Zoetis has warned that dairy farmers should not be fooled into thinking the risk of pneumonia in calves disappears as temperatures rise this spring. Although the…
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NFU president Minette Batters has kicked off Great British Beef Week by pledging her support for the campaign and urging the public to get behind British…
Farmers are losing £85 to £215 per cow due to poor fertility and poor breeding performance according to national figures. While the impact is often hidden,…
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…
