
Beef
Scottish MP urges farmers to vaccinate against bluetongue
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today (Friday, July 4) backed calls for farmers to vaccinate their livestock against...
Beef
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today (Friday, July 4) backed calls for farmers to vaccinate their livestock against...
Dairy
A new Bluetongue Movements Checker has been created to help farmers navigate the bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) restrictions that are...
N.Ireland
A fresh warning has been issued that bluetongue disease could arrive in Ireland before the summer is out, according to...
N.Ireland
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has today published its Disease Control Framework for Northern Ireland for...
N.Ireland
Bluetongue disease will, inevitably, reach the island of Ireland. And this may well happen sooner rather than later. This is...
Agri-Business
The government in Wales has confirmed changes to its policy in relation to bluetongue virus controls which will come into...
Sheep
A campaign has been launched encouraging farmers in England and Wales to consult their vet about vaccinating their herd or...
N.Ireland
Campbell Tweed, a sheep farmer in Co. Antrim, believes that Irish lamb prices will remain strong over the coming months....
Dairy
Numerous animal diseases are now having a serious impact on the production potential of the global dairy sector, according to...
Sheep
The UK’s chief veterinary officer has announced that the country is now in the seasonal vector low period for bluetongue...
Dairy
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today (Sunday, December 15) confirmed that the total number of...
Agri-Business
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is condemning the illegal importation of livestock into Northern Ireland from Britain due to the...
Rural Life
New insights from an industry wide BTV-3 impact survey, along with recent clinical research by the Animal and Plant Health...
Dairy
The total number of bluetongue (BTV-3) cases in Great Britain has risen to 157, with 155 in England and two...
Agri-Business
There is now a general licence available for bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) vaccine covering the whole of England, according to...
Rural Life
Certain movements are not permitted in a bluetongue zone or from premises which have been served a bluetongue premises or...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir, has warned that the first case of bluetongue in...
Sheep
Investigations are continuing in Wales after bluetongue was detected in three sheep moved to Gwynedd from the east of England....