McConalogue calls for one final push to reach BVD-free status in 2023
The BVD calf tag test remains compulsory for 2021, with positive or inconclusive calves to be isolated and removed promptly. Confirmatory testing of these ‘reactor’ animals is no longer permitted.
One final push to reach BVD-free status in the national cattle herd has been called for — three years after Animal Health Ireland predicted eradication by 2020, in the early years of the BVD Eradication Programme.
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue said, “The programme is at a decisive point, the opportunity to achieve BVD freedom is in reach.
