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British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United K ...
(DEFRA) has funded 27 Farm Health Planning projects, known as the Cattle Health Project. This included four bids from the National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS). The purpose of these projects is to promote Farm Health Planning to the wider agricultural industry. The Cattle Health Initiative project involves detailed health planning on 200 farms - 100 beef farms and 100 dairy farms. Each
veterinary Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...
practice involved in the process is required to select 10 farms (5 dairy and 5 beef) that are different in terms of type, location and management, to ensure significant diversity across the project.


References


Cattle Health Initiative
UK government site DEFRA


Other links


Norfolk Farms Vets
newsletter discussing participation
Farming UK
online journal - discusses results of testing

online journal - discusses results of testing
The Crofter
The Crofting Foundation, July, 2004, Uist and Barra Cattle Health Initiative Animal charities based in the United Kingdom Cattle welfare organizations Cattle in the United Kingdom