It comes as bTB incidents on farms in Northern Ireland are at their highest level in over 20 years.
Bovine tuberculosis incidents on farms in Northern Ireland are at their highest level in over 20 yearsBovine tuberculosis tests across Northern Ireland have been stopped.
"We tried to get into conversation with Daera about the contract and highlight the areas that we had concern about in the old contract for several years," he said. An interim contract between Daera and vets has been proposed - a six-month contract to allow bTB testing to be restarted as soon as possible.
"So I guess we're making it clear to Daera that if this hiccup in testing is not any fault of the farmers, then there certainly should be no issue around cross compliance."
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