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- Montgomeryshire
Would forage crops host the fluke life cycle same as grass in higher risk fields?
If they reduced the fluke it would be a good way to kill two bird one stone! Reduce fluke with crop and hopefully further reduce after by draining and reseed!!
I don't think the actual crop would make much difference, just the disruption of the fluke/snail life cycle & habitat. If they're still drinking from a boggy dew pond in the corner of the field, they could still pick up fluke there. Removing wet patches, or preventing access to them, is the only way to get rid of fluke.
The fluke need mud snails to complete their life cycle, and mud snails need a wet habitat.