The Country 20/11/25: Tangaroa Walker talks to Jamie Mackay

Is a dynamic young Southland dairy farmer, and social media influencer, who wants to crowd fund an equity partnership to buy a farm.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's a dynamic young dairy farmer. His name is Tanguaaa Walker.
Here's the guy behind the Farm for Life Hub, which
is an online video learning platform that delivers education to
dairy farmers twenty four to seven. This guy has two
hundred and forty seven thousand followers on Facebook and about
forty five thousand on Instagram and tangue roha. Are you

(00:22):
never want to sit still? You want a crowd fund
a farm or crowdfund your way into a farm? How's
that going?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah? Really good mate. So we started off, we thought
we'd use our messes with our following. You know, I've
got about three hundred thousand followers across social media platform
and I thought, oh, you know, if we can get
everybody chip in a little bit, we might be closer
putting a bit good deposit down with the bank and
buying a farm. However, with my networks that I've got,

(00:51):
my awful networks that have said to me that it's
going to be quite challenging reporting back to three hundred
thousand people and paying them a dividend. So we sort
of changed change the way that we were trying. We're
trying to find the funds and we've gone with an
equity partnership stole setup. So yeah, we were trying to
find six million dollars and the aim at the time

(01:13):
three three weeks ago I did the video, was raised
two and a half million in two weeks and we
were successful on that and we now need we needed
to raise another yea another three and a half mil
and we've found another one and a half, So we're
three and a half down with another two to two
and a half to go. And that's was getting fifty

(01:34):
to fifty deep equity. You're actual here with the bank, Tangrah.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I know your mates with George Dodson, who's a regular
here on the show twenty twenty four Young Farmer of
the Here. I saw him on a social media platform.
Don't ask me which one, there's too many for me
to follow, Tangrah, but I saw him on social media
saying he was going into bat for you because you
got initially a wee bit of negativity about your crowdfunding idea.

(01:57):
People getting the wrong end of the stick.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, look like I think it was just a bit
of misunderstanding around what people think crowdfunding is. I think
they sort of might think that I'm really trying to
raise fund for a school camp and asking people to
just chipping money. But we're not looking for hand out
that all. I'm looking for investments, you know, people to
invest their money and be a part of our team
and obviously get returns on their investment.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So I'm giving you a shameless an opportunity here for
a shameless plug. Why should people invest in you? We
know a lot about your online persona. Are you any
use on the cow shed?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah? Absolutely may Look I've built a trusted brand over
the last sort of eight years with Farm for Life,
and we've built a social media platform connecting urban and
rural New Zealands. And I think that by having a
Gary Farm that's a farm for Life, Gary Farm is
just going to open the gates to all things rural.
I can start talking about budgets, talking about returns, maybe

(02:55):
bring people into a little bit of financial literacy, literacy
around you know, buying a farm and whatnot. And it
would be just a really cool journey to go along.
And also I'll be able to open my gates and
set our farm up for young you know, young kids
to come from schools and college kids to come to
the farm and there will just add a little bit

(03:16):
more vest to our social media platform. I think it'll
be awesome as well as good, really good returns for
our investors.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Have you got a farm lined up?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yep, we've got one farm lined up. We've got our
eyes on three others as well, but obviously there's going
to be a We've got our eyes set on one,
but there's three others in the pipeline that we're looking
at and getting keen to jump on.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
You're farming in Southland just outside of him the cargo.
I know you've had a hell of a time in Southland,
another awful spring really and then we had the storm event.
How did you? How did how are you faring through
all that?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look, we've come off pretty well on scathed. We're actually
one of the only farms in our area that had power.
So we actually had a farm bringing the thousand cows
through our aaudi side hearing bone to come and milk
them and just relieve the gills with some pressure.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Holy hell, how long did that take?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh Jesus? That took them about They had two tempts
six hours each.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Wow, as soon as E than me on that one.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
We're rotary cows too, so.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh Jesus, they wouldn't. They wouldn't have a clue. You'd
have to train them, did you.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's the one.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh my goodness, Okay, you're recovering now. And of course
we know a lot of the country's getting away bit
dry south and won't be sure to moisture. I wouldn't
think at this stage of the season, is it really
starting to bolt away, not to seed, But in terms
of the feed.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, Look, I think we're sitting comfortably right now. We've
sort of we took off two weeks ago. We were
growing about eighty ninety kilos a day and I'm sort
of buttoned back to about sixty over the last week.
So we've definitely pulled back a little bit, a little
bit more moisture, I think, a bit more humidity. But
the one I'm going to bug her off anytime soon,
So I think she's going to keep drying out. And

(04:55):
now c's kind to go on the stress and start
trying to pop a seed head up.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I think, well, I reckon, you're a dynamic young bloke
and worth investing, and if people are interested and perhaps
becoming an equity partner with you. Shameless plug time again
here Tanga Rah What do they do? I should be
sending you a bell.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah. Look, they can jump on over to any of
my social media platforms Farm for Life on Facebook and
Instagram and send you a private message or email through
tongue to work. T A n g A r o
A a's Farm for Life. That's farm for Us at
the number four dot code or indeed, and I'll read
in the reply to all of my emails and I

(05:33):
get too.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Good on you. I wish you all the best for
your new venture. Tangua Rah Walker, thanks for your time
on the country.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Excuse mate, See you.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
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