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The following is the successful Tasmanian participant in the 2019 ParaBoss WEC QA and has demonstrated proficiency in worm egg counting.
Season’s greetings to all our Tasmanian readers. Thank you for putting up with my humour, and for your feedback throughout the year.
There is no need for me to tell you that it is dry across the whole state. It’s unlikely that a late rain will give a second hay cut, so everybody will be relying on irrigation to see them through.
Parasitically, we are between the first summer drench and future actions, so the rest of this section will be given over to reminders:
The Biosecurity Award: Readers may remember me writing about the possibility of importing liver fluke with untreated rams. Another column mentioned the discovery of a new snail (Pseudosuccinia columella) in northern Tasmania capable of transmitting fluke. It turns out that the producer who found fluke in his new rams also found the new snail. Kudos to him for having the biosecurity awareness to investigate the new snail.
So, if you see something unusual, get it investigated.