Without decent transport on Mongolia's roadless steppe, a ready market for livestock and processed goods was no longer assured, particularly for remote herders.
The only remaining livestock market in Northamptonshire is looking to move to new premises.
Thrapston livestock market caters for farmers across the region with some coming from Melton Mowbray, Colchester and Thame.
The situation was discussed by farmers, vets and farming specialists at a meeting at Hereford Livestock Market on Monday.
The court heard the council has committed itself to maintaining a livestock market within the county boundaries for at least 50 years.
"There have been acts in place to protect the livestock market and its continuance within the boundaries of Abergavenny, " said Ms Long.
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Carwyn Jones has insisted that a livestock market - implicated by the Maff - should not be blamed for the spread of foot-and-mouth.
Mr Bates added that a modern, new livestock market on the outskirts of Welshpool would maintain the town's strong links with the farming community.
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He has also arranged for sheep farmers who want to talk to him about the disaster to meet at Welshpool livestock market a week on Monday.
Currently the centre of Thrapston is too small to accommodate all the traffic generated by trade and many farmers have to plan carefully before taking their livestock to market.
During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.
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The Defenders of Wildlife have a trust fund which compensates (at full market value) any rancher who loses livestock.
On Thursday, he insisted that Welshpool Livestock Auctions - the Powys market which it was claimed was at the centre of the mid Wales outbreak - had been "victims of misfortune".
In his book, Mr Sen raised the theoretical possibility that a pastoralist's supply curve might actually bend back on itself: as the relative price of livestock falls, a hungry pastoralist might supply more animals to the market, not fewer as elementary economic principles would imply.
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