![]() ![]() Liver fluke, ticks and tick borne diseases are all on the increase. We are going to look at three classic problems: Ticks, and by implication the diseases that they spread New Forest eye in cattle, and liver fluke. Again, rather than immediately assuming a conventional treatment will be needed to manage the problem, we will take a step back and try to understand what is going on to create the conditions for the given organism to thrive. In this article we are going to take a similar look at a few prevalent problems experienced in livestock on farms. With this different way of looking at a problem we can discover how a change in management can create conditions that are less favourable to such species, while creating more diversity in the farm ecosystem. We recognised that in some way we are creating the perfect conditions for these red flag species to thrive. We discussed how, rather than just seeing these as problems that need to be got rid of, that they indicate to us underlying imbalance in nature’s dynamic networks. In the previous article on Red Flag Species we looked at plants such as docks, nettles and thistles, that we habitually don’t like to see in our fields. ![]() Ecosystem processes, soil health, Wildlife ![]()
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