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Chief vet: additional measures needed to prevent TB spread
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Given the trend in the levels of disease in recent years some measures we will have to consider will be difficult, writes Dr June Fanning.
18 December 2024 News
Vets secure extra €2m for TB testing
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.
18 December 2024 Breeding & health
Vets secure extra €2m for TB testing
Adam Woods has more on the rollout of a new veterinary prescription system for vets and farmers.
Over 20% difference in vet bills for TB tests
Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October on TB testing charges.
30 October 2024 Breeding & health
Highest TB testing charges in Connacht
Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October.
30 October 2024 News
€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
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
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
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