HOW is Indonesia faring under the dual biosecurity challenges presented by the recent Foot & Mouth Disease and Lumpy Skin Disease outbreaks?
Consolidated Pastoral Co managing director Troy Setter has been in Indonesia this past week on company business, during which Beef Central contacted him for an ‘on-the-ground’ update.
While there have been no confirmed reports yet FMD being detected in Indonesia’s larger feedlots housing imported Australian cattle, certainly infection had been found in smaller farmholder-type feedyards, authorities have confirmed this week.
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