The road to zero mastitis in dairy

Monitoring udder health on a dairy farm is essential for many reasons. We talked about udder health and significantly reducing the incidences of mastitis with 2 experts from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University in Belgium, Professor Sarne de Vliegher and visiting professor Dr Sofie Piepers. It seems obvious that reducing mastitis is not only beneficial for dairy cows but is also better from an economic perspective, and it is vital to reducing antibiotic use. In this scenario