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Speaker 1: As we know, the biggest annual beef industry event in

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Speaker 1: Northern Australia.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's due to take place.

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Speaker 1: It is the Northern Territory Cattleman's Association Annual Industry Conference.

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Speaker 1: It's going to bring in over seven hundred attendees from

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Speaker 1: across the country to the top end. And joining me

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Speaker 1: on the line to tell us a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about exactly what is on and what we can expect

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Speaker 1: it is Will Evans, the CEO of the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Cattleman's Association.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Will.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katy. Thanks having me on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great to speak to you. Well, are you there

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Speaker 1: at the moment? How's it all going.

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Speaker 3: I'm in the office of the minute. I'm just finalighting

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Speaker 3: a couple of jobs I probably should have got done

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Speaker 3: a bit earlier, but yeah, no, it's a hectic moment

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Speaker 3: for us. This is a big week obviously for the industry,

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Speaker 3: so got to get everything sorted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be massive. So

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Speaker 1: you're expecting more than seven hundred attendees.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so seven hundred on Friday to the conference. Then

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Speaker 3: we've got almost six hundred for the dinner. So's a

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Speaker 3: certainly to the vendor will break records for us this year.

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Speaker 3: I thought we topped it last year, but just one

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Speaker 3: of those things just continues to grow each year.

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Speaker 2: And what's on the agenda exactly.

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Speaker 3: So we've got Minister Murray Watt coming to town to

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Speaker 3: speak to the industry, obviously as a bit of a

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Speaker 3: keynote speech speech for us. We've got presentations from some

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Speaker 3: of the representatives and representatives of the Indonesian government regarding

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Speaker 3: the FMD and LSD situation over there and how the

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Speaker 3: Indonesians have been working through that. We've got business leaders

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Speaker 3: from around the country coming up to give presentations on

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Speaker 3: the globe I guess the global market outlook and where

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Speaker 3: we see things going, and how I guess territory beef

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Speaker 3: producers can prepare themselves for the next four months.

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Speaker 1: So just talk us through what some of the biggest

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Speaker 1: issues are I guess that the industry is facing right now.

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Speaker 1: I know that you've joined us on the show before

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Speaker 1: to talk about it, but some of those that you

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Speaker 1: are sort of speaking to your Indonesian counterparts about, well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at the moment I speak to you, we've

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Speaker 3: got the number members around the VRD district of the

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Speaker 3: Barkley District too obviously got a lot of water that

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Speaker 3: they've got to try and fix. So I think one

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Speaker 3: of the things is going to be a really immediate

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Speaker 3: problem for us this year is going to be getting

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Speaker 3: the roads back up to scratch and getting them make

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Speaker 3: making sure they're accessible for us when we do begin masters.

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Speaker 3: So I think some of the problems that we're going

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Speaker 3: to be talking about are going to be those immediate

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Speaker 3: issues and those longer term issues like THEESEL prices in

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Speaker 3: good prices continuing to increase, interest rates increasing. There are

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Speaker 3: some of the things that we'll be talking about this week.

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Speaker 2: How about our things at the moment when it comes

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Speaker 2: to that.

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Speaker 3: Flooding, well, look, it's a difficult one. I think is

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Speaker 3: a deep producer, you don't want to complain about rain,

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Speaker 3: but then every now and again a little bit too

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Speaker 3: much rain. So I think the Barkley region the water

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Speaker 3: should soak in and it's going to deliver a really,

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Speaker 3: really good season for us. But I guess we have

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Speaker 3: to get out there and have a look and see

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Speaker 3: how many cattle we might have lost, or how much

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Speaker 3: damage has been to infrastructure. So it's a little bit

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Speaker 3: of good news and a little bit of bad news

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Speaker 3: as well, So it's it'll take us a couple of

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Speaker 3: months fear it all out.

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Speaker 1: Now, where are people traveling from for the conference?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've got people coming from overseas. We've got people

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Speaker 3: coming from Queensland, Victoria, obviously from Canberra, some from Western

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Speaker 3: Australia as well. So it's very much a conference that

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Speaker 3: draws a lot of national attention. And yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of people who like coming up, especially

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Speaker 3: for the gala dinner on Friday night, enjoying a good

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Speaker 3: stake and a good glass of wine.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Hey talk us through as well what some of

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Speaker 1: those discussions like with the lumpy skin disease and also

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Speaker 1: the foot and mouth disease. Obviously we're tracking quite well

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Speaker 1: here in the territory at the moment, but it is

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Speaker 1: always something that's a concern. What you know, what are

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Speaker 1: you going to be discussing in that space throughout the week.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the meetings that we've had with the

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Speaker 3: Indonesian representatives over the last six months or so has

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Speaker 3: been that the vaccination program over there is going quite well.

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Speaker 3: But it's about that conversation of what lessons have they

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Speaker 3: learned about how they've had to manage it and how

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Speaker 3: do we apply those in the worst case scenario in

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory. I mean, we've got a wonderful opportunity

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Speaker 3: to hear firsthand from the leaders of the role out

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Speaker 3: of the vaccination program in Indonesia. What are the lessons

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Speaker 3: that they learned and how do we make sure if

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Speaker 3: the worst were to happen here, how do we best

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Speaker 3: prepare ourselves for that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is obviously they are all very very important

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Speaker 1: discussions to be having. Will anything else we should be

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Speaker 1: aware of this morning, mate, before I let you go.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think this is just it goes to show

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Speaker 3: that there is a lot of national attention business in

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory. There's a lot of national attention, especially

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Speaker 3: for the partial industry of the Northern Territory. So it's

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Speaker 3: an event that we're really proud of. It brings a

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Speaker 3: huge amount of investment to the town and yeah, we're

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Speaker 3: really looking forward to showcasing the industry to the people

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Speaker 3: in Darland this week and also people from around the country.

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Speaker 2: All wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Will Evans, the CEO of the Northern Territory, Cattleman's Association.

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Speaker 1: Thank you as always for having a chat with us today.

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Speaker 3: A lot of problem Thanks Amy Okatie, thank you