Rural Life
Animal Health Ireland (AHI) has launched what it called the first ever 'National Biosecurity Week' ahead of breeding season.
Dairy
Ahead of breeding, a number of boosters may be required, as vaccinations play an important role on dairy farms.
Agri-Business
Animal Health Ireland (AHI) is urging farmers to ramp up biosecurity measures to help stamp out bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD).
N.Ireland
There are new BVD movement restrictions in place on breakdown herds and on individual females in those herds over 12 months of age.
There has been reaction from the farm organisations to the announcement of changes to the bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) Financial Support Programme.
A farm organisation has described bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) valuations and processes as...
Minister Martin Heydon has announced changes to the BVD Financial Support Programme for animals disclosed as positive in 2025.
Schemes
Farmers are seeking an "immediate increase" in compensation for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) persistently infected calves.
New movement restrictions are being introduced for breeding‑age females in herds where a BVD positive animal has been detected in Northern Ireland.
This busy spring calving season, AHI is urging industry to work together to "finish the job" on bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) eradication.
DAERA has reminded herd keepers that the next phase of BVD controls will take effect from February 1 in Northern Ireland.
Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has been called on to increase the...
Animal Health Ireland is hopeful compensation rates paid for calves that test positive for BVD will increase to reflect current market value.
Herds with a confirmed case of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) will see major restrictions introduced from 2026 as part of a new action plan.
A joint cross-border bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) awareness campaign has started.
Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI) is encouraging farmers to check that all calves...
Herd keepers in Northern Ireland are being advised that from December 1, the threshold for applying...
Sporadic outbreaks of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) are continuing to cause concern, Animal Health...
According to Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI), recent test results have proven a significant pattern of BVD is developing.
Farmers are being asked to help co-design a new computer simulation model that could inform the...
Taking a ‘silo approach’ to animal health misses out fundamentally on the impact this key principle of animal husbandry has across farming
AWHNI is advising farmers to ensure that there are no cattle in their herds that could be potential sources of BVD infection.
DAERA has published the brucellosis compensation rates that will be paid to farmers in Northern Ireland for June 2025.
