The Country 05/09/25: Jeremy Rookes talks to Jamie Mackay

We track down the most annoying Cantabrian we know, our resident hobby farmer, to talk Dr Mike Joy, Carbon farming, and the Shield challenge. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's a man who has no trouble chatting and lightning

(00:03):
because he doesn't actually do much work. He's just a
hobby farmer. Jeremy Rocks, Jeza, you've got a houseful for
the rugby tomorrow. It's a shame your party's going to
be damp. And when the Stags retain the shield against
your Canterbury side.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, unfortunately, I don't think anyone can see any result
coming out of in Macarda with a cannery victory, unfortunately.
I mean i'd personally i'd like to see south of
one because I'm kind of with you as a Rugby romantic.
I'd like to see that smaller provinces have it, but
we haven't had a dead for five years, so we'll
probably go down and won't.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
And just totally ignore it thereafter. What do you make
of doctor Mike Joy.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well as many and that's a polite way of saying.
I mean, I just I always struggle with him because
as a freshwater ecologist, you'd think that he'd want to
work with agriculture, but he has no interest. He's just
a fanatic who dislikes to disrupt from the sidelines. So
that's all you can say. I just think it's a waste.
He's an idiot.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm not allowed to ask about Paris or carbon farming.
You're over those both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, well, you know you've got armost of out of
the game now. I mean, I'm you know, I mean,
we can stay in Paris, but just ignore it and
the carbon the carbon things just just charging on, you know, unabated. Really.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, four farms in central Hawk's Bay. I read this morning, Jeremy,
you're old patch.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, I told you that are we while ago? Actually, Jamie,
there's there's a road, Tiawa Road, and I said Hawk's
Bay and there were sixteen farms on there. There's only
two or three going in there. And that was only
five kas from we were were.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Hey, how do you see the test playing out at
Eden Park? Final question for you? Because is it a
flipper corin game?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, I'm all worried about their backs and their forwards.
I mean, we've got an awesome we've got an awesome
forward pack.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
But I just we've got our own bomb squad.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah we have. And I mean I just think that,
you know, when when when Smiley goes up tonight and
sees the boys at the hotel and reads them The
Little Yellow Digger before bedtime. I want them to tell
Scott to reassured himself as the ny Midgley hard ass
lock that he is. I want him to tell body
to get his line kicking right. And I want Jordi

(02:10):
there to calm down and just have a decent game,
because by god, our becks need it. Because man, it's
going It's just gonna be one of the great games.
I'm sorry, excited, I.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Tell you his second best game of the day. There
we go, Jeremy Rook's wrapping the country for today.