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Antibiotic failures.

After a long period of little or no failures our milk buyer today sent out a letter to us farmers about a multitude of failures in July.
basically all human error.
what procedures do you have in place to ensure it doesn’t happen on you ?
 

jimmer

Member
Location
East Devon
For us, the fact that only 3 of us milk over both herds simplifies things
If we had several milkers and multiple treated cows I think we'd have a separate group
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Tape, spray, in abundance, soon also be able to lock out the unit after the parlour upgrade. An if in doubt , dump it policy helps.
 
After a long period of little or no failures our milk buyer today sent out a letter to us farmers about a multitude of failures in July.
basically all human error.
what procedures do you have in place to ensure it doesn’t happen on you ?

My wife could tell you the statistics for the number of failures experienced by your buyer as she works with a lot of their herds and was involved in the MilkSure thing. You would not believe it, I certainly could not. Higher than the national average. Producers in North America (and Ireland???) would be scoffing because they have far tougher stipulations to antibiotics in their contracts I understand.

I was under the impression a modern parlour won't allow you to put a cow in the tank if it knows her number and knows she has been treated?
 
My wife could tell you the statistics for the number of failures experienced by your buyer as she works with a lot of their herds and was involved in the MilkSure thing. You would not believe it, I certainly could not. Higher than the national average. Producers in North America (and Ireland???) would be scoffing because they have far tougher stipulations to antibiotics in their contracts I understand.

I was under the impression a modern parlour won't allow you to put a cow in the tank if it knows her number and knows she has been treated?
That may have been true at the start of the milk sure process. But over time we had dropped far below the national average. So the recent spate of failures is quite disappointing. Especially as I think we were on levelThat may have been true at the start of the milk sure process. But over time we had dropped far below the national average. So the recent spate of failures is quite disappointing. Especially as I think we were at levels comparable with anywhere in the world until July
 
Location
southwest
After a long period of little or no failures our milk buyer today sent out a letter to us farmers about a multitude of failures in July.
basically all human error.
what procedures do you have in place to ensure it doesn’t happen on you ?

Truly amazing on 2 counts

1. That your buyer seems to know the cause of every AB failure in the herds that they buy from

2. That the farmers believe that shyte.

I have only one question-How many samples were subject to independent testing?

Even suspected drunk drivers get a chance to have the evidence against them verified.
 
Truly amazing on 2 counts

1. That your buyer seems to know the cause of every AB failure in the herds that they buy from

2. That the farmers believe that shyte.

I have only one question-How many samples were subject to independent testing?

Even suspected drunk drivers get a chance to have the evidence against them verified.
2 tests are done.
I know this because we failed an A test last yr but passed the B test. All tests are done by NML
No conspiracy here. Just good communication along with letting us know that a large tanker failing would cost the farmer 19k roughly.
 

frederick

Member
Location
south west
Truly amazing on 2 counts

1. That your buyer seems to know the cause of every AB failure in the herds that they buy from

2. That the farmers believe that shyte.

I have only one question-How many samples were subject to independent testing?

Even suspected drunk drivers get a chance to have the evidence against them verified.

I expect this buyer instigated an investigation in every farm that failed..

Independent testing. Dont understand. Expect this buyer contracts nml to do the test. That's pretty independent for me.
 

I know your question was aimed at Tom but I use these.


Red for AB
Yellow for a front quarter not to be milked
Blue for a back quarter not to be milked.
 
Location
southwest
I expect this buyer instigated an investigation in every farm that failed..

Independent testing. Dont understand. Expect this buyer contracts nml to do the test. That's pretty independent for me.

I worked for one of the major Dairies. All testing was done in-house with about 5% sent off site for verification.

When you have 5 or 6 tankers unloading at once (into 1 or 2 silos) there's no time for pishing about waiting for samples to be retested before a tanker discharges.

All the lab staff were trained up by the company-there're not scientists or chemists by any stretch of the imagination. I wouldn't trust them to test my tea for milk and sugar, let alone decide on quality of a product I sell.. But they were better than the tanker drivers who do the on-farm sampling. External lorry wash was built without the recommended drainage (too expensive) so was usually flooded with dirty water-imagine the state of the tankers and the drivers getting in and out 7 or 8 times per shift.

Just ask your buyer if you can have a look around their labs -unannounced.
 

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