Agri Politics
Officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) cannot yet provide a clear timeline for a new TB control plan.
Representatives from DAFM and the TB 2030 Stakeholder Forum will go before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture.
Beef
One issue many livestock farmers are anxious of when buying-in cattle is the risk of Bovine TB being present in the bought-in animal.
New EU regulations on TB testing, which were due to come into effect from next Wednesday, will not actually be implemented straight away.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being called on to allow farmers to voluntarily remove inconclusives with compensation.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has announced that it will move forward with recommendations on inconclusive TB tests.
Apart from the 'on-farm' facets of the strategy, another key point is how the new programme will be paid for.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has published the new Bovine TB (bTB) Eradication Strategy.
Rural Life
The TB Stakeholder forum has been criticised as a "vehicle" for the Department of Agriculture to impose its views, according to the IFA.
The 2030 TB Stakeholder Forum is set to reconvene next week, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed to AgriLand.
There are no immediate plans to include the Beef Plan Movement around the table of the TB 2030 Stakeholder Forum, it has been stated.
Farmers took to the streets to protest against a decision to not allow the Beef Plan Movement to be represented at the TB Forum.
The Beef Plan Movement has staged its first official protest today, in response to a decision not to allow it to participate in the TB Forum.
The Beef Plan Movement will stage its first official protest outside the gates at the Department of Agriculture's Backweston Campus tomorrow.
The Beef Plan Movement's request for inclusion in the TB 2030 Stakeholder Forum has been turned down by the Department of Agriculture.
