December 4, 2025 • 38 mins
Hamish McKay talks to Todd McClay, Andrew Alderson, George Dodson, James Robertson, and Chris Brandolino.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Darling, you got to let me know, shot Dusty or
should uncle? But of the best of British? Does that
mean where we're rocking towards the weekend. Welcome into the Country,
brought to you by Brent Hams McKay and for Jamie
McKay on your Friday. Normally about this time I'd be
talking to Jamie bit a sport out of the fielding saliard,
(00:47):
you know, popped over the road from the office that
tremain's here and fielding and over to the stockyard cafe
and having you know, one of your big custed squares.
But not today, I see, I had to come up
to Auckland to see my cardiologist. But a pair he
tells me, Michellete, I've forget your might go on down
there underneath. But he tells me I'm as fit as
a buck rat. What does that mean? As fit as
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a buck rat?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How old is your doctor?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
What?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
He is?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
A young actually he's probably in his mid thirties, you know,
a real young.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
As the saying I've not heard from many a years,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh maybe people can what's the text number again? Because
you know, because I'm not on enough regularly enough to
remember the text number off the top of my head.
Fit as a buck rat? What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Five double O nine? If you want to let us
know what that one means?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Five double O nine fit as a buck rat? Anyway,
I am an awkward Coming up on the show, we
will be a talking to the much traveled and I
think he's done a great job. Todd McClay, Minister of Agriculture,
is coming up. We'll talk to orders from Hagley Oval,
the cricketer happening, the cricket that's happening there. I call
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him the Senior Masters. He never wanted to be the
head Master. The Senior Master Andrew Orderson. We'll have our
Farmer's Panel and a couple of bright young sparks. They
are too, James Robertson from Fonterra and George Dodson, Darfield Farmer,
both of course former Young Farmers of the Year. Also
will check in on the weather with Chris Bandolino. It's
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Todd McClay coming up in the situation with IKEA's forest
ownership in New Zealand. But first I just wanted to
mention a bit of sport to do all you Manchester
knighted fans, you Johnny come lately bandwagon types. Hey wan
old draw to west Ham at Old Trafford today And
I think that's pretty fitting because we said goodbye during
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the week to that magnificent man, Billy Bonds, the seventy
seven year old man who lifted a loft the fa
Cup in nineteen seventy five, which is my first memory
of color tv A. There you go, good stuff, rutty home.
Minister McLay next the country. Well, he's certainly been a
busy man. In twenty twenty five, Minister of Agriculture Todd
McClay joins us and on the run today. So we're
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not going to mark around Todd this Ikea. It's been
everywhere this week, the whole opening of the new business.
But what about these forests they've got in the Central
Hawks Bay that have been lay and converted into pine forestry.
Parently they're pretty big owners by all accounts.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, there is. Look personally, thanks having me on the show.
You're right, it's been a busy year. It's not quite over.
I've got one more trip to India this year. We're
trying to get that deal cracked. There's still some work
to do, but so you know, a little bit of
tiredness before Santa Claus arrives. The investment on the part
of IKEA is very good for New Zealand. They didn't
have to come here. It's create the jobs of thousands
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of New Zealanders and don't realize they're going to pay
quite a lot of money for I quality furniture they
have to put together themselves. But they've also had a
look and decided they want to invest in forestry in
New Zealand, not necessarily, you know, for any purpose other
than they lose a lot of wood and it's their
way of making sure that wood is available. They won't
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be taking the wood of building furniture out of it.
They have the same obligations on them though as everyone
else that owns forest in New Zealand. They have to
be good neighbors. There are a lot of rules around,
a lot to do to prepare a fires, that sort
of thing, and I would expect that they will be
exemplary exceptional when it comes to owners of a forest
because they have a very big reputation around the world
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they need to hold up. But at the same time,
you know, every single person, whether they work on a farm,
live in a city, a town, or have a forest,
has to think about how they can make sure that
they're not going to harm others and they are following
best practice.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So no concerns from a government perspective around the locals
are concerned about the risk of far and not only
the loss of good farmland.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah, well, in as far as farmlands concerned, this land
with purchas before we put through the law to restrict
and ban or stop full farm to forest conversion. So
we pass that into law this year a few months ago.
It's now active, but this was done beforehand. So the
point that was from the moment that law was announced,
which is last year, people know that to buy farms
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to do full farm to forest conversion. And when it
came into law, I think it was August of this year.
It was back dated, which is a tough thing to do,
but it was important because we are concerned about very
productive farmland going into forests. We want to be producing food.
But then in as far as you know, concerned risk
and so on. Interestingly, the majority of fires that are
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in forest don't start in the forest. They start somewhere else,
I'm told, And that's not about blame. It's just that,
you know, it's a little bit more complex. But what
I am doing with a couple of my colleagues is
having a look across the board that rights and obligations
and make sure we've got the rules right. There are
some people who own forests in New Zealand from years ago,
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a long time ago. Some of it was purchased or
planted under the last labor government. They're non resident, they're
not here and I do hear anecdotally concerns, particularly from
you know, councils and rural farming communities, that they may
not be looking after the forest and way that they
should and there could be additional risk there. So we
have rules in place already they have to, along with
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everyone else, be responsible, but I have asked officials to
start taking a look at whether there are more we
need to do. Interestingly, the forestry industry itself is joining
me to talk about this because they want to get
the rules right too. They want clear rules to know
what they need to do, and you know, they also
don't want silly rules that will cost them too much
and not achieve it deactly the same as farmers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right, Okay, good, we'll keep an eye on this going forward. Now.
Jim Wore, the most excellent former manager of Molesworth Station,
put forward this idea of it becoming a not for
profit organization. What are we hearing on this?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It sounds like you want a landcorp to take it
because they've been not making a profit for years and
new years of farming. Look at it, sits with it,
sits with the Department Conservation. They're responsible for it. They
are having a little look at you know, it's the
least who is running there at the moment. I don't
want to jump in the way of that because I'm
not responsible for that. That's my colleague come of protact.
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But have been pretty clear to them. It is iconic.
It is very very important. I can tell you they
will not pine trees planted on that. There won't be
There's been a lot of scuttle back around up but
there's not We've ruled that out. But we do want
to make sure that one it is well you that's
farms properly and by going through that now to see
exactly what that will look like. The government owns and land.
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I don't think we should not be making a profit,
because if we can make a good profit of the
as farmers are elsewhere, then we might be able to
get taxes down because we can use that profit to
I don't know, papers and more teachers and doctors and
nurses and all these sorts of things. But it should
not be run in the way you know some things
are when governments are involved. So we're working through that
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at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Todd and I you're busy man. Just quickly. I had
been asked to ask you, did you try the Ikea Meatballs'.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I haven't been able to get along there, but I
can tell you I lived in Europe for a long
long time and I've eaten my fear share of Ikea meatballs.
I can tell anybody that's going along there, there's nothing
wrong with eating your body weight. And I meet boss,
give it a try.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, one might seeing India one more trip before Christmas.
You're going to bring us back some Christmas presents.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, we're going to Yeah. So look, we're working away
that we're making progress, and there's been a lot of
momentum growing. You know, we're committed to getting that deal
done during this term of parliament, which will happen, but
we're not going to make sure it's a good deal too.
So we're getting to the twenty end of some of
the really tough discussions. Now. I have a very good
relationship with my Indian counterpart. I've met with them. I
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couldn't tell you the number of times. This will be
on my seventh or eighth trip there since the election.
The negotiators are going hard. We're going to do everything
we can to get the best deal of New Zealand.
It might be perfect, but here's a market I reckon
we can get a better one than Australia got, and
they sell a lot of lamb in that market. We don't.
I want to replace the Australian lamb in India with
New Zealand land.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Fantastic, Todd McLay, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There we go, Minister Rag Todd mcclady doing a great
job in twenty twenty four. I'm looking forward to them
carrying that on through twenty twenty six. Off to India
one more time before Christmas. We're going to heat to
Andrew Ordison orders from Hagley overall the senior Master and
what's going on there batting practice for his land at
the moment, I think any response to the the buck
fit as a buck rat, Michelle, which I am. According
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to my cardiologist.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yes, a buck rat is a male rat who was healthy.
So I can't figure out if that is a compliment
or not.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
What do you figure when you call somebody a rat bag?
This is a little bit naughty, but not really bad.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh that's another term that I even heard, a.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Fit as a buck rat bag. Maybe I don't know. Okay,
Ed Ordison Cricket next here on the Country, welcome on
and let me know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Shoot.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I still shoot Ugum Friday. I'm in love. They will
you know speaking you know love. I've got quite a
soft spot for Andrew Orderson orders. I call him the
senior Master of the Sports Department of New Zealand Sports
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Broadcasting Act. You never really wanted to be the rector
or the headmaster. Just always happy being the senior Master
and keeping everybody on their toes through both ability and
a character. So we're going to join him plenty to
talk about in the cricket in the sport world. That's
coming up from christ Church.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
McKay on sport with farm Lands, prevent Parris one outbreaks
and score a win this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Andrew Ordison orders, you are Hamish MacKaye today and I'm
Jamie McKay, So you know, can you do your best
Hamish mackay impersonation? I know there's one or two that
do do it.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I wouldn't. Dare, I wouldn't Dare, couldn't. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Justice orders, you just did it with the That was perfect.
I thought you were taking the mickey straightaway. What's happening
in that cricket? The windy's out the windows out in
the middle, are they.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
You've been speaking of kicking people on their toes. Yes,
the West Indies are out there. I was so six
without loss. They're chasing five hundred and thirty one for
an unlikely victory here and they've the last the best
part of these two days coming up to lunch on
the fourth day. New Zealand well called the technical declaration
I think four hundred and sixty six for eight. But
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that was because Tom Blundeleo can't that and neither can that.
Nathan Smith with their respective injuries, bundled with this handstrong
problem and that Smith has a side strain, and of
course that means that New Zealand is actually bowled down
in this innings with Smith out and just to peep
it up to date there on the fear of Lathon
still has the gloves and now on Wchm's at first
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slip of course coming on with a replacement fielder and
gLing Phillips who's during the squad's day. He is in
the gully, so they're not gonna be lacking so catchers
there if anything comes their way. So that's I guess
one of the upshills having those two injuries for New
Zealand today, but it means it will be an adjusted
squad for that second Test in Wellington starting Wednesday. But
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we've got to Zach Folks in the attack at the
moment from the city end and we've had Matt Henry
the poor Hills end just starting off. So yeah, it's
a difficult task for the West Indies.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Five hundred and thirty one that's never been got before.
As the fourth innings Chase says it, I wouldn't have thought,
is it.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
The benchmark's always four hundred and eighteen or has been
since two thousand and three. West Indies chasing it down
I think in Antigua against Australia. So yeah, anything beyond
that would be uncharted territory and I think it's going
to be a battle of attrition for them there. The
other part of make camsh too is that Shay Hope
can only band of course the top scorer are with
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fifty six in the West of these first innings, he
can only dowd it's seven or below because he spent
the day off the field yesterday with that ironfection and
before he has to be pushed down the order. So
it's another setback for this West Indies side going into
these last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Been some interesting rulings in both that and the well
not interesting rules, but a kind of new rulings in
terms of times off the I know thet what the
Ossies get caught out with it in the first Ashes test,
not that it mattered, but anyway Ashes as well. That's
going on the old pink ball.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
It is, indeed, and i'd nctually called buch of it
last night, but it was all action, wasn't On that
first day I thought in Brisbane the day night is
here's pink ball, and of course, I mean I think
I think I was most pleased about in terms of
the series is that Joe Root has scored his first
Test century in Australia. So now he can he's officially
made it as a cricketer. Yes in the Australian eyes.
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You know, you're never a decent cricat of the world
until you've done it in Australia. So he's got that
one thirty five as part of England's three twenty five
for nine. Zach Crawley also getting a few runs he
was seventy six and Mitchell Stark six for seventy one
of nineteen overs. But I think it just sets the
series up, you know, it was sets this game up,
and just because of England that I think. I still
feel like the pink ball's bit of a lottery heinous,
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you know, but I just think that Roote will be
just He'll be unshackled after this. I think it'll be
a huge boost of confidence to the whole team that
he's done this. And yeah, I think three twenty five
for nine that's not a bad effort. On the first day.
I think dealt with the the ball and the lights.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Joe Root getting a century the actually always reminds me
of anybody who criticizes the career of Big Jake Orum.
Didn't he got a hundred against Australia and Brisbane? Didn't
he and ten wicket at one hundred, you know, like
anybody want to sit there and say, It's like saying
Evan Lindall couldn't play on grass, even though he made
eight Wimbledon finals or semi finals. Better, he could play
on grass. He just didn't win Wimbledon.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
All that's right. I mean in Jake Foram's got one
more century than I've got at the gaming.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Exactly a century at the Gabba. Sorry, care aggressed a
little bit for that, but it did. It always makes me,
you know, when people say, oh, Phil Mickelson's overrated, Well,
Phil Mickelson's got the second best underpower of anybody in
the history of the majors. You know, on and on
and on. It goes right from the arms here right
after he get back to its senior master, Edar Ordison
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at Hagley over there in christ Church. The Windy's in
the back requiring five hundred and thirty one in the
in the fourth innings or their second innings to win.
Will it will been probable, it won't happen. Imagine it's
not even a You couldn't even get a dollar on
that not happening if you wanted it to anyway, Ashes
pink ball. That continues on right he Oh, what are
we coming? We'll head towards news and sport. I think
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will we? Michelle? What boss of the show.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I've actually got George and James on hold at the
moment for their Farmer panel.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh, the Farmer panel's coming up. Wonderful, that's looking forward
to that. George Johnson, James Robinson coming up here. I
with Brent on The Country Tuesday, Wesley Hearted Thursday, Never
looking Back. Damoded There twelve twenty eight, twenty eight minutes
(15:44):
after midday on your Friday, The Country, brought to you
by Brent. Michelle. I've got something huge that I need
to talk to you about in sport and I'm I'm
gutted by this or news of a New Zealand athlete,
a sprinter, a track and field because you know, track
and fields might go. Man, I'm doing a secondary school
eight hundred meters champ of nineteen eighty. Just thought i'd
dropped that in there. But big news in the world
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of track and field that's coming up. But right now
the farmer's.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Panel, the farmer panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi
ute built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
This is the country brought to you by Brent on
your Friday. Harvis McKay in for Jamie mckaye for another day.
Good to have your company right across the country and
we're going to heat a couple of different parts of
the country right now. Gave you from Palmerston North on Tuesday.
The weather certainly picked it up for that. Out of
Aukland today James Robertson twenty nineteen FMG Young Farmer of
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the Year these days, chief of staff at Fontira joined us. Gatta, James,
how are you?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Oh, I'm very good.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Thanks so much yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ye, yeah, you can't complain. What part of the country
are you coming to us from today, James, I'll.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Have to admit on in Auckland today, but thanks going well.
The sun's shining now.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The sun is shining up here in the big smoke
and George Dots and twenty twenty four FMG Young Farmer
of the Year. It must sound good being referred to
as that George where about to you today?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
He haemus good to be on the show as always. Hey,
I'm down in Canterbury, so we're near Darfield and Central
Canterbury there dairy farming.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, beautiful. I don't want on. Once or twice I've
talked to another young Farmer of the Year and I
was a little bit geographically challenged between counties and Whitecata
and gotten a bit of trouble with them. But a
bit like somebody's saying to me app and he's in
the Tarannaki. I get pretty upset when that happens. Okay, gentlemen,
let's have a look at what's happening with the dairy prices, James.
Let's you know what are we sort of we're holding up,
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but it's not without you know, one or two little
clouds on the horizon.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Yeah, holding up.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
I'd say I am a surest thing when we came
out this Fonterra a couple of weeks ago, changing our
forecast of the season down to a midpoint of nine
fifty and arrange from nine to ten. But I think
everyone's just a lot more big globally markets like the
US and Europe, which are big producers, and the last
month has sort of been increasing supply year on year
by around about that three or four percent mark. So
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the milk slowing, and it's slowing here in New Zealand two.
And I think that's starting to weigh on the market
a wee bit.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And George's not a lot we can do about that,
is there really? I mean, once they start opting back
into the milk production in the US and Europe, She's
it's always going to be a slightly tougher game.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, that's right, Hamish. But you know, being dairy farmers,
we know that it's cyclical and we've got to prepare.
So we've got to take the games that we can
get in those high payouts and square all some money away,
pay down some of that debt, and hopefully prepare to
ride out the rough patches if they if they come
or when they come, because we know they will.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah. Look, George, I heard that. I'm not sure how
correct this is, but some people now production costs and
interest costs and you know, the whole shebang is up
around eight fifty. I mean, there'd be plenty there'd be
a hell of a lot lower than that, So they
would have a good amount of money over the last
year or two to start parking some of that debt,
wouldn't they. I mean, you hope that was the case.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
And then we've got to think of that development that
will be coming up from Frontier as well, so that'll helpfully,
hopefully help a lot of farmers paid on a good
chunk of debt as well, so they should be in
a really good position heading forward if we do turn
to a lower payer in the next year or two.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, James, what are you hearing about that? The decent
old lump sum that's coming to farmers in the new
year and what they plan to do with that.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I think the first Christian that always comes through famous
is winds are arriving and not enough. That's the bank
manager or the farmers asking. But that's key Christian number one.
And yeah, the other one is where's the money going
to go? I think there's a wide range whether it's
paying off debt, a bit of expansion and maybe a
few betches of all of their houses and Monica who knows.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, yeah, well, look at the end of the day.
It's up to the individual, isn't it. But but I
think George's point about, you know, a little bit aside
for a rainy day isn't going to be a too
bad a thing to do. Also, James, we're looking at
Peter McBride Frontier chairman one Chairman of the Year at
the Deloite Top two hundred Awards last night. That's a
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nice recognition, oh fan, fantastic recognition.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I was lucky enough to be on there with the
team supporting Peter and I don't think there's a bit
of bloke that could have come away with Chairman of
the Year, although I think the highlight was probably him
walking up to receive the award, and we had Annie
McFarlane there, you'd know it's one of our directors finishing
up this year who was gifted with a y Kido
cow bell and being a staunch Canterbury man, he was
made to bring it as Peter walked to the stage.
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So I think there was probably really the highlight of
the evening crew.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Everyone ah, sensational, sensational, that is absolutely brilliant, right are
you guys? Are young leaders in the egg sector? From you, George?
What drives you, what's your motivation and this is not
only the people looking to get to the ag sector
of the dairy sector, across any sector. What are your
kind of key factors on that front getting yourself out
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of bed and driven every day.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But the main ones my family and providing a good
future for my future family and my family at the
moment and stuff like that. So definitely family and people
close to me, providing a good future and good foothold
in the world for them, and then for the industry
as well, like it's given me dairy farming especially, but
the wider egg sector as well has given me so much.
So driven to give back to that and help more
young people come into farming is probably the main one,
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I suppose. And if we can get more good, strong,
intelligent young people into farming, then we're going to be
in a much better place heading forward.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
James, what are your drivers?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Well, I'd have to echo much of what George is
said and really related back to the people, right, we
have some fantastic people and operators right across the sector
who we're always willing to give you time if you
work hard and you're willing to learn, So for me,
I think that's what motivates me, and just seeing the
impact of what we can drive here in New Zealand
through the primary sectors, the reach right out into rural communities,
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but also back in the cities which are feeling a
bit of the pain at the moment from the economy.
So I think you're sort of wider impact that you
can have in the primary sector is something that really
drives me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It doesn't need to be a dem and ice between
rural and urb and I often think that the rural
urban divide isn't as big as the rural rule. Sometimes yeah,
good good, good good cause there George, young people today
and I heard this earlier on Carrie Woodham Show on
Z'D be talking about people into their fitness and way
more into their family and their drivers today, you know,
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and way less getting on the turps and do you reckon?
Younger people are I'm noticing it, you know, from you know,
I've just hit sixty. But if I think back to
my twenties, I think there are people who are light
years ahead of the motivation and drive that I had then.
And I think it's a cultural I think it's a switch.
I think it's the green light is on if you.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Like, Yeah, I think you're bang on the money there, Hamish.
I'm probably seeing it, like you say, from some older
farmers and stuff like that, telling us stories of maybe
some of the things they got up to and back
in the day and saying how we're all a but
more soft or not soft I supposed, but we don't.
We don't get out and drink and we're a bit
more focused on our goals and stuff. So I'm not
sure if it's whether it's a change in culture or
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whether it's just who we are I suppose now, But
it's a certainly a good thing to see.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it is, James that you know, the font A
crew must be some amazing young people across the board
that you deal with on a daily basis.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Oh, the team's brilliant, and like you say, they're all
doing interesting things outside of work as well, so it's
not just what they do day to day, but you know,
you've got colleagues running ultra marathons on the weekends and
all sorts of us they're going. That's some pretty inspiring stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, fantastic gentlemen, Thank you very much for being on
the Farmers panel today. That is James Robertson twenty nineteen
FMG Young Farmer of the Year, Chief of Staff at
Fontira Darfield Dairy Farmer and twenty twenty four Young Farmer
of the Year George Dodson joining us here on The
Country brought to you by Bratt Oh you wanted to
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Duran from nineteen eighty two. The Country brought to you
by Brand Hamish McKay in for JB McCay. We're going
to be checking out the weather before one coming up
on the show. But right now the countdown to Christmas.
Winner of the PTS Logistics Prize for Thursday's prize and
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the winner for the PTS Logistics Prize Duncan Jennings from
in the Cargo. Duncan Jennings are well done. Now today's
prize is going to come to you from Bioactive Soils
and to have how to win that very very shortly.
But first leat's take a look at the Rule News
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with Michelle.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
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Speaker 3 (24:44):
Thanks Hamish and egg. AMP shows are in full swing
around the country. Is that time of year where I'm
from Hamish. I don't know about you, but it was
a signal to Christmas fast approaching because we always had
our one usually a few weeks before Christmas was around
this weekend. It's a Northland great part of the country,
so nice, so warm. It's the fun at AAMP show.
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It's on Tomorrow from nine am to four thirty pm
at Barge Park. Definitely head along to this one and
have a lot. There's so much cool stuff. It's when
the city comes to the country, comes to town actually
and all the animals. Everything definitely worth They've got a
very cool thing there with a calory celebration zone of course,
a collaboration zone. Sorry, so obviously Cawary a big thing
up in Northland.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It'll be a.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Fantastic day out and I'm just jealous that I can't
attend AP.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Shows at the sharing there.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I will have to have a look for you, Hamish,
but normally i'd imagine Northland there probably will be too
by Henderson to me, oh make it appear, yeah, exactly,
and right, so you've got some sports news there let
me play this little sting for.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You, right.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
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Speaker 6 (25:52):
That's rare.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So I just stop dating the crack at the west.
Did he's into bat at Hagley Oval in christ Church
needing five hundred and thirty one? You know that that
won't happen, so Victory assured. I would have thought it
might be famous last words for the black Apps down
there in christ This I'm gutted about, Michelle. You know
that I harbor a deep passion for track and field
and our man. Now the name it's said about seven
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hundred and ninety seven different ways, Eddie, I say in
Kisha and Kittya the sprinter, the man our fastest ever
one hundred meter runner at ten point zero eight seconds.
You know, on the verge of cracking the magic ten seconds,
he's off the run for Australia.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh that's that's Garshing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah. He did have a bit of a schoolboy connection,
of course, Hiss His dad came to New Zealand ran
for New Zealand at the ninety ninety Commonwealth Games. But
I find this absolutely despicable. I'm so gutted by it.
But the Australians here you go. They have got two
or three very good one hundred meters men's runners. Now
they're not going to run the one hundred meter final
at the Olympics, one or two of them Browning, I
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think it might make the semi finals. But their relay team,
if all they do is concentrate on relays between now
and the next Olympics with the the big Kiwi boy
and kit Dea and Kisha in there, then I reckon
they could meddle in the four by one hundred meters
and that's why they have done it. And that really
just leads me out of steam for the rest of
sports news. I'm just sort of like gutted by that,
to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'm but guted by that too. But something
people won't be gutted by is their prize today, Hamish
for the crount Down to Christmas. We've got another prize
to give away. Would you like to tell them more
about it?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
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This is one of my favorite games now because you
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or two in Auckland. Not so much lately, but the
old PTS Logistics boys on the road. Meh, there's some
trucks out there. I count them now between the Matter
two and Auckland, just because I've got a soft spot
for PTS Logistics. Good good outfit right out there, you go,
that's me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Anyway, that was a great it's a great prize, and
today's prize I just want to point out in case
people are wondering, that fertilizer is a solid Hamish So
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to five double O nine, text in your name and
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Speaker 2 (28:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Coming up next, I think we'll try and catch up
with Chris Brandolina on weather.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Better weather good sounds good. Forty minutes away from one o'clock,
jurandran hungry like the wharf. Earlier, of course, I was
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referred to as thing as fit as a buck rack.
Did anybody else come through with Michelle? With anybody else
come through and describe what a buck ratt is or
how it is to be as fit as a buck rat? No?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Sorry, there too busy texting and to win that great
price from buy It.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Oh fantastic, that's what it's all about. The count now
to Christmas. Okay, gee, I thought I was going to
get the other night where I'm currently residing down to
the mantle too. I thought I was going to get
blown away. I thought I was going to get the
roof was going to be lifted off. Not surprising. Next day,
very nearby a tornado. Okay, we're going to talk where.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The next whether on the country with farmlands helping to
prevent parasite outbreaks this summer.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay, on Earth Sciences in Zig Chris Brandolina who joins us. Now,
Good afternoon, Christie. She's been a bumpy all week across
the country.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
It has a good afternoon, Hey, mish.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
It has been a bumpy old week. But we're gonna
settle down for much of the much of the country
as we work away for the next several days. There
will be some areas that get rained, but I think
dryness and heat will be grabbing weather headlines over the
next several days.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Okay. Uh, that's that's a good a good thing I
suppose out of that bumpy whether that certainly I know
one or two down the sort of the east coast,
I guess you've got to say, and people make I
can't miss out in the chowder Rua district. Hey, but
the northern wa Tua and the southern hawks by, they
would have got so much needed moisture.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
They did.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
In fact, you know, right before our conversation, you know, uh,
the phone ring we started talking. I just opened up
my colleague's hotspot Watch, which is a document that will
be issuing hopefully this afternoon, will be on our website,
and this basically talks about where rainfall is expected over
the next week, as well as where the rank fell
over the previous week and understanding where the driest soils are.
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So hopefully a handy document for the audience and for
the farmers. Certainly they know they're paddock just as well,
if not better than anyone else. But it kind of
gives a lie of the land of terms of what's coming.
And I gotta tell you if you are listening from
the eastern part of either island, but in particular the
eastern part of the North Island, there is gonna be
some exceptional early season warmth. It looks like starting this
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weekend parts of Hawk's Bay we could see maximum temperatures
on Sunday approaching thirty four to thirty five degrees or higher. Yeah,
during and now this will be Hawk's Bay, maybe Tadafadi
Gismon that sees the highest temperatures, but look even places
in the Auckland region, in the Waikato, in the North
Wand region, it will be well into the twenties and
some places maybe flirting with thirty degrees, so it'll be
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a hot weekend for sure, and that heat is likely
to persist, certainly for the Eastern North Island for much
of next week. Now the Eastern South Island we'll find
this kind of roller coaster ride. It's near thirty and
Dunedin as we speak in Muscle bra we'll find the
temperatures cooling off tomorrow, warming back up Sunday, cooling off Monday,
warming back up Tuesday. Quite literally a roller coaster. So
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not a steady of that heat. But the rain or
lack thereof, I think Hamish is something we have to
be mindful of. I know we've had some decent rain
for the Upper North Island and the Upper and Eastern
North Island, so the Bay of Plenty and Northland and
Auckland and the Coramandel and parts of the Waikato. And
that's a good thing because we're gonna see very little
rain over the next two or three weeks, so that'll
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give us a buffer zone. But for our friends and
other parts of the North Island, I am concerned that
as we work toward you know, in the days leading
up the Christmas, we could start to see the I
guess the effects of significant dryness that rapid onset this
time of the year. We're losing five six seven millimeters
of moisture to the atmosphere because of the strong sun.
So you know we got to replenish them. If we
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don't over the course of several days and the weeks,
we start to feel those impacts.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, thank you as you sign that about these warm
temperatures over the next wigosa and there are a roll
on a fix of that and know it's going to
be good two or three weeks. A good way to
get shearing done, get a lot of jobs done pre Christmas. Yeah,
we'll be hiking for a bit more of the weight stuff,
I guess in certain places.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, and that's kind of kind of grillent with our
summer outlooks. So just earlier this week we did issue
our summer outlooks. So this isn't a weather forecast as
we most of us know. This is kind of a
think of it like a theme outlook. What are the
themes for the next three months as a collective, basically December,
jan and feb And for December at least kicking off summer,
it is dry and as for probably the upper South
Island two can't forget them, and much of the North Island.
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I think as we go into January, we're going to
see our airflows change. Our expectation is that we'll see
more in the way of regular and frequent east to
northeast airflows as we kind of emerged past that first
week or so of January. Timing with these things are
always challenging, but when that transition does happen Hamish, with
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the change of airflows comes a change in rainfall pattern.
So we are thinking that dryness is something will have
to be monthlap for the summer as a whole for
the entire South Island full stop, albeit it'll be a
wet start for the western South Island that's not going
to last forever though that will change with the airflow change.
But for the upper North Island, so for the Bay
of Plenty and the corammandal Auckland Northland, the areas that
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are going to be dry in December we think will
actually flip toward a wet lean as we go into
January and especially February with that change in airflow, so
it may be tough to find that goldilock zone. We
may be on the dry end of the spectrum for now,
and we may transition to the wet end of the
spectrum with maybe some heavy rainfall events we have to
be concerned about as the second half of summer unwine.
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So yeah, it heads up on that and it's going
to be a warm summer. Look, we think there's about
a two to three chance that the Upper North Island
has a warmer than average summer, and for the rest
of the country there will be a warm lean. The
confidence is not quite so high. We could find some
cool spells in December. I think December will feature a
cool spell. I was for much of the South Island,
with persistent warmth, more likely for the North Island.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
There you go, a great wrap there from Chris Brandolino
from our Oh yeah, exactly, I have. I wanted to
make sure I got it right, so I wrote it down.
Then I couldn't read mine hand writes it anyway, Thank.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'm just hoping we get the Michelle. I'm maybe we
get the try fector see, that's a good bit of
dry weather to get all the jobs done like cheering
and everything, and then a dump of rain just before
Christmas for the grass growth and everything, and then fine
over the summer break. You know, that's the trifector we want.
There you go, This is the country brought to you
by Brent but a gray am Brazier Billy from the
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early eighties. Now more on that in a moment. Why
I chose that particular song got to pass the base, Michelle, Right,
it looks some parts of the country have taken a
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Brandelino just then, dealing with these events, you know, can
be an emotional roller coaster, and that's why farm Strong
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has been the biggest sort of problem we had to
deal with the last week or so. The reason for
choosing Billy Bowl by Graham Brazier is that I was
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just gonna mention a long time ago. First thing I
ever saw on color TV was the nineteen seventy five
FA Cup final between west Ham United and Fulham. I
got west Ham. The captain was Billy Bond's. Billy Bond's
as in Billy Bowld, you know, And whenever the song
came out years later, I just used to sing it
to the tune. Billy Bond's who died at the age
of seventy seven in the East of London this week.
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Kind of one of those guys that was the best
player they think to never wear the England Rose in football.
Have you heard I've ever heard of Michelle? You ever
heard of Billy Bonds? Well now you have, I have.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Now you've educated me.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
You can go and go online look up Billy Bond's
handsome young man he was in the mid seventies too.
There you go, And this I reckon is a bit
of a key. We anthem Billy Bonds. That's it for
us on the Countural Guard. We've got a Graham Brazier
Billy Bonds or Billy Bowld. So yesterday yesterday hot and.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
So we are believable, Father Drums, Street War musty, It's too.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Darling, you got to let me know, shot Dusty or
should uncle? But of the best of British? Does that
mean where we're rocking towards the weekend. Welcome into the Country,
brought to you by Brent Hams McKay and for Jamie
McKay on your Friday. Normally about this time I'd be
talking to Jamie bit a sport out of the fielding saliard,
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you know, popped over the road from the office that
tremain's here and fielding and over to the stockyard cafe
and having you know, one of your big custed squares.
But not today, I see, I had to come up
to Auckland to see my cardiologist. But a pair he
tells me, Michellete, I've forget your might go on down
there underneath. But he tells me I'm as fit as
a buck rat. What does that mean? As fit as
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a buck rat?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How old is your doctor?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
What?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
He is?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
A young actually he's probably in his mid thirties, you know,
a real young.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
As the saying I've not heard from many a years,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh maybe people can what's the text number again? Because
you know, because I'm not on enough regularly enough to
remember the text number off the top of my head.
Fit as a buck rat? What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Five double O nine? If you want to let us
know what that one means?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Five double O nine fit as a buck rat? Anyway,
I am an awkward Coming up on the show, we
will be a talking to the much traveled and I
think he's done a great job. Todd McClay, Minister of Agriculture,
is coming up. We'll talk to orders from Hagley Oval,
the cricketer happening, the cricket that's happening there. I call
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him the Senior Masters. He never wanted to be the
head Master. The Senior Master Andrew Orderson. We'll have our
Farmer's Panel and a couple of bright young sparks. They
are too, James Robertson from Fonterra and George Dodson, Darfield Farmer,
both of course former Young Farmers of the Year. Also
will check in on the weather with Chris Bandolino. It's
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Todd McClay coming up in the situation with IKEA's forest
ownership in New Zealand. But first I just wanted to
mention a bit of sport to do all you Manchester
knighted fans, you Johnny come lately bandwagon types. Hey wan
old draw to west Ham at Old Trafford today And
I think that's pretty fitting because we said goodbye during
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the week to that magnificent man, Billy Bonds, the seventy
seven year old man who lifted a loft the fa
Cup in nineteen seventy five, which is my first memory
of color tv A. There you go, good stuff, rutty home.
Minister McLay next the country. Well, he's certainly been a
busy man. In twenty twenty five, Minister of Agriculture Todd
McClay joins us and on the run today. So we're
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not going to mark around Todd this Ikea. It's been
everywhere this week, the whole opening of the new business.
But what about these forests they've got in the Central
Hawks Bay that have been lay and converted into pine forestry.
Parently they're pretty big owners by all accounts.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, there is. Look personally, thanks having me on the show.
You're right, it's been a busy year. It's not quite over.
I've got one more trip to India this year. We're
trying to get that deal cracked. There's still some work
to do, but so you know, a little bit of
tiredness before Santa Claus arrives. The investment on the part
of IKEA is very good for New Zealand. They didn't
have to come here. It's create the jobs of thousands
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of New Zealanders and don't realize they're going to pay
quite a lot of money for I quality furniture they
have to put together themselves. But they've also had a
look and decided they want to invest in forestry in
New Zealand, not necessarily, you know, for any purpose other
than they lose a lot of wood and it's their
way of making sure that wood is available. They won't
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be taking the wood of building furniture out of it.
They have the same obligations on them though as everyone
else that owns forest in New Zealand. They have to
be good neighbors. There are a lot of rules around,
a lot to do to prepare a fires, that sort
of thing, and I would expect that they will be
exemplary exceptional when it comes to owners of a forest
because they have a very big reputation around the world
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they need to hold up. But at the same time,
you know, every single person, whether they work on a farm,
live in a city, a town, or have a forest,
has to think about how they can make sure that
they're not going to harm others and they are following
best practice.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So no concerns from a government perspective around the locals
are concerned about the risk of far and not only
the loss of good farmland.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah, well, in as far as farmlands concerned, this land
with purchas before we put through the law to restrict
and ban or stop full farm to forest conversion. So
we pass that into law this year a few months ago.
It's now active, but this was done beforehand. So the
point that was from the moment that law was announced,
which is last year, people know that to buy farms
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to do full farm to forest conversion. And when it
came into law, I think it was August of this year.
It was back dated, which is a tough thing to do,
but it was important because we are concerned about very
productive farmland going into forests. We want to be producing food.
But then in as far as you know, concerned risk
and so on. Interestingly, the majority of fires that are
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in forest don't start in the forest. They start somewhere else,
I'm told, And that's not about blame. It's just that,
you know, it's a little bit more complex. But what
I am doing with a couple of my colleagues is
having a look across the board that rights and obligations
and make sure we've got the rules right. There are
some people who own forests in New Zealand from years ago,
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a long time ago. Some of it was purchased or
planted under the last labor government. They're non resident, they're
not here and I do hear anecdotally concerns, particularly from
you know, councils and rural farming communities, that they may
not be looking after the forest and way that they
should and there could be additional risk there. So we
have rules in place already they have to, along with
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everyone else, be responsible, but I have asked officials to
start taking a look at whether there are more we
need to do. Interestingly, the forestry industry itself is joining
me to talk about this because they want to get
the rules right too. They want clear rules to know
what they need to do, and you know, they also
don't want silly rules that will cost them too much
and not achieve it deactly the same as farmers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right, Okay, good, we'll keep an eye on this going forward. Now.
Jim Wore, the most excellent former manager of Molesworth Station,
put forward this idea of it becoming a not for
profit organization. What are we hearing on this?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It sounds like you want a landcorp to take it
because they've been not making a profit for years and
new years of farming. Look at it, sits with it,
sits with the Department Conservation. They're responsible for it. They
are having a little look at you know, it's the
least who is running there at the moment. I don't
want to jump in the way of that because I'm
not responsible for that. That's my colleague come of protact.
(06:55):
But have been pretty clear to them. It is iconic.
It is very very important. I can tell you they
will not pine trees planted on that. There won't be
There's been a lot of scuttle back around up but
there's not We've ruled that out. But we do want
to make sure that one it is well you that's
farms properly and by going through that now to see
exactly what that will look like. The government owns and land.
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I don't think we should not be making a profit,
because if we can make a good profit of the
as farmers are elsewhere, then we might be able to
get taxes down because we can use that profit to
I don't know, papers and more teachers and doctors and
nurses and all these sorts of things. But it should
not be run in the way you know some things
are when governments are involved. So we're working through that
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at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Todd and I you're busy man. Just quickly. I had
been asked to ask you, did you try the Ikea Meatballs'.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I haven't been able to get along there, but I
can tell you I lived in Europe for a long
long time and I've eaten my fear share of Ikea meatballs.
I can tell anybody that's going along there, there's nothing
wrong with eating your body weight. And I meet boss,
give it a try.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, one might seeing India one more trip before Christmas.
You're going to bring us back some Christmas presents.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, we're going to Yeah. So look, we're working away
that we're making progress, and there's been a lot of
momentum growing. You know, we're committed to getting that deal
done during this term of parliament, which will happen, but
we're not going to make sure it's a good deal too.
So we're getting to the twenty end of some of
the really tough discussions. Now. I have a very good
relationship with my Indian counterpart. I've met with them. I
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couldn't tell you the number of times. This will be
on my seventh or eighth trip there since the election.
The negotiators are going hard. We're going to do everything
we can to get the best deal of New Zealand.
It might be perfect, but here's a market I reckon
we can get a better one than Australia got, and
they sell a lot of lamb in that market. We don't.
I want to replace the Australian lamb in India with
New Zealand land.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Fantastic, Todd McLay, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There we go, Minister Rag Todd mcclady doing a great
job in twenty twenty four. I'm looking forward to them
carrying that on through twenty twenty six. Off to India
one more time before Christmas. We're going to heat to
Andrew Ordison orders from Hagley overall the senior Master and
what's going on there batting practice for his land at
the moment, I think any response to the the buck
fit as a buck rat, Michelle, which I am. According
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to my cardiologist.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yes, a buck rat is a male rat who was healthy.
So I can't figure out if that is a compliment
or not.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
What do you figure when you call somebody a rat bag?
This is a little bit naughty, but not really bad.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh that's another term that I even heard, a.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Fit as a buck rat bag. Maybe I don't know. Okay,
Ed Ordison Cricket next here on the Country, welcome on
and let me know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Shoot.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I still shoot Ugum Friday. I'm in love. They will
you know speaking you know love. I've got quite a
soft spot for Andrew Orderson orders. I call him the
senior Master of the Sports Department of New Zealand Sports
(10:04):
Broadcasting Act. You never really wanted to be the rector
or the headmaster. Just always happy being the senior Master
and keeping everybody on their toes through both ability and
a character. So we're going to join him plenty to
talk about in the cricket in the sport world. That's
coming up from christ Church.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
McKay on sport with farm Lands, prevent Parris one outbreaks
and score a win this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Andrew Ordison orders, you are Hamish MacKaye today and I'm
Jamie McKay, So you know, can you do your best
Hamish mackay impersonation? I know there's one or two that
do do it.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I wouldn't. Dare, I wouldn't Dare, couldn't. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Justice orders, you just did it with the That was perfect.
I thought you were taking the mickey straightaway. What's happening
in that cricket? The windy's out the windows out in
the middle, are they.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
You've been speaking of kicking people on their toes. Yes,
the West Indies are out there. I was so six
without loss. They're chasing five hundred and thirty one for
an unlikely victory here and they've the last the best
part of these two days coming up to lunch on
the fourth day. New Zealand well called the technical declaration
I think four hundred and sixty six for eight. But
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that was because Tom Blundeleo can't that and neither can that.
Nathan Smith with their respective injuries, bundled with this handstrong
problem and that Smith has a side strain, and of
course that means that New Zealand is actually bowled down
in this innings with Smith out and just to peep
it up to date there on the fear of Lathon
still has the gloves and now on Wchm's at first
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slip of course coming on with a replacement fielder and
gLing Phillips who's during the squad's day. He is in
the gully, so they're not gonna be lacking so catchers
there if anything comes their way. So that's I guess
one of the upshills having those two injuries for New
Zealand today, but it means it will be an adjusted
squad for that second Test in Wellington starting Wednesday. But
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we've got to Zach Folks in the attack at the
moment from the city end and we've had Matt Henry
the poor Hills end just starting off. So yeah, it's
a difficult task for the West Indies.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Five hundred and thirty one that's never been got before.
As the fourth innings Chase says it, I wouldn't have thought,
is it.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
The benchmark's always four hundred and eighteen or has been
since two thousand and three. West Indies chasing it down
I think in Antigua against Australia. So yeah, anything beyond
that would be uncharted territory and I think it's going
to be a battle of attrition for them there. The
other part of make camsh too is that Shay Hope
can only band of course the top scorer are with
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fifty six in the West of these first innings, he
can only dowd it's seven or below because he spent
the day off the field yesterday with that ironfection and
before he has to be pushed down the order. So
it's another setback for this West Indies side going into
these last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Been some interesting rulings in both that and the well
not interesting rules, but a kind of new rulings in
terms of times off the I know thet what the
Ossies get caught out with it in the first Ashes test,
not that it mattered, but anyway Ashes as well. That's
going on the old pink ball.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
It is, indeed, and i'd nctually called buch of it
last night, but it was all action, wasn't On that
first day I thought in Brisbane the day night is
here's pink ball, and of course, I mean I think
I think I was most pleased about in terms of
the series is that Joe Root has scored his first
Test century in Australia. So now he can he's officially
made it as a cricketer. Yes in the Australian eyes.
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You know, you're never a decent cricat of the world
until you've done it in Australia. So he's got that
one thirty five as part of England's three twenty five
for nine. Zach Crawley also getting a few runs he
was seventy six and Mitchell Stark six for seventy one
of nineteen overs. But I think it just sets the
series up, you know, it was sets this game up,
and just because of England that I think. I still
feel like the pink ball's bit of a lottery heinous,
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you know, but I just think that Roote will be
just He'll be unshackled after this. I think it'll be
a huge boost of confidence to the whole team that
he's done this. And yeah, I think three twenty five
for nine that's not a bad effort. On the first day.
I think dealt with the the ball and the lights.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Joe Root getting a century the actually always reminds me
of anybody who criticizes the career of Big Jake Orum.
Didn't he got a hundred against Australia and Brisbane? Didn't
he and ten wicket at one hundred, you know, like
anybody want to sit there and say, It's like saying
Evan Lindall couldn't play on grass, even though he made
eight Wimbledon finals or semi finals. Better, he could play
on grass. He just didn't win Wimbledon.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
All that's right. I mean in Jake Foram's got one
more century than I've got at the gaming.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Exactly a century at the Gabba. Sorry, care aggressed a
little bit for that, but it did. It always makes me,
you know, when people say, oh, Phil Mickelson's overrated, Well,
Phil Mickelson's got the second best underpower of anybody in
the history of the majors. You know, on and on
and on. It goes right from the arms here right
after he get back to its senior master, Edar Ordison
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at Hagley over there in christ Church. The Windy's in
the back requiring five hundred and thirty one in the
in the fourth innings or their second innings to win.
Will it will been probable, it won't happen. Imagine it's
not even a You couldn't even get a dollar on
that not happening if you wanted it to anyway, Ashes
pink ball. That continues on right he Oh, what are
we coming? We'll head towards news and sport. I think
(15:12):
will we? Michelle? What boss of the show.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I've actually got George and James on hold at the
moment for their Farmer panel.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh, the Farmer panel's coming up. Wonderful, that's looking forward
to that. George Johnson, James Robinson coming up here. I
with Brent on The Country Tuesday, Wesley Hearted Thursday, Never
looking Back. Damoded There twelve twenty eight, twenty eight minutes
(15:44):
after midday on your Friday, The Country, brought to you
by Brent. Michelle. I've got something huge that I need
to talk to you about in sport and I'm I'm
gutted by this or news of a New Zealand athlete,
a sprinter, a track and field because you know, track
and fields might go. Man, I'm doing a secondary school
eight hundred meters champ of nineteen eighty. Just thought i'd
dropped that in there. But big news in the world
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of track and field that's coming up. But right now
the farmer's.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Panel, the farmer panel with the Iszuzu Dmax, the Kiwi
ute built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
This is the country brought to you by Brent on
your Friday. Harvis McKay in for Jamie mckaye for another day.
Good to have your company right across the country and
we're going to heat a couple of different parts of
the country right now. Gave you from Palmerston North on Tuesday.
The weather certainly picked it up for that. Out of
Aukland today James Robertson twenty nineteen FMG Young Farmer of
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the Year these days, chief of staff at Fontira joined us. Gatta, James,
how are you?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Oh, I'm very good.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Thanks so much yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ye, yeah, you can't complain. What part of the country
are you coming to us from today, James, I'll.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Have to admit on in Auckland today, but thanks going well.
The sun's shining now.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
The sun is shining up here in the big smoke
and George Dots and twenty twenty four FMG Young Farmer
of the Year. It must sound good being referred to
as that George where about to you today?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
He haemus good to be on the show as always. Hey,
I'm down in Canterbury, so we're near Darfield and Central
Canterbury there dairy farming.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, beautiful. I don't want on. Once or twice I've
talked to another young Farmer of the Year and I
was a little bit geographically challenged between counties and Whitecata
and gotten a bit of trouble with them. But a
bit like somebody's saying to me app and he's in
the Tarannaki. I get pretty upset when that happens. Okay, gentlemen,
let's have a look at what's happening with the dairy prices, James.
Let's you know what are we sort of we're holding up,
(17:37):
but it's not without you know, one or two little
clouds on the horizon.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Yeah, holding up.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
I'd say I am a surest thing when we came
out this Fonterra a couple of weeks ago, changing our
forecast of the season down to a midpoint of nine
fifty and arrange from nine to ten. But I think
everyone's just a lot more big globally markets like the
US and Europe, which are big producers, and the last
month has sort of been increasing supply year on year
by around about that three or four percent mark. So
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the milk slowing, and it's slowing here in New Zealand two.
And I think that's starting to weigh on the market
a wee bit.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And George's not a lot we can do about that,
is there really? I mean, once they start opting back
into the milk production in the US and Europe, She's
it's always going to be a slightly tougher game.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, that's right, Hamish. But you know, being dairy farmers,
we know that it's cyclical and we've got to prepare.
So we've got to take the games that we can
get in those high payouts and square all some money away,
pay down some of that debt, and hopefully prepare to
ride out the rough patches if they if they come
or when they come, because we know they will.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah. Look, George, I heard that. I'm not sure how
correct this is, but some people now production costs and
interest costs and you know, the whole shebang is up
around eight fifty. I mean, there'd be plenty there'd be
a hell of a lot lower than that, So they
would have a good amount of money over the last
year or two to start parking some of that debt,
wouldn't they. I mean, you hope that was the case.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
And then we've got to think of that development that
will be coming up from Frontier as well, so that'll helpfully,
hopefully help a lot of farmers paid on a good
chunk of debt as well, so they should be in
a really good position heading forward if we do turn
to a lower payer in the next year or two.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, James, what are you hearing about that? The decent
old lump sum that's coming to farmers in the new
year and what they plan to do with that.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I think the first Christian that always comes through famous
is winds are arriving and not enough. That's the bank
manager or the farmers asking. But that's key Christian number one.
And yeah, the other one is where's the money going
to go? I think there's a wide range whether it's
paying off debt, a bit of expansion and maybe a
few betches of all of their houses and Monica who knows.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, yeah, well, look at the end of the day.
It's up to the individual, isn't it. But but I
think George's point about, you know, a little bit aside
for a rainy day isn't going to be a too
bad a thing to do. Also, James, we're looking at
Peter McBride Frontier chairman one Chairman of the Year at
the Deloite Top two hundred Awards last night. That's a
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nice recognition, oh fan, fantastic recognition.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I was lucky enough to be on there with the
team supporting Peter and I don't think there's a bit
of bloke that could have come away with Chairman of
the Year, although I think the highlight was probably him
walking up to receive the award, and we had Annie
McFarlane there, you'd know it's one of our directors finishing
up this year who was gifted with a y Kido
cow bell and being a staunch Canterbury man, he was
made to bring it as Peter walked to the stage.
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So I think there was probably really the highlight of
the evening crew.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Everyone ah, sensational, sensational, that is absolutely brilliant, right are
you guys? Are young leaders in the egg sector? From you, George?
What drives you, what's your motivation and this is not
only the people looking to get to the ag sector
of the dairy sector, across any sector. What are your
kind of key factors on that front getting yourself out
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of bed and driven every day.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But the main ones my family and providing a good
future for my future family and my family at the
moment and stuff like that. So definitely family and people
close to me, providing a good future and good foothold
in the world for them, and then for the industry
as well, like it's given me dairy farming especially, but
the wider egg sector as well has given me so much.
So driven to give back to that and help more
young people come into farming is probably the main one,
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I suppose. And if we can get more good, strong,
intelligent young people into farming, then we're going to be
in a much better place heading forward.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
James, what are your drivers?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Well, I'd have to echo much of what George is
said and really related back to the people, right, we
have some fantastic people and operators right across the sector
who we're always willing to give you time if you
work hard and you're willing to learn, So for me,
I think that's what motivates me, and just seeing the
impact of what we can drive here in New Zealand
through the primary sectors, the reach right out into rural communities,
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but also back in the cities which are feeling a
bit of the pain at the moment from the economy.
So I think you're sort of wider impact that you
can have in the primary sector is something that really
drives me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It doesn't need to be a dem and ice between
rural and urb and I often think that the rural
urban divide isn't as big as the rural rule. Sometimes yeah,
good good, good good cause there George, young people today
and I heard this earlier on Carrie Woodham Show on
Z'D be talking about people into their fitness and way
more into their family and their drivers today, you know,
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and way less getting on the turps and do you reckon?
Younger people are I'm noticing it, you know, from you know,
I've just hit sixty. But if I think back to
my twenties, I think there are people who are light
years ahead of the motivation and drive that I had then.
And I think it's a cultural I think it's a switch.
I think it's the green light is on if you.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Like, Yeah, I think you're bang on the money there, Hamish.
I'm probably seeing it, like you say, from some older
farmers and stuff like that, telling us stories of maybe
some of the things they got up to and back
in the day and saying how we're all a but
more soft or not soft I supposed, but we don't.
We don't get out and drink and we're a bit
more focused on our goals and stuff. So I'm not
sure if it's whether it's a change in culture or
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whether it's just who we are I suppose now, But
it's a certainly a good thing to see.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it is, James that you know, the font A
crew must be some amazing young people across the board
that you deal with on a daily basis.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Oh, the team's brilliant, and like you say, they're all
doing interesting things outside of work as well, so it's
not just what they do day to day, but you know,
you've got colleagues running ultra marathons on the weekends and
all sorts of us they're going. That's some pretty inspiring stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, fantastic gentlemen, Thank you very much for being on
the Farmers panel today. That is James Robertson twenty nineteen
FMG Young Farmer of the Year, Chief of Staff at
Fontira Darfield Dairy Farmer and twenty twenty four Young Farmer
of the Year George Dodson joining us here on The
Country brought to you by Bratt Oh you wanted to
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head a soft spot with me a bit of Juran
Duran from nineteen eighty two. The Country brought to you
by Brand Hamish McKay in for JB McCay. We're going
to be checking out the weather before one coming up
on the show. But right now the countdown to Christmas.
Winner of the PTS Logistics Prize for Thursday's prize and
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Speaker 3 (24:44):
Thanks Hamish and egg. AMP shows are in full swing
around the country. Is that time of year where I'm
from Hamish. I don't know about you, but it was
a signal to Christmas fast approaching because we always had
our one usually a few weeks before Christmas was around
this weekend. It's a Northland great part of the country,
so nice, so warm. It's the fun at AAMP show.
(25:06):
It's on Tomorrow from nine am to four thirty pm
at Barge Park. Definitely head along to this one and
have a lot. There's so much cool stuff. It's when
the city comes to the country, comes to town actually
and all the animals. Everything definitely worth They've got a
very cool thing there with a calory celebration zone of course,
a collaboration zone. Sorry, so obviously Cawary a big thing
up in Northland.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It'll be a.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Fantastic day out and I'm just jealous that I can't
attend AP.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Shows at the sharing there.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I will have to have a look for you, Hamish,
but normally i'd imagine Northland there probably will be too
by Henderson to me, oh make it appear, yeah, exactly,
and right, so you've got some sports news there let
me play this little sting for.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You, right.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
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That's rare.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So I just stop dating the crack at the west.
Did he's into bat at Hagley Oval in christ Church
needing five hundred and thirty one? You know that that
won't happen, so Victory assured. I would have thought it
might be famous last words for the black Apps down
there in christ This I'm gutted about, Michelle. You know
that I harbor a deep passion for track and field
and our man. Now the name it's said about seven
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hundred and ninety seven different ways, Eddie, I say in
Kisha and Kittya the sprinter, the man our fastest ever
one hundred meter runner at ten point zero eight seconds.
You know, on the verge of cracking the magic ten seconds,
he's off the run for Australia.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh that's that's Garshing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah. He did have a bit of a schoolboy connection,
of course, Hiss His dad came to New Zealand ran
for New Zealand at the ninety ninety Commonwealth Games. But
I find this absolutely despicable. I'm so gutted by it.
But the Australians here you go. They have got two
or three very good one hundred meters men's runners. Now
they're not going to run the one hundred meter final
at the Olympics, one or two of them Browning, I
(26:52):
think it might make the semi finals. But their relay team,
if all they do is concentrate on relays between now
and the next Olympics with the the big Kiwi boy
and kit Dea and Kisha in there, then I reckon
they could meddle in the four by one hundred meters
and that's why they have done it. And that really
just leads me out of steam for the rest of
sports news. I'm just sort of like gutted by that,
to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'm but guted by that too. But something
people won't be gutted by is their prize today, Hamish
for the crount Down to Christmas. We've got another prize
to give away. Would you like to tell them more
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or two in Auckland. Not so much lately, but the
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trucks out there. I count them now between the Matter
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Speaker 3 (28:38):
Anyway, that was a great it's a great prize, and
today's prize I just want to point out in case
people are wondering, that fertilizer is a solid Hamish So
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to five double O nine, text in your name and
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Speaker 2 (28:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Coming up next, I think we'll try and catch up
with Chris Brandolina on weather.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Better weather good sounds good. Forty minutes away from one o'clock,
jurandran hungry like the wharf. Earlier, of course, I was
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referred to as thing as fit as a buck rack.
Did anybody else come through with Michelle? With anybody else
come through and describe what a buck ratt is or
how it is to be as fit as a buck rat? No?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Sorry, there too busy texting and to win that great
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Speaker 2 (29:33):
Oh fantastic, that's what it's all about. The count now
to Christmas. Okay, gee, I thought I was going to
get the other night where I'm currently residing down to
the mantle too. I thought I was going to get
blown away. I thought I was going to get the
roof was going to be lifted off. Not surprising. Next day,
very nearby a tornado. Okay, we're going to talk where.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The next whether on the country with farmlands helping to
prevent parasite outbreaks this summer.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay, on Earth Sciences in Zig Chris Brandolina who joins us. Now,
Good afternoon, Christie. She's been a bumpy all week across
the country.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
It has a good afternoon, Hey, mish.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
It has been a bumpy old week. But we're gonna
settle down for much of the much of the country
as we work away for the next several days. There
will be some areas that get rained, but I think
dryness and heat will be grabbing weather headlines over the
next several days.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Okay. Uh, that's that's a good a good thing I
suppose out of that bumpy whether that certainly I know
one or two down the sort of the east coast,
I guess you've got to say, and people make I
can't miss out in the chowder Rua district. Hey, but
the northern wa Tua and the southern hawks by, they
would have got so much needed moisture.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
They did.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
In fact, you know, right before our conversation, you know, uh,
the phone ring we started talking. I just opened up
my colleague's hotspot Watch, which is a document that will
be issuing hopefully this afternoon, will be on our website,
and this basically talks about where rainfall is expected over
the next week, as well as where the rank fell
over the previous week and understanding where the driest soils are.
(31:06):
So hopefully a handy document for the audience and for
the farmers. Certainly they know they're paddock just as well,
if not better than anyone else. But it kind of
gives a lie of the land of terms of what's coming.
And I gotta tell you if you are listening from
the eastern part of either island, but in particular the
eastern part of the North Island, there is gonna be
some exceptional early season warmth. It looks like starting this
(31:27):
weekend parts of Hawk's Bay we could see maximum temperatures
on Sunday approaching thirty four to thirty five degrees or higher. Yeah,
during and now this will be Hawk's Bay, maybe Tadafadi
Gismon that sees the highest temperatures, but look even places
in the Auckland region, in the Waikato, in the North
Wand region, it will be well into the twenties and
some places maybe flirting with thirty degrees, so it'll be
(31:50):
a hot weekend for sure, and that heat is likely
to persist, certainly for the Eastern North Island for much
of next week. Now the Eastern South Island we'll find
this kind of roller coaster ride. It's near thirty and
Dunedin as we speak in Muscle bra we'll find the
temperatures cooling off tomorrow, warming back up Sunday, cooling off Monday,
warming back up Tuesday. Quite literally a roller coaster. So
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not a steady of that heat. But the rain or
lack thereof, I think Hamish is something we have to
be mindful of. I know we've had some decent rain
for the Upper North Island and the Upper and Eastern
North Island, so the Bay of Plenty and Northland and
Auckland and the Coramandel and parts of the Waikato. And
that's a good thing because we're gonna see very little
rain over the next two or three weeks, so that'll
(32:33):
give us a buffer zone. But for our friends and
other parts of the North Island, I am concerned that
as we work toward you know, in the days leading
up the Christmas, we could start to see the I
guess the effects of significant dryness that rapid onset this
time of the year. We're losing five six seven millimeters
of moisture to the atmosphere because of the strong sun.
So you know we got to replenish them. If we
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don't over the course of several days and the weeks,
we start to feel those impacts.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, thank you as you sign that about these warm
temperatures over the next wigosa and there are a roll
on a fix of that and know it's going to
be good two or three weeks. A good way to
get shearing done, get a lot of jobs done pre Christmas. Yeah,
we'll be hiking for a bit more of the weight stuff,
I guess in certain places.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, and that's kind of kind of grillent with our
summer outlooks. So just earlier this week we did issue
our summer outlooks. So this isn't a weather forecast as
we most of us know. This is kind of a
think of it like a theme outlook. What are the
themes for the next three months as a collective, basically December,
jan and feb And for December at least kicking off summer,
it is dry and as for probably the upper South
Island two can't forget them, and much of the North Island.
(33:38):
I think as we go into January, we're going to
see our airflows change. Our expectation is that we'll see
more in the way of regular and frequent east to
northeast airflows as we kind of emerged past that first
week or so of January. Timing with these things are
always challenging, but when that transition does happen Hamish, with
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the change of airflows comes a change in rainfall pattern.
So we are thinking that dryness is something will have
to be monthlap for the summer as a whole for
the entire South Island full stop, albeit it'll be a
wet start for the western South Island that's not going
to last forever though that will change with the airflow change.
But for the upper North Island, so for the Bay
of Plenty and the corammandal Auckland Northland, the areas that
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are going to be dry in December we think will
actually flip toward a wet lean as we go into
January and especially February with that change in airflow, so
it may be tough to find that goldilock zone. We
may be on the dry end of the spectrum for now,
and we may transition to the wet end of the
spectrum with maybe some heavy rainfall events we have to
be concerned about as the second half of summer unwine.
(34:44):
So yeah, it heads up on that and it's going
to be a warm summer. Look, we think there's about
a two to three chance that the Upper North Island
has a warmer than average summer, and for the rest
of the country there will be a warm lean. The
confidence is not quite so high. We could find some
cool spells in December. I think December will feature a
cool spell. I was for much of the South Island,
with persistent warmth, more likely for the North Island.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
There you go, a great wrap there from Chris Brandolino
from our Oh yeah, exactly, I have. I wanted to
make sure I got it right, so I wrote it down.
Then I couldn't read mine hand writes it anyway, Thank.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'm just hoping we get the Michelle. I'm maybe we
get the try fector see, that's a good bit of
dry weather to get all the jobs done like cheering
and everything, and then a dump of rain just before
Christmas for the grass growth and everything, and then fine
over the summer break. You know, that's the trifector we want.
There you go, This is the country brought to you
by Brent but a gray am Brazier Billy from the
(36:00):
early eighties. Now more on that in a moment. Why
I chose that particular song got to pass the base, Michelle, Right,
it looks some parts of the country have taken a
real battering with the weather. As we talk with Chris
Brandelino just then, dealing with these events, you know, can
be an emotional roller coaster, and that's why farm Strong
has put together free tools and resources that share how
(36:23):
other farmers and growers get through with the weather, the
bank manager, whatever, all sorts of things add to the
complications of daily life on the farm and someone else's
hard one wisdom can be very handy if you're feeling stuck,
if the old Swede is copping it a bit, as
I made of mine said to me during the week
So head to getting through Getting through dot farmstrong, Getting
(36:47):
through dot farmstrong, dot co dot Nz, Getting through dot
farmstrong dot co dot nz this weekend for free tools
and advice on how to recover from extreme weather, which
has been the biggest sort of problem we had to
deal with the last week or so. The reason for
choosing Billy Bowl by Graham Brazier is that I was
(37:09):
just gonna mention a long time ago. First thing I
ever saw on color TV was the nineteen seventy five
FA Cup final between west Ham United and Fulham. I
got west Ham. The captain was Billy Bond's. Billy Bond's
as in Billy Bowld, you know, And whenever the song
came out years later, I just used to sing it
to the tune. Billy Bond's who died at the age
of seventy seven in the East of London this week.
(37:30):
Kind of one of those guys that was the best
player they think to never wear the England Rose in football.
Have you heard I've ever heard of Michelle? You ever
heard of Billy Bonds? Well now you have, I have.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Now you've educated me.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
You can go and go online look up Billy Bond's
handsome young man he was in the mid seventies too.
There you go, And this I reckon is a bit
of a key. We anthem Billy Bonds. That's it for
us on the Countural Guard. We've got a Graham Brazier
Billy Bonds or Billy Bowld. So yesterday yesterday hot and.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
So we are believable, Father Drums, Street War musty, It's too.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Real, believable.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
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