LATEST ARTICLES
Beef
Over 20% difference in vet bills for TB tests
Adam Woods
Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October on TB testing charges.
30 October 2024 News
Highest TB testing charges in Connacht
Adam Woods has the results from an Irish Farmers Journal survey completed in October.
11 September 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.
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
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
Farmer Writes: once bitten, twice shy, third time a fool?
There's been little let up in the cold winds this summer, as Tommy Moyles reflects on the challenges they provide and on news from the Netherlands, which could prove challenging for Irish farmers.
10 July 2024 Farmer Writes
Over 30,000 TB reactors removed in year up to March
A worsening of reactor numbers and TB herd incidence trends over 2023 shows no sign of abating.
12 June 2024 News
Two vets censured over TB testing misconduct
The allegations against one vet related to him failing to test adequately or at all one or more animals when conducting TB tests on herds.
12 June 2024 News
No routine TB testing of badger roadkill
Only 61 road kill badgers were tested for TB by the Department of Agriculture in 2023.
5 June 2024 News