Bluetongue survey: Have you vaccinated your livestock? Have restrictions impacted your trade?

Farmers Guardian are carrying out a survey to understand livestock farmers' thoughts on vaccinating for bluetongue and how the disease might be impacting trade on-farm

18 August 2025 鈥� 1 min read

Share your views on whether bluetongue has affected your livestock enterprise, if you have vaccinated or not and if your trading has been impacted by restrictions. 听

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Your insights are invaluable in helping us to understand the challenges that livestock farmers are facing in light of bluetongue outbreaks and restrictions, and approaches to vaccination.听

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