Country diary: A TB scare is still hanging over the farm | Andrea Meanwell

Tebay, Cumbria: I’ve had a stroke of luck with applying for government funding, but some bad vet results are overshadowing things once more Last week was an important one as the government’s sustainable farming incentive opened for this year. Thankfully, I was working on my laptop when the email came through, so I submitted an application for us to become an organic farm. Others were not so lucky , the funding ran out after a few hours, and WhatsApp became a&nbsp;catalogue of despair among farmers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/we-