To reduce the selection pressure for anthelmintic resistance (AR), experts are advising farmers worming ewes around lambing to treat according to their body condition score (BCS)…

The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) and Control of Cattle Parasites Sustainably (COWS) groups have issued a warning to cattle and sheep farmers to not…

While sales of antibiotics to treat UK farm animals have halved since targets were introduced in 2017, BASF said that to continue to reduce antibiotic use…

The Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) group has urged sheep farmers, who already collect a lot of data about flock performance, to make far better use…

A six-week campaign to encourage British shoppers to Make It with Lamb has generated an additional £2.45million in sales, new data has revealed. A collective effort…

The Cattle and UK Sheep Health and Welfare Groups (CHAWG and SHAWG) have launched their final biennial industry reports, highlighting areas of focus to drive forward…

Farmers, vets and industry stakeholders will be joining forces at this year’s Sheep Health and Welfare Group Conference to focus on world-leading health and welfare standards.…

A UK research consortium has been awarded funding from the government’s Transforming Food Production Challenge Fund to develop new tools to encourage the adoption of Precision…

The new 2020 online version of the SCOPS Internal Parasite Technical Manual for vets and SQPs is now available, following an expert review and comprehensive update. The…

Farmers bringing any sheep onto their farm this autumn and winter with an unknown sheep scab status should assume they have scab and manage appropriately; two…