Resources
We hope this resources page will be useful to all our clients and prospective clients.
ACTION JOHNES
The National Johne’s Management Plan (NJMP) was developed by the Action Group on Johne’s as an approach to be taken by the dairy industry of Great Britain to control and reduce the incidence of Johne’s disease in the dairy herd. More information can be found on their website.
BVD FREE
BVDFree England is a voluntary industry-led scheme, working to eliminate Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) from all cattle in England by 2022. The key to success is to identify and remove all animals persistently infected (PI) with the BVD virus from the English cattle herd.
Control Of Worms Sustainably (COWS)
COWS is a voluntary initiative aiming to provide the best available, evidence-based information to the beef and dairy cattle industries in relation to the sustainable control of both internal and external parasites.
NADIS
The National Animal Disease Information Service are a team of vets across the UK working closely with vets in practice and RAMAs in industry to help them with disease prevention. Resources include an A-Z of diseases and a parasite forecasting tool.
NOAH
The NOAH Compendium provides up to date datasheets for authorised veterinary medicines and may be useful resource should you need to check a datasheet.
PCHS
PCHS high health scheme for pedigree and commercial cattle herds. We offer a cost-effective cattle health programme of testing and management to control major endemic cattle diseases including BVD, Johne's Disease, IBR, Leptospirosis and Neospora.
ROMS
The RoMS is an independent, self-regulatory body which encourages the widespread use of standardised, independent mobility scoring conducted by trained and accredited scorers on UK dairy farms.
Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep
SCOPS is an industry led group that works in the interest of the UK sheep industry. It recognises that, left unchecked, anthelmintic resistance is one of the biggest challenges to the future health and profitability of the sector.
QuarterPro
Quarter Pro is a new initiative that aims to help you achieve continuous improvement in mastitis control and udder health on farm leading to more saleable milk, higher milk quality, improved welfare and less antibiotic use.
https://ahdb.org.uk/quarterpro
Our approach gives you support for every aspect of managing your livestock – evidence-based, whole-systems thinking for every stage of the life cycle.