While the long term global demand for milk and dairy products is set to increase, in the shorter term European dairy farmers are faced with low prices, uncertainty over the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and a move to fewer but larger herds, the 3rd meeting of the European Mastitis ...
Haemonchus contortus
Work at Moredun shows that it is possible to successfully immunize sheep against Barber’s pole worm, (Haemonchus contortus), a blood-sucking roundworm which is probably the world’s most important parasite of sheep and goats. There are currently no commercial vaccines for any ...
Pfizer Animal Genetics is offering US cattle breeders a diagnostic test for osteopetrosis (OS), a serious genetic defect that affects Red Angus cattle. The company has also been recognized as an OS testing laboratory by the Red Angus Association of America.
Pfizer worked with several US ...