Mitch Cooper
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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And not just the farmers, you know, some of the people making the decisions, you know, they're having to make really, really hard, really bold, really significant decisions.
And so making sure that they are supported as well through that process is really important.
alongside the exercise farm gate, there's actually quite a number of exercises that are going on at the moment for foot and mouth disease in the background.
Lots of them MPI driven.
Some of them are F&D council driven.
So over the past sort of six to 12 months, there have been a, I guess a tour going around the country of,
where they've been doing regional workshops and trying to get as many people involved in, you know, who might be impacted or who might be on the ground at the time in regional workshops so that MPI can understand who's involved.
They can try and get an idea of what they might be missing in certain regions or what information might be able to add to their sort of overall preparedness for managing the disease.
It's also been a really good exercise.
I attended the Taranaki one
just in informing people who might be sort of loosely related to farming or sort of off to the side a little bit as to just the implications that might be having in their communities.
You know, even people like rural bankers will obviously be playing a pretty big role in trying to sort of make sure that people's cash flow is working and they can survive day to day.
So there's a big national tour of those exercises, which has fed into a lot of our understanding of F&D management at a regional level, which has been really, really good.
There are also several other large-scale sort of government exercises that are going on in the background, as well as FND governance exercise, which is, I guess, a practice run through some of the decisions that need to be made by FND governance.
And that's obviously all the industry partners and MPI in conjunction to make sure that we're not making these decisions for the first time or we're not thinking about these decisions for the first time in the event of an FND outbreak, because it'll be pretty chaotic, but there are lots of things that we can do to prepare in advance.
General rule of thumb that we say is if you can prepare yourself for FMD, you can pretty much prepare yourself for anything.
You obviously don't need to live life necessarily like FMD is here, but there's lots of things that you can do to make your life a little bit easier on the day-to-day.
And a lot of the biosecurity practices that we recommend are useful for sort of generic endemic disease management as well.
Part of managing things like BVD can be done through really, really good biosecurity practices.
So
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