By Andy Adler, BVM&S, MBA, PGCert Vet Ed, MRCVS Molecare Farm Vets Having recently read ‘For the Love of Soil’ by Nicole Masters, I was surprised to find so many transferable lessons for livestock management, particularly around monitoring and managing. In the book – which is focused on regenerative agriculture and soil management – Nicole […]
Andy Adler BVM&S MBA PGCert Vet Ed MRCVS In November RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance) released their report on antibiotic usage and reported that sales of antibiotics (ABs) had halved since 2014 for farm animals, with the UK now the fifth lowest user of antibiotics on farm behind the Nordic countries. By […]
Andy Adler BVM&S MBA PGCert Vet Ed MRCVS, Molecare Farm Vets Dry Matter Intake (DMI) is the foundation for all conversations about nutrition and therefore is the basis for starting to think about the overall health of an animal. If an animal is what it eats, then what it eats as well as how much […]
All ruminants struggle with heat stress but Dairy cows are particularly susceptible. Comfort, consistent health and optimal intakes are all essential to ensure dairy cows remain the balanced productive machines the industry expects. Due to poor sweating capacity cows manage their thermal comfort zone through a combination of intake adjustment, drooling and panting or increased […]
Katie Scotter BA VetMB MRCVS & Lorna Pillar BVM BVS MRCVS, Molecare Farm Vets With the recent shortages of antibiotic lactating cow tubes set to affect the dairy industry for several months, it is a good opportunity to look at other ways of approaching mastitis treatment. Currently we use tubes that contain multiple antibiotics to […]
David Atherton of Thomson & Joseph Challenges Sustainable dairy farming is all about producing milk in a way that does not damage the environment—but more than that, brings positive benefits to health all the way up the food chain from soils to human consumers. Human life is dependent on soils, which supply 95% of our […]
