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A campaign has been launched to highlight how administering pain relief to lame cattle as part of a treatment plan can impact positively on recovery time and results.

Farmers should be prepared to protect their stock from flies earlier this year with the mild weather expected to increase fly numbers and prolong the season, warns a leading biologist.

Farmers have urged Government to halt plans to continue the statutory requirement of bovine TB testing for cattle, in light of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.

The lockdown of most of the nation’s population will hopefully have the desired effect of slowing down this hellish virus.

Livestock farmers are being challenged to obtain one tonne more of utilised dry matter from grass this year, as latest figures highlight improved pasture in Great Britain could be under- performing by about 4tonne DM/ha (1.6t

Extreme winter weather has left a legacy of catch up jobs, and managing existing grassland and assessing which fields need to be reseeded is among them.

RESEARCH by Zinpro shows supplementing the diet with zinc could help to reduce inflammation in dairy cows during the transition period and even increase milk yield.

It is vital cattle producers have a plan to minimise, manage and treat parasitic infections before they reduce productivity and business profitability, according to Boehringer Ingelheim.

Farmers should be prepared to protect their stock from flies earlier this year with the mild weather expected to increase fly numbers and prolong the season, warns a leading biologist.

Plaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to put on hold its plans to introduce new water regulations until the coronavirus epidemic is under control.