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South West Region Health Improvements
Over 2000 dairy and beef farmers have now engaged with the BVD and Johne's Healthy Livestock programmes in the South West. The Johnes initiative is becoming the most successful voluntary health programme for cattle ever run, with collaborations between farmers, vets, processors and administrators making it work for over 1000 dairy farms (about one third of all the dairy farms in the region). Myhealthyherd is proud to be the tool used to manage these challenging diseases, and the newly launched Bovine Respiratory Disease programme for beef herds is being supported by the respiratory disease section of myhealthyherd.com.
Check out the Healthy Livestock website at www.healthylivestock.org.uk to get involved.
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Published - 06 February 2011Milk processors support Johne's Awareness
A series of farmer workshops involving the major milk processors have taken place in the last 12 months.Over 60 farmer training events have taken place using Myhealthyherd trained consultant vets.The training aims to bring the farmers up to speed with the most recent developmentsin Johne's control and also allow the farmers to conduct a risk assessment using Myhealthyherd for their own farm
New Funding for North West Johnes Control Program
Funding is now available for farmers and vets to control and protect herds against Johne's disease in the North West of England ( Cheshire, Lancs. Cumbria, Merseyside and Greater Manchester)
The program will help fund veterinary and consultant led health planning projects. The farm priorities are assessed and if Johnes is identified as a health priority a control and protection plan can be installed. Myhealthyherd is used as the tool to help deliver the program
Read more: New Funding for North West Johnes Control Program
Myhealthyherd being used nationwide
Myhealthyherd is now being used by over 4000 cattle farmers and vets to measure, manage and monitor herd health, making herds healthier.
This easy to use health management system has been adopted by over 120 veterinary practices and their clients who have an enthusiasm for cattle health. The programme is being used to evaluate health and the benefits that can be achieved by improving health and productivity on dairy and beef farms, as well as managing and monitoring health programmes.
Myhealthyherd is also being used as a the database for Hi Health Health Program in Scotland and in the Healthy Livestock Initiative in the South West of England.
Health Planning in the North West of England
Myhealthyherd has been chosen as the preferred tool for the evaluation of health in the North West Region. A large health planning project funded by the North West Regional Development Agency plans to assess the health of over 1500 cattle and sheep farms over the next 3 years.The project is run by the Scottish Agricultural Colleges in conjunction with Kite Consulting. Liverpool University provide the veterinary training.
