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00:09Raising livestock in outback Queensland can be both beautiful and brutal.
00:15Alice Downs in the central west of the state is no exception.
00:19So the property is 93,000 acres and we run a stud and commercial operation.
00:25But a lot of people might have heard of Alice Downs before,
00:27being the home of where Jackie Howell shore his blade-sharing record.
00:35Rural Queensland is nothing if not extreme.
00:39Alongside droughts come flooding rains.
00:42Last year catastrophic rains ravaged huge parts of western, northern and far northern Queensland
00:48in both summer and into autumn.
00:51They get stung with absolutely every bad thing.
00:54You know, they get the floods, they get the droughts, they get everything.
01:00All this to say the people who farm in remote areas of Queensland have to exercise resilience
01:06and they have to adapt.
01:08This year for Liz Allen, for the first time, that includes harvesting and preserving embryos
01:14from her best heifers as a guarantee against the next disaster.
01:20So we've now got our first 40 eggs banked away and it's something we'll probably do every year I think
01:26now.
01:26It's an amazing opportunity I think to future proof your genetics.
01:31When the next drought, flood or if God forbid, disease outbreak happens, they've got that basically point in time frozen.
01:40How do we have to save the droughts?
01:40Nothing is there either.
01:45Even in May our suivre application and for R evolving in no way, don't turn a hospital bed
01:45associated with the slide.
01:45So flood, Guns Grill members have spoke of Sam'shencluster as a result of Lena lookerst safeguarding sane.
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