Rural Life
'If you take TB out of the debate, deer are an economic issue for farmers'
If you take the TB issue out of the debate, deer are an economic issue to farmers because they’re grazing...
Rural Life
If you take the TB issue out of the debate, deer are an economic issue to farmers because they’re grazing...
Rural Life
Farmers’ hands are tied when it comes to the deer problem in Co. Wicklow, Tom Stephenson, an Irish Cattle and...
Beef
A team of Chinese scientists have claimed that they have cloned cattle with an increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis (TB)....
Beef
The Department of Agriculture has been called on to directly inform farmers if their herds are restricted because of TB after...
Beef
The final report from the TB Strategic Partnership Group (TBSPG) in Northern Ireland will drive a new debate on how...
N.Ireland
A badger control policy should be implemented in Northern Ireland to reduce the overall level of infection in the badger population,...
Beef
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has said he has no plans to introduce two annual...
N.Ireland
The Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland, Michelle McIlveen has reiterated her commitment to eradicate TB in Northern Ireland. “Bovine...
Beef
The Department of Agriculture intends to deploy a full badger vaccination strategy as soon as robust scientific evidence becomes available,...
Beef
Cattle farmers in Co. Wicklow are in dire straits when it comes to TB outbreaks, according to IFA’s Tom Short....
Beef
In order to eradicate Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) by 2030, the Department of Agriculture might introduce two annual TB tests. Speaking to...
Rural Life
A farmer, who previously pleaded guilty to two counts under the Wildlife Act, has claimed that he shot three deer...
Beef
Over 14,000 Irish cattle have reacted positively to TB tests carried out on farms between January and October of this...
Other
The Department of Agriculture is proposing to fund a pilot project on the use of deer fencing, designed to alleviate...
Rural Life
To date this year, 4,610 deer hunting licences have been issued by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs....
Environment
Further measures, including seven new culling licences and tighter cattle controls, have been announced in the England today as part...
Agri-Business
Department of Agriculture receipts from bovine diseases levies amounted to €6.52m in 2015, compared with €6.63m in 2014. Bovine disease...
Dairy
Badgers prefer land more than 50m from cattle and TB is more than likely spread between the two species in...