PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERSince Mycoplasma bovis was detected on their property in July last year, Kerry and Rosie Dwyer have gone through some "very dark moments''. The stress Mr and Mrs Dwyer had endured over the past few months had been immense and wide-ranging in its causes. "Our understanding of agriculture and animal management is not shared by all the people we were dealing with,'' Mr Dwyer said. Sheep breeding was a passion for Mr Dwyer, who has had a Suffolk stud for 41 years. The possibility that his stud sheep might have contracted the disease would have been the "last straw'' but fortunately his flock tested negative.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 18, 2018 16:07 UTC