July 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, Barry Soper, Rachel Shearer, Ellie Templeton, Meg Miller, and Hamish McKay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
John Deere construction equipment.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get a New Zealand Welcome to the Country, brought to
you by Brent. Sorry for the wee bit of dead
air to kick off the show. Michelle had chucked in
Spirits in the Sky by Norman green Balm, but then
I remembered that our opening guest is from Earth Sciences,
New Zealand, so I had to play a wee bit
of earth Wind and Fire for Chris Brandolino. He's going
(01:01):
to kick off the show, is it too early? I'm
going to ask him for a spring forecast. Stew Duncan
and Stuelo Today's Farming Panel, do record prices equate to
record profits? And a timely reminder from Big stew Low
a man you don't want to argue with of farmer generosity.
A lot of people out there seem to think it's
(01:23):
the farmer's job to make butter cheaper than the supermarkets.
It ain't. Barry Soper back from parental leave, Rachel Sharer,
GMAPGG rights and wool Market continued to ease. Yesterday's North
Island sale strong wall indicated down five cents. Is there
(01:45):
any future in this product? There should be, because there
are some real brand champions out there championing the cause
of wool. We're going to wrap our Innovation Week series
here this week on the Country Thinks to hurd Eye,
Smart AI, Need for Body Conditions scoring and lame cow Detection.
We've got some young innovators in fact seven seven let
(02:11):
me try that again for seventh formers. What's that year
thirteen from Saint Hilda's College right here in Dunedin. I've
got a really interesting product and Haimish mackay, who's going
to be on the tools next week for me for
a couple of days anyhow. But let's kick it off
with this guy, Chris Brandolino. Sorry about the dead air
are you? Are you an earth earth wind and Fire
(02:32):
sort of guy?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Chris Absolutely. I mean who doesn't like earth Windedn't Fire? Yeah,
they played a free concert. I saw one time great show.
This is back in the nineties, so I'm dating myself
a little bit, but yeah, it was a free show
and they did it just an absolutely awesome job. Also
concerning for the fact that it was a free show.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Actually, when you look at like pop music or popular
music today, don't have the band. So we certainly don't
have big bands earth Wind and Fire. We're a huge
ensemble really, But it's more about solo artists these days.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, it seems to be that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's funny because you know, if it weren't for my children,
I would certainly be not very not that I'm well connected,
I'd be less connected than I am with contemporary music
of today, you know. And you're right it is a
lot of solo acts one hundred percent. But look, man,
there still are some really quality bands, so to speak personally,
(03:32):
I think the Killers, that's an awesome band. I saw
them play gosh about two years ago here in Auckland
and they put it on one heck of a show.
So yeah, they're still out there. But yeah, I see
your point point taking there.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, actually, do you realize Don Henley talking about great
bands celebrated at seventy eighth birthday this week? Look, I
better get onto it is it too early?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oi Osborne passed away to I mean gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ozz he's gone, Hulk Hogan's gone. Yeah, it's been a
moving week. Some of them moving off this mortal coil? Look,
is it too early to go for you? Guys? At
Niwa the artist now known as Earth Sciences New Zealand too,
is it too early for you? Did you like what
I did around artists?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That was yeah, well we played and definitely noticed.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, is it too early for you to make a
call for spring?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Short answer is yes. This time next week we'll be
able to give you a more useful answer i e.
A spring outlook. But look, just tipping my hand a bit,
I think the overall pattern or theme is unlikely to
change significantly than what we have been I guess sharing
by way of our season or climbate outlook, and that
(04:41):
is this kind of propensity or this favoring of northerly
to northeasterly type wins i e. Less westerlies. That doesn't
mean westerly won't occur, It just means well, less than usual.
So if you kind of run with that theme, we
will see these creased or elevated occurrences where our weather
(05:03):
comes from the north or northwest. And that does not
only keep temperatures elevated. I know it's been a chilly
week because of high pressure but certainly we haven't seen
a lot of that this winter part of me and
we are going to see those episodes of warmer temperatures,
but Jamie wo those north and northwest winds comes high
moisture content risk for rainfall and heavy rainfall, and we're
going to see that unfortunately, segueing to early next week,
(05:26):
So early next week, there have been signed over the
past probably a couple of weeks where we're going to
see our airflow come from the I guess the subtropics
and tropics from the Coral Sea, and that will be
the fuel for some really heavy rain. It looks like, unfortunately,
it will be much of the country that gets wet,
but it's the top of the South Island that we're
kind of concerned about because they, as we know, have
(05:49):
been inundated with a multitude of heavy rain events. They
had a nice break, but it looks like another round
where one to two hundred millimeters of rain maker over
about twenty four hours or so, starting I would say,
very early Tuesday morning, before sunrise and continuing into the night.
So that's something we have to watch, and the rest
of the North Island for that matter, we'll see some
(06:10):
heavy rain Cormandle Bay of Plenty. Those are areas Northland
will have to watch for heavy rain and potential flooding,
but several days away details would be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, unlock that, Folcus Chris.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, nor do. I I mean this is but this
is what we're This is likely a theme will be
running with that thing through spring. That's about the Sprain
outlook and look. I certainly want to preempt that, but
I would be pretty surprised if we landed on a
view that did not kind of include that same sort
of expectation of La Nina type weather. I mean, it
(06:46):
looks like, even though we may not formally enter in
La Nina this spring and summer, we're going to find
at the very least, at the very least La Nina
like patterns. And that means these northeasterly flows they hear
the music. So I'll wrap it up with a propensity
for rain events for the northern and eastern part of
the North Island. We got to watch for dryness. I
(07:08):
think the western and lower South Island. I think if
we're talking and it's like late November early December, I
think dryness is a real concern potentially in that part
of the country.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Chris Brandolino from Earth Science, Z and Z getting the
heave ho from Earth, Wind and Fire Chris and Joy Weekend.
Catch you back next Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's good a buddy, there you go it is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'll turn this Wind and Fire down away. But it's
fourteen after twelve years with the country. It's brought to
you by Bratton the Farmer Panel up next because they're
both busy men. Stew Duncan and stew Duncan's and the
many A Toto Stulo's and Canterbury enjoying a beautiful day.
It's a bit like where we are and Deled and
the South Island's just enjoying a very good weather. And
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I hope he's wrong about that heavy rain for the
Tasman Nelson region. Barry Soaper back from Parental Leave. Do
you know what happening in Wellington tonight? I wish I
could be there the Southland Party. I've got some great
yarns about that. Rachel Scherer from PGG Rights and Well.
We wrap Innovation Week and Hamish McKay is going to
(08:12):
have a turn on the tools next week. We'll wrap
it with the Voice of Sport here on the country.
(08:37):
Welcome back to the country, brought to you by Brown Brent.
Better get the sponsor's name right, or I might get
the sack September. Before we get to September from earth
wind and fire, we've got to get through August. Maybe
some wet weather for some of you. Anyhow, Well, let's
talk to a couple of cockies out at the cold
(08:57):
Face Ones and the Many at Toto Inland Central Otago.
The other ones in North Canterbury, stew Duncan and Stu Low,
and I bet you the pair of you must be
enjoying this weather, great wintering weather. I'll start with you
Stew Duncan.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, no, we've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
We've had hardly any frost this morning, this corner, in
the last couple of days. But it has been some
good frost in the early week and not quite sunny here,
but magnificent day yesterday and we like northwester so we
were sharing so it was magnificent sharing weather really, so
it's been pretty lucky. We dodged most of the snows
and the stock and great orders and it's been quite good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Stu Lower here, you've had some good frosts and Canterbury,
although Rooks was on the show yesterday winging about no snow.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Yeah, no, I don't think there's too much out there,
but no, we've been getting some good frost, killing all
the bugs and getting good utilization out of feeding out
and break feeding for the beaten kaale and things like that.
So now it's from three weeks ago. We were pretty
pretty wet when mates up and tears when we're copping
a bit. We sort of got the tail end of it,
(10:01):
but it's dried out since seen and it's been very good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You're a summer dry country, unirrigated country in North Canterbury there.
That means you lamb early. You get the lambs away early.
They'll be worth a bomb this year, stew Low. When
do you start lambing?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Yeah, the early ones are just about at the end
of the first cycle now, so they're just a bit
tidied up. I haven't got many you this year, and
the second lots out on about August the tenth, so yeah,
any sort of weather events, so yeah, everything getting good
survival and yeah it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And stew duncan you're not only a sheep farmer, sheep
and beef like Stew, you're also a deer farmer and
a dairy farmer. You literally won't know what to do
with all your money this year, although I didn't, I
didn't see any of it when you're in lunar having
a bear with me. The other night it failed to
a pair. Stew.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You're pretty crick to pull out the money that night, though,
weren't you?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well, I was just been shouting a correspondent.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Well, it's good. Now it's been good.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Hopefully it flows through because I think the sheep thing's
only just starting, and you know, if you're holding a
few cattle and a few winter lambs or like got
a few really lambs, I think you're going to get
a good next eighteen months. So hopefully it does flow
back into really puzzles balance sheets and that gets spent
back around the community and but a fertilizer and the
third maintenance goes on and everyone gets a bit of
a whack of it. But definitely it is positive and
(11:24):
it's been quite an amazing turn around then eight to
nine months.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Really absolutely, it's not that long long ago that lamb
was languishing in the sixers. There's talk. I don't know
whether it's there's any true to it, this talk of
a lamb schedule at ten or eleven dollars? Could that
be possible?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Steve Duncan, Absolutely possible. In Australia, it's into the thirteens
and fourteen dollars a kilo and we'll tag along behind it.
So you know, we've been having discussions at the pub
the other night. Even you know there's about a three
hundred dollars lamb in New Zealand. So you get ten
eleven dollars and you get these twenty six or seven
kilo lambs if they can take them that heavy, and
some someone will and we'll tag on behind. What was
(11:59):
doing studio? I saw an article on account and Center
the other dation some lambs in Australia. So you know
you could take two hundred and fifty dollars for a
lamb to three hundred outstanding, wouldn't it four around the community?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Four hundred and sixty dollars for a mind you a
bloody big lamb in Australia This week from our Elsie correspondent,
Chris Russell stew Low. Do you remember the bad old
days when we used to be penalized for heavyweight lambs.
How stupid was that?
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yeah, I think they had brought out a great called
the w X grade and that was sort of around
about the eighteen kilos, and that was sort of making
people take them through the biggest, bigger weights. I think
I was just starting out in the stocking station agent game,
and yeah, that was a bit of a bit of
a novel tea to draft lambs that big. But I
suppose Southland's always always been a wee bit ahead of
everyone else because they could head the feed and grow
(12:43):
them out. But a yeah, w X lambs, it seems
a year long time.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Ago, A half a lifetime agoes to you want to
remind people a timely reminder of farmer generosity. We've had
all this Suhara and Barry soapers coming up, and I
think he's got something to say about it. But it's
been a bit of a dog's breakfast. This buttergate, whatever
they want to call it. People squealing for not squealing.
I mean, I understand how people are frustrated with the
(13:10):
price of dairy, but they just seem to be concentrating
on dairy. They're not talking about meat or can we
fruit or any of these other products that are going
really well and offshore markets.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Yeah, there's always alternatives. And I went up to and
in competition here Abit a month or so ago. Not
can we hand in competition up in Rotherham and you
know the hunters with you know, farmers at them on
they land and they donated three hundred or three thousand
kilos of mints via the venison that was all killed
and handed into local food banks. And in Fontira do
(13:44):
that with their milk because they don't do the milk
and schools anymore. And and his meat the need with
you know, she can be farmers and dairy farmers to
make you know, a segment of the kill sheet to
the meat the need and then silwer funds to mints
to the local food pink. So a lot of that
gets doesn't get highlighted enough.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oh, I think it's a wonderful charity. And there are
a number of them around the country doing this. Stew duncan.
At the moment they're going out, they're getting wild deer
or fairal deer and they're shooting them and they and
they're mincing them up, great meat.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
It's a good cauality product, doesn't it. And I know
the helicopters started around here again. Now there's a bit
there's a new outlet and toned and picking up there.
So the jobs are starting to move around because there's
a lot of deer around. There's a huge number of
deer all through Central all over the country, and they
always hear stories of deer so mean as good as
people can do that, and it'd be good to get
a few of them tidied up as well, because they
do of course havoc along of the window feed crops,
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especially around the harder parts like where we are, it's
hard to grow them. The lane get deer eature.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There we go stew Dunk and Stewlow Today's Farmer Panel
twenty five after twelve. After the break, we're heading back
to two thousand and four, reminiscing with Barry Sober. He's
off to the Southland part tonight at the beehive. Got
a great yarn to tell about that one, Rachel Sharer.
I wonder if she's got a great yarn to tell
(15:07):
about Wall. The GM of PGG rights and wall. It's
the one commodity at the moment. I know the arable
farmers will tell me off as well. They're doing it
a bit tough, but more than any other primary sector
commodity Wall is dragging the chain strong Wall. Anyhow, we'll
get an update on the market from Rachel. We wrap
Innovation Week with some innovative young women from Saint Hilda's
(15:31):
College right here in Dunedin and Hamish Mackay to wrap
the country today. Great to welcome this man back to
(15:51):
the country, our long standing political correspondent. He's been away
on parentally for three months. A Barry Soper. I was
once a house it's been for a couple of years.
Toughest work of my life. I was hopeless at it,
but I hear that you're a dab hand at being
a house husband.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I really love it. I did it with Eggy and
now with little Mackay, and she's an absolute darling and
so easy to look after. And I'd suggest that any
man Jamie that has young children, if they can do it,
then they should do it because the rewards are amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well Barry. This weekend Heather, Heather Duplessy l and your
better half has let you off the chain because you're
going down to Wellington for the Southland Party. I've only
been there once and That was in the year two
thousand and four, and you might remember this, Barry. We
did a broadcast from the Debating Chamber just before I
went nationwide on z B Provincials, and there was me, you,
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Winston Peters, Brendan O'Donovan, chief economist of the Westpac Bank
in those days, Don Carson, long standing correspondent to this show,
and the late Tony Claire who was then the Federated
Farmer's Chief executive. So we did the broadcast. I shouted lunch.
The lunch went from one o'clock till about six thirty.
Winston kept canceling his plane back to Towong. You and
(17:13):
I trotted off to the Southland party. Winston was nowhere
to be seen, but was spotted later in bellamies.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Those were the days, although most certainly were the days
of the long lunch. Jamie, there's no way get you
could get away with that today. But yeah, that was
very early on in the Southland parties existence. It was
myself that actually started. Those parties were bad. Up to
four hundred expat Southlanders attend the parties in Wellington, So
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tonight should be a good shindy, do you know?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I remember most about the six hour lunch. Were two things, really,
One Winston arguing endlessly with Brendan O'Donovan about how he
could lower the exchange rate, and Brendan said, it's not
quite that easy. I was on Brendan's side on that one.
But when we walked into that Flash restaurant by the
by the dock side, well the dock side, yes, it
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was the dock side. So we walk in there, I've
got the table booking. You guys are standing behind me.
I say, I've got a table for six for mackay.
She says, oh okay, yeah, okay, and then she looks
over my shoulder and she says, oh wait a moment, sir,
as mister Peters dining with you. And I said, yes,
yes he is. So she scuttled off, got these people
(18:23):
who were dining, moved them off their table so we
could get the best table in the house.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
That's outrageous. I wouldn't have I would not have taken
the table had I known, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, you were happy enough back in two thousand and four, Barracks, Okay,
let's talk about Winston. Back in two thousand and four,
we all called our country New Zealand. Some of us
don't anymore, and Winston doesn't like that.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh it's incredible that old Winston he hates people referring
to this country as are and he moved a motion
to that effect when parliament started yesterday, and I got
slapped down, I've got to say, by the Speaker Jerry Browne,
who reminded Winston that he travels with a passport all
over the world on many occasions and presents it and
(19:08):
hasn't complained about the passport's cover. And of course the
first words on that are at raa and then New
Zealand sort of comes sick and well that's going to change. Apparently.
We hear today that Brook van Valden are from actors
going to acquire the new the English version to go first,
followed by the Mardi version. But the fact is Jamie
(19:28):
with a Winston likes that they're not. We've got three
official languages in New Zealand, English, Mardy and sign language.
So you know, I don't know how you get away
with passport with sign language on it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
But anyway, well, Winston doesn't like that name. Chris Luxon
or Christopher to be more correct, as Boss was calling
names this week channeling. As I said to him on
Wednesday show His Best Doctor Evil when he referred to
Chris Hopkins as freaking, freaking Chris Hopkins. No one does that,
Barry Well, nobody.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
In New Zealand uses that particular word, and we know
what it means. But clearly Chris Luxon, being a good
faithful man in terms of religion, has decided that it's
a word that shouldn't be used, so he prefers frickin' Well,
nobody in New Zealand says, we all know what it means.
(20:21):
So yeah, so yeah, Chris Hopkins. I talked to him yesterday.
I saw him in the office and he was pretty
relaxed about it. And no doubt we'll get called it
much more often the time.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, I Reckon Luxeon would have got more mileage if
he dropped the F bomb.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He's one of us, Jamie. That's what people would probably say.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yng, Okay, let's just finish on. They're calling it buttergate,
but basically Nikola and Mikey Sherman, goodness to me, have
made an absolute meal out of Buttergate.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah. Well, you know, unfortunately, I've found the adjuring of
Miles Hurrell the chief executive of fon Terra, following him
down the street like a criminal, firing questions at him.
And then yesterday, to top it all off, a journalist
in christ Church asking him what was he paid. Well,
it's got nothing to do with her. What he's paid
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is a very successful chief executive for from Terra. But
not only that, it's that following on the street. And
you know it was a miss call by Nichola Willis
to even give out a suggestion, although she didn't say it,
that she could in some way reduce the price of
butter by me meeting with Fonterra. Well that's not going
to happen. But I'll tell you what, Jamie. But in
(21:39):
the next fortnight, expect a big announcement on supermarkets.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, there you go. Maybe Nichola might actually achieve something.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I think that's probably on the cars good stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, you enjoy the Southland party tonight and remember the
remember the old adage, Barry, nothing good happens after midnight.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Absolutely, Jamie, I'll be tucked. Well, I'm truly impared by there.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Thank you Berry. I'm not sure I believe that still
a bit of life, that a bite and the old doll.
Yet he'll enjoy the Southland Party, as will all the
other Southlanders going. I have fomo, Michelle, I have Fomo.
Here is Michelle Watt with the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The country's world news with Cob Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower Brands at steel Ford dot co
dot insid. For your locals doggist.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
You have to say, by moto Jane, it sounds like
a blast. Yeah, but you're not from Southland, No, remind
me of that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're from Bellcluther, just over the border, so you can't
go sorry.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
About that from a targo. I've had many arguments with
my father about this one. Don't worry. I'm sure he's
listening out there. From Butter to Bacon, two bay of
plenty butchers have taken home the top honors at one
hundred percent New Zealand Bacon and Ham Awards. Now it's
fair to point out too that the bacon in these
awards has to be one hundred percent New Zealand born
and race.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So it's not probably hard, probably hard to find some
of that in the country at the moment.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Doesn't it's so hard to find I challenge anyone out
there to go into your like a soupermarket and actually
read the back of the packs of the bacon. You'll
see how difficult it is. But can we Fresh Meats
and tarrong A one the category champion for their KFM
American Streaky Bacon and a bronze medal for the CAFM
American drike Heure Streaky Bacon, while Kataki meets Masters took
home the bronze medal for their streaky Bacon fantastic stuff.
(23:23):
I haven't seen that bacon in our supermarkets down here,
but I do always read the labels.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Jamie good on your support to New Zealand grown and
You've got to be careful because some of it's important
and then processed or packaged here in New Zealand. Can
support the poor old pig farmers here in New Zealand,
Goodness knows they need it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Sport with AFCO visit them online at a FCO dot
co dot enzed.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Just how the next silverfern? I keep wanting to say,
silverfern farms. I've done it all this week. Why not
be consistent. Let's just stick with the silver ferns. Just
how the next silver Ferns captain will be found has
been revealed the New Zealand netballers are without a skipper
and a primary goal attack after Amelia and Ecki Echinasio
(24:10):
decision to take a sabbatical from the sport. You can't
you know, I thought, Oh, maybe she's I said earlier
in the week, does she really need a break? And
then you get the story, the full story behind that.
She said, it's not actually a viable employment ad option
for them. The netballers might not even get paid next year.
So anyhow, she's a wonderful player. She's having a break.
(24:31):
So the incumbent vice captains Kellie Jackson and Kate Hefferon
are front runners to replace her. Dame Noline Tauro says
they'll have to fight for it. I vote for Kate Hefferon.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Amazing pleasure. Twin sisters also in that team.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, and she's from West Otago, good farming stock, So yeah, Kate,
I think you would be a wonderful netball or Silver
Ferns captain and organizers have been forced to slash tonight's
nineteenth stage of the two to France by more than
thirty kilometers due to an outbreak of cattle disease. The
stage was due to have five categorized climbs, but there
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will now just be three as the tour bypasses the
affected area to alleviate the distress of the farmers who
have been forced to cull herds. I didn't know about that.
Was that like foot and mouth or something?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
It must be something like that. A have to look
into that one. They're heading into the Alps now, so
of course lots of cattle wander around just on the
roads up there, up free in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Not to mention the spectators wandering around. Right, We'll take
a break on the other side of it Wall with
Rachel Sharer, we continue. We continue our innovation week with
the girls from Saint Hilda's College here in Dunedin and
Hamish Makaida Rabbit Wow. Rachel Sharer is the GM of
(25:55):
PGG Rights and Wall. Time to have a monthly look
at the state of the Wall market. And Rachel, well,
you've got a bit of a tough gig going running
the Wall department at the moment because almost every other
commodity is on a high apart from you.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
That's absolutely right. It's a bit disappointing given the wondrous
nature of our favor. But the new season's just recently
got underway and I've got to say BIA sentiment is
pretty cautious at the moment, so there's not a lot
of urgency coming through from buyers who are selling their
orders into the international markets across most types of wool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
At the stage you need more brand champions like Tim
Dean from Norsewere, who's had some wonderful publicity in the
past week over the All Blacks beanies, kicking up a
fuss quite rightly that there are not wool, they're acrylic
or synthetic.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
I know, how good is Tim Dean and also the
whole team there at Norsewere. I was up in Northwood
last week meeting with them all really passionate group of people,
and Tim really bringing to the forefront for our industry
just how important it is and what a good role
New Zealand wall can play in high profile products. I mean,
(27:04):
hopefully those All Blacks are soon going to be wrapping
those couliflowerers and wall growing by at the moment all
South Island PGW rights and wall growers. So good on
him for championing there. I think it's an excellent thing
and I'm looking forward to what the All Blacks respond.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well. It's interesting that the chair of the All Blacks
is none other than David Kirk and his wife Bridget,
who's from a well known sheep farming family, breeding stud family.
She caused a bit of a ferrari. I think by
burning one of the synthetic cats might have got in
a wee bit of trouble at home.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
I do believe there was a bit of a ruckus caused,
but at the end of the day, getting the right
messages on the table for parties to come together to talk,
to do whatever we can and the better interests for
our wonderful sheep growers.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know, yeah, I say good. I say it good
on your Bridget Kirk radio. Paddle Ball now, this is
a sport. It's sort of a cross between tennis and squash.
Not to be confused with picketball, because I think they
use a plastic ball, but peddle users like tennis balls
and it's so popular around the world now that they
(28:12):
can't keep up with demand. Are we using strong wall
for the felt on a tennis ball?
Speaker 9 (28:18):
We're using New Zealand wall does go through into all
the tennis ball and tennis balls, and what we're hearing
from our export team who put the wall through into
the UK manufacturers is they just can't get enough staff
to make enough tennis ball felt at this stage, and
that really is a result of this growing demand for
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paddle I remember playing it back in Argentina when I
was over there in the nineties. It's a really cool game,
sort of squash tennis, coldination, really fast game, and the
amount of tennis balls that uses, in the amount that
the interest in the sport is growing, can only be
a good thing for New Zealand Wall.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So at this time of the year we're getting into
what we are into the pre lamb sharing. Obviously, especially
some of the fine wall growers are doing it. I know,
crossbred walls, strong cross breads, not flesh. Let's not try
and sugarcoat this, what about the finer stuff.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Look Actually, the early season Marino wolves that were presented
were actually really strong buyer demand, particularly and also for
the mid microns at the christ Church options. Some of
those mid micron wolves they were going for prices that
haven't been seen for the last five years. So really
good indications for the marino and mid Micron and fine
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wall growers for the upcoming season lambs wall prices or
unfortunately continuing to be mixed. As always, quality and style
are the key driver to demand, but we're seeing really
good signs for the early season marinos coming through. Looking
forward to that that market picking up.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Rachel, share a gm APGG rights and we'll always good
to catch up. You enjoy a beautifully fine can day.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
I will you to have a good weekend All.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Right well, Rachel, some mere texts feedback coming in. Thanks
for the shout out to the cropping farmers. It's been
a bloody tough twelve months, is Carl from mid Canterbury,
and another one says thanks for the arable shout out.
It's tough all right. Hopefully we'll see some improvements very
very soon. Feel for the arable farmers, they are doing
it a bit tough like the wall growers. At least
(30:25):
the wall growers now have another bite at the cherry.
The meat side of the equations pretty good. Up next
for innovative young Women from Saint Hilda's here in Dunedin and.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Seven foowing the future Innovation week on the country with
herd Eye daily scoring of body condition powered by Mei.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
We are wrapping Innovation Week here on the country courtesy
of heard Eye with some young innovators. You've got to
admire the enthusiasm of youth. Four girls are in the
studio here. They're at Saint Hilda's College here in Dunedin.
Their product is called Leather Restore. Their companies called Nature's Prime.
They are entering the Young Enterprise Business Awards. Chief Executive
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because they've all got a title. Is Alie Templeton from
Good Farming Stock in the Strathtiri. Ellie, tell us a
wee bit about your product, Leather Restore.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Nature's Primarily. The Restore is a New Zealand made leather
conditioner made from ingredients from the New Zealand primary industries.
It's made to care for all different types of leather,
from your Iron Williams boots to your high end furniture.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Now it's made from beeswax, lanelan, avocado oil, sunflower oil.
And what I really like what you've done about your product,
Leather Restore, is you've made some use for strong wool.
You've got some wool here. You're using that as your applicator.
The marketing manager. She's a Riversdale girl. I used to
play rugby with the father, Meg Miller. Hey Meg, whose
(32:03):
idea was it to come up with the wool applicator?
Speaker 11 (32:07):
Ah, the wool applicator, So it's been used for a
different product, and we just found a new new use
for it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So you were very insistent that you would use products
from the New Zealand primary sector and as I said, beeswax, landeline,
avocado oil, the growlers will be happy there and the
sunflower oil. Whose idea was it to come up with
this recipe? Because we've got another couple in the studio
as well as you two, Grea and Emmy, we all.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Wanted to use natural New Zealand ingredients, so we researched
it and came up with the recipe. We tried out
multiple different ones until we found the one that we
thought worked best and looked the best.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Now I'm going to try this on my RM Williams
boots very shortly, and I'm going to be tough on
you girls, because when you buy the RM williamspoots, they
normally up sal you, which is good marketing to buy
some of their product to put into your boots. Because
you've spent a fortune on your boots, so you've got
to put the RM Williams product on it. How do
you reckon yours compares Meg?
Speaker 11 (33:06):
I think has this way better.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Ellie. Let's welcome you back in. We've introduced you to
some of our marketing team down the back of the
building and they've given you some ideas on how to
market and get your product out there to the great unwashed,
no pun intended. So what is your plan? What is
your marketing plan? Because you're in the regional finals of
the Young Enterprise Business Awards now you're hoping to make
(33:27):
it through to the national finals.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
So we're hoping to continue on with their marketing and
we'd love to get into some retailers in Dunedin and
across sort of New Zealand or the South Island. Didn't
we target like a rural community, but also want to
reach out to people from more urban areas sort of
to promote ingredients from the primary industries.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So obviously the RAM Williams boots are a great example,
but you're also looking at the equestrian industry.
Speaker 10 (33:58):
Yes, air product seems tough work Krau for a Christian
gear which I've tested on my own and also from
furniture right through the RM Williams.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Butts Meg Miller. But you hop back on the mic.
You're the marketing manager. What is the price point for
your product?
Speaker 11 (34:16):
So twenty nine to ninety nine is for one hundred
milli container.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And that includes the applicator.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
No, so the applicators are on top of the product.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Well, there you go. You've upselling you. That's marketing one
oh one. Well done. Well, look, d tell what I'm
going to do for you, girls, because you've been kind
enough to come in here. You're going to have to
give me one of those or lend me one of these,
and I'm going to chuck it on the RM Williams Boots.
I will give next week on the Country an absolute
genuine recommendation or otherwise for your product. All the best
for the future, guys, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 11 (34:46):
Thank you very much for having us.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wonderful thanks girls. It is seven make that eight away
from one. That wraps innovation week here on the Country
thanks to hurt Eye AI technology for cow detecting, cow
lameness and body conditioning your cows. Hamish MacKaye on the
Tools next week the wrappit. Okay, welcome back to the country.
(35:14):
Just before we go to Hamish MacKaye, who, in his
own words, has been mooching around the Fielding Saleyards, the
only town in the country with sale Lyards right in
the middle of the town. Just a we message from
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as it's about to for many of you, it's easy
to put your own well being down the list of priorities,
but finding time to catch up with mates and do
(35:35):
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dot enz Hey he Hamosh, you're on the tools for
a few days for me next week. Thank you very
much for covering the butt Hey. The Fielding Saleyards one
of the great experiences of rural and New Zealand. What
(35:57):
do you reckon?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Ah Look, couldn't agree more. It is a sensational place
to be, center of the lovely village town that is
Fielding and on a sparkling, clear blue daylight the day
and there's a lot of guys are here and lady
woman taking the farm has got farm Strong as saying,
but a time off farm. He might not be buying
with selling or anything, but you know, gives you an
(36:19):
excuse to come to the nice cafes and everything just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah, and they have a great canteen there. You have
a cup of tea and a scan. It's perfect. It
reminds me of my youth. Famous.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Well, I've got a brother who used to be a
vet and he now drives a stock truck and he's
here too, so you know, bumping to him, you know,
and he loves it. You know. Friday is just such
a great day for everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Now you're on the tools for a couple of days
next week. Thank you, as I said, for covering for me.
I've got to meet a grandchild for the first time now. Yeah, yeah,
so I'm looking looking looking forward to that. So so
we won't. We won't. So we'll keep your powder dryers
to what's happening. But between now and then, we've got
a really busy weekend to sport the Lions to win
(36:59):
that second tier at the MCG in front of one
hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Well with Rob Vallatini and Will Scotton coming back. I'll
put that in context. That's a bit like you know,
calling back to an all black team, you know, a
Brody Retallic and a Jerome Kino in terms of the
impact they'll have for the Wallabies. And you know what,
I thought, Joe Smith's team was a lot better last
week than he they got credit for. This is a
lotty good Lions side, a very good Lion side, and
(37:25):
they you know, they were almost in it.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
They weren't quite there.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
But with those two coming back and I think they'll
be super competitive. And what one hundred thousand in Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
How good would that be?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Hey? Hamish, the South Island is biting back. Gerard from
Parmi North reminds me that the Timurcasar yards in South
Canterbury are in the middle of town, so I owe
a bit of an apology. Okay, Amosh, thank you very much.
I know you're busy selling real estate and auctioneering and
Parmi North and Manor Tu at the moment, go well
next week, but not too well or I might get gassed.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Hey, look, I'll just play along with our bow and
Luke Duke, you know that we become niners that you know,
the chips of there, the county McKay, McKay.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
All right there we go. Hey, miss McKay, Hey, I'll
enjoy his company. Next week.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
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Podcast with Jamie McKay Thanks to Brent starkest of the
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Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get a New Zealand Welcome to the Country, brought to
you by Brent. Sorry for the wee bit of dead
air to kick off the show. Michelle had chucked in
Spirits in the Sky by Norman green Balm, but then
I remembered that our opening guest is from Earth Sciences,
New Zealand, so I had to play a wee bit
of earth Wind and Fire for Chris Brandolino. He's going
(01:01):
to kick off the show, is it too early? I'm
going to ask him for a spring forecast. Stew Duncan
and Stuelo Today's Farming Panel, do record prices equate to
record profits? And a timely reminder from Big stew Low
a man you don't want to argue with of farmer generosity.
A lot of people out there seem to think it's
(01:23):
the farmer's job to make butter cheaper than the supermarkets.
It ain't. Barry Soper back from parental leave, Rachel Sharer,
GMAPGG rights and wool Market continued to ease. Yesterday's North
Island sale strong wall indicated down five cents. Is there
(01:45):
any future in this product? There should be, because there
are some real brand champions out there championing the cause
of wool. We're going to wrap our Innovation Week series
here this week on the Country Thinks to hurd Eye,
Smart AI, Need for Body Conditions scoring and lame cow Detection.
We've got some young innovators in fact seven seven let
(02:11):
me try that again for seventh formers. What's that year
thirteen from Saint Hilda's College right here in Dunedin. I've
got a really interesting product and Haimish mackay, who's going
to be on the tools next week for me for
a couple of days anyhow. But let's kick it off
with this guy, Chris Brandolino. Sorry about the dead air
are you? Are you an earth earth wind and Fire
(02:32):
sort of guy?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Chris Absolutely. I mean who doesn't like earth Windedn't Fire? Yeah,
they played a free concert. I saw one time great show.
This is back in the nineties, so I'm dating myself
a little bit, but yeah, it was a free show
and they did it just an absolutely awesome job. Also
concerning for the fact that it was a free show.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Actually, when you look at like pop music or popular
music today, don't have the band. So we certainly don't
have big bands earth Wind and Fire. We're a huge
ensemble really, But it's more about solo artists these days.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, it seems to be that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's funny because you know, if it weren't for my children,
I would certainly be not very not that I'm well connected,
I'd be less connected than I am with contemporary music
of today, you know. And you're right it is a
lot of solo acts one hundred percent. But look, man,
there still are some really quality bands, so to speak personally,
(03:32):
I think the Killers, that's an awesome band. I saw
them play gosh about two years ago here in Auckland
and they put it on one heck of a show.
So yeah, they're still out there. But yeah, I see
your point point taking there.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, actually, do you realize Don Henley talking about great
bands celebrated at seventy eighth birthday this week? Look, I
better get onto it is it too early?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oi Osborne passed away to I mean gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ozz he's gone, Hulk Hogan's gone. Yeah, it's been a
moving week. Some of them moving off this mortal coil? Look,
is it too early to go for you? Guys? At
Niwa the artist now known as Earth Sciences New Zealand too,
is it too early for you? Did you like what
I did around artists?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That was yeah, well we played and definitely noticed.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, is it too early for you to make a
call for spring?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Short answer is yes. This time next week we'll be
able to give you a more useful answer i e.
A spring outlook. But look, just tipping my hand a bit,
I think the overall pattern or theme is unlikely to
change significantly than what we have been I guess sharing
by way of our season or climbate outlook, and that
(04:41):
is this kind of propensity or this favoring of northerly
to northeasterly type wins i e. Less westerlies. That doesn't
mean westerly won't occur, It just means well, less than usual.
So if you kind of run with that theme, we
will see these creased or elevated occurrences where our weather
(05:03):
comes from the north or northwest. And that does not
only keep temperatures elevated. I know it's been a chilly
week because of high pressure but certainly we haven't seen
a lot of that this winter part of me and
we are going to see those episodes of warmer temperatures,
but Jamie wo those north and northwest winds comes high
moisture content risk for rainfall and heavy rainfall, and we're
going to see that unfortunately, segueing to early next week,
(05:26):
So early next week, there have been signed over the
past probably a couple of weeks where we're going to
see our airflow come from the I guess the subtropics
and tropics from the Coral Sea, and that will be
the fuel for some really heavy rain. It looks like, unfortunately,
it will be much of the country that gets wet,
but it's the top of the South Island that we're
kind of concerned about because they, as we know, have
(05:49):
been inundated with a multitude of heavy rain events. They
had a nice break, but it looks like another round
where one to two hundred millimeters of rain maker over
about twenty four hours or so, starting I would say,
very early Tuesday morning, before sunrise and continuing into the night.
So that's something we have to watch, and the rest
of the North Island for that matter, we'll see some
(06:10):
heavy rain Cormandle Bay of Plenty. Those are areas Northland
will have to watch for heavy rain and potential flooding,
but several days away details would be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, unlock that, Folcus Chris.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, nor do. I I mean this is but this
is what we're This is likely a theme will be
running with that thing through spring. That's about the Sprain
outlook and look. I certainly want to preempt that, but
I would be pretty surprised if we landed on a
view that did not kind of include that same sort
of expectation of La Nina type weather. I mean, it
(06:46):
looks like, even though we may not formally enter in
La Nina this spring and summer, we're going to find
at the very least, at the very least La Nina
like patterns. And that means these northeasterly flows they hear
the music. So I'll wrap it up with a propensity
for rain events for the northern and eastern part of
the North Island. We got to watch for dryness. I
(07:08):
think the western and lower South Island. I think if
we're talking and it's like late November early December, I
think dryness is a real concern potentially in that part
of the country.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Chris Brandolino from Earth Science, Z and Z getting the
heave ho from Earth, Wind and Fire Chris and Joy Weekend.
Catch you back next Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's good a buddy, there you go it is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'll turn this Wind and Fire down away. But it's
fourteen after twelve years with the country. It's brought to
you by Bratton the Farmer Panel up next because they're
both busy men. Stew Duncan and stew Duncan's and the
many A Toto Stulo's and Canterbury enjoying a beautiful day.
It's a bit like where we are and Deled and
the South Island's just enjoying a very good weather. And
(07:51):
I hope he's wrong about that heavy rain for the
Tasman Nelson region. Barry Soaper back from Parental Leave. Do
you know what happening in Wellington tonight? I wish I
could be there the Southland Party. I've got some great
yarns about that. Rachel Scherer from PGG Rights and Well.
We wrap Innovation Week and Hamish McKay is going to
(08:12):
have a turn on the tools next week. We'll wrap
it with the Voice of Sport here on the country.
(08:37):
Welcome back to the country, brought to you by Brown Brent.
Better get the sponsor's name right, or I might get
the sack September. Before we get to September from earth
wind and fire, we've got to get through August. Maybe
some wet weather for some of you. Anyhow, Well, let's
talk to a couple of cockies out at the cold
(08:57):
Face Ones and the Many at Toto Inland Central Otago.
The other ones in North Canterbury, stew Duncan and Stu Low,
and I bet you the pair of you must be
enjoying this weather, great wintering weather. I'll start with you
Stew Duncan.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, no, we've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
We've had hardly any frost this morning, this corner, in
the last couple of days. But it has been some
good frost in the early week and not quite sunny here,
but magnificent day yesterday and we like northwester so we
were sharing so it was magnificent sharing weather really, so
it's been pretty lucky. We dodged most of the snows
and the stock and great orders and it's been quite good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Stu Lower here, you've had some good frosts and Canterbury,
although Rooks was on the show yesterday winging about no snow.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Yeah, no, I don't think there's too much out there,
but no, we've been getting some good frost, killing all
the bugs and getting good utilization out of feeding out
and break feeding for the beaten kaale and things like that.
So now it's from three weeks ago. We were pretty
pretty wet when mates up and tears when we're copping
a bit. We sort of got the tail end of it,
(10:01):
but it's dried out since seen and it's been very good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You're a summer dry country, unirrigated country in North Canterbury there.
That means you lamb early. You get the lambs away early.
They'll be worth a bomb this year, stew Low. When
do you start lambing?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Yeah, the early ones are just about at the end
of the first cycle now, so they're just a bit
tidied up. I haven't got many you this year, and
the second lots out on about August the tenth, so yeah,
any sort of weather events, so yeah, everything getting good
survival and yeah it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And stew duncan you're not only a sheep farmer, sheep
and beef like Stew, you're also a deer farmer and
a dairy farmer. You literally won't know what to do
with all your money this year, although I didn't, I
didn't see any of it when you're in lunar having
a bear with me. The other night it failed to
a pair. Stew.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You're pretty crick to pull out the money that night, though,
weren't you?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well, I was just been shouting a correspondent.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Well, it's good. Now it's been good.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Hopefully it flows through because I think the sheep thing's
only just starting, and you know, if you're holding a
few cattle and a few winter lambs or like got
a few really lambs, I think you're going to get
a good next eighteen months. So hopefully it does flow
back into really puzzles balance sheets and that gets spent
back around the community and but a fertilizer and the
third maintenance goes on and everyone gets a bit of
a whack of it. But definitely it is positive and
(11:24):
it's been quite an amazing turn around then eight to
nine months.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Really absolutely, it's not that long long ago that lamb
was languishing in the sixers. There's talk. I don't know
whether it's there's any true to it, this talk of
a lamb schedule at ten or eleven dollars? Could that
be possible?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Steve Duncan, Absolutely possible. In Australia, it's into the thirteens
and fourteen dollars a kilo and we'll tag along behind it.
So you know, we've been having discussions at the pub
the other night. Even you know there's about a three
hundred dollars lamb in New Zealand. So you get ten
eleven dollars and you get these twenty six or seven
kilo lambs if they can take them that heavy, and
some someone will and we'll tag on behind. What was
(11:59):
doing studio? I saw an article on account and Center
the other dation some lambs in Australia. So you know
you could take two hundred and fifty dollars for a
lamb to three hundred outstanding, wouldn't it four around the community?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Four hundred and sixty dollars for a mind you a
bloody big lamb in Australia This week from our Elsie correspondent,
Chris Russell stew Low. Do you remember the bad old
days when we used to be penalized for heavyweight lambs.
How stupid was that?
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yeah, I think they had brought out a great called
the w X grade and that was sort of around
about the eighteen kilos, and that was sort of making
people take them through the biggest, bigger weights. I think
I was just starting out in the stocking station agent game,
and yeah, that was a bit of a bit of
a novel tea to draft lambs that big. But I
suppose Southland's always always been a wee bit ahead of
everyone else because they could head the feed and grow
(12:43):
them out. But a yeah, w X lambs, it seems
a year long time.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Ago, A half a lifetime agoes to you want to
remind people a timely reminder of farmer generosity. We've had
all this Suhara and Barry soapers coming up, and I
think he's got something to say about it. But it's
been a bit of a dog's breakfast. This buttergate, whatever
they want to call it. People squealing for not squealing.
I mean, I understand how people are frustrated with the
(13:10):
price of dairy, but they just seem to be concentrating
on dairy. They're not talking about meat or can we
fruit or any of these other products that are going
really well and offshore markets.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Yeah, there's always alternatives. And I went up to and
in competition here Abit a month or so ago. Not
can we hand in competition up in Rotherham and you
know the hunters with you know, farmers at them on
they land and they donated three hundred or three thousand
kilos of mints via the venison that was all killed
and handed into local food banks. And in Fontira do
(13:44):
that with their milk because they don't do the milk
and schools anymore. And and his meat the need with
you know, she can be farmers and dairy farmers to
make you know, a segment of the kill sheet to
the meat the need and then silwer funds to mints
to the local food pink. So a lot of that
gets doesn't get highlighted enough.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oh, I think it's a wonderful charity. And there are
a number of them around the country doing this. Stew duncan.
At the moment they're going out, they're getting wild deer
or fairal deer and they're shooting them and they and
they're mincing them up, great meat.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
It's a good cauality product, doesn't it. And I know
the helicopters started around here again. Now there's a bit
there's a new outlet and toned and picking up there.
So the jobs are starting to move around because there's
a lot of deer around. There's a huge number of
deer all through Central all over the country, and they
always hear stories of deer so mean as good as
people can do that, and it'd be good to get
a few of them tidied up as well, because they
do of course havoc along of the window feed crops,
(14:41):
especially around the harder parts like where we are, it's
hard to grow them. The lane get deer eature.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There we go stew Dunk and Stewlow Today's Farmer Panel
twenty five after twelve. After the break, we're heading back
to two thousand and four, reminiscing with Barry Sober. He's
off to the Southland part tonight at the beehive. Got
a great yarn to tell about that one, Rachel Sharer.
I wonder if she's got a great yarn to tell
(15:07):
about Wall. The GM of PGG rights and wall. It's
the one commodity at the moment. I know the arable
farmers will tell me off as well. They're doing it
a bit tough, but more than any other primary sector
commodity Wall is dragging the chain strong Wall. Anyhow, we'll
get an update on the market from Rachel. We wrap
Innovation Week with some innovative young women from Saint Hilda's
(15:31):
College right here in Dunedin and Hamish Mackay to wrap
the country today. Great to welcome this man back to
(15:51):
the country, our long standing political correspondent. He's been away
on parentally for three months. A Barry Soper. I was
once a house it's been for a couple of years.
Toughest work of my life. I was hopeless at it,
but I hear that you're a dab hand at being
a house husband.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I really love it. I did it with Eggy and
now with little Mackay, and she's an absolute darling and
so easy to look after. And I'd suggest that any
man Jamie that has young children, if they can do it,
then they should do it because the rewards are amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well Barry. This weekend Heather, Heather Duplessy l and your
better half has let you off the chain because you're
going down to Wellington for the Southland Party. I've only
been there once and That was in the year two
thousand and four, and you might remember this, Barry. We
did a broadcast from the Debating Chamber just before I
went nationwide on z B Provincials, and there was me, you,
(16:51):
Winston Peters, Brendan O'Donovan, chief economist of the Westpac Bank
in those days, Don Carson, long standing correspondent to this show,
and the late Tony Claire who was then the Federated
Farmer's Chief executive. So we did the broadcast. I shouted lunch.
The lunch went from one o'clock till about six thirty.
Winston kept canceling his plane back to Towong. You and
(17:13):
I trotted off to the Southland party. Winston was nowhere
to be seen, but was spotted later in bellamies.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Those were the days, although most certainly were the days
of the long lunch. Jamie, there's no way get you
could get away with that today. But yeah, that was
very early on in the Southland parties existence. It was
myself that actually started. Those parties were bad. Up to
four hundred expat Southlanders attend the parties in Wellington, So
(17:40):
tonight should be a good shindy, do you know?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I remember most about the six hour lunch. Were two things, really,
One Winston arguing endlessly with Brendan O'Donovan about how he
could lower the exchange rate, and Brendan said, it's not
quite that easy. I was on Brendan's side on that one.
But when we walked into that Flash restaurant by the
by the dock side, well the dock side, yes, it
(18:02):
was the dock side. So we walk in there, I've
got the table booking. You guys are standing behind me.
I say, I've got a table for six for mackay.
She says, oh okay, yeah, okay, and then she looks
over my shoulder and she says, oh wait a moment, sir,
as mister Peters dining with you. And I said, yes,
yes he is. So she scuttled off, got these people
(18:23):
who were dining, moved them off their table so we
could get the best table in the house.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
That's outrageous. I wouldn't have I would not have taken
the table had I known, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, you were happy enough back in two thousand and four, Barracks, Okay,
let's talk about Winston. Back in two thousand and four,
we all called our country New Zealand. Some of us
don't anymore, and Winston doesn't like that.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh it's incredible that old Winston he hates people referring
to this country as are and he moved a motion
to that effect when parliament started yesterday, and I got
slapped down, I've got to say, by the Speaker Jerry Browne,
who reminded Winston that he travels with a passport all
over the world on many occasions and presents it and
(19:08):
hasn't complained about the passport's cover. And of course the
first words on that are at raa and then New
Zealand sort of comes sick and well that's going to change. Apparently.
We hear today that Brook van Valden are from actors
going to acquire the new the English version to go first,
followed by the Mardi version. But the fact is Jamie
(19:28):
with a Winston likes that they're not. We've got three
official languages in New Zealand, English, Mardy and sign language.
So you know, I don't know how you get away
with passport with sign language on it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
But anyway, well, Winston doesn't like that name. Chris Luxon
or Christopher to be more correct, as Boss was calling
names this week channeling. As I said to him on
Wednesday show His Best Doctor Evil when he referred to
Chris Hopkins as freaking, freaking Chris Hopkins. No one does that,
Barry Well, nobody.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
In New Zealand uses that particular word, and we know
what it means. But clearly Chris Luxon, being a good
faithful man in terms of religion, has decided that it's
a word that shouldn't be used, so he prefers frickin' Well,
nobody in New Zealand says, we all know what it means.
(20:21):
So yeah, so yeah, Chris Hopkins. I talked to him yesterday.
I saw him in the office and he was pretty
relaxed about it. And no doubt we'll get called it
much more often the time.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, I Reckon Luxeon would have got more mileage if
he dropped the F bomb.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He's one of us, Jamie. That's what people would probably say.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yng, Okay, let's just finish on. They're calling it buttergate,
but basically Nikola and Mikey Sherman, goodness to me, have
made an absolute meal out of Buttergate.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah. Well, you know, unfortunately, I've found the adjuring of
Miles Hurrell the chief executive of fon Terra, following him
down the street like a criminal, firing questions at him.
And then yesterday, to top it all off, a journalist
in christ Church asking him what was he paid. Well,
it's got nothing to do with her. What he's paid
(21:17):
is a very successful chief executive for from Terra. But
not only that, it's that following on the street. And
you know it was a miss call by Nichola Willis
to even give out a suggestion, although she didn't say it,
that she could in some way reduce the price of
butter by me meeting with Fonterra. Well that's not going
to happen. But I'll tell you what, Jamie. But in
(21:39):
the next fortnight, expect a big announcement on supermarkets.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, there you go. Maybe Nichola might actually achieve something.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I think that's probably on the cars good stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, you enjoy the Southland party tonight and remember the
remember the old adage, Barry, nothing good happens after midnight.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Absolutely, Jamie, I'll be tucked. Well, I'm truly impared by there.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Thank you Berry. I'm not sure I believe that still
a bit of life, that a bite and the old doll.
Yet he'll enjoy the Southland Party, as will all the
other Southlanders going. I have fomo, Michelle, I have Fomo.
Here is Michelle Watt with the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The country's world news with Cob Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower Brands at steel Ford dot co
dot insid. For your locals doggist.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
You have to say, by moto Jane, it sounds like
a blast. Yeah, but you're not from Southland, No, remind
me of that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're from Bellcluther, just over the border, so you can't
go sorry.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
About that from a targo. I've had many arguments with
my father about this one. Don't worry. I'm sure he's
listening out there. From Butter to Bacon, two bay of
plenty butchers have taken home the top honors at one
hundred percent New Zealand Bacon and Ham Awards. Now it's
fair to point out too that the bacon in these
awards has to be one hundred percent New Zealand born
and race.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So it's not probably hard, probably hard to find some
of that in the country at the moment.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Doesn't it's so hard to find I challenge anyone out
there to go into your like a soupermarket and actually
read the back of the packs of the bacon. You'll
see how difficult it is. But can we Fresh Meats
and tarrong A one the category champion for their KFM
American Streaky Bacon and a bronze medal for the CAFM
American drike Heure Streaky Bacon, while Kataki meets Masters took
home the bronze medal for their streaky Bacon fantastic stuff.
(23:23):
I haven't seen that bacon in our supermarkets down here,
but I do always read the labels.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Jamie good on your support to New Zealand grown and
You've got to be careful because some of it's important
and then processed or packaged here in New Zealand. Can
support the poor old pig farmers here in New Zealand,
Goodness knows they need it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Sport with AFCO visit them online at a FCO dot
co dot enzed.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Just how the next silverfern? I keep wanting to say,
silverfern farms. I've done it all this week. Why not
be consistent. Let's just stick with the silver ferns. Just
how the next silver Ferns captain will be found has
been revealed the New Zealand netballers are without a skipper
and a primary goal attack after Amelia and Ecki Echinasio
(24:10):
decision to take a sabbatical from the sport. You can't
you know, I thought, Oh, maybe she's I said earlier
in the week, does she really need a break? And
then you get the story, the full story behind that.
She said, it's not actually a viable employment ad option
for them. The netballers might not even get paid next year.
So anyhow, she's a wonderful player. She's having a break.
(24:31):
So the incumbent vice captains Kellie Jackson and Kate Hefferon
are front runners to replace her. Dame Noline Tauro says
they'll have to fight for it. I vote for Kate Hefferon.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Amazing pleasure. Twin sisters also in that team.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, and she's from West Otago, good farming stock, So yeah, Kate,
I think you would be a wonderful netball or Silver
Ferns captain and organizers have been forced to slash tonight's
nineteenth stage of the two to France by more than
thirty kilometers due to an outbreak of cattle disease. The
stage was due to have five categorized climbs, but there
(25:09):
will now just be three as the tour bypasses the
affected area to alleviate the distress of the farmers who
have been forced to cull herds. I didn't know about that.
Was that like foot and mouth or something?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
It must be something like that. A have to look
into that one. They're heading into the Alps now, so
of course lots of cattle wander around just on the
roads up there, up free in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Not to mention the spectators wandering around. Right, We'll take
a break on the other side of it Wall with
Rachel Sharer, we continue. We continue our innovation week with
the girls from Saint Hilda's College here in Dunedin and
Hamish Makaida Rabbit Wow. Rachel Sharer is the GM of
(25:55):
PGG Rights and Wall. Time to have a monthly look
at the state of the Wall market. And Rachel, well,
you've got a bit of a tough gig going running
the Wall department at the moment because almost every other
commodity is on a high apart from you.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
That's absolutely right. It's a bit disappointing given the wondrous
nature of our favor. But the new season's just recently
got underway and I've got to say BIA sentiment is
pretty cautious at the moment, so there's not a lot
of urgency coming through from buyers who are selling their
orders into the international markets across most types of wool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
At the stage you need more brand champions like Tim
Dean from Norsewere, who's had some wonderful publicity in the
past week over the All Blacks beanies, kicking up a
fuss quite rightly that there are not wool, they're acrylic
or synthetic.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
I know, how good is Tim Dean and also the
whole team there at Norsewere. I was up in Northwood
last week meeting with them all really passionate group of people,
and Tim really bringing to the forefront for our industry
just how important it is and what a good role
New Zealand wall can play in high profile products. I mean,
(27:04):
hopefully those All Blacks are soon going to be wrapping
those couliflowerers and wall growing by at the moment all
South Island PGW rights and wall growers. So good on
him for championing there. I think it's an excellent thing
and I'm looking forward to what the All Blacks respond.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well. It's interesting that the chair of the All Blacks
is none other than David Kirk and his wife Bridget,
who's from a well known sheep farming family, breeding stud family.
She caused a bit of a ferrari. I think by
burning one of the synthetic cats might have got in
a wee bit of trouble at home.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
I do believe there was a bit of a ruckus caused,
but at the end of the day, getting the right
messages on the table for parties to come together to talk,
to do whatever we can and the better interests for
our wonderful sheep growers.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You know, yeah, I say good. I say it good
on your Bridget Kirk radio. Paddle Ball now, this is
a sport. It's sort of a cross between tennis and squash.
Not to be confused with picketball, because I think they
use a plastic ball, but peddle users like tennis balls
and it's so popular around the world now that they
(28:12):
can't keep up with demand. Are we using strong wall
for the felt on a tennis ball?
Speaker 9 (28:18):
We're using New Zealand wall does go through into all
the tennis ball and tennis balls, and what we're hearing
from our export team who put the wall through into
the UK manufacturers is they just can't get enough staff
to make enough tennis ball felt at this stage, and
that really is a result of this growing demand for
(28:39):
paddle I remember playing it back in Argentina when I
was over there in the nineties. It's a really cool game,
sort of squash tennis, coldination, really fast game, and the
amount of tennis balls that uses, in the amount that
the interest in the sport is growing, can only be
a good thing for New Zealand Wall.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So at this time of the year we're getting into
what we are into the pre lamb sharing. Obviously, especially
some of the fine wall growers are doing it. I know,
crossbred walls, strong cross breads, not flesh. Let's not try
and sugarcoat this, what about the finer stuff.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Look Actually, the early season Marino wolves that were presented
were actually really strong buyer demand, particularly and also for
the mid microns at the christ Church options. Some of
those mid micron wolves they were going for prices that
haven't been seen for the last five years. So really
good indications for the marino and mid Micron and fine
(29:37):
wall growers for the upcoming season lambs wall prices or
unfortunately continuing to be mixed. As always, quality and style
are the key driver to demand, but we're seeing really
good signs for the early season marinos coming through. Looking
forward to that that market picking up.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Rachel, share a gm APGG rights and we'll always good
to catch up. You enjoy a beautifully fine can day.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
I will you to have a good weekend All.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Right well, Rachel, some mere texts feedback coming in. Thanks
for the shout out to the cropping farmers. It's been
a bloody tough twelve months, is Carl from mid Canterbury,
and another one says thanks for the arable shout out.
It's tough all right. Hopefully we'll see some improvements very
very soon. Feel for the arable farmers, they are doing
it a bit tough like the wall growers. At least
(30:25):
the wall growers now have another bite at the cherry.
The meat side of the equations pretty good. Up next
for innovative young Women from Saint Hilda's here in Dunedin and.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Seven foowing the future Innovation week on the country with
herd Eye daily scoring of body condition powered by Mei.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
We are wrapping Innovation Week here on the country courtesy
of heard Eye with some young innovators. You've got to
admire the enthusiasm of youth. Four girls are in the
studio here. They're at Saint Hilda's College here in Dunedin.
Their product is called Leather Restore. Their companies called Nature's Prime.
They are entering the Young Enterprise Business Awards. Chief Executive
(31:14):
because they've all got a title. Is Alie Templeton from
Good Farming Stock in the Strathtiri. Ellie, tell us a
wee bit about your product, Leather Restore.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Nature's Primarily. The Restore is a New Zealand made leather
conditioner made from ingredients from the New Zealand primary industries.
It's made to care for all different types of leather,
from your Iron Williams boots to your high end furniture.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Now it's made from beeswax, lanelan, avocado oil, sunflower oil.
And what I really like what you've done about your product,
Leather Restore, is you've made some use for strong wool.
You've got some wool here. You're using that as your applicator.
The marketing manager. She's a Riversdale girl. I used to
play rugby with the father, Meg Miller. Hey Meg, whose
(32:03):
idea was it to come up with the wool applicator?
Speaker 11 (32:07):
Ah, the wool applicator, So it's been used for a
different product, and we just found a new new use
for it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So you were very insistent that you would use products
from the New Zealand primary sector and as I said, beeswax, landeline,
avocado oil, the growlers will be happy there and the
sunflower oil. Whose idea was it to come up with
this recipe? Because we've got another couple in the studio
as well as you two, Grea and Emmy, we all.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Wanted to use natural New Zealand ingredients, so we researched
it and came up with the recipe. We tried out
multiple different ones until we found the one that we
thought worked best and looked the best.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Now I'm going to try this on my RM Williams
boots very shortly, and I'm going to be tough on
you girls, because when you buy the RM williamspoots, they
normally up sal you, which is good marketing to buy
some of their product to put into your boots. Because
you've spent a fortune on your boots, so you've got
to put the RM Williams product on it. How do
you reckon yours compares Meg?
Speaker 11 (33:06):
I think has this way better.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Ellie. Let's welcome you back in. We've introduced you to
some of our marketing team down the back of the
building and they've given you some ideas on how to
market and get your product out there to the great unwashed,
no pun intended. So what is your plan? What is
your marketing plan? Because you're in the regional finals of
the Young Enterprise Business Awards now you're hoping to make
(33:27):
it through to the national finals.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
So we're hoping to continue on with their marketing and
we'd love to get into some retailers in Dunedin and
across sort of New Zealand or the South Island. Didn't
we target like a rural community, but also want to
reach out to people from more urban areas sort of
to promote ingredients from the primary industries.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So obviously the RAM Williams boots are a great example,
but you're also looking at the equestrian industry.
Speaker 10 (33:58):
Yes, air product seems tough work Krau for a Christian
gear which I've tested on my own and also from
furniture right through the RM Williams.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Butts Meg Miller. But you hop back on the mic.
You're the marketing manager. What is the price point for
your product?
Speaker 11 (34:16):
So twenty nine to ninety nine is for one hundred
milli container.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And that includes the applicator.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
No, so the applicators are on top of the product.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Well, there you go. You've upselling you. That's marketing one
oh one. Well done. Well, look, d tell what I'm
going to do for you, girls, because you've been kind
enough to come in here. You're going to have to
give me one of those or lend me one of these,
and I'm going to chuck it on the RM Williams Boots.
I will give next week on the Country an absolute
genuine recommendation or otherwise for your product. All the best
for the future, guys, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 11 (34:46):
Thank you very much for having us.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wonderful thanks girls. It is seven make that eight away
from one. That wraps innovation week here on the Country
thanks to hurt Eye AI technology for cow detecting, cow
lameness and body conditioning your cows. Hamish MacKaye on the
Tools next week the wrappit. Okay, welcome back to the country.
(35:14):
Just before we go to Hamish MacKaye, who, in his
own words, has been mooching around the Fielding Saleyards, the
only town in the country with sale Lyards right in
the middle of the town. Just a we message from
our partners at Farmstrong. When life gets busy on the farm,
as it's about to for many of you, it's easy
to put your own well being down the list of priorities,
but finding time to catch up with mates and do
(35:35):
enjoyable activities off farm is what helps you get through
the hardest of days. For free tools and resources on
how to live well on farm well, Farmstrong dot co
dot enz Hey he Hamosh, you're on the tools for
a few days for me next week. Thank you very
much for covering the butt Hey. The Fielding Saleyards one
of the great experiences of rural and New Zealand. What
(35:57):
do you reckon?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Ah Look, couldn't agree more. It is a sensational place
to be, center of the lovely village town that is
Fielding and on a sparkling, clear blue daylight the day
and there's a lot of guys are here and lady
woman taking the farm has got farm Strong as saying,
but a time off farm. He might not be buying
with selling or anything, but you know, gives you an
(36:19):
excuse to come to the nice cafes and everything just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah, and they have a great canteen there. You have
a cup of tea and a scan. It's perfect. It
reminds me of my youth. Famous.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Well, I've got a brother who used to be a
vet and he now drives a stock truck and he's
here too, so you know, bumping to him, you know,
and he loves it. You know. Friday is just such
a great day for everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Now you're on the tools for a couple of days
next week. Thank you, as I said, for covering for me.
I've got to meet a grandchild for the first time now. Yeah, yeah,
so I'm looking looking looking forward to that. So so
we won't. We won't. So we'll keep your powder dryers
to what's happening. But between now and then, we've got
a really busy weekend to sport the Lions to win
(36:59):
that second tier at the MCG in front of one
hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Well with Rob Vallatini and Will Scotton coming back. I'll
put that in context. That's a bit like you know,
calling back to an all black team, you know, a
Brody Retallic and a Jerome Kino in terms of the
impact they'll have for the Wallabies. And you know what,
I thought, Joe Smith's team was a lot better last
week than he they got credit for. This is a
lotty good Lions side, a very good Lion side, and
(37:25):
they you know, they were almost in it.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
They weren't quite there.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
But with those two coming back and I think they'll
be super competitive. And what one hundred thousand in Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
How good would that be?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Hey? Hamish, the South Island is biting back. Gerard from
Parmi North reminds me that the Timurcasar yards in South
Canterbury are in the middle of town, so I owe
a bit of an apology. Okay, Amosh, thank you very much.
I know you're busy selling real estate and auctioneering and
Parmi North and Manor Tu at the moment, go well
next week, but not too well or I might get gassed.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Hey, look, I'll just play along with our bow and
Luke Duke, you know that we become niners that you know,
the chips of there, the county McKay, McKay.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
All right there we go. Hey, miss McKay, Hey, I'll
enjoy his company. Next week.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
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