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Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability, Llyr Gruffydd said the experts should advise bTB policy in Wales not the politicians

Reform Wales’ Shadow Cabinet Minister for Food, Farming and Rural Affairs has accused the new Plaid Cymru Government for taking a 'business-as-usual approach', with no major policy change in tackling bovine TB

In the first year of the project, vaccination will be focused in South Oxfordshire, North Worcestershire and North Shropshire

Livestock farmer says delays risk undoing any progress on 'devastating disease'

Experts call for 'tsar-type' figure to oversee policy, rapid vaccination roll-out, further funding and greater co-operation in order to meet 2038 eradication target

Defra's latest quarterly statistics showed over 13,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2024 due to bTB, a 27% increase compared to 2023

Ulster Farmers' Union said the failure to allocate separate funding for TB control, particularly to support wildlife intervention measures, was a 'missed opportunity'

Phase 3 of the field trials will take place on commercial cattle farms in areas of England and Wales, where there is a low incidence of bTB and are set to be completed in 2026/7

UFU said it has been told by Northern Ireland's Chief Veterinary Officer that the current bTB strategy review was still in ‘draft form' and had not yet undergone scrutiny by policy developers

UFU president William Irvine said there was extremely limited focus on the most critical issue – the need for an effective eradication programme addressing all sources of infection