Country Today - May 26th

Quad bikes are now the leading cause of death and serious injury on farms. Today you’ll hear about how regulations are going to tighten and it will likely to compulsory roll bars, helmets, and only riders 16 years and above. It’s called the Green Sheep Project and it’s designed to help sheep producers understand how important data collection is becoming in the path to more sustainable farming. Calls for a carp herpes virus to be released in water storages in the Wimmera to trial of it could be a successful control method. Grass Fed cattle producers are being urged to take part in a survey looking at the Cattle Transaction Levy which has been at $5 a head for 20 years. A warning to farmers that livestock can suffer arsenic poisoning from eating or licking contaminated coals lift over after burns offs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.