For those of us who are not aware, I recently read that Blue Tongue could make it's way over the Channel from France in the
Farmers Guardian. The article states that the NFU is urging Farmers to contact their vet, if you live in the South of England, East Anglia and potentially as far a field as Wales.
I contacted my vet and the vaccine will not be available until mid July. It takes 21days for sheep to become immune after vaccination and 30 days for cattle. The Blue Tongue strain in France is BTV8 and the vector is a biting midge.
I also saw that there is a
Joint campaign against bluetongue on the
NSA website.