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Foot-and-mouth disease
To avoid continued infestations of your flock, use effective treatment plans, and make sure you request a National Sheep Health Declaration every time you buy new sheep.
Maintaining high biosecurity standards at marking is critical for ensuring good post-marking recovery. Infection, pain and slow wound healing as well as production losses are all consequences of poor marking technique/biosecurity practices.
If you know a biosecurity champion, nominate them now for the 2021 Farm Biosecurity Producer of the Year Award by visiting awe.gov.au/aba
Hot on the heels of the release of the surveillance guide for pests of tropical horticulture last month, the Tropical Plant Industries Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy 2020–25 is now also available.
Dumping of grain on roadside stops is illegal and a serious biosecurity risk
The Exotic Pest Identification and Surveillance Guide for Tropical Horticulture is now available for growers.
“Devise a ‘stray animal plan’ with your neighbour and include this in your biosecurity plan. Make sure to clearly identify what you will do if you find your neighbour’s animals on your property, how they will be returned and vice versa,” says Dr Hemley.
