Not long after foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) was first detected in Indonesia, Brad Inglis made the tough call to close his cattle spelling yards – one of the busiest in the Northern Territory.
"If there is a [FMD outbreak], we're a high-risk zone with the number of trucks and the volume of cattle that come through here," Mr Inglis said.
Sturt Plains Station sits on just about the NT's tick line, 650 kilometres south-east of Darwin, and some years can spell and dip up to 60,000 cattle as they are trucked north or south.
