LivestockAn MSD Animal Health survey finds 66.2% of British dairy farmers now test colostrum quality, yet only 31.7% test calves for failed transfer of passive immunity, down from 41.1% in 2022.
LivestockNearly 90 percent of surveyed US bison producers deworm at least once a year and almost a third more than twice, but few use diagnostic tests, raising the risk of drug resistance.
LivestockAPHA has confirmed the virus, a relative of Schmallenberg that causes fever, diarrhoea, lower milk yields and abortions in cattle, in Jersey and warned of possible further spread in north-west Europe.
The 2026-2027 campaign covers all 18 states and 1.2 million livestock-owning households, after the conflict destroyed Sudan's only veterinary vaccine laboratory.
The disease was found on a commercial farm in the Kharas Region, inside the country's internationally recognised FMD-free zone, bordering outbreak-hit South Africa.
LivestockFifteen vet practices produce standardised antimicrobial use reports for cattle and sheep clients, and early results suggest use is lower than expected.
LivestockFFAR-funded work at Kansas State and Texas Tech found group antibiotic treatment did not pay off in 72% of cattle groups studied, and that a blood test predicts liver abscesses with 80% accuracy.
LivestockAverage animals per batch dropped from 29 in 2013 to 17 in 2024, and only 34% of vaccines released in the UK now need any animal testing, against 74% in 2013.
LivestockWith midges still active and BTV-3 expected to overwinter, the UK's chief vet and farm vets urge dairy farmers to vaccinate, including youngstock, as vaccine supplies improve.
LivestockA Penn State Extension veterinarian says transition milk fed for several days can help calves' gut development, but the first feed of high-quality colostrum in the first hours still matters most.
At the FAO headquarters in Rome, Bangladesh environment minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said One Health must move from paper policy to field action.
LivestockThe Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and the University of Notre Dame are putting $140,389 into a rapid study of an FDA-approved drug as a new weapon against New World screwworm.
LivestockUSDA and the Texas Animal Health Commission released another New World screwworm zone on 21 September; the Santa Teresa port reopens to Mexican cattle on 24 September.
