The expert touch Without scientific on-farm support, many drench products would fail to rid animals of unwanted parasites, worms and other nasties. For Donaghys Ltd, supplying this technical knowledge on a day-to-day basis is a priority.
With focus on selecting the right drench for the right animal at the right time, Donaghys are committed to ensuring Farmlands’ shareholders are confident in their drench choice. To support this technical know-how, veterinarians Angela McEwan and Sean Daly have joined the Donaghys team to pass on years of practical experience, scientific information and hands-on drench recommendations. Angela comes to Donaghys with nearly 20 years of practical veterinary experience. She spent the early part of her career in the Waikato, gaining valuable experience in dairy farm systems and developed a real interest in herd health preventive tools, strategies and performance. More recently Angela was working for a large corporate dairy farming business based in Canterbury but with farms all over New Zealand. Here she was an in-house animal health consultant advising the business and farm teams on all aspects of animal disease prevention, treatment, strategy and performance. The goal was to achieve leading herd health, wellbeing and profitability through effective business strategy and farmer knowledge. Understanding the whole farm system was vital to making effective decisions on behalf of the business and required a very disciplined approach to achieving favourable outcomes.
| Supplying technical knowledge on a day-to-day basis is a priority for Donaghys veterinarian Angela McEwan.
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Angela has particular interests in reproduction, calf rearing, mastitis and nutrition. She is an InCalf trained advisor and Dairy NZ accredited body condition scorer. Angela is with Donaghys to impart her knowledge and leave her customers in a better place.
Outside of work Angela loves running, mountain biking, kayaking and skiing. Sean developed his passion for agriculture growing up on his parent’s sheep, beef and cropping farm in Cheviot, North Canterbury. After graduating from veterinary school in 2003 Sean worked in several mixedanimal practices in Canterbury, Gisborne and the United Kingdom for 4 years. Since then Sean has worked in a variety of roles across the industry including sales, research and development and marketing in New Zealand and Australia, spanning the sheep, cattle, companion animal and pig industries. While working in the animal health industry Sean has particularly enjoyed the opportunity to work with farmers and learn about their businesses, the challenges they face and how farmers are innovating to succeed. In moving to Donaghys Sean has appreciated the clear focus on farmer requirements and the flexibility to find better ways to do business with customers. This is made even easier through Donaghys alignment of its drench range with Farmlands — farmers being the primary focus of both companies. Sean still assists where he can on his parent’s farm with his brother Tim and outside of work Sean enjoys fishing, duck shooting and shooting sporting clays. Sean, Angela and Donaghys will be providing practical and informative advice across a range of topics every month in the Farmlander magazine, so keep an eye out! Article supplied by Donaghys.
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