October 30, 2025 • 5 mins
Today’s one-man panel follows on from his sister, and fellow Young Farmer of the Year, Emma Poole, who was on yesterday’s show. He talks about the Southland storms and agrees to disagree with his sister over the Fonterra vote.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Farmer Panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built tof with truck DNA. So you've heard from Mark Delatore,
chief executive of Open Country Derry. When he got back
from the Joseph Parker fight, he took a flight to
Imbicago to check on the damage. Open Country's got a
big catchment of suppliers in the Deep South. Now our
(00:24):
next guest is the other half of the Farmer Panel
from yesterday. I couldn't quite sink them together. His sister,
Emma Paul was the twenty twenty three FMG Young Farmer
of the Year. Tim Dangan, who joins us now, won
the title in twenty twenty two. Now, Tim, I know
that that the family farm is on west Auckland. There
you got smacked by cyclone Haile and Gabrielle. You moved
(00:48):
down to Southland to get away from the tropical storms
lo and behold, do you think you jinxed?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
There was a chance, but he certainly, I feel like
it's done. They get a few notches on the belt now.
It's been a challenging last eight days, but I think
they're back up and running on the farm now. We're
fully operational, so just to clean up begins, and you're
just making sure that we manage fatigue really, because you're
the staff and owners have been putting in some mass
of ours a few really big days. They're running around
(01:17):
the clock with generators and things like that. So just
trying to make sure that we look after people first
and if we get that part right, then the rest
of it will slowly take care of itself. Mate. But
it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
We know that well, you're a former Young Farmer of
the Year. You share milk for a former Young Farmer
of the Year. Simon Hopcroft and Hopcroft family, very well
known Southland farming family. I'm assuming the farm that you're
milking on as a converted sheep farm. How are the fences,
because you're gonna have to fix a whole lot of
fences with all these trees down, And I can tell
(01:49):
you from experience that it's a lot easier to put
up a two wire fence than an eight wire.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
One, Yes, certainly is so. No, we've got to leak
ground conditions and prove first shame. We've had a pretty
rough week of weather really following the wind, so it's
weird enough out there, but there is fine coming at
sunny down there today and we've got a fine patch
of weather ahead of us over the next week, so
we'll clear the trees and then yeah, there will be
(02:15):
a lot of two wire offenses going up replacing the
original sheeps, even wire offenses, but that's fine, we'll rip
into it. In the meantime. There's just hot wires everywhere
keeping stock contained. So we're just making sure that we
keep the stock healthy and milk, and you're looking after
our staff, like I say, but it is a bit
of an extra workload, but we've got to make sure
(02:36):
that we get on top of it before mating starts
at the end of the week next week. Yeah, so
what is.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The storm going to do for peak production?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I think most farms have been relatively unscathed. They've
gotten away, We've been able to keep the cows up
on their peak, so I think it won't have a
huge influence. So I know that the Edendale plant was
down about five million dollars five million liters rather the
day after the storm, But yeah, cows are pretty resilient
and as long as the well fed in it they've
(03:07):
got water, then yeah, they'll they'll keep on their plane,
and then it shouldn't have too much influence on the
season long term.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Your sister Emma Paul was on the show yesterday. She
voted against the font of the sale of the Fonterra
consumer brands. You were a yes vote along with most
of the other Farmers shareholders. You happy, man.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I think it's a good result all around, really, Jamie,
it's it's an exciting direction for the co op going forward.
I think you know, the numbers speak for themselves, don't
they That the last returning portion of the business was
around the consumer brands, and only eight percent of the
milk comes. It's not a large portion of it, it's
still significant. But I think it's an exciting new direction
(03:47):
for the co op. And yeah, I've been a little
bit frustrated by people saying that we're going to struggle
to add value just in the ingredients space. But there's
there's ingredients, and there's ingredients, isn't there, Jamie's here, we
can still be making sure that we're putting high, high quality,
high value ingredients out there that will go into other
high quality products. We don't necessarily necessarily just have to
(04:09):
have the brand and behind it, so I think it's
an exciting move mate. And yeah, it's gonna put regional, regional,
rural New Zealand flush with cares for a period, isn't it.
So it'll be good for the economy to see that
filter through.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, they're talking about a zero point seven percent lift
in GDP just off the back of the salone, so
it's very important not only for the primary sector but
also for the New Zealand economy.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh absolutely. And there'll be a lot of generators being
born in the south and I know that, so everyone
will do different things with the way they so it'll
be interesting to see what happens. Land values have already
been slowly creeping up off the anticipation that it's going
to go a head, isn't it. So here there'll be
a lot of new infrastructure put on on farms and
debt repaid as well, and yeah, it's a really neat
(04:58):
thing to see I think.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For all of the New zeal Hey Tim Denson, good
luck with the recovery down on the Riverton dairy farm.
Thanks for your.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Time to home. You go up
The Farmer Panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built tof with truck DNA. So you've heard from Mark Delatore,
chief executive of Open Country Derry. When he got back
from the Joseph Parker fight, he took a flight to
Imbicago to check on the damage. Open Country's got a
big catchment of suppliers in the Deep South. Now our
(00:24):
next guest is the other half of the Farmer Panel
from yesterday. I couldn't quite sink them together. His sister,
Emma Paul was the twenty twenty three FMG Young Farmer
of the Year. Tim Dangan, who joins us now, won
the title in twenty twenty two. Now, Tim, I know
that that the family farm is on west Auckland. There
you got smacked by cyclone Haile and Gabrielle. You moved
(00:48):
down to Southland to get away from the tropical storms
lo and behold, do you think you jinxed?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
There was a chance, but he certainly, I feel like
it's done. They get a few notches on the belt now.
It's been a challenging last eight days, but I think
they're back up and running on the farm now. We're
fully operational, so just to clean up begins, and you're
just making sure that we manage fatigue really, because you're
the staff and owners have been putting in some mass
of ours a few really big days. They're running around
(01:17):
the clock with generators and things like that. So just
trying to make sure that we look after people first
and if we get that part right, then the rest
of it will slowly take care of itself. Mate. But
it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
We know that well, you're a former Young Farmer of
the Year. You share milk for a former Young Farmer
of the Year. Simon Hopcroft and Hopcroft family, very well
known Southland farming family. I'm assuming the farm that you're
milking on as a converted sheep farm. How are the fences,
because you're gonna have to fix a whole lot of
fences with all these trees down, And I can tell
(01:49):
you from experience that it's a lot easier to put
up a two wire fence than an eight wire.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
One, Yes, certainly is so. No, we've got to leak
ground conditions and prove first shame. We've had a pretty
rough week of weather really following the wind, so it's
weird enough out there, but there is fine coming at
sunny down there today and we've got a fine patch
of weather ahead of us over the next week, so
we'll clear the trees and then yeah, there will be
(02:15):
a lot of two wire offenses going up replacing the
original sheeps, even wire offenses, but that's fine, we'll rip
into it. In the meantime. There's just hot wires everywhere
keeping stock contained. So we're just making sure that we
keep the stock healthy and milk, and you're looking after
our staff, like I say, but it is a bit
of an extra workload, but we've got to make sure
(02:36):
that we get on top of it before mating starts
at the end of the week next week. Yeah, so
what is.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The storm going to do for peak production?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I think most farms have been relatively unscathed. They've
gotten away, We've been able to keep the cows up
on their peak, so I think it won't have a
huge influence. So I know that the Edendale plant was
down about five million dollars five million liters rather the
day after the storm, But yeah, cows are pretty resilient
and as long as the well fed in it they've
(03:07):
got water, then yeah, they'll they'll keep on their plane,
and then it shouldn't have too much influence on the
season long term.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Your sister Emma Paul was on the show yesterday. She
voted against the font of the sale of the Fonterra
consumer brands. You were a yes vote along with most
of the other Farmers shareholders. You happy, man.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I think it's a good result all around, really, Jamie,
it's it's an exciting direction for the co op going forward.
I think you know, the numbers speak for themselves, don't
they That the last returning portion of the business was
around the consumer brands, and only eight percent of the
milk comes. It's not a large portion of it, it's
still significant. But I think it's an exciting new direction
(03:47):
for the co op. And yeah, I've been a little
bit frustrated by people saying that we're going to struggle
to add value just in the ingredients space. But there's
there's ingredients, and there's ingredients, isn't there, Jamie's here, we
can still be making sure that we're putting high, high quality,
high value ingredients out there that will go into other
high quality products. We don't necessarily necessarily just have to
(04:09):
have the brand and behind it, so I think it's
an exciting move mate. And yeah, it's gonna put regional, regional,
rural New Zealand flush with cares for a period, isn't it.
So it'll be good for the economy to see that
filter through.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, they're talking about a zero point seven percent lift
in GDP just off the back of the salone, so
it's very important not only for the primary sector but
also for the New Zealand economy.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh absolutely. And there'll be a lot of generators being
born in the south and I know that, so everyone
will do different things with the way they so it'll
be interesting to see what happens. Land values have already
been slowly creeping up off the anticipation that it's going
to go a head, isn't it. So here there'll be
a lot of new infrastructure put on on farms and
debt repaid as well, and yeah, it's a really neat
(04:58):
thing to see I think.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For all of the New zeal Hey Tim Denson, good
luck with the recovery down on the Riverton dairy farm.
Thanks for your.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Time to home. You go up
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