February 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Julian Raine, Chris Russell, Chris Brandolino, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, and Jason Walls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch you all the latest from the land. It's the
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the leading agriculture brands.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's going to be.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A learn.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Heda in New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie mckaye.
The show is brought to you by Brent. Thanks for
your support. Guys. Rolling Stone's the musical theme for today.
Sixty years ago this week since they first toured New Zealand,
and this was on the playlist not fade Away. Some
great quotes. Mick Jagger allegedly described in the Cargo as
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the asshole of the world. Interestingly, in Picago was one
of the stops on their tour, and in roy Orbison
was actually the main act, were a support act, and Dunedin.
They didn't spare the rod for Dunedin either. Keith Richard's
one of my favorite people in the world, said Dunedin
looked like Tombstone and it felt like it. It still
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had hitching rails. And Keith also said Dunedin made Aberdeen
Aberdeen seem like Las Vegas. So they got stuck into
us in nineteen sixty five. I guess New Zealand might
have been a bit of a dull quarter acre Pavlova
paradise back in those days. Anyhow, on today's show, we're
going to kick it off with Julian Rain, former President
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of Horticulture New Zealand. I caught up with them earlier
this morning, and the reason I had to do it
earlier this morning was because there's no sole reception where
he is right now, and that is at the opening
of the Ymere Dam, the official opening of the Ymere Dam.
Prime Minister's there as well, so we're going to tell
you all about that and why we should be building
more dams around the country. Our Rosie correspondent's Chris Russell.
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They've lost Joe Schmidt and who are they going to
replace him with and what's happened to what's going to
happen to the price of bananas after the record flooding
in Queensland decimated the crop. Chris Brandolino joins us from
k Neewip. We could do with some rainfall on this
side of the Tasman getting pretty dry. The Farmer Panel
Stu Duncan and Stu Low. Now Stu Duncan's based out
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of the Many at Toto and he's going to pay
tribute to one of my favorite New Zealanders who passed
away on Wednesday, Brian Turner from the famous Turner family
sporting family of course, Glenn the cricketer, Greg the golfer,
and Brian himself played hockey for New Zealand and was
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a top ranked cyclist as well and a hell of
a good bloke. We became friends a number of years ago.
Political polar opposites, but that didn't stop him agreeing or
disagreeing with you. He always did so with such wit
and charm. Stud Duncan paid to pay tribute to Brian Turner.
Jew Low, former Canterbury prop and Crusader's prop. He's just
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got two new knees. I wonder if woe cold ends
ours paying for that. And Jason Walls, our political editor,
commenting on the fun and games that why tell you
the Lotus polls? And is Chris Luxon under any threat?
We're going to give you a chance to head along
to the Golden Shares, last chance for that double pass
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for Saturday, the day session and the night session for
that big Open final. Michelle will be in here with
Rural News as well, and I think she's got a
nice little story for us today. It's all on the
country and it's brought to you by Brandt Julian Rain.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Why mere dam up next?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
As Donald Trump would say, it's a great day. It's
a beautiful day. Yes, it's the day of the opening
of the y. May're damn to tell us more about it?
Former chair of or was he president of Horticulture in
New Zealand? Julian Rain. Of course, he's an entrepreneur. He's
into horticulture, he's into derry and he was awarded the
Outstanding Contributor to the Primary Sector at the Primary Sector
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Awards last year in Wellington, and he beat a very
very strong field too. I might add a Julian exciting
day for you.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yes, it's a wonderful day here in Nelson, Jamie and
I believe the opening of the dam will signify not
only all of the work that's happened over twenty odd years,
and actually opens up a whole heap of opportunity to
the Waimia planes and the residents around Richmond and mar.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Poor all long suffering listeners of this show. Well know
I love nothing more than a dam or a tall building,
and we need more dams. I reckon it would really
kickstart the economy, especially things like intensive horticulture. Now, let's
make no bones about this is a wee pre record.
This is like a quarter to nine this morning when
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we record this, because there's no mobile reception coverage where
the y Mare Dam is. But you've got a cast
of thousands turning up there to day, including the Prime Minister.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, there's a few guests turning up. There's about one hundred,
and we will celebrate the opening of this dam and style, Jamie,
and so we should.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So by the time this goes to air, the dam
will be officially opened and you'll all be making your
way back to Nelson. I presume run us through how
the morning plays out.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
There's a dirty, great big tractor just drove past, so
sorry about that. And I thought I'd picked a quiet
country road to pull over and have a yarn. But
there's quite a bit of activity already, and I'd have
to say most of that is due to the dam.
The celebrations today are obviously on site. There is no
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cell phone reception up there, so that's why we are
taking it down here on the WYMEA planes to talk
to you, Jamie. The day involves kind of the symbolic
cutting of the ribbon, a series of speeches and obviously
we'll have a wee bit to eat and drink to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Now on, another outstanding contributor to the primary sector in
this country is Murray King. In fact, he was honored
in the King's Birthday Honors in twenty twenty four. He's
had a lot of involvement in agriculture and the primary sector.
He's the chair of the Wymere Dam, so how big
a role did he play in it?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
He's the chair of the Wymea Irrigators so sorry, Wyma Water,
which is essentially the dam is made up of two shareholders,
the Lesmond District Council and that will be Murray Sorry,
it'll be Tim King and Murray King represents the irrigators
the other share of the dam. So it's a council
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controlled organization, so council do control it. They own fifty
one percent and irrigator's own forty nine percent. Murray and
Tim aren't related, they just happened to have the same
last name. Yeah, as I said, it will be a
great celebration today. Murray and I have put in over
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twenty years worth of work to make this happen, along
with a whole heap of other people. So yeah, Murray
quite rightly got a gong last year along with you.
Jamie Murray's activities have been in livestock improvement, nuffield, a
whole range of rural activities.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Now, how much of the dam, and you talk about
the irrigators versus the council ownership, how much of the
dam is kind of use?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
The pays, well, it is a user pays basis on
the operation of the dam is fifty to fifty and
the capital contribution has been forty nine to fifty one.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
This is living proof. Albeit it's taken twenty years to
get this damn And I know that the former chief
executive of Irogation New Zealand, Vanessa Winning, she'll probably be there,
no doubt, she was very excited about it. But I mean,
is this the process we have to go through to
get a dam in this country? Or can Shane in
Winston fast track this?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It takes a long time, Jomie, and some of this
stuff I don't think can be fast tracked. It's taken
twenty years. Some of that was around funding because it
is the largest dam built in New Zealand. Essentially since
the Clyde Dam was built. You can't do it in
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five minutes, but you could do it in ten years,
not twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
How many blind frogs, Freddy the frogs were indaged in
the making of this video of this damn.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
None. It's one of the reasons why we picked this
site is it had been so badly affected degragated by
particularly forestry. Sorry to give the forestry guys a bad rap,
there was no native essentially left, although right up in
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the very headwaters there was the Richmond State Forest, which
is native, but the vast majority of the catchment is
actually exotic pine forests. We listened very carefully to the
recreational guys and we had the choice of going up
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the Viral or the Lee Valley, and we chose the
Lee because it had the least amount of disruption not
only for the natural biota, but also for the people
who used it for recreation.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I tip my hat to the likes of you and
Murray King who have spent twenty years of your life
battling to get this up and running. It must be
a very proud day for you, Julian Rain. Well done.
May we have many, many more dams in this country,
Thanks Jamie. Julian Rain caught up with them this morning
ahead of that opening and they will have officially cut
the ribbon. I think that was happening in about eleven
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o'clock this morning. The Prime Minister was there. He wasn't
it whititungu. He will talk about that a week bit
later in the hour with our political correspondent Jason Wall
sitting in for Barrysopa who's on paternal duties. Now we're
going to be chatting Michelle. Good afternoon. By the way,
We're going to be chat chatting. That was a fraudian slip,
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wasn't it chatting to Stu Duncan. Yes, and the sea
Stu Duncan and Stu Low Stulo's got two new knees
and Stu Duncan was a good mate. Brian and Turners
and I had, you know, quite a bit to do
with them over the years. Not so much in recent years.
He hasn't kept the best of health, but loved his
wit and his intellect face fierce intellect. But you've done
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a lot of cycling with him.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I did, Yeah, I did. I was in the Central
Otago cycling club back in the day and I actually
was in the same group as him for a couple
of races. Really interesting guy and amazing cyclist because he
didn't take it up till later in life, and really increating.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
He may have been a cyclist when he was younger
and came back to it because his father, I'm trying
to remember the name of his dad. He held the
race record back in the nineteen forties. I think it
was for biking. They used to have a race between
the Cargo and Dunedin. Yeah they did, Yeah, and it
was mainly all on gravel roads and the time you
must you need to google this and find the answer here.
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The time on the gravel roads was amazing. And that
was the father of the Turners who held that record.
I'm trying to remember his name that someone will help
me out on the text line five double nine. Yes,
we weren't pop songs simple in nineteen sixty five when
the Rolling Stones were here. This one is all of
one minute and forty six seconds long, not even long
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enough for me to prattle line over the top of.
So there you go. We're going to play some of
the songs on the set list for that Rolling Stones
tour in nineteen sixty five, sixty years on this week
they went to the four main centers. But they started
off and in Picargo. Imagine a band I don't know, imagine.
I was going to say, Lady Gargo, who was it
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the Pink? Imagine Pink coming to New Zealand and playing
in the cargo.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Now, it's amazing, isn't it. I don't think any international
works go to in Vcago now. And of course famous
quote from it is either Keith Richards Argue, Keith Richards
or Macjagger, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, well we've mentioned that very unkind of my home province.
Right up next to our Ossie correspondents, Chris russ ll
record ruins in Queensland decimated the banana crop and goat
meat cote meat. Who knew that was such a profitable thing.
We're going to yard to him before the end of
their Chris Brandolino, I know you've got some rainfall figures on,
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for instance the Taranaki region which is getting very dry.
Stew Duncan and Stulo, the Farmer Panel and Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
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Speaker 4 (13:41):
Let's head across the ditch. A guy over there is
Chris Russell, our assie correspondent. You've got Joe Schmidt, but
not for much longer. We'll come back to sport Chris Russell.
But I want to start with the floods in northern Queensland.
What's that going to mean for your banana crop?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, well it means you know that it ain't in
very good shape. I mean up in Tully, which is
the sort of center of that area. Between last Saturday
and Tuesday, they had forty inches of rain and the
old money one thousand millimeters, so that's a lot of rain.
Just a wall of water coming down the river there.
Tully is about halfway between Townsville and Ken's to give
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you an idea of where that is. And the locals
are saying they haven't seen a wall of water coming
down the river like that since Cyclone Winifred in nineteen
eighty six, so you know, and certainly they're damage. They're
saying the crop will be as big as cyclone Jasper
in twenty twenty three. There's two problems here. One is,
of course, the number of bananas that have been lost
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because one of the plant goes underwater, it can't breathe,
so it just shuts down and dies. But the other
problem is the roads are absolute shambles up there now,
so actually getting any product out of there and back
down to the big markets in the South, in New
South Wales and in Victoria is going to be difficult.
So a third little issue too. I saw one of
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the families complaining as they went back to their property
out they evacuated and couldn't get across the causeway because
there were two big saltwater crocodiles had taken up residents.
They're waiting for anyone to come through. So all the
things we don't even dream about down in the civilized South.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Jamie talking about crocodiles, or it might be the American
version might be an alligator. Donald Trump and his tariffs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, well look where everyone's watching with interest. There are
those here who think this is all just am but claims,
and as was shown with Columbia where he'd put a
big tariff and then we drew it the next day
when they.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
You know, they.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Agreed to the demands that he have be able to
rehabilitate criminals back to Columbia. Canada is one of our
worries here. There's the obvious China thing where if they
actually are cut back in their exports, they will stop
buying their iron ore and coke and coking coal from
as much from Australia. But the other issue is that
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they can't sell their grain. They're a very big grain producer.
If they can't sell it into America, then they're going
to start dumping that on the world market. So that's
going to really make it much more competitive for us
with all our markets where we're selling our grain. So
everybody is watching this with interest. It's hard to believe
that Canada and America can't be the best of mates.
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And I think most Canadians seem to be incredulous that
that's the case too. But he is such a loose
cannon you wouldn't have a clue what he's going to
do next, Jamie, and I think most of the farmer's
view here is, look, let's just sit back and watch.
You know, you can't be completely stupid. A lot of
this is just trumpmanship, trying to get the upper hand
in in these negotiations.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, he might forget us tariffs and just get on
with making the guards a strip the Riviera of the Mediterranean.
That was an interesting idea as well. Could goat meat
be the next big thing?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, and think it's the next big thing, Jamie, I
think it's been around for a long time. It's the
most eaten meat. There's eaten in more countries than any
other meat in the world. But what's happening is we're
beginning beginning to make some sort of inroad into that market,
and our production is continuing to boom, with record volumes
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exported in twenty twenty four and then in January this
year we saw four thousand tons of goat met just
shipped out in one month. We shipped out about fifty
six thousand tons in the whole of last year. But
we're absolutely flogging this goat thing as much as we can,
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and a lot of these people are now that is
their primary animal that they're selling. Once upon a time,
it was very much a feral goat on the side.
If you need a new shearing shed, go up and
round up six thousand goats and that'll pay for it.
And the taxman considered it just to be a feral animal,
so they didn't have to even account for them. But
now that's not the case, a lot of people are
making it their business, and the average price of moment
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round about three dollars a kilo over the hooks. Last
May the price was down to a dollar thirty three,
so that's a big increase, but we're still below the
range when it was just coming into its own back
in twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two, when it was
running around eight to nine dollars a kilo. So look,
I think we're going to see that continue to grow
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a big increase to South Korea. Interestingly, the United States
is our biggest increase, where we went up ninety percent
last year to twenty seven thousand tons, and Canada is
also up one hundred and twelve percent. So it's amazing
where the demand's coming from, not where I thought it'd
come from.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
It all, How are you going to replace Joe Schmidt?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, that's an interesting question, and there's it's a better
big blow for us because he's done a great job.
I think probably the in my I guess less expertised mine,
I think that Le's Kiss is probably going to be
a front runner the Queensland Reds coach. I think he's
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got a lot going for him, but just exactly what's
going to happen with that. Larkham's obviously in the mix.
The good news is that he said he will stay
on as an advisor to the new coach. But obviously
family comes first and that's I don't everyone would agree
with that as far as Joe is concerned. But he
will be a big loss because he was I think
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shaping up to be a return of the really great
coaches which we haven't seen in Australia here for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Jomie Yeah, well I think of Ellen Jones before has
Hilo dropped away? But Bob Dwyer, Rod McQueen there was
a great rugby coach.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, he was a great rugby coach. But I think
you just named the three that we've had that we
can really be pleased about. Robbie Dean's had his moments,
but I don't think ever got into the great category.
And of course we've had absolute shambles with Eddie Jones,
so we were hoping for a bit of stability and
we'll say it's interesting that he's got some good new
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talent in there. Joseph Swali continues to be in the
press here. He's been signed up for the Waratahs despite
missing the trial game, because I think that was probably inevitable.
But you know, we've got the makings, I think coming
back towards being a really competitive good side with New Zealand,
which is how we all judge ourselves.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Jamie. Okay, Chris, out of time, Thanks for yours today,
No worries. Thanks Chris. Bang on twelve thirty year with
the country. It's brought to you by Brand. Yeah. Quite
a few of you have texted and thank you very
much and said that Brian Turner's or the father of
the Turner clan was Elf Turner. Michelle still trying to
find out what his record was in the mbicargal to
Dunedin cycling races. I understand it largely on gravel roads.
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Another text, Jamie stops stirring. You know, Dan, while the
PM and Governor General were in the South Island for
Waite Tangi Day, it's not all about the bloody North Island,
says Laura. I agree with you, Laura. I think he
did the right thing by going to celebrate with knightsa
who looked like he was shown some respect there. Here's
a good one from Richard who says Jamie. I always
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cringe a little when I hear that officials are an
inverted commas opening a new dam. I have assisted in
building a few dams, and we always went to great
efforts to ensure they stayed closed. If you want to
open a dam, call in the six one seven squadron. Good,
very good there, Richard, a reference of course to the
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dam busters. Going to take a break on the other
side of it. Chris Brandolino from Newa. Yeah, the Rolling
Stone sort of started off as a blues band, believe
it or not, and this is very bluesy. Little red
Rooster on the playlist. In nineteen sixty five when they
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toured New Zealand, Roy Orbison was billed as the main
actor in the cargo. Although someone sent us a program
and we'll put it up on Facebook of their Auckland
concert where they were the lead. Well, Roy Orbison there
as well as well as Ray Columbus and the Invaders.
Great history, Roddie I. Chris Brandolino. We won't talk about
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the Rolling Stones. I want to talk about the lack
of rain. Michelle's dug up some rainfall numbers for the
Taranaki region. Are they in drought.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Yeah, they are parts of eastern Tetanaki in drought, northern
Manawa TWU. So basically we're the Manawa two, Tetanaki and
Wacotto kind of come together in that area. There's a
sizeable area of meteorological drought and even a larger area
of extremely dry conditions which encompasses much of the Waikato Bar,
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the Cormandol which is doing okay at the moment, but
farther to the north, very dry to extremely dry conditions,
pretty much the entire Auckland region as well as the
west and southwest part of Northland. And there is dry conditions,
or there are dry conditions, i should say, mind my grammar.
Over toward Milford Sound, western parts of Southland, interior Otago,
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Queenstown Lakes district looks dry to very dry. So yeah,
there is dryness and unfortunately, Jamie, not a lot of
rain on the forecast over the next almost several days.
We may see some rain northern and eastern parts of
the North Island, say toward the nineteenth the eighteenth, seventeenth
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of Feb so about ten days or eleven days from now,
but I'm not sure if it hang the hat on that.
But until then it's gonna be dry, It's gonna be warm.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What about for the South Islands.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Yeah, dryness. I should mention real quick, watch out for
thunderstorms if you're listening today, some heavy showers and thunderstorms
over those areas that are dry in the North Island
of Central North Island, so they could use the rain.
You just don't want, you know, thirty millimeters in about
an hour because you know that it runs off. But
back to your question of the South Island, we're going
a good drop of rain, marginally a good drop of
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rain for the Milford Sound and western portions of Southland
into the Cargo maybe getting into Gore. That'll be late tonight,
I beg you're part of make that late Saturday night
into Sunday and that will fall apart and fizzle out.
There could be some showers and maybe some thunderstorms early
next week for Canterbury. But honestly, Jamie, over the next
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I would say ten days, there's not a lot of
the rain that's going to fall. The most rain that's
likely to fall is going to be over western Southland,
over the basically Fieldland National Park area. That's where the
most rain is going to fall many other areas of
the country over the next ten days till about the
sixteenth seventeenth of February, we're going to be looking at
less than twenty millimeters of rain and we're losing about
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five millimeters a day of moisture. So over ten days
we lose fifty millimeters and if you don't recoup that,
we're in deficit. So yeah, it's basically dryness and it
looks especially dry over the next week to ten days
over areas over the Lower Manawatu, into the Wellington area
and eastern Canterbury.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Paul warned to spot armed there. We got Chris Brenda,
Lena from Newa. I got to take a break. Michelle
is here, she's got rural news. We'll do sports news
for you before the end of the hour. Big Steelo
with his two new knees. As I said at the
beginning of the show, I wonder if woke old n
z Our is going to pay for Stew's knees. Find
she was a sheep farmer as well, not only a
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rugby player, but a sheep farmer as well. And sheep
farming and good knees and old age don't go hand.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
In hand.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Unfortunately, it's just one of the dangers of the job.
So those two the Farmer Panel Jason Walls are wrapping
the week in politics. Yeah, Ray Columbus and the Invaders
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support Act for the Rolling Stones when they came here
in nineteen sixty five and Keith Keith said unkind things
about the need and were on based and mixed said
unkind things about in the Cargo South than where I
was born and raised. Still love the Rolling Stones, by
the way, Michelle, I saw them at Mount Smart Stadium
in twenty fourteen, I think the last time they've been here.
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Mick Jagger is amazing.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Oh he's incredible for his age, isn't He just shows
It's like Winston get better with age.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, well it must be something about leading the rock
and roll lifestyle. They're doing very well.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Just before we do Rural News, you've got a great
way story for us as well. It's your last chance
to win that double pass to the Golden Shares. On
the big day Saturday, the first of March. We've got
the day session and the night session and it all
kicks off. Believe you me, because I've been there about
two or three times. Three times I think to the
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War Memorial Stadium in Masterton when that Open finals on
you can almost feel the roof lifting. It is great
sporting theater. So all you've got to do and this
is your last chance, the last double pass we've got
to give away for the big day in Marsterton is
text god spell it properly and your name and where
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you're listening from to five double oh nine to win.
There you go and if you miss out on that
for more info and tickets go to Goldenshares dot co
dot n Z. Who was the winner from Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Winner from Wednesday Jamie was Tony Young from Fielding, so
not too far to travel across to to those gold shares.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yep, good stuff rightio, Remember that text golden and your
name and where you're listening from to five double O
nine and b into one. Here's the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
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Speaker 6 (27:39):
Local stockers and a bit of a fun story for
your Friday. So we have farmers that should stop using
the phrase farmer's wife as it reinforces gender stereotypes. This
is the National Farmers Union in Scotland have come out
with this one. A new diversity and inclusion strategy has
highlighted examples of language that have been heard at the
NFU meetings and it deemed and appropriate to include identifying
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a farmer.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
As a he.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
That's a bit work, but I'm with you. The big
mistake people makers referring to farmers wives, because if you
want to sell anything, you need to get to the
decision maker and when it comes to the money, and
certainly in my experience it's often the female much better
at multitasking than blokes who get the.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Final sayltring, hold the purrings.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, So you make the fatal mistake if you go,
can I speak to your husband?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Please?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Doesn't work like that, doesn't work like that at our house.
I can tell you that Michelle only one set of
pants and I don't own them anyhow, So don't make
that mistake. If you're out there. Umm, here's the latest
and sport.
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H snowboarder Zoe Sadowski's Sinnate has carved out a golden
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Waikato golfer Steve Alker is tied for the lead after
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that is your sports news. Up next the Farmer Panel.
Stulo's got two new knees and Stu Duncan's going to
pay tribute to Brian Turner tu leg Today's farmer panels
(29:55):
Steu Duncan and the many a tooto Stulo and North
Canterbury with his two new but Stu dunk and I
want to start with you. Brian Turner passed away on Wednesday.
A friend of yours and mine. He's a friend of
a lot of people, not anti farming. At all, but
had strong and forthright opinions on the environment. Hang on, Steir,
(30:16):
if I turn your fader up, just away you go again.
Now my apologies.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
No, he loved that open central Tiger landscape, and he's
pretty passionate about looking after the environment everywhere, really. And
one of those there wasn't that long ago, was that
we've been in public with Glee and his brother. We're
having a beer and he was still talking about just
too many people in the world.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
The population is too big.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
So he were pretty passionate about that. And I know
Heo's an amazing guy and really really good entertainment and
good chat.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
A Faerce intellect as well, That's what I remember about him.
And I was a political pollar opposite to him, but
it didn't mean we couldn't have good, robust discussion and
we just parked our differences. He was no fan of
pine trees either.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
No, it wasn't no he No, he was really intelligent,
understanding of everyone's needs and like he was an anti irrigation.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
In fact, there was a idober and irrigation.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Company was looking at the dam just up over to her,
and he was all for that. As long as we
intergenerational farming families have been in the district. It added
to the community. But he was definitely not in favor
of it's a corporate world that came in and just
took their margin and profit away. So I know who's
here was pretty sensitive and he's definitely passionate about Central Targo.
I'm sure we did a favor of fishing together. You
get around irrigation dams and all the re rivers. So
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he poked around a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, great, Blake, Rest in peace, Brian Turner, Stu stew Duncan,
Stu Low. You've been resting in peace after your operation
two new knees. How are you going? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
I two have Jamie so no fourteen or sixteen days
on now, so starting a bit of physio and something
to get a bit more movement nears and a progressing well.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
It ends that are paid or ends that R pay
for your operations, saying you'd given great service to the
Crusaders and Canterbury No no, and the New Zealand cults.
I saw an old Rugby program on New Zealand juniors.
You were in that as well, So you are a
New Zealand representative stew.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yes, Yeah, no, but they all sort of duck for
cover when it's old stuff and you haven't actually, I
actually didn't actually hurt them on one specific occasion and
probably down the were in tier. And I suppose if
you went to one of my family reunions you probably
see a lot of a lot of my relatives walk
in the same way as it might be a genetic
thing with a't air in their bloodlines. But your uncle
(32:30):
did say that we probably shouldn't should have been bred
from as far as mes and hip joints go.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But you tell Richard that. Mind you, being a sheep
farmer does an age of calls either. That's tough on
the knees over the years.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah, I know someone did say the other day I
might be able to stop a pig there and coming
at me, I might be able to run straight through.
So but yeah, sheep drenching and gagging hasn't help. But
it's just part of it. So I sort of self
insured and it's all covered that way.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
So I'm pleased to hear it. Weather and track conditions
in North Canterby, I hear you guys are buying all
the store lambs out of South one.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yeah, well I'll say, if you could make a bit
of money out of them, I'd sort of plan to
not to be in a very dry Really on we
were looking going to be very dry. So since since
I made the decision that probably satured, raining hasn't stopped.
So we've got feed blowing in the wind. But your
kettle of kettle of have gone up in price, and
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so store lands. But it means that everyone's going to
get a slice of the pie hopefully and the export
prices stay up or the breeders and finishes all get
a bit.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
There we go and Stu duncan I need to wrap
this quickly? Stu in the man die toto. You're getting
a bit dry.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah, but we caught a lot of those thunder plumps
early on and we've had see a bit in our
top corner. I know the petty end and down the
bottom and Paulburn are quite dry. But we've been really
lucky to get away grain off and great order and
get PEEDX and good cuts say and cut loose in
and no we're green, but we need a good share
of rain. But no, we're pretty happy as we were
sitting at the moment.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Definitely, Hey lads, I've run out of time to talk
about TJ. Perrenara. That's probably just as well.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I would suggest it's a good movie.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Run out of time.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
St Low, Yeah, yeah, we'll move on.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Okay, we'll move on from that one. Got to go, guys.
Good luck with the new two half knees there Stew
and Stu Duncan. Thanks for the nice words about Brian Turner.
Really appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
In no worries Citula Jamie.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
There we go the two Stews. The Farmer panel for today,
we're going to wrap it with Jason Walls. Just before
we wrap the week with Jason Walls a political edit today.
Today we'd like to give a big shout out to
all the farmers and growers out there who help farm
Strong by sharing what they do to manage pressure and
keep well. Special mention today and this is a beauty
(34:52):
to dairy farmer Jeff Spark who's flying the flag for
farm Strong in the Coast to Coast race. Taking time
out to do what fills your cup. There's always a
great way to stay farm strong. Have a great weekend, farmers.
That's from farm Strong. Jason Walls joins us at Political
out of Wellington, where he tells me, it's cold and
(35:13):
you you pulled rank and sent one of your office juniors,
did you? Poor old Sophie, was it she had to
go to White Tongy.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
A junior.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
No, No, I shouldn't say that. That's like saying farmer's wife.
I apologize, Sophie, but did you pull rank? Be honest?
Speaker 10 (35:29):
Oh, listen. I realized from the outset that she would
be a much better person to cover it, because I
frankly got a little bit cynical about White Tonguey over
the years, and I think my cynicism would have would
have gotten the way of my actual news reporting. So
she was a much better option because she's a fantastic
reporter with an eye for color like nobody else.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Well, you've recovered brilliantly from me dropping Sophie in it.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
There.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Let's talk about Christopher lux and he went to Nitaho
Banks Peninsula, and I think good on him, and he
seemed to get a reasonable reception there. Now this is
a I mean, this is a hyped up thing in
the media at the moment. But is he under any threat?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
You know, the Prime Minister is always under a bit
of pressure for a number of things. I mean you
look at what happened during this week over White Honey.
The big news stories were about David Seymour, They're about
New Zealand first Shane Jones. And some would look at
this and say that it's the coalition partners that are
the ones that are calling the shots right now. They're
the ones getting all the press. But at the end
of the day, you know, the Prime Minister will probably
(36:29):
shake this off in a week, maybe two weeks or so.
He wasn't at White Honey, Okay, everybody else has kind
of moved on from that. We've had that story for
a number of weeks now. So under pressure, I guess
in the sense that you know, the Treaties Principal's bill
is probably a lot more of an issue than he
ever thought it was in terms of the pushback that
he's getting. But I wouldn't say there are a contingent
(36:51):
of people out there saying that this is the thing
that's going to break the government's back.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
See I reckon his fortunes will turn when the economy turns.
Speaker 10 (36:58):
Yeah, well, I mean he's said that the interest rates
take about nine to ten to maybe even up to
eighteen months to flow through, as when those reductions happen,
it takes quite a while for people to refix their
mortgage and a lot of people like myself are waiting
to see what happens when the Reserve Bank meets on
the nineteenth of February. So those will flow through, and
(37:19):
when they do, things will get a little bit easier.
And luckily for him, we're not at an election right now,
but in about eighteen months time we will be, and
he would have had a good run end where interest
rates would have been a little bit lower. So Nikola
Willis has said better times are ahead, and because she
knows exactly how these things work.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yeah, it's all about the economy is cheaper. Jason Walls there,
our political editor, and that wraps the Country for today.
For those of you who are back grinding away. No
one's in the office here today, just me and Michelle
doing the hard yards and a couple of others. I
will catch you back on Monday. Have a great farm
strong weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
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Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, your specialist in
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Catch you all the latest from the land. It's the
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
Heda in New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie mckaye.
The show is brought to you by Brent. Thanks for
your support. Guys. Rolling Stone's the musical theme for today.
Sixty years ago this week since they first toured New Zealand,
and this was on the playlist not fade Away. Some
great quotes. Mick Jagger allegedly described in the Cargo as
(00:51):
the asshole of the world. Interestingly, in Picago was one
of the stops on their tour, and in roy Orbison
was actually the main act, were a support act, and Dunedin.
They didn't spare the rod for Dunedin either. Keith Richard's
one of my favorite people in the world, said Dunedin
looked like Tombstone and it felt like it. It still
(01:12):
had hitching rails. And Keith also said Dunedin made Aberdeen
Aberdeen seem like Las Vegas. So they got stuck into
us in nineteen sixty five. I guess New Zealand might
have been a bit of a dull quarter acre Pavlova
paradise back in those days. Anyhow, on today's show, we're
going to kick it off with Julian Rain, former President
(01:35):
of Horticulture New Zealand. I caught up with them earlier
this morning, and the reason I had to do it
earlier this morning was because there's no sole reception where
he is right now, and that is at the opening
of the Ymere Dam, the official opening of the Ymere Dam.
Prime Minister's there as well, so we're going to tell
you all about that and why we should be building
more dams around the country. Our Rosie correspondent's Chris Russell.
(01:57):
They've lost Joe Schmidt and who are they going to
replace him with and what's happened to what's going to
happen to the price of bananas after the record flooding
in Queensland decimated the crop. Chris Brandolino joins us from
k Neewip. We could do with some rainfall on this
side of the Tasman getting pretty dry. The Farmer Panel
Stu Duncan and Stu Low. Now Stu Duncan's based out
(02:20):
of the Many at Toto and he's going to pay
tribute to one of my favorite New Zealanders who passed
away on Wednesday, Brian Turner from the famous Turner family
sporting family of course, Glenn the cricketer, Greg the golfer,
and Brian himself played hockey for New Zealand and was
(02:41):
a top ranked cyclist as well and a hell of
a good bloke. We became friends a number of years ago.
Political polar opposites, but that didn't stop him agreeing or
disagreeing with you. He always did so with such wit
and charm. Stud Duncan paid to pay tribute to Brian Turner.
Jew Low, former Canterbury prop and Crusader's prop. He's just
(03:04):
got two new knees. I wonder if woe cold ends
ours paying for that. And Jason Walls, our political editor,
commenting on the fun and games that why tell you
the Lotus polls? And is Chris Luxon under any threat?
We're going to give you a chance to head along
to the Golden Shares, last chance for that double pass
(03:24):
for Saturday, the day session and the night session for
that big Open final. Michelle will be in here with
Rural News as well, and I think she's got a
nice little story for us today. It's all on the
country and it's brought to you by Brandt Julian Rain.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Why mere dam up next?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
As Donald Trump would say, it's a great day. It's
a beautiful day. Yes, it's the day of the opening
of the y. May're damn to tell us more about it?
Former chair of or was he president of Horticulture in
New Zealand? Julian Rain. Of course, he's an entrepreneur. He's
into horticulture, he's into derry and he was awarded the
Outstanding Contributor to the Primary Sector at the Primary Sector
(04:12):
Awards last year in Wellington, and he beat a very
very strong field too. I might add a Julian exciting
day for you.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yes, it's a wonderful day here in Nelson, Jamie and
I believe the opening of the dam will signify not
only all of the work that's happened over twenty odd years,
and actually opens up a whole heap of opportunity to
the Waimia planes and the residents around Richmond and mar.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Poor all long suffering listeners of this show. Well know
I love nothing more than a dam or a tall building,
and we need more dams. I reckon it would really
kickstart the economy, especially things like intensive horticulture. Now, let's
make no bones about this is a wee pre record.
This is like a quarter to nine this morning when
(05:05):
we record this, because there's no mobile reception coverage where
the y Mare Dam is. But you've got a cast
of thousands turning up there to day, including the Prime Minister.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, there's a few guests turning up. There's about one hundred,
and we will celebrate the opening of this dam and style, Jamie,
and so we should.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So by the time this goes to air, the dam
will be officially opened and you'll all be making your
way back to Nelson. I presume run us through how
the morning plays out.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
There's a dirty, great big tractor just drove past, so
sorry about that. And I thought I'd picked a quiet
country road to pull over and have a yarn. But
there's quite a bit of activity already, and I'd have
to say most of that is due to the dam.
The celebrations today are obviously on site. There is no
(06:07):
cell phone reception up there, so that's why we are
taking it down here on the WYMEA planes to talk
to you, Jamie. The day involves kind of the symbolic
cutting of the ribbon, a series of speeches and obviously
we'll have a wee bit to eat and drink to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Now on, another outstanding contributor to the primary sector in
this country is Murray King. In fact, he was honored
in the King's Birthday Honors in twenty twenty four. He's
had a lot of involvement in agriculture and the primary sector.
He's the chair of the Wymere Dam, so how big
a role did he play in it?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
He's the chair of the Wymea Irrigators so sorry, Wyma Water,
which is essentially the dam is made up of two shareholders,
the Lesmond District Council and that will be Murray Sorry,
it'll be Tim King and Murray King represents the irrigators
the other share of the dam. So it's a council
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controlled organization, so council do control it. They own fifty
one percent and irrigator's own forty nine percent. Murray and
Tim aren't related, they just happened to have the same
last name. Yeah, as I said, it will be a
great celebration today. Murray and I have put in over
(07:34):
twenty years worth of work to make this happen, along
with a whole heap of other people. So yeah, Murray
quite rightly got a gong last year along with you.
Jamie Murray's activities have been in livestock improvement, nuffield, a
whole range of rural activities.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Now, how much of the dam, and you talk about
the irrigators versus the council ownership, how much of the
dam is kind of use?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
The pays, well, it is a user pays basis on
the operation of the dam is fifty to fifty and
the capital contribution has been forty nine to fifty one.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
This is living proof. Albeit it's taken twenty years to
get this damn And I know that the former chief
executive of Irogation New Zealand, Vanessa Winning, she'll probably be there,
no doubt, she was very excited about it. But I mean,
is this the process we have to go through to
get a dam in this country? Or can Shane in
Winston fast track this?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It takes a long time, Jomie, and some of this
stuff I don't think can be fast tracked. It's taken
twenty years. Some of that was around funding because it
is the largest dam built in New Zealand. Essentially since
the Clyde Dam was built. You can't do it in
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five minutes, but you could do it in ten years,
not twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
How many blind frogs, Freddy the frogs were indaged in
the making of this video of this damn.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
None. It's one of the reasons why we picked this
site is it had been so badly affected degragated by
particularly forestry. Sorry to give the forestry guys a bad rap,
there was no native essentially left, although right up in
(09:29):
the very headwaters there was the Richmond State Forest, which
is native, but the vast majority of the catchment is
actually exotic pine forests. We listened very carefully to the
recreational guys and we had the choice of going up
(09:51):
the Viral or the Lee Valley, and we chose the
Lee because it had the least amount of disruption not
only for the natural biota, but also for the people
who used it for recreation.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I tip my hat to the likes of you and
Murray King who have spent twenty years of your life
battling to get this up and running. It must be
a very proud day for you, Julian Rain. Well done.
May we have many, many more dams in this country,
Thanks Jamie. Julian Rain caught up with them this morning
ahead of that opening and they will have officially cut
the ribbon. I think that was happening in about eleven
(10:28):
o'clock this morning. The Prime Minister was there. He wasn't
it whititungu. He will talk about that a week bit
later in the hour with our political correspondent Jason Wall
sitting in for Barrysopa who's on paternal duties. Now we're
going to be chatting Michelle. Good afternoon. By the way,
We're going to be chat chatting. That was a fraudian slip,
(10:50):
wasn't it chatting to Stu Duncan. Yes, and the sea
Stu Duncan and Stu Low Stulo's got two new knees
and Stu Duncan was a good mate. Brian and Turners
and I had, you know, quite a bit to do
with them over the years. Not so much in recent years.
He hasn't kept the best of health, but loved his
wit and his intellect face fierce intellect. But you've done
(11:12):
a lot of cycling with him.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I did, Yeah, I did. I was in the Central
Otago cycling club back in the day and I actually
was in the same group as him for a couple
of races. Really interesting guy and amazing cyclist because he
didn't take it up till later in life, and really increating.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
He may have been a cyclist when he was younger
and came back to it because his father, I'm trying
to remember the name of his dad. He held the
race record back in the nineteen forties. I think it
was for biking. They used to have a race between
the Cargo and Dunedin. Yeah they did, Yeah, and it
was mainly all on gravel roads and the time you
must you need to google this and find the answer here.
(11:49):
The time on the gravel roads was amazing. And that
was the father of the Turners who held that record.
I'm trying to remember his name that someone will help
me out on the text line five double nine. Yes,
we weren't pop songs simple in nineteen sixty five when
the Rolling Stones were here. This one is all of
one minute and forty six seconds long, not even long
(12:12):
enough for me to prattle line over the top of.
So there you go. We're going to play some of
the songs on the set list for that Rolling Stones
tour in nineteen sixty five, sixty years on this week
they went to the four main centers. But they started
off and in Picargo. Imagine a band I don't know, imagine.
I was going to say, Lady Gargo, who was it
(12:33):
the Pink? Imagine Pink coming to New Zealand and playing
in the cargo.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Now, it's amazing, isn't it. I don't think any international
works go to in Vcago now. And of course famous
quote from it is either Keith Richards Argue, Keith Richards
or Macjagger, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, well we've mentioned that very unkind of my home province.
Right up next to our Ossie correspondents, Chris russ ll
record ruins in Queensland decimated the banana crop and goat
meat cote meat. Who knew that was such a profitable thing.
We're going to yard to him before the end of
their Chris Brandolino, I know you've got some rainfall figures on,
(13:08):
for instance the Taranaki region which is getting very dry.
Stew Duncan and Stulo, the Farmer Panel and Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
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Speaker 4 (13:41):
Let's head across the ditch. A guy over there is
Chris Russell, our assie correspondent. You've got Joe Schmidt, but
not for much longer. We'll come back to sport Chris Russell.
But I want to start with the floods in northern Queensland.
What's that going to mean for your banana crop?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, well it means you know that it ain't in
very good shape. I mean up in Tully, which is
the sort of center of that area. Between last Saturday
and Tuesday, they had forty inches of rain and the
old money one thousand millimeters, so that's a lot of rain.
Just a wall of water coming down the river there.
Tully is about halfway between Townsville and Ken's to give
(14:18):
you an idea of where that is. And the locals
are saying they haven't seen a wall of water coming
down the river like that since Cyclone Winifred in nineteen
eighty six, so you know, and certainly they're damage. They're
saying the crop will be as big as cyclone Jasper
in twenty twenty three. There's two problems here. One is,
of course, the number of bananas that have been lost
(14:41):
because one of the plant goes underwater, it can't breathe,
so it just shuts down and dies. But the other
problem is the roads are absolute shambles up there now,
so actually getting any product out of there and back
down to the big markets in the South, in New
South Wales and in Victoria is going to be difficult.
So a third little issue too. I saw one of
(15:03):
the families complaining as they went back to their property
out they evacuated and couldn't get across the causeway because
there were two big saltwater crocodiles had taken up residents.
They're waiting for anyone to come through. So all the
things we don't even dream about down in the civilized South.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Jamie talking about crocodiles, or it might be the American
version might be an alligator. Donald Trump and his tariffs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, well look where everyone's watching with interest. There are
those here who think this is all just am but claims,
and as was shown with Columbia where he'd put a
big tariff and then we drew it the next day
when they.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
You know, they.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Agreed to the demands that he have be able to
rehabilitate criminals back to Columbia. Canada is one of our
worries here. There's the obvious China thing where if they
actually are cut back in their exports, they will stop
buying their iron ore and coke and coking coal from
as much from Australia. But the other issue is that
(16:00):
they can't sell their grain. They're a very big grain producer.
If they can't sell it into America, then they're going
to start dumping that on the world market. So that's
going to really make it much more competitive for us
with all our markets where we're selling our grain. So
everybody is watching this with interest. It's hard to believe
that Canada and America can't be the best of mates.
(16:20):
And I think most Canadians seem to be incredulous that
that's the case too. But he is such a loose
cannon you wouldn't have a clue what he's going to
do next, Jamie, and I think most of the farmer's
view here is, look, let's just sit back and watch.
You know, you can't be completely stupid. A lot of
this is just trumpmanship, trying to get the upper hand
in in these negotiations.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, he might forget us tariffs and just get on
with making the guards a strip the Riviera of the Mediterranean.
That was an interesting idea as well. Could goat meat
be the next big thing?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, and think it's the next big thing, Jamie, I
think it's been around for a long time. It's the
most eaten meat. There's eaten in more countries than any
other meat in the world. But what's happening is we're
beginning beginning to make some sort of inroad into that market,
and our production is continuing to boom, with record volumes
(17:13):
exported in twenty twenty four and then in January this
year we saw four thousand tons of goat met just
shipped out in one month. We shipped out about fifty
six thousand tons in the whole of last year. But
we're absolutely flogging this goat thing as much as we can,
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and a lot of these people are now that is
their primary animal that they're selling. Once upon a time,
it was very much a feral goat on the side.
If you need a new shearing shed, go up and
round up six thousand goats and that'll pay for it.
And the taxman considered it just to be a feral animal,
so they didn't have to even account for them. But
now that's not the case, a lot of people are
making it their business, and the average price of moment
(17:54):
round about three dollars a kilo over the hooks. Last
May the price was down to a dollar thirty three,
so that's a big increase, but we're still below the
range when it was just coming into its own back
in twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two, when it was
running around eight to nine dollars a kilo. So look,
I think we're going to see that continue to grow
(18:17):
a big increase to South Korea. Interestingly, the United States
is our biggest increase, where we went up ninety percent
last year to twenty seven thousand tons, and Canada is
also up one hundred and twelve percent. So it's amazing
where the demand's coming from, not where I thought it'd
come from.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
It all, How are you going to replace Joe Schmidt?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, that's an interesting question, and there's it's a better
big blow for us because he's done a great job.
I think probably the in my I guess less expertised mine,
I think that Le's Kiss is probably going to be
a front runner the Queensland Reds coach. I think he's
(19:01):
got a lot going for him, but just exactly what's
going to happen with that. Larkham's obviously in the mix.
The good news is that he said he will stay
on as an advisor to the new coach. But obviously
family comes first and that's I don't everyone would agree
with that as far as Joe is concerned. But he
will be a big loss because he was I think
(19:22):
shaping up to be a return of the really great
coaches which we haven't seen in Australia here for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Jomie Yeah, well I think of Ellen Jones before has
Hilo dropped away? But Bob Dwyer, Rod McQueen there was
a great rugby coach.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, he was a great rugby coach. But I think
you just named the three that we've had that we
can really be pleased about. Robbie Dean's had his moments,
but I don't think ever got into the great category.
And of course we've had absolute shambles with Eddie Jones,
so we were hoping for a bit of stability and
we'll say it's interesting that he's got some good new
(19:57):
talent in there. Joseph Swali continues to be in the
press here. He's been signed up for the Waratahs despite
missing the trial game, because I think that was probably inevitable.
But you know, we've got the makings, I think coming
back towards being a really competitive good side with New Zealand,
which is how we all judge ourselves.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Jamie. Okay, Chris, out of time, Thanks for yours today,
No worries. Thanks Chris. Bang on twelve thirty year with
the country. It's brought to you by Brand. Yeah. Quite
a few of you have texted and thank you very
much and said that Brian Turner's or the father of
the Turner clan was Elf Turner. Michelle still trying to
find out what his record was in the mbicargal to
Dunedin cycling races. I understand it largely on gravel roads.
(20:41):
Another text, Jamie stops stirring. You know, Dan, while the
PM and Governor General were in the South Island for
Waite Tangi Day, it's not all about the bloody North Island,
says Laura. I agree with you, Laura. I think he
did the right thing by going to celebrate with knightsa
who looked like he was shown some respect there. Here's
a good one from Richard who says Jamie. I always
(21:03):
cringe a little when I hear that officials are an
inverted commas opening a new dam. I have assisted in
building a few dams, and we always went to great
efforts to ensure they stayed closed. If you want to
open a dam, call in the six one seven squadron. Good,
very good there, Richard, a reference of course to the
(21:26):
dam busters. Going to take a break on the other
side of it. Chris Brandolino from Newa. Yeah, the Rolling
Stone sort of started off as a blues band, believe
it or not, and this is very bluesy. Little red
Rooster on the playlist. In nineteen sixty five when they
(21:48):
toured New Zealand, Roy Orbison was billed as the main
actor in the cargo. Although someone sent us a program
and we'll put it up on Facebook of their Auckland
concert where they were the lead. Well, Roy Orbison there
as well as well as Ray Columbus and the Invaders.
Great history, Roddie I. Chris Brandolino. We won't talk about
(22:08):
the Rolling Stones. I want to talk about the lack
of rain. Michelle's dug up some rainfall numbers for the
Taranaki region. Are they in drought.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Yeah, they are parts of eastern Tetanaki in drought, northern
Manawa TWU. So basically we're the Manawa two, Tetanaki and
Wacotto kind of come together in that area. There's a
sizeable area of meteorological drought and even a larger area
of extremely dry conditions which encompasses much of the Waikato Bar,
(22:39):
the Cormandol which is doing okay at the moment, but
farther to the north, very dry to extremely dry conditions,
pretty much the entire Auckland region as well as the
west and southwest part of Northland. And there is dry conditions,
or there are dry conditions, i should say, mind my grammar.
Over toward Milford Sound, western parts of Southland, interior Otago,
(23:02):
Queenstown Lakes district looks dry to very dry. So yeah,
there is dryness and unfortunately, Jamie, not a lot of
rain on the forecast over the next almost several days.
We may see some rain northern and eastern parts of
the North Island, say toward the nineteenth the eighteenth, seventeenth
(23:23):
of Feb so about ten days or eleven days from now,
but I'm not sure if it hang the hat on that.
But until then it's gonna be dry, It's gonna be warm.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What about for the South Islands.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Yeah, dryness. I should mention real quick, watch out for
thunderstorms if you're listening today, some heavy showers and thunderstorms
over those areas that are dry in the North Island
of Central North Island, so they could use the rain.
You just don't want, you know, thirty millimeters in about
an hour because you know that it runs off. But
back to your question of the South Island, we're going
a good drop of rain, marginally a good drop of
(23:56):
rain for the Milford Sound and western portions of Southland
into the Cargo maybe getting into Gore. That'll be late tonight,
I beg you're part of make that late Saturday night
into Sunday and that will fall apart and fizzle out.
There could be some showers and maybe some thunderstorms early
next week for Canterbury. But honestly, Jamie, over the next
(24:16):
I would say ten days, there's not a lot of
the rain that's going to fall. The most rain that's
likely to fall is going to be over western Southland,
over the basically Fieldland National Park area. That's where the
most rain is going to fall many other areas of
the country over the next ten days till about the
sixteenth seventeenth of February, we're going to be looking at
less than twenty millimeters of rain and we're losing about
(24:38):
five millimeters a day of moisture. So over ten days
we lose fifty millimeters and if you don't recoup that,
we're in deficit. So yeah, it's basically dryness and it
looks especially dry over the next week to ten days
over areas over the Lower Manawatu, into the Wellington area
and eastern Canterbury.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Paul warned to spot armed there. We got Chris Brenda,
Lena from Newa. I got to take a break. Michelle
is here, she's got rural news. We'll do sports news
for you before the end of the hour. Big Steelo
with his two new knees. As I said at the
beginning of the show, I wonder if woke old n
z Our is going to pay for Stew's knees. Find
she was a sheep farmer as well, not only a
(25:17):
rugby player, but a sheep farmer as well. And sheep
farming and good knees and old age don't go hand.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
In hand.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Unfortunately, it's just one of the dangers of the job.
So those two the Farmer Panel Jason Walls are wrapping
the week in politics. Yeah, Ray Columbus and the Invaders
(25:49):
support Act for the Rolling Stones when they came here
in nineteen sixty five and Keith Keith said unkind things
about the need and were on based and mixed said
unkind things about in the Cargo South than where I
was born and raised. Still love the Rolling Stones, by
the way, Michelle, I saw them at Mount Smart Stadium
in twenty fourteen, I think the last time they've been here.
(26:11):
Mick Jagger is amazing.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Oh he's incredible for his age, isn't He just shows
It's like Winston get better with age.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, well it must be something about leading the rock
and roll lifestyle. They're doing very well.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Just before we do Rural News, you've got a great
way story for us as well. It's your last chance
to win that double pass to the Golden Shares. On
the big day Saturday, the first of March. We've got
the day session and the night session and it all
kicks off. Believe you me, because I've been there about
two or three times. Three times I think to the
(26:43):
War Memorial Stadium in Masterton when that Open finals on
you can almost feel the roof lifting. It is great
sporting theater. So all you've got to do and this
is your last chance, the last double pass we've got
to give away for the big day in Marsterton is
text god spell it properly and your name and where
(27:03):
you're listening from to five double oh nine to win.
There you go and if you miss out on that
for more info and tickets go to Goldenshares dot co
dot n Z. Who was the winner from Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Winner from Wednesday Jamie was Tony Young from Fielding, so
not too far to travel across to to those gold shares.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yep, good stuff rightio, Remember that text golden and your
name and where you're listening from to five double O
nine and b into one. Here's the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The countries, world news with Cob Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower brand visit steel Ford dot cote
on in Z for your.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Local stockers and a bit of a fun story for
your Friday. So we have farmers that should stop using
the phrase farmer's wife as it reinforces gender stereotypes. This
is the National Farmers Union in Scotland have come out
with this one. A new diversity and inclusion strategy has
highlighted examples of language that have been heard at the
NFU meetings and it deemed and appropriate to include identifying
(28:02):
a farmer.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
As a he.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
That's a bit work, but I'm with you. The big
mistake people makers referring to farmers wives, because if you
want to sell anything, you need to get to the
decision maker and when it comes to the money, and
certainly in my experience it's often the female much better
at multitasking than blokes who get the.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Final sayltring, hold the purrings.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, So you make the fatal mistake if you go,
can I speak to your husband?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Please?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Doesn't work like that, doesn't work like that at our house.
I can tell you that Michelle only one set of
pants and I don't own them anyhow, So don't make
that mistake. If you're out there. Umm, here's the latest
and sport.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Sport with AFCO. Visit them online at AFCO dot co
dot nz.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
H snowboarder Zoe Sadowski's Sinnate has carved out a golden
fortnight on the slopes of Colorado. The Kiwi's won the
big Air title at the latest World Cup of enth Asmen,
adding to the slopestyle crowns she lifted on Monday and
the X Games Slope Style gold a week prior. How
good is she? And how good is this bloke? Veteran
(29:09):
Waikato golfer Steve Alker is tied for the lead after
the first day of the latest Champions Tour tournament in Morocco.
It's an exotic place for a golf tournament, isn't it.
Alka posted a four underpass sixty nine opening round. He
shares the one shot lead with Englishman Simon Griffiths. And
(29:30):
that is your sports news. Up next the Farmer Panel.
Stulo's got two new knees and Stu Duncan's going to
pay tribute to Brian Turner tu leg Today's farmer panels
(29:55):
Steu Duncan and the many a tooto Stulo and North
Canterbury with his two new but Stu dunk and I
want to start with you. Brian Turner passed away on Wednesday.
A friend of yours and mine. He's a friend of
a lot of people, not anti farming. At all, but
had strong and forthright opinions on the environment. Hang on, Steir,
(30:16):
if I turn your fader up, just away you go again.
Now my apologies.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
No, he loved that open central Tiger landscape, and he's
pretty passionate about looking after the environment everywhere, really. And
one of those there wasn't that long ago, was that
we've been in public with Glee and his brother. We're
having a beer and he was still talking about just
too many people in the world.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
The population is too big.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
So he were pretty passionate about that. And I know
Heo's an amazing guy and really really good entertainment and
good chat.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
A Faerce intellect as well, That's what I remember about him.
And I was a political pollar opposite to him, but
it didn't mean we couldn't have good, robust discussion and
we just parked our differences. He was no fan of
pine trees either.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
No, it wasn't no he No, he was really intelligent,
understanding of everyone's needs and like he was an anti irrigation.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
In fact, there was a idober and irrigation.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Company was looking at the dam just up over to her,
and he was all for that. As long as we
intergenerational farming families have been in the district. It added
to the community. But he was definitely not in favor
of it's a corporate world that came in and just
took their margin and profit away. So I know who's
here was pretty sensitive and he's definitely passionate about Central Targo.
I'm sure we did a favor of fishing together. You
get around irrigation dams and all the re rivers. So
(31:29):
he poked around a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, great, Blake, Rest in peace, Brian Turner, Stu stew Duncan,
Stu Low. You've been resting in peace after your operation
two new knees. How are you going? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
I two have Jamie so no fourteen or sixteen days
on now, so starting a bit of physio and something
to get a bit more movement nears and a progressing well.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
It ends that are paid or ends that R pay
for your operations, saying you'd given great service to the
Crusaders and Canterbury No no, and the New Zealand cults.
I saw an old Rugby program on New Zealand juniors.
You were in that as well, So you are a
New Zealand representative stew.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yes, Yeah, no, but they all sort of duck for
cover when it's old stuff and you haven't actually, I
actually didn't actually hurt them on one specific occasion and
probably down the were in tier. And I suppose if
you went to one of my family reunions you probably
see a lot of a lot of my relatives walk
in the same way as it might be a genetic
thing with a't air in their bloodlines. But your uncle
(32:30):
did say that we probably shouldn't should have been bred
from as far as mes and hip joints go.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But you tell Richard that. Mind you, being a sheep
farmer does an age of calls either. That's tough on
the knees over the years.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah, I know someone did say the other day I
might be able to stop a pig there and coming
at me, I might be able to run straight through.
So but yeah, sheep drenching and gagging hasn't help. But
it's just part of it. So I sort of self
insured and it's all covered that way.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
So I'm pleased to hear it. Weather and track conditions
in North Canterby, I hear you guys are buying all
the store lambs out of South one.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yeah, well I'll say, if you could make a bit
of money out of them, I'd sort of plan to
not to be in a very dry Really on we
were looking going to be very dry. So since since
I made the decision that probably satured, raining hasn't stopped.
So we've got feed blowing in the wind. But your
kettle of kettle of have gone up in price, and
(33:29):
so store lands. But it means that everyone's going to
get a slice of the pie hopefully and the export
prices stay up or the breeders and finishes all get
a bit.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
There we go and Stu duncan I need to wrap
this quickly? Stu in the man die toto. You're getting
a bit dry.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah, but we caught a lot of those thunder plumps
early on and we've had see a bit in our
top corner. I know the petty end and down the
bottom and Paulburn are quite dry. But we've been really
lucky to get away grain off and great order and
get PEEDX and good cuts say and cut loose in
and no we're green, but we need a good share
of rain. But no, we're pretty happy as we were
sitting at the moment.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Definitely, Hey lads, I've run out of time to talk
about TJ. Perrenara. That's probably just as well.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I would suggest it's a good movie.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Run out of time.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
St Low, Yeah, yeah, we'll move on.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Okay, we'll move on from that one. Got to go, guys.
Good luck with the new two half knees there Stew
and Stu Duncan. Thanks for the nice words about Brian Turner.
Really appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
In no worries Citula Jamie.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
There we go the two Stews. The Farmer panel for today,
we're going to wrap it with Jason Walls. Just before
we wrap the week with Jason Walls a political edit today.
Today we'd like to give a big shout out to
all the farmers and growers out there who help farm
Strong by sharing what they do to manage pressure and
keep well. Special mention today and this is a beauty
(34:52):
to dairy farmer Jeff Spark who's flying the flag for
farm Strong in the Coast to Coast race. Taking time
out to do what fills your cup. There's always a
great way to stay farm strong. Have a great weekend, farmers.
That's from farm Strong. Jason Walls joins us at Political
out of Wellington, where he tells me, it's cold and
(35:13):
you you pulled rank and sent one of your office juniors,
did you? Poor old Sophie, was it she had to
go to White Tongy.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
A junior.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
No, No, I shouldn't say that. That's like saying farmer's wife.
I apologize, Sophie, but did you pull rank? Be honest?
Speaker 10 (35:29):
Oh, listen. I realized from the outset that she would
be a much better person to cover it, because I
frankly got a little bit cynical about White Tonguey over
the years, and I think my cynicism would have would
have gotten the way of my actual news reporting. So
she was a much better option because she's a fantastic
reporter with an eye for color like nobody else.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Well, you've recovered brilliantly from me dropping Sophie in it.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
There.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Let's talk about Christopher lux and he went to Nitaho
Banks Peninsula, and I think good on him, and he
seemed to get a reasonable reception there. Now this is
a I mean, this is a hyped up thing in
the media at the moment. But is he under any threat?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
You know, the Prime Minister is always under a bit
of pressure for a number of things. I mean you
look at what happened during this week over White Honey.
The big news stories were about David Seymour, They're about
New Zealand first Shane Jones. And some would look at
this and say that it's the coalition partners that are
the ones that are calling the shots right now. They're
the ones getting all the press. But at the end
of the day, you know, the Prime Minister will probably
(36:29):
shake this off in a week, maybe two weeks or so.
He wasn't at White Honey, Okay, everybody else has kind
of moved on from that. We've had that story for
a number of weeks now. So under pressure, I guess
in the sense that you know, the Treaties Principal's bill
is probably a lot more of an issue than he
ever thought it was in terms of the pushback that
he's getting. But I wouldn't say there are a contingent
(36:51):
of people out there saying that this is the thing
that's going to break the government's back.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
See I reckon his fortunes will turn when the economy turns.
Speaker 10 (36:58):
Yeah, well, I mean he's said that the interest rates
take about nine to ten to maybe even up to
eighteen months to flow through, as when those reductions happen,
it takes quite a while for people to refix their
mortgage and a lot of people like myself are waiting
to see what happens when the Reserve Bank meets on
the nineteenth of February. So those will flow through, and
(37:19):
when they do, things will get a little bit easier.
And luckily for him, we're not at an election right now,
but in about eighteen months time we will be, and
he would have had a good run end where interest
rates would have been a little bit lower. So Nikola
Willis has said better times are ahead, and because she
knows exactly how these things work.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yeah, it's all about the economy is cheaper. Jason Walls there,
our political editor, and that wraps the Country for today.
For those of you who are back grinding away. No
one's in the office here today, just me and Michelle
doing the hard yards and a couple of others. I
will catch you back on Monday. Have a great farm
strong weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Catule the latest from the Left and it's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, your specialist in
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