Huron County Beef Producers attending their annual meeting in Brussels this week were told the anti-biotics they use have become less effective over the last few years.
Veterinary Doctor Ken Metzger pointed to extensive research with several examples to show the increase in resistance of most anti-biotics, and added it's a natural process for anti-biotics to become less effective and bacteria to become more resistant, and it's happened to just about every anti-biotic that's ever been produced.
Doctor Metzger explains beef producers have a couple of options.
The first is better management on the farm so cattle don't get sick and require anti-biotics as often. The other is hope that producers can stay one step ahead of the bacteria and continue to produce new anti-biotics that are effective.
Doctor Metzger says pharmaceutical companies are working very diligently to see that happen.
