Table 3.
Diseases cited as most significant by surveyed farmers.
| Disease concern | Primary disease concern | Top 5 disease concerns | Primary disease concerns | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under bTB restriction | Never had bTB | Area bTB Prevalence | |||||||||
| N | Respondents (%) | N | All cases (%) | All respondents (%) | Yes (%) | No (%) | Never had bTB (%) | Have had bTB (%) | Low/medium (%) | High risk (%) | |
| Fertility | 29 | 5.0 | 227 | 13.5 | 39.0 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 3.8 |
| bTB | 283 | 48.6 | 433 | 25.8 | 74.4 | 84.2 | 42.4 | 20.5 | 60.0 | 33.7 | 59.3 |
| Production diseases | 57 | 9.8 | 287 | 17.1 | 49.3 | 3.5 | 11.8 | 14.5 | 10.3 | 15.5 | 7.4 |
| Youngstock diseases | 28 | 4.8 | 146 | 8.7 | 25.1 | 1.8 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 3.8 |
| Other cattle diseases | 8 | 1.4 | 83 | 4.9 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.1 |
| Other animal diseases | 96 | 16.5 | 411 | 24.5 | 70.6 | 6.1 | 19.5 | 30.1 | 11.6 | 19.2 | 15.4 |
| No diseases | 81 | 13.9 | 93 | 5.5 | 16.0 | 3.5 | 12.5 | 19.9 | 4.5 | 15.0 | 9.1 |