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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.Ìý

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.

Unlike previous pandemics or plagues, Covid-19 has happened at a time when the ability to monitor the spread of the disease has been far more advanced than any previous era.

Field trials for a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) BCG cattle vaccine and a skin test have begun at a farm in England, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has announced.Ìý

The Government’s new bovine TB policy could lead to a potential resurgence in the disease across England, undermining years of industry effort to stamp it out, industry chiefs have warned.Ìý