NADR is excited to roll out the all-new GMS Web App. This new GMS product offers the deer breeder/farmer the latest in technology and data capturing from the NADR database. GMS clients will be able to access their data via any platform, using any device. The following features are just a few of the many tools included in GMS! 

Herd Inventory - Track all aspects of the herd, including tags, names, state id, birth weight, sires, dams, etc. Display unlimited pictures of each animal. Record medications for each animal.

DNA Submittal & Retrieval - A few clicks, and the paperwork is ready to go via online submittal. When the specimen has been processed, retrieve the lineage and DNA information back into GMS.

GEBV/Codons - Receive and store GEBV score and Codon values from NADR for each animal. 

Lineage/Pedigree -The fully interactive lineage screen displays lineage and pictures for each animal. Optionally, you can display the GEBV score. 

Doe Line - Customizable field for each animal to record anchor doe detail to display on reports or grouping. 

Pen and Group Management - Create and assign as many pens or groups as desired. Pen and group detail included in inventory reports allows for sorting and reviewing animals by pen or group.

Designed for All Species - NADR has spent countless hours with people in the industry to develop a program that will work for all Cervid species as well as Exotics.

More to Come! – We will be rolling out more features in the coming year such as Dream Deer, Animal Transfers, Customizable Reporting, Email Notification of updates.

It will be easy to sign up and transfer your data. 

An email and link will be sent to view a demo of the GMS Web App and discuss your data.

For existing customers, we will provide instructions for locating and uploading the GMS database backup file.

NADR staff will then do all the work to get you up and running.

The fight at the capitol is still ongoing. The original nightmare of a bill in the senate has been tempered down quite substantially from its original form. We are continuing to fight for our farms and we are gaining support from some key Democrats. 

The attached link is from the senate ag committee hearing on Monday the 17th. With new science such as genetic resistance, and the damaging effects of the bill being discussed. We still have a long ways to go but we will continue to fight.

https://mnsenate.granicus.com/player/clip/11363?view_id=1&redirect=true&h=624fb5f65684ae346472336da5a09eec

In the video, the Chairman, Senator Putnam, is one of the Democrats that is listening to us. He has setup a meeting with Scott Fier, Brenda Hartkopf (from the elk breeders), as well as the DNR, the author of the bill, and our lobbyist to refine the bill and get everyone to the same table.

Meetings are taking place and many times, such as Monday's hearing, are short notice. We have a meeting setup for next week with the new DNR cervid program coordinator as a meet and greet with him, to get to know him and how he plans to run the DNR's captive cervid program.

Also, If anyone is willing to work with Dr. Scott Wells from the U of M by allowing him to place trail cameras around your perimeter fence, to study what animals are crossing through the fence, ie. raccoons, skunks, fox ect. Please contact Mark Volk at 320-232-3352 and he will get you in touch with Dr. Wells. We as a board support his study and wish to get him more help. So far, Dr. Wells has had cameras on 4 farms. One in WI, and the farms of three of our directors, Mark Volk, Ken Williams, and Deb Holthaus.

If you have any questions, feel free to respond to this email or contact one of our board members and we will answer any questions you may have.

MDFA Board of Directors

Protecting Cervid Operations from CWD

by Scott Wells

Dept of Veterinary Population Medicine University of Minnesota

Scott Wells Flyer.pdf

Click here to link to video!

Did we find a cure for CWD? Hey everyone, here is an interview with Greg Flees of Wilderness Whitetails. The genetic resistance program that he has implemented with his whitetail deer looks very promising and may be the answer in beating the disease of CWD!

I would like to start off by saying thank you to Iowa for being a part of our 1^st Annual MN/IA Fundraising Banquet. Overall, we had our best banquet yet! Please share any thoughts or concerns on how we could make the banquet even more successful. A HUGE thank you to all the donors, sponsors and everyone that had a role in helping. We appreciate the support!!

I hope everyone has been receiving updates that have been sent out since the banquet. We will keep doing our best to continue getting information to our members. We are in the middle of session at the time of this letter and in my opinion, I think we are sitting in about as good of a position we can considering everything that gets thrown at us. I understand not everything is in our favor, but we will continue the fight and use the resources we have available to us. We are in this together so let’s work together! Please continue to reach out to your legislators to keep them abreast with your thoughts and concerns.

Feel free to reach out to myself or any of the board members if you have any questions or concerns.

I wish you all the best of luck with your new crop of fawns and your bucks growing antler!

Scott Fier- President MDFA

507-829-3151

fierscott@gmail.com