Research investigates Herd Health Plans
West Midlands dairy farmers give opinions on Herd Health PlansHARPER Adams postgraduate research student, Stacey Blease, has been asking West Midlands farmers to air their opinions about Herd Health Plans. She has issued around 1400 questionnaires to all dairy farmers in the region to find out their attitudes and opinions towards completing the documents, and how useful they find them. Herd Health Plans were introduced in the late 1990s and are a requirement of many milk buying and herd assurance schemes. Stacey’s PhD aims to quantify the incidence of disease on dairy farms and