Letters: 'The bTB battle is one which is beyond our farm gate'

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

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Letters: 'The bTB battle is one which is beyond our farm gate'

After a day of bovine TB frustrations, I sat down to listen to Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths' statement (November 14) on bTB eradication with a mixture of interest and optimism. Every farmer...

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