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Adam Woods exclusive details of a new deal which will see vets getting an extra €12.8 million in state funding over the next three years.
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Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October.
An estimated €26m of the spend has come from farmers' payments to vets through testing fees.
New TB testing rules were imposed on farmers in February 2023 for cattle over 36 months.
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.
Up to the late 1940s, farm animals were generally treated by the local ‘handy man’ and vets were seen as no more than ‘horse doctors’, writes John Flaherty.
A reduction in TB testing on farms is having negative consequences for the local meat trade
