Thousands of breeding and store sheep will be moved around the UK during the next few months. Many farmers are blind to the potential peril surrounding purchased animals when moved onto their holding, and are often susceptible to buying in...
Dr Delana Davies: Knowledge Exchange Hub, IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Dairy cows are high value farm animals requiring careful management to achieve the best results. Since the advent of robotic and high throughput milking, the traditional few minutes available for individual...
Dr Ruth Wonfor: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Take home messages:
Dr. Ruth Wonfor: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Take home messages:
Dr Ruth Wonfor: IBERS, Prifysgol Aberystwyth
Take home messages:
Dr Ruth Wonfor: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Take home messages:
By Sara Pedersen MRCVS, Farm Dynamics Ltd, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan
Lameness is a painful condition for the animal and a costly one for the producer. Whilst there has been a large focus on lameness in dairy cattle, beef cattle...
Background
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a zoonotic notifiable disease in cattle caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis.
Early efforts at detecting TB in cattle relied solely on physical examination of the animal, but despite the fact that there were...
By, Dr. Ruth Wonfor, IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University have recently led a European collaborative review summarising present research in mathematical modelling of European ruminant production under climate change. The...
By, William Stiles, IBERS, Prifysgol Aberystwyth
Manmade emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane have resulted in considerable increases in global atmospheric concentrations of carbon, which have modified natural carbon cycles. Such changes to the carbon cycle can influence...
