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WELCOME!

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear NYDEFA Members, IMPORT AND EXPORT OF CERVIDS As stipulated by NY Department of Agriculture and Markets , the importation of Chronic Wasting Disease susceptible species is still presently prohibited. All interstate and intrastate movements of cervids in New York must first have a permit issued by the Department.

To acquire a movement permit you must apply at least 10 business days prior to the desired move date. The application must include the origin herd number and premise identification number, and the destination herd number and premise identification number.

Contact the Division of Animal Industry for more information on permitting.

Additional requirements include: • A Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) issued within 30 days of entry by your accredited veterinarian.

• Proper identification of all animals in the shipment.

• Each animal must be identified with 2 forms of identification, including 1 form of visible identification.

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• USDA approved official identification (US Shield or approved 840 microchip) • Unique animal identification • All forms of identification present on each animal must be recorded on the CVI. • Adherence to testing requirements. Brucellosis and Tuberculosis tests are required.

• Status animals: animals from an accredited herd in good standing require no additional testing.

• For all other herds: find testing information about Tuberculosis and Brucellosis.

TAXES It is tax time again and NY State farmers can reclaim their school taxes by filling out form IT-217.

Your NY adjusted gross income (less any principal paid on farm indebtedness) must be under $300,000 and 66.67% of that must be from farming. If all requirements are met, then any paid school taxes will be refunded by filing IT-217 with your 2020 state taxes.

In support of filing IT-217, you first should file an Agricultural Assessment Application, Form RP305, with your county tax assessor.

This provides proof of total acres of qualified agricultural property and properly classifies your farm

land for a reduce property tax assessment. You must reactivate RP-305 annually by march 1st to maintain the proper assessed land code year after year. The RP-305 Form can be found at https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/ current_forms/orpts/rp305_fill_ in.pdf.

Additionally, Farmers may purchase certain items or services exempt from New York State and local sales and use taxes. To do so, they must use Form ST-125, Farmer’s and Commercial Horse Boarding Operator’s Exemption Certificate. Form ST-125 can be used to make exempt purchases of property and services used predominantly (more than 50% of the time) either in farm production. It can also be used to make exempt purchases of drugs or medicine for use on livestock used in farm production.

Happy fawning,

Dave P. Vanderzee President

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NADEFA THANKS CONGRESS FOR WORKING WITH US ON COMBATING CWD

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DEC 23, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC

he North American Deer Farmers Association (NADeFA), the nation’s leading voice for the cervid industry applauds Congress’ continued increases for funding to combat Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). On Monday evening, both houses of Congress passed legislation providing FY 2021 appropriations legislation. The bill is expected to be signed into law by the end of the week.

This legislation includes $11 million for cervid health under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). That represents an increase of $2 million over what was appropriated in FY 2020. The increased funds are for state efforts to manage CWD in wild populations, leaving $4 million for USDA’s existing programs. That amount is equal to last year’s funding for these functions. USGS also received a $2 million increase more than doubling their previous year’s budget. This brings their annual spending on CWD to $3,720,000.

Also included was an additional $1 million for CWD research through USDA’s Agriculture Research Services bringing the total for that research to $4.6 million for FY 2020. This is the third straight year that funding for this research has been increased by $1 million. In the last four years USDA has gone from not funding CWD research to spending over $10M on those efforts in that time.

USDA also has funding in this bill for a new research program through their Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins Colorado. The $2 million to start this program will make use of existing facilities already constructed for research into the disease. Creating this program was NADeFA’s highest

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research priority for FY 2021 and we offer our gratitude to Congress for providing this funding.

This year has been different in how we interact with our federal partners and Congressional champions.

It is because NADeFA members, leadership, and Capitol Hill Consulting Group have made lasting relationships in previous years with Members of Congress and their staff that we were able to overcome the obstacles and secure increased funding that will help eventually eradicate CWD. NADeFA Executive Director Shawn Schafer said of the increase, “Despite our inability to meet in person, Congress has continued to hear the needs of the farmed cervid industry, and made real strides to meet those needs. Once again Senate Agriculture Appropriations Chairman John Hoeven (R-ND), was instrumental to this success. These increases show that Congress is not forgetting about

® CWD’s impact while dealing with many issues that have arisen this year.”

NADeFA has worked closely with USDA-APHIS for more than two decades on a variety of issues related to cervid health and national guidelines. The CWD Herd Certification Program, for example, is a voluntary, cooperative program that allows participating cervid producers to achieve herd certification status of their cervid herds and to meet the requirements for the interstate movement of farmed cervids.

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EHD V2 & V6 EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE With approval from the USDA, Medgene Labs has distributed nearly 15,000 doses of experimental EHD vaccine directly to livestock owners since July 2019. Initially, an experimental EHDV2 vaccine was available for evaluation. In 2020, Medgene Labs received USDA approval to provide experimental EHDV2&6 vaccine. Users of the vaccine were asked to collect data in regards to safety and clinical impression of the vaccine. Results were submitted to the USDA in December. In January 2021, the USDA approved continued use of the experimental EHDV2&6 vaccine through 2021. The vaccine can currently be used in white-tailed deer, elk, bison, reindeer, red deer, sika deer, mule deer, sheep, goats, fallow deer, muntjac deer, and moose. Vaccination includes two doses of vaccine, given approximately 3 weeks apart as a 2mL intramuscular dose. Administration of the vaccine should be in the spring or early summer, 1-6 months prior to typical EHD season. Other helpful vaccination tips include: • Only vaccinate healthy animals • When administering multiple vaccines, inject in different locations (neck versus rump), as separate injections.

• Do not vaccinate within 3 weeks of parturition For more information or to place an order, please contact Ashley at ashley@medgenelabs.com or 605-692-1268.

• Once ordered, please allow at least one week for vaccine delivery.

Results from Experimental EHD Vaccine Use

Medgene has been generating data for the EHD vaccine since 2016. Previously, data was obtained in white-tailed deer 6 months of age or older and shared with the industry at conferences and through magazine articles. In 2020, Medgene worked with a Missouri veterinarian to evaluate the EHDV2&6 vaccine in young fawns. The vaccine was administered to ten (10) 2-3 week old fawns. Blood serum was collected pre (Day 0) and post (Day 35 and Day 63) vaccination to monitor the immune response. A plaque reduction neutralization assay was performed to determine the neutralizing antibody titer of each fawn to both EHDV2 and EHDV6 at varying time points. Table 1 illustrates the results. A titer greater than 10 indicates that antibodies are present that neutralize the virus. The presence of antibodies provides evidence that the animal generated the intended immune response to the vaccine.

Table 1. EHD V2 & V6 Vaccine Immune Response Generated in Young Fawns EHDV2 Neutralizing Antibody Titer

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Safety data has been collected by livestock owners and/or their herd veterinarian since the summer of 2019. Of the nearly 15,000 doses, sent to about 70 farms, only 15 farms have reported adverse reactions. In general, users typically stated that vaccination caused lameness and lethargy for 2-7 days post injection with no further complications and animals returning to normal health within a week. Safety data includes vaccine use in 2 week old fawns up to mature adult white-tailed deer. There has also been one farm that used the vaccine in elk. Adverse reactions were similar, no matter the animal’s age or species.

Table 2 summarizes all adverse reactions reported from the use of Medgene’s experimental EHD vaccine.

Table 2. Adverse Reactions After EHD Vaccination

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By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by SETDA 27-year-old woman knelt down beside a bleating fawn. Holding a baby bottle in her hand felt strange yet something about it, at the same time, felt natural. Embracing this new little fragile life, she took the fawn in her arms and began to feed it. As the fawn eagerly smacked and suckled the bottle, the young woman realized within the stirring of her soul something about herself she had never strongly considered before. “It made her think maybe she could be a mother someday,” said Mitchell Dobrow, codirector along with her husband Mike of The Refuge Ranch in Okeechobee, Florida. The Refuge Ranch, dedicated to helping women overcome drug and alcohol addiction, helps women discover many things about themselves including sobriety, self-worth, purpose and hope as well as a personal relationship with Christ.

Broken, devastated woman often with nowhere left to turn, have found themselves on the doorstep of a new life by enrolling in the multi-phase program offered at the ranch. A new life was exactly what 29-year-old JackieSue desperately needed after 14 years of drug and alcohol addiction. Her life was literally spinning out of control as she had allowed drugs and alcohol to completely take over. She had lost every meaningful relationship in her life and was living in a shed. After a friend told her about the ranch “for the first time I felt like God was saying this is where I should go,” she reflected. However, the God JackieSue grew up knowing was, in her opinion, a punishing God. “I felt like God loved others but not me,” she said. In the middle of a group session one day at The Refuge Ranch,

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the teacher played a random song “and I just busted out crying. I realized right then that God has always been right there with me and has always loved me. I have been given these new tools and new life through God and the ranch to help others,” JackieSue, now 34, explained.

Guiding women through their recovery journey and transformation is the main purpose of the 120-acre ranch, whose employees do not see themselves as merely having a job but instead living out their calling. Yet, it all starts by accepting and developing a relationship with the Lord, Mitchell emphasized.

“This program is so much more than sobriety,” said Mitchell, who herself personally experienced along with Mike the struggles of addiction. “We teach them life skills that enable them to become the person that God intended them to be.”

The Refuge Ranch, a 501 (c)(3) organization, was founded by Fred Beeson in 2004 and operates on

donations and grants. Participants in the program live on-site and begin their 12-month commitment with an Induction Phase, for the purpose of orienting to the program, followed by a Regeneration Phase for rebuilding their lives and learning to love themselves.

For those that desire to stay after graduation, a year-long Servant Leadership Program is also offered.

The Refuge Ranch works with indigent and low-income women who do not have the financial resources to pay for addiction treatment and does not turn women away due to their inability to pay for the program. Through the generosity of donors and the sale of deer, The Refuge Ranch can continue this mission.

Through the ranch’s carefully structured program, participants awake at 6:30 a.m. each morning for a walk and devotional followed by breakfast, group sessions, lunch, work outside on the ranch grounds followed by dinner, journaling and quiet time. Ranch work includes, among gardening and other

responsibilities, caring for the sizable herd of deer that reside there. In a quest to further teach responsibility and provide supplemental funds for the ranch to operate, a deer farm, Double R Whitetails, was created on-site in 2017. “The deer were a big influence over me and learning to not be selfish,” JackieSue said. “At first I thought it was crazy to be touching a deer and pretty amazing to be bottle feeding them.

They teach you about the importance of caring for something that really needs you to be there for them.”

Being there for each other is what the women and staff members continuously do each and every day.

The ranch typically serves 10-16 women at any one time while making sure all who participate transition into wellrounded addiction free Christ-centered lives. “I was so blessed to be able to come here,” said JackieSue, who is now

employed by The Refuge Ranch. “Before that I felt like I had never grown up. I grew up here. I’ve gotten all these tools and I’m going to school now to become a social worker. They saved my life.”

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DEER CHUTES

DESIGNED FOR SAFETY, EFFICIENCY By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by WOL

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t was 10 a.m. and Len Jubinville was waiting on a delivery of six does.

“The guy said he’d be here at 10 a.m. Three hours went by,” Jubinville, a deer chute specialist, said. “At 1 p.m. he showed up with nine stitches above his eye. One of the young does had jumped the fence and went flying right past his eye.” Any experienced deer farmer such as Jubinville realizes two things most important for safely handling deer – having the right deer chute and the right layout of your land to get them into it.

Designing a functional way to run your deer into a chute is instrumental to your success whether your plans are to perform A.I., trim antlers, inject vaccines or any other medical or necessary procedure. Once you have determined the best location for your chute, designing and creating a holding pen, crowding alley, crowding pen and tunnel system is next. Keeping in mind that “low stress is so important when handling deer, two things that stress them the most is separating them and predators. And we are predators. If you start ‘stealing’ from your desired group they will want to follow each other and you will have no problems,” Jubinville emphasized.

However, an ideal layout should coincide with an ideal deer chute. “In 1988 I started extracting deer from the wild and started regularly handling wild deer,” Jubinville said. “And it didn’t take long to realize we needed better equipment. There are just certain things you want to have that over time were developed through trial and error.”

Although deer chutes are available in a variety of price ranges “you do not

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want a chute specific to just one thing or another. You want a chute that is functional that will do it all. For a couple thousand more you could get the right one.”

The proper chute will allow you to have adequate access to the front of the deer. “That’s where you will be testing and drawing blood and trimming and scoring antlers,” Jubinville said. “You also want a chute where you can stand right beside them from either side and work on them, too. If you have a lot of work to do on a deer, you will want to use a backpress or backstrap so it applies pressure and they feel comfortable and it takes the fight out of them.” Adequate access to the back of the deer is additionally vital, as this is where A.I. and other procedures are performed.

Given that deer move and react quickly, modifications to deer chutes throughout the years has led to more efficient models and much less anxiety for the deer once they are inside.

With more modern versions, walls are more soundproof. Deer cradles are more accommodating and perhaps easier to walk into. “Drop floors” have been replaced by the handler’s ability to gently raise the cradle appropriate

to the size of the deer being worked on, void of the loud “bang” found with dropping mechanisms. More specialized deer chutes, used mostly by veterinarians and researchers, contain a makeshift table where a tranquilized deer can be laid flat on its side for any number of procedures.

Presetting your chute to fawn, doe or buck size is extremely important as this can reduce anxiety or struggling on behalf of the deer and enable the handler to get his job done more efficiently. This makes the overall operation of your farm and management of your deer much safer and ultimately more cost effective. In addition, safely directing deer away from the chute is the last factor in the handling process that needs careful consideration, whether their next steps will be from a loading zone into a trailer or back into an outdoor area.

“Make sure you have thought the entire process through from beginning to end,” Jubinville said.

“Believe me, I’ve made enough mistakes for everybody,” he added. “I’ve learned that things can be safer and more effective for you and your deer. It’s been proven people can handle deer on their own if they have the right setup.”

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FOOD PLOTS

CREATING NUTRITION, FORAGE AND GATHERING PLACES FOR CERVIDS By: Gail Veley • Sponsoed by SETDA

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hould time, space and investment capital allow, deer farmers would do well to establish food plots on their farms or hunting preserves.

Compared to the overall cost of feeding protein pellets, bagged grain and alfalfa hay, food plots designed to regenerate or provide adequate year-round forage may add up to substantial savings in the long run. Additionally, food plots provide guaranteed gathering places for whitetails and nutrition for optimum growth, depending on what your goals are.

Unwittingly, deer farmers turn into agricultural experts when they delve into the world of planting food plots.

While you may not need vast parcels of land to do it successfully, you do need conducive soil, offers Jared Deason of Sweetwater Plantation in Bristol, Florida.

However, before using an area of your property for establishing potential forage, gather and submit soil samples to your local AG extension office to determine how viable and nutrient rich it is for the things you wish to plant, and whether or not you may need to add minerals such as dolomite or lime. Determine whether your ground drains efficiently or tends to hold onto moisture, as well as how much natural precipitation occurs in your area during each growing season.

In wetter climates found in Florida, the perennial peanut fares quite well.

Known to some as the alfalfa of Florida, it serves as a beautiful ground cover complete with yellow flowers that withstands considerable grazing and lasts approximately eight months out of the year. A relative of the edible peanut found in grocery stores, the

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perennial peanut is also tough, resilient and versatile and an absolute favorite food of deer. Yet, “one of the drawbacks is getting it established,” Deason said.

In addition, “you have to find someone who already has plugs and buy and plant them. If you can give it time and be patient, it’s worth planting.”

While the perennial peanut may come in at Number One for preferred food plot forage in Florida, perhaps the most well-known, most commonly planted vegetation all across the U.S., is cereal rye. Cereal rye, found in virtually every cervid food plot in areas of the country where deer farming exists, tolerates adversity from colder climates, poor soil fertility, heavy grazing and even drought. Considered a safe bet for germinating and growing quickly, cereal rye can also feed deer all winter long.

“That’s what most hunters and preserve owners do,” Deason said. “They plant cereal rye and oats for winter forage.”

Deason, who first began planting food plots in 2003, realized that in order to cater to the nutritional needs of deer throughout the year, a deer farmer is well-advised to plant a variety of things such as oats, wheat and clover. Deason also strongly advises to never wait too long to plant and to not only plant for the winter, but for the spring and summer months as well. White clover, a common Florida plant, provides supplemental protein-based foraging in the spring while increasing nitrogen levels in soil for grass growth. Red clover, a member of the bean and pea family, baths the landscape in purple springtime flowers while providing another valuable protein source to whitetails. Yet white and red clover tend to not co-exist well, as white clover

thrives better in saturated soil while red clover thrives better in soil that is welldrained.

Therefore “understanding the soil conditions required for planting success will make creating food plots an easier task,” Deason said. In addition, acquiring the necessary equipment does, too. Deason, who used to manage his food plots using a four-wheeler with an attached homemade set of discs, now utilizes a large tractor with several different implements including a seed drill to manage the terrain.

And while it is always ideal to understand your soil and have the right tools, it is also ideal when possible, to fence off your feed plots in an effort to allow the area to rest from the continual activities of deer. Using this type of design and management, “you can open gates up to let them feed on certain things or close it off and let it last longer,” Deason emphasized. “Overall, food plots can make life easier for deer farmers, if you have the means and ability to establish them.”

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