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Foot and Mouth Disease
daggie:
tis comfirmed :(
JumboBeef:
--- Quote from: "SimonHarwood" ---How is the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in Surrey likely to affect our activities?
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I lived in Devon during the last outbreak and it was hell. I saw livelyhoods ripped apart, grown men in tears, businesses bankrupted.
You know what? I don't care if I can't go off road for the next six months, it is only a hobby, as it is for all the rest of us. Certain people out there are facing a real threat to everything they own.
Smego:
Yep just down the road, can see the farm from the Hogs back.
Wish they would just dish out the vactcines and be done with it all!
Hardly envroinmentely freindly burning otherwise healthy cows!!
madmatt:
If there is another case confirmed over the weekend then you can expect big trouble ahead for the countryside, It all depends how quickly DEFRA contain it.
There is currently an exclusion zone around the farm and a nationwide ban on moving sheep,cows and pigs.
If we end up in the same situation as 2001 then the countryside will effectively be closed and many businesses will go under, all ready I've heard of one tree surgeon who keeps his kit on a farm in the exclusion area so no work for him next week = no money coming in this could be echoed nationwide.
so as for how it affects mud clubbers green laning I think we just need to sit back, wait and be sympathetic to all the people who's livlehood's are affected. and when you can get back out and support countryside business this could be very soon if the outbreak is contained or weeks who knows.
All depends on the government and the Deparment of erdaication of farming and rural affairs.
good luck to anyone involved
Oz:
--- Quote from: "Smego" ---Yep just down the road, can see the farm from the Hogs back.
Wish they would just dish out the vactcines and be done with it all!
Hardly envroinmentely freindly burning otherwise healthy cows!!
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Yeah same live down in puttenham..
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