Reports of cows dying from straw impaction is highlighting the risks associated with feeding straw-based rations to suckler cows. Straw impaction occurs when cows are fed…

Vaccination can help create herd immunity to lungworm, but the oral treatment has to be given twice, four weeks apart, with the latter dose given two…

Work has begun on a new £1 million research project to discover what causes lameness in dairy cows. On any given day, lameness affects around one…

Final assessments from NADIS confirm that the overall risk of liver fluke is low in the UK, with the exception of south west Scotland which has…

The Cattle Antibiotics Group, which the NFU is part of, has launched a new cross-industry initiative to improve calf health, with the aim of encouraging more…

Allflex Livestock Intelligence, has launched Allflex Young Stock, a dedicated health monitoring application for newborn calves up to six months old. It also announced the introduction…

AHDB Beef & Lamb is to fund a five-year collaborative project to deliver improved beef cattle feeding guidelines, following an industry review. Evidence suggests that current…

Dairy farmers should be taking practical steps in their parlour hygiene management to ensure antibiotic use is reduced to meet future milk marketing opportunities. Looking at…

The ‘Control of Worms Sustainably’ in cattle group (COWS) has launched a new website to support the work it does to encourage responsible use of wormers…

Creating a best practice guide to sharing farm data is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). The…