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Building next Gen of onboard stockies in Northern Territory

A historic collaboration between the Young Livestock Exporters Network (YLEN) and LiveCorp has seen the training course for on-board live export stockpersons held in Darwin for the first time in over a decade.

“Exporters draw a lot of stockmen and women from stations in the Northern Territory, but we traditionally had to send them to Fremantle to get accredited,” YLEN chair Kari Moffat said.

“That obviously brings with it a lot of costs and has been a barrier to getting great people off stations and onto ships – particularly for the younger generation.”

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