An £5.7million funding package to help farmers tackle a damaging cattle disease has been announced by the Farming Minister George Eustice today. The highly contagious disease, Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), costs UK farmers an estimated £60 million per year. It impacts animal welfare within affected herds and reduces farm productivity and profitability. Available in England for three years through the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), the funding will enable farm

The operational requirements of Phase II are: Members of the NJMP require their associated farmers to obtain annually over three years beginning 1st January 2017 a signed declaration by a BCVA Johne’s Certified Veterinary Adviser that they will be implementing one of the six strategies specified by the National Johne’s Management Plan. (The six control strategies remain unchanged from Phase I) In 2018 and 2019 the declaration would confirm that the farmer at the time of the c