Dr. Jessica Cooke has worked for Volac International Ltd for over 11 years. At Volac she is responsible for young animal reasearch and development within the animal nutrition team. She has indepth knowladge of the latest scientific research and innovations in the calf and heaifer rearing industry.
Georgina has been part of the Trouw Nutrition team for over 7 years. she has experience in ruminant feeds as well as the complexities in developing feeds for youngstock.
Devon born Tom spent a year and two summers milking and working on dairy farms before gaining a degree in Agriculture in 2006. He then studied and qualified as a Vet from Glasgow University in 2011.
Tom returned south to work in East Devon and loved it so much he is still here now.
In 2016, Tom travelled with his wife to New Zealand working and improving his calving expertise and gaining knowledge in grass based dairy systems during the spring calving season. In 2017, he completed his Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice in Cattle.
Tom’s main areas of interest include cattle fertility, mastitis, youngstock rearing, lameness and beef. Tom has run numerous farmers meetings over past years including his highly successful ‘young farmers discussion group’.
Hannah is farmers daughter that has grown up on a beef and sheep farm, with a pedigree herd of Hereford cows. After completing a diploma in Agriculture at Walford Collage, she then went onto work on a dairy farm, milking and calf rearing a Jersey herd.
Hannah then visited New Zealand where she worked and travelled the country, including rearing calves, to working on a beef and sheep station. On returning from New Zealand Hannah worked for Genus as an AI Technician, she then went back on the Jersey herd as herdsman where she worked hard to improve fertility and calf growth rates.
From a young age, Fred Liddell our Poultry Specialist was always interested in agriculture - particularly the livestock side of it.
Although not from a farming family, Fred grew up helping with all aspects of a beef and sheep farm next door to his grandmother’s home in Lancashire. He also spent lots of time with his uncle, who owned a small contracting business which was also based in Lancashire.
Dr. Tom has been working at British Horse Feeds since 1997, and specialises in Animal Physiology and Nutrition. He has helped British Horse Feeds develop thier feed range to help meet the nutritional requirements of horses.
He has written a large number of guests blogs for equine magazines and special interest blogs.
Key Account Manager - Biosecurity and Hardware Sales- Midlands
Richard joined Wynnstay in 2017 as a dairy hygeine sales specialist after working for 7 years in a Dairy engineering company as a sales manager, his current role in the company is National Business Development Manager Biosecurity,
Supporting the sales force and our branch network throughout the trading area,
Richard is AMTRA qualified and a licensed cow signals advisor with a real passion to assist in prolonging the productive life of the dairy cow for a more sustainable future.
Specialist subjects include udder health, ventilation and disease prevention.
From a dairy farming background based at the North Shropshire / Welsh borders. David has worked in the UK ruminant feed industry for over 10 years after graduating from Harper Adams University.
David has specialised in key areas of transition cow nutrition, feed conversion efficiency, dairy business economics & physical nutrition.
David is a FAR registered advisor with the Agricultural Industries Confederation and holds qualifications in Business Management, Marketing & Ruminant Nutrition.
Zoetis is a animal health company which operates on a global scale. With over 65 years of experience, they are dedicated to providing support to customers and their businesses. Wynnstay work closely with Zoetis to bring you a number of agriculture animal health blogs, covering many topics and going into deeper detail on the treaments available from your local SQP.
