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If you want to know what's going on - and going wrong - inside an organisation, listen to the people on the ground who are directly affected.
That is why the Western Daily Press prefers today to give greater credence to the concerns of farmers and the anguish of Defra front- line staff who are wrestling with a computer system for handling bovine TB records for cattle that is clearly unfit for purpose, rather than swallow the official line from the department's spokesman. Astonishingly, one Defra office worker in the South West told farming editor Peter Hall this week that he and his staff were being told to "lie" to farmers about the new SAM computer system and that around 1,000 TB test charts - which have a huge impact on the ability of farmers to manage their stock - had "jammed" and would have to be input manually.See the full content of this document
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Meanwhile, one frustrated farmer in the region revealed a catalogue of errors with his own cattle rep...
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