Alarm on the farm.

Foot and mouth has cut a swathe through British agriculture. There's panic in the farmyards as insurers now refuse to cover against the disease, and the rates for other farming-related risks - employers' liability and farming equipment cover - see huge rises, laments Simon Threadgold.

With the foot and mouth epidemic still grinding on, there seems no
end in sight to the crisis in British agriculture. When livestock has to
be destroyed by order of the Department for Environment

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