Mycoplasma bovis has cost more than $278m in culled animals. John Blackwell, Northland provincial president for the faming body, said he was concerned by the action, and what he said was the continued ignorance about the threat of Mycoplasma bovis. He said the animal control officer did not tell the Poroti farmer of his actions and the next day the lost stock were found socialising with the farmer's own heifers. "We are in the midst of a war on Mycoplasma bovis. "What would have happened if those wandering stock were sick and had contaminated the healthy animals or vice versa?

Source: Stuff October 08, 2018 05:48 UTC