Beef
28-day grace period facility for TB tests to end tomorrow
Irish herds with a TB test due from tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, onwards will not be eligible to delay their...
Beef
Irish herds with a TB test due from tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, onwards will not be eligible to delay their...
CAP / Schemes
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine was wrong to introduce new TB protocols around the removal of inconclusives...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed rule changes regarding TB testing, which will see animals with...
Agri Politics
Mooted changes made by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the TB Eradication Programme have been criticised....
Beef
Under new measures, an updated TB testing protocol will see the age exemption for calves from TB testing increased from...
N.Ireland
All TB testing will cease in Northern Ireland with immediate effect, the region’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has announced. In...
N.Ireland
A group representing pedigree cattle breeders in Northern Ireland announced plans to commission a report proposing pioneering methods to control...
Beef
National herd incidence for bovine TB (bTB) increased slightly year-on-year as of the end of 2019, according to the latest...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s new agriculture minister has said the region’s spend on Bovine TB is a “bigger scandal” than the botched...
Agri Politics
The European Commission needs to forget about targeting clear herds for 30-day pre-movement TB tests, according to the Irish Cattle...
Agri-Business
Tuberculosis (TB) in cattle and badgers passes between members of the same species at least twice as often than between...
Rural Life
Zoology researchers from Trinity College Dublin, working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the National Parks...
Dairy
Questions have been posed on the efficiency of Ireland’s Bovine TB Eradication Programme by farmers who are currently facing the...
CAP / Schemes
A new regulation on the way from Europe will mean stricter TB testing, meaning many farmers seeking to sell cattle...
Beef
Ireland is facing a funding penalty of €1.6 million from the European Commission as a result of increasing TB herd...
Agri Politics
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association’s (ICSA’s) animal health and welfare chair, Hugh Farrell, has slammed a the findings...
CAP / Schemes
The level of financial supports provided through the bovine TB (bTB) Eradication Programme as compensation should be re-examined, according to...
Beef
Herd incidence for bovine TB (bTB) stood at 3.46% as of September 29, for the third quarter of 2019, according...