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Foot-and-mouth disease
When threatened by a cucumber virus that could affect his crop, Michael Quach from Lake Bennett Hydroponic Cucumbers at Noonamah, Northern Territory, ramped up on-farm biosecurity measures to protect his livelihood from the disease.
A first-hand experience with ovine Johne’s disease (OJD) seven years ago put wool producers, Shelley and Chris Cocker from Evendale in Tasmania on a crusade to help make other Tasmanian producers more aware of the disease and the biosecurity practices required to minimise the incidence of OJD.
Dr Rod Hoare runs 330 acre ‘Cadfor’ at Binda in the NSW Southern Tablelands with partner Helena Warren, where they breed Murray Grey cattle and run a horse riding school.
Thomas Hill has a simple philosophy when it comes to on-farm biosecurity: everything enters and leaves the property clean.
With Timor only 500 kilometres off the coast, exotic pests are an ever-present threat to Lachlan Dobson’s 120,000 mango trees and 80,000 red flesh grapefruit trees.
According to Lindsay Bourke, finalist in the 2014 Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award, a biosecurity plan is an investment in the future of a business and the community.
Grain farmer Ron Creagh from Nungarin, WA was a winner of the Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
