David Acland - Farm Chat

Back to Mt Somers Station for Farm Chat with David Acland - Everything from a late taste of winter, to meeting David Seymour, to his take on David Clark's ECan struggles

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
David Ecklund is back for some farm chats. Morning morning,
you get some snow at yours. Yesterday we did it
the sweet yeah, and then the frost this morning. What's
going on? I thought we were past this.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Wow, it's spring, isn't it. I've had I've had a
potest night at this time of year, so I'm glad
it was only an Hyeah.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We had the Deputy Prime Minister in town last week
and we were both lucky enough to catch up with him.
Peter Mack pointed out that I've still got David Seaboll's
half eaten pie sitting in the studio, Sally fossilizing. I'm
thinking maybe if I leave it long enough, it might
be worth something. But anyway, I'm sure that you had
far more pressing things to put to them than spicy pies.
What'd you talk about?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Regional counsel and consenting processes and just trying to get
the get the message across that it's not working at
the moment, and there's a lot of people battling, battling
to get reasonable, reasonable process. So that was that was
the name of the convert game of the conversation was
to try and get some of that narted down and
get some change it on.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
The regional council. We must have been listening to yourself
and David Clark, he's recently shared his struggles with e
Can David Seymour saying it feels a bit like civil
war out there. What's your take? Do we even need
e Can?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, that's a big question, isn't it sull of change?
And it'll be a massive structural change similar to what
we went through the early ninety eighties when we're from
catching boards to district regional council and the amalgamation of
the different councilors and to form the district council. So
it does need to be changed because there is a
bottlenet at the moment and it's through the to just

(01:33):
at the moment. So we do need to try and
get what a forward it's going to benefit one the community,
the environment and enable development to have him as well.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
On the flip side, pretty good times to be a farmer,
especially if you're dairying fon terror releasing the final payout
well over ten bucks for the season that's just been
in metrics looking good, so the lot of a.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Strong it's great for mccannery and the community as a whole.
You know, we just needed to see a good uptick
in the arable side of things and then then then
everyone would be pretty pumped up in the cannery. You know,
we're very fortunate to have the breadth of our farming
industries that we have in this district. We're not just
a one trick pony. So yeah, we're pretty Luckiness or

(02:26):
drives off that water, doesn't it. So we've got the
National Party coming in on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
We'll do you.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, there's a.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
First coming to visit. Who's coming?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh, Well, Minister of Ryan, Penny Simmons and a few
of the rural nats.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
So do you think Penny Simmons would write a favorable
letter to e can on your behalf too?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, you know that she's she is the minister from
Brahman And that was the important conversation last week was
that we had Andrew Hoguard here as well, and he's
part of the environment in Deftum striate environments, so that
there were two key players to have these conversations with.
So it's been really really good that they have all

(03:08):
coming down to have this conversation, specially with the RMA
up to change. We just want to make sure the
transition phases is good for everyone and that we've be
done something that's going to be better than what we've got
at the moment.