The Country 13/06/25: Richard Lindroos and Jenni Vernon talk to Jamie Mackay

It’s a Fieldays wrap-up with the new chief executive and the president/board chairwoman.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's a couple of stars. The new chief one relatively
new chief executive. It is his first Field Days, Richard
Lyndrews and of course Jenny Vernon. You are a legend, Jenny,
and I'm going to talk to you on a tick.
But Richard, how's your first Field Days gone?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh fantastic. But I was just a bit worried about you.
It was Rows just saying he had a very large
night last night, Jamie.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
And well, I've been coming to Field Days Richard for
like thirty years, and every year I say to myself,
I'm not gonna nothing good happens after midnight.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well I heard it wasn't that good for you? Go?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it was the Rural Broadcasting Awards, which is just
three radio companies ripping the hell out of each other.
It was a lot of fun. So it was a
good night out. But thank you very much on behalf
of us here. It ends in me and the country
for giving us this prime spot to broadcast.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
For you are the best spot at Field Days that
the crowd is streaming through, obviously to see the exhibitors,
but also to see you. What a prime spot.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I don't know about seeing me. I'll tell you they
were here in their hordes to see Shane Jones. Very
popular man, popular man, populer man. Jenny Vernon, you're the
board chair and I think president, and you have such
a long history and association with this event. You were
at the Rural Support Trust debate on Wednesday night, over
three hundred thousand dollars raised, and you know we needed

(01:16):
to get it wrapped up. It finished at about ten
and you had to go straight home because you were
getting up at three o'clock in the morning to make
food for the volunteers here.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
That's absolutely correct. The brown building over there, we start
breakfast at six am for all our volunteers, and so
somebody has to cook that food, Jamie and so yes,
the team. I leave home at Halpas three.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Wow, that's Mike Hoskins bacon, Jamie five coach and scrambled
three varieties. Brilliant And Jenny, you're famous also for being
the first No, you are famous. This is an honor
to meet you in person. You're famous for being the
first woman female to ever be awarded in enough Eld Scholarship.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, that's great, Amy. It was a privilege to be
awarded it in nineteen ninety four and I traveled and
studied deregulation of the milk marketing board, the Dutch flower
industry and cooperatives.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You are an absolute legend. Hey, what's the feedback of
Richard Linder as chief executive that you're getting from the punters?
We had Rick lad from Brandt here talking about and
I know some of your other tractor partners like Case
who are just around the corner here, they're doing really good.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
H and even Blue Honda they are going really well.
I think you know post budget that what the government
has done in a few announcements at field days as well,
are really setting the pace and incentivising the attendee. So
you know, well, we have great crowds coming through and
we're looking forward a really big super sad day. The
tools are ring as well, so world uneaggy business. As

(02:47):
you heard yesterday, sixty billion revenue business of forecasts are up.
You know, we had to lead New Zealand economy and
that's what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
All right, there we go. Oh, Jenny's giving you the
hurry up. She's saying, well you're giving that No, no,
look this is what we look at, Jenny c this
clock here, I've got till twelve fifty seven fifteen and
I'm rocking twelve fifty six forty five, so I do
have thirty seconds to wrap this. Richard Lindros, Jenny Vernon,
thank you so much and well done the pair of you.
This is like this is John Key at the Rugby

(03:17):
World Cup. There's a trump one all right. That's us
done and dusted