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Composting cattle trial prepares industry for foot-and-mouth disease

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On a research farm in north-east Victoria, a trial is underway to prepare the country for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

A series of neat piles of soil with thermometers stuck in the side are formed into composting windrows, containing 70 cattle carcasses buried beneath.

The cows,…



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