National Association of Cattle Foot Trimmers announces Register to represent interests of milk producers

The National Association of Cattle Foot Trimmers (NACFT) has announced the creation of the Register of Cattle Foot Trimmers.

The Register will be autonomous, acting independently from the NACFT with its own powers and identity.

NACFT Vet Liaison Officer and Committee Member, Sotirios Karvountzis, said the organisation has been "listening hard" to welfare groups, supermarkets and milk wholesalers.

"We felt it was important to set up an independent advisory and disciplinary body that would represent and help protect the interests of milk producers," Mr Karvountzis said.

"As an association we have always believed that only properly qualified foot trimmers should be trimming the nation’s herds.

"A professional register of properly qualified foot trimmers that farmers could refer to and communicate with in this day and age, is very prescient.”

All fully licensed cattle foot trimmers must take a bi-annual industry-recognised Check Day exam to remain fully qualified and current.

Sotirios Karvountzis commented that this exam and the creation of the Register of Cattle Foot Trimmers will further set a bench mark of quality and confidence on which farmers, welfare groups and all other interested parties will be able to rely.