Mitch Cooper
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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It's ideal to sort of apply different types of zones to your farm, particularly if you've got people coming onto your farm that aren't necessarily your farm workers that need to have, you know, access to every bit of your farm.
If they're just visitors and there are scenarios where you can keep them to just the tanker loop or just the shed when the animals aren't in there or, you know.
Sort of assigning like red, orange, green zones of your farm and sort of as part of your normal visitor policy saying, well, these people can come here and maybe I need to ask some questions about people coming onto my farm before I'm letting them particularly into direct contact with my animals.
And making sure that, you know, people aren't coming onto your farm with muddy footwear and grubby clothes and, you know, sort of sensible general biosecurity practices that should apply day to day, you know, even irrespective of FMD.
So the vaccine bank is something that we've had in place for a long time already, but it's something where the contract with that bank comes up for a renewal every so often.
So we're sort of in the middle of the process of looking at renewing that contract and deciding how best to make sure that we are getting maximum value for money.
As Faye said before, you know, DRNZ now being an official signatory to an OA and having a say in that has meant that we've been closer to this than we've ever been before.
What the vaccine bank gives us is, I guess, we sort of pre-agree there's lots of strains of foot and mouth disease out there.
And the vaccination against one strain doesn't necessarily cross-protect against other strains.
There's a little bit of cross-protection here and there.
The strains out there in the world shift as time goes by.
So we're seeing a little bit more exposure to certain strains right now in certain parts of the world that we didn't see five or 10 years ago.
So it's important that the vaccines in the bank that we have shift as global disease shifts.
And so we have a number of these antigens banked right now, and we're looking at a new bank coming up soon that has a slight change in those antigens so that we are maximally prepared if we decide to use vaccination as a tool to help manage an outbreak.
It's not a guarantee that we will use vaccination.
Certain changes to the World Organization for Animal Health guidance around how you manage FND, who are sort of, I guess, the organization that dictates whether or not we can trade to a degree in the event of an FND and what countries look to as sort of guidance for how countries are responding to
Certain changes to that in the last couple of years mean that vaccination is way more on the table than it ever used to be.
It used to be that it was much harder to take a longer time to declare freedom if you use vaccines, but that barrier has sort of been removed.
So if we do decide to use vaccines, we've got a vaccine bank.
That means our time from sort of talking to the bank and saying, hey guys, we need some vaccine.
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