SAC Consulting: Veterinary Services are offering a programme of evening CPD meetings which will be held in Dumfries, Kelso, Aberdeen and Perth. For more information on the CPD talks or for online bookings please see click here.

Please find attached an article entitled "Improving Calf Numbers per Bull" by Basil Lowman (SAC Consulting Beef Specialist).

The latest NADIS monthly webinar for September 2016 is now available. Click the story links to go directly to the webinar videos.

PARASITE FORECAST - SEPTEMBER 2016 NADIS publishes a monthly Parasite Forecast for farmers and livestock keepers, based on detailed Met Office data. The Parasite Forecast outlines the parasitic challenge facing cattle and sheep in the different UK regions. This month's webinar has the preliminary liver fluke forecast and focuses on quarantining purchased sheep, worms in lambs and gut and lungworm in cattle.

DISEASE ALERT - SEPTEMBER 2016 In this month's webinar James Aitken of Orchard Veterinary Group discusses abortion in cattle: more than a 5% abortion rate warrants some veterinary investigation. As autumn approaches he also summarises the cause signs, treatment and prevention of sheep scab.

Please find details below of the Veterinary CPD courses currently available for 2016/17.

• Health Planning for the Dairy Herd: Heifer Rearing & Youngstock Management - 23 & 24 November 2016
  Venue: SRUC Barony Campus, Parkgate, Dumfries. DG1 3NE
• Beef and Sheep Nutrition: 30 November & 1 December 2016
  Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. EH12 6UA
• Infectious Diseases of Cattle - 25 & 26 January 2017
  Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. EH12 6UA
• Practical Bovine Ultrasonography - 1 February 2017
  Venue: SRUC Barony Campus, Parkgate, Dumfries. DG1 3NE
• Health Planning for the Beef Cow Herd - 22 & 23 February 2017
  Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. EH12 6UA
• Cattle and Sheep Parasitology - 10 & 11 May 2017
  Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. EH12 6UA

If you would like further information or to book a place on any of our courses, please either post the booking form, email cpdforvets@sac.co.uk or call our administration team on 0131 535 3130.

Please see http://www.sruc.ac.uk/info/120381/cpd_for_vets/1074/veterinary_cpd_courses for more information.