Mr. Conor Geraghty:

No vet that is answerable to the Veterinary Council could write a prescription of a foolscap page of products for a farmer and expect to defend it. It is more likely a vet will prescribe at intervals. That is the way I do it with my clients because a vet cannot predict in January, for instance, what kind of summer we will have. For example, last January we may have predicted that we would fluke dose in autumn but many farms in my practice do not need a fluke dose this autumn.

That is the reality.