January 21, 2021 2:56 pm
New, unannounced inspections to check that bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) positive animals are being isolated are set to begin in Northern Ireland over the next few weeks.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) announced herds which retain a BVD-positive animal will be visited by DAERA inspectors to confirm compliance with the 2016 BVD Order.
The order requires isolation “within housing to prevent direct or indirect contact with other susceptible animals”.
Herd keepers who have not isolated BVD-positive animals may be prosecuted and, if convicted, may be fined up to £5,000 for a single animal, or up to £1,000/animal if more than five animals are involved.
January 19, 2021 12:45 pm
Some key messages have been outlined for Irish farmers on the issue of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) for 2021 by Animal Health Ireland (AHI).
Issued earlier this month, AHI highlighted that a new Animal Health Law (AHL) will come into force in April; this sets out the requirements for recognition of BVD eradication programmes at EU level, the organisation says.
AHI notes that substantial progress has been made since the start of the national eradication programme.
This, it says, has reached the point where the BVD Implementation Group (BVDIG) plans to apply for recognition of the Irish programme in 2021 and to meet the conditions for freedom by 2023.
it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the major daily product of the intelligence community for the president s for them to be wrong about that stuff is worrying on its face but there s a larger point to this. their explanation for why the president doesn t need this daily intelligence briefing is because it s just raw data, nothing he can really use and besides he s got this guy and this is the guy who makes sense of the intelligence world for the president. this general mike flynn, the national security advisor. he, the white house keeps telling us, he is the one who briefs the president everyday. he tells the president what the president needs to know. forget the briefers from the intelligence community.
presidential daily brief. we looked into this question specifically. we talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us the president s daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence community s experts assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb have long been analytic assessments, not merely raw data. so when the white house says it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to
we talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us the president s daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence community s experts assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb have long been analytic assessments, not merely raw data. so when the white house says it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the