Boehringer Ingelheim said they would have loved the vaccine rollout to be 'quicker', but there has been a 鈥榟uge shift in both the disease and demand picture'
Bluetongue virus itself poses the greatest threat to breeding performance, not the vaccine.
Victoria Atkins said Defra needed to 'drastically improve' the speed and quantity of communication to farmers, as well as accelerating testing and vaccine availability
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NSA said while the bluetongue vaccine offered another tool for farmers, it would not protect livestock totally
It is estimated the dairy industry will need to spend 拢3.9 billion over the next 10 years to improve its climate resilience, which he said worked out at around 拢500,000 for each farm 鈥� or an additional 2.4 pence per litre
24-year-old Exeter young farmer Elle Slade said it made sense to go into calf rearing due to the low acreage requirement. She said her new venture was her way of bringing something back to the family farm