Reducing antibiotics: What do farmers say?

The way a farmer manages the actual use of antibiotics on their farm does not reflect solely that farmer as an individual. Rather, practices and reasoning’s are guided by other contexts such as legislation and peer pressure. A qualitative study of Swedish dairy farmers aimed to find out farmer’s actual perspectives on antibiotic use. A significant share of antibiotic use today is in animal husbandry, and two-thirds of the predicted growth in antibiotic use globally is in this sector. Much r