00:00 We're a mixed farm, we have 60% sheep.
00:05 Rachel Plowman lives on her family farm near Cojanup, 300km south east of Perth.
00:11 They are one of the many producers impacted by the Federal Government's 2028 ban on live
00:17 sheep exports by sea.
00:19 I think that this industry has by and large lost community support and that's a result
00:23 not just of one incident, of a number of incidents over the last 5, 10, 20 years.
00:29 Jeff Maioti has been trucking livestock around the Great Southern for 35 years.
00:35 He read the writing on the wall when Labor came to power.
00:38 We started diversifying, we've actually cancelled brand new crates that we had ordered.
00:44 Things were changing and you could see it happening.
00:48 Since the timeline was announced, farmers have come out and spoken about how this will
00:52 not only directly impact them, but an entire supply chain.
00:57 The four year phase out, the $107 million transition package has created many more questions
01:03 than it has answers.
01:04 WA meat processors are looking to solutions.
01:08 It's really delta blow to the industry, it's catastrophic in some instances but we've got
01:14 to find a way, we've got to have some solutions.
01:17 Currently, the Co-op's sheep processing facility in Catanings sends 16% of its chilled meat
01:23 to the Middle East.
01:24 They're hoping to grow this market.
01:27 We thought, well the only way we can do something is try and increase our kill rate that's hopefully
01:32 going to take some pressure off the loss of market from the live sheep export.
01:36 So we've signed off on about a $50 million project that we're going to increase our capacity
01:41 by about half a million head.
01:43 I guess being a farmer you always end up being a bit optimistic because otherwise you wouldn't
01:48 do it.
01:49 But here you hope for the best and plan for the worst in a way.
01:54 I hope it all comes through.
01:56 With just four years to change, producers are facing some hard decisions about the future.
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