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Now the Government has introduced a BSE Testing System toreplace one of the controls that has banned cattle aged over 30 months from the food chain. This aims to ensure the continuinghigh level of protection of consumers in the UK.esearch shows that, by the most likely estimates, the risk from BSEtesting of older cattle, instead of banning them completely, willresult in less than one additional case of vCJD occurring in humansover the next 60 years. The worst-case scenario is that there couldbe 2.5 additional cases.
Over burgers and a few beers, we started talking about our cowherd. My husband mentioned that we had a few 15-year-old cows that we would likely cull this year. Our companions seemed shocked that we had several cows that old in our herd and said their oldest cows were just shy of a decade. It got me thinking about the value of a cow in a cow-calf operation. How long should a cow stay in your herd? How long is too long?