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Dairy Matters - Phil Latham: "I see no prospect for rolling out badger vaccination across the endemic area"

So my time on Defra's Bovine TB Partnership has unexpectedly come to an end. My three-year term ended and was disappointingly, for me, not extended

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I feel in good company, the only other person to have enjoyed the same early exit was Dick Sibley, a well-known and well-intentioned South West cattle vet. Both of us were outspoken, largely because...

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