{"id":6515,"date":"2023-11-30T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestar.test\/2023\/11\/30\/farmers-urged-to-focus-on-biosecurity-2\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:58:39","slug":"farmers-urged-to-focus-on-biosecurity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/blog\/farmers-urged-to-focus-on-biosecurity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers urged to focus on biosecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\tTuesday, December 31st, 2019<\/span> | Posted by brad<\/a><\/span> \t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Farmers urged to focus on biosecurity<\/h1>\n
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PLANNING AHEAD: Fish Creek beef producer Rob Liley knows the value of biosecurity practices on-farm. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SOUTH Gippsland farmers have learned valuable lessons about the importance of rigorous on-farm biosecurity.<\/p>\n

During a recent state-wide webinar, Agriculture Victoria\u2019s Dr Jeff Cave shared his recollections of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the United Kingdom in 2001.<\/p>\n

Dr Cave was deployed to Cumbria \u2013 the most severely affected part of the country \u2013 when the FMD outbreak was at its height.<\/p>\n

His role as an epidemiologist involved aging mouth lesions on sheep and cattle to help authorities trace the disease and stem its spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe outbreak resulted in the destruction of roughly six per cent of the nation\u2019s livestock,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Cave said the experience drove home the importance of early identification of disease and stringent biosecurity protocols, including the cessation of stock movement if the event of a disease outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cFoot-and-mouth disease is one of the biggest threats to Australia\u2019s agricultural economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an outbreak occurred, it would have drastic impacts on the livelihoods of many farmers, and the sustainability of our livestock industries.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the webinar farmers heard how Dr Cave\u2019s take home messages about good on-farm biosecurity could be practically applied on their farms.<\/p>\n

Fish Creek beef producer Rob Liley explained how he implements biosecurity practices on his farm with a rigorous induction process for new stock and good record keeping, ensuring lifetime traceability of stock.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew animals are kept in their buying groups for several weeks after their arrival,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Liley said strategic biosecurity is paramount to good management.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften our biosecurity practices have a dual purpose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, fencing off dams to keep stock out not only ensures the water is kept clean, but also removes the risk of parasite transmission through dams.\u201d<\/p>\n

While vendor-bred cattle are favoured, buying out of markets remains common practice for cattle traders.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 | Posted by brad Farmers urged to focus on biosecurity PLANNING AHEAD: Fish Creek beef producer Rob Liley knows the value of biosecurity practices on-farm. SOUTH Gippsland farmers have learned valuable lessons about the importance of rigorous on-farm biosecurity. During a recent state-wide webinar, Agriculture Victoria\u2019s Dr Jeff Cave shared his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}