{"id":1180464,"date":"2026-09-01T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180464\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:29:20","slug":"opinion-jim-fairlie-bluetongue-is-becoming-an-endemic-disease-in-parts-of-scotland-one-we-will-need-to-live-and-work-with-rather-than-one-we-can-simply-keep-out-farm-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180464\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Jim Fairlie &#8211; &#8220;Bluetongue is becoming an endemic disease in parts of Scotland, one we will need to live and work with, rather than one we can simply keep out&#8221; | Farm News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colour-agri-1920x544.png\" width=\"250\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"textcolor\">All material is copyright Farmers Guardian Limited. Farmers Guardian and Farmersguardian.com are registered trademarks of Farmers Guardian Limited, Unit 4 Fulwood Park, Caxton Road, Fulwood, Preston, England, PR2 9NZ. Farmers Guardian Limited is registered in England and Wales with company registration number 07931451. Part of Arc network, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-network.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.arc-network.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All material is copyright Farmers Guardian Limited. Farmers Guardian and Farmersguardian.com are registered trademarks of Farmers Guardian Limited,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1180465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[100060,14893,189039,319999,748,16212,4884,248566,285,712,319998,320001,11312,320000,16,15],"class_list":["post-1180464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-animal-health","tag-blogs","tag-bluetongue","tag-bluetongue-vaccination","tag-britain","tag-cattle","tag-great-britain","tag-jim-fairlie","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-farmers","tag-scottish-farming","tag-scottish-government","tag-sheep-farmers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117195086395376094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}