lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Barbers have the same policy.
Antibiotic failure
- Thread starter William Mellor
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Moors Farmer
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- Location
- Somerset
Barbers seem to follow Tesco uncannily closely. Sometimes even at the same time.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
I think it’s basically the same as Sainsbury’s producer club. Which historically has been a big customer for them
jade35
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- Location
- S E Cornwall
Have you heard any more Will?
jade35
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- Location
- S E Cornwall
Just for NFU members but may be of interest
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Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
I can’t fathom having to do that. Does anyone actually do that?
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
well we do that anyway, for our own piece of mind and we are not on a Tesco contract. What's the issue?
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
What’s the time line on that? X number of milkings after calving as per label, then you take a sample and wait a few more days for results?
Do a delvo test on farm, takes 3 hours
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Didn’t figure that was accurate enough
William Mellor
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- Location
- Peak District
Not heard much but they have started taking money out of my milk cheque for the tanker that went down but they never told me that they were doing that which I am fuming about. Yet they say they won’t get the paper work sorted for me to claim on the insurance for 5 months, what’s that all about?? Meanwhile I’m being deducted money of my milk cheque for this! What a ball ache! Got NFU on the case as they shouldn’t be taking money from the milk cheque without consulting me, come back with the excuse of the member of staff that sorted it forgot to inform others and then went of holiday! Alright for some!
NFU are still won’t pay out until they get the paper work, which my milk buyer says will take 5 months to sort! And even then they aren’t sure about paying out as we are deigning all responsibility and my milk buyer is also deigning all responsibility!
Had FSA inspection and are currently contesting the failure thro them.
Currently testing the tank for antibotics every pick up and keeping the sample in the fridge for insurance purposes and to catch out any wrong doing for if this happens again
- Location
- North West England
startinghandle
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I remember the next door neighbour telling me that she accidently put milk from a treated cow in the tank , she explained to the tanker driver so he phoned the office , she had one hell of a surprise when the tanker driver said he could take it as they were desperately short of milk
- Location
- North West England
Milk buyer is happy with it. Although any fail at their end will be blamed on farmer messing up. They never mix up samples / labels
William Mellor
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- Location
- Peak District
Heard a story of back in the quota days of a dairy farmer who was fully insured for the tank if antibotics got in that would every March when coming to the end of the qouta year would avoid buying/leasing 2 days of qouta by putting purposely an antibotic cow in the tank, test the milk in his tank before the tanker came, it would test positive, he then would dump the milk and claim off the insurance. He was also certain that it toke more than 1 tube in a cow for just his tank to fail as he reconed he knew from past experience!
Alfred
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It's not accurate enough though!!
Your delvo test can pass on farm, you can even get your milk buyer to do the delvo test and pass it. But then nml can still fail a sample because the testing equipment they use to screen the sample is more sensitive. I speak from experience !!
farmer on a bike
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That can only be correct if you have used the wrong delvo test or a test kit which has not be kept properly (out of date or not refrigerated, although I think you should automatically get a fail in that situation). NML use the delvo test themselves. There are slight differences between buyers as to whether they use the delvo test SP or Delvo test T as their standard, which is where you could have an issue. From memory Arla use Delvo test T and most other buyers were using Delvo test SP. But this is exactly the same at the NML lab. They effectively use the same test kits but use an automatic reader.
You may be confusing it with using a beta star test which is much quicker but does not cover some antibiotics. It is fine to use if you know for sure which drugs could be causing a contamination and that these are covered by beta star.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Will milk from a cow within penicillin withdrawal period be dangerous to someone with an intolerance to penicillin? With more and more people selling 'raw' milk is there potential for a major issue?
Alfred
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Correct @farmer on a bike the problem is that the automatic screening at nml is more sensitive than the best lab technician!
(let alone farmer using either test system )
This effectively renders on farm testing as useless, unless we all use the same state of the art kit as nml do. Even milk processors find it too expensive to purchase this equipment.
So what chance do we as farmers have?