SAC Consulting will deliver the English Stamp Out BVD programme, which aims to tackle the cattle disease.

The scheme enables English farmers to apply for one-to-one farm advisory visits by a vet who will help tackle Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) on their farms.

The three-year scheme is delivered through the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and has a budget of £5.7m. Leading the project, SAC will recruit local vets to offer the programme to farmers on the ground. It is larger than any previous BVD project in England in terms of both funding and scope.

The programme will also pull together new clusters of cattle keepers to work together against BVD, by sharing best practice and tackle this disease as a group of like-minded individuals who share the goal of eradicating BVD from their herds.