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TB risk letter to farmers 'is a ridiculous and weak response' - IFA
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) animal health chairperson Pat Farrell has said that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
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The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) animal health chairperson Pat Farrell has said that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
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The TB Forum will reconvene at the end of this month, August, according to a representative of one farm organisation....
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots set out plans to formally include “wildlife intervention” in a new bovine TB...
Agri-Business
‘Ground-breaking’ bovine TB vaccine trials are set to get underway in England and Wales as a result of a major breakthrough...
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The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Dara Calleary, “must insist that no new measures or decisions on the...
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A newly-developed individualised letter, providing TB-related information for herds, will issue to farmers over the coming weeks, the Department of...
Rural Life
The “narrative” on the TB Eradication Programme has been described as a “reprimand calculated to whip farmers into submission”. That’s...
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A “marked increase” has been noted in the national herd incidence for bovine TB (bTB) for the first three months...
Rural Life
There are mounting calls for TB testing to be pushed back by up to three months in the interests of...
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Independent consultants will undertake a review of on-farm market valuation (OFMV), which determines the compensation paid for cattle lost to...
Rural Life
The new president of Veterinary Ireland has stated that “eradication means eradication”, speaking about the efforts to make Ireland TB-free....
Rural Life
Zoology researchers from Trinity College Dublin, working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the National Parks...
Agri Politics
The current TB Eradication Programme remains the single largest animal health cost for Irish farmers every year, amounting to a...
Agri Politics
Focus must be firmly kept on eradicating TB – and “repeated efforts” to move away from this primary focus is...
Rural Life
The animal health chairperson for one of the country’s leading farmer groups has claimed that “there’s no respect given for...
Agri Politics
Proposals by the TB Forum to increase TB controls and costs on farms have been rejected by the Irish Farmers’...
CAP / Schemes
The submission of the report from the TB Forum has been welcomed by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine,...
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The TB Stakeholder forum has issued a report that includes a recommendation to “tighten controls and increase obligations on farms...