Dairy Technical
Milk recording is "hugely beneficial" in preparation for selective dry cow therapy, according to Michelle McGrath of Animal Health Ireland.
Autumn-calving cows are entering the final third of their lactation and will start being dried off in late-June or early July.
Dairy
Research carried out at WIT has confirmed that non-antibiotic interventions can be used as an effective blanket treatment to ‘dry-off’ cows.
With three years before major changes to blanket antibiotic usage on dry cow therapy, farmers have been warned that approaches must change.
Over 30 waste syringes, presumed to have originated from the agricultural industry, were discovered littered along a roadside in Co. Cork
Selective dry cow therapy will be used as a key driver in bringing down the quantities of antibiotics used within the dairy sector
