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News Podcast: TB, septic tank inspections and fertiliser penalties
Rachel Donovan
The latest farming news from TB herd incidence and septic tank inspections to potential penalties facing farmers who exceed their phosphorus levels.
8 May 2024 News
TB trends worsen on farms
The minister has amended comments aimed at farming organisation's engagement with TB controls through the disease's stakeholder forum.
8 May 2024 Northern Ireland
One in five badgers test positive for TB
Despite the high positive rates, there are concerns that the survey could be under-estimating the extent of bovine TB infections in local wildlife.
Cheddar investment in Northern Ireland
Dale Farm has moved to reward the farmer to further flatten the milk curve, and I presume to increase volumes processed on an annual basis.
8 May 2024 Viewpoints
More questions than answers on TB in cattle
Farmer frustration with bovine TB controls is about much more than a loose comment in a ministerial response to a written parliamentary question.
8 May 2024 Dealer
TB herd incidence now above 5%
A lack of stakeholder engagement on curbing TB spread between cattle is holding up eradication efforts, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has claimed.
7 May 2024 News
New UFU president digs in on bovine TB
The new president of the Ulster Farmers' Union has made clear his position on bovine TB.
1 May 2024 Northern Ireland
News in-brief from Northern Ireland
Weekly round-up of news from across the farming and food industry in NI.
1 May 2024 Northern Ireland
Forestry service costs surge
A very mixed reaction from farmers to the ash dieback compensation announcement.
1 May 2024 Viewpoints
Actual TB spend in 2023 came to €137m
Including farmer's vet fees and estimated Department staffing costs increases the true spend of TB control to almost twice the reported figure.
1 May 2024 News
'Big money' required to eradicate TB
Devon vet, Dick Sibley is a strong advocate for a new approach to bovine TB
24 April 2024 Northern Ireland
Alternative views must not stall TB plan
A detailed plan is already in place in NI to help make progress with bovine TB.
24 April 2024 Northern Ireland