This start of the year is an opportunity to present to you our meetings for 2025. As usual now, before each deadline, a specific communication (article, SMS, website, email, etc.) will inform you of the event.
Your GDS Creuse Mémo 2025, to support you
The 2025 edition, sent to all our members at the start of the year, is based around our “ GDS Creuse toolbox“. In collaboration with veterinarians and other partners, these elements have been developed according to your needs and requests. Each tool is presented to you briefly with the person responsible for the file to contact. For more complete information, you will find the article and/or the corresponding file on our site www.gdscreuse.fr .
Actions carried out by GDS Creuse and its subsidiary Farago Creuse
“Open house” day on March 8, 2025: since 2011, we have been inviting you to come and meet the teams supported by the administrators of GDS Creuse. This day aims to be a place for meetings, exchanges and conviviality. This 13e edition will be marked by the 30th anniversary of our subsidiary, which became Farago Creuse. Now is the time to meet your sector technician, discover our solutions for the health protection of your livestock (fencing, restraint, biosecurity equipment, etc.), in a welcoming setting and with special commercial offers.
Disinfection of buildings: GDS Creuse helps livestock disinfection projects by up to 50%. Do not hesitate to use this tool, especially if you have been confronted with a pathological episode.
At the beginning of April, the general assembly with assessments and orientations on the program
This annual meeting brings together your cantonal delegates, voting members of this general assembly, and our partners to take stock of the past year, present perspectives and define the main lines of action. As with the 3 boards of directors spread over the year, contact your cantonal delegates for any feedback. This will also be an opportunity to thank our President Philippe Monteil for his 35 years of investment in GDS Creuse and the GDS network.
In the fall, information meetings for all breeders
These information meetings by sector, intended for all breeders, take place every 3 years. They will take place in November and will see the election of your new cantonal delegates. As in 2022, the challenge is to make these meetings places for meetings and exchanges, with high participation in conviviality. Breeders, veterinarians and other partners will be invited. Here too, let us know the topics you would like to discuss during these meetings.
An action plan in consultation with your veterinarians…
Your veterinarians are an essential link in the health management of your herd and constitute an essential relay for the use of the tools developed in conjunction with them and made available to you. We provide third-party payment for acts defined by a bipartite committee (prophylaxis, movements). Specific information is dedicated to them: visit to each Creuse office, provision of our weekly article, annual information day, timely information based on current events, etc.
… technical and financial support for all farms
For farms facing particular cases or significant episodes of pathology, we carry out a farm visit in conjunction with your veterinarian. In 2024, 16 breeders will benefit from this type of intervention. As part of the full third-party payment for ruminants, the Terana Creuse laboratory invoices us for all analyzes “ ruminants » for our members. We will re-invoice them to you at the rate negotiated by GDS Creuse, after deduction of any aid (Departmental Council, GDS Creuse, FRGDS Nouvelle-Aquitaine, etc.). This system has been extended to the PCR FCO and MHE, with a significant financial impact. Paying your GDS Creuse invoice quickly allows you to continue to benefit from these advantageous rates. Throughout the year,www.gdscreuse.frbecause information is essential in monitoring your breeding…
With nearly 100,000 visits annually, you consult our site regularly. It will have a new look in 2025. You will find health news, the list of farms with favorable paratuberculosis status and a lot of technical information (1 article per week, descriptions of diseases or farm syndromes, control and prevention plans …). Subscribing to our weekly newsletter confirms its success with now nearly 2,000 subscribers. For those who are not yet subscribed, go to the site to register or provide us with your email address, and remember that this subscription is free.
… with your personalized access to your health data via WebGDS…
WebGDS is a Web application where you find your private space with a simple internet connection and personal identifiers. You can consult the analysis results and health alerts for your farm, the health status of your herd and your animals. You can print the BVD “Non IPI Cattle” certificates you need and your pre-filled Livestock Health Report, updated for the period of your choice and whenever you want. More than 1,100 breeders benefit from it, if you have not yet done so, contact us to obtain your access codes.
…on-demand training on any subject related to health management…
Interventions can be carried out at the request of a sector (requests from a group of breeders, specific or particularly important health news, etc.) or in connection with other structures (GDA, JA, production organizations, unions, etc.). A module “FCO – MHE, what solutions for me?» is proposed at the start of the year. We support the new settlers (21 hour course, visit to each new settler). We work at the Ahun Agricultural High School during health days or in the training courses for Specialization Contracts in suckler cattle and pig farming. We are present at the main events (Terre en fête, Livestock Summit, etc.) to meet you. Let us know your wishes directly or via your cantonal delegates, your veterinarians and your other contacts with our partners…
Strong involvement in local, regional and national structures
GDS Creuse is the coordinator of the Departmental Operational Unit (CDO) for the prevention of animal abuse. We participate in the work of the beekeeping GDS. We represent the FRGDS Nouvelle-Aquitaine in professional organizations and contribute to the missions of GDS France through our participation in technical working groups on BVD, paratuberculosis, optimization of prophylaxis or actions on small ruminants and pigs. .
A continuation of the mobilization of all for individual and collective interest
For more than 70 years, with our experience serving all livestock farms, through our missions, we have adapted our action and will continue to advance it according to changes in livestock, your needs and regulations, while maintaining the fundamental bases of the collective health fight, essential for its success. We remain at your disposal and wish you a very happy new year 2025.
