TB Entry Level Membership scheme focus on biosecurity | Somerset County Gazette
The focus is on biosecurity basics CHECS is focussing on biosecurity 'basics' to help farmers reduce the risk of bovine TB (bTB) in its new TB Entry Level Membership. bTB is the UK’s most challenging animal health and welfare issue, costing farms around £18,600 per breakdown and in some cases more. “Farmers often think that TB is uncontrollable, but biosecurity is a key tool in tackling it,” says Keith Cutler MRCVS, chair of the CHECS technical committee. “It is far more than just having a boot dip on the yard; but it can be easily implemented and doesn’t have to be expensi...
Source: somersetcountygazette.co.uk