Volume 12: Livestock Farming
7. Sources of expertise and advice to farmers
Introduction

7.1 Farmers receive information on a multitude of topics from an array of bodies with differing interests, including MAFF, veterinary associations, farming associations, feed manufacturers, agricultural publications, and the media. Some farming witnesses made the point to the Inquiry that they received far more information than they had time to read or assimilate.

7.2 This chapter provides a brief description of the general advice networks available to farmers, and how they changed over the BSE period. The information conveyed to farmers about BSE, and its adequacy, is discussed in other volumes - in particular vol. 3: The Early Years, 1986-88.