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Rowena Duncum: The Country host on chicken exports returning to normal after bird flu outbreak · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: With us right now filling in for Jamie du Jamie
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  Speaker 2: McKay on the Country is Rowenda. Uncle, Hey, ro.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Heather. I've got a question for you. When do
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  Speaker 3: you change the batteries in your smoke?
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  Speaker 2: Ypes?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Did it go off in the night?
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  Speaker 3: Did it? It did? Three fourteen this morning in Jamie's house.
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  Speaker 3: And Jamie's house, I think he stitched me up. He said,
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  Speaker 3: look after the show, don't be too good, and I
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  Speaker 3: think he was a bit worried, said my smoke alarm
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  Speaker 3: to god? Did you have a look?
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  Speaker 1: Row?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Did you have a look. Whether it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those ones you change the batteries in, or
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  Speaker 2: whether it's one of those ones with a permanent ten
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  Speaker 2: year battery.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nine vault. It should have been changed at
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  Speaker 3: daylight saving, which has just happened.
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  Speaker 2: A classic. Do you know what if his house burns down,
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  Speaker 2: none of us are going to feel sorry about it?
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  Speaker 3: Eh?
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  Speaker 2: Did you change the battery for him?
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  Speaker 1: Bro?
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  Speaker 3: I will do that tonight. I'm about to walk to
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  Speaker 3: the supermarket after I talk to you, because that's what
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  Speaker 3: I do here about I get things done.
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  Speaker 2: You keep that receipt and get a reimbursement. What's going
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  Speaker 2: on with the chicken exports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously last December we had our first case
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  Speaker 3: of pathogenic avian influenza and Otago egg farm. Thousands of
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  Speaker 3: chickens were called. It was all really really devastating. Thankfully
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  Speaker 3: the outbreak was contained to one farm and MPI have
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  Speaker 3: updated us and said, you know, obviously when something like
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  Speaker 3: this happens, you put a bit of a halt on exports,
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  Speaker 3: you lose market access. But about around three hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 3: which is about seventy five percent of trade and poultry products,
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  Speaker 3: has been recovered. And a spokesperson Fatigel, who's one of
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  Speaker 3: the major exporters, there's several international markets and post temporary restrictions,
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  Speaker 3: they've been working closely with MPI but they are helping
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  Speaker 3: them gain access to those markets and now it's only
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  Speaker 3: a couple that they still have access problems being worked through.
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  Speaker 3: So a really good outcome for that because obviously the
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  Speaker 3: moment you have an issue, another country is like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we can feel that we've got chickens to spare, give
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  Speaker 3: us that access and sometimes it is really really hard
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  Speaker 3: to regain it. So well done to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Now what's happened on the farms over the weekend, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just.
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  Speaker 3: Awful as well. You know, we had two farm fatalities
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  Speaker 3: involving vehicles over the weekend. And I was chatting to
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  Speaker 3: the chair of Safer Farms Today, Lindy Nelson, who explained
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  Speaker 3: that every farm death, every tragedy, at least two hundred
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  Speaker 3: people are immediately affected, and looking at it from a
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  Speaker 3: wider perspective, at least three thousand people are involved. She said,
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  Speaker 3: there's multiple ways of addressing this. Over the years, there's
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  Speaker 3: been different campaigns Farm without Harm. That's one of the
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  Speaker 3: latest strategies to come out a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: That's about coming together collectively as farmers and the industry
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  Speaker 3: and recognizing that we need to improve how we address
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  Speaker 3: farm safety. They've got shared resources on their website, genuine
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  Speaker 3: stories from farmers, what's worked for them, what hasn't you know,
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  Speaker 3: weird they've gone wrong, and what they've done to improve
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  Speaker 3: so that we can learn from the good and the
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  Speaker 3: bad examples. But look, it's just it's absolutely devastating. No
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  Speaker 3: one goes to work intending to get and jed, we
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  Speaker 3: all want to come home safe at night, and she said,
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  Speaker 3: it's about assessing the risk, looking at what's changed. We
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  Speaker 3: have had weather events over the weekends. Sometimes when you
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  Speaker 3: go to work there's a new risk because it rained
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  Speaker 3: and it wasn't there yesterday. So it's about thinking and
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  Speaker 3: changing how you think. And the one thing that stuck
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  Speaker 3: out for me either, as she said, you know, talking
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  Speaker 3: about safety, it can make us feel uncomfortable, but it's
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  Speaker 3: less uncomfortable than going to someone's funeral, and that really
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  Speaker 3: sums it up.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, right, Hey, Roe, good luck with the smoke
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  Speaker 2: alarm this evening. That's Rowena Duncan filling in on the
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  Speaker 2: Country for Jamie McKay.
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