The faces of disease-fearing farmers: Mycoplasma bovis meeting spills out of Southland hallJOHN HAWKINS/Stuff Winton Farmers MPI Mycoploasma bovis outbreak meeting in the Winton War Memorial HallFarmers spilled out of a Winton hall as hundreds of them gathered at a meeting, concerned about the discovery of Mycoplasma bovis in Southland. JOHN HAWKINS/STUFF MPI director of response Geoff Gwyn speaks to Southland farmers about the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak. Yet, a Waimate farmer, who was caught up in the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak as farms around him were affected, and attended the meeting in Winton, told the crowd of Southland farmers they were lucky. Mark Shefford, of Waimate, said Southland farmers were lucky they had got a head start on the the disease, that had brought some farmers elsewhere in the country their knees. Environment Southland halted all dairy compliance work as a precaution when it became aware of the disease outbreak in Southland.

Source: Stuff December 19, 2017 08:40 UTC