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The article offers news briefs on the agricultural sector in Great Britain as of April 2006. The Rural Payments Agency has published an entitlement calculator on its Web site that will help to explain how farmers can get from their historic reference amount to the figures on their statements. Welsh rural affairs minister Carwyn Jones has announced that only a portion of the testing costs for bovine tuberculosis will be covered by the Welsh government. Farmers need to consider the advantages of precision protein formulations according to a survey conducted by Forum Bioscience.