Devolved Responsibility and On-Farm Biosecurity
Practices of Biosecure Farming Care in Livestock Production
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International efforts to prevent the spread of biological threats to agro-food production are increasingly being devolved from national governments to farming industries and farmers. Previous research has highlighted the farm-level and institutional challenges in engaging farmers in biosecurity. However, little is known sociologically about what farmers already know and do to manage disease risk, and specifically how they practice biosecurity. This article addresses this issue through the application of theoretical work on the choreography of care. Drawing from a qualitative study of biosecurity in the Australian beef industry, we argue that farmers' localised practices of caring for their herd health and farm are crucial in making biosecurity workable. These practices take two key forms: skilled craftwork, through which farmers construct and hold together different objects and elements of care; and fluid engineering, which involves efforts to construct barriers for separating on-farm practices of care from perceived off-farm disease risks. In engaging in these care practices, farmers make an important contribution to national livestock biosecurity principles and practices. We argue that greater recognition of localised practices of biosecure care may provide the basis for engaging farmers more effectively in a devolved form of biosecurity governance
Agriculture · Best practice · Biosecurity · Business · Construct (python library) · Economics · Geography · Political science · Production (economics) · Public relations · Sustainability · Work (physics) · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Ecology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Marketing · Zoonotic diseases and public health
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Ordering adoption
Tinkering with Relations
The vice of biosecurity
Smart regulation” and community cooperation in Australia’s modern biosecurity context
Choreographing social reproduction
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Deliberative assembling
Playing games with 'good farming
Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships
It’s just the luck of the draw
Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity
Feeding time(s)
(Dis)Entangling livestock marketplaces
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering
Should cows graze? A relational approach to understanding farmer perspectives on the ethics of grazing and indoor dairy systems
From Biosecurity to Security Ecologies
True Cowmen and Commercial Farmers
The Logic of Care
Care in Practice
Building ‘cowshed cultures’
The Effect of Trust on West Australian Farmers' Responses to Infectious Livestock Diseases
Harmonising the Governance of Farming Risks
Geographies of folded life
Misunderstood misunderstanding
Biosecurity and food security
What Farmers Know
Interrogating food security and infectious animal and plant diseases
Seeing Through the 'Good Farmer's' Eyes
The Role and Functioning of Cultural Scripts in Farming and Agriculture
Disaster in Agriculture
The Spaces of Biosecurity
Harmonising devolved responsibility for biosecurity governance
The craft of intensive care medicine
Devices as Rituals
| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |