The UK’s approach to successfully controlling lameness

The last twenty years has seen an ever-increasing focus on lameness in the UK’s dairy herd. We’ve seen more research being undertaken, the establishment of foot trimmer associations and a greater emphasis on lameness in processor contracts. In amongst all of the activity was the launch of the AHDB Healthy Feet Programme (HFP) in 2011 and since then hundreds of farmers across the UK (and their cows) have benefitted from the advice and guidance provided by trained plan delivers – known as M