Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the mood of Fieldays 2025

It's all go at Fieldays 2025, and the Country's Jamie Mackay is taking it all in.

Farmers are in a better mood as primary export figures soar - and business is booming.

Jamie Mackay recaps the mood of day two of Fieldays.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jamie mckaye hosts of the Country with Us from Field Days.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey Jamie, Hello Heather?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
How much fun? Are you having.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
A lot of fun? I'm about to go out for
a night on the tron with the Country team. Are
all in the background?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is that them laughing?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Smoothing away? Now they're laughing at me for talking about
a night on the tron. But look, honestly, Thursday night
in Hamilton at field Days is as big as it gets.
If you're from if you were Right and Gore or
Riverstar like me.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, this is a big lights.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Where do you got to go with lots? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Where do you go when you go out in Hamilton?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Where are we going to? Ben Smith and McKenzie's shameless
plug for that restaurant? But after that here, but wait,
there's more. We go to the spates Alehouse and Hamilton,
run by former All Black Aaron Penny, and we have
and we have the unofficial you know how we had
the Radio Award. It's last week and you're the Broadcaster
of the Year decade century. I don't know but we

(01:13):
go out and have like the rural Broadcaster of the Year,
but it's just an absolute roast between ourselves media works
and what are that other outfit co Sport Nation. Yeah,
so that's just a few bearst of spas.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Good And so tomorrow is it a complete right off?
Like are you going to be chugging back the ginger
beers and eating the McDonald's to try and make it through?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, no, no, not at all, Heather. A drink like
a man, work like a man the next day. Now, look,
I'll be home tucked up in good time. Nothing good
happens after midnight. Back in the early days thirty years ago,
I would burn the candle at both ends. But not now,
because Heather, I've got to do serious rural reports like
the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries reports which was

(01:56):
released today and I know you're dying to find out.
All right, So our primary sector exports are worth nearly
sixty billion fifty nine point nine okay, And Raysmith, the
Director General of MPI, said he wanted to tweak the
accounting department just to get it past sixty billion.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
They died in the hole just shut sixty billion.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But here's the kicker. They want a primary sect direct
who reached sixty five point seven billion by twenty twenty nine,
which is in four years. Remember they set the target
last year twenty four primary sector exports in the next
decade where they're going to have to go a long
way because they need to get from fifty nine to

(02:39):
about just over one hundred billion to double exports. So
someone's going to have to do the heavy lifting. As
it stands at the moment, the dairy export industry up
sixteen percent for the year ended thirtieth June, twenty seven
billion dollars out of the sixty that's nearly half meat
and waller good solid twelve billion horticulture bit of a

(02:59):
star of the stable. Perhaps that's what will save our
bacon in the end up nineteen percent to eight point
five billion, Forestry slightly staged at six point three billion,
and Shane Jones's seafood export revenue has lifted two percent
to two point two billion.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Brilliant stuff. Hey, go and enjoy yourselves, you'll deserve it,
and spend up large and help them out. That Jamie
Mackay Host of the Country, where did he saym Smith
and something or other? Do you want to see him,
go there.

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