Farmers are taking major action to defend against a potential foot and mouth outbreak in Australia,including preparing genetic banks to one day repopulate their farms using IVF.
Seeing a 20 per cent drop in rainfall in 20 years and fires which ripped through the Wheatbelt were just some of the reasons a Corrigin farmer wrote to the WA Appeals Convenor objecting to a big gas project.
An outbreak would force a halt to Australian red meat exports,costing agricultural industries billions of dollars.
Australia’s biosecurity laws are some of the best in the world,livestock industry leaders have said,cautioning against unwarranted panic.
With foot and mouth disease now in Indonesia,Australia is on alert to stop it spreading here. What is the disease,and why are the stakes so high?
Indonesia is imploring Australia not to panic,despite a shortage of foot and mouth vaccines or even personnel to administer the shots to livestock.
When a proposal for one of the southern hemisphere’s biggest abalone farms was rejected by the state’s planning tribunal,residents thought the race had been run and won. They were wrong.
The recent detection of foot and mouth disease on the holiday island of Bali has fuelled fears travellers may bring it back to Australia.
The Victorian Farmers Federation is calling for the immediate suspension of laws that provide expanded camping access on waterfront sites used for farming.
Australia’s 1 million annual Bali visitors are being urged to play their part in stopping an Australian outbreak of the devastating foot and mouth disease.
There are up to 450 growers in Australia,with about 25 per cent of them in NSW,and June to August is the peak time for the delicacy.