Welcome to the latest issue of the RH&W newsletter. It has been a busy month for the farming sector across the UK with high temperatures and heat waves ensuring the silage and haylage season has been in full swing. However,
Welcome to the latest issue of the RH&W newsletter. Spring finally feels like it has fully sprung upon us over the last month. The landscape has erupted into colour and crops are beginning to flourish with sun shining. As is
Ruminant sector unites in vision for improved dairy cattle welfare by 2028 We are calling on everyone involved in the UK dairy sector – from farmers and vets, to advisers, and milk processors – to unite in support of the
Dairy farmers, vets and industry professionals right across the whole supply chain have collaborated through Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) to create the new UK Dairy Cattle Welfare Strategy for 2023-2028. The strategy, which has now been launched is designed
Livestock farmers are being encouraged to investigate all unexplained abortions or stillbirths in their herds or flocks. Chair, Nigel Miller, says not enough farmers are reporting and investigating unexplained reproductive losses among their livestock. “Veterinary surveillance is vitally important to
The cost of food, as well as its supply and future production, is very much at the centre of the challenges facing the UK today. The restricted supply of energy and grain, high costs and inflation, driven largely by the