The Country 24/07/25: Jeremy Rookes talks to Jamie Mackay

The Country’s loquacious hobby farming correspondent fires a few shots in anger. Or does he?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country at ate away from one with Jeremy
Rox's the country's loquacious. I'll be farming. Correspondent fires a
few shots and anger. But who's in his sights today?
Let's ask him, Jess, who are you lining up? I'm
not lining up anyone, Abod that's disappointing.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, no, well, I do take I'm just concurring, was
what the farmer Penel said about Nikola Willis. I mean,
you know, the fundamental one of the fundamental principles that
Labor National Party of Harder Whopsy was founded on was
to keep government out of business. Because I've actually read
that today and then she's just tu tutting away in

(00:41):
virtue signaling and making a what idiot of herself like
the government has no business? And how much dairy farmers
are getting for butter and how much consumers are paying
the market sets the price period unfortunately, how what.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Did you make of the Federated Farmer's Panking Survey? Like
the old secondary school report card? A and Z and
RAO bank at the top, Westpac third, B and Z
who would have to get the prize for the most
woke of the banks in fourth place? ASB trailing up
the rear. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Funnily enough, I banked with Westpac for quite a long time,
and about half and half of west Pac and ASB
and fundamentally, I think it just comes down to the
quality of your actual bank manager that you've got. I mean,
we had awesome west Pack and then we got one
asshole and we left and went to the ASP and
they had nothing but good times with them. So at

(01:31):
the end of the day, I just think if the
banks have got good people, when you can build up
a good rapport, then it should be Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's actually very sensible commentary. Yeah, the products are very similar.
It's the personal relationship with your banker. But you want
your banker to care, and I'm sure most of them do,
but some care more than others.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, and I was fortunate to have guys that if
I just gave them a bit of a four because
I'm very computer phobic, so and I just said, there
you go, there's my budget, and they sort of let
me away with it. So I was pretty happy with that.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I've got to say, I banked with the B and
Z all my life fifty years until I moved to
the NEED and I had Margaret and Gore who looked
after my account. I wanted Margaret and Gore to keep
looking after my account, but the Bee and Z decided
to send me to the call center. They wouldn't let
Margaret handle my account. Consequently, the Bee and Z has
not seen me for the last fifteen years, nor will

(02:18):
in the future. It's all about the personal relationships one.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hundred percent, and that's what everything should be about in life,
is getting on with people and building trust and away
you're going it's happy days.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, you're too come by our today. Can't you be
a weaver at vitriolic about something bitter and twisted and cynical,
because that's your nature.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm not. I'm just an observer, that's all. But no, no,
it's another beautiful day in Canterbury, very very cold this morning.
When I went for my morning walked Jamie, it was
minus four a quarter to seven this morning as I
but thankfully I was smothered in wool for the Mon's
Royal Beanie, the Icebreaker and the Mon's Royal Firm well,
the Icebreaker, Long John's, the Swan Dry woolen socks, the

(03:00):
Swan Dry woolen jacket and even my underpants from three
six five fantastic.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
You just sound like a walking advertisement. Wouldn't you be
better to get you well, what wouldn't you be getting? Better?
To get your daily steps up by I don't know,
walking along a swede paddock and shifting a break.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, I'm actually at the moment were can serve in grass.
My ten hiffers are getting a bar of hay every
second day. I'm watching them now. My and my twenty
four years are getting four hundred grams per head of
reliant sheet nuts. Jamie. So I'm all over and I'm
just I'm saving the fever.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
This is a sponsored segment. Now, how you could you
could aim for what Chris Russell's getting in Australia four
hundred and sixty dollars lambs, because what lambs you do?
Get off your hobby block, Jeremy, are going to be
worth a fortune this year and good on you. You
deserve it. Our sheep farmers do ditto for the beef.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
No, no, no, I've got a crisis because I borrow
a rare review from Made of Mine. I think you
gave me a teaser this year because I always put
a harness on at the end of the cycle. And
he marked a lot in the second cycle, and then
unfortunately I had to I had to go over to
my other lifestyles and borrow one of their rams for
the third cycle, so I might I might not start

(04:12):
leaving until September at this row, which is a bloody concerned.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Maybe you should have used the harness they put on
you at Lincoln College.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well that I was. I was unharnessed then, jam, Thank goodness,
that's all right, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
All right, Well you enjoy a brilliantly fine Canterbury day.
I can say it's the same in the deep side.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
We need to snow. I haven't even been on peace.
I've got a season's past at Porters and it's just
a bit of a tiny bit of snow out there,
so we need to dump shortly.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
You're talking about snow there, Jeremy Rocks. Yes, first world
problems from the Canterbury Harvey Farmer wrapping the country for today.