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On Wednesday, Mrs Rodgers re-emphasised that the lifting of the European export ban on Northern Ireland animal products could be jeopardised by farmers' refusal to co-operate with an extended precautionary cull of sheep on the Cooley Peninsula in the Meigh restriction zone.
BBC: Farm in Thisk in Northern Ireland
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The cull is to affect sheep on farms in the three-kilometre radius of the outbreak at Meigh.
BBC: Farm in Thisk in Northern Ireland
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The wider cull was postponed on Tuesday after farmers protested against plans to bury 2, 500 dead sheep at the south Armagh beauty spot Slieve Gullion Forest Park.
BBC: Farm in Thisk in Northern Ireland