Members of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists invited to visit the AFBI research farm in Hillsborough, Co Down, were driven briefly through one of the cattle sheds, but could not set foot in livestock areas. The research institute, which runs a leading lab investigating TB, had its own herd locked up with the disease. Farmers hit by TB everywhere, take heart: if the best experts can’t avoid it, you can’t be blamed.

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