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Dairy producers have already made great strides in reducing methane, but with a pledge to reduce emissions of the gas by 30% in the next eight years, the race is on to find more reductions. Cedric Porter reports.

Ceva Animal Health, the manufacturers of Spectam Scour Halt, has announced the delisting of the oral solution 50mg/ml, raising questions for the 2022 lambing season.

A new, free test to diagnose Mycoplasma bovis is now available to farmers.

Dairy farmers are being encouraged to include trace element supplementation during drying off to support the transition period.

Arla Foods plan to double their emission reductions by 2030, to help keep global warming at 1.5°C in line with Paris Agreement.

A vet-led calf club underpinned by knowledge exchange and benchmarking has helped farmer members improve calf health, productivity and rearing protocol.

The dairy said it continued to engage with customers to secure price increases to pass back to the farm gate

It is time for the ‘bullying tactics’ and power imbalance in the dairy supply chain between farmers and processors to end.

Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared.

Optimising the number of heifer calves produced by targeting and continuously monitoring the use of sexed semen could help business performance and carbon footprint.