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James Robinson on bTB: "APHA are forcing us into an endless cycle of testing and killing our cows"

Cumbrian dairy farmer and Farmers Guardian In Your Field writer, James Robinson, provides an update on the bovine TB situation on his farm and his growing frustration at not being able to identify the root cause

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James Robinson on bTB: "APHA are forcing us into an endless cycle of testing and killing our cows"

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is a widely circulated quote, often misattributed to Albert Einstein, but it likely originated in the early 1980s...

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