Dairy Technical
Advice: Milk recording in preparation for selective dry cow therapy
It is not too late in the year to start milk recording in preparation for selective dry cow therapy (SDCT),...
Dry Cow Therapy
Dairy Technical
Time to BCS your autumn-calving cows
Autumn-calving cows are entering the final third of their lactation and will start being dried off in late-June or early...
Dairy
Non-antibiotic treatments 'will revolutionise' dry cow therapy
Research carried out at the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has confirmed that non-antibiotic interventions can be used as an...
Dairy
'A vet won’t sign off a prescription for 100 tubes for 100 cows anymore'
With just three years before major changes to blanket antibiotic usage on dry cow therapy comes into effect, farmers have...
Dairy
Over 30 dry cow syringes discovered along Cork roadside
Over 30 waste syringes, presumed to have originated from the agricultural industry, were discovered littered along a roadside in Co....
Dairy
'Selective dry cow therapy is the future for dairy'
Selective dry cow therapy will be used as a key driver in bringing down the quantities of antibiotics used within...