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"While this does not have an impact on public health and food safety, it has potentially very serious consequences on agri-food and has caused real anxiety within the farming community."

This later phase included shell middens, dense ceramic refuse, and a sophisticated system of canals and raised fields connected to maize-based farming.

"There is another farm two kilometres away. They had pox cases, but hid it," she says, alluding to how she believes her herd contracted the disease.

Rage bait beat two other shortlisted terms - aura farming and biohack - to win the title.

Young farm women lived in boardinghouses, working 12-14 hour days for cash wages.