Health & Welfare
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Vet Focus: Why fertility is the answer to productivity
With the various challenges the industry has been facing in recent years, everyone has been looking at efficiency and cost-cutting in all aspects of their farm businesses. Ian Cure
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UKAS Accreditation of CIS Laboratory
On the 5th and 6th February 2020 the CIS laboratory underwent a successful annual UKAS ISO17025 surveillance visit. Read more..
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Feed Focus: Achieving a successful transition
A successful transition cow system will result in giving the cow the best possible start to what is hopefully a profitable lactation, however significant health and production issu
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Farmer Focus: D & B McMiken, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway
Long standing CIS customers, the McMiken family from Castle Douglas, were winners of the Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year at AgriScot 2019. The Ernespie pedigree Holstein herd is ru
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Farmer Focus: P M Bradbury, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Second generation dairy farmer Paul Bradbury farms in partnership with his wife, Dee, and son, David, milking 130 Holstein Friesian cows under the Brookroad prefix, which calve all
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Pregnancy Diagnosis in Dairy Herds
With government guidelines related to social distancing it is important to remain focussed on herd health and the timely pregnancy diagnosis (PD) of dairy cows. Read more..
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Tesco introduces new measures for producers to test for IBR and Leptospirosis
Tesco are introducing measures for all their producers to do quarterly bulk milk testing for IBR and Leptospirosis. The CIS can test for both these diseases from one bulk milk sample and results can be returned within one week.
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New ‘Stamp out BVD’ funding for farmers in England announced
Defra announces new funding for farmers across England to tackle the highly contagious disease Bovine Viral Diarrhoea.
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Farmer Focus: Stephen Bone
5 years ago, Stephen decided to start regular milk testing with the intention of identifying the level of Johne’s in the herd with the long term aim of controlling and eradicatin
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Testing for Johne's Disease
Johne’s disease is a fatal wasting disease of cattle, and is an increasing problem on farms across the UK. Dan Humphries from Leonard, Lambert & May Farm Veterinary Surgeons gives