BSE led farmer to think of quitting

A couple have told how they considered giving up farming after one of their cows was found to have BSE.

The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as mad cow disease, was identified as part of routine testing of a dead cow at their farm in Huntly, Aberdeenshire,

Farmer Thomas Jackson told BBC Scotland’s countryside magazine series Landward they were shocked by the discovery as they operate a grass-fed closed herd with no new incomers.