Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, August 8, 2024. Link.
Most read posts from the August 8th AHD Bulletin –
- Adjusting to your customer. Link.
- Inflation pinching pet owners, forcing pet spending decisions. Link.
- Communicating value for technician appointment fees. Link.
- Study: Two, 200mg doses of iron dextran better than 1 dose of 200 mg. Link.
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Tips to avoid quarter-end sales chaos
Source: mdm, August 9, 2024. Link. Acknowledging that rushing to meet sales quotas may never be eliminated, Mitch Lee offers three tips to achieve those goals more often. The article is distributor-focused but optimal pricing, cross-selling and optimizing the sales cycle fit well in most animal health services business processes.
Biodiesel use of animal fats, waste oils, and greases growing
Source: AgriMarketing, August 9, 2024. Link. What’s in your tank? Greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts are increasing the use of animal fats, waste oils, cooking oils, and greases. These accounted for 37 percent of total feedstocks used for biomass-based diesel production in 2023 according to the USDA.
Electronic bandages could heal wounds faster
Source: Futurity, August 12, 2024. Link. In animal testing, wounds that were treated with these electric bandages healed 30% faster than wounds treated with conventional badges.
Dogs can smell human stress, and it it bums them out, study shows
Source: The Washington Post, August 8, 2024. Link. In recent years, a growing body of research has affirmed that dogs can smell when humans are stressed. A new study shows how it affects them.
Study: Flying keeps getting safer
Source: MIT News, August 7, 2014. Link. The chance of dying during an air journey keeps dropping by about 7 percent annually, and continues to go down by a factor of two every decade, says MIT researcher Arnold Barnett, PhD.
