Farming Today This Week

Anna Hill looks into the human cost of bovine TB for farming families trapped within the cycle of the disease.

For years, even decades, it has become a never-ending nightmare. The latest government figures show that, since January 2009, new cases of bovine tuberculosis in cattle have fallen by 5.3 per cent compared with the same period last year. However, there are still thousands of farms, especially in the south and west, which are caught in the bovine TB trap. We hear more from those farmers and their families in one of the worst affected areas of the country, Worcestershire.