What can you expect and what are your options if your dairy is affected by foot and mouth disease (FMD)? Should you vaccinate your herd against FMD or not? How does this affect your herd? How does it affect the milk buyer?
FMD in a dairy parlour has serious implications. The implications of the regulations around FMD are equally serious. Using examples of outbreaks on dairy farms, this webinar will explain the implications of the disease and regulations should a dairy farm be affected by FMD, especially if the farm is placed under quarantine or situated within a disease management area (DMA).
What are the various role-players in the livestock industry doing to assist with the control of FMD and to change the regulations?
Speaker
Dr Mark Chimes qualified as a veterinarian at Onderstepoort, Veterinary Faculty, University of Pretoria in 1986.
After 30 years in private practice, he joined Deltamune Laboratory as their ruminant technical advisor regarding the vaccines and laboratory tests they offered.
In 2016 Dr Chimes joined the Dairy Standard Agency as a milk parlour auditor to assist farmers to comply with dairy quality and safety standards. He visits 80 to 120 dairy farms a year and as a result has developed an intimate knowledge of the various dairy farm management and production systems.
In 2022 Dr Chimes was appointed as the manager of the Animal Health & Welfare Program of Milk South Africa where he also acts as veterinary advisor.
