The Westpoint Veterinary Group and Eville & Jones, a veterinary control provider, have joined forces to form Xperior Farm Health, which will bid for appointment as a Delivery Partner for bovine TB and other farm animal disease testing under AHVLA's…

Novartis Animal Health has announced the results of a survey of dairy and beef farmers which found that 39% of those who found Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) present in their herd did not then go on to test for persistently infected (PI) animals.

Any calf…

Guidelines on the examination of rams for breeding have now been officially updated, thanks to the pooled expertise of delegates at a recent Sheep Fertility Workshop, sponsored by Ceva Animal Health, the Sheep Veterinary Society and EBLEX-AHDB.

The previous…

Hysolv Animal Health UK has announced that it is offering a free diagnostic test which allows vets to identify the E. coli sub-types that produce the Shiga toxin associated with oedema disease in pigs.

The test, known as STEC-Check and worth £150-£200…

The Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, has officially opened the new Wales Veterinary Science Centre.

The centre, which is located on the site of the former Animal and Plant Health Agency's (APHA) Veterinary Investigation…

Zoetis has released new surveillance results which show that Mycoplasma bovis is becoming an increasingly significant pneumonia pathogen in cattle¹.

In more than 2,500 samples submitted by vets for analysis during 2014, 45% were positive, compared with…

Hysolv Animal Health has announced that it is offering a free swine flu laboratory diagnostic service to veterinary surgeons in the UK and Ireland.

The company will supply kits to veterinary surgeons with which to take samples from pig herds they suspect…

The BVA is calling on Defra and the APHA to take an innovative approach to capturing farm animal post-mortem data, after its Voice of the Veterinary Profession survey found that 90% of production animal vets now conduct their own PMs.

In 2014, there…

Bayer has unveiled "Ketosis - latest insights: prevention, therapy and useful hints" at the World Buiatrics Congress 2016

Described as a first-of-its-kind, mobile-enabled digital whitepaper, the publication offers veterinary surgeons and farmers…

Ceva Animal Health has launched Assure Ewe, a subsidised testing scheme to assist practitioners identify the cause of enzootic abortion on-farm.

The company says industry estimates are that 12 million accessible breeding ewes (91%) are not vaccinated…

A new study carried out by scientists from The Pirbright Institute and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, has concluded that pre-clinical diagnosis could be key to helping control the transmission of foot…

A consortium of seven academics has been awarded a £1.75 million grant to understand how better diagnostics can encourage responsible antibiotic use in animals.

The award, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) working in partnership…

Veterinary imaging equipment provider BCF Technology has been acquired by IMV Technologies Group, a leader in animal reproduction technologies based in Normandy, France.

IMV says it has acquired BCF to widen its offering in the reproduction management…

Actiphage, a new blood test for bovine TB, has been accepted for exceptional private use in England by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

Dr Berwyn Clarke, CEO of PBD Biotech, which developed the bacteriophage-based detection method, says this…

The Pirbright Institute has developed a novel sampling method which it says can detect the presence of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus from samples in the farm environment, even when susceptible animals are not showing clinical signs.

The new methods…

Dairy Insight has announced that the V-Grip tuberculin injector made by NJ Phillips is now available in the UK.

The company says that the Phillips tuberculin gun is easier to use, clean and maintain than the most commonly used device, and it also offers…

PBD Biotech has announced that a new trial has shown that Johne’s disease can now be detected reliably in the blood of day-old calves for the first time using a new Actiphage diagnostic system.

The trial, which was conducted by a UK-French team…

Dr Ben Swift from Royal Veterinary College and Dr Cath Rees from Nottingham University have been off to Buckingham Palace to collect the Royal Dairy Innovation Award for a bovine tuberculosis test they developed together.

The test, which enables the…

Mossman Farming, a dairy farm on the west Welsh coast which has been stricken by bovine TB, has become the first to gain permission to trial PBD Biotech’s rapid Actiphage blood test for Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). 

PBD Biotech says the Actiphage…

A new study published in Scientific Reports has found that machine learning has the potential to improve veterinary surgeons’ ability to diagnose herd mastitis origins accurately and reduce mastitis levels on dairy farms.

The study, which was led by…

UK Farmcare reports that more than 60 people from across the agricultural community have registered an interest in training to become an Approved Tuberculin Tester (ATT) of cattle.

The role was created last November when the Animal & Plant Health Agency…

Ceva Animal Health is urging vets to encourage their farming clients to test for enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE) if they have experienced an abortion rate of over 2% in their flock or if two or more have aborted over two to three days irrespective of…

A new study, led by the Royal Veterinary College, has determined that low-cost thermal imaging devices show minimal difference in effectiveness of detecting lameness in dairy cattle when compared to more expensive devices.

The researchers say the effectiveness…

Scottish biotech company, Biotangents has launched AmpliSpec LAB Mastitis, its next-generation bovine mastitis diagnostic assay.

AmpliSpec LAB Mastitis uses isothermal amplification technology, which means laboratories can use less expensive equipment.

Diagnostics testing company MI:RNA has developed an AI-powered test for Johne's disease in cattle, with a claimed accuracy of 73% sensitivity, 71% specificity and 72% accuracy, which are expected to improve with further research. 

MI:RNA says that current…