An interesting listen on radio 4 tommorrow at 8pm

[Tubbylew]

BBC Radio 4 - Black Hill, Bleak Summer

A farming community recalls the UK's worst ever foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thought this maybe of interest to some, mods feel free to move if not in the right place.

 

[wrenbird]

Thanks for heads up. Not sure I could listen to it live, even after all this time. Will probably listen on iPlayer, can always stop and go back to it then.

 

[flowerpot]

We were there in the thick of it. The farm on the other side of the lane was second in the county to have a case, and we watched as the shed full of cows and calves were taken out into a pile in the corner of the field and burnt. We had vets here for days observing our cattle and even one we had in a shed a mile away had a frothy mouth one day, but the vet decided it wasn't F & M. Some time later a farm a further mile away had all their cattle destroyed and they wondered why we hadn't.

Although callous, we would probably have been financially better off if the cattle had caught it, as the prices we were getting for fat cattle was very bad, it was a buyers' market.

I am still not 100% sure where the first case originated from.

 

[glow worm]

Thanks for heads up. Not sure I could listen to it live, even after all this time. Will probably listen on iPlayer, can always stop and go back to it then.

Same here. Its only when such programmes are advertised that you realise just how deeply you were affected and how scarred you are

 

[Sid]

Same here. Its only when such programmes are advertised that you realise just how deeply you were affected and how scarred you are

Here here.

In the Civil service its called PTSD and you get early retirement and compensation......where as farmers got sweet FA