A farmer from Llawhaden has been fined a total of £6,200, with £1,370 costs, for illegally moving cattle on and off his farm.
Brian Edward Ratcliffe, of Colby Farm, was fined £3,000 for moving 251 cattle onto his farm without a licence while his farm was under TB movement restrictions last year.
He was found guilty after a trial at Carmarthen Magistrates Court on Tuesday, November 11, of three offences under the Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2003. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ratcliffe also denied two charges of moving a TB exempt bovine back to his farm from Haverfordwest and Carmarthen markets in October and November 2007. He was found guilty and fined £1,000 for each charge.
He entered guilty pleas to two further charges of failing to notify cattle movements onto and off his farm within the required three days in 2007, and was fined £600 on each count.
Magistrates also ordered Ratcliffe to pay costs of £1,370 and £15 victim surcharge.
The following day, his father, George Winston Ratcliffe, of Colby House, Slebech, pleaded guilty at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court to the charge of refusing admission to an animal welfare inspector employed by Pembrokeshire County Council at Colby Collection Centre on September 6, 2007.
The officer was authorised under Section 66 of the Animal Health Act 1981, but Ratcliffe refused her entry on grounds which were without foundation.
He was fined £2,250, with £1,500 costs and £15 victim surcharge.
The prosecutions were brought by Pembrokeshire County Council.
Nigel Watts, trading standards and animal welfare manager for the council, said afterwards: "It is unfortunate that neither Mr. George Ratcliffe or his son Brian, both experienced and well known Pembrokeshire farmers, would take any advice from officials or comply with rules aimed at preventing the spread of TB - a disease which is endemic in this county and costs the country millions of pounds each year."