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Award-winning success at Livestock 2014
Livestock 2014
This year’s Livestock 2014 event at
Birmingham’s NEC got off to a great start
with our new-style stand attracting hundreds
of visitors, and we picked up a rather special
award along the way.
With a number of new campaigns and
initiatives launched on the stand, this year’s
event was a busy one for the team, attracting
much interest from visitors. The XLVets ‘Make
Your Farm Your Fortress’ and ‘BVD Free’
campaigns featured heavily, encouraging
farmers to think practically about biosecurity
risks on farm and the measures that can be
taken to keep disease, and in particular
BVD, out of their stock.
This year’s event also saw the launch of the
FarmSkills Farmer Portal, a system allowing
farmers to log their training record and
certificates, get recommendations for future
training and development in their area and
link into wider national XLVet campaigns such
as the BVD Free initiative.
Also impressed with our stand were the judges
for this year’s RABDF Prince Philip Award which
recognises the most practical, relevant and
well-presented technical exhibit at the Livestock
Event each year. The judges interviewed the
XLVets team on the stand and on announcing
them as runner-up they noted that: ‘XLVets have
taken an industry wide problem in BVD and
tackled it head on to find a practical solution.’
A fantastic achievement and well done to all
the XLVets members involved, particularly Stuart
Gough, Calweton Vets and Dan Humphries,
Lambert, Leonard & May.
RABDF President, Professor David Leaver presents Joanne Sharpe, XLVets and Stuart Gough, Calweton
Vets with the runner-up certificate for the Prince Philip Award.