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The impact of TB in Northern Ireland

*Please note viewers may find some of this content distressing*

"The evening before the cows went, my five-year old son in the house asked me…'What field are the cows going to tomorrow?' It would absolutely break you to try and tell him…"

Behind farm gates, bTB has been destroying family farms with breeding that goes back generations for far too long. Wanting to show the devastating aftermath of TB, a dairy family from Co. Fermanagh gave the UFU permission to capture the heart-breaking reality of losing an entire herd to the disease.

Tackling bTB in all its hosts is essential so that no more farming families have to suffer the excruciating heartache seen in this video.