Inside Track - latest update from our President 17 Dec 2020
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Enhanced wildlife control measures and more detailed investigations into on farm breakdowns are understood to be included in a new bovine TB eradication strategy agreed between farm organisations and the Department of Agriculture.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue said the agreement marks an important step in building on our collective efforts to reduce TB levels to the benefit of Irish farmers.
It comes as the pace of deterioration has accelerated in 2020. Herd incidence at 4.35% is now at its highest level since 2012 while reactor numbers at 22,700 are back at 2009 rates. Relative to 2019, an additional 13 herds per week experienced a TB restriction in 2020.