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* Superbug found in some UK cows * Milk poses no risk to public health By Jack Davies and Olivia Midgley SCIENTISTS investigating a new strain of MRSA are set [...]

In warm weather, and particularly from July to September, outbreaks of summer mastitis are too regular a problem in some dairy herds, says Virbac animal health vet adviser Ken Sibley. [...]

THE mastitis-spreading risk of high SCC cows needs to be better appreciated, said Brian Pocknee at AgriScot. Commenting on the results from the first ever national cluster hygiene study, carried [...]

Larger herds usually mean the herdsman has less time per cow to observe bulling activity and when that is combined with the intrinsic low level of expression of oestrus behaviour [...]

James Dixon is partner in Westpoint Veterinary Group's new practice based in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The centre, which was opened just 12 months ago, now employs two full time vets with [...]

American calf rearing specialist Dr Sam Leadley has been giving a series of Elanco farmer meetings and has some strong views on Yorkshire boarding and calf bucket hygiene. Shirley Macmillan [...]

Getting rid of BVD has paid handsome dividends on one Co Durham farm but keeping it at bay is the ongoing challenge. Vet Louise Radford reports. Eradicating BVD in Jeremy [...]

Mark Pilkington knows first hand the damage mixing three herds can do. He believes that buying two herds to merge with his own and create a 330-cow business three years [...]

Initial BVD infection in a naove herd may be obvious and devastating with abortion storms and the birth of deformed or unthrifty calves, but there is an even bigger effect [...]

* Dairy and beef herds in E Anglia includes Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. * Project overseen by Prof Joe Brownlie at RVC. * Testing by SAC. * Initial subsidised [...]

THE National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS) is warning farmers to start thinking about lungworm as data shows levels of infection increase from June onwards, with a high in late [...]

In this the second in the cut-out-and-keep Intervet series, vet Keith Cutler tells us about the factors which are conspiring to push fertility rates down and what we can do [...]

Merial's veterinary adviser Helen White warns producers of the consequences of not treating fluke. THE effects of liver fluke disease are now estimated to cost the cattle industry #23 million [...]

Just as he is licking his elections wounds, our south-west correspondent John Trunch is further incensed by the latest political shenanigans over horse manure. Whatever next? Now that election fever [...]

Many dairy farmers remain sceptical of the value of genetic indices as selection tools. Producers in Ireland, however, rely on their national index to help them choose the right genetics [...]

Sustained selection for productive life means the culling rate on one Wisconsin dairy unit now runs 12% below the US national average. Angela Rhodes finds out how selection for performance [...]

In the third of our breeding management series, Holstein UK's Animal Breeding and Research Analyst Lucy Andrews draws on extensive work carried out with the SAC Animal Breeding & Genetics [...]

Sub-clinical mastitis can be one of the most frustrating problems to deal with on the dairy farm. Cows that appear to be healthy can suddenly start to push up the [...]

A rise in somatic cell counts appears to accompany turnout on many farms but, according to NMR, this is more to do with the number of cows nearing the end [...]

FEEDING additional vitamin E to dairy cattle may enable greater use to be made of red clover and lucerne silages without prejudicing the storage quality of milk, Dr Richard Dewhurst, [...]

WITH the predicted average service success rate currently running under 60 per cent in UK dairy herds, and causing a drain on profitability, cow fertility has become a major concern [...]

Although the latest results from the National Animal Disease Information Service labs over the last two months show that Strep agalactiae has accounted for less than 2% of the cases [...]

Microbes in a cow's rumen can synthesise all the amino-acids needed provided there is an adequate source of sulphur in the diet, but overdo it and you are in trouble. [...]