Dairy and beef farmers are being asked to help develop frameworks to control the disease bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD).

Follow these tips and advice to reduce the risk of your calves contracting Mycoplasma bovis this season.

Dunsandel farmer Michael Woodward may be Federated Farmers North Canterbury dairy chairman but his real passion is the angora goats he inherited from his father John.

Now in its third incarnation, DRL started life as Otago University’s deer research laboratory at a time when deer farming was establishing itself by capturing wild animals. 

Farmers should not be having nightmares about Mycoplasma bovis, says a technical expert.

A cattle disease prevalent on 100% of New Zealand farms is much more serious than Mycoplasma bovis, a veterinarian says.

Farmers will not get stock moved if trucking companies do not get better freight rates, according to the Road Transport Forum (RTF).

Going for eradication of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is “absolutely” the sensible choice, says Professor Frank Griffin, founder of the Otago veterinary diseases laboratory Disease Research Ltd.

Farmers should not be having nightmares about Mycoplasma bovis, says a technical expert.

Traceability is the big question for stock traders as the campaign to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis gears up, says PGG Wrightson general manager livestock, Peter Moore.