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Welsh farming family call out 'heart-wrenching' bTB slaughter policy

The Cornock family from Pembrokeshire said the impact of TB on the farm has become 'much worse' since being put under severe interpretation testing. Their hard has dropped significantly from 338 to 243

Rachael Brown
Chief Reporter
clock • 2 min read
Welsh farming family call out 'heart-wrenching' bTB slaughter policy

Welsh dairy farmers have described the ‘heart-wrenching' scenes of watching healthy, fit and heavily pregnant animals being shot and killed on-farm due to bovine TB. Bovine Tuberculosis The Cornock...

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