Bovine TB found on Diddly Squat Farm, Jeremy Clarkson says
The TV presenter wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that a pregnant cow has contracted the disease on the farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
In a post on X, Clarkson wrote: "Bad news from Diddly Squat. We've gone down with TB.
"Everyone here is absolutely devastated."
Asked in the comments about the prize bull called Endgame, which Clarkson bought recently for £5,500, he said: "His test was 'inconclusive'. I couldn't bear it if we lost him."
Clarkson also clarified that the disease is bovine TB, which does not affect people but "just our poor cows".
Bovine TB is recognised as a problem that devastates farm businesses, spreading from badgers to cattle, and from cow to cow.
Oxfordshire in the UK is an "edge area" for bovine TB, meaning it is a buffer zone between high-risk and low-risk areas - so most herds are subject to six-monthly TB tests by default.
There have been several cases in the area of Oxfordshire near to Diddly Squat Farm - made famous in the series Clarkson's Farm - in recent weeks, according to ibTB, a mapping platform for the disease in England and Wales.
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