The livestock industry has set out bold ambitions to eradicate sheep scab and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) by 2031, among other goals, following a Ruminant Health and Welfare (RH&W) workshop held on 29 June. (more…)
Dairy herd health and fertility have seen some marked improvements over the past year, according to the latest Kingshay Dairy Costings Focus report. Looking at all of the main health…
Increased use of pain management would offer immediate opportunities to improve ruminant welfare across the UK at little extra cost, according to views captured at a recent workshop. (more…)
Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) has announced the results to its nationwide ’grassroots’ survey of farmers, stock people and vets on priority livestock diseases and syndromes. (more…)
Sustained efforts to tackle priority production diseases in ruminants must continue. But the farming and veterinary industry should also focus on tackling low prevalence diseases – which have a high impact on individual herds and flocks, according to Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W). (more…)
Sheep farmers collect a lot of data about flock performance and could make far better use of it to improve health, welfare and productivity. According to Nigel Miller, chair of…