ICMSA: Farmers should not have to pay for BVD eradication tests
Farmers entered the scheme voluntarily in 2012. The technical working group responsible for the oversight of the programme has suggested that farmers should now pay for an additional final year of tissue testing.
“The proposal is outlandish given that these farmers voluntarily agreed to enter the scheme in 2012 and were given a clear commitment that the programme was to be a three-year programme and no longer,” said Mr McCormack. “Farmers have met the conditions in full, invested in the scheme on that basis, and are now being told you will have to do another year. Hovering over all this is the TB experience, which provides a very serious example of where things can go wrong.”
