The role of water in disease movement can be important. Seepage from infected fields or from washing facilities into creeks and dams can be transferred on to planting fields or seedbeds. Many of the soil-borne pathogens are well adapted to life in water and persist in seepages, creeks and ponds. Once a soil-borne disease is established, it is a matter of living with the pest through management strategies. An established pathogen is very rarely eradicated.
Quarantine depends upon hygiene.
All used or secondhand equipment brought on to a property must be checked and proved to be clean. This includes bags, boxes, bulk bins, machinery, trucks and contractors' equipment. It is good practice to restrict visitors' cars and trucks to a hard standing area near the main area or to roads and raceways. Any vehicles, including one's own, obviously carrying mud and soil should be left on the entry hard standing or washed before moving on to the farm. If in doubt, wash down or refuse entry of suspect items.