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Opinion: Why should farmers pay the price for APHA's £600,000 blunder?

Farmers Guardian's chief reporter, Rachael Brown questions why the government continues to pursue farmers for TB compensation repayments, when it was not their fault

Rachael Brown
Chief Reporter
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Opinion: Why should farmers pay the price for APHA's £600,000 blunder?

Over three hundred livestock farmers are being asked to foot the bill for the Animal and Plant Health (APHA) agencies' botched arithmetic. Read now: Defra to invoice farmers over bTB compensation error...

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