Keith Cutler

Synergy Farm Health, Surefarm and chair of the CHeCS Technical Committee

Figure 1. Similar aged beef calves born at the beginning of a seasonal calving block to synchronised dams with fixed time artificial insemination.
Cattle

Use of artificial insemination and oestrus synchronisation in beef herds

This is an area attracting increasing interest from beef suckler producers in the UK but carries the caveat, as for dairy cows, that lower pregnancy rates are to be anticipated compared with...

Figure 1. When planning to control bovine tuberculosis and paratuberculosis it is important to detect infected animals, rather than just diseased animals, and manage both appropriately.
Professional

Control of bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle

Does OTF status mean that a herd is actually free of endemic M. bovis infection or is the skin test failing to identify infected animals, particularly in herds that have recently regained OTF status?...