Qld: Cattlemen fined over diseased cattle

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2001
Qld: Cattlemen fined over diseased cattle

BRISBANE, April 12 AAP - Two interstate Jersey cattle breeders have been fined thousands
of dollars for moving cattle infected with deadly Johne's disease into Queensland from
NSW and Victoria.

Department of Primary Industries' district stock inspector, John Zigterman, said Goondiwindi
magistrate Gordon Dean imposed fines and costs in excess of $16,500 on the offenders last
week.

William Henry Adams, Glenn Alexander Adams, both of Kialla via Shepparton in Victoria
and Adthorp Pty Ltd, of which Glenn Adams was a director were penalised for moving the
infected cattle.

Mr Zigterman said they were charged over the transporting of 32 Jersey cattle, suspected
of being infected with Johne's Disease, from New South Wales to Queensland in 1999.

William Adams was also charged with entering false information on a certificate of
health relating to stock introduced into Queensland.

Mr Zigterman said the Goondiwindi court was told that animals infected with Johne's
Disease suffered chronic weight loss and eventual death, and there was no cure.

The disease was present in at least 15 per cent of Victorian dairy herds and was estimated
to cost Victorian beef and dairy industries $7.5 million per year.

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