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Farming matters - Phil Latham: "I was uncertain as to whether I could carry on"

In March 2012 I was notified that one of our cows looked like she had bovine TB in her organs after slaughter

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Phil Latham - Cheshire dairy farmer and former member of the Government鈥檚 Bovine TB Partnership
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Phil Latham - Cheshire dairy farmer and former member of the Government鈥檚 Bovine TB Partnership

The herd was put under restriction. After a month we had a second slaughterhouse case. A month later and we had another suspected case and again the clock for getting a result started again on a third...

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