Fi Roberts

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Talking Dairy · Foot-and-mouth disease travel risk and simple biosecurity tips | Ep. 130 · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

So doing all this readiness work will bring down that cost to eradicate the disease.

But we also want to get on top of it quickly.

I think that's the main thing that we need to do in the event of FMD.

It's because if we're prepared, if we can jump into action quickly, we can continue to trade, hopefully.

We're trying to get those settings right so that that trade could continue, particularly in the dairy sector.

Ultimately, good biosecurity is like insurance.

You hope you never need it, but you're glad that it's there when you do.

Interestingly, I had a farmer that called me about, they'd been on holiday in Bali, but they transited through Australia and they were concerned that there weren't enough protections at the border.

It was largely because they had transited through Australia, which has very strong biosecurity protection measures as well.

And when they came back in through New Zealand, because of the border being a kind of a risk-based approach, there were less measures because they come from that border protection from Australia.

So I thought that was quite interesting.

Yeah.

So there's been a pretty significant milestone in the last 12 months, Jack.

So it was at field days last year that six of the industry sector groups signed an operational agreement with MPI, with the Crown.

And what this basically does is create this framework, which means that we will prepare together, respond together.

But it's essentially we will have joint decision making over anything that happens in the readiness space and the response space and also joint cost sharing.

DairyNZ worked really hard to negotiate a strong cost share proposition for farmers and we got a really good deal.

And so the work now has switched from that negotiation into delivery.

And DairyNZ is chairing it, actually.

Campbell Parker, our chief executive, is the chair of the Foot and Mouth Disease Council, basically accountable and responsible for national preparedness for foot and mouth disease.

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