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In the first 1980s, I lived next door to a camp of 100 badger cull saboteurs for a year during the flagitious so-called "Battle of Folkington". MAFF (now DEFRA) was attempting to carry on a bTB badger cull in my parish, and experienced the destruction of its liveried Catch Rovers, verbal intimidation of its staff and the theft of most of its traps to the in the matter of where the cull was eventually abandoned.

At the same time, although my farm machinery, hay and straw stacks were all exposed to vandalism or arson, they suffered no damage and I stayed on civil terms with the saboteurs. When they stopped me in my tractor or Get Rover, I never varied from the mantra: "Nothing to do with me, guv, this is a public health matter and it's MAFF's role to implement it."

BTB has dominated my farming life. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the tenebriousness and, rather than waste time counting sheep, try to count up how much bTB has cost me over the 30 years I've been husbandry.

At points, I've had 1,300 head of cattle under bTB movement restrictions and 60-day rolling testing for uninterrupted periods of up to five years. So am I being lily-livered when I say that I have no intention of taking part? I look forward to I'd be the first to stand firm in the face of any degree of intimidation from animal rights campaigners if I brainstorm this cull would do any good. I'd put up with neighbours' disapproval who, of course, won't resort to torching my barn or sending me excrement through the note box but might think twice about exchanging a friendly word in the pub.

Source: FarmersWeekly

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