animal health

The incoming chief executive will adopt the role in a challenging climate, with increased scrutiny on the agency to effectively deal with multiple disease threats facing farming

Vet, Laura Chesters of LLM Farm Vets, shares her advice on managing, preventing and treating a salmonella outbreak on-farm

Dairy technology can produce a wealth of data, but records must be correctly utilised if they are to improve profitability

The public have been reassured there is zero risk to public health

A case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire

Seymour Stevens Limited is a mixed beef and arable farm in Faversham, Kent

In this week’s Farmers Guardian podcast, head of livestock, Katie Jones, talks to Wiltshire vet, Mel McPherson about the threat posed by Schmallenberg and bluetongue this year

Developing standard operating procedures for biosecurity can have a positive impact on hygiene in the calf rearing sheds

A focus on the milking routine can be a useful tool to help reduce mastitis incidence and vets can play an important role in this

Aims of health risk management on suckler farms can be to optimise the fertility, animal survival and growth rates over each single production season