February 26, 2026 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Andrew Hoggard, Grant McCallum, Jen Corkran, Stu Wyeth, and Barry Soper.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch you the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay thanks to a Suzu get demo
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Do you fill me up? But just to let me
down and let me around? And then where's the moments?
Never the way you say you? But I love this steal, I.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Mean you anyone done and you know on the store
to fill me up.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Get a New Zealand. I'm Jamie McKay. Welcome to the Country,
brought to you by Farmlands and I Suzu. Great song
from a great movie. There's something about Mary. I'm going
to build someone up and then I'm going to let
a whole lot of people down, because today we're announcing
the winner of our Great Southern Escape courtesy of our
friends at Emerson's. I love Emerson's goes without saying and
(01:17):
the Grand Casino here in Dunedin will tell you more
about that a bit later. Going to kick the show
off with Friday's weather guy from Earth Sciences, New Zealand.
Second to last day of summer. What's coming for us?
I see there's some wee yellow patches. They're not like
pe patches. The yellow patches are turning up on the
drought Index mat Chris Brandolino to kick off the show.
(01:40):
Today's Farmer Politician Panel Grant McCullum, MP for Northland and
Andrew Hoggard. It's getting a wee bit dry in the
Manure two region there at the at day two of
the Northland Field Days, Jen Corchran from Rabobank, Haymish Mackay
MacKaye on sport from the fielding stocks oiliards, or at
least I assume he's there. He seems to spend every
(02:00):
Friday morning there great town. I love towns with clocked
hous and stock sale yards right in the middle of them.
Sir Haymosh, if you're listening, get back to me. Give
me some topics from Makai on sport and Barry Soper
the week in politics as I say, the winner of
our Grand Casino Emerson's promo the Great Escape here in
(02:21):
Dunedin and Jane ferguson a wandering and update the latest
and rural news, and I'll do sports news for you.
And I update the New Zealand Golf Open Day two
at Melbrook.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Where anyone doAnd.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
He is my favorite weather man on the country. On
a Friday. That's why he's kicking off the show today,
Chris Brandolino, and several other days of the week as well.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I might add, thank you, Jammie. I think I appreciate
that because a little worried. There's a lot of qualifiers there.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well well, well let's just see how you go today
before I declare you the greatest weather the man of
all time. I am looking. You're with Earth Sciences New Zealand.
By the way, Chris Brandelina, I am looking at my
Friday Bible, then New Zealand Drought Index map and I
look for wee bits of yellow and it gets really dry,
it goes red, and because of all the rain we've
had around the country, hasn't really been an issue since Christmas.
(03:29):
But I'm seeing yellow creeping into Northland where the field
days are on the manor Or two region Inland Otago.
I guess if we're going to be dry, Chris, second
to last day of summer is not unexpected, No.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's not. I guess some of the placement to be
fair across the Far North and Northland is a bit unusual,
especially we had a Lionnina during the summer. But it
goes to show you we know the average outcome, but
no Linina or el Nina for that matter, is average.
There are always sort of variances. I think the theme
of heavy rainfall events did pan out. We saw a
(04:03):
couple of them over the summer season. Of course, the
one in kind of later in January than the one
about you know, ten days two weeks ago, both sort
of favoring the eastern part of the North Island, so
that did sort of fit, you know, I guess was
on brand for a lat Ninia summer, but that dryness
in Northland a bit off brand, and it is gonna
be dry, Jamie. I think over the next sort of
(04:24):
ten days or so, the rainfall that occurs over months
of the country is gonna be spotty. I do think
a bit of rain will fall over the weekend over
at Hawk's base on off adye Gisban, also across sayvy
Auckland region, maybe parts of those areas that are drying
North Wld and get a bit of rain and a
(04:44):
bit of rain over towards say Canterbury, Mid and Northern
Canterbury a bit of rain over the next few days.
But with that rain, the reason we're gonna get the rain, Jammy,
there's a puff of chili air coming. Holy smokes, it
could be some early season frosts for parts of the
South Island early next week.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Well that isn't but early first few days of autumn
or fall as you Americans like to call it, Chris,
and the and the if words already being mentioned, Monnge.
You know you talk about dry over the next few weeks,
Well that that is actually going to be welcome to
buy a lot of people, especially the arable and cropping farmers,
as they try and dry out crops and get them harvested.
(05:24):
And then of course we're still having to get well
and truly into the picking season for the likes of
the apples, well and truly underway. But key fru early
thanks coming off, Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yep, yep. Look, and I think I think this, this
dryness we're going to see is nicely timed, as you
really nicely point out there, Jamie. But we're gonna have
to speak out of two sides of our mouth here.
So on the one side, we talked about the dryness,
the lack of like you know, widespread widespread keyword there,
substantial range, So that I'm using my words carefully over
(05:55):
the next day seven to ten days. However, as you
look farther afield and will be issuing our autumn outlook
on Monday. But since look, since you're a friend of
the family, you know where the key is under the matt,
we're gonna let you in the front door and give
you a bit of insight as to what we're expecting
in autumn. So for the month of March, we're gonna
have to still watch for these big rainfall events. There's
(06:16):
gonna be two opportunities, we think, well, two distinct opportunities
for big rainfall events stemming from the north. One could
be as early as say, maybe next sort of the tenth,
maybe the eleventh to twelfth for the North Island. That'll
be something we'll have to watch. That's a bit iffy. However,
(06:37):
I think perhaps a more profound opportunity for northerly friend
which our northerly friends caused the trouble. You know this right,
some tropical moisture. Tropical moisture, that's when we get into trouble.
It's gonna be perhaps the last week to ten days
of March into early April. That is the sort of
window we're going to have to watch for any heavy
(06:57):
rainfall events stemming from the north. Things are lining up
from that to happens. So in between or outside of
those opportunities, Jamie, that's where the dryness is really good.
So these extended dry periods where not a lot of substantial,
widespread rain happens and things could flare up, or we
get a whole bunch of rain out once, which we
don't want, and that could persist into early April. So
(07:18):
and what the cool weather we talked about. We'll be here,
well actually downright Chile for a few days next week
and it is going to warm up. We're gonna see
some unusual warmth. That looks like as we get toward
this time next week and beyond, could be an extended
period of unusual warmth for much of the country, especially
the North Island, from about this time next week and beyond.
(07:40):
So something looked forward to. If you're a fan of
the warm weather, that cold step next week not gonna
last forever.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why this man is
my favorite with a man on the country on a Friday,
I say you.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Chris, ah right, buddy, take care.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Thanks Chris. It is quarter past twelve. Bang on, you're
with the country. I'm looking at the leaderboard. I think
this is updated at the New Zealand Golf Open at Milbrook.
Couple of kiwis leading the charge yep Daniel Hillier ten
under through eight in the second round and the amateur
Yuki Mia. I think I'm assuming that's how you pronounce
(08:17):
his name. He's nine under and second place. So we've
got two kiwis at the top of the leaderboard. We'll
update that in sport. But up next it's the Farmer Panel,
The Farmer Politician Panel from day two of the Northland
Field Days, Grant McCallum Andrew Hoggard. Next take Kevin Moore,
(08:48):
Welcome back to the country. Nineteen after twelve. All sorts
of noise going on in the background. Day two of
the Northland Field Days. Today's Farmer Politician Panel, the local
end MP Grant McCullum and Andrew Hoggard, Minister of Biosecurity,
Associate agg Minister. No doubt you've drawn not the short straw,
(09:09):
the long straw because you get to go to brilliant
regional field days. Andrew Hoggard like.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Northland, Yeah, exactly, it's a bloody brilliant up here. Probably
a little bit too hot for my men or two tastes,
but I'll survive.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Now, are you two standing in the Act tent or
the National Party tent?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Grant McCollum, as you know, Hereny, we're eyeballing each other,
but actually needs the wholes of tent. Looking at the
Honda motorcycles or the Kawazakis and every of the house
going on around here. Now we're giving ourselves well let's
just say, politically aligned but not too close.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well, no, you've chosen neutral ground now, Andrew Haggard. I
did get a picture from Grant earlier this morning from
the Northland Field Days where he's got one of his
three thousand mobile phone screen cleaners on a table. Has
he given you one yet?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Not yet, not yet. I'll drop by and get one later,
screen of in each cleaning.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Now now, now, Jamie, I've got a bone to pick
with you on this. I understand your Prime Minister, and
you gave me roasting the other day and what.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Were and deserved? He couldn't believe, he couldn't believe that
you wouldn't front up with a bottle of wine for
free board. I'm saving on the nation money.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I seem to recall the boss of your household, namely Tenny,
your wife.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Was very happy with the spring Saver, thought it was
a great gift.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Sorry, Well I'm not worried about you. You weren't the
one that cooked the meal. Sorry, but Kenny's the boss
of your place. Well I'm happy she's happy.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We weren't expecting you for a meal. You didn't get
the hunt. Now now okay, Well let's I'll tell you
something that's a real issue in your neck of the
woods ground Northland, and the Prince of the province has
been on about this as well. Another great Northland MP
these wild dogs.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, look the whole that dog issue. That a pouring
attack that happened just up the roads from here. Actually,
Kaihu is just an absolute shocker, a real tragedy, and
it's really galvanized the leaders of the region and actually
ministers and so forth to take a real look at this.
We need to have another look at the I think
(11:21):
the Dog Control Act, and then we've got to make
sure the councils actually do go about enforcing the rules
and put the resource in But Ultimately, owners need to
take responsibility for their dogs and they've got to be
held to account. So we're working on It's just an
absolute tragedy and we need to get on top of
this and quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Andrew, you would like to address the RMA reforms. Now
we've heard from ground Swell Dairy and z FED Pharmacies,
the other one Beef and LAMB New zealand all the
advocacy groups. They're all saying the intense could but what's
on ended up on the bill or the draft isn't acceptable.
What are you going to do about it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Well, of actually here already had meetings with fed STI
there and deeferently am on this and they've given lots
of goodgestins around wording changes that are needed to make
sure that that intent is actually recognized with the legislation.
So look that we are listening and we will be
paying attention and making sure that we get this right
(12:17):
because you know, we're all agreed on what the intent
is we want. We're just going to make sure we
get that wording right so there can be no misinterpretation
anytime in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
The Prime Minister said, read my lip. Snow water tags yeah,
water tax for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Now absolutely, I'm just reinforced. On Monday nine o'clock, I
think it is. We're starting our first submissions on this.
I saw rehearing the submission I saw on that Select Committee,
and that's what this whole process is about. A legislat
piece of legislation. This bik is never going to be
perfect first up, so that's why we engage with the
submission process. I'm looking forward to working through it and
then they're working with the ministers to come up with
(12:55):
a piece of legislation that's going to achieve what we
need to achieve in both the economic animio space.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You're both cowcockies when you're not being politicians, more profitable
being a cowcocky than a politician these days. The dairy
and z vote is up, the levy payer vote. Have
you both voted for both voted years.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I'm Anny.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Go Ga Andrew, Yeah, yeah, I'm still I've got to
get sit down at home for a five minutes set
to get online to do that, but I will be
definitely voting and making sure that my vote is counted
because you know, I certainly see the value levy industry.
Good bodies play in terms of not only on farm stuff,
(13:37):
but also in terms of that science that's so vital
for good advocacy.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Andrew, you also want to touch on I'm just assuming
Grant will be voting yes for the dairy and z
Levy vote, because Grant, I'm not accusing you of being
a yes man, but you know, I like carry on. Well,
I'm trying to get my own back. We had a
guy called Wealt Cavendish on the show yesterday. He's one
(14:02):
of those authors of the Open Letter on welfare standards
and trade access and when it comes to especially the
pork industry, Andrew Haggard is in your wheelhouse by security
that they've got a really good point.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Well, I mean, the key thing you've got to think
about here, though, is we export ninety five percent of
our dairy, ninety percent of our v and so we're
going to be very careful about setting bad precedents that
other countries could use against us in that regard. And
so you know, I do worry about, you know, sort
(14:39):
of trying to block out other countries' imports of various
things because that could backfar against us. The previous government,
the Sleek Committee looked at this primary production see committee
looked at this and said, you know, it would be
too risky with our trade agreements and all the rest
of it. And you know, I just think there's a
real risk in the way the world is at the moment.
There's not a lot of follow in rules based auto
(15:01):
going on. It's like who's got the bigger carrier, stroke
group decides trade put me so you know, seem you
want to play very carefully.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And okay, very quickly to finish on because there's a
lot of noise in the background. On day two of
the Northland field days, Grant, I assume that's fans coming
up to get a mobile phone screen cleaner from you.
Are they queuing up for them?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Absolutely? Mate, there's a great values of one of the
best promotional.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Gifts you can give.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
They get all my contact details on there so they
can get in touch with the Open MP and Northland
if they need you, and they can clean your screens.
They can see the number of doll at the same time.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There you go and they could be collectors items. If
you're to start a one term wonder and I don't know,
Shane Jones, Win's Northland or something that's.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Enough from you you can go back to go back
to the golf course and try and hit the ball
onto the green.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
For a j Wow, that's it's a last course. It's
a bit like trying to get a bottle of wine
out of you. Hey, what is the vibe like? Just
what is the vibe like? Day two boys, very quickly,
I've got really got second.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Seen a great great turn out here, good feel the
farming community and pretty good heart. They had a great
season to go with the prices. Apart from a few
people that got tenant at Fonger with the flooding of
most people are doing good, having good year.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Okay, guys, got to go there we go the Farmer Panel.
Grant McCullum, Local Northland MP. It's only joking about Shane
Jones beating him in Northland under Shane's even standing. And
Andrew Hoggard at List MP, Minister of Biosecurity. Up next,
Jen Corkran from Rabobank.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ten all the time?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Jen Corkran is Rabobank Senior Animal proteins Analysts. No one
bar no one in that bank has a short title.
But anyhow, Jen, you've worked hard to get it. How
I want to talk to you today about Rabobank's latest
Q one Global Beef quarterly report, and we'll talk a
little bit about lamb at the end, but beef just
seems to go onward and upwards. Is there no end
(17:02):
in sight for these record prices?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Jen, Good afternoon, Jamie. Yes, it's looking strong for beef.
And the story continues right the song well sung for
the last couple of years now. So yep, the global
beef quarter is out and this is basically all the
rubber research analysts within the beef space globally putting together
our forecasts for the year ahead and looking at things.
(17:27):
You know, we are expecting a similar theme to the
last year or two in terms of reasonably firm prices
and the same exact themes that we've been talking about
a lot, which is the US is still very short
of beefl so we expect those import demands to remain strong.
But also interestingly, we've been a feature artical on China's
new kind of safeguard quota limits of their importing countries,
(17:50):
so that potentially might shift some trade flows as the
year progressive, and we might see a little bit of
volatility around that, but that might or might not be
necessarily a bad thing for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Okay. In this report twenty twenty five, the calendar year,
New Zealand marked a production low, with the country's smallest
annual beef output since twenty seventeen. Now, I know we're
wearing some more dairy beef numbers, so that is going
to increase numbers available, But ditto around many countries in
the world. With beef being worth so much, why aren't
(18:26):
people fast tracking their breeding programs.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah, it's a really good point, Jamie, And I think,
you know, we've got a structural decline globally at the
moment in the number of cattle that are around. And
the question is where are these animals coming from? And
I think if we look, for example, to the United States,
we've got more numbers coming in from dairy, from the
dairy side, so beef seamen, good beef seven being used
(18:50):
across these sort of big framed dairy cows to produce
these cars. And we're seeing some changes perhaps in that.
But I also do see, you know, in New Zealand
and real confidence in beef markets of the next year
or two is sort of leading to a bit of
a resurgence back in terms of numbers on farm. So
we'll see how that plays out. Because our wonderful beef
breed is out on the hills and stuff that has
(19:11):
a great role to play here too. So the ball
sales I think come during will be an interesting watching point.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They will be hot. Imagine by buying a big black
angus ball, it'll cost you an arm and a leg
and then some more.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Well indeed, Jamie, but certainly not an investment in my view.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Let's have a look at lamb to finish on. Traditionally
the lamb market there's a premium before Christmas, then the
weight of the stock comes on the market, you know, January, February, March,
the schedule drops and then it picks up again at
the end of the season. We've defied gravity awe bit
this season, and I know there was a small drop
in the beef and lamb schedules I think last week
(19:49):
or the week before. But the processes are competing amongst
one another. There's lots of grass out there, margins are
being squeezed. Some of the processes are saying their business
is not sustained at these price levels.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Yeah, so we've got a real nuanced situation right. So
we've got grass almost from the top of the North
Island to the bottom of South Island, and we've got
lambs that are potentially, you know, have been purchased if
our trade lambs at a reasonably expensive price, and people
are putting weight on these animals to fatten them because
they've got feed, but also because it's quite expensive if
they're going to need to bring them back in. So
(20:24):
the lambs aren't flooding in by all accounts this year,
though we're reasonably steady in terms of numbers on last year,
but they're not flooding in by any account yet, Jamie
and I think we'll start to see numbers coming in
over the next few weeks and what normally happens at
that point is we see a little bit of softening
in that side of price, which we expect it will
be the case. It's really tricky to know exactly what's
(20:46):
going to happen, and of course challenging for processes who
want to keep their chains fall when animals aren't forthcoming.
So there is challenge in the industry Jamie from that
side of things, as I understand it, and I think
we'll just have to see how it plays out. But
you know, an interesting time and really tricky to compere
year on here because this time last year we also saw,
you know, prices will just continue to trickle up, and
(21:06):
that we didn't see that normal softening last year either,
So we can't really compere year on year to what
will happen. But certainly once that supply comes on, we
would expect a little bit of softening to come through.
But I am not in my view, I don't think
we're going to see prices fall off the face of
the cliff.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, and unlike the dairy industry, we're a majority of
the milk for the season is already in the vat.
It isn't the case in the lamb industry. We're not
even halfway with their season's kill or process. So I
should say you can't say kill anymore. It's like you
can't say fat lamb anymore. Jen, it's prime prime lamb.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
So we are we are, we're not even halfway right
so early days hopefully just above that seventeen mil head
in total, but or we're only just above sex by
all accounts at the moment, So lots the lamb still
out there, Jamie enjoying those lusher screen pastures around.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
His Zealand, Jen Corkoran. Great to have you on the country.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Great to check Amie.
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Speaker 4 (22:38):
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Speaker 5 (22:42):
Good mister mccaye.
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Speaker 7 (22:56):
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Oh, there's a few of us.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Most of us are farming and you'll probably know or
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about a kilometer down the road from their farms. So
they were all all quite.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Local here, Oh, Sir Brian Lahure, Sir Brian Leward.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
One of my favorite all blacks, along with Sir Colin
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I thought you were from Wellington. You probably figured out
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Well, I entered a competition a couple of weeks ago. Sir,
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Speaker 5 (24:55):
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Speaker 7 (25:46):
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Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, good on you, Stu. Thank you for everyone who
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(26:09):
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Speaker 9 (26:15):
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I am proud of.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That rugby team and Nightcaps in the nineteen eighties. Anyhow,
well done ste wythe I wonder if he's related to
the wife Sino. Sure he will be, They're all related. Anyhow,
Let's do rural news, shall we, because I've got to
update the golf as.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
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Speaker 4 (26:45):
I was just thinking the whyite signo Matt and Linley.
I'm sure they'll be. They'll all be related, no doubt.
I'll see them at the Zander McDonald Awards. Anyhow, what's
and rural news?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (26:54):
In rural News, Zesbrey has set a new target to
have at least eighty percent of New Zealand kiwifruit growers
shares in the company within the next decade. Strengthening grower
ownership has been a key focus, with Sesbury introducing its
Loyalty as Shares and Dividends as Shares schemes. Those programs
added three hundred and twenty seven new shareholders in twenty
(27:14):
twenty five and have lifted grower ownership from forty eight
percent to around sixty two percent. Zesbre shares are restricted
to growers, but they are not required to hold shares
in order to supply fruit.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And they've been a good investment too. Now I was going,
I'm going to cut you off from your rural fair
enough because I want to talk about the thrice cooked
chips from Emerson's. Now do you do you think are
they flash enough to make the degastation six course lunch? Now?
Speaker 9 (27:39):
No, I think they're fantastic. And also I'm really impressed
with how you can get thrice cooked ships out so quickly.
It's just like testament to your broadcusts.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
You.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I reckon they've cooked them. No, I'm t I thought
you meant, oh, you're talk about me. I'm top. I
think you talk about the chefs and Emerson's. I've probably
cooked them twice in advance and then once just to
finish them off. It's thrice thrice hence three times. There
you go. Jane Ferguson adding, adding to the show today
Sport on.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The country with AFCO invested in your farming success.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You do know the front end of a sheep from
a back end. Daniel Hillier leads the New Zealand Golf
Open by a stroke from another local player early in
the second round. Let me just check that. I think
there might have been the change. Let me just have
a look. Let me look. No, he doesn't lead by
a stroke. Now he is tied after he's through nine holes.
Yuki Mia is through five and they're both nine under.
(28:34):
But let me go back to this other story. Sorry
about this, folks, but I'm just trying to keep to
be updated. Hillia has the joint lead with the twenty
year old amateur Yuki Mia, who I mentioned after the
completion of a protracted first round this morning, approaching the
halfway mark. This story is old, so I'm just going
to dump it. But anyhow, there's two New Zealanders at
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the top of the leaderboard in the New Zealand Golf Open.
Black Caps coach Rob Walter has revealed he's failed to
coax Mitchell Satna to bat further up the order at
Crickets T twenty World Cup. His captain this week became
the first New Zealand to score a thousand runs and
take one hundred wickets and T twenty internationals. Walter says
(29:16):
Satner is underrated, understated and delivers when required. New Zealand
face England and the Super Eights overnight at Colombo. How
good is that going to be? Mitchell Satner? By the way,
Jane is like a scratch or a plus two golfer.
That guy is good at everything, but very understated. Hopefully
we can find him at the fielding stock sailyards. Hamish, MacKaye,
(29:40):
you're missing an action. I'm going to call you up.
You've got three minutes to get ready.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Mackay on sport with farm lands for clothing to keep
coold protected.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Wow, Mackay on sport. He's missing an action, Hamish, where
are you? Never mind? We've got Jane Ferguson on sport
please know?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Desperate times call for desperate measures. You're like my sisters,
how well? I love my sisters, but they vote for
the Greens and they hate sport.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I don't hate sport. I'm just like interested. No, no,
I'm just not interested in it. I like the old
sport documentary though.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Okay, no, that's fine. Go the all Blacks, yeah, well
go the Highlanders. Go the Highlanders, the chief chiefs that
I should do. The farm strong sign off the Chiefs
versus the Crusaders, that's happening in FMG Stadium and the
try on tomorrow night. That'll be the game, the game
of the of the weekend round and the poor old Crusaders.
(30:56):
Rob Penny listens to the show. He's none from two
to start the season. It's I think a wounded crusader
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great weekend. Do you like Did you like this movie?
Something about Mary?
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Oh, yes, yeah, I did enjoy that movie.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
How long ago was that?
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Now? Was that nice?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Late nineties? Two thousand? Cameron Diaz who was the lead.
Was it Adam Sandler or the other bloke? I always
get them.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
I've completely had them. I can see him. It was Zoolander.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, it is Adam Sandler, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
No?
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Why can't we think of his name?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think of it radio? Yes? Is that the classic
scene with the hair gel?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Who could forget about that? Not the greatest movie of
all time? I was reading, Oh, that's Starship Troopers.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It's The Shaw Shank Redemption. It was released in nineteen
ninety four. I think Forrest Gump was nineteen ninety four
as well. Some great movies came out in that year.
You can tell we're buying buying for a wee bit
of time here. But when Sure Shank Redemption was released
it was a bit of a box office flop. It
was only when it sort of had a resurgence on
(32:47):
on well it would have been in those days VHS.
I'm guessing that's the name true A Stephen King adaptation, yea, yeah,
and the movie the movie is different in its script
from the book. You know Red Morgan Freeman, like you
know he was sort of he was more guilty in
(33:08):
the book than he was in the movie. Anyhow, Okay,
we've lost Tamers McKay somewhere in the fielding stocks oar yards.
He's probably had one too many scorns and a cup
of tea. But Barry Soper, Barry Soper has been eating
birthday cake for young Iggy. Must be Iggy's birthday. He's
going to take a break from the cake eating to
talk politics and wrap the country. And congratulations to Stu
(33:31):
wythe from the wire wrapper, Matt and Linley. Of course
they're the wires that I know, so I'm sure Stu
will be related to them. Grand Casino Emerson's promo winners,
this great Southern Escape. Looking forward to catching up with you,
ste and missus stew when you get down to Dunedin. Oh,
(34:03):
welcome back to the country. Wrapping it with our political
correspondent Barry Soper, Paul Turner. Good to hear from you.
I knew I always get Adam Sandler and being still
are confused, And it was, of course being Stiller and
Cameron Diaz in the movie. There's something about Mary and
this is the song that they finished the movie with.
Barry Soper is old enough to remember this one the
(34:26):
first time it came around. Baz, you would have been
you would have been jiving to this in the sixties
and late sixties.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
And Gore, oh yes, here down to my shoulders, you
know a bit of a wispy beard, going on and
waving your arms in the air, doing.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
The domes around the center parks and Gore. That's right
with cousin keV. Those were the days. I was too young.
I was just envious. I was just in you guys.
You guys are my heroes. Rightio, Let's let's wrap the
week with politics, right, Let's have a look crime rates,
Winston and Seymour at odds over the future of Air
(35:02):
New Zealand. I've got David Seymour on the show on Monday,
so we'll get his opinion on that one. But he's
been quick out of the blocks to say we should
sow in New Zealand. Of course, if you're a nationalist
like Winston, that's the last thing you want to do.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
That's right. And you may remember Winston, the former Prime
minister who was a girl from Gore Jenny Shipley had
the big falling out with Winston Peters and it was
over the sale of Wellington Airport Shaars. So it comes
as no surprise that Winston is totally against any sale
of in New Zealand. But David Seymour says, maybe, you know,
(35:41):
he likes the asset trading idea, maybe you sell one
asset and buy another to make some money. But you know,
look ideologically these two are totally at opposite the ends
of the scale on this one. And of course it
is election year, Jamie, and you'll see much more of
this as the day comes closer.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It came out yesterday and I'm not sure he's got
the kudos and the pats on the back that he
should have got. Mark Mitchell. I think there was it
Hosking or Heather talking about it. This guy's done a
great job leading the fight against crime.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Oh indeed, forty nine thousand fewer violent crimes over the
past year, and that there's still a lot. I mean,
there's still one hundred and thirty thousand violent crimes a year,
but they've broken the back of it, if you like.
And the thing that amused me was last night watching
television news I had to yell at the screen when
(36:35):
I saw TV in Zed not really concentrating on the
drop and the crime raid at all looked more particularly
at there's been some sort of growth in the gangs
even though they can't wear patches. Well, you know, you
forget the good news and try and concentrate on the
bat and that seems to be the case with our
state broadcaster.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Yeah, woe cold one. They're making They're making red Radio
look reasonable exactly.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
And as I understand, TV and said, were very uncomfortable
about the story the way it appeared on here, and
a few apologies have flying around the beehives.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
I would imagine that the political reporters of both of
our main TV networks are going to have to be
pretty careful. They're going to have to tread warily an
election year. They've got to show some semblance of impartiality.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Well there has to be, Jamie, and look over the years,
and I've had many of them in politics. You if
you criticize one side, you've got to certainly criticize the others.
And that's why I've had this on again, off again
relationship with Winston Peters.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Oh yeah, well, I've got a selection. You know, I've
got to start being nice to the Greens and to
party Marie. Really yeah, Okay, Matte, you have a good weekend.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Hell would freeze over okay.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
By see it very sober there. Wrapping the Country thanks
to Emerson's and the Grand Casino World done Stue Wire.
We'll see you in dnedin.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Do you fill me up? But just to let me
down and let me around? And then where's the moments?
Never the way you say you? But I love this steal, I.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Mean you anyone done and you know on the store
to fill me up.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Get a New Zealand. I'm Jamie McKay. Welcome to the Country,
brought to you by Farmlands and I Suzu. Great song
from a great movie. There's something about Mary. I'm going
to build someone up and then I'm going to let
a whole lot of people down, because today we're announcing
the winner of our Great Southern Escape courtesy of our
friends at Emerson's. I love Emerson's goes without saying and
(01:17):
the Grand Casino here in Dunedin will tell you more
about that a bit later. Going to kick the show
off with Friday's weather guy from Earth Sciences, New Zealand.
Second to last day of summer. What's coming for us?
I see there's some wee yellow patches. They're not like
pe patches. The yellow patches are turning up on the
drought Index mat Chris Brandolino to kick off the show.
(01:40):
Today's Farmer Politician Panel Grant McCullum, MP for Northland and
Andrew Hoggard. It's getting a wee bit dry in the
Manure two region there at the at day two of
the Northland Field Days, Jen Corchran from Rabobank, Haymish Mackay
MacKaye on sport from the fielding stocks oiliards, or at
least I assume he's there. He seems to spend every
(02:00):
Friday morning there great town. I love towns with clocked
hous and stock sale yards right in the middle of them.
Sir Haymosh, if you're listening, get back to me. Give
me some topics from Makai on sport and Barry Soper
the week in politics as I say, the winner of
our Grand Casino Emerson's promo the Great Escape here in
(02:21):
Dunedin and Jane ferguson a wandering and update the latest
and rural news, and I'll do sports news for you.
And I update the New Zealand Golf Open Day two
at Melbrook.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Where anyone doAnd.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
He is my favorite weather man on the country. On
a Friday. That's why he's kicking off the show today,
Chris Brandolino, and several other days of the week as well.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I might add, thank you, Jammie. I think I appreciate
that because a little worried. There's a lot of qualifiers there.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well well, well let's just see how you go today
before I declare you the greatest weather the man of
all time. I am looking. You're with Earth Sciences New Zealand.
By the way, Chris Brandelina, I am looking at my
Friday Bible, then New Zealand Drought Index map and I
look for wee bits of yellow and it gets really dry,
it goes red, and because of all the rain we've
had around the country, hasn't really been an issue since Christmas.
(03:29):
But I'm seeing yellow creeping into Northland where the field
days are on the manor Or two region Inland Otago.
I guess if we're going to be dry, Chris, second
to last day of summer is not unexpected, No.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's not. I guess some of the placement to be
fair across the Far North and Northland is a bit unusual,
especially we had a Lionnina during the summer. But it
goes to show you we know the average outcome, but
no Linina or el Nina for that matter, is average.
There are always sort of variances. I think the theme
of heavy rainfall events did pan out. We saw a
(04:03):
couple of them over the summer season. Of course, the
one in kind of later in January than the one
about you know, ten days two weeks ago, both sort
of favoring the eastern part of the North Island, so
that did sort of fit, you know, I guess was
on brand for a lat Ninia summer, but that dryness
in Northland a bit off brand, and it is gonna
be dry, Jamie. I think over the next sort of
(04:24):
ten days or so, the rainfall that occurs over months
of the country is gonna be spotty. I do think
a bit of rain will fall over the weekend over
at Hawk's base on off adye Gisban, also across sayvy
Auckland region, maybe parts of those areas that are drying
North Wld and get a bit of rain and a
(04:44):
bit of rain over towards say Canterbury, Mid and Northern
Canterbury a bit of rain over the next few days.
But with that rain, the reason we're gonna get the rain, Jammy,
there's a puff of chili air coming. Holy smokes, it
could be some early season frosts for parts of the
South Island early next week.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Well that isn't but early first few days of autumn
or fall as you Americans like to call it, Chris,
and the and the if words already being mentioned, Monnge.
You know you talk about dry over the next few weeks,
Well that that is actually going to be welcome to
buy a lot of people, especially the arable and cropping farmers,
as they try and dry out crops and get them harvested.
(05:24):
And then of course we're still having to get well
and truly into the picking season for the likes of
the apples, well and truly underway. But key fru early
thanks coming off, Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yep, yep. Look, and I think I think this, this
dryness we're going to see is nicely timed, as you
really nicely point out there, Jamie. But we're gonna have
to speak out of two sides of our mouth here.
So on the one side, we talked about the dryness,
the lack of like you know, widespread widespread keyword there,
substantial range, So that I'm using my words carefully over
(05:55):
the next day seven to ten days. However, as you
look farther afield and will be issuing our autumn outlook
on Monday. But since look, since you're a friend of
the family, you know where the key is under the matt,
we're gonna let you in the front door and give
you a bit of insight as to what we're expecting
in autumn. So for the month of March, we're gonna
have to still watch for these big rainfall events. There's
(06:16):
gonna be two opportunities, we think, well, two distinct opportunities
for big rainfall events stemming from the north. One could
be as early as say, maybe next sort of the tenth,
maybe the eleventh to twelfth for the North Island. That'll
be something we'll have to watch. That's a bit iffy. However,
(06:37):
I think perhaps a more profound opportunity for northerly friend
which our northerly friends caused the trouble. You know this right,
some tropical moisture. Tropical moisture, that's when we get into trouble.
It's gonna be perhaps the last week to ten days
of March into early April. That is the sort of
window we're going to have to watch for any heavy
(06:57):
rainfall events stemming from the north. Things are lining up
from that to happens. So in between or outside of
those opportunities, Jamie, that's where the dryness is really good.
So these extended dry periods where not a lot of substantial,
widespread rain happens and things could flare up, or we
get a whole bunch of rain out once, which we
don't want, and that could persist into early April. So
(07:18):
and what the cool weather we talked about. We'll be here,
well actually downright Chile for a few days next week
and it is going to warm up. We're gonna see
some unusual warmth. That looks like as we get toward
this time next week and beyond, could be an extended
period of unusual warmth for much of the country, especially
the North Island, from about this time next week and beyond.
(07:40):
So something looked forward to. If you're a fan of
the warm weather, that cold step next week not gonna
last forever.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why this man is
my favorite with a man on the country on a Friday,
I say you.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Chris, ah right, buddy, take care.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Thanks Chris. It is quarter past twelve. Bang on, you're
with the country. I'm looking at the leaderboard. I think
this is updated at the New Zealand Golf Open at Milbrook.
Couple of kiwis leading the charge yep Daniel Hillier ten
under through eight in the second round and the amateur
Yuki Mia. I think I'm assuming that's how you pronounce
(08:17):
his name. He's nine under and second place. So we've
got two kiwis at the top of the leaderboard. We'll
update that in sport. But up next it's the Farmer Panel,
The Farmer Politician Panel from day two of the Northland
Field Days, Grant McCallum Andrew Hoggard. Next take Kevin Moore,
(08:48):
Welcome back to the country. Nineteen after twelve. All sorts
of noise going on in the background. Day two of
the Northland Field Days. Today's Farmer Politician Panel, the local
end MP Grant McCullum and Andrew Hoggard, Minister of Biosecurity,
Associate agg Minister. No doubt you've drawn not the short straw,
(09:09):
the long straw because you get to go to brilliant
regional field days. Andrew Hoggard like.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Northland, Yeah, exactly, it's a bloody brilliant up here. Probably
a little bit too hot for my men or two tastes,
but I'll survive.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Now, are you two standing in the Act tent or
the National Party tent?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Grant McCollum, as you know, Hereny, we're eyeballing each other,
but actually needs the wholes of tent. Looking at the
Honda motorcycles or the Kawazakis and every of the house
going on around here. Now we're giving ourselves well let's
just say, politically aligned but not too close.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well, no, you've chosen neutral ground now, Andrew Haggard. I
did get a picture from Grant earlier this morning from
the Northland Field Days where he's got one of his
three thousand mobile phone screen cleaners on a table. Has
he given you one yet?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Not yet, not yet. I'll drop by and get one later,
screen of in each cleaning.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Now now, now, Jamie, I've got a bone to pick
with you on this. I understand your Prime Minister, and
you gave me roasting the other day and what.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Were and deserved? He couldn't believe, he couldn't believe that
you wouldn't front up with a bottle of wine for
free board. I'm saving on the nation money.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I seem to recall the boss of your household, namely Tenny,
your wife.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Was very happy with the spring Saver, thought it was
a great gift.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Sorry, Well I'm not worried about you. You weren't the
one that cooked the meal. Sorry, but Kenny's the boss
of your place. Well I'm happy she's happy.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We weren't expecting you for a meal. You didn't get
the hunt. Now now okay, Well let's I'll tell you
something that's a real issue in your neck of the
woods ground Northland, and the Prince of the province has
been on about this as well. Another great Northland MP
these wild dogs.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, look the whole that dog issue. That a pouring
attack that happened just up the roads from here. Actually,
Kaihu is just an absolute shocker, a real tragedy, and
it's really galvanized the leaders of the region and actually
ministers and so forth to take a real look at this.
We need to have another look at the I think
(11:21):
the Dog Control Act, and then we've got to make
sure the councils actually do go about enforcing the rules
and put the resource in But Ultimately, owners need to
take responsibility for their dogs and they've got to be
held to account. So we're working on It's just an
absolute tragedy and we need to get on top of
this and quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Andrew, you would like to address the RMA reforms. Now
we've heard from ground Swell Dairy and z FED Pharmacies,
the other one Beef and LAMB New zealand all the
advocacy groups. They're all saying the intense could but what's
on ended up on the bill or the draft isn't acceptable.
What are you going to do about it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Well, of actually here already had meetings with fed STI
there and deeferently am on this and they've given lots
of goodgestins around wording changes that are needed to make
sure that that intent is actually recognized with the legislation.
So look that we are listening and we will be
paying attention and making sure that we get this right
(12:17):
because you know, we're all agreed on what the intent
is we want. We're just going to make sure we
get that wording right so there can be no misinterpretation
anytime in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
The Prime Minister said, read my lip. Snow water tags yeah,
water tax for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Now absolutely, I'm just reinforced. On Monday nine o'clock, I
think it is. We're starting our first submissions on this.
I saw rehearing the submission I saw on that Select Committee,
and that's what this whole process is about. A legislat
piece of legislation. This bik is never going to be
perfect first up, so that's why we engage with the
submission process. I'm looking forward to working through it and
then they're working with the ministers to come up with
(12:55):
a piece of legislation that's going to achieve what we
need to achieve in both the economic animio space.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You're both cowcockies when you're not being politicians, more profitable
being a cowcocky than a politician these days. The dairy
and z vote is up, the levy payer vote. Have
you both voted for both voted years.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I'm Anny.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Go Ga Andrew, Yeah, yeah, I'm still I've got to
get sit down at home for a five minutes set
to get online to do that, but I will be
definitely voting and making sure that my vote is counted
because you know, I certainly see the value levy industry.
Good bodies play in terms of not only on farm stuff,
(13:37):
but also in terms of that science that's so vital
for good advocacy.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Andrew, you also want to touch on I'm just assuming
Grant will be voting yes for the dairy and z
Levy vote, because Grant, I'm not accusing you of being
a yes man, but you know, I like carry on. Well,
I'm trying to get my own back. We had a
guy called Wealt Cavendish on the show yesterday. He's one
(14:02):
of those authors of the Open Letter on welfare standards
and trade access and when it comes to especially the
pork industry, Andrew Haggard is in your wheelhouse by security
that they've got a really good point.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Well, I mean, the key thing you've got to think
about here, though, is we export ninety five percent of
our dairy, ninety percent of our v and so we're
going to be very careful about setting bad precedents that
other countries could use against us in that regard. And
so you know, I do worry about, you know, sort
(14:39):
of trying to block out other countries' imports of various
things because that could backfar against us. The previous government,
the Sleek Committee looked at this primary production see committee
looked at this and said, you know, it would be
too risky with our trade agreements and all the rest
of it. And you know, I just think there's a
real risk in the way the world is at the moment.
There's not a lot of follow in rules based auto
(15:01):
going on. It's like who's got the bigger carrier, stroke
group decides trade put me so you know, seem you
want to play very carefully.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And okay, very quickly to finish on because there's a
lot of noise in the background. On day two of
the Northland field days, Grant, I assume that's fans coming
up to get a mobile phone screen cleaner from you.
Are they queuing up for them?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Absolutely? Mate, there's a great values of one of the
best promotional.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Gifts you can give.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
They get all my contact details on there so they
can get in touch with the Open MP and Northland
if they need you, and they can clean your screens.
They can see the number of doll at the same time.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There you go and they could be collectors items. If
you're to start a one term wonder and I don't know,
Shane Jones, Win's Northland or something that's.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Enough from you you can go back to go back
to the golf course and try and hit the ball
onto the green.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
For a j Wow, that's it's a last course. It's
a bit like trying to get a bottle of wine
out of you. Hey, what is the vibe like? Just
what is the vibe like? Day two boys, very quickly,
I've got really got second.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Seen a great great turn out here, good feel the
farming community and pretty good heart. They had a great
season to go with the prices. Apart from a few
people that got tenant at Fonger with the flooding of
most people are doing good, having good year.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Okay, guys, got to go there we go the Farmer Panel.
Grant McCullum, Local Northland MP. It's only joking about Shane
Jones beating him in Northland under Shane's even standing. And
Andrew Hoggard at List MP, Minister of Biosecurity. Up next,
Jen Corkran from Rabobank.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ten all the time?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Jen Corkran is Rabobank Senior Animal proteins Analysts. No one
bar no one in that bank has a short title.
But anyhow, Jen, you've worked hard to get it. How
I want to talk to you today about Rabobank's latest
Q one Global Beef quarterly report, and we'll talk a
little bit about lamb at the end, but beef just
seems to go onward and upwards. Is there no end
(17:02):
in sight for these record prices?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Jen, Good afternoon, Jamie. Yes, it's looking strong for beef.
And the story continues right the song well sung for
the last couple of years now. So yep, the global
beef quarter is out and this is basically all the
rubber research analysts within the beef space globally putting together
our forecasts for the year ahead and looking at things.
(17:27):
You know, we are expecting a similar theme to the
last year or two in terms of reasonably firm prices
and the same exact themes that we've been talking about
a lot, which is the US is still very short
of beefl so we expect those import demands to remain strong.
But also interestingly, we've been a feature artical on China's
new kind of safeguard quota limits of their importing countries,
(17:50):
so that potentially might shift some trade flows as the
year progressive, and we might see a little bit of
volatility around that, but that might or might not be
necessarily a bad thing for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Okay. In this report twenty twenty five, the calendar year,
New Zealand marked a production low, with the country's smallest
annual beef output since twenty seventeen. Now, I know we're
wearing some more dairy beef numbers, so that is going
to increase numbers available, But ditto around many countries in
the world. With beef being worth so much, why aren't
(18:26):
people fast tracking their breeding programs.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah, it's a really good point, Jamie, And I think,
you know, we've got a structural decline globally at the
moment in the number of cattle that are around. And
the question is where are these animals coming from? And
I think if we look, for example, to the United States,
we've got more numbers coming in from dairy, from the
dairy side, so beef seamen, good beef seven being used
(18:50):
across these sort of big framed dairy cows to produce
these cars. And we're seeing some changes perhaps in that.
But I also do see, you know, in New Zealand
and real confidence in beef markets of the next year
or two is sort of leading to a bit of
a resurgence back in terms of numbers on farm. So
we'll see how that plays out. Because our wonderful beef
breed is out on the hills and stuff that has
(19:11):
a great role to play here too. So the ball
sales I think come during will be an interesting watching point.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They will be hot. Imagine by buying a big black
angus ball, it'll cost you an arm and a leg
and then some more.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Well indeed, Jamie, but certainly not an investment in my view.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Let's have a look at lamb to finish on. Traditionally
the lamb market there's a premium before Christmas, then the
weight of the stock comes on the market, you know, January, February, March,
the schedule drops and then it picks up again at
the end of the season. We've defied gravity awe bit
this season, and I know there was a small drop
in the beef and lamb schedules I think last week
(19:49):
or the week before. But the processes are competing amongst
one another. There's lots of grass out there, margins are
being squeezed. Some of the processes are saying their business
is not sustained at these price levels.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Yeah, so we've got a real nuanced situation right. So
we've got grass almost from the top of the North
Island to the bottom of South Island, and we've got
lambs that are potentially, you know, have been purchased if
our trade lambs at a reasonably expensive price, and people
are putting weight on these animals to fatten them because
they've got feed, but also because it's quite expensive if
they're going to need to bring them back in. So
(20:24):
the lambs aren't flooding in by all accounts this year,
though we're reasonably steady in terms of numbers on last year,
but they're not flooding in by any account yet, Jamie
and I think we'll start to see numbers coming in
over the next few weeks and what normally happens at
that point is we see a little bit of softening
in that side of price, which we expect it will
be the case. It's really tricky to know exactly what's
(20:46):
going to happen, and of course challenging for processes who
want to keep their chains fall when animals aren't forthcoming.
So there is challenge in the industry Jamie from that
side of things, as I understand it, and I think
we'll just have to see how it plays out. But
you know, an interesting time and really tricky to compere
year on here because this time last year we also saw,
you know, prices will just continue to trickle up, and
(21:06):
that we didn't see that normal softening last year either,
So we can't really compere year on year to what
will happen. But certainly once that supply comes on, we
would expect a little bit of softening to come through.
But I am not in my view, I don't think
we're going to see prices fall off the face of
the cliff.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, and unlike the dairy industry, we're a majority of
the milk for the season is already in the vat.
It isn't the case in the lamb industry. We're not
even halfway with their season's kill or process. So I
should say you can't say kill anymore. It's like you
can't say fat lamb anymore. Jen, it's prime prime lamb.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
So we are we are, we're not even halfway right
so early days hopefully just above that seventeen mil head
in total, but or we're only just above sex by
all accounts at the moment, So lots the lamb still
out there, Jamie enjoying those lusher screen pastures around.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
His Zealand, Jen Corkoran. Great to have you on the country.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Great to check Amie.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
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Speaker 2 (22:13):
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Speaker 1 (22:37):
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Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yespeak good a stew Jamie McKay from the country. How
are you going?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Good mister mccaye.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
How are you now?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Are you from Wellington? No, you're from most of it, Marifer. Well,
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Speaker 7 (22:56):
Indeed? Yes, right?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I know a few Withes and are you one of them?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Oh, there's a few of us.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Most of us are farming and you'll probably know or
the great Sir Brian, so he's the cousin. We live
about a kilometer down the road from their farms. So
they were all all quite.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Local here, Oh, Sir Brian Lahure, Sir Brian Leward.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
One of my favorite all blacks, along with Sir Colin
Meads and Ian Kirkpatrick. Anyhow, Stu Wyth from the Wider Rapper,
I thought you were from Wellington. You probably figured out
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Speaker 5 (23:29):
Well, I entered a competition a couple of weeks ago. Sir,
it may be something to do with that. I'm sure
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Speaker 5 (24:00):
Are there the missus wiss? I'm sure she will be
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Speaker 4 (24:05):
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I'm glad I'm not paying for the stew I would
have picked someone an armorro But we're going to chuck
you on a plane, obviously from Wellington, I would imagine,
And we are going to send you down to Dunedin.
You're going to have a weekend in Dunedin or a
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(24:27):
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Speaker 5 (24:55):
I think you'll probably get a lot more Brandy points
than I will.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I possibly will well I will if they come and
join you for the for the for a bear at Emerson's.
Because I was speaking to Greg Mensi's the marketing manager
this morning and I said to him, on the sixth
course degastation lunch menu, are the thrice cooked chips on there?
That's cook chips? Should I say cooked three times? And
(25:18):
I don't know if they're flash enough for the degastation
menu but I'll tell you what's jew If you're still
hungry after that, get into some of those thrice cooked
chips from Emerson's.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I look forward to sharing them with you.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Cut on your mate, well, thanks for being a winner.
Who would have known? I thought I was ringing someone
in Wellington and I get a wire wrapper farmer and
a relation to boot of the great Sir Brian Lahore
Saaleo to Lady Pam for me and Stu, you and
missus Wythe We're going to see you indned and take
care mate.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Absolutely, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, good on you, Stu. Thank you for everyone who
entered the competition. There I thought we had a towny
going talking about town he s here's one who's wandered
into the studio. I wouldn't know the front end of
the sheep from the back end. But actually that's not
fair because you've got good rural roots. You're half you're
half bred, and you're not a half bred Jane Ferguson.
(26:09):
Half of I've got to stop digging. Half of your
breeding is from Milton, the other half is from western
South London.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Yeah, Nightcaps in fact should be proud of that. Yeah,
I am proud of.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That rugby team and Nightcaps in the nineteen eighties. Anyhow,
well done ste wythe I wonder if he's related to
the wife Sino. Sure he will be, They're all related. Anyhow,
Let's do rural news, shall we, because I've got to
update the golf as.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
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Speaker 4 (26:45):
I was just thinking the whyite signo Matt and Linley.
I'm sure they'll be. They'll all be related, no doubt.
I'll see them at the Zander McDonald Awards. Anyhow, what's
and rural news?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (26:54):
In rural News, Zesbrey has set a new target to
have at least eighty percent of New Zealand kiwifruit growers
shares in the company within the next decade. Strengthening grower
ownership has been a key focus, with Sesbury introducing its
Loyalty as Shares and Dividends as Shares schemes. Those programs
added three hundred and twenty seven new shareholders in twenty
(27:14):
twenty five and have lifted grower ownership from forty eight
percent to around sixty two percent. Zesbre shares are restricted
to growers, but they are not required to hold shares
in order to supply fruit.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And they've been a good investment too. Now I was going,
I'm going to cut you off from your rural fair
enough because I want to talk about the thrice cooked
chips from Emerson's. Now do you do you think are
they flash enough to make the degastation six course lunch? Now?
Speaker 9 (27:39):
No, I think they're fantastic. And also I'm really impressed
with how you can get thrice cooked ships out so quickly.
It's just like testament to your broadcusts.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
You.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I reckon they've cooked them. No, I'm t I thought
you meant, oh, you're talk about me. I'm top. I
think you talk about the chefs and Emerson's. I've probably
cooked them twice in advance and then once just to
finish them off. It's thrice thrice hence three times. There
you go. Jane Ferguson adding, adding to the show today
Sport on.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The country with AFCO invested in your farming success.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You do know the front end of a sheep from
a back end. Daniel Hillier leads the New Zealand Golf
Open by a stroke from another local player early in
the second round. Let me just check that. I think
there might have been the change. Let me just have
a look. Let me look. No, he doesn't lead by
a stroke. Now he is tied after he's through nine holes.
Yuki Mia is through five and they're both nine under.
(28:34):
But let me go back to this other story. Sorry
about this, folks, but I'm just trying to keep to
be updated. Hillia has the joint lead with the twenty
year old amateur Yuki Mia, who I mentioned after the
completion of a protracted first round this morning, approaching the
halfway mark. This story is old, so I'm just going
to dump it. But anyhow, there's two New Zealanders at
(28:56):
the top of the leaderboard in the New Zealand Golf Open.
Black Caps coach Rob Walter has revealed he's failed to
coax Mitchell Satna to bat further up the order at
Crickets T twenty World Cup. His captain this week became
the first New Zealand to score a thousand runs and
take one hundred wickets and T twenty internationals. Walter says
(29:16):
Satner is underrated, understated and delivers when required. New Zealand
face England and the Super Eights overnight at Colombo. How
good is that going to be? Mitchell Satner? By the way,
Jane is like a scratch or a plus two golfer.
That guy is good at everything, but very understated. Hopefully
we can find him at the fielding stock sailyards. Hamish, MacKaye,
(29:40):
you're missing an action. I'm going to call you up.
You've got three minutes to get ready.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Mackay on sport with farm lands for clothing to keep
coold protected.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Wow, Mackay on sport. He's missing an action, Hamish, where
are you? Never mind? We've got Jane Ferguson on sport
please know?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Desperate times call for desperate measures. You're like my sisters,
how well? I love my sisters, but they vote for
the Greens and they hate sport.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I don't hate sport. I'm just like interested. No, no,
I'm just not interested in it. I like the old
sport documentary though.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Okay, no, that's fine. Go the all Blacks, yeah, well
go the Highlanders. Go the Highlanders, the chief chiefs that
I should do. The farm strong sign off the Chiefs
versus the Crusaders, that's happening in FMG Stadium and the
try on tomorrow night. That'll be the game, the game
of the of the weekend round and the poor old Crusaders.
(30:56):
Rob Penny listens to the show. He's none from two
to start the season. It's I think a wounded crusader
is a dangerous beast Radio. This is a message from
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works for you and lock it in. Eddie, have a
great weekend. Do you like Did you like this movie?
Something about Mary?
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Oh, yes, yeah, I did enjoy that movie.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
How long ago was that?
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Now? Was that nice?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Late nineties? Two thousand? Cameron Diaz who was the lead.
Was it Adam Sandler or the other bloke? I always
get them.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
I've completely had them. I can see him. It was Zoolander.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, it is Adam Sandler, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
No?
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Why can't we think of his name?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think of it radio? Yes? Is that the classic
scene with the hair gel?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Who could forget about that? Not the greatest movie of
all time? I was reading, Oh, that's Starship Troopers.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It's The Shaw Shank Redemption. It was released in nineteen
ninety four. I think Forrest Gump was nineteen ninety four
as well. Some great movies came out in that year.
You can tell we're buying buying for a wee bit
of time here. But when Sure Shank Redemption was released
it was a bit of a box office flop. It
was only when it sort of had a resurgence on
(32:47):
on well it would have been in those days VHS.
I'm guessing that's the name true A Stephen King adaptation, yea, yeah,
and the movie the movie is different in its script
from the book. You know Red Morgan Freeman, like you
know he was sort of he was more guilty in
(33:08):
the book than he was in the movie. Anyhow, Okay,
we've lost Tamers McKay somewhere in the fielding stocks oar yards.
He's probably had one too many scorns and a cup
of tea. But Barry Soper, Barry Soper has been eating
birthday cake for young Iggy. Must be Iggy's birthday. He's
going to take a break from the cake eating to
talk politics and wrap the country. And congratulations to Stu
(33:31):
wythe from the wire wrapper, Matt and Linley. Of course
they're the wires that I know, so I'm sure Stu
will be related to them. Grand Casino Emerson's promo winners,
this great Southern Escape. Looking forward to catching up with you,
ste and missus stew when you get down to Dunedin. Oh,
(34:03):
welcome back to the country. Wrapping it with our political
correspondent Barry Soper, Paul Turner. Good to hear from you.
I knew I always get Adam Sandler and being still
are confused, And it was, of course being Stiller and
Cameron Diaz in the movie. There's something about Mary and
this is the song that they finished the movie with.
Barry Soper is old enough to remember this one the
(34:26):
first time it came around. Baz, you would have been
you would have been jiving to this in the sixties
and late sixties.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
And Gore, oh yes, here down to my shoulders, you
know a bit of a wispy beard, going on and
waving your arms in the air, doing.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
The domes around the center parks and Gore. That's right
with cousin keV. Those were the days. I was too young.
I was just envious. I was just in you guys.
You guys are my heroes. Rightio, Let's let's wrap the
week with politics, right, Let's have a look crime rates,
Winston and Seymour at odds over the future of Air
(35:02):
New Zealand. I've got David Seymour on the show on Monday,
so we'll get his opinion on that one. But he's
been quick out of the blocks to say we should
sow in New Zealand. Of course, if you're a nationalist
like Winston, that's the last thing you want to do.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
That's right. And you may remember Winston, the former Prime
minister who was a girl from Gore Jenny Shipley had
the big falling out with Winston Peters and it was
over the sale of Wellington Airport Shaars. So it comes
as no surprise that Winston is totally against any sale
of in New Zealand. But David Seymour says, maybe, you know,
(35:41):
he likes the asset trading idea, maybe you sell one
asset and buy another to make some money. But you know,
look ideologically these two are totally at opposite the ends
of the scale on this one. And of course it
is election year, Jamie, and you'll see much more of
this as the day comes closer.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It came out yesterday and I'm not sure he's got
the kudos and the pats on the back that he
should have got. Mark Mitchell. I think there was it
Hosking or Heather talking about it. This guy's done a
great job leading the fight against crime.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Oh indeed, forty nine thousand fewer violent crimes over the
past year, and that there's still a lot. I mean,
there's still one hundred and thirty thousand violent crimes a year,
but they've broken the back of it, if you like.
And the thing that amused me was last night watching
television news I had to yell at the screen when
(36:35):
I saw TV in Zed not really concentrating on the
drop and the crime raid at all looked more particularly
at there's been some sort of growth in the gangs
even though they can't wear patches. Well, you know, you
forget the good news and try and concentrate on the
bat and that seems to be the case with our
state broadcaster.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Yeah, woe cold one. They're making They're making red Radio
look reasonable exactly.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
And as I understand, TV and said, were very uncomfortable
about the story the way it appeared on here, and
a few apologies have flying around the beehives.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
I would imagine that the political reporters of both of
our main TV networks are going to have to be
pretty careful. They're going to have to tread warily an
election year. They've got to show some semblance of impartiality.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Well there has to be, Jamie, and look over the years,
and I've had many of them in politics. You if
you criticize one side, you've got to certainly criticize the others.
And that's why I've had this on again, off again
relationship with Winston Peters.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Oh yeah, well, I've got a selection. You know, I've
got to start being nice to the Greens and to
party Marie. Really yeah, Okay, Matte, you have a good weekend.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Hell would freeze over okay.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
By see it very sober there. Wrapping the Country thanks
to Emerson's and the Grand Casino World done Stue Wire.
We'll see you in dnedin.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
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