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okay.
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Mhm.
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The edge of five or six had quite a big swarm of Locusts arrive on the farm.
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It was quite incredible to see how they went to work.
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Thio decimate the field within 30 to 40 minutes.
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My name is Robert Salvi.
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We've been farming as a family for five generations.
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It's currently we experiencing one of the biggest swarms in the last decade.
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Every week we're planting a new block.
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We obviously do fear the Locusts coming the next day to eat them up.
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I've got 150 actors off crop that we need to protect.
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If we do see something, we must try and scare them off our fields.
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Your animals will die of hunger.
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It will be devastating.
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It is anyway devastating for any former to lose his animals.
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I'm Christopher Millon.
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I'm a farmer in the Middleburg Eastern Type district, a farm with mostly with cattle and sheep or, well, well, basically finished the swarms through the night so we won't leave a farm.
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Our swarm that's not fully straight and finished really A soon as we see them, teams are always ready.
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It's always teams understand by to be called on they within an hour there on site.
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I'm gonna come around my masters.
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We were a team of four tonight with pucky sprayers.
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First of all, you have to look at the wind direction because of the drift off the insecticide.
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You always want to have the spray drift over the locust.
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We drive 25 m support and then you just have your beacons because of the dark.
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You can't judge at night.
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So the Bacons is just there for us to drive in a straight line.
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We winning.
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The battle is struggling.
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The terrain is extremely difficult.
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Way we are.
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So most of them were killed.
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It's just these large swarms that coming?
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Yeah, of course it's It's tiring.
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Last night was the first night in seven weeks.
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I had supper with my kids and my wife, so that was quite nice.
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These no motivation, just just a service to the community.
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We actually do as a former.
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We tend to be resilient in that we form with the elements and we have many challenges.
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So this is just another challenge for us to overcome.