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Speaker 1: With us right now filling in for Jamie dun Jamie

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Speaker 1: McKay on the country is Rowenda Duncan.

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Speaker 2: Hey Roe, Hey, Heather. I've got a question for you.

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Speaker 2: When do you change the batteries in your smoke ybes? No?

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Speaker 1: Did it go off in the night? Did it?

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Speaker 2: It did three fourteen this morning in Jamie's house. In

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Speaker 2: Jamie's house, I think he stitched me up. He said,

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Speaker 2: look after the show, don't be too good, and I

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Speaker 2: think he was a bit worried, says my smoke alarm

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Speaker 2: to god? Did you have a look? Grown?

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Did you have a look whether it's

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Speaker 1: one of those ones you changed the batteries in, or

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Speaker 1: whether it's one of those ones with a permanent ten

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Speaker 1: year battery.

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Speaker 2: It's a nine vault. It should have been changed at

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Speaker 2: daylight saving, which has just happened.

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Speaker 1: Oh classic. Do you know what if his house burns down,

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Speaker 1: none of us are going to feel sorry about it.

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Speaker 2: Eh. Would you change the battery for him? Bro? I

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Speaker 2: will do that tonight. I'm about to walk to the

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Speaker 2: supermarket after I talk to you, because that's what I do.

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Speaker 2: Here about I get things done.

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Speaker 1: You keep that receipt and get a reimbursement. Now, what's

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Speaker 1: going on with the chicken exports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously last December we had our first case

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Speaker 2: of pathogenic avian influenza and otago egg. Thousands of chickens

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Speaker 2: were held. It was all really really devastating. Thankfully the

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Speaker 2: outbreak was contained to one farm and MPI have updated

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Speaker 2: us and said, you know, obviously when something like this happens,

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Speaker 2: you put a bit of a halt on exports, you

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Speaker 2: lose market access. But about around three hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 2: which is about seventy five percent of trade and poultry products,

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Speaker 2: has been recovered and a spokesperson, Fatigel, who's one of

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Speaker 2: the major exporters, is several international markets and post temporary restrictions,

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Speaker 2: they've been working closely with MPI but they are helping

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Speaker 2: them regain access to those markets and now it's only

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Speaker 2: a couple that they still have access problems being worked through.

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Speaker 2: So a really good outcome for that, because obviously the

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Speaker 2: moment you have an issue in other country is like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we can fill that. We've got chickens to spare, give

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Speaker 2: us that access, and sometimes it is really really hard

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Speaker 2: to regain it. So well done to everyone.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's happened on the farms over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's just awful as well, you know. So we

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Speaker 2: had two farm fatalities involving vehicles over the weekend. And

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Speaker 2: I was chatting to the chair of Safer Farms Today,

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Speaker 2: Lindy Nelson, who explained that every farm death, every tragedy,

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Speaker 2: at least two hundred people are immediately affected, and looking

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Speaker 2: at it from a wider perspective, at least three thousand

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Speaker 2: people are involved. She said, there's multiple ways of addressing

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Speaker 2: this over the years. There's been different campaigns Farm Without Harm.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the latest strategies to come out a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. That's about coming together collectively as

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Speaker 2: farmers and the industry and recognizing that we need to

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Speaker 2: improve how we address farm safety. They've got shared resources

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Speaker 2: on their website, genuine stories from farmers what's worked for them,

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Speaker 2: what hasn't you know, where they've gone wrong, and what

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Speaker 2: they've done to improve so that we can learn from

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Speaker 2: the good and the bad examples. But look, it's just

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Speaker 2: it's absolutely devastating. No one goes to work intending to

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Speaker 2: get injured. We all want to come home safe at night.

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Speaker 2: And she said it's about assessing the resk, looking at

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Speaker 2: what's to have had weather events over the weekends. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: when you go to work there's a new risk because

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Speaker 2: it rained and it wasn't there yesterday. So it's about

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Speaker 2: thinking and changing how you think. And the one thing

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Speaker 2: that stuck out for me, Heather, as she said, you know,

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Speaker 2: talking about safety, it can make us feel uncomfortable, but

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Speaker 2: it's less uncomfortable than going to someone's funeral, And that

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Speaker 2: really sums it up.

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Speaker 1: That's true, right, Hey, Roe, good luck with the smoke

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Speaker 1: alarm this evening. That's Rowena Duncan filling in on the

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Speaker 1: Country for Jamie McKay.

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