Thank you all again.

I have just sent an email to you DixielandDancer to tell you how much your concern and interest matters.

There have now been - can't believe it! - 2,004 cases of confirmed Foot and Mouth disease in this country.

That is terrible enough when you actually think of the animals and the people who have suffered. Take into account the farms around those infected that also have to see all their animals die. Farms where the Spring stock that should be sold on now have to keep an excess of animals that they have no means to feed or house through the Winter.

There are so many issues and problems and fears for the future....farming in this country may never recover.