Farm Gate
Farm Gate
ffinlo Costain
How to reduce farm antibiotic use
54 minutes Posted Feb 17, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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Antibiotics are critical medicines for humans and livestock - but profligate use has led to rapidly increasing resistance, which is a threat for animal and human health.

How then do we replace, reduce and refine the use of antibiotics in farm settings? And what are the opportunities for livestock producers?

ffinlo Costain is joined two southwest dairy farmers - Sophie Alexander from Hemsworth Farm, and Karolina Klaskova from Higher Mere Park Farm - and by two livestock vets, Rebecca Price and Lucy Hepworth, both from Friars Moor Livestock Health.