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OSPRI – the government agency that manages animal disease and pest control in the farming industry – has taken over the day-to-day control of the Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) eradication programme.

Farmers are being urged to work with their veterinarian to keep animals healthy and help prevent drug-resistant infections developing.

The Waikato region is currently experiencing a concerning surge in Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) cases within dairy herds, with the highly contagious disease potentially causing significant economic losses for farmers, according to vet and CRV national sales and marketing manager Julia Baynes.

Herd Improvement company LIC has apologised to dairy farmers and is offering financial compensation to those impacted by a bad batch of sire semen.

Cattle can be infected with several species of roundworms when grazing pastures.

Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis (CAE) is a disease of goats caused by a virus.

From this month OSPRI took over day-to-day operational and disease control functions of the Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) programme.

The traditional method to approach lameness involves corrective trimming of the affected area.

In a normal year, lambs do not require a drench at docking/tailing.

Total sales of veterinary and horticultural antibiotics in New Zealand have decreased for a fifth year in a row, dropping by 23% in 2022.