With respect to avian influenza (AI) the statistics still maintain that the summertime is the lowest risk period for disease outbreaks. Indeed, this summer is looking particularly low risk as the last outbreaks were in mid-April and since then there has only been a handful of infected dead wild birds collected. Despite the apparent low risk, farmers should not see this summer as a time to switch off or relax their biosecurity. Moreover, this period should be utilised as a valuable opportunity to review and if necessary, strengthen both physical and behavioural biosecurity before disease pressure inevitably rises again in the autumn. For Dr Paul Talling and Amy Davies, Livetec’s Biosecurity Advisors, the message is clear: Review, renovate and/or renew now. The same steps taken in the autumn will likely bring much greater risks. “Biosecurity is an investment,” says Paul. “Now is the time to be investing and it’s not necessarily about money. It’s only about investing time and making sure things are working as they should.”…