New welfare strategy launched by UK dairy industry

A new five-year UK Dairy Cattle Welfare Strategy has been launched by Ruminant Health and Welfare

Katie Jones
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New welfare strategy launched by UK dairy industry

This is an update to the previous dairy welfare strategy, the first of which was launched in 2010, and has been designed to help the industry show progress in animal welfare by 2028. Speaking at the...

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