{"id":247,"date":"2022-02-16T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/?p=247"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:11:57","slug":"on-farm-traffic-concerns-for-organic-and-alternative-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/on-farm-traffic-concerns-for-organic-and-alternative-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"On-farm traffic concerns for organic and alternative farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Animal diseases can be spread by dirty or shared vehicles, ATVs, equipment, and machinery. Having a plan to limit vehicles, equipment, and their movement on your farm or ranch can help prevent disease introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vehicle-and-equipment-movement-risks\">Vehicle and equipment movement risks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What kinds of vehicle or equipment movement occurs on your farm? Have the vehicles that come onto your property been to other animal operations? If so, it\u2019s possible they could spread disease to your farm. Some examples might include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Animal delivery trucks or trailers<\/li><li>Milk trucks or egg transport vehicles<\/li><li>Dead animal or manure removal trucks<\/li><li>Feed, bedding, fuel, or propane delivery trucks<\/li><li>Mail, package, or supply delivery<\/li><li>Vehicles that belong to workers, family, friends, or other visitors<\/li><li>Trash or recycling pick up<\/li><li>Groundskeeping equipment such as skid loaders, mowers, tractors, etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"limit-access-to-animal-areas\">Limit access to animal areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To protect your livestock, limit access of off-site vehicles and equipment. Mark points of entry to your farm with signs. Plan drive paths so that off-farm vehicles or equipment don\u2019t drive into animal areas and only allow clean vehicles and equipment onto your farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"provide-parking-areas\">Provide parking areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Provide a parking area for visitors and people who work on your farm. Ideally this area will be away from animal areas. Vehicles that come to your property for dead animals, manure, litter, and compost removal should pick up on the edge of your property, away from animal areas. Limit the sharing of animal transport vehicles (e.g., trailers). If the vehicles are shared, remember to clean and disinfect them between uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"farm-dedicated-equipment\">Farm-dedicated equipment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Having farm-dedicated equipment and machinery is a good way to limit the spread of diseases but isn\u2019t always possible. Any shared items including heavy machinery such as tractors or skid loaders, should be cleaned and potentially disinfected, before entering your farm or ranch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep your livestock healthy by having a plan to limit the risks of off-farm vehicles, equipment, and machinery on your farm. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"more-resources\">More resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/Assets\/tip-sheet-vehicles-equipment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vehicles and Equipment Biosecurity Tip Sheet (iastate.edu)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthyagriculture.org\/prevent\/traffic-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Traffic Control &#8211; Healthy Farms Healthy Agriculture<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/Assets\/tip-sheet-clean-disinfect.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cleaning and Disinfection Biosecurity Tip Sheet (iastate.edu)<\/a>,<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"signs\">Signs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/Infection_Control\/Sign\/do_not_enter_sign.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Do Not Enter Sign<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/Infection_Control\/Sign\/farm_visitor_policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Farm Visitors Policies Sign 1 (iastate.edu)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/Infection_Control\/Sign\/Designated_vehicle_parking_area_sign.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visitor Parking Area Sign<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal diseases can be spread by dirty or shared vehicles, ATVs, equipment, and machinery. Having a plan to limit vehicles, equipment, and their movement on your farm or ranch can help prevent disease introduction. Vehicle and equipment movement risks What kinds of vehicle or equipment movement occurs on your farm? Have the vehicles that come &#8230; <a title=\"On-farm traffic concerns for organic and alternative farms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/on-farm-traffic-concerns-for-organic-and-alternative-farms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about On-farm traffic concerns for organic and alternative farms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disease-prevention","category-traffic-control","category-visitors-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfsph.iastate.edu\/thelivestockproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}