Health Scheme Members' Blog
Spring 2025 Schmallenberg update
Although cases of disease caused by Schmallenberg virus have been reported in England in previous years, Scottish herds and flocks have remained largely unaffected until 2025. Cases have been reported in early lambing flocks this spring in the Southwest and the central belt of Scotland with evidence of exposure being more widespread.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 11/03/2025
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PCHS News 2025
The 2025 edition of PCHS News is now available!…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 17/12/2024
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Promote Your Farm’s Success with Our New HerdPlan Web-App!
HerdPlan, funded by the Scottish Government and developed by SRUC’s Veterinary Services team, enables UK vets and farmers to work together to create proactive health plans to improve productivity and increase income on farm. …
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 08/10/2024
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Improving On-Farm Efficiencies
Improving on-farm efficiencies strongly relates to reduced production costs per kg of beef sold, therefore representing improved profitability for the farm business. Instead of being seen as a burden, lowering greenhouse gas emissions of suckler herds represents a challenge with clear opportunities.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 14/08/2024
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PCHS member profile: Harri Parri
The Parri family moved to Bodnithoedd, a lowland farm on the Llyn Peninsula on a tenancy in 1948, having previously been farming in Pencaenewydd, an upland area in Eifionydd. Continuing the beef and sheep enterprises that his great grandfather started when he moved, Harri now runs the business alongside his wife, Elin and parents, Richard and Rhian.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 17/05/2024
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Premium Sheep and Goat Health Schemes – podcasts
We have recently produced a few podcasts discussing MV and Johne’s disease Accreditation and Monitoring Schemes, which will hopefully be a useful introduction to the schemes, or a refresher for vets already involved with PSGHS clients.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 17/05/2024
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Lamb Crop Webinars are back!
Following on from previous years, SAC consulting (with funding from UIF) have organised another series of relevant and engaging webinars.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 11/01/2024
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PCHS News 2024
The 2024 edition of PCHS News is now available!…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 20/12/2023
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BVDFree Database
In order to provide a single place that BVD status of an English animal or herd can be looked up, CHECS and BVDFree England are working together by seeking permission from farmers to enable their CHECS BVD status to the BVDFree England database.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 09/11/2023
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MV/CAE Rule Updates
The MV/CAE Accreditation Scheme rules have been reviewed, and the revised rules will officially go live at the end of October 2023. The aim has been to clarify a couple of grey areas of interpretation and ensure consistency across the scheme. Overall, the scheme remains largely as it has been in previous years.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 26/10/2023
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PSGHS member profile: Rob Beaumont
Rob Beaumont keeps a flock of Southdown sheep on his farm near Wantage in Oxfordshire and was awarded the Cresswell Crook in 2022…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 17/08/2023
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Update for PCHS clients using BVD tissue tags
We circulated an email to clients last week explaining that we will no longer be able to test Datamars Tissue Tags from 26th August 2023.…
- SRUC Veterinary Services
- 10/08/2023
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