Claw horn lesions (CHL) are reported as the most common cause of lameness in intensive dairy systems. Despite their prevalence, the underlying pathological mechanisms and preventive strategies for CHL...
The sheep sector in the UK is one of the most disparate and fragmented, with medicine recording ranging from computer-based farm management software to scraps of paper in a pocket. Practices hold...
Studies suggest that high cortisol resulting from lameness-associated pain decreases testosterone and disrupts spermatogenesis leading to decreased fertility. The objective of a study by Boakari et al...
Area-based direct payments will have been phased out in England by 2028. The process of removal is a gradual one over the transition period. Indeed, farmers will have already received the first...
Control of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) in the UK is largely voluntary, although there is some variation between individual countries. For individual farmers this is likely to be influenced by...
