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Foot-and-mouth disease
Vital sheep disease information collected through the National Sheep Health Monitoring Project (NSHMP) is now being integrated into Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) Livestock Data Link (LDL), giving sheep producers easy access to information that can help save production losses. LDL provides producers and processing plants with reports into carcase quality as well as information […]
District Veterinarian with Riverina Local Land Services, Dr Timothy Biffin, says many producers contacted him seeking further information on how to create a biosecurity plan for their property ahead of the 30 June deadline for the Johne’s Beef Assurance Score (J-BAS). “I have found that many producers are uncertain on how to answer sections of […]
Animal Health Australia has developed the following FAQs for producers implementing on-farm biosecurity plans to meet the new requirements for the Johne’s Beef Assurance Score. More questions and answers can be found here
Are you a sheep producer looking for more confidence when buying in new stock? Well, help has arrived in the form of the newly created National Sheep Health Declaration (SHD), which replaces the outgoing National Sheep Health Statement. The SHD is the most important disease risk management tool livestock buyers have available to them. It […]
The voluntary Johne’s Beef Assurance Score (J-BAS) has been developed to assist beef cattle producers in identifying the risk of Johne’s disease (JD) occurring in a herd. Transitional arrangements for J-BAS end on 1 July 2017 and cattle producers across Australia are urged to implement an on-farm biosecurity plan in order to maintain their current […]
Like any traditional livestock industry, the alpaca farming sector face very similar risks of disease and pest incursions, many of which have the capability of impacting the entire industry. And, just like larger farming sectors, the best way to avoid and combat pests and diseases is by having a robust farm biosecurity plan in place […]
Recently there has been a lot of talk about ‘smart’ traps in fruit fly management, but what are they and what can they do? In short, smart traps are based on the familiar sticky traps or pheromone traps, but use a combination of cameras or other sensors to provide up-to-date information about what is happening […]
