The Country 16/06/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s resident weatherman is the (justly deserved) 2025 Agricultural Communicator of the Year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the country. Lenny Kravitz coming to New Zealand.
Our next guest is probably a big Lenny Kravitz fan,
or is he more sort of Jimmy Hendrix and Purple
Hayes might have been. After being announced as the Agricultural
Communicator of the Year at Field Days, Phil Dunkan, proud
of you, mate.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thank you, thank you very much. Nice to be following
in some the steps of some very very amazing people
such as yourself.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well back in the day. Gee, two thousand and six,
I got a thousand bucks and I gave it to
the IHC because I was raising money around the London
Marathon for the IHC, so I thought i'd toss that
one and as well two thousand and six or seven,
I can't remember exactly when. Who are you giving your
prize money to, Phil.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm not sure yet. Now you're making me feel very good.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm pressuring you. My IHC, CARF and rural schemes are great,
great charity.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Phil, I do like giving money to charity. I do
actually support quite a few, so we'll see how I go.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
You deserve it, because I know you've battled. You've battled
in the private industry up against government departments. You met
Service and NIWA, and you fought. You've fought to get
a good product out there for farmers. So now you
keep it fill keep spending money on weather Watch.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I actually I mentioned you in my speech and the
very part I did, I said, I want to thank
Jamie McKay because he's been the person I've worked with
the longest and where the watch. You're the first kind
of client that I had, and we've been working together
since the two thousand and I think eight or nine
around about then, and and that you gave me three things.
You help me with people, you help me with politics,

(01:37):
and every now and then you tell me just to
calm down a bit. And that's that's that's the takeaway
I've here from you over all these years. And I
know many others out there in the rural sort of
media sector look up at you as someone.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Come on, fell, this is about you, not me.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Look well, you help us all, you help us all well.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Even Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes on the number one radio station. According to the Prime.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Minister, no no, no, no, no, no, no no, anyhow,
we will look look short and sweet for the weather
this week, heading into a long weekend for some. It
won't be for many farmers. But Martoriki weekend, it's going
to be a good week in the South Island. We
need it, We need it. Phil, It's it's been awful here.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I know you've got the winter air flowers kind of
hanging around for a bit long. Yet there's no sign
of that disappearing anytime soon. Definitely wintry weather from the
lower North Island southwards even the eastern side. High pressure
controls our weather for a few days. But we do
have another cold front coming in on Thursday Friday, so
Southland and Otago and Westland, those areas might be a

(02:36):
bit unsettled going into the long weekend, but the next
big high rolls back in again by Friday night, and
so Saturday and Sunday most places high pressure, light webs
perfect long weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Good on here, Hey, Fel Duncan got to go. Congratulations
for being the Ravens down. I'll give them a good
plug because they've been a great supporters of this agricultural
communicator of the air. Really well deserved. You keep up
the good work.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thanks Mary, Thank you for all the very kind words