‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms
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چکیده
This study offers a detailed and original assessment of the practices prescription veterinary medicine use on UK dairy farms. The emergence antimicrobial resistance as global threat has necessitated an increasing focus in agriculture. While abundance studies have recently emerged to demonstrate evaluate strategies for reduction, this paper seeks understand context on-farm culture within which treatment occur sample Arguing that experiential knowledge, informal information flows are important ‘science’ practice decision making drawing extensive participant observation fieldwork combined with semi-structured interviews, identifies discusses three key themes develop and, places, challenge our current understanding farmer practices. These areas - knowledge understanding, duty care autonomy seen complex effects medicines cattle such, highlight critical further research opportunities policy interventions aimed at improving responsible use. • Farmers construct their own narratives disease treatment, based experimental knowledges. Uncertainty remains element decision-making, can manifest risk-averse behaviour. strongly motivated treat by sense wellbeing animals they responsible. A perceived lack regard decisions directly affected farmers' behaviours.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Rural Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-1392', '0743-0167']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.020