Cell count levels have been creeping back up on farms since 2019.
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Progress in terms of reducing cell count at farm level has stalled, despite significant strides made post-2013, Dr Laurence Shalloo from Teagasc has said.
Cell count at farm level dropped from a peak of 272,000 cells/ml in 2009, to a low of 175,000 cells/ml in 2017.
“A slightly worrying trend is that it’s starting to creep up again and we’ve seen that it’s gone from 176 [in 2019] to 190 [in 2023].
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“That is something we need to be a little concerned about now – we were all in the happy place when it was dropping.
“ I don’t think we can fully answer why we got those reductions.
“We also maybe don’t fully understand why things are creeping up a little bit now.
“We need to increase our understanding on it,” Shalloo maintained.
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Progress in terms of reducing cell count at farm level has stalled, despite significant strides made post-2013, Dr Laurence Shalloo from Teagasc has said.
Cell count at farm level dropped from a peak of 272,000 cells/ml in 2009, to a low of 175,000 cells/ml in 2017.
“A slightly worrying trend is that it’s starting to creep up again and we’ve seen that it’s gone from 176 [in 2019] to 190 [in 2023].
“That is something we need to be a little concerned about now – we were all in the happy place when it was dropping.
“ I don’t think we can fully answer why we got those reductions.
“We also maybe don’t fully understand why things are creeping up a little bit now.
“We need to increase our understanding on it,” Shalloo maintained.
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