James Yeatman has cut antibiotics usage in his block-calving dairy herd by 80% in the past eight years, with the main reductions around drying off, mastitis and calf respiratory disease. Mr Yeatman, who calves 420 cows in Pulham, Dorset, has been fine-tuning his on-farm protocols to avoid using antibiotics unless really necessary. As a result, […]
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