By Julian Sparrey, technical director at Livetec Systems Winter creates conditions that favour avian influenza (AI), shaped by weather patterns, wild bird movements and an environment where infection pressure rarely disappears. As a result, the question is no longer if cases will rise, but how prepared the industry is when they do. There’s already significant AI virus circulating beyond the perimeter fence. For many producers, it’s not a distant risk moving across the country; it’s present in the fields, waterways and wildlife around their units. Therefore, the critical challenge is not what is happening beyond the gate, it’s what happens…