VETERINARY REPRESENTATIVES and Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy, are hailing the rural veterinary bonding scheme a success following the release of new figures.
THE CAUSE of an occasional but recurring problem of unusually small calves in dairy herds is a newly identified recessive gene, says Livestock Improvement (LIC).
THINK BVD when attending bull sales over the coming months, say vets.
WHETHER CALLS for New Zealand regulators to copy the European Commission and ban three widely used insecticides in an attempt to protect bees will gain traction here is unclear.
US RESEARCHERS are claiming a breakthrough in Johne’s disease testing but a New Zealand expert believes it will make little difference here.
There are two reasons why I no longer want to breed pups. I recently mentioned the anguish I felt at the prospect of bringing pups into a world of possible neglect and abuse, but I didn’t talk about my heartache when something goes wrong.
A SHEEP and beef farm manager from the Wellington region’s west coast has landed the top prize in Cooper’s Bumper Season promotion.
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is these days most likely to enter your herd on the back of a truck, warns a retiring TBfree NZ stalwart with a lifetime’s experience of managing the disease control effort.
ASSURE QUALITY Field Technician in the Horowhenua district, Leo Cooney has spent more than 40 years measuring facial eczema spore counts.
RAIN AND continued warm weather could see a surge in the worm burdens after the long dry, warns COOPERS animal health Technical Advisor Hannah Field.
THE FASTER you get a dog with twisted gut to the vet’s, the more likely it can be saved, so don’t delay.
GETTING DRENCH resistance mitigation measures integrated into farm practice is the challenge now, more so than developing mitigation measures themselves, says a world-renowned expert on the problem.
THOUSANDS OF cattle and deer herds have had TB movement controls or testing requirements removed or scaled down thanks to the success of the TB-free New Zealand programme, says the Animal Health Board.
DON’T RUSH to dry off cows without first doing your sums.
NEW ZEALAND has a potential problem: we don’t know where all our pigs are, where they’re going, or where they’ve been.
A POTTINGER front-and-rear mower combination has halved mower tractor time for a Northland dairy farmer.