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Badger culling General Election pledge was 'like a knife between the shoulder blade'

NFU National Livestock Board chair David Barton said the description of badger culling in the eradication of Bovine TB as 'ineffective' in the Labour Party manifesto was 'personal' and 'deeply upsetting' to farmers and businesses

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"It was ill-judged and ill-advised." (NFU)
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"It was ill-judged and ill-advised." (NFU)

Farmers have been left hurt and frustrated by the wording of Labour's General Election plans to end badger culling. NFU National Livestock Board chair David Barton, who farms a beef suckler herd in...

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