Bovine TB Costing Farmers over £96 Million per Year, According to New Report

NI farmers hit with £96m yearly bill from bovine TB, study finds

Bovine TB is draining more than £96 million a year from Northern Ireland’s farmers, exposing the scale of a crisis.

Bovine TB costing NI farmers more than £96 million a year as landmark report lays bare scale of crisis

William Irvine, UFU President, Richard King, The Andersons Centre, Ian Stevenson, NI Dairy Council, Colin Smith, LMC, Glenn Cuddy, UFU deputy president, and Michael Haverty, The Andersons Centre. Northern Ireland’s farming families are shouldering an estimated £96 million in indirect costs every year  as a result of bovine Tuberculosis, according to a landmark new independent report launched today, laying bare the scale of a crisis that continue…

Report: £96m indirect costs borne by farmers over bTB

The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU), together with the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) and the NI Dairy Council, today (Thursday, April 16) launched a landmark independent study into the indirect costs of bovine tuberculosis (bTB). Stakeholders from across the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland agricultural industry, alongside representatives from Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and the Andersons Centre pre…

Bovine TB costing farmers over £96 million per year, according to new report

The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU), together with the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) and the NI Dairy Council, today launched a landmark independent study into the indirect costs of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) at the Stormont Hotel.