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Biosecurity protocols to combat livestock diseases

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and other economically destructive livestock diseases have created major problems for farmers recently, even threatening their livelihoods. It’s more important than ever that farmers set up biosecurity protocols to help prevent the spread of livestock diseases.

Instituting protocols or rules on a commercial farm is relatively simple; in communal areas, where there are many farmers, it’s more difficult, and

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