Following graduation from Liverpool in 2012, Amy spent her first couple of years in the Brecon Beacons working in mixed practice. Realising her interests lay in farm animal work, she decided to move back to her roots in Cheshire, from where she has worked in farm animal practice for over 10 years. She is passionate…

James Hudson 

Sarah Tomlinson is the Lead Veterinary Science Expert at AHDB and is also the Technical Director of the TB Advisory Service (TBAS). Throughout her long career in clinical farm practice she has been passionate about improving livestock health and productivity by reducing the risk and impact of endemic disease. More recently she has developed a…

Ben Harman is a fourth generation farmer on a 334ha mixed farm in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. He owns the oldest herd of British Charolais in the UK which was started by his grandfather and progressed by his father. He has a beef brand ‘ChagyuTM’, a blend of Charolais and Wagyu cattle which is…

Over the years random farm visits have been carried out by a small team, led by Donald Gilder, who retired at the end of 2023. The purpose of these visits was to look at how well farms and their herd vets were adhering to the requirements laid down by their health scheme, which in turn should follow…

Charlotte has a degree in agriculture from Wye College and has worked in the farming industry for 27 years in a range of technical, project management, sale, marketing and administrative roles for organisations including Kingshay Farming Trust, NFU Mutual, Country Land & Business Association and Milk Development Council (now AHDB).  For nearly four years she…

Tim grew up on a Hampshire dairy farm. After attending Sparsholt College he milked cows for a year in Minnesota while doing a university course there as part of an exchange programme. He worked on stations, ranches, fruit and arable units across Australia before returning to the family farm, the bulk of which was sold…

Tim specialises in livestock consultancy expert witness work as well as his role as Executive Director of CHECS. In addition, he is treasurer of the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance, a Trustee of the Institute of Agricultural Management and sits on a number of government/industry bodies such as the Traceability Design User Group…

Keith has been a cattle vet practising in the central south and south-west of England since he qualified from the Bristol University Veterinary School in 1990. During this time, in addition to his clinical work involving all aspects of routine and emergency bovine medicine, surgery and health planning, he has studied for and gained diplomat…