bovine btb

But farming leaders urge caution and question size, scale and location of trial held in cull area.

Industry issues cautious welcome to new Minister but warns SFS must be top of the agenda

This week's letters from FG readers

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

Farmers need to plan their cattle buying policy carefully to help keep Scotland free of bovine TB, with an increasing demand from farmers in England for Scottish breeding stock.