There is no cure for this highly infectious condition, which was first detected in the UK in the late 1980s, the likely vectors being a consignment of goats imported from Germany. The next step is to enrol with the SAC's Sheep and Goat Health Scheme secretariat and arrange with the farm veterinary surgeon to collect the first blood samples and undertake a clinical inspection of the sheep. CLA, in common with scrapie, is not one of those diseases that many farmers, especially if they are...

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Bruce Pheasant has been raising sheep and lambs since 1985 -- part of a family tradition that goes back to his grandfather s sheep operation in 1890. It is an article of faith within the sheep industry that compound 1080 (sodium monoflouroacetate), a canid-selective poison, was the most effective and economical weapon against coyotes, until the use of poisonous baits for predator control was banned in 1972. This is what I love to do, Pheasant said, referring to the positive side of raising...

Worthwhile returns for vendors at the marketplace have followed positive signs from the paddock with lamb, sheep and cattle rates continuing to encourage producers. And most pastoral areas, following on from the varied benefit of summer storm activity, have now received further relief, sparking cautious optimism throughout much of South Australia's station country. The rebuilding and consolidation of breeding numbers, vital to the overall drought recovery, has been assisted with good...

The land has been in Darryl Williams' family since 1661, operating mostly as a vegetable and livestock farm until his grandfather, Luther Belden, grew it into a large-scale sheep farm in the 1950s. He still needs to spread some manure and get through another milking in the afternoon on the 175-acre farm that's been in his family for 346 years. Department of Agriculture began setting the minimum prices that farmers are paid for their raw milk in the 1920s to ensure they would be able to...