESTING THOUGHTS Prions may not be as hardy as previously thought. The facility tested has a 70% CWD prevalence rate and we could only find prions in 12% of the samples, using state of the art technology. Keep in mind that the samples were taken in high congregation areas around feeders and waterers.

Recent studies with Scrapie, a prion disease of sheep, has shown that differing soil types can present either inhibitory results or no difference in the replication efficiencies depending on soil composition (Saunders it al. 2011). High organic matter soils showed greater reduction in detections where high sand soils showed no apparent reduction in replication efficiency (Saunders et al.

2011). This may be explained in this study, in that High organic matter soils have higher humic acid content vs sandy soils, which have very little humic acid.

GOING FORWARD I believe this study showed that if Deer Farmers want a solution to CWD, we are going to have to figure it out on our own. Currently, with the help of Scott Follett, we are setting up a study in Wisconsin at Apple Creek Whitetails. This study will look at the life expectancies of CWD positive deer on humic acid feed. It will test prion shedding on CWD positive deer fed Humic acid. It will test prion presence in semen of CWD positive deer fed humic acid. It will also continue exploring mineral levels and their effect on CWD. Finally it will also test the effects of CWD on markered deer. If you or your organization would like to participate in helping to solving CWD, please go to the website at www. solvecwd.com. You can also call Dennis Simpson at 313-218-0105. Whitetails of Wisconsin has already committed to supporting this project.

CONCLUSIONS First, I’d like to thank the Deer farmers of Michigan and Wisconsin for their forward thinking, and generosity in funding these studies. Finally, we’ve already covered this in other articles, but if you haven’t, think about using humic acid in your operation, and do your part to prevent CWD. Feel free to contact me at any time if you’d like to discuss anything.

My cell is 906-282-7555, or email me at: dan@wideandhighwhitetails.com.

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