BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) is a complicated virus that costs the UK cattle industries an estimated £50-75m per year. Check out our fact sheet below, or you can click here to download it.

Good fertility management is a key component of successful dairy herd management. Improving herd fertility allows you to sell more milk per year and also reduces the number of cows being involuntarily culled for fertility problems. The associated costs of poor fertility are highly significant and include: £3 per cow per day for every day […]

Embryo transfer- repeat breeder embryos (‘cow stoppers’) What is a Problem Breeder Cow? Cows that have had three or more services at regular (21-24 day) intervals and that are still not in calf. What treatments can we use to treat problem breeders? Problem Breeder Embryos – implanting a beef cross embryo 7 days after service […]

Lameness Healthy feet programme  An understanding of which types of lameness are present, coupled with a structured approach to tackle the underlying causes is required to tackle lameness effectively. The AHDB Dairy Healthy Feet Programme is a structured approach which will help make important progress towards diagnosing the problems, devising an action plan, and develop […]

Liver fluke has a complicated life-cycle involving a tiny mud snail which is the intermediate host responsible for infection on pasture. Traditionally Liver fluke was thought to be very regional however movement of stock, changing weather patterns and ground conditions have increased the fluke risk to the whole of the UK. Lancashire has a climate […]

There have been reports of bulk milk tank failures through the use of unauthorised anthelmintic in milking cattle as well as other veterinary medicines. Randox Foods have created an ELISA test that can detect antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and anthelmintic in milk, which is used alongside the industry standard DELVO test by DAIRY UK to detect veterinary […]