Farmers invited to ask the experts on bluetongue

Farmers in South East England are being invited to a series of meetings to help them get to grips with bluetongue disease and the vaccination strategy for the coming year.

Organised by the NFU, the meetings will feature a presentation from the Institute of Animal Health’s (IAH) bluetongue expert Dr Chris Oura who will be on hand to answer questions about the disease.

He will stress the importance of vaccination for 2009 and will warn farmers about the growing danger from Europe following the arrival of BTV1 last month.