February 12, 2026 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Sir David Fagan, Bryce McKenzie, Bruce Weir, Vanessa Winning, Simon Beamish, and Hamish McKay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's sol come, I blw you up.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's have a party.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's have a part.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Can Navies Ellen and welcome to the Country. Day three
at the Southern Field. Days here at way mumu and
I don't know as twice in a week too much
Prime Minister to be kicking off the country and in
his election year, I need to try and be balanced.
Where's Damie and O'Connor when I need them?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I don't know where they are, but I know I'm
here because it's a great event and I've been coming
from Bess and it's absolutely awesome. It's the sector's on fire,
is doing well, and the mood and the vibe I
think in Southland's absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, you're sort of walking amongst the converted here today.
Let's be honest. Even though this is the most political
stat of all time and twenty twenty the Southland Electorate
formerly built English as Klue for Southland Electorate Party voted labor.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Well, I mean I'm not ready to worry about the history.
I'm now worried about the future, and it's just making
sure that actually we've got this sector moving as quickly
as we can. If you think about the progress of
made in dairy and red meat even wolving at a
ten year high, you know, they are really good results
and that's giving people a lot of cash and a
lot of certainty to invest back in the sector. But
it's amazing the number of young people here Jamie, you know,
(01:31):
like that are waving around wanting to have careers and
agriculture is brilliant, you know, really exciting.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Have you caught up with those numbers from the Meat
Industry Association out later yesterday afternoon? Eleven point seven billion
sheep meat LAMB up thirty one percent.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
It's incredible, isn't it. Yeah, it's a record number, and
you know, after having had such a tough tough time
and sheep and beef meat, I mean, it's been a
real problem and challenge for people over the many years.
But the thing is when you look around the world now,
supply of red meat is down and it's much less
than a demand. And so that's why we're opening up
these new markets because now the meat processes can move
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product from America to the Europe, to China, to India,
Middle East, wherever they want to go.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's a real shame with everything being so good that
you're going to tax the water. What a Let me
finish my sentence. You're going to tax the water for
the farmers to put on the paddocks to grow the grass.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Tell me this is well, I can categorically rule that out.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I don't know how some people interpreted that's what we
would be doing, but we are not having a water.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Tax in any description. You realize you've heard it from me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You've brycause it's like a.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Dog with the bar.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yeah, they jump a shadow sometimes, they jump in shadow sometimes.
But I just say to you, no, I want everyone
to understand and hear this crystal clear. We are not
doing a water tax. You heard it from Chris Bishop yesterday.
You're hearing it from me today. We've got this new
thing called the RMA going through. I've had a couple
of people talk to me about that as well. We've
had a first reading. We have a second reading, so
we have a whole bunch of people. Give us your
(03:01):
thoughts on it. We put our best effort. Third, they
give us some thoughts. We then improve it, then we
send it back out again, then we improve it again
and then eventually it becomes a law. So no, the
design of the RIMA is to get rid of a
lot of regulation, red tape, get fifty percent of our
consents down and as you get on it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But we are not doing a water decks and one
more perhaps correction, if indeed, I take you at your word.
When we were chatting on Wednesday, we were talking about
the President of Federated Farmers, Wayne Langford, standing as a
labor candidate on West Coast Tasman. Wayne assures me that
isn't so well.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You'd have to talk to him, but have you been
talking to it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You'd have to talk to him.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But I did say to you he's doing a good
job leading FEDS and I think he's got them in
good shape over the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, Prime Minister, thanks as always for your time to
see you. Do really appreciate it. Great to have you
down here in South and so Farming Province. I'm looking
for your doppel ganger. Where's he gone?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
There?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
He is over there.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We'll just scrab him.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, he's a good looking man that, Sir David Fagan. A,
well he's he's a good looking man.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
There's no hurry, David, Yeah, there's no hot to say.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
What a goodness.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Broadcast gear back to Forsyth Bar Stadium tonight for the rugby.
So here we go. We're just going to welcome onto
the country doppelgang. I get a photo of these two together,
Sir David Fagan. He's got the same haircut as Crystal Luck.
You're down here David with Canam. How's business going?
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Yeah, that's right. I've been here for a couple of
days down on the can M stand. There's a lot
of new products at the new models now the new
HD eleven and a lot of interest. The old ones
were good, these the new models, the HD eleven is
just take it to another level. So yea, they're really
enjoying being back in my memo now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Just course the sharing action down here as well. There'll
be speed shares this afternoon here and Southern Shares that
this weekend.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Yeah, next week, next weekend. The Targa Champs are on
in bealcuth today and tomorrow as well, and then next
Thursday I'm actually coming back to attend the Southern Shares
in Gore and it's a sick the youth anniversary for that.
There's it din a Thursday night and yeah, sixty years
since that's been going.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
How many years did you win the Southern Shares? Quite
a number.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't know, ten or twelve, fourteen something. I lost track.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You're our greatest step for sharer and I don't know
if I can throw this out here, but Roland Smith
statistically would have to be a second greatest for sharer.
He's made it back into the New Zealand team along
with Tyler Henderson, who's our form sharer at the moment.
I put it to you, and you know a million
times much more about sharing than I do, but that
these two would have to start as hot favorites for
(05:34):
the team. Comp wouldn't they Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You'd have to have to give them hot favorite status.
I mean, a couple of weeks ago I said to you,
you wouldn't you be silling to bet against role in
making that team? He's made that and he's pretty low
key about his sharing at the moment, but don't underestimate him.
He's but three weeks to do it. But in sharing
go all the competitions. We've got a very strong team
with the sharing the wool Henling in the blades actually so.
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But but Headfield should have a good year hopefully.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Have we got two very strong wall handlers. Joel Henaoray
will be the favorite.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Yeah, he'll be the favorite. But you know, once you're there,
all bits are off, so you know it's opened to anyone.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
With Rollie, he might be listening on his tractor because
I know he spends a lot of time on his tractor.
He's a contractor and a farmer as well. But you
know he's talking about getting down to the wall shehed
at night and getting an hour and I know you've
only got to share twenty sheep at the Golden Shares,
but it is an hour enough.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah, of course it is plus plus. I know if
I was doing what Roland's doing, I wouldn't be telling
anyone what I'm doing. And he won't be telling you everything.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Believe me.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm sure he will.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
He will, he will turn up ready, Yeah, don't underestimate him.
But yeah, as far as our team goes, Tom Henderson
Roland Smith have to be have to be going in
his favorites, but let's let's make sure they get the
job done.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
All right. So, David Fagan, I know you've got the
speed shares this afternoon. Your son Jack is probably the
country's leading speed share is he down to try and
can today?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
He's not here today, he's actually in coraw Land and
Auckland Airport. He's going back to give it another crack
and oberon for that twenty k that he won last year.
That's the big pay day, the big pay days on
in Australia tomorrow. But yeah, here this afternoon he's a
speech here at the mum whose Southern Field Days. And
then I'm doing a bit here, a couple of sheep
I'm going to share soon to show the Prime Minister
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what's hearing's about.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, you're looking very trim at the moment. Whatever you're doing,
keep on doing it so you look like you're ready
to rip on the share of single it and get
into it, Sir David Fagan, A pleasure is always. Thank
you very much for your time. Jeers Jammy, there we go,
Sir David Fagan. He's here with can Am at the
Southern Field Days. It is fourteen after twelve. Who's on
the show today. Well, we've got Bryce McKenzie who's busy
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chewing the air of the Prime Minister as we speak.
He's from Groundswell. We've got Bruce where Rabobanks, GM of
Country Banking. We are broadcasting from the Rabobank site. Vanessa
from MPI, of course, formerly the Chief Executive of Irrigation
New Zealand. We're going to go off site to chat
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to Simon Beamish, hawksby Farmer. His son Jorlie Beamish has
been heading to the Halberg's on Monday night. Of course,
remember Jordi won the twenty twenty five World Athletics Championships
at the three thousand meters steeple chase. He also won
the fifteen hundred meters at the twenty twenty four World
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Indoor champs. He will be competing against the two SAMs
Ruth and Tanner to see who represents New Zealand in
the mile at the Commonwealth Games. And talking about sport,
he'll be somewhere in fielding his beloved hometown sort of.
Hamish MacKaye mckaye on sport, we have got Super Rugby
kicking off tonight, in fact the very broadcast scare we
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are using here today and y mumu has to get
up the road quick smart because it's going to be
used for the Crusaders up against the Highlanders at Forsyth
Bar Stadium tonight. We'll be back after the break with
Bryce Mackenzie and Bruce ware.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Let the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Alcome back to the country. Day three of the Southern
field Days at ye Murmur it's the beginning of the
regional field day season. Gee. I had to crowbar this
next man away from the Prime Minister, Bryce Mackenzie, co
founder of Groundswong. You were chewing. Is there a big time?
Did he convince you that he's not going to tax water?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well? I think he's not going to Jamie.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
He assures me of that, but as I said to him,
it leaves the door open for another government to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
If he's not going to do it, well done.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
But then maybe if he wants an assurance it's never
going to happen, he needs to change the wording in
the Act so that it shows that. And you know,
I'll let the listeners be the judge. But I have
got the Act here and it's clawsed three one three one.
The Governor General may by.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Order and I'm not going to read all that. You'll
kill or.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Jamie. They want to know that.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
They want to go to the rugby for the time.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You're not reading all that, Sorry, Bryce, it's my show.
Give me the Coles notes.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Well, it leaves the opening that it can be taxed.
The opening is there that water can be taxed as
it can all other resources, and that's what it states.
So they and he assures me that it's not going
to happen, but they shouldn't. We shouldn't be even having
the discussion because it shouldn't be there.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's good that it's good that you and Federated Farmers
because I think to be fair, it was, to be fair,
it was Mark Cooper, wasn't it that was Federated Farmers
who first raised this issue.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, it definitely was.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
We've raised the issue about significant natural areas and the
sites and areas are recommitent.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
To Mali and those sort of things. But yes, we
hadn't got the water one, so that is quite all right.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, but so ground swell Federated Farmers. I know talking
to both of these other organizations at National Lambday Barbecue
on Wednesday. Beef and Lamb are both on the case
as well. Surely the submission process is going to tidy
all this up.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Look, we would definitely hope so.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
And as a Prime Minister has just said, there's four processes,
so hopefully by the end of the fourth process when
it goes to government to be brought in, this is
all gone, or at least it's clearly worded so that
no other government can actually use that start tacks and
water used.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So what cars will ground Swell have to bark at
after that price?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Jamie, you should have elaborate on that. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I guess there's always going to be something going fast
that needs looked at.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Jay, farmers never happier, hey, when you're not being a
semi political figure with Groundswell. You are a west of Targo,
a dairy farmer. And I hadn't been down south because
I'm the south of a well. I hadn't been down
south since before Christmas, and it was starting to look
a wee bit dry before Christmas. But I must say
(12:07):
driving down through South Otago, West Otago here and to
eastern Southland, the country's looking great.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
It's been a fantastic season, and especially as we know
that thunder plumps can be very localized. Yeah, and we
were fortunate that we got one in the west of
Taga Valley that a lot of people missed out on
and that just kept us going the whole time. Jamie,
So the country is looking really good, really Boyant prices
are good.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think there'll be great field days now.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You've been a farmer for a long time, all your
adult life. Have you ever known And Bruce Ware might
come over and just listen to this question, because we
had to ask him. He's a wee bit younger than
you and I, but have you ever known the planets
to be in such alignment all at one time? Heaven
help us? Even strong walls doing a strong wall indicator
up forty seven cents yesterday at the christ Church sale.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, isn't that quite incredible? I know it's not normally
like that.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
And most farmers would always have said to you, you
need three options, lamb, beef, and woll because it won't
all be at the top at the same time.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Maybe they're not all at the top, but they all
are doing very very well.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, Bryce, Look, thank you very much for your time,
and you owe me. You owe me your beer because
I got I just got you five or ten minutes
in the air of the Prime Minister. Do you think
do you think that'll keep Groundswell off my case?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, he's hoping it'll keep it off. We'll keep off
his case.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, mate. Bryce Mackenzie co founder of Groundswell along with
Laurie Patterson. Laurie will be here. Is he Bryce somewhere? No,
he's not here today. Hey, Bruce Ware is the GM
of Country Banking for Rabobank, which means you're the two icee,
aren't you, Bruce. Well, sometimes you don't get paid quite
as much as Todd charteris, but you're well paid. Oh okay, yeah,
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he's talking to that one there. I just got a
text through from an old maide of mine, Graham Smith.
Do you remember him?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I do. Ask Bruce Ware if he was fullback for
the Mighty Otago under sixteens in about nineteen eighty, big
solid fallback from Manetoto. I think was that you?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 10 (14:09):
And I've had this question before, but those have seen
me play. I've got two left feet on fairly intrans
in the forts.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, well I was old Smithy. I don't think he
ever got his head out of the ruck either. Monjou.
He was sort of a manchild at sixteen. That must
have been how he made the team. Anyhow, Okay, so
today and I brought you in just to hear what
Bryce had to say about that. I'm talking about planets
and alignments. A few banks would just stop ripping us
off with your interest rates, brute, we would be living
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in El Dorado.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
No, we actually haven't seen those planets aligned before, and
I think that's really played into the vibe of the
last few days.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And our farmers are really positive.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
There's a lot to be positive about, but also interesting
the very leveled about that positivity as well.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, so when we're looking at the interest rates, and
that was in jest, of course, because they have come down,
they've come down a long way of the high when
the ocr was five points something percent. It's now down
to what two and a half or too far, But
we are effectively at the bottom of the cycle, aren't we.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's up from here, well, you'd assume, so, yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
So what is And I know you won't directly answer
this question, but if you're a farmer, you're a rabobank client,
for instance, are you telling them to lock and now.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
We're having a conversation around the appetite for risk. So
it's sort of just lining it up with their the
risk profile, whether they want to stay short or long,
what's what's on horizon, whether it's succession planning, climate resilience planning,
just all those sort of topic.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And I guess the supplies to anyone with the mortgage,
whether you're a homeowner or a business owner or whatever.
But you can still get some pretty attractive action. Sure,
six to twelve months.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Absolutely there's a really attractive buying at that level. But
again it all depends on your business strategy, what the future.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I had a mate of mine who locked in a
long term borrowing deal at under five percent for five years.
That would be pretty smart, wouldn't it. I don't even
know whether you can get that anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'd say that's good business. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hey, And just briefly to finish on you mentioned the
succession workshops were down here in Southland, just outside of
Gore and thirty odd years ago when I first started
out on radio, one of my monitor dairy farmers was
a guy by the name of Lawrence Field who were
along with his wife Marcella with a I think the
nineteen ninety five New Zealand Sheer Milkers of the year.
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Now Lawrence has gone on to great heights as a
farm accountant and advisor. But he's running your succession workshops.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah he is, and he does a fantastic job.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
And like I say, you know, the conversations I've had
the last few days here at Waymomo, I think our
succession workshops are going to be well subscribed.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Succession's tough though, because you're dealing with telephone book numbers
in terms of you know, getting the next generation in.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
Yeah, it is, and that's why you need good skill
set around that table. But tell you what, you know,
the vibe, the excitement in the industry now is certainly
making those conversations a lot easier.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Okay, A bruce Ware, thank you very much for hosting
us in the Rabobank tent. You've got the you're big
supporters of National Lamb Day which is on on Sunday, right,
but we had the barbecue on Wednesday in Wellington and
if you're listening and coming to Southern Field Days, you
need to get your button too Rabobank here because you've
got the Lamb lollipops absolutely and the outstand Oh brilliant.
(17:35):
I love it. There we go Bruce Ware from Rabobank
GM of Country Banking. We'll take a break on the
other side of it because we're an equal opportunity radio
show that'll get a bite from a Vanessa Winning from MPI.
She's worn many hats and agri business over the years.
A and z former Chief Executive of Irrigation New Zealand.
(17:55):
We will chat to Vanessa. We've got Rowena Duncan running
around where a FMG hat. They are doing the running
of the walls or the lambs here today at about
twelve thirty, will try and catch up with her. Also
Simon Beamish from Hawks Bay Hamish Mackay in the Manor
or two and we've got come and talk to me
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nicely if you're listening to this, because I've got a
box of Emerson's mackaysa and a gift pack and a
gift caller bag to give away to someone here today
at Field Days because Emerson's great supporters of us here
at the country talking about National Lamb Day. They're supporting
National Lamb Day with the kick ass Lamberger matched to
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the day Tripper, Low Carb Hazy IPA. It's really popular
at the moment and Greg Menzi's the marketing guy, says,
we just love the idea of promoting lamb. After the break,
Vanessa winning few and fishes in the dark Kisspang on
twelve thirty. The country's been all over the country this week.
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Wednesday it was National Lamb Barbecue Day at Parliament Lawns.
Someone I caught up with there and she's been an
agri business as long, well not as long as me,
because she's not as old as me. Vanessa Winning who
these days is with MPI, But Vanessa, I think I
first came across you when you were with a n
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Z and you were a great supporter of the country.
And I remember running a quiz and this is one
of your finest finance moments at the Zander McDonald Awards
or Shane mcmanaway's Summit to Master It and many years ago,
and it was to find the brightest person in the room,
and you won it.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Well, I think, as you might recall, you started off
with the brightest man in the room, keep your brightest
man in the room until we got down to about
the last four and then you had to change it
to brightest person.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, we're an inclusive show.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
That's why I thought you I think, am I the
only woman I'm today?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
No, but we're about to hear a bit about from
Michelle about how she spilt coffee over my new new ice.
Suzi Rowena is out there for the running of the Lambs.
But look, I picked people on Merit not gender excellent,
and that's how you haven't made that. You're not a
token woman on the show today.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You are here on Merit.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
So from a and zed to irrigation New Zealand and
a couple of other things in between. These days, MPI
did Ray Smith head, don't you.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Yeah, I've got the best job I think at MPI.
So I run the on farm Support team, so we've
got people throughout the country looking after and supporting farmers,
and we also do all of the recovery work, so
you know, disasters hit and we get in there and
help and support farmers get back up and running. So
really good job. And I think we were just talking
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earlier about what we're here for today, and we've got
the Science for Farmer's program at Field Days.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Right Now I didn't even want to talk about that
because that sounded a bit boring. I wanted to talk
about the whole that's in Auckland and how you put
a wee like a mini drone or a camera on
them and they fly back to the hornet's nest and
then you're new. But I'll give you a moment on
science for farmers because it'll be more than my life's
worth if I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You know how your bread's bout it? Is that what
you're suggesting?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Corectly? Okay the fight chicken one?
Speaker 11 (21:17):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well my last name is winning.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So yeah, okay, Science for Farmers for farmers.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
So it's a joined out program with lac palmu, BSI
agg admissions, egg zero, durings in and messy. So it's
bringing science out to farmers. So we've got activity that
we're doing that we're supporting. It goes around the regions,
across all of the regional events, so it's really cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
That's Ray Smith down here. I know he's not here.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Today, but he's normally at all of these sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Okay, let's do the exciting bit about new king the hornets.
This is cool technology isn't It.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Is amazing technology and who ever thought of it and
put it together as an incredible person and who ever
signed off, you know, making sure that that's going to
happen is even better. So I think that's probably one
that you want to talk to Ray about.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But we have had some real success with SATED.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What do you put on the back? You find a
hornet and then you put.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
What on it?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, it's an rfd ID tag. Essentially, you've got to
make sure that the hornet's big enough to take it
because it has to carry it back to the nest.
But you know, it's incredible technology, and it's amazing what
we do in New Zealand and our biosecurity with the
incredible people that we've got up in Auckland running this stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, I think that the likes of m bovus and
you know, MPI got a wee bit of grief to
start with, but we're the only country in the world
that looks like eliminating M bovas. So I say well
done to all the team at MPI, including you.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
No, the biosecurity work that gets done in New Zealand
is amazing and we have some awesome people, including Stuart Anderson,
and you know, definitely talk to Ray about this because
I just think we don't get necessarily all the credit
that we acting for all the work that goes on.
But it's also the people on the ground. You'd be
surprised how many people dobbin hornets like there's an I
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eight hundred number and they're looking in the in their
gardens as.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You've got nothing better to do on your weekend.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Well, you know, it's been exciting to see a little
hornet go back to its nest with these little tags
on it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
To be Vanessa got to go lovely to chat to you. Michelle.
Michelle Watts here the producer of the Country. Now, Michelle,
this is one of your first ever excursions. Now get
that closer to your mouth, because we don't normally let
you out of the office. Reason for that probably, yeah,
there is good reason. Because I'm driving now as our
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Speaker 12 (23:48):
Slight exaggeration there, Jamie, I didn't quite cover two whole
seats and coffee.
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But it has been christened yes, and apparently I'm walking
home now. So your predecessor, Rouena Dunkin's here. I thought
I thought you would. Haven't they done it? Well, I'll
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We'll take a break here on the country. On the
other side of it, we're going to do rural news,
I think, which is Rowena's report on the running of
the Lambs. Is it the Lambs or sheep Lambs Lambs?
And we'll also Mark Kelly, who's producing the show out
of our Auckland studios with the latest in sport. Before
the end of the hour, Simon b Miss and Hawks
Bay Hamish Mackay in fielding. It is twenty one from one.
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She was missing in action to cover the running of
the Lambs and it's been and gone. Let's throw to
Rowena Duncan with the latest and rural news about running
of the Lambs, the countries.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
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Speaker 12 (26:10):
Thanks so much for that, Jamie. Yeah, you messed an
absolute treat. My friend. Around two hundred and fifty black
face lambs. Camaron Grant has been training them, I'm told,
but they only made.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
The decision to do this on Monday.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Grant, Cameron Grant, I even trained himself alone the lambs, thank.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Goodness for him.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
The dog trialing guys were there, so there were a
lot of dogs, a lot of people. The public got
to hold scrum. Oh my gosh, the joy on the
kid's faces. I can see them coming. No, that was
actually them going in the wrong direction, but then they
came the right way. We had to hold them up
for five minutes at the start because of course you
were holding up the Prime Minister and Sir David fag
and Jamie. They had a very important interview with you.
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Then they made it to the lambs and actually it
went really really well. So it's nice to have things
like this, and especially one of them was wearing the
same T shirt as me, Jamie, my National Lamb Day
T shirt. They had one of them on the Lambs
and of course I now work for MG shameless plug
proud sponsor along with Rabobank, where we are as supporters
of National Lamb Day this Sunday.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Absolutely all right, Rowena, we had better actual sports, so
you're you're going to know who's throwing to sport. It's
my show, my show.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Here's Mark Cally with Sports News. That was your real news.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Sports on the country with AFCO one hundred percent we
owned and trusted.
Speaker 13 (27:25):
That's rare.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
Team heavy rain and the course chains have done little
to dampened spirits of the leading coast to coast competitors.
Google Shepherd is the leading male, fifteen minutes clear of
his nearest rival, while Pipa Kevinar has a seven minute advantage.
In the women's field. Organizers had to pivot from the
traditional goat pass run due to flood risks and a
blow to Premier League Football leaders Arsenal after Bretford came
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back to draw one all at home to the Gunners.
That means the gap to the second place Manchester City
stands at just four points with twelve rounds remaining.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Back to you, Jamie, Yeah, well, Mark, I know you're
a big sport fan. You make a living talking about it.
Can Manchester City and Earling Harlan catch them?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I think so?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Yes, Yeah, Gunners are pretty good at choking away title,
so yeah, I'm more for it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Okay, there we go, Mark Kelly doing a great job
paneling the show out of our Auckland studios. We're kind
of finishing with a bit of a sporting bent. Really,
we're going to head off site from the Southern field
days here at Waimumo, just outside of going to head
to Hawks Bay. Simon Beamish, father of Jordie Beamish, Simon
famous in his own right for winning the Balanced Farm
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Environment Awards, and then Hamish McKay, who loves nothing more
than spending Friday mornings having a cup of tea and
a scan and a bit of a yarn at the
Fielding Saleyard's one of my favorite little towns in New Zealand. Fielding.
Any town with the clock tower and sale yards right
in the middle of town is a great town. We'll
be back on the other side of it with Simon Beamish.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Here we fazy lay a bees on a day name
that's a Barrases.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Welcome back to the country. Fourteen away from one we're
heading off site. We're at the Southern Field days at
the bottom of the country up to Hawks Bay, Simon Beamish, Simon,
before we talk about your son Jordie and the Hallberg's
coming up. I think on Monday evening, are you guys
going to get a bit wet this weekend?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, looks like we're in line for more rain, hopefully
not too much. We were pretty appreciative a couple of
weeks back where most places got maybe one hundred hundred
and fifty mills and that was that was pretty nice.
But no, we always hold our breath on the East coast.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Well, my old mate Steve, when Harris said you were
almost were you were desperate before Christmas and the season
has turned around and I know that some people are
further up the east coast of the North Island didn't
want what you got. But it's been a season savior
savior for you guys. You're a sheep and beef farmer.
Have you ever known better time? Simon?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No, I think not in mine roomy. I'm not sure
whether it would be in my father's memory either. Probably
back in the in the wool boom Korean wartimes maybe,
but no, everything's aligned, and we've got grass. I don't
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think the North Island would have had this much grass
cover east west north south ever before. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
That is amazing now. And do you reckon with all
that grass, you can grow a lamb out to fifteen
hundred dollars, like Mark Warrenoff. I don't know what Mark'd
smoking at Hawk's Bay, but are you smoking the same stuff?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
From the I stand on up under the rangers. I
don't quite see fifteen hundred dollars in front of us,
but we're very happy to take north of two hundred,
in fact, two hundred and fifty dollars last week. So
we think that's pretty good. And there is a nervousness
around the price. I mean we're thinking to ourselves, too
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good to be true, and that usually is too good
to be true. But no, we're very grateful for being
in this space.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, those numbers yesterday from the Meat Industry Association sheep meat,
which is largely made up of lamb. Obviously there's a
bit of mutton thrown in there, up thirty one percent
in value to four point seven billion dollars. It's absolutely fantastic.
You've also had success Simon, if you don't mind me
saying so, not only in the ballot Farm Environment Awards,
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but also on the breeding steaks. You are the farmer,
the farmer, you're a farmer and the father of Jordy Beamish.
Now what is Jordy going to be running and in
the Commonwealth Games?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, first up he will be focused on the steeple
chase and I believe that's either day one or day
two of the track and field events. And then three
days later which makes it all possible, are the heats
for they're not running the fifteen hundred this year, they're
run choosing to run a mile in Glasgow. So that's
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possible to take on both those events and it would
be a very competitive Kiwi field, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Now? Can we have more than two entrants in the race,
because we've obviously got two other blokes who are pretty
keen to run that mile in Glasgow as well, Sam
Tanner and young Sam Ruth the new sensation. Are we
allowed to have three runners in the mile if they
all qualify?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh well I should have done my home.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
We've gone that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I can't actually say. I imagine if you were Scottish.
The ards would be definitely yes. But three kiwis, I'm
not sure whether that's going to be allowed or not.
I'll look that up after this.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Okay, Simon, you did send me an email the other
day because you wanted to get a shameless plug in
because the Halbergs are coming up on Monday evening.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yep, Monday night.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, Monday night. I'm always looking forward to the Halbergs.
But there is the favorite sporting moment or best sporting
moment of twenty twenty five, and I'm with you when
Jordy won and a Michelle's nighting ahead because she's a runner.
When Jordy won that steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships
three thousand meters steeplechase, that was it was a great
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moment because in some ways it was unexpected. He beat
a bloke who hadn't been beaten for years.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
That's right. And is that the moment or was the
moment a couple of days before when he took a
tumble over the fourth or fifth the last barrier and
so nearly got his face and planted on forever. Anyway,
the combination was ended up with a gold medal, and
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I guess that's what we'll remember. So it was a
great sporting moment. We were thrilled to be there and
participating in it.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No doubt you'll be heading to Glasgow to watch them
there as well. Hey Simon Beamish, I hope you get
some rain, but not too much in Hawk's Bay. We
need to take a break. It is nine away from one.
We're going to wrap it. We're kind of continuing with
the farming sporting theme. It's fillin host here on the country,
Hamish cousin, Hamish A mackay. We're going to have a
look at tonight's super rugby opener and Duneda. Michelle and
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I have to pack up the kit and get up
the road real quick because Paul Allison will be using
this broadcast here later this evening to call the Highlanders
up against the Crusaders. Hamish McKay to wrap the country,
and just before I do, if you're heading along to
the footy like I am, tonight a calling to Emerson's.
I don't know if they've got their National Lamb Day
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burger on just yet, but try one of those day
trip a low carb hazy IPAs because on Sunday anyhow,
I know you can match that with a Lamberger. For
National Lamb Day, Hamish McKay to wrap the country. Events
like this week's Southern Field Days are a great reminder
that staying farm strong can be as simple as getting
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off farm for a few hours enjoy your day out
with friends and neighbors. There's a ton of events like
these happening in rural communities around the country and the
weeks ahead as we head into the regional field Days,
so make sure you get along and reachcharge your battery
for free resources on how to live well and farm well,
head to the Farmstrong website and lock in what works
for you. Here's Hamish mckaye with Sport.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
McKay on Sport with farm Lands protect yours from nasties this.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Summer radio cousin Hamoush. Who are you got for the
Super Rugby opener tonight?
Speaker 13 (35:43):
Oh gee, look, you know what I've done with this.
I get so wound up about picking results, but I
think it'll be one of the South Island teams. But no,
I'm going to go for the I'm going to go
for the Highlanders, right So you know.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
I just.
Speaker 13 (35:58):
I've picked out a few individual Your boy, the Southland hooker.
I like him Taylor, isn't it Jack Taylor?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
And I'll tell you what homous. Jack Taylor was born
and bred literally next door to where we are right now.
He's a wye momou boy. Yep, yeah, look I tell
you what. So so there you go.
Speaker 13 (36:16):
What a coincident. He was a guy and I a
little bit of commentary for the MPC last I just
like the cut of his jib and just looking through
teams of guys i'd like to see, he's one i'd
like to see.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Go on with it.
Speaker 13 (36:27):
These are guys i'd like to see take the ball
by the horns in Super Rugby, Leo Willie at number
eight because I think he's the best in the country.
So too too obviously at the Blues has got a
big point to prove before he's off Love Ruben Love
at the Hurricanes. And there's two I've nailed at the Chiefs,
which is Parker on the blind side and I hope
Jacob gets a bit of time and the seen Jersey
because I think he's very good. But no, I'm more
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excited than I thought of. It would be about the
footy and.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Gee has it rolled around well?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
We haven't only got that tonight. Tomorrow night, we've got
Chiefs Blues. That's going to be interesting. Chiefs and Crusaders.
As much Zima Highlander's fan, they still look the strongest sides.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
You know, if you're looking at if you're looking at
it like a you know, a tennis straw and boom
boom boom through to the final. I think you're right.
I don't think there's too much to scare. This is
a that cheese side. There's not many too many chinks
in their armor. They are a good looking side right
across the board, and they've got good depths, so yeah, yeah,
look at I think that they'll get up over the
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Blues in that first one. But you know, I think
that mister Cotta will have those Blues on fire for
this season, and given that a couple of good guys
are leaving. But gee, I mean, I don't know how
you have you have you had time for Winter Olympics?
Have you been watching any of that cousin?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Well, I've been watching Zoey Sadowski, so yeah, but I'm
out of time here today, Hamish, And we've still got
the world that the Cricket tea twenty World Champs as well,
so so much going on. Thank you so much for
some of your time. It's always a bit of a
rush when we're doing an ob like this, but that
raps us. We've got to get the broadcast scare back
to Dunedin as you can hear Paul Allison and Paul
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Miller on commentary tonight on gold Sport. That wraps us
from day three of Waimumu and God's Own Farming Province Southland.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's sol come, I blw you up.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's have a party.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's have a part.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Can Navies Ellen and welcome to the Country. Day three
at the Southern Field. Days here at way mumu and
I don't know as twice in a week too much
Prime Minister to be kicking off the country and in
his election year, I need to try and be balanced.
Where's Damie and O'Connor when I need them?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I don't know where they are, but I know I'm
here because it's a great event and I've been coming
from Bess and it's absolutely awesome. It's the sector's on fire,
is doing well, and the mood and the vibe I
think in Southland's absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, you're sort of walking amongst the converted here today.
Let's be honest. Even though this is the most political
stat of all time and twenty twenty the Southland Electorate
formerly built English as Klue for Southland Electorate Party voted labor.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Well, I mean I'm not ready to worry about the history.
I'm now worried about the future, and it's just making
sure that actually we've got this sector moving as quickly
as we can. If you think about the progress of
made in dairy and red meat even wolving at a
ten year high, you know, they are really good results
and that's giving people a lot of cash and a
lot of certainty to invest back in the sector. But
it's amazing the number of young people here Jamie, you know,
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like that are waving around wanting to have careers and
agriculture is brilliant, you know, really exciting.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Have you caught up with those numbers from the Meat
Industry Association out later yesterday afternoon? Eleven point seven billion
sheep meat LAMB up thirty one percent.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
It's incredible, isn't it. Yeah, it's a record number, and
you know, after having had such a tough tough time
and sheep and beef meat, I mean, it's been a
real problem and challenge for people over the many years.
But the thing is when you look around the world now,
supply of red meat is down and it's much less
than a demand. And so that's why we're opening up
these new markets because now the meat processes can move
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product from America to the Europe, to China, to India,
Middle East, wherever they want to go.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's a real shame with everything being so good that
you're going to tax the water. What a Let me
finish my sentence. You're going to tax the water for
the farmers to put on the paddocks to grow the grass.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Tell me this is well, I can categorically rule that out.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I don't know how some people interpreted that's what we
would be doing, but we are not having a water.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Tax in any description. You realize you've heard it from me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You've brycause it's like a.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Dog with the bar.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yeah, they jump a shadow sometimes, they jump in shadow sometimes.
But I just say to you, no, I want everyone
to understand and hear this crystal clear. We are not
doing a water tax. You heard it from Chris Bishop yesterday.
You're hearing it from me today. We've got this new
thing called the RMA going through. I've had a couple
of people talk to me about that as well. We've
had a first reading. We have a second reading, so
we have a whole bunch of people. Give us your
(03:01):
thoughts on it. We put our best effort. Third, they
give us some thoughts. We then improve it, then we
send it back out again, then we improve it again
and then eventually it becomes a law. So no, the
design of the RIMA is to get rid of a
lot of regulation, red tape, get fifty percent of our
consents down and as you get on it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But we are not doing a water decks and one
more perhaps correction, if indeed, I take you at your word.
When we were chatting on Wednesday, we were talking about
the President of Federated Farmers, Wayne Langford, standing as a
labor candidate on West Coast Tasman. Wayne assures me that
isn't so well.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You'd have to talk to him, but have you been
talking to it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You'd have to talk to him.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But I did say to you he's doing a good
job leading FEDS and I think he's got them in
good shape over the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, Prime Minister, thanks as always for your time to
see you. Do really appreciate it. Great to have you
down here in South and so Farming Province. I'm looking
for your doppel ganger. Where's he gone?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
There?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
He is over there.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We'll just scrab him.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, he's a good looking man that, Sir David Fagan. A,
well he's he's a good looking man.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
There's no hurry, David, Yeah, there's no hot to say.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
What a goodness.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Broadcast gear back to Forsyth Bar Stadium tonight for the rugby.
So here we go. We're just going to welcome onto
the country doppelgang. I get a photo of these two together,
Sir David Fagan. He's got the same haircut as Crystal Luck.
You're down here David with Canam. How's business going?
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Yeah, that's right. I've been here for a couple of
days down on the can M stand. There's a lot
of new products at the new models now the new
HD eleven and a lot of interest. The old ones
were good, these the new models, the HD eleven is
just take it to another level. So yea, they're really
enjoying being back in my memo now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Just course the sharing action down here as well. There'll
be speed shares this afternoon here and Southern Shares that
this weekend.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Yeah, next week, next weekend. The Targa Champs are on
in bealcuth today and tomorrow as well, and then next
Thursday I'm actually coming back to attend the Southern Shares
in Gore and it's a sick the youth anniversary for that.
There's it din a Thursday night and yeah, sixty years
since that's been going.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
How many years did you win the Southern Shares? Quite
a number.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't know, ten or twelve, fourteen something. I lost track.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You're our greatest step for sharer and I don't know
if I can throw this out here, but Roland Smith
statistically would have to be a second greatest for sharer.
He's made it back into the New Zealand team along
with Tyler Henderson, who's our form sharer at the moment.
I put it to you, and you know a million
times much more about sharing than I do, but that
these two would have to start as hot favorites for
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the team. Comp wouldn't they Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You'd have to have to give them hot favorite status.
I mean, a couple of weeks ago I said to you,
you wouldn't you be silling to bet against role in
making that team? He's made that and he's pretty low
key about his sharing at the moment, but don't underestimate him.
He's but three weeks to do it. But in sharing
go all the competitions. We've got a very strong team
with the sharing the wool Henling in the blades actually so.
(05:56):
But but Headfield should have a good year hopefully.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Have we got two very strong wall handlers. Joel Henaoray
will be the favorite.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Yeah, he'll be the favorite. But you know, once you're there,
all bits are off, so you know it's opened to anyone.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
With Rollie, he might be listening on his tractor because
I know he spends a lot of time on his tractor.
He's a contractor and a farmer as well. But you
know he's talking about getting down to the wall shehed
at night and getting an hour and I know you've
only got to share twenty sheep at the Golden Shares,
but it is an hour enough.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah, of course it is plus plus. I know if
I was doing what Roland's doing, I wouldn't be telling
anyone what I'm doing. And he won't be telling you everything.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Believe me.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm sure he will.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
He will, he will turn up ready, Yeah, don't underestimate him.
But yeah, as far as our team goes, Tom Henderson
Roland Smith have to be have to be going in
his favorites, but let's let's make sure they get the
job done.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
All right. So, David Fagan, I know you've got the
speed shares this afternoon. Your son Jack is probably the
country's leading speed share is he down to try and
can today?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
He's not here today, he's actually in coraw Land and
Auckland Airport. He's going back to give it another crack
and oberon for that twenty k that he won last year.
That's the big pay day, the big pay days on
in Australia tomorrow. But yeah, here this afternoon he's a
speech here at the mum whose Southern Field Days. And
then I'm doing a bit here, a couple of sheep
I'm going to share soon to show the Prime Minister
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what's hearing's about.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, you're looking very trim at the moment. Whatever you're doing,
keep on doing it so you look like you're ready
to rip on the share of single it and get
into it, Sir David Fagan, A pleasure is always. Thank
you very much for your time. Jeers Jammy, there we go,
Sir David Fagan. He's here with can Am at the
Southern Field Days. It is fourteen after twelve. Who's on
the show today. Well, we've got Bryce McKenzie who's busy
(07:46):
chewing the air of the Prime Minister as we speak.
He's from Groundswell. We've got Bruce where Rabobanks, GM of
Country Banking. We are broadcasting from the Rabobank site. Vanessa
from MPI, of course, formerly the Chief Executive of Irrigation
New Zealand. We're going to go off site to chat
(08:06):
to Simon Beamish, hawksby Farmer. His son Jorlie Beamish has
been heading to the Halberg's on Monday night. Of course,
remember Jordi won the twenty twenty five World Athletics Championships
at the three thousand meters steeple chase. He also won
the fifteen hundred meters at the twenty twenty four World
(08:28):
Indoor champs. He will be competing against the two SAMs
Ruth and Tanner to see who represents New Zealand in
the mile at the Commonwealth Games. And talking about sport,
he'll be somewhere in fielding his beloved hometown sort of.
Hamish MacKaye mckaye on sport, we have got Super Rugby
kicking off tonight, in fact the very broadcast scare we
(08:50):
are using here today and y mumu has to get
up the road quick smart because it's going to be
used for the Crusaders up against the Highlanders at Forsyth
Bar Stadium tonight. We'll be back after the break with
Bryce Mackenzie and Bruce ware.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Let the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Alcome back to the country. Day three of the Southern
field Days at ye Murmur it's the beginning of the
regional field day season. Gee. I had to crowbar this
next man away from the Prime Minister, Bryce Mackenzie, co
founder of Groundswong. You were chewing. Is there a big time?
Did he convince you that he's not going to tax water?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well? I think he's not going to Jamie.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
He assures me of that, but as I said to him,
it leaves the door open for another government to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
If he's not going to do it, well done.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
But then maybe if he wants an assurance it's never
going to happen, he needs to change the wording in
the Act so that it shows that. And you know,
I'll let the listeners be the judge. But I have
got the Act here and it's clawsed three one three one.
The Governor General may by.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Order and I'm not going to read all that. You'll
kill or.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Jamie. They want to know that.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
They want to go to the rugby for the time.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You're not reading all that, Sorry, Bryce, it's my show.
Give me the Coles notes.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Well, it leaves the opening that it can be taxed.
The opening is there that water can be taxed as
it can all other resources, and that's what it states.
So they and he assures me that it's not going
to happen, but they shouldn't. We shouldn't be even having
the discussion because it shouldn't be there.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's good that it's good that you and Federated Farmers
because I think to be fair, it was, to be fair,
it was Mark Cooper, wasn't it that was Federated Farmers
who first raised this issue.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, it definitely was.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
We've raised the issue about significant natural areas and the
sites and areas are recommitent.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
To Mali and those sort of things. But yes, we
hadn't got the water one, so that is quite all right.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, but so ground swell Federated Farmers. I know talking
to both of these other organizations at National Lambday Barbecue
on Wednesday. Beef and Lamb are both on the case
as well. Surely the submission process is going to tidy
all this up.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Look, we would definitely hope so.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
And as a Prime Minister has just said, there's four processes,
so hopefully by the end of the fourth process when
it goes to government to be brought in, this is
all gone, or at least it's clearly worded so that
no other government can actually use that start tacks and
water used.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So what cars will ground Swell have to bark at
after that price?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Jamie, you should have elaborate on that. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I guess there's always going to be something going fast
that needs looked at.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Jay, farmers never happier, hey, when you're not being a
semi political figure with Groundswell. You are a west of Targo,
a dairy farmer. And I hadn't been down south because
I'm the south of a well. I hadn't been down
south since before Christmas, and it was starting to look
a wee bit dry before Christmas. But I must say
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driving down through South Otago, West Otago here and to
eastern Southland, the country's looking great.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
It's been a fantastic season, and especially as we know
that thunder plumps can be very localized. Yeah, and we
were fortunate that we got one in the west of
Taga Valley that a lot of people missed out on
and that just kept us going the whole time. Jamie,
So the country is looking really good, really Boyant prices
are good.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think there'll be great field days now.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You've been a farmer for a long time, all your
adult life. Have you ever known And Bruce Ware might
come over and just listen to this question, because we
had to ask him. He's a wee bit younger than
you and I, but have you ever known the planets
to be in such alignment all at one time? Heaven
help us? Even strong walls doing a strong wall indicator
up forty seven cents yesterday at the christ Church sale.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, isn't that quite incredible? I know it's not normally
like that.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
And most farmers would always have said to you, you
need three options, lamb, beef, and woll because it won't
all be at the top at the same time.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Maybe they're not all at the top, but they all
are doing very very well.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, Bryce, Look, thank you very much for your time,
and you owe me. You owe me your beer because
I got I just got you five or ten minutes
in the air of the Prime Minister. Do you think
do you think that'll keep Groundswell off my case?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, he's hoping it'll keep it off. We'll keep off
his case.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, mate. Bryce Mackenzie co founder of Groundswell along with
Laurie Patterson. Laurie will be here. Is he Bryce somewhere? No,
he's not here today. Hey, Bruce Ware is the GM
of Country Banking for Rabobank, which means you're the two icee,
aren't you, Bruce. Well, sometimes you don't get paid quite
as much as Todd charteris, but you're well paid. Oh okay, yeah,
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he's talking to that one there. I just got a
text through from an old maide of mine, Graham Smith.
Do you remember him?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I do. Ask Bruce Ware if he was fullback for
the Mighty Otago under sixteens in about nineteen eighty, big
solid fallback from Manetoto. I think was that you?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 10 (14:09):
And I've had this question before, but those have seen
me play. I've got two left feet on fairly intrans
in the forts.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, well I was old Smithy. I don't think he
ever got his head out of the ruck either. Monjou.
He was sort of a manchild at sixteen. That must
have been how he made the team. Anyhow, Okay, so
today and I brought you in just to hear what
Bryce had to say about that. I'm talking about planets
and alignments. A few banks would just stop ripping us
off with your interest rates, brute, we would be living
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in El Dorado.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
No, we actually haven't seen those planets aligned before, and
I think that's really played into the vibe of the
last few days.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And our farmers are really positive.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
There's a lot to be positive about, but also interesting
the very leveled about that positivity as well.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, so when we're looking at the interest rates, and
that was in jest, of course, because they have come down,
they've come down a long way of the high when
the ocr was five points something percent. It's now down
to what two and a half or too far, But
we are effectively at the bottom of the cycle, aren't we.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's up from here, well, you'd assume, so, yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
So what is And I know you won't directly answer
this question, but if you're a farmer, you're a rabobank client,
for instance, are you telling them to lock and now.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
We're having a conversation around the appetite for risk. So
it's sort of just lining it up with their the
risk profile, whether they want to stay short or long,
what's what's on horizon, whether it's succession planning, climate resilience planning,
just all those sort of topic.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And I guess the supplies to anyone with the mortgage,
whether you're a homeowner or a business owner or whatever.
But you can still get some pretty attractive action. Sure,
six to twelve months.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Absolutely there's a really attractive buying at that level. But
again it all depends on your business strategy, what the future.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I had a mate of mine who locked in a
long term borrowing deal at under five percent for five years.
That would be pretty smart, wouldn't it. I don't even
know whether you can get that anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'd say that's good business. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hey, And just briefly to finish on you mentioned the
succession workshops were down here in Southland, just outside of
Gore and thirty odd years ago when I first started
out on radio, one of my monitor dairy farmers was
a guy by the name of Lawrence Field who were
along with his wife Marcella with a I think the
nineteen ninety five New Zealand Sheer Milkers of the year.
(16:36):
Now Lawrence has gone on to great heights as a
farm accountant and advisor. But he's running your succession workshops.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah he is, and he does a fantastic job.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
And like I say, you know, the conversations I've had
the last few days here at Waymomo, I think our
succession workshops are going to be well subscribed.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Succession's tough though, because you're dealing with telephone book numbers
in terms of you know, getting the next generation in.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
Yeah, it is, and that's why you need good skill
set around that table. But tell you what, you know,
the vibe, the excitement in the industry now is certainly
making those conversations a lot easier.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Okay, A bruce Ware, thank you very much for hosting
us in the Rabobank tent. You've got the you're big
supporters of National Lamb Day which is on on Sunday, right,
but we had the barbecue on Wednesday in Wellington and
if you're listening and coming to Southern Field Days, you
need to get your button too Rabobank here because you've
got the Lamb lollipops absolutely and the outstand Oh brilliant.
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I love it. There we go Bruce Ware from Rabobank
GM of Country Banking. We'll take a break on the
other side of it because we're an equal opportunity radio
show that'll get a bite from a Vanessa Winning from MPI.
She's worn many hats and agri business over the years.
A and z former Chief Executive of Irrigation New Zealand.
(17:55):
We will chat to Vanessa. We've got Rowena Duncan running
around where a FMG hat. They are doing the running
of the walls or the lambs here today at about
twelve thirty, will try and catch up with her. Also
Simon Beamish from Hawks Bay Hamish Mackay in the Manor
or two and we've got come and talk to me
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nicely if you're listening to this, because I've got a
box of Emerson's mackaysa and a gift pack and a
gift caller bag to give away to someone here today
at Field Days because Emerson's great supporters of us here
at the country talking about National Lamb Day. They're supporting
National Lamb Day with the kick ass Lamberger matched to
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the day Tripper, Low Carb Hazy IPA. It's really popular
at the moment and Greg Menzi's the marketing guy, says,
we just love the idea of promoting lamb. After the break,
Vanessa winning few and fishes in the dark Kisspang on
twelve thirty. The country's been all over the country this week.
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Wednesday it was National Lamb Barbecue Day at Parliament Lawns.
Someone I caught up with there and she's been an
agri business as long, well not as long as me,
because she's not as old as me. Vanessa Winning who
these days is with MPI, But Vanessa, I think I
first came across you when you were with a n
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Z and you were a great supporter of the country.
And I remember running a quiz and this is one
of your finest finance moments at the Zander McDonald Awards
or Shane mcmanaway's Summit to Master It and many years ago,
and it was to find the brightest person in the room,
and you won it.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Well, I think, as you might recall, you started off
with the brightest man in the room, keep your brightest
man in the room until we got down to about
the last four and then you had to change it
to brightest person.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, we're an inclusive show.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
That's why I thought you I think, am I the
only woman I'm today?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
No, but we're about to hear a bit about from
Michelle about how she spilt coffee over my new new ice.
Suzi Rowena is out there for the running of the Lambs.
But look, I picked people on Merit not gender excellent,
and that's how you haven't made that. You're not a
token woman on the show today.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You are here on Merit.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
So from a and zed to irrigation New Zealand and
a couple of other things in between. These days, MPI
did Ray Smith head, don't you.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Yeah, I've got the best job I think at MPI.
So I run the on farm Support team, so we've
got people throughout the country looking after and supporting farmers,
and we also do all of the recovery work, so
you know, disasters hit and we get in there and
help and support farmers get back up and running. So
really good job. And I think we were just talking
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earlier about what we're here for today, and we've got
the Science for Farmer's program at Field Days.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Right Now I didn't even want to talk about that
because that sounded a bit boring. I wanted to talk
about the whole that's in Auckland and how you put
a wee like a mini drone or a camera on
them and they fly back to the hornet's nest and
then you're new. But I'll give you a moment on
science for farmers because it'll be more than my life's
worth if I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You know how your bread's bout it? Is that what
you're suggesting?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Corectly? Okay the fight chicken one?
Speaker 11 (21:17):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well my last name is winning.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So yeah, okay, Science for Farmers for farmers.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
So it's a joined out program with lac palmu, BSI
agg admissions, egg zero, durings in and messy. So it's
bringing science out to farmers. So we've got activity that
we're doing that we're supporting. It goes around the regions,
across all of the regional events, so it's really cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
That's Ray Smith down here. I know he's not here.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Today, but he's normally at all of these sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Okay, let's do the exciting bit about new king the hornets.
This is cool technology isn't It.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Is amazing technology and who ever thought of it and
put it together as an incredible person and who ever
signed off, you know, making sure that that's going to
happen is even better. So I think that's probably one
that you want to talk to Ray about.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But we have had some real success with SATED.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What do you put on the back? You find a
hornet and then you put.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
What on it?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, it's an rfd ID tag. Essentially, you've got to
make sure that the hornet's big enough to take it
because it has to carry it back to the nest.
But you know, it's incredible technology, and it's amazing what
we do in New Zealand and our biosecurity with the
incredible people that we've got up in Auckland running this stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, I think that the likes of m bovus and
you know, MPI got a wee bit of grief to
start with, but we're the only country in the world
that looks like eliminating M bovas. So I say well
done to all the team at MPI, including you.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
No, the biosecurity work that gets done in New Zealand
is amazing and we have some awesome people, including Stuart Anderson,
and you know, definitely talk to Ray about this because
I just think we don't get necessarily all the credit
that we acting for all the work that goes on.
But it's also the people on the ground. You'd be
surprised how many people dobbin hornets like there's an I
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eight hundred number and they're looking in the in their
gardens as.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You've got nothing better to do on your weekend.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Well, you know, it's been exciting to see a little
hornet go back to its nest with these little tags
on it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
To be Vanessa got to go lovely to chat to you. Michelle.
Michelle Watts here the producer of the Country. Now, Michelle,
this is one of your first ever excursions. Now get
that closer to your mouth, because we don't normally let
you out of the office. Reason for that probably, yeah,
there is good reason. Because I'm driving now as our
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Speaker 12 (23:48):
Slight exaggeration there, Jamie, I didn't quite cover two whole
seats and coffee.
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But it has been christened yes, and apparently I'm walking
home now. So your predecessor, Rouena Dunkin's here. I thought
I thought you would. Haven't they done it? Well, I'll
get a report from her on Rural News. So I
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We'll take a break here on the country. On the
other side of it, we're going to do rural news,
I think, which is Rowena's report on the running of
the Lambs. Is it the Lambs or sheep Lambs Lambs?
And we'll also Mark Kelly, who's producing the show out
of our Auckland studios with the latest in sport. Before
the end of the hour, Simon b Miss and Hawks
Bay Hamish Mackay in fielding. It is twenty one from one.
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She was missing in action to cover the running of
the Lambs and it's been and gone. Let's throw to
Rowena Duncan with the latest and rural news about running
of the Lambs, the countries.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
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Speaker 12 (26:10):
Thanks so much for that, Jamie. Yeah, you messed an
absolute treat. My friend. Around two hundred and fifty black
face lambs. Camaron Grant has been training them, I'm told,
but they only made.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
The decision to do this on Monday.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Grant, Cameron Grant, I even trained himself alone the lambs, thank.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Goodness for him.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
The dog trialing guys were there, so there were a
lot of dogs, a lot of people. The public got
to hold scrum. Oh my gosh, the joy on the
kid's faces. I can see them coming. No, that was
actually them going in the wrong direction, but then they
came the right way. We had to hold them up
for five minutes at the start because of course you
were holding up the Prime Minister and Sir David fag
and Jamie. They had a very important interview with you.
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Then they made it to the lambs and actually it
went really really well. So it's nice to have things
like this, and especially one of them was wearing the
same T shirt as me, Jamie, my National Lamb Day
T shirt. They had one of them on the Lambs
and of course I now work for MG shameless plug
proud sponsor along with Rabobank, where we are as supporters
of National Lamb Day this Sunday.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Absolutely all right, Rowena, we had better actual sports, so
you're you're going to know who's throwing to sport. It's
my show, my show.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Here's Mark Cally with Sports News. That was your real news.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Sports on the country with AFCO one hundred percent we
owned and trusted.
Speaker 13 (27:25):
That's rare.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
Team heavy rain and the course chains have done little
to dampened spirits of the leading coast to coast competitors.
Google Shepherd is the leading male, fifteen minutes clear of
his nearest rival, while Pipa Kevinar has a seven minute advantage.
In the women's field. Organizers had to pivot from the
traditional goat pass run due to flood risks and a
blow to Premier League Football leaders Arsenal after Bretford came
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back to draw one all at home to the Gunners.
That means the gap to the second place Manchester City
stands at just four points with twelve rounds remaining.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Back to you, Jamie, Yeah, well, Mark, I know you're
a big sport fan. You make a living talking about it.
Can Manchester City and Earling Harlan catch them?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I think so?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Yes, Yeah, Gunners are pretty good at choking away title,
so yeah, I'm more for it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Okay, there we go, Mark Kelly doing a great job
paneling the show out of our Auckland studios. We're kind
of finishing with a bit of a sporting bent. Really,
we're going to head off site from the Southern field
days here at Waimumo, just outside of going to head
to Hawks Bay. Simon Beamish, father of Jordie Beamish, Simon
famous in his own right for winning the Balanced Farm
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Environment Awards, and then Hamish McKay, who loves nothing more
than spending Friday mornings having a cup of tea and
a scan and a bit of a yarn at the
Fielding Saleyard's one of my favorite little towns in New Zealand. Fielding.
Any town with the clock tower and sale yards right
in the middle of town is a great town. We'll
be back on the other side of it with Simon Beamish.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Here we fazy lay a bees on a day name
that's a Barrases.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Welcome back to the country. Fourteen away from one we're
heading off site. We're at the Southern Field days at
the bottom of the country up to Hawks Bay, Simon Beamish, Simon,
before we talk about your son Jordie and the Hallberg's
coming up. I think on Monday evening, are you guys
going to get a bit wet this weekend?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, looks like we're in line for more rain, hopefully
not too much. We were pretty appreciative a couple of
weeks back where most places got maybe one hundred hundred
and fifty mills and that was that was pretty nice.
But no, we always hold our breath on the East coast.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Well, my old mate Steve, when Harris said you were
almost were you were desperate before Christmas and the season
has turned around and I know that some people are
further up the east coast of the North Island didn't
want what you got. But it's been a season savior
savior for you guys. You're a sheep and beef farmer.
Have you ever known better time? Simon?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No, I think not in mine roomy. I'm not sure
whether it would be in my father's memory either. Probably
back in the in the wool boom Korean wartimes maybe,
but no, everything's aligned, and we've got grass. I don't
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think the North Island would have had this much grass
cover east west north south ever before. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
That is amazing now. And do you reckon with all
that grass, you can grow a lamb out to fifteen
hundred dollars, like Mark Warrenoff. I don't know what Mark'd
smoking at Hawk's Bay, but are you smoking the same stuff?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
From the I stand on up under the rangers. I
don't quite see fifteen hundred dollars in front of us,
but we're very happy to take north of two hundred,
in fact, two hundred and fifty dollars last week. So
we think that's pretty good. And there is a nervousness
around the price. I mean we're thinking to ourselves, too
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good to be true, and that usually is too good
to be true. But no, we're very grateful for being
in this space.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, those numbers yesterday from the Meat Industry Association sheep meat,
which is largely made up of lamb. Obviously there's a
bit of mutton thrown in there, up thirty one percent
in value to four point seven billion dollars. It's absolutely fantastic.
You've also had success Simon, if you don't mind me
saying so, not only in the ballot Farm Environment Awards,
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but also on the breeding steaks. You are the farmer,
the farmer, you're a farmer and the father of Jordy Beamish.
Now what is Jordy going to be running and in
the Commonwealth Games?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, first up he will be focused on the steeple
chase and I believe that's either day one or day
two of the track and field events. And then three
days later which makes it all possible, are the heats
for they're not running the fifteen hundred this year, they're
run choosing to run a mile in Glasgow. So that's
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possible to take on both those events and it would
be a very competitive Kiwi field, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Now? Can we have more than two entrants in the race,
because we've obviously got two other blokes who are pretty
keen to run that mile in Glasgow as well, Sam
Tanner and young Sam Ruth the new sensation. Are we
allowed to have three runners in the mile if they
all qualify?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh well I should have done my home.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
We've gone that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I can't actually say. I imagine if you were Scottish.
The ards would be definitely yes. But three kiwis, I'm
not sure whether that's going to be allowed or not.
I'll look that up after this.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Okay, Simon, you did send me an email the other
day because you wanted to get a shameless plug in
because the Halbergs are coming up on Monday evening.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yep, Monday night.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, Monday night. I'm always looking forward to the Halbergs.
But there is the favorite sporting moment or best sporting
moment of twenty twenty five, and I'm with you when
Jordy won and a Michelle's nighting ahead because she's a runner.
When Jordy won that steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships
three thousand meters steeplechase, that was it was a great
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moment because in some ways it was unexpected. He beat
a bloke who hadn't been beaten for years.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
That's right. And is that the moment or was the
moment a couple of days before when he took a
tumble over the fourth or fifth the last barrier and
so nearly got his face and planted on forever. Anyway,
the combination was ended up with a gold medal, and
(33:55):
I guess that's what we'll remember. So it was a
great sporting moment. We were thrilled to be there and
participating in it.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No doubt you'll be heading to Glasgow to watch them
there as well. Hey Simon Beamish, I hope you get
some rain, but not too much in Hawk's Bay. We
need to take a break. It is nine away from one.
We're going to wrap it. We're kind of continuing with
the farming sporting theme. It's fillin host here on the country,
Hamish cousin, Hamish A mackay. We're going to have a
look at tonight's super rugby opener and Duneda. Michelle and
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I have to pack up the kit and get up
the road real quick because Paul Allison will be using
this broadcast here later this evening to call the Highlanders
up against the Crusaders. Hamish McKay to wrap the country,
and just before I do, if you're heading along to
the footy like I am, tonight a calling to Emerson's.
I don't know if they've got their National Lamb Day
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burger on just yet, but try one of those day
trip a low carb hazy IPAs because on Sunday anyhow,
I know you can match that with a Lamberger. For
National Lamb Day, Hamish McKay to wrap the country. Events
like this week's Southern Field Days are a great reminder
that staying farm strong can be as simple as getting
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off farm for a few hours enjoy your day out
with friends and neighbors. There's a ton of events like
these happening in rural communities around the country and the
weeks ahead as we head into the regional field Days,
so make sure you get along and reachcharge your battery
for free resources on how to live well and farm well,
head to the Farmstrong website and lock in what works
for you. Here's Hamish mckaye with Sport.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
McKay on Sport with farm Lands protect yours from nasties this.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Summer radio cousin Hamoush. Who are you got for the
Super Rugby opener tonight?
Speaker 13 (35:43):
Oh gee, look, you know what I've done with this.
I get so wound up about picking results, but I
think it'll be one of the South Island teams. But no,
I'm going to go for the I'm going to go
for the Highlanders, right So you know.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
I just.
Speaker 13 (35:58):
I've picked out a few individual Your boy, the Southland hooker.
I like him Taylor, isn't it Jack Taylor?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
And I'll tell you what homous. Jack Taylor was born
and bred literally next door to where we are right now.
He's a wye momou boy. Yep, yeah, look I tell
you what. So so there you go.
Speaker 13 (36:16):
What a coincident. He was a guy and I a
little bit of commentary for the MPC last I just
like the cut of his jib and just looking through
teams of guys i'd like to see, he's one i'd
like to see.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Go on with it.
Speaker 13 (36:27):
These are guys i'd like to see take the ball
by the horns in Super Rugby, Leo Willie at number
eight because I think he's the best in the country.
So too too obviously at the Blues has got a
big point to prove before he's off Love Ruben Love
at the Hurricanes. And there's two I've nailed at the Chiefs,
which is Parker on the blind side and I hope
Jacob gets a bit of time and the seen Jersey
because I think he's very good. But no, I'm more
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excited than I thought of. It would be about the
footy and.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Gee has it rolled around well?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
We haven't only got that tonight. Tomorrow night, we've got
Chiefs Blues. That's going to be interesting. Chiefs and Crusaders.
As much Zima Highlander's fan, they still look the strongest sides.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
You know, if you're looking at if you're looking at
it like a you know, a tennis straw and boom
boom boom through to the final. I think you're right.
I don't think there's too much to scare. This is
a that cheese side. There's not many too many chinks
in their armor. They are a good looking side right
across the board, and they've got good depths, so yeah, yeah,
look at I think that they'll get up over the
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Blues in that first one. But you know, I think
that mister Cotta will have those Blues on fire for
this season, and given that a couple of good guys
are leaving. But gee, I mean, I don't know how
you have you have you had time for Winter Olympics?
Have you been watching any of that cousin?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Well, I've been watching Zoey Sadowski, so yeah, but I'm
out of time here today, Hamish, And we've still got
the world that the Cricket tea twenty World Champs as well,
so so much going on. Thank you so much for
some of your time. It's always a bit of a
rush when we're doing an ob like this, but that
raps us. We've got to get the broadcast scare back
to Dunedin as you can hear Paul Allison and Paul
(38:00):
Miller on commentary tonight on gold Sport. That wraps us
from day three of Waimumu and God's Own Farming Province Southland.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
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