Essential Reading:

Case Studies

Read antibiotic use case studies, showing how farmers and vets have implemented changes on-farm that have reduced, refined or replaced use of their antibiotics.


Targeted treatment slashes long term use of antibiotics in pigs – Farmers Weekly

23 Jun 2017

Pigs

Scottish Pig Industry Unites to Eradicate PRRS – QMS

24 Mar 2019

Pigs

 

Partial depopulation and vaccination programme eliminates PRRS, Enzootic Pneumonia and APP in Aberdeenshire pig herd and Attempted eradication of PRRS virus

01 Nov 2018

Pigs

Wayland Farms part of East Anglia PRRS initiative – Pig World

08 Sep 2018

Pigs

 

How a PRRS vaccination programme boosted health & performance – Pig World

08 Sep 2018

Pigs

Case study of BVD control on a Welsh dairy farm – Boehringer Ingelheim

08 Sep 2018

Dairy Cattle

 

Case study of immunosuppression & infertility caused by BVD on a Northern Irish suckler farm – Boehringer Ingelheim

08 Sep 2018

Beef Cattle

Stepping up colostrum management in dairy farming

28 Feb 2018

Dairy Cattle

 

Reducing antimicrobial use on dairy farms: a practitioner experience

24 Nov 2017

Dairy Cattle , Vet, Med & Regulatory

New approach to mastitis ‘almost halves’ farmer’s costs – AHDB & Farming Connect

10 Nov 2017

Dairy Cattle

 

Plan to prevent pneumonia in dairy calves – Dairy Farmer

05 Oct 2017

Dairy Cattle

How a Dorset farmer cut antibiotics and the cost of sheep abortion from EAE

01 Sep 2017

Sheep

 

Plan to prevent pneumonia in beef calves – Farmers Guardian

31 Aug 2017

Beef Cattle , Dairy Cattle

Vaccinations significantly reduce antibiotics in fish farming

25 Aug 2017

Fish

 

Chicken firm slashes antibiotic use through holistic remedies­

25 Aug 2017

Poultry Meat

How a Devon pig farmer is saving £30,000/year by cutting back on antibiotics

25 Aug 2017

Pigs

 

Minimal intervention and ‘clean knees’ secret to minimal antibiotic use on Devon sheep farm

18 Jul 2017

Sheep

Ewe health and nutrition boosts colostrum and reduces antibiotics on Northern Ireland sheep farm

18 Jul 2017

Sheep

 

Quality and quantity of colostrum at birth prevents watery mouth on Penrith sheep farm

18 Jul 2017

Sheep

Selective dry cow therapy reduces antibiotic use long term, says Derbyshire dairy farmer

23 Jun 2017

Dairy Cattle

 

Improving herd resilience cuts the need for antibiotics in Somerset herd

23 Jun 2017

Dairy Cattle

Salmonella controlled by hygiene and acidifying water on Suffolk pig unit

23 Jun 2017

Pigs

 

Targeted approach to antibiotic use saves £thousands each year on Cornish dairy farm

13 Jun 2017

Dairy Cattle

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