In an industry first, a practical guide to help Australian goat producers recognise and manage goat diseases and ultimately boost biosecurity systems is now available.

In January 2011, Western Australia’s Ovine Johnes Disease (OJD) status was downgraded from low to medium. Unlike other states, the WA rating was applied as a blanket rating across the whole state and no attempt was made to define the areas or regions of greatest OJD risk. This Producer Demonstration...

Producers leading the way on biosecurity

​This CMA will enable funding of incidental expenses (e.g. meetings, venue hire, catering) for the Animal Health and Welfare program for FY19

A consultancy project was set up to draft a biosecurity strategic research plan. Questionnaire surveys were conducted with a variety of stakeholders, the results of which were to feed into the strategy. Before a biosecurity strategic plan was written, it was decided to integrate this with the animal health strategy...

Livestock producers who complete a farm biosecurity plan, and regularly review their biosecurity practices, know they’re doing their best to protect their business. The farm biosecurity plan is a tool that underpins two significant changes to the management of on-farm biosecurity over the coming months.  The integration of on-farm biosecurity...

​This Company Managed Activity (CMA) was to cover printing, meetings and other miscellaneous costs relating to Animal Health, Welfare and Biosecurity R,D&A projects during 2015-16, and following.

This covers the financial years 2014 to 2017 annual allocated bucket for on-farm related animal health and biosecurity intellectual property (IP) costs.  Once IP costs were determined during the year money was moved to specific IP projects (for spend approval) to pay for the management of IP or out of...

In August 2022, a group of us from Australia’s livestock industries saw and inspected the rigid biosecurity checks and precautions being taken at our nation’s international airports.

The Australian livestock industry has invested in additional on-the-ground measures to further support the Indonesian biosecurity response to foot and mouth disease (FMD) and lumpy skin disease (LSD).