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Highest TB testing charges in Connacht

Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October.

30 October 2024 NEWS
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€80m spent on TB control this year

An estimated €26m of the spend has come from farmers' payments to vets through testing fees.

11 September 2024 NEWS
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No decision on expansion of new TB test rules

New TB testing rules were imposed on farmers in February 2023 for cattle over 36 months.

14 August 2024 NEWS
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New research uncovers link between rainfall and TB in the Burren

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.

14 August 2024 NEWS
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How drugs and TB changed Irish veterinary medicine

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.

14 August 2024 NEWS
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Factories caught with too many TB cattle

A reduction in TB testing on farms is having negative consequences for the local meat trade

17 July 2024 NORTHERN IRELAND