Bovine TB

The Welsh Conservatives have said fresh data showing an increase in new herd incidents and cattle slaughterings shows no progress has been made in tackling Bovine TB in Wales.

The Welsh Government has been accused of seeking to slash compensation payouts to farmers whose cattle go down with bovine TB.

Genetic contact tracing to identify the source of a bTB outbreak could be another tool in the armoury for managing the disease, scientists have claimed.

The Welsh Government has been urged to review the cap on compensation for animals slaughtered under the bovine TB eradication programme.

Investment in controlling bovine TB at the farm level and badger cull licences were top of the agenda when Ceredigion farmers hosted a visit from Member of the Senedd, Elin Jones.

The bTB positive alpaca was culled at the end of August following a campaign by his owner to save him

English farmers can tap into free bovine TB advice and increased trained vet visits regardless of their risk status, following Defra granting the TB Advisory Service (TBAS) Successor Contract to Farmcare Solutions. 

Is there a case for private bTB testing in cattle in GB? The answer isn’t straightforward.

How warped has this country’s sense of reason become that an alpaca named Geronimo finds itself at the centre of a debate over the bovine TB (bTB) cull policy?

A dairy farmer has said it ‘beggars belief’ that the media have launched a campaign to save a single bTB-positive alpaca while ignoring the 160,000 cattle which have been destroyed during the 4-year fight to keep him alive.