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December 2024

Updated 24 December 2024

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Compensation for Bovine TB, Brucellosis, and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis – December 2024

Compensation payable during December 2024, in England for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for Bovine TB, Brucellosis and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL) disease control purposes will be as detailed below.

Non-pedigree bovine categories

Beef sector

Male (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 240
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 714
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 965
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 1,058
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,194
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,453
Over 20 months, non-breeding bulls 1,481
Over 20 months, breeding bulls 3,113
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 176
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 585
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 828
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 878
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,008
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months (including calved) 1,284
Over 20 months, not calved 1,429
Over 20 months, calved 1,276

Dairy sector

Male (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 92
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 234
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 495
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 896
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,068
Over 20 months 1,126
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head
Up to and including 3 months 180
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 230
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 439
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 718
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 688
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, calved 1,823
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, not calved 1,065
Over 84 months 1,262

Pedigree bovine categories

Where ‘IV’ is shown, compensation to be determined using individual valuation.

Beef sector

Male (age) - applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 6 months IV
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months IV
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 5,092
Over 24 months, bulls 2,390
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 6 months IV
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 1,148
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 1,822
Over 24 months, not calved 2,282
Over 24 months up to and including 36 months, calved IV
Over 36 months, calved 2,164

Dairy sector

Male (age) - applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 2 months IV
Over 2 months up to and including 12 months IV
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 3,255
Over 24 months, bulls IV
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 2 months IV
Over 2 months up to and including 10 months 915
Over 10 months up to and including 18 months 959
Over 18 months, not calved 1,385
Over 18 months up to and including 36 months, calved 2,119
Over 36 months up to and including 84 months, calved 1,939
Over 84 months, calved 1,368

Notes

  1. The above table details the compensation payable for those animals slaughtered because they are either affected with bovine TB, BSE, Brucellosis or EBL or are suspected of having one of these diseases; or are the offspring or cohorts of confirmed BSE cases.

  2. Compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for Bovine TB, EBL and Brucellosis is calculated in England under the Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2019 (based upon average livestock market prices for the relevant categories) and the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019. Compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for BSE is calculated in England under the TSE (England) Regulations 2018, in Wales under the TSE (Wales) Regulations 2018, and in Scotland under the TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (as amended), which use data from the same system as England.

  3. Table valuations are entirely objective and based on real market data. Rates for the 51 cattle categories are determined using large amounts of contemporaneous sales data for same category, but disease free, cattle. Sales data for around 1.4m cattle is collected each year to support table valuations. For non-pedigree table values one month’s sales data is used, whereas 6 months’ data is used to determine table values for pedigree animals to ensure that data from either of the key sales periods in spring or autumn is included in the calculation.

  4. The values in the table of categories above have been derived from sales information obtained from store markets, prime markets, rearing calf sales, breeding sales and dispersal sales in Great Britain between 20 October 2024 and 20 November 2024 for non-pedigree animals, and between 21 May 2024 and 20 November 2024 for pedigree animals.

  5. Each calendar year, a statistical analysis of sales data collected during a twelve-month period, is carried out to determine the minimum number of sales records required to enable Defra to have 95% confidence that the market price calculated for each category is within 20% of the population mean (all cattle sales for that category). This statistical data has helped Defra identify the level of variability in sales prices for each category. This intelligence is used to determine when there is insufficient data to support a table valuation for any particular category.

  6. Where the Secretary of State considers that the sales data for any particular bovine category in any given month are inadequate, or such price data is unavailable, the compensation payable will either be at the level of the most recently ascertained value for the same category, or alternatively the Secretary of State may opt to pay compensation at the level of the market value of the animal in question, as ascertained under the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019 or the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018.

  7. Where an owner slaughters an animal voluntarily and privately (which must be agreed with the Department) no compensation is payable, that is, the owner accepts the salvage payment from the slaughterhouse in lieu of Defra compensation.

  8. Compensation may be reduced for TB reactor cattle disclosed in herds with overdue TB tests.

Date published: November 2024 APHA TB Finance Team