Deborah Brown

Debby qualified as a vet in 1999 and, having worked in mainly farm animal practice for 12 years, left to follow a career advising and providing technical support in health and nutrition to vets, feed advisers and farmers.

She had a particular interest, while in practice, in whole farm management and infectious diseases. This led to her completing several nutrition courses and beginning work reviewing and advising farmers on diets for beef and sheep and then dairy animals.

After leaving practice in 2011, some of the work she had done nationwide on infectious disease and working with farmers from a whole farm approach, led to her joining Advanced Nutrition, following a farmer recommendation of myself to the company. This allowed me to develop further my nutrition knowledge and understanding, and the ability to work with farmers to review diets, lameness, mastitis and other inputs and potential issues on farm.

Debby then spent 2 years working for Phileo as a technical manager and this gave her the opportunity to further understand additives used on farm and the rumen microflora and function. It also gave her the opportunity to work across the UK with various feed suppliers and their farmers to improve productivity and results on farm.

Debby now works for Dugdale Nutrition as their Veterinary Technical Manager which entails supporting the sales team on farm by advising farmers on management, health and nutrition as well as developing the product range available from the company. I am involved with research and development as well as formulations and feed safety.

She is an advisor for Action Johnes, TB, BVD, and a mobility mentor with ROMS qualification. She also recently completed an MSc in One Health.