The options for stock rearing, stock outsourcing, and collaboration, become that bit easier after recent changes to Ireland’s brucellosis testing regime.

Pre-movement brucellosis testing on both sides of the border will end today.

The whole island of Ireland may now be regarded as being free from brucellosis, said Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill last week, after the European Commission approved the north’s application for Official Brucellosis Free (OBF) status.