Chris Aukland is a wholistic Veterinary Surgeon with more than 30 years experience in farm consultancy and small animal surgery. He leads the livestock health programs for Whole Health Agriculture and is passionate about providing advice, support and education to farmers who wish to incorporate natural and alternative health approaches into their farm health management. Together, Chris Aukland and Jackie Pearce-Dickens, head up the teaching team at Whole Health Agriculture’s online Learning Centre which helps farmers worldwide learn and adopt farmer-tested, natural medicine and whole health systems. Whole Health Agriculture is committed to supporting farmers to become ‘citizen scientists’ to record data and measure outcomes that demonstrate that homeopathy and other complementary and alternative medicines have a credible role to play in the future of farm health.

JAHC 2024 Sessions:
ON DEMAND
Real Health on Our Plates: How A Homeopathic Approach is Helping Farmers

In livestock farming, natural and traditional medicines and methodologies have been long overlooked as salutogenic solutions to the challenges of infectious disease and parasite control, while we are now witnessing global, catastrophic effects imposed on environmental and human health by overuse of antibiotics and synthetic anthelmintics. This session explores the results of a survey of over 220 livestock farmers, which showed homeopathy and other alternative modalities achieving significant reductions in antibiotic and anthelmintic use, resulting greater herd health and less disease as reported by farmers. Furthermore, when farmers apply homeopathic remedies prophylactically according to protocols based on prevention and early intervention, we start to see consistent, sustainable improvements on measurable data such as national milk records, live birth rates, cull rates, stock replacement rates, and disease rates.