Video: Ben Cunnington – farm safety and injury prevention

[Gentle music begins – Ben Cunnington is leaning on a hay trough, with cows visible in the background.]

Text on screen: Ben Cunnington – Football player and beef farmer

Ben Cunnington: My name's Ben Cunnington, from the North Melbourne Football Club.

[Scene moves to show close up vision of the cattle.]

We run beef. At the minute we have 68 head of Angus cattle.

[Returns to a panoramic shot of Ben surveying the cattle from the hay trough.]

I was brought up on a dairy farm as well as my wife, so we're both brought up in the country.

[An interview shot of Ben speaking directly to the camera.]

Seen first-hand how hard it can be but also seen the enjoyments, the pleasure, the variation in the job and working outside with the animals.

[Ben walks across a muddy road, watching over his cattle in the adjacent field.]

There's definitely a lot more positives to outweigh the negatives…

[A sweeping shot over the tops of the cattle.]

…and that's what we wanted to pursue…

[Returns to Ben's interview shot.]

…post-footy for our family, especially our kids growing up.

[Shows a sweeping shot of the hay trough, Ben begins to pull out hay to feed the cattle.]

Safety is everything, if you're injured obviously you're not going to be playing the game you love so keep safe, keep your body right…

[Returns to Ben’s interview shot.]

...then you get to go out there every weekend and play the game we love. We do a lot of stuff, a lot of injury prevention weights, training. Obviously extra recovery and all that.

[Cuts to a shot of an iron cattle yard, Ben checks it over.]

Safety on the farm is just as important if not more. Having a young family, we like doing things together…

[Cuts back to Ben’s interview shot.]

...getting each other involved, so, safety's huge and we definitely try and set everything up around it.

[Ben pats the cattle through the cattle yard.]

We recently just purchased some cattle yards, we customised them...

[Ben swings open the gate, showing the camera around the cattle yard.]

...with safety being number one, so we can work with the cattle as a family and know we're going to be safe...

[Closes out on Ben's interview shot.]

…and we can have some fun doing it.

Video concludes.