Dairy
Farmers mustn't 'drop their guard' with liver fluke - SCOPS and COWS
Livestock farmers must not “drop their guard” when it comes to liver fluke, experts from the Sustainable Control of Parasites...
Disease
N.Ireland
Clubroot threat to expansion of oilseed rape acreage
Teagasc has confirmed that the growing threat of clubroot could hamper the further expansion of Ireland’s oilseed rape (OSR) acreage....
Arable
£1.5m crop research centre opens at University of Warwick
A new research centre, using gene-editing technology to improve vegetable crops, has opened at the University of Warwick. The Elizabeth...
N.Ireland
Studies show restoring habitats can prevent disease spread
Preserving and restoring natural habitats could prevent pathogens that originate in wildlife from spilling over into domesticated animals and humans,...
Beef
Ruminant Health & Welfare survey identifies key disease priorities
Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) has announced the results to its nationwide ’grassroots’ survey of farmers, stock people and vets,...
Arable
Take-All: Researchers find first step to lasting wheat health
Researchers have now shown that careful selection of the variety of the first wheat in a new cropping cycle can...
N.Ireland
Biosecurity: Big issues facing post-Brexit disease control
Brexit could be an opportunity to bolster the UK’s biosecurity efforts – but much could be at stake if the...
N.Ireland
Why African Swine Fever could be pigs' next big threat
“It doesn’t take a bad person to bring in disease into a country – it just takes a careless one,”...
N.Ireland
French-imported cattle test positive for bluetongue in Britain
Farmers have been urged to be vigilant after cases of bluetongue have been detected in Britain. Several cattle imported from...
