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Dairy farmer Susie Mottershead said Joyce Watson's MS comments that dairy farmers with chronic TB should find another business was a kick in the teeth. "Never have I felt the mental health of farmers be so completely disregarded. We are that chronic bTB farm," she said

The Government's commitment to continue with the badger cull has been criticised by NFU as 'just warm words' which must be backed up in writing with a policy change

Joyce Watson's comments in the Senedd last week that dairy farms with perpetual TB 'should find another business' sparked fury amongst Welsh farmers and unions

Livestock farmers in Wales angry after Labour member for Mid and West Wales, Joyce Watson MS said dairy farms with 'perpetual TB should find another business'

Wales' Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths said ‘steady progress' was being made in tackling bovine TB, but 'good biosecurity' on-farm was the best way to keep infection out

Ulster ²ÝÁñÉçÇø' Union president said the decision was a 'major blow' for livestock farmers, adding farming families have been on their knees due to this disease for generations

With voters expected to go the polls in around 12 months' time, livestock farmers told ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian future policy on controlling bTB should not be part of ‘the political debate to be used as a vote winner'

NFU deputy president Tom Bradshaw said it was 'something the union had been fearing'

The Centre of Excellence in Aberystwyth want to engage with all stakeholders in a joint endeavour to find new and better ways of combatting bovine tuberculosis

Defra Secretary Therese Coffey made it clear she did not agree with her predecessor’s ‘arbitrary deadline’ on ending the badger cull