AUSTRALIAN livestock producers should be ‘alert, but not alarmed’ over the looming threat of Foot & Mouth Disease and/or Lumpy Skin Disease, but all should consider developing a comprehensive biosecurity plan, Red Meat Advisory Council chair John McKillop told a Brisbane gathering on Friday.
Speaking to the Queensland Rural Press Club, Mr McKillop provided a sobering account of the growing potential risk and financial impact from an LSD/FMD incursion out of Indonesia.
He said as an industry, it was important to keep an eye out for any symptoms of either disease (see details at base of…
