Managing Calf Pneumonia – Well-Calf an effective young stock rearing solution

The prevalence of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) or calf pneumonia during the rearing period is often underestimated since visual signs are difficult to pick up and scours. Well-Calf is a cutting-edge precision technology solution that helps the industry tackle pneumonia and scours in the dairy-beef sector through early disease detection, improvements in health and management in the rearing phase.

Well-Calf has been focused on developing a precision agriculture technology solution for optimising the production efficiency of the dairy-beef sector through improvements in health and management. Well-Calf is a multi-partnered Innovate UK funded project, Smart Bell, SRUC, Parklands Veterinary Group, Agri-EPI and has been trialled on-farm.