The most horrendous time for me was when the disease got to the Duddon Valley in the south of the county and some customers of mine,. . . and I was called down there,. . . and a young couple about the same age as me, farming there, who lost everything on that farm, didn’t have the disease, taken out in total, [all of their stock] as a dangerous contact, subsequently proved by blood tests, did not have the disease.
[Small business]
… selling for instance figurines of farm stock, many of them sort of
limited edition things, we then started getting people in who had lost their animals, had had compensation and were then wanting to buy
something to sort of remind them of the animals they’d lost. So we would have like a Texel tup and Texel ewe and lamb, and people would be buying these to remind them of stock they’d lost. Sometimes it might be somebody who’d had perhaps several hundred and other situations, it might have been a young person who’d had perhaps one tup and half a dozen ewes.
[Farm]
And there were good [breeding] lines that were introduced by the farmer’s family going back 3 or 4 generations, they’d gone. It affected that couple so badly. The culling affected him so badly that they couldn’t stay on the farm.