Farming

£1.6 million for farm health planning announced

Funding of over £1.6 million has been awarded by Defra to projects across the country to help farmers improve farm animal health and welfare.
Following an application process, twenty-seven different projects have received funding for a variety of farm health planning events and initiatives including farmer training, advice workshops and the development of farm health planning ‘champions’. Farm health planning means undertaking a range of measures to proactively manage disease risk on-farm.  This involves good disease record keeping; identifying existing health problems on-farm and prioritising control measures for these; developing action plans for specific problems; and assessing whether measures have been effective and reviewing health plans where necessary.

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