Researchers at Michigan State University are studying how farmers can reduce the cost of treatment for the most common disease in dairy cattle.
Dr. Pam Ruegg with the College of Veterinary Medicine analyzed how nearly 50,000 dairy cows with non-severe cases of clinical mastitis were treated.
“On the 37 farms, which averaged about 1,300 cows per farm, the cost ranged from about $120 out of pocket per cow per case of mastitis, up to $330—so threefold difference,” she says.