A monthly column written for Beef Central by US meat and livestock industry commentator Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers’ Weekly
ONE hundred and fifty one years is a very long time. That’s when Australia had its last reported foot-and-mouth-disease (FMD) case. But time passed does not diminish the risk that the disease poses to the Australian livestock industry and the country’s overall economy.
That FMD is present in Indonesia means that Australian authorities need to be even more vigilant through biosecurity measure in preventing the disease from entering the…