Exotic Disease Cost Must Not Fall to Farmers ; in His Column Last Week Daily Press Farming Editor Chris Rundle Took the National Farmers' Union to Task for Partially Accepting Defra's Proposals to Load the Costs of Animal Health On to Farmers When Other Organisations Remain Resolutely Opposed to the Idea.

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But, as Peter Kendall, the union's president explains, the change of regime offers more than a new raft of expense for farmers, it is an opportunity to overhaul and improve the efficiency of the entire animal health regime in this country

Last week's article by Chris Rundle grossly misrepresented my own and the NFU's position on "responsibility and cost sharing" - the term used to describe the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' plans to get the livestock industry to fund the cost of disease prevention, monitoring and control.

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Exotic Disease Cost Must Not Fall to Farmers ; in His Column Last Week Daily Press Farming Editor Chris Rundle Took the National Farmers' Union to Task for Partially Accepting Defra's Proposals to Load the Costs of Animal Health On to Farmers When Other Organisations Remain Resolutely Opposed to the Idea.

No one has fought harder or for longer than the NFU on this issue and if anyone had read our response to the Defra consultation they would have seen we clearly and unambiguously stated we are fundamentally opposed to cost...

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