MPBA 1ST QTR 2021 FOR WEB

MPBA 1ST QTR 2021 FOR WEB

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Kacey Williams 1st Place FFA Speaking Contest Winner Sponsored by AKC / Purina ProPlan & Presented by Senior Field Representative Stacy Mason

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I’d like to start off by thinking all of our sponsors and vendors for making this a great 2021 convention. I believe this is the most

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successful educational conference that we’ve had as far as sponsors and vendors. We had a few hiccups–mainly our zoom calls, which I believe was largely due to the metal building–but other than that everything was very successful. We have begun working on the conference for 2022 to try to improve over this year. I want to thank all the members and visitors who come out to support it. Without you, we don’t have a conference. Hopefully we can keep showing the huge support that was shown at the conference moving forward. We also had members asking about starting some new chapters, so let’s hope that they can get that accomplished! Let’s work together and try to make 2022 one of our best years. Thank you!

Kevin Beauchamp, MPBA President

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“Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, That’s why it’s called The Present.”

Please work in the present to make the 2022 MPBA Conference even better than 2021,

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Study: Dogs Can Detect Coronavirus in Human Sweat By Ethen Kim Lieser | December 14, 2020

Although the study was limited and the results preliminary, there is promising evidence that suggests these dogs could, in fact, be a cheap and reliable way to screen for the coronavirus. Several dogs have been successfully trained to detect the coronavirus by sniffing human sweat, according to a new proof-of-concept study out of France and Lebanon.

considered a perfect diagnostic test – rather a complementary tool, the authors wrote. Other countries have already begun utilizing the special skillsets of dogs. In Finland, a group of sniffer dogs trained to detect coronavirus started working at Helsinki Airport in September, and in Chile, police dogs have been trained to sniff out coronavirus in humans. In the United

In the research, which was published in the journal PLOS One, sweat samples from a total of 177 patients from four hospitals in Paris and one in Beirut were used. Among the participants, ninety-five had tested positive for the virus, while eighty-two were negative. What the researchers were eventually able to accomplish was that they trained six dogs to pick up the specific smell of patients who

Kingdom, a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is studying whether specially trained airport sniffer dogs have the ability to detect coronavirus in travelers—even before symptoms appear. The UK government already has given the team more than $600,000 to put toward the research. There have been several reports of dogs getting infected with

Research groups around the world are testing whether dogs can detect COVID-19 by smell. Credit: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty

had positive tests for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. After weeks of training, some dogs had a success rate of 76 percent, while others boasted perfect scores. “These results provide some evidence that detection dogs may be able to discriminate between sweat samples from symptomatic COVID-19 individuals and those from asymptomatic COVID-19 negative individuals,” the study’s authors wrote. The researchers, however, admitted that the study was limited and the results preliminary—but the promising evidence suggests that these dogs could, in fact, be a cheap and reliable way to screen for the coronavirus. “Even if trained dogs are able to correctly discriminate symptomatic COVID-19 positive individuals from asymptomatic negative ones, they should not be

the coronavirus, but according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus in the human population. For extra safety, the study’s researchers did not use any samples for training or testing the dogs within twenty-four hours of collection. Ethen Kim Lieser is a Minneapolis-based Science and Tech Editor who has held posts at Google, The Korea Herald, Lincoln Journal Star, AsianWeek, and Arirang TV. Follow or contact him on LinkedIn.

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FFA Speaking Contest Winners 2020

Kacey Williams 1st Place FFA 2020 Speaking Contest Winner Sponsored by: AKC/Purina Pro Plan 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest North East District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

Kacie Persell 2nd Place FFA 2020 Speaking Contest Winner Sponsored by: Piker Piker–Lena Cross 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest North West District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

Payge Sergen 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest – Central District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

Alexandra Moore 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest – South Central District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

Madison Luckey 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest – North West District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

Yasmine Doll - Not Pictured 1st Place FFA 2020 Speech Contest – South East District Winner Sponsored by: American Canine Association

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2020 FFA Speaking Contest WINNER’S SPEECH

“My Love for Labs” by Kacey Williams | Silex FFA Chapter

breeders face struggles everyday, from the misinformed public, to regulations constantly changing, and animal rights organizations working against Missouri pet breeders. I have realized how hard it can be to stay motivated, and be successful within this industry. Most of society hears the word dog breeder, and just assumes that this is a job where you feed a couple dogs twice a day. This statement could not be less false, because dog breeders face the struggles of everything from genetic testing, to maintaining medical records, all the way to reading pedigrees, while interpreting that >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68

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