Changes in the veterinary management of dairy cattle: threats or opportunities?

Abstract

Developments in dairy practice. During the last 25 years many Western countries have witnessed substantial changes in the role of veterinarians working in dairy cattle practice. Until the 1970s, the emphasis of their work was on the treatment of individual, clinically diseased animals, and it was only when the farmer decided a particular cow needed attention that he would call out his practitioner - it was an era of passive veterinary attention.