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June 2025

Updated 30 May 2025

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Compensation for Bovine TB, Brucellosis, and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis – June 2025

Compensation payable during June 2025, in England for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for Bovine TB, Brucellosis and 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 457
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 793
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 1,175
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 1,598
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,759
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,951
Over 20 months, non-breeding bulls 2,170
Over 20 months, breeding bulls 4,309
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 371
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 673
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 1,004
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 1,392
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,541
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months (including calved) 1,717
Over 20 months, not calved 1,976
Over 20 months, calved 2,246

Dairy sector

Male (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 173
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 403
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 874
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,318
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,601
Over 20 months 1,660
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 242
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 419
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 607
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 909
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,213
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, calved 2,014
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, not calved 1,621
Over 84 months 1,516

Table of 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 8,107
Over 24 months, bulls 4,528
Female (age) Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 6 months IV
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 2,145
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 3,178
Over 24 months, not calved 2,929
Over 24 months up to and including 36 months, calved IV
Over 36 months, calved 1,978

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 2,971
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 1,497
Over 10 months up to and including 18 months 1,599
Over 18 months, not calved 1,926
Over 18 months up to and including 36 months, calved 2,406
Over 36 months up to and including 84 months, calved 2,243
Over 84 months, calved 1,627

Notes

The above table details the compensation payable for animals you’ve slaughtered because they are either:

  • affected with or suspected of having bovine TBBSE, brucellosis or EBL
  • the offspring or cohorts of confirmed BSE cases

We calculate compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for:

  • bovine TBEBL and brucellosis 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
  • BSE 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

Table valuations are entirely objective and based on real market data. We determine rates for the 51 cattle categories using large amounts of contemporaneous sales data for same category, but disease free, cattle.

We collect sales data for around 1.4m cattle each year to support table valuations.

For non-pedigree animals we use one month’s sales data to work out the compensation amounts.

For pedigree animals, we use 6 months’ sales data to make sure that we include data from either of the key sales periods in spring or autumn in the calculation.

We took the sales data from store markets, prime markets, rearing calf sales, breeding sales and dispersal sales in Great Britain between:

  • 20 April 2025 and 20 May 2025 for non-pedigree animals
  • 21 November 2024 and 20 May 2025 for pedigree animals

Each calendar year, we analyse sales data and statistics during a twelve-month period. We do this to work out the minimum number of sales records for 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 us 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.

Where the secretary of state believes that the sales data for any particular bovine category in any given month are inadequate, or price data is unavailable, the compensation payable will be at the level of either the:

  • most recently ascertained value for the same category
  • market value for the animal, based on the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019 or the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018

If you slaughter an animal voluntarily and privately (which must be agreed with the department), we will not pay you compensation. You must pay the slaughterhouse instead.

We may reduce compensation for TB reactor cattle disclosed in herds with overdue TB tests.