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Deer culling is the only TB control measure backed by most farmers recently surveyed.
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Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October.
The Department expects that current disease levels will see around 40,000 reactors removed over 2024.
The Department stated that reactor removal times are keeping pace, despite the 'logistical challenges' associated with removing 'considerably more animals' than recent years.
The IFA has called on the Minister for Agriculture and Government colleagues to outline their position on TB eradication.
The latest data on TB reactors has been published by DAERA and shows results to April 2024
Researchers have identified a possible link between high levels of rainfall or a factor associated with rainfall and TB levels in the Burren up to 2020.
Weekly round-up of news from the farming industry in Northern Ireland.
The Department’s TB figures continue to show a worsening of the disease’s trends in herds.
