Re: Composting manure

Farm1 wrote:

The F&M outbreak in the UK was so appalling that it might interest you
to do wome reading on it. Imagine the consequences if it even got
into Oz? All cattle, sheep,goats, camels, alpacas, pigs etc could be
at risk.

The Australians authorities are very aware of the impact on your economy and
livestock
Google "foot and mouth australia" for some interesting work
The outbreak was worse here due to the fact that is was handled appallingly
on the ground.
We are a very different kind of country to those who normally get FMD and we
had not had it for decades either.
In Scotland they hit it very hard with relatively efficient culling and a
lot of joined up thinking by all the authorities in the local area
Elsewhere in England it was basically let to do what it wanted for weeks
while the organisations *** footed around. Once they got on with the job
"then" they got on top of it.

Our geography; our political [small p], social and livestock structures are
so completely different that strategies that might work in the vast plains
of South American where the virus is endemic [and probably the source of
many re-infections around the world.] would not work here. There simply is
not the space between uninfected places.
In continents like Australia these strategies would work -- the simple form
of the strategy would be to isolate the locality from the rest of the
continent by a vaccination fire break to protect the FMD free status of the
uninfected areas. But then the scale of everything is so different. If one
decent sized Australian holding was infected with one of the strains that
was pooly carried by air, the virus might never get to the next place before
it faded out.

If you are doing some homework it is vital to recognise that there are many
strains of FMD all have very varied transmission apth. Some hardly move in
the air and are a contact to contact virus, for some infected pigs can
spread vast plumes of the virus scores of miles from one unit but from other
species hardly at all.


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regards
Jill Bowis

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