Warnings & Predictions:
Ongoing lurking problem:
While MAFF was paying out $ 3 billion* in
subsidies each year, it had no accurate list of
farms or farmers.
No idea of the precise location of the 35,500 farms
with livestock.
February 2001: Bobby Waugh’s pigs at Burnside
Farm,  Haddon-on-the-Wall
after an extended period of local council concern
as to their welfare
acquired FMD, probably from swill from local
restaurants, in early February.
16 sheep in neighbouring farm sent to Hexham
and Longtown Markets during 13 – 20 February.
* Canadian dollars
(source: Sunday Times, 23 Dec ’01)