Worms

A Herefordshire mixed farming business is rethinking its conventional operating system, replacing synthetic inputs and deep cultivations with applied soil biology, integrated livestock and homemade compost teas

Removing production-limiting worms from cattle at housing can support healthy growth rates in youngstock, and improve milk production in heifers due to calve over winter.

Defra-funded research project looks to help farmers to understand soil health by listening to the noises made by earthworms

Fasciola Hepatica

Dictyocaulus viviparus

Cooperia oncophora

Ostertagia ostertagi

Warm and wet weather this summer has raised the risk of lungworm infections in at-risk cattle.

Results from a recently published Elanco survey, conducted by Farmers Guardian, show only one in five sheep farmers are following current Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) advice and incorporating a newer wormer active into worming programmes, raising concerns about the rate at which wormer resistance is continuing to develop.