Indonesia live cattle trade at the crossroads.

  The live cattle trade between northern Australia and Indonesia has been an amazingly successful international trade phenomenon for most of the last 30 years. The resilience of the business model has been demonstrated on two separate occasions when the trade suddenly halted. The first was the Asian financial collapse in 1997/98 followed by the…

FMD and LSD : Lots of talk but no meaningful action.

Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) infection in Indonesia was officially announced on the 3rd March 2022. Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) infection was officially declared on the 12th of April 2022. Since that time, 4 months for LSD and 3 months for FMD, action to control both diseases has been slow, uncoordinated, under-funded and generally ineffective. For both…