Animal Health News

A UK consortium led by McArthur BDC is aiming to support a reduction in dairy sector emissions in excess of 1.5 Mt CO2e annually, with a value approaching £400m, by replacing soya bean meal with innovative homegrown faba bean-based feed ingredients.

Tim Potter, national veterinary manager at Zoetis, shares the clinical signs, plus advice on control, prevention and treatment.

A suspected case of bluetongue is being investigated at a premises near Portavogie, County Down, in Northern Ireland, DAERA confirms.   

RSPCA Assured has updated its welfare standards for dairy cattle, which are set to give cattle more space, additional pasture access, and better welfare at every stage of life.  

Cattle farmers are being urged to consider lungworm vaccination before turnout as both cases and signs of resistance to commonly used wormers continue to rise.

Spanish farmers are seeking regulatory relief, as African swine fever has already cost them over €60 million, according to the national farming union. 

After an atrocious year for making forage, with drought causing a lack of available grazing as well as poorer quality and quantity of silage, experts came together at the recent Forage Forum to offer advice on maximising your available forage.

In today’s dairy industry, margins require careful management and operational complexity continues to increase.

Suckler producers are being urged to review their cow supplementation programmes after widespread trace element deficiencies have been identified in suckled calves.

DAERA has confirmed that the bluetongue virus has been detected in two cows on a holding near Bangor in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. 

The latest RUMA Agriculture Targets Task Force Report has been released, marking the final update in the RUMA Targets Task Force 2 cycle. This release completes another important phase in the livestock industry’s antibiotic stewardship journey, as it gears up to launch the third cycle of targets next week. 

A young farming couple who lost nearly a quarter of their suckled calf crop to cryptosporidiosis in 2023 have taken a belt-and-braces approach to ensure such devastating losses never happen again.