Providing practical information to help you protect your farm from biosecurity risks
Biosecurity essentials
The best defence against pests and diseases is to implement sound biosecurity practices on your farm. Quick and simple measures built into everyday practice will help protect your farm and your future.
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News & Events
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Farm Biosecurity website – personalise it!
May 1, 2013
A unique feature of the new Farm Biosecurity website is the personal profile builder. Farm Biosecurity program technical adviser, Duncan Rowland, says that the large proportion of mixed and multi-sector producers is the key reason why the program became an initiative run jointly by Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia. “The website already provides dedicated [...]
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Wild dog biosecurity
Wild dogs have become an increasingly significant livestock biosecurity and welfare issue in recent years. Dog packs preying on vulnerable lambs and calves in particular are now threatening the viability of the sheep industry in some regions of Australia. The problem has become so large that WoolProducers Australia has brought together critical industry stakeholders* to [...]
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Weed control
Weed control is a year round requirement for successful and profitable livestock, crop, forestry or pasture production. If control measures are not undertaken early, weeds have the potential to become a major problem on your property. Weeds can lower crop yields and pasture quality by competing for soil moisture, nutrients, space and light; they can [...]
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An incursion waiting to happen
Australia’s wild European honey bees currently provide free pollination to a large number of crops. But this free service could soon come to an end. Australia is the only country in the world with a significant beekeeping industry yet to be affected by the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor), a devastating parasitic mite of European honey [...]
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Farm biosecurity gate sign giveaway
April 2, 2013
As part of the launch of our new website, the Farm Biosecurity program is giving away free farm gate signs! Simply become one of the first 200 new subscribers to our monthly Farm Biosecurity News e-newsletter, provide your name and property address, and we will send you one free Farm Biosecurity gate sign. These generic [...]
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