MAFF eases grazing restrictions
31 May 2001
MAFF eases grazing restrictions
By Fwi staff
SHEEP and other livestock grazing lowland areas can now move to open or common grazings under a new licensing scheme.
The Ministry of Agriculture says that the licensing scheme, under foot-and-mouth restrictions, will only run for a short period of time
The scheme and is only to move cattle, sheep and goats to common grazings such as open hill and moorland, says MAFF.
It does not allow for movement from common grazings and will not allow animals to move from high risk to low risk areas, insists the ministry.
Application forms to move sheep, cattle or goats on to common grazing are available from local authorities and from MAFF animal health offices.
Movement licences will be issued by local authorities where the movement to common grazing is within a controlled area.
Also covered are movements from premises in an Infected Area to open grazing contiguous to the enclosed land.
This is provided stock are returning to the open grazing from which they came, says MAFF.
It is also essential that no sheep, other than from the open grazings to which they are to be returned, have moved onto the premises of origin between 13 and 23 February.
All other movements require veterinary inspection before a licence is issued.
These arrangements do not override any restrictions placed on particular premises or alter the arrangements already announced for hefted flocks, says MAFF.
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