Before snow hits

• Keep an eye on climate predictions and talk to your neighbours.
• Plan how you will deal with no power (no electric fences, pumps, milking, refrigeration, hot water, cook or heating). If necessary, source a generator.
• Stockpile what you might need for home and farm to minimise travel:
  • Surplus feed
  • Generators
  • Food and alternative means of cooking and heating for your home
  • Emergency kit.
• Have a battery-powered radio.
• Have a smartphone, and know how to use it and how to charge it up in the car
• If you need to travel any distance, make sure you are well-equipped for the cold and let someone know where you are and when to expect you back.
• Have a flexible feed plan underway for stock.
• If you know it’s coming, move stock to sheltered paddocks, especially young stock, to reduce exposure.
• Make sure stock can access food and water, and you can access them.

It’s a long way from negotiating with hostage-takers to touring rural New Zealand, but that’s where Lance Burdett’s career path has gone so far. He’s about to embark on a tour of rural South Island thanks to a series of talks put together by New Zealand’s local Rural Support Trusts and the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Founder of Warn International, Lance has moved from working for police and training with the FBI to dedicating himself to spreading tips and techniques for people to handle difficult situations by understanding what goes on in people’s brains – starting with their own.

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