[Video transcript of crop farmer James Russell.]

[The video opens with a drone view of a spreader, which is a tractor that sows seeds, and the Agriculture Victoria logo on the screen. This is followed by a drone view of the cropping farm sheds and silos.

A young man, with a blue button up shirt and jeans, appears on screen. He stands in a shed in front of a tractor.]

Hi, I’m James Russell I am a fifth-generation family farmer from Rutherglen Victoria. We have been producing grains for almost 100 years now, as well as producing prime lambs for almost 50 years now, and our clover production has been something that has incorporated itself into the business over the last 20 years.

[As James talks, various scenes showing James in paddock picking clover with sheep behind him, James seated in the driver’s seat of a tractor, a spreader driving across a field, a mob of sheep walking to the right across a paddock and another drone view of the silos and sheds. James cups clover seeds from a winnow, a scene shows the close up of clover and clover seeds cupped in a hand.]

A pest or disease can have a major effect on our farm. It can essentially wipe out entire crops overnight and we need to be very conscious of that which is why our biosecurity measures need to be in place to make sure we are protecting ourselves from those particular pests and diseases.

We have lots of livestock and machinery moving between paddocks and we need to make sure we are doing everything we can to control the weed bank on one paddock and not spreading it to another paddock.

[Various farm and biosecurity scenes show a close up of the ground, James closing a farm gate, water spraying across the tractor windscreen as part of a machinery washdown and James spraying under the tractor to clean and remove any weed seeds and soil, a tractor drives through a mud puddle on a dirt track and James walks toward a moving spreader in the paddock.]

Our livestock need to be managed and we need to use pathways that we know are clean and we know that livestock will not be able to pick up and move any weed seeds, insects or diseases that may hurt the paddocks they are moving into.

Pests that we worry about will be insects that include aphids, the red-legged earth mite and other small insects that can eat the photosynthetic area of the plant.

A biosecurity risk can affect not only us, our families, our economy, and our entire country.

We need to make sure that we are doing everything to protect that. Not only at our borders, but also at our farm gate. We can monitor it, we can gauge it, and we can make sure that no harmful pests, diseases, or weeds will enter this farm.

[Other scenes including a close up of the paddock, James holding flowering clover stem, James in a paddock handling the soil, and a mid-shot of the clover paddock, James patting a black and white dog, locking a farm gate and James standing in a paddock talking to his Dad with a tractor in the background, and imagery of James continuing to wash down the tractor, play on the screen in between imagery of James talking directly to the camera from the shed.]

In a way it’s like farming for today so we can farm for tomorrow.

[The final scenes of the video show James walking across a paddock back to his farm vehicle. The text on the screen shows the Agriculture Victoria logo and then is followed by a URL that reads agriculture.vic.gov.au/make-a-difference.

This is followed by an acknowledgement of Country in white text on a black screen that reads: Agriculture Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Victoria and their ongoing connection to the land and water.

The Victorian Government authorisation tag appears on screen, on the black background it reads:

Victoria State Government (logo)

Authorised by Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne]