flock offtake

herd superintendent

area of holding [ acreage | size of holding | Farm size(ECLAS) ]

agricultural holding [ farm ]

manager of a winery | winery manager | manager of a vineyard | vineyard manager

farm modernisation [ farm development | farm modernization | modernisation of agricultural structures | modernisation of farming ]

Advisory Board for the Showcase Herd

dairy calve

ensure that livestock farming and aquaculture focus on disease prevention through good hygiene, housing and animal husbandry and on strict biosecurity measures, rather than the prophylactic use of antibiotics; it is known that sounder farm management and animal husbandry procedures can be achieved through a review of provisions on maximum animal density in livestock farming, as current herd sizes often prevent individual or smaller animal group treatment, thus incentivising prophylactic use of antimicrobials;

(f) ensure that livestock farming and aquaculture focus on disease prevention through good hygiene, housing and animal husbandry and on strict biosecurity measures, rather than the prophylactic use of antibiotics; it is known that sounder farm management and animal husbandry procedures can be achieved through a review of provisions on maximum animal density in livestock farming, as current herd sizes often prevent individual or smaller animal group treatment, thus incentivising prophylactic use of antimicrobials;

12. Stresses the need to review provisions pertaining to farm animal welfare measures to improve animal health, with the aim of reducing the use of veterinary pharmaceuticals; calls on the Commission to re-evaluate current provisions on maximum animal density in livestock farming, as herd sizes today often present obstacles to the treatment of individual or smaller groups of animals, providing incentives for the prophylactic use of antimicrobials; believes that focusing on livestock strains that are resistant to disease could help ensure that fewer veterinary pharmaceuticals will be needed for rearing purposes but considers that this should not replace sound farm manageme ...[+++]nt and animal husbandry;

Registration and identification are very burdensome for farmers, so it is therefore important to use all opportunities to simplify, especially with the use of the new technologies. This is especially important for the identification of pigs in herds with integrated or externally integrated production. i.e. producers with piglets and pigs for slaughter at the same farm alternatively producers who cooperate.