Livestock Extension Services
The 91°µÍø has a team of independent on-farm advisors who can deliver a variety of services tailored to the client and situation.
These services can be delivered anywhere in the World out of centres based in Dorset, Carmarthenshire or Hertfordshire, UK.
The 91°µÍø can combine areas of active research with experienced farms vets to deliver cutting-edge ideas fit for modern farm animal production systems.
Areas of current activity include:
- Farmer group and individual producer training on skills or implementation of best-practice
- Foot care courses and lameness troubleshooting
- Field school (stable school) facilitated meetings
- Cow comfort trouble shooting
- DairyCo mastitis control plan delivery
- BVD eradication and control (national, regional and farm level)
- Johne’s control programmes
- Housing design or troubleshooting
- Responsible antimicrobial use and audits
- Organic Farming
- Disease costing
- Field trials
- Impartial advice to Government and RDPE funded schemes
- Investigations of disease problems
- Health data analysis, reporting and database management
- Regular herd health reports
- Expert witness
For further information please contact:
- Dr Richard Booth, (Head of the Farm Animal Health and Production group)
- Dr Steven Van Winden (Senior Lecturer in Production Animal Medicine)
- John Fishwick (Senior Lecturer in Dairy Herd Medicine)
- Dr Neil Paton (Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre)
- Peter Plate (Lecturer in Livestock Veterinary Extension Services).