April 2025
Updated 28 March 2025
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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Compensation for bovine TB, brucellosis, and enzootic bovine leukosis – March 2025
Compensation we would pay in April 2025 in England for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for bovine TB, brucellosis and EBL disease control purposes is listed in the following tables.
Non-pedigree bovine categories
Beef sector
| Male | |
|---|---|
| Age | Compensation due (£/head) |
| Up to and including 3 months | 376 |
| Over 3 months up to and including 6 months | 664 |
| Over 6 months up to and including 9 months | 1,159 |
| Over 9 months up to and including 12 months | 1,585 |
| Over 12 months up to and including 16 months | 1,677 |
| Over 16 months up to and including 20 months | 1,823 |
| Over 20 months, non-breeding bulls | 2,088 |
| Over 20 months, breeding bulls | 2,713 |
| Female | |
|---|---|
| Age | Compensation due (£/head) |
| Up to and including 3 months | 300 |
| Over 3 months up to and including 6 months | 581 |
| Over 6 months up to and including 9 months | 976 |
| Over 9 months up to and including 12 months | 1,378 |
| Over 12 months up to and including 16 months | 1,414 |
| Over 16 months up to and including 20 months (including calved) | 1,606 |
| Over 20 months, not calved | 1,881 |
| Over 20 months, calved | 2,009 |
Dairy sector
| Male | |
|---|---|
| Age | Compensation due (£/head) |
| Up to and including 3 months | 97 |
| Over 3 months up to and including 6 months | 380 |
| Over 6 months up to and including 12 months | 709 |
| Over 12 months up to and including 16 months | 1,129 |
| Over 16 months up to and including 20 months | 1,462 |
| Over 20 months | 1,549 |
| Female | |
|---|---|
| Age | Compensation due (£/head |
| Up to and including 3 months | 143 |
| Over 3 months up to and including 6 months | 419 |
| Over 6 months up to and including 12 months | 688 |
| Over 12 months up to and including 16 months | 960 |
| Over 16 months up to and including 20 months | 1,198 |
| Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, calved | 2,086 |
| Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, not calved | 1,454 |
| Over 84 months | 1,345 |
Table of pedigree bovine categories
Beef sector
| Male – applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Age | 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 | 7,415 | |
| Over 24 months, bulls | 2,813 |
| Female | |
|---|---|
| Age | Compensation due (£/head) |
| Up to and including 6 months | IV |
| Over 6 months up to and including 12 months | 1,944 |
| Over 12 months up to and including 24 months | 2,437 |
| Over 24 months, not calved | 2,518 |
| Over 24 months up to and including 36 months, calved | IV |
| Over 36 months, calved | 1,769 |
Dairy sector
| Male - applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation | |
|---|---|
| Age | 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 | 1,088 |
| Over 10 months up to and including 18 months | 1,171 |
| Over 18 months, not calved | 1,600 |
| Over 18 months up to and including 36 months, calved | 2,252 |
| Over 36 months up to and including 84 months, calved | 2,031 |
| Over 84 months, calved | 1,417 |
IV: compensation to be determined using individual valuation.
Notes
The above table details the compensation payable for animals you’ve slaughtered because they are either:
- affected with or suspected of having bovine TB, BSE, brucellosis or EBL
- the offspring or cohorts of confirmed BSE cases
We calculate compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for:
- bovine TB, EBL 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 February 2025 and 20 March 2025 for non-pedigree animals
- 21 September 2024 and 20 March 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.