Telegraph: They had hoped the horrors were over but, as the first lambs of the new season arrive, sheep farmers are having to cope with the return of the deadly Schmallenberg virus — and the percentage of lambs being born dead or deformed is even higher than before.
Charles Sercombe, who farms near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, admits: “It is a blow.’ So far, 100 of his pedigree Charolais ewes have given birth, and 45 per cent of their offspring have been lost.
That figure is double what the Department…

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