A government study in April 2001 revealing the scale of emissions raised the fear that farmland would have to remain unused for long after the crisis was over, reports Geoffrey Lean
A tree is silhouetted by a large burning pyre of livestock infected by foot-and-mouth disease near Wigton, Cumbria, on 15 April 2001A cow is lowered onto a burning pyre near the Scottish village of Ecclefechan on 21 April 2001.
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