Agri-Business
Department collected €6.5m in bovine disease levies in 2015
Department of Agriculture receipts from bovine diseases levies amounted to €6.52m in 2015, compared with €6.63m in 2014. Bovine disease...
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...
Agri-Business
A new multi-million euro research project to breed cattle with enhanced disease resistance is among a number of major research...
Environment
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has said that his Department fully complies with the terms and conditions of licences issued...
Other
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed has defended the rates of compensation for suckler cows under the TB eradication scheme....
N.Ireland
The third year of the badger Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) Project is to begin in a 100km area...
Beef
Research carried out in the University of Nottingham has developed a new an inexpensive method of detecting TB in cattle,...
Rural Life
Some 83% of respondents to an Agriland poll have said that farmers should be allowed to shoot deer on their...
Rural Life
Farmers should be allowed to shoot deer on their own lands, but only where deer are causing a menace to...
Beef
A newly released report on Bovine TB in Ireland has been published by the Department of Agriculture. Incidences of TB...
Beef
New TB compensation rates will come into effect from May 1, increasing the rate of payment for dairy cows from...
Agri-Business
While incidences of TB levels in cattle herds last year fell on 2014 levels thousands of farms were locked up...
Agri Politics
The UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is on course to declare half of England TB-free by...
N.Ireland
The incidence of Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) in Northern Ireland, based on the number of infected animals identified at time of...
Beef
Incidences of TB levels in cattle herds last year fell on 2014 levels, the latest figures from the Department of...
Agri-Business
Proposed changes to the Income Supplement scheme for farmers losing animals as TB reactors have been broadly welcomed by farming organisations....
Agri-Business
All general TB testing should be temporally deferred in all flood affected areas across the country, according to Eamon O Cuiv,...
Agri Politics
The European Union has committed close to €161m to combat animal diseases and zoonoses in 2016. This is to support eradication,...