Farmers travel to Parliament House to hear virtual fencing update

NSW beef and dairy farmers travelled from across the state to press their case for virtual fencing.

Transcript

00:00Half my property is in Queensland, half of it's in New South Wales.

00:03I've got an invisible line through the middle being the state border.

00:06I can have cattle on the Queensland side, which is legal.

00:09If they walk across the river, I'm breaking the law.

00:12So I have a bit of an interest there in trying to get this onto my farm

00:17and into my operations so I can make this all work.

00:20We'd like the government to change the regulations to improve our farming system.

00:24Virtual fencing will change our system enormously

00:26and increase efficiencies in terms of moving stock,

00:31in terms of grazing and in terms of the overall efficiency of our business.

00:37Virtual fencing has a huge potential

00:39to massively increase productivity improvements

00:42because a lot of things that are mundane

00:44and little jobs that you don't necessarily need to do we can eliminate

00:48and it's also got OH&S benefits as well.

00:51So from a productivity point of view,

00:53there's massive improvements that can be made on farm.

00:56And we don't want to tell you about it.