Farm vets and campaigners clash over badger culling results.

The farming industry has hit back at claims that badger culling is not working to tackle bovine TB. In the original Somerset cull zone, OTFw incidence has fallen from 25% in 2012 - a year before culling started - to 12.1% after year five of the culls (2018). Defra and the NFU remain confident that badger culling, as part of a comprehensive TB eradication programme for England, is helping to deliver an overall reduction in cattle TB. [Extracted from the article]