The Missouri Department of Agriculture’s efforts to minimize the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease were recently recognized and approved by the USDA. Missouri’s voluntary program has been designated an Approved State Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “The Missouri Department of Read more…
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received final test results today from tissue samples taken from 656 free-ranging deer harvested earlier this year. Results included three CWD-positives with two from adult does and one from an adult buck. The testing was conducted specifically for CWD sampling Read more…
The Missouri Department of Agriculture has received two additional positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer harvested at a captive wildlife facility in Macon County. Depopulation is continuing at the facility, operated by Heartland Wildlife Ranches, LLC, with approximately 320 animals harvested and tested since the Read more…
Two positive results for Chronic Wasting Disease are first for free-ranging deer in Missouri. JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received two positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from 1,077 tissue samples taken from free-ranging deer harvested by hunters in north-central Missouri during the Read more…
The Missouri Department of Agriculture is finalizing a depopulation and management plan for an approximately 3,000 acre captive wildlife hunting facility in northern Missouri following two positive tests for Chronic Wasting Disease. The facility, operated by Heartland Wildlife Ranches, LLC, is home to white-tail deer, elk and red deer. The Read more…
The Missouri departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Health and Senior Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a captive white-tailed deer in Macon County, Missouri has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is a neurological disease found in deer, elk and moose. “We have a plan Read more…
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will begin testing a limited number of free-ranging white-tailed deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in areas of Linn and Macon Counties. The effort is part of the Department’s response to a recently confirmed case of CWD by the Missouri Department Read more…
The Missouri Departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Health and Senior Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that a captive white-tailed deer in Linn County, Missouri has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is a neurological disease found in deer, elk and moose. “There is no Read more…
The Conservation Department continues to test deer for the disease. JEFFERSON CITY-Renewed testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2007 turned up no evidence of the disease, but the Missouri Department of Conservation says it will continue stepped-up monitoring for two more years. CWD is a degenerative neurological malady that Read more…
The Conservation Department continues to monitor Missouri’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease. JEFFERSON CITY-With firearms deer season approaching, the Missouri Department of Conservation is asking citizens to report any sick deer they see. The Conservation Department always is interested in reports of sick deer, because such reports help the Read more…
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