Cattle ranchers are showing concern over dermatosis.

Beef cattle farmers are "very worried" because the detection of the first outbreaks of contagious nodular dermatosis in Catalonia is near major production areas. In statements to Efeagro, the manager of the association of beef cattle producers (Asoprovac), Matilde Moro, detailed that the currently affected area "does not have much beef cattle farming," which does not mean that it "is not still quite dramatic" for the affected producers. However, Asoprovac is now focusing on "very close" areas of Aragon and Catalonia that do have "a very important volume of cattle farming," both beef and dairy, and where the impact "can be very significant." "We are also very worried about the restrictions that are generated by the appearance of any outbreak," she emphasized. In fact, another concern is the impact that the arrival of this disease has on the export of live cattle and even beef to third countries that do not recognize regionalization. In this regard, she recalled that Morocco has ...