Livestock Matters - Spring 2018

WORKING TOGETHER FOR A HEALTHIER FUTURE... 3 LIVESTOCK MATTERS X LVETS NEWS Welcome Black Sheep Farm Health Black Sheep Farm Health is a new, dedicated farm practice, serving farms in Northumberland and beyond who became a member of XLVets in January 2018. “Our aim is to be a proactive farm animal practice that will help to improve farm profit, production, efficiency and animal welfare. Our intention is to provide an all-encompassing approach to farm veterinary services to support the local agricultural industry, focussing on preventative medicine. Everyone who works here, is fully immersed within the local farming community and has farming interests at heart.” Jenny Hull, Black Sheep Farm Health. The majority of the practice workload will be centred around beef and sheep with a small amount of dairy cattle and goat work. XLVets success at Cream Awards 2018 The Cream Awards aim to showcase some of Britain’s brightest and best working in the dairy industry and 2018 provided another fantastic line up. The winners were awarded on the evening of 7th February 2018 at Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwickshire. Congratulations to the following XLVet members; The Friars Moor Vets team for winning the Dairy team of the year T ony Kemmish, St Boniface Veterinary Clinic for being awarded Dairy Vet of the year Synergy Farm Health and their VetTech team for receiving a commendation in the Dairy team award The Lambert, Leonard and May team for being awarded the overall award of the night - The Cream Award, the John Beckett Cup.