The Country 15/12/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s weatherman has a spring-like forecast and his Ag Person of the Year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weather on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Phil Duncan wrapping the show for the final Monday of
twenty twenty five for us. Anyhow, I know a lot
of you farmers will be working on Phil. I'm going
to try and sneak you back a week later in
the week for a closer to Christmas forecast. But before
you name your ag person of the year for the
farmers in the dryer regions, have they got any rain
coming this week? I think that's the important question to ask.

(00:26):
That would be a good present from Santa.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, it would be good, Jamie. We've got mostly a
westerly flow this week, so those eastern areas might get
a little bit of spillover, especially in the South Island,
but the North Island Hawks Bay especially looks very dry,
so there's most of Northland as well, particularly the far North.
So those are probably the two dryer therees, Hawks Bay
and Northland, and there Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury sort of in

(00:53):
the next category down, so there might be a bit
of spillover, but most of the rain is on the
west coast, Southland and Otago and Tuttlenaki. And that's because
we're going back into a spring weather pattern right up
until Christmas Day. So that means westerly driven weather, windy
at times, and temperatures fluctuating up and down.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, and there could be some meaningful rainfall in some regions. Okay, Phil,
because I'm going to try and get you back later
in the week. As I said, for a pre Christmas
forecast or a Christmas forecast. Who is your AGG Person
of the Year twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
My eighth person of the year this year, I wanted
to go with the Young Farmer of the Year, Hugh Jackson,
fifth MG Young Farmer of the Year. I think he
deserves to be mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, good on you, and it's yeah, the future of
farming is in good hands when you look at the
like Sir Hugh Jackson and George Dodson and Emma Paul
and sim Danjon and all those other Young Farmers of
the Year, they're great ambassadors for the industry.