March 23, 2025 • 5 mins
We welcome back our favourite Scottish/Aussie farmer and Nuffield Scholar to The Country.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right to welcome back to the country a favorite Scottish
Ozzie Farmer slash Nuffield scholar in the form of Clear Taylor.
Cleaiar Taylor. We last caught up with you in August
of last year. You were in the studios here in
Dunedin in March of last year. I think that you
are completing or about to complete the longest Snuffield scholarship
in the history of Nuffield scholarships.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Clear, Hi, Jamie Scretchy back on the program. I am.
Last time you spoke to me, I was visiting Australia,
and now I've moved to Australia and I'm at the
final stages of my Nutfield report was to on hold
slightly as I moved continents, I moved to different hemispheres,
but yeah, I'm getting to the end of it now,
so it's yeah, the end is in sight.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, I played a wee bit of wet wet wet
lovers all around into you Clear here today, and that's
what brought you to Australia. Love with a guy by
the name of Mitch Hyatt who's a former Xander McDonald
Award winner. And you and you can thank Shane Mcamn,
the matchmaker.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I can and I laughed about it because I think
it was just before I went to Australia where I
met Mitch. I'd been on your program, Jamie and having
everybody been warning me in New Zealand that I wasn't
to meet an Aussie farmer. I was to marry a
Kiwi farmer. So that made me laugh. I think it
was day two of Australia I accidentally was introduced to Mitt.
And here I am over here later, living here, so
(01:23):
things have definitely changed now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Your not Field scholarship was based around turning the tide
on the anti farming agenda. Gee, I'll tell you what.
You're an Aussie now, Claire, but I think your home country,
Scotland needs you the way Sirkaia Stamer is going tough
times at home.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, it's been really difficult watching and speaking to people
at home. I mean, just to give your listeners a
bit of a summary. They haven't they haven't really got
the background on it. And last Majune we had the
Labor government come into was elected into parliament for the UK,
we had a conservative government in for many years. Government
came in and when their first budget came out in
(02:03):
the October. They basically announced that they were going to
lift inheritance tax relief for farmers and this sent absolute
shockways throughout the whole of the United Kingdom because they
set the limit at a million pounds, so any property
that was worth the value over a million would have
to find twenty percent to pay back. But the problem
(02:24):
is in the UK farmers are they're very sort of
low in cash flow, but they're sitting on land assets
are high in value. And it's just sent shockways because
family farms, who are they're sitting on you know, profit
margins zero point five one percent. There's no way they
had the castle to pay this off, and it's really
sparked this upset about could this be the end of
(02:45):
family farming? Which is why we're seeing protests around the country.
I mean these have been going off now since November.
I was there in November, I went to some of
the pro well protest rallies. It's been all sorts of
things happening, but this has continued right into March. There
was the one only last week. So yeah, a lot
of concern in Scotland right now.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Tell me about that, Yeah, tell me about the new
business you've set up in Australia, but you're looking for
business here in New Zealand as well, and no doubt,
Beck in the UK, I'll give you a shineless plug.
Clay Tayler.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, So off the back of my scholarship, I wanted
to put my learnings into practice and you said there, Jamie,
that I've been looking at how do we turn the
tide and anti farming sentiment, and a lot of that
has been about how can we help farmers, how can
they help different individuals, businesses, organizations better respond to growing
scrutiny because you're just given the example there. The UK
scrutiny is growing and farming and my business is all
(03:40):
about basically looking at how we're communicating and how we're
advocating it. So it's advocacy consulting is what I've called it,
and it's going to be looking at really amplifying the
voice of agriculture more positively. And there's various things I'm
doing as part of that, but I basically want to
help farmers really get out with echo chambers and build relationship,
build social license and put them on the front foot
(04:02):
because I do think farming right around the world is
under the cost. And yes I've moved from Scotland to Australia,
but since I've been doing my scholarship, I've been so
passionate about what's happening around the world and farming. We
often get into the doorstep don't weave in our own country,
but really it's much bigger than that. We've got to
think more collaboratively globally, so that's why it's going to
be all about how can I work with different countries.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Hell's you and you know A final question for you
in Orange with the love of your life now, Mitch
highat a Elsi farmer. You've been you've been pretty dry
and inline New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, we've been really struggling. I mean I've been here
ten weeks and I think I can count in two
hands how many times it's rained. So you can imagine
what a shock that is coming from Scotland, especially where
I live in the West Coast, which it's just rain
almost every day. But yeah, we had a bit of
rain recently. I'm staying here in a beautiful place called
Orange for about four hours west of Sydney. It's a
(04:57):
cool climate. Bit of similarity to Scotttland. We're pretty famous
here for our cellar, doors or wine or cherries, some
beautiful cattle productions, so there's part of that. It does
still feel like home. And yeah, Mitch has been great
moving here and he's got a fantastic business, so been
able to learn more about that has been Yeah, it's
been a wonderful experience so far.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, Claire Tyler has been great to catch up. Look
forward to your final publication of your Nuffield scholarship around
turning the tide on the anti farming agenda. Don't be
a stranger. Good luck with your new life.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Thanks Jamie, take care,
Right to welcome back to the country a favorite Scottish
Ozzie Farmer slash Nuffield scholar in the form of Clear Taylor.
Cleaiar Taylor. We last caught up with you in August
of last year. You were in the studios here in
Dunedin in March of last year. I think that you
are completing or about to complete the longest Snuffield scholarship
in the history of Nuffield scholarships.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Clear, Hi, Jamie Scretchy back on the program. I am.
Last time you spoke to me, I was visiting Australia,
and now I've moved to Australia and I'm at the
final stages of my Nutfield report was to on hold
slightly as I moved continents, I moved to different hemispheres,
but yeah, I'm getting to the end of it now,
so it's yeah, the end is in sight.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, I played a wee bit of wet wet wet
lovers all around into you Clear here today, and that's
what brought you to Australia. Love with a guy by
the name of Mitch Hyatt who's a former Xander McDonald
Award winner. And you and you can thank Shane Mcamn,
the matchmaker.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I can and I laughed about it because I think
it was just before I went to Australia where I
met Mitch. I'd been on your program, Jamie and having
everybody been warning me in New Zealand that I wasn't
to meet an Aussie farmer. I was to marry a
Kiwi farmer. So that made me laugh. I think it
was day two of Australia I accidentally was introduced to Mitt.
And here I am over here later, living here, so
(01:23):
things have definitely changed now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Your not Field scholarship was based around turning the tide
on the anti farming agenda. Gee, I'll tell you what.
You're an Aussie now, Claire, but I think your home country,
Scotland needs you the way Sirkaia Stamer is going tough
times at home.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, it's been really difficult watching and speaking to people
at home. I mean, just to give your listeners a
bit of a summary. They haven't they haven't really got
the background on it. And last Majune we had the
Labor government come into was elected into parliament for the UK,
we had a conservative government in for many years. Government
came in and when their first budget came out in
(02:03):
the October. They basically announced that they were going to
lift inheritance tax relief for farmers and this sent absolute
shockways throughout the whole of the United Kingdom because they
set the limit at a million pounds, so any property
that was worth the value over a million would have
to find twenty percent to pay back. But the problem
(02:24):
is in the UK farmers are they're very sort of
low in cash flow, but they're sitting on land assets
are high in value. And it's just sent shockways because
family farms, who are they're sitting on you know, profit
margins zero point five one percent. There's no way they
had the castle to pay this off, and it's really
sparked this upset about could this be the end of
(02:45):
family farming? Which is why we're seeing protests around the country.
I mean these have been going off now since November.
I was there in November, I went to some of
the pro well protest rallies. It's been all sorts of
things happening, but this has continued right into March. There
was the one only last week. So yeah, a lot
of concern in Scotland right now.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Tell me about that, Yeah, tell me about the new
business you've set up in Australia, but you're looking for
business here in New Zealand as well, and no doubt,
Beck in the UK, I'll give you a shineless plug.
Clay Tayler.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, So off the back of my scholarship, I wanted
to put my learnings into practice and you said there, Jamie,
that I've been looking at how do we turn the
tide and anti farming sentiment, and a lot of that
has been about how can we help farmers, how can
they help different individuals, businesses, organizations better respond to growing
scrutiny because you're just given the example there. The UK
scrutiny is growing and farming and my business is all
(03:40):
about basically looking at how we're communicating and how we're
advocating it. So it's advocacy consulting is what I've called it,
and it's going to be looking at really amplifying the
voice of agriculture more positively. And there's various things I'm
doing as part of that, but I basically want to
help farmers really get out with echo chambers and build relationship,
build social license and put them on the front foot
(04:02):
because I do think farming right around the world is
under the cost. And yes I've moved from Scotland to Australia,
but since I've been doing my scholarship, I've been so
passionate about what's happening around the world and farming. We
often get into the doorstep don't weave in our own country,
but really it's much bigger than that. We've got to
think more collaboratively globally, so that's why it's going to
be all about how can I work with different countries.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Hell's you and you know A final question for you
in Orange with the love of your life now, Mitch
highat a Elsi farmer. You've been you've been pretty dry
and inline New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, we've been really struggling. I mean I've been here
ten weeks and I think I can count in two
hands how many times it's rained. So you can imagine
what a shock that is coming from Scotland, especially where
I live in the West Coast, which it's just rain
almost every day. But yeah, we had a bit of
rain recently. I'm staying here in a beautiful place called
Orange for about four hours west of Sydney. It's a
(04:57):
cool climate. Bit of similarity to Scotttland. We're pretty famous
here for our cellar, doors or wine or cherries, some
beautiful cattle productions, so there's part of that. It does
still feel like home. And yeah, Mitch has been great
moving here and he's got a fantastic business, so been
able to learn more about that has been Yeah, it's
been a wonderful experience so far.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, Claire Tyler has been great to catch up. Look
forward to your final publication of your Nuffield scholarship around
turning the tide on the anti farming agenda. Don't be
a stranger. Good luck with your new life.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Thanks Jamie, take care,
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