Surveillance conducted at a NSW feedlot has demonstrated pigs and cattle eating from the same bunk less than two minutes after each other, in new research presented at a pest management symposium on the state's North Coast.

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Research Scientist at the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development Sebastien Comte and his colleagues captured and GPS-collared 17 feral pigs, tracking their movements to and from a feedlot over 10 months.

"The main focus is the risk for animal disease transmission and spillover between feral pigs and livestock," he sai

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