badgers

The Government agency said Newquay farmer William Salmon had dumped waste at a disused quarry which had interfered with a badger sett

NFU President Tom Bradshaw said: "The success of the bTB eradication strategy is dependent on a range of methods to tackle the disease, including badger vaccination, responsible cattle movements and badger control"

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria, with his parents Kathleen and Henry, wife Michelle and sons Robert and Chris. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

Dairy farmer Susie Mottershead said Joyce Watson's MS comments that dairy farmers with chronic TB should find another business was a kick in the teeth. "Never have I felt the mental health of farmers be so completely disregarded. We are that chronic bTB farm," she said

Livestock farmers in Wales angry after Labour member for Mid and West Wales, Joyce Watson MS said dairy farms with 'perpetual TB should find another business'

With voters expected to go the polls in around 12 months' time, livestock farmers told Farmers Guardian future policy on controlling bTB should not be part of ‘the political debate to be used as a vote winner'

Defra Secretary Therese Coffey made it clear she did not agree with her predecessor’s ‘arbitrary deadline’ on ending the badger cull

A fourth-generation dairy farmer from Pembrokeshire has gone down with bTB after five years of being TB free. He has criticised the Welsh Government for ‘burying their heads in the sand'

Welsh conservative assembly member Janet Finch-Saunders asked Ms Griffiths why there is not an ‘even playing field' when it comes to the bTB testing charts across Wales, England and Scotland

A Fife farmer has been fined £2,000 after deliberately damaging a badger sett.