January 27, 2025 • 7 mins
Today's Zanda McDonald farmer panel takes us to Mid Canterbury and Waikato.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We missed these gentlemen yesterday, but we always get our
men here on the country. It's the Farmer Panel, Today's
Farmer Panel. In fact, I can go one better than that.
They are the Xander McDonald Panel for this month. And
let's start with you, Adam Thompson. Can you just remind
me again what year you finished runner up to Rees Roberts.
I apologize I have to ask every time we've got
(00:22):
you two together.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yep, I think it is all Two's Jamie twenty twenty
two and I came number two. Well, actually I might
have came number four to be fair, but Reece definitely
came number one.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, you're both outstanding contributors to New Zealand agriculture. Adam,
you've just got back to the Wycato nursery. Of course,
you're a nurseryman, you're a mortgage broker, you're a farmer,
you're a social media star. But you've been doing one
of our great walks.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, down in the Able Kasman with the kids, which
is bloody fantastic. Ways good to get out in nature
and spend a bit of time with them, but no
really good, Jamie, like camping, you know, talking to a
lot of other punters on the track. You know, we've
got businessman from christ Church and put locals from now
some and your role's pretty boyant about you know, what's
happening in agriculture. I sort of felt, you know, two
or three years ago you say you're a farmer and
people go, oh yeah. But now I sort of say, hey,
(01:10):
you know, we farm and grow some trees, and people
are really positive about what's going on out there. I
think that's a really sort of important sentiment shift that
people have been told it's okay to actually be proud
of what we're doing. You know, we've done an important job.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Actually, that was one of the positives I think out
of COVID, maybe the only one is that a lot
of people, especially urban folk, realize how important farming and
the primary sector as to the New Zealand economy. You're
also things are pretty buoyant on your farm. At the moment,
you sold cattle stores four dollars a kilogram, great money.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, unreal, And that was just Hessa's They are around Christmas.
Tile we just start of January and yeah, just exceptionally,
you know, we had a really good spring, so good
fat animals make good money. But now we're sort of
we've got a proper why kid o summer. We've actually
got dry Hells Brown Hills the first time in a
couple of years, and it's actually, you know, it's positive.
I think there's a lot of production already been had
for a lot of the farmers up here. The main
(02:02):
crops are well established and had nothing wrong with a
little bit of dry once in a while. We expect
it so a little bit dry than it has been
the last couple.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
As long as it happens after Christmas. Okay, let's head
to Mid Canterbury where they were getting dry before Christmas.
It's all changed down there. Res Roberts as the chief
executive of Aligned Farms six farms in mid Canterbury, and Reese,
like me, one of your topics of choice today is
net zero or the net zero banking Alliance. This wokeness
(02:32):
has to end you.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Thank you, Jammie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was reading the favor of this yesterday, and I
think federad of Farmers come out and in support of it,
and anyone that's gone through the punishment of listening to
me ran on about it. I've been on this case
for a year. I think. You know, it's certainly the
army that's seek to try and in their eyes, clean
up emissions globally. And if you lock the New Zealand
the petroleum companies havan amatized by twenty thirty, if that
(03:00):
was to hit agriculture, you know, agriculture is built on
access to good and reliable capital, both in land values,
being able to reinvest in our land, but also staying
competitive globally. So you know, I know, suicidal in my view.
And if you look at Trump's certainly come in with
some interesting policies, but what he has done is he's
(03:23):
certainly saying enough enough. And you know we've seen six
odd banks in America pull out of it. We've seen
something in Canada, and you know, I'm not a huge
believer in it. Personally. I think these better ways of
restricting emissions without the banking sector of getting involved.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Surely the market will be the ultimate decider of farmer
behavior when it comes to emissions.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The ultimately, if you look at it from the other
lens as well as the consumer, has always been the
driver of musical arming. When the consumer, after land, we
froze it and sent it over, then they ask the
land shops, we cut it up and sent it over.
It's always been the drive. So I think on the
other end, the consumers will always be the driver from
an emission perspective. So for me, I think it sits
(04:08):
squarely with the farmer and the consumer to come up
with an agreement around how we take food production globally.
I don't think it's the role of credit. It should
never be. The role of credit credits role is to
make sure that we're growing our economy and making sure
it's even for all parties.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
One of the really interesting things and innovative things you
guys are doing in the line farms is a region trial.
You've got one, I think of your dairy farms. You're
split it in half or is it more than one?
You'll tell me just one. You've split it in half
region half traditional. How's the trial going.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, I think we're in the year five now, and
certainly any system, regardless of what you do in a
high payout year, the more production you do, the better
more profitable you're going to be. And that's generalizing, but
it's a fairly accurate generalization. So this year, certainly we've
got some a really really strong profit coming from both
sides for that matter. But certainly our conventional system is
(05:03):
thriving under this high paid environment, so we're quite excited.
We're about to launch our new regina of yogurt into
the supermarkets in New Zealand, so we're quite optimistic about that.
You know, one of the scary things of seeing in
our supermarkets is home brands or you know, the supermarket's
own brands are the fastest grown brands globally at the
moment that in some cases they're outstrippering brands by three
(05:26):
to one. So you know, we don't really want these
supermarkets getting old or if you know it's just being
completely home brand businesses, you know, that's co Op's help.
But also we're going to give it a red hot
crack and try and extract a premium for it. So yeah,
this time next year we'll be able to we'll either
be looking our wounds or rolling the red cars out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, just to wrap up the pair of you, I'll
start with you race Adam said he's getting dry and
the like Hado Mid Canterbury the opposite. I understand.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, certainly from an area farmerspective, it's been fantastic where
there hasn't been too hot, hasn't been too cold. But
our ourible rather than sisters are certainly doing are very
tough here. And you know, the dairy industry is powered
by the arable sector and no doubt whether that's through
cereal or through winter grazing or through straw and silence.
So certainly they need some heats and quite quickly. But
certainly we've had a huge three sixty from where we
(06:16):
were three months ago. We were very very dry and
now we're you know, we're getting rain every two or
three days, but that's been quite frustrating for our cerial growth.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Thank you very much. Forese Adam Thompson, let's just finish
with you got plenty of young seedlings coming up for
the planting season. You're going to cover New Zealand and natives.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, now we're humming plenty of natives in the nursery,
which is great. They're all going really well, and lots
of really positive chats with farmers too. You know, I
think the sort of boots come off the head from
the regulation side of things and they really wanted to
get out there and proactively do positive things. So yeah,
it's really interesting. Some of the projects, the phone calls
we're having with farmers about you know, bits of extra
galizy retiring or stream side stuff, and yeah it's really positive.
(06:55):
You know, good farm's get a little bit of extra
money to reinvest, and yeah, we're sort of it's cool
to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, you can plant other things than pine trees. Adam
Thompson from Restraw Native Nursery and Rhys Roberts from Aligned
Farms for Xander MacDonald panel for Today. Thanks for your time, Beauty.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Thanks Jamie
We missed these gentlemen yesterday, but we always get our
men here on the country. It's the Farmer Panel, Today's
Farmer Panel. In fact, I can go one better than that.
They are the Xander McDonald Panel for this month. And
let's start with you, Adam Thompson. Can you just remind
me again what year you finished runner up to Rees Roberts.
I apologize I have to ask every time we've got
(00:22):
you two together.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yep, I think it is all Two's Jamie twenty twenty
two and I came number two. Well, actually I might
have came number four to be fair, but Reece definitely
came number one.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, you're both outstanding contributors to New Zealand agriculture. Adam,
you've just got back to the Wycato nursery. Of course,
you're a nurseryman, you're a mortgage broker, you're a farmer,
you're a social media star. But you've been doing one
of our great walks.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, down in the Able Kasman with the kids, which
is bloody fantastic. Ways good to get out in nature
and spend a bit of time with them, but no
really good, Jamie, like camping, you know, talking to a
lot of other punters on the track. You know, we've
got businessman from christ Church and put locals from now
some and your role's pretty boyant about you know, what's
happening in agriculture. I sort of felt, you know, two
or three years ago you say you're a farmer and
people go, oh yeah. But now I sort of say, hey,
(01:10):
you know, we farm and grow some trees, and people
are really positive about what's going on out there. I
think that's a really sort of important sentiment shift that
people have been told it's okay to actually be proud
of what we're doing. You know, we've done an important job.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Actually, that was one of the positives I think out
of COVID, maybe the only one is that a lot
of people, especially urban folk, realize how important farming and
the primary sector as to the New Zealand economy. You're
also things are pretty buoyant on your farm. At the moment,
you sold cattle stores four dollars a kilogram, great money.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, unreal, And that was just Hessa's They are around Christmas.
Tile we just start of January and yeah, just exceptionally,
you know, we had a really good spring, so good
fat animals make good money. But now we're sort of
we've got a proper why kid o summer. We've actually
got dry Hells Brown Hills the first time in a
couple of years, and it's actually, you know, it's positive.
I think there's a lot of production already been had
for a lot of the farmers up here. The main
(02:02):
crops are well established and had nothing wrong with a
little bit of dry once in a while. We expect
it so a little bit dry than it has been
the last couple.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
As long as it happens after Christmas. Okay, let's head
to Mid Canterbury where they were getting dry before Christmas.
It's all changed down there. Res Roberts as the chief
executive of Aligned Farms six farms in mid Canterbury, and Reese,
like me, one of your topics of choice today is
net zero or the net zero banking Alliance. This wokeness
(02:32):
has to end you.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Thank you, Jammie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was reading the favor of this yesterday, and I
think federad of Farmers come out and in support of it,
and anyone that's gone through the punishment of listening to
me ran on about it. I've been on this case
for a year. I think. You know, it's certainly the
army that's seek to try and in their eyes, clean
up emissions globally. And if you lock the New Zealand
the petroleum companies havan amatized by twenty thirty, if that
(03:00):
was to hit agriculture, you know, agriculture is built on
access to good and reliable capital, both in land values,
being able to reinvest in our land, but also staying
competitive globally. So you know, I know, suicidal in my view.
And if you look at Trump's certainly come in with
some interesting policies, but what he has done is he's
(03:23):
certainly saying enough enough. And you know we've seen six
odd banks in America pull out of it. We've seen
something in Canada, and you know, I'm not a huge
believer in it. Personally. I think these better ways of
restricting emissions without the banking sector of getting involved.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Surely the market will be the ultimate decider of farmer
behavior when it comes to emissions.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The ultimately, if you look at it from the other
lens as well as the consumer, has always been the
driver of musical arming. When the consumer, after land, we
froze it and sent it over, then they ask the
land shops, we cut it up and sent it over.
It's always been the drive. So I think on the
other end, the consumers will always be the driver from
an emission perspective. So for me, I think it sits
(04:08):
squarely with the farmer and the consumer to come up
with an agreement around how we take food production globally.
I don't think it's the role of credit. It should
never be. The role of credit credits role is to
make sure that we're growing our economy and making sure
it's even for all parties.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
One of the really interesting things and innovative things you
guys are doing in the line farms is a region trial.
You've got one, I think of your dairy farms. You're
split it in half or is it more than one?
You'll tell me just one. You've split it in half
region half traditional. How's the trial going.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, I think we're in the year five now, and
certainly any system, regardless of what you do in a
high payout year, the more production you do, the better
more profitable you're going to be. And that's generalizing, but
it's a fairly accurate generalization. So this year, certainly we've
got some a really really strong profit coming from both
sides for that matter. But certainly our conventional system is
(05:03):
thriving under this high paid environment, so we're quite excited.
We're about to launch our new regina of yogurt into
the supermarkets in New Zealand, so we're quite optimistic about that.
You know, one of the scary things of seeing in
our supermarkets is home brands or you know, the supermarket's
own brands are the fastest grown brands globally at the
moment that in some cases they're outstrippering brands by three
(05:26):
to one. So you know, we don't really want these
supermarkets getting old or if you know it's just being
completely home brand businesses, you know, that's co Op's help.
But also we're going to give it a red hot
crack and try and extract a premium for it. So yeah,
this time next year we'll be able to we'll either
be looking our wounds or rolling the red cars out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, just to wrap up the pair of you, I'll
start with you race Adam said he's getting dry and
the like Hado Mid Canterbury the opposite. I understand.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, certainly from an area farmerspective, it's been fantastic where
there hasn't been too hot, hasn't been too cold. But
our ourible rather than sisters are certainly doing are very
tough here. And you know, the dairy industry is powered
by the arable sector and no doubt whether that's through
cereal or through winter grazing or through straw and silence.
So certainly they need some heats and quite quickly. But
certainly we've had a huge three sixty from where we
(06:16):
were three months ago. We were very very dry and
now we're you know, we're getting rain every two or
three days, but that's been quite frustrating for our cerial growth.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Thank you very much. Forese Adam Thompson, let's just finish
with you got plenty of young seedlings coming up for
the planting season. You're going to cover New Zealand and natives.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, now we're humming plenty of natives in the nursery,
which is great. They're all going really well, and lots
of really positive chats with farmers too. You know, I
think the sort of boots come off the head from
the regulation side of things and they really wanted to
get out there and proactively do positive things. So yeah,
it's really interesting. Some of the projects, the phone calls
we're having with farmers about you know, bits of extra
galizy retiring or stream side stuff, and yeah it's really positive.
(06:55):
You know, good farm's get a little bit of extra
money to reinvest, and yeah, we're sort of it's cool
to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, you can plant other things than pine trees. Adam
Thompson from Restraw Native Nursery and Rhys Roberts from Aligned
Farms for Xander MacDonald panel for Today. Thanks for your time, Beauty.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Thanks Jamie
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