Anne Bolan, craft shop-owner, Wenslydale Longwool Sheepshop, Garriston.

"We export a lot of wool to America, and when it happened we had a frantic fax saying, "Our customers want to know if they can catch foot and mouth from your wool". So we wrote back and said, "No"! Business has fallen by 40%. When a nearby farm had it, they closed the road completely for a week. They took out all the neighbouring farms, so now we're the only ones in the area who still have animals. Its effected our lives 100%. I think it had gone a long way before it was discovered. Obviously things have been done wrong, but it's a huge thing to cope with. If you get it, it's devastating, it must be awful. But there again, if you don't, you're worse off financially because you don't get the compensation. I'm not saying you want these things, you desperately don't, you just want a fair price for what you're doing. I don't think we'll ever live as we did before, because I don't think prices will return to what they were. It's going to be a real struggle to carry on farming. And nobody knows how long this is going to go on. My son's an electrical engineer and my daughter's a riding instructor. No farming - they've got more sense. Very wise!"