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Calves to be exempted from TB testing up to 120 days – IFA

April 1, 2020

Under new measures, an updated TB testing protocol will see the age exemption for calves from TB testing increased from 42 days up…

TB testing suspended in Northern Ireland

March 31, 2020

N.Ireland

All TB testing will cease in Northern Ireland with immediate effect, the region’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has announced. In a statement, Minister…

Pedigree group to propose radical TB eradication trials in Northern Ireland

February 21, 2020

N.Ireland

A group representing pedigree cattle breeders in Northern Ireland announced plans to commission a report proposing pioneering methods to control bovine TB. Speaking…

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

February 17, 2020

Beef

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…