How do they test for avian flu though? I bet it's not based on the hope someone can measure with millimetre accuracy on a massive moving animal, and that's before you've got multiple different people doing the measuring.
Different disease, different test.
According to AI, basically by the time a cow is producing antibodies for the TB for it to show on a standard test, it’s way too late. There isn’t any active shedding via mucus early in the progress of the disease. A cow can have it for years before showing any symptoms.
There is a more advanced blood test but it has a high rate of false positives. It’s also too expensive/disruptive to use for general screening.
The skin test is 99% accurate, cheap and easy to deploy in the field.
Avian flu is done via a swab and basic PCR test and/or environmental tests for wild animals you can’t catch.
If you look at farmers wealth on paper, yes, many appear incredibly wealthy. Land, buildings, machinery, etc and with a potentially huge turnover each year.
Bottom line profit is a very different thing.
Correct, and I didn’t claim otherwise.
It’s a hard gig but what it comes with is options most people can only dream of.
Hardly any will sell up and realise the millions but they could if they wanted to, that was the crux of my point.
That said that mainly only applies to those who are landowners, not those on a tenancy.
