Treat the cow, not the herd. This agtech startup wants to prevent overuse of antibiotics: ForbesAgTech by leah_rosenbaum
industry—in the United States, more than 70% of antibiotics are used on farms.
Enter Advanced Animal Diagnostics , a North Carolina-based startup that creates technology to detect diseases like mastitis, an inflammation of the breast tissue in cows, allowing farmers to reduce the number of sick animals they need to treat and make sure that antibiotics are only used when necessary.
“We can not only save their lives, we can enhance productivity, and we can store the use of precious antibiotics by targeting them just to the animals who need them,” says Joy Drach, president and CEO of AAD at the Forbes Indianapolis AgTech Summit. AAD was one of five companies that participated in a startup pitch challenge at the summit on Wednesday.
AAD, which began working with cattle, began sharing trial results in 2017 of a device that can detect high white blood cell counts in cows by using just a few drops of blood. The test, which has yet to go to market, can inform farmers whether or not to give select cattle antibiotics, instead of giving medication to the whole pen. Now, says Drach, it’s planning to bring similar technology to the poultry industry. AAD has raised $42 million in funding, according to Pitchbook.
There are other companies in the livestock diagnostic space, including Precision Diagnostics, Zoetis and IDEXX Laboratories. These companies have a much wider range of tests compared to AAD, but mostly focus on veterinary care and pregnancy tests for cattle, goats and sheep. None has a specific test to look for the coccidiosis parasite in poultry, AAD’s next venture.
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