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Map: TB herd incidence for 2019 ‘highest recorded since 2013’

February 17, 2020

National herd incidence for bovine TB (bTB) increased slightly year-on-year as of the end of 2019, according to the latest statistics from the…

Poots: Northern Ireland’s TB spend is a ‘bigger scandal than RHI’

February 3, 2020

N.Ireland

Northern Ireland’s new agriculture minister has said the region’s spend on Bovine TB is a “bigger scandal” than the botched Renewable Heat Incentive…

Commission ‘needs to forget about’ pre-movement TB testing clear herds

January 24, 2020

Agri Politics

The European Commission needs to forget about targeting clear herds for 30-day pre-movement TB tests, according to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’…

UK study finds TB 10 times more likely to transmit from badgers to cows than in reverse

December 19, 2019

Agri-Business

Tuberculosis (TB) in cattle and badgers passes between members of the same species at least twice as often than between cow and badger,…

Trinity badger research could ‘minimise spread of TB’

November 19, 2019

Rural Life

Zoology researchers from Trinity College Dublin, working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service…

TB-stricken farmers raise questions over department efficiency in tackling TB

November 17, 2019

Dairy

Questions have been posed on the efficiency of Ireland’s Bovine TB Eradication Programme by farmers who are currently facing the stark consequences of…

Smaller movement windows on the way under draft TB testing regulation

November 15, 2019

CAP / Schemes

A new regulation on the way from Europe will mean stricter TB testing, meaning many farmers seeking to sell cattle will soon be…

Ireland facing EU funding penalty of €1.6 million for TB programme

November 12, 2019

Beef

Ireland is facing a funding penalty of €1.6 million from the European Commission as a result of increasing TB herd incidence, according to…

ICSA slams findings of recent TB review

October 31, 2019

Agri Politics

The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association’s (ICSA’s) animal health and welfare chair, Hugh Farrell, has slammed a the findings of a Department…

Financial supports for TB eradication ‘should be re-examined’

October 29, 2019

CAP / Schemes

The level of financial supports provided through the bovine TB (bTB) Eradication Programme as compensation should be re-examined, according to the 2019 spending…

Map: Department reveals latest TB herd incidence levels

October 29, 2019

Beef

Herd incidence for bovine TB (bTB) stood at 3.46% as of September 29, for the third quarter of 2019, according to the Department…

Beef Plan request to attend Oireachtas TB meeting denied

October 9, 2019

Beef

A formal request made by the Beef Plan Movement to attend the recent Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine meeting on…

Oireachtas committee to discuss TB Eradication Programme

September 30, 2019

Agri Politics

The Bovine TB Eradication Programme will be the key item of discussion when the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine meets tomorrow,…

Changes to draft TB regulations ‘to the benefit of farmers’ – Creed

August 12, 2019

Agri Politics

New bovine TB rules are in the Delegated Act (DA) on Part II of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 on surveillance, eradication programmes and free…

TB eradication concerns: ‘We must see the wood from the trees’

August 6, 2019

Agri Politics

Focus must be firmly kept on eradicating TB – and “repeated efforts” to move away from this primary focus is a concern, according…

Map: TB incidence ‘marginally higher’ for first 6 months of 2019

August 2, 2019

Beef

There has been a marginal increase in the herd incidence levels of bovine TB (bTB) recorded for the first six months of 2019…

Video: Co. Wicklow farmer describes his constant battle with TB

July 30, 2019

Beef

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a serious and costly issue which has affected almost every farm in the country in some way or another.…

TB Forum cost and control proposals rejected by IFA

July 22, 2019

Agri Politics

Proposals by the TB Forum to increase TB controls and costs on farms have been rejected by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). IFA…

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