July 10, 2025 • 38 mins
Hamish McKay talks to Chris Brandolino, Aaron Cruden, Sandra Matthews, Richard Dawkins, Emma Poole and Tim Dangen.
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Coming up on the show, we'll catch up.
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With Aaron Cruden, World Cup winning first five eight These
days he's involved in the commentary and the comments side
of rugby, two times Super Rugby champion.
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With the Chiefs. He's gonna look at the Third Test
for us.
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We're going to catch up with two of the finest
young farmers in the country, the brother and sister Emma
Pool and Tim Dangin. We're going to catch up with
them later on the show and have a look back
on the FMG Young Farmer of the year and what
it all means. We're also going to catch up with
a rural woman and ZED president Sandra Matthews, as well
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as Richard Dawkin's Fed Meat and Wiel chair out of
Marlborough and what help can be given to those affected
with what's happening with the rain around the country.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
And on that topic, let's get straight into it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Joined by Chris Brandolino from NEWA Good afternoon, Chris, Welcome
into the show.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
What's the lightest on this TV? Predicted Ryan, and it
is happening.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Yeah, it is happening. Good afternoon. Oh and by the way,
we're Earth Sciences New Zealand now no more needs combined
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Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, it iss New Zealand. It's going into the book
right as we spak. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Yeah, it's en up of the housekeeping. Back to your clast. Yes, look,
it's bucketing down pretty good at the top of the
South Island. I'm looking at some of the very recent
observations by way that has been District Council and over
the past twenty four hours there are multiple three locations
where rainfall totals have exceeded one and thirty five millimeters
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already and these are about the ranges and about the
higher elevations, but nonetheless very heavy rain. And we have
that red warning issued by met Service for areas for
parts of the Tasman District. Look the rainfall Mountain itself,
so this combines what's already fallen and what's gonna come,
will be upwards of two hundred millimeters, maybe a bit less,
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maybe a bit more, and ordinarily that would trigger a
red warning. But you got to remember we had the
heavy rain two weeks ago that that was really heavy rain.
Last week we had some decent rainfall now this week.
So it's the cumulative or compounding effects of these events
which will increase the odds for things like slips and flooding,
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and that's a big reason for the red warnings, those
impacts expected from the heavy rainfall. And it's not just
the top of the southound Hamish, it's other parts of
the country. So the top of the North Island copping
it pretty good right now, the good douse of rain,
and I think this afternoon and the evening the rest
of the North Island gets into some pretty heavy rain
for a period of time.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, it's a whole compounding then, I mean, we like
interest to compound on air deposits, but we don't like
our rain on rain, and that is a real concern.
As you said previously, not always a look, is this
a moving face? Could there be a best case scenario
that it might button off for you're pretty sure it's
a happening thing and we'll continue.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
To be so I doubt that, Hamish. I mean, we're
just starting to get into the really heavy stuff. Between
now and six o'clock basically will be the heaviest rain
for the top of the South Island. So the next
four or five six hour is going to be the
worst of it. And as I mentioned earlier, there are
multiple locations with already in excess of one hundred and
thirty five millimeters, So yeah, it's basic. We're kind of
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midway through the journey. Other places like Katanaki, we'll see
some heavy rainfall good you know, much of the country,
the corrimandol can't sleep on them, they'll get a good
drop of rain one hundred plus millimeters or more. And
again the ground is so wet, and that's kind of
the issue. And I think as we look farther afield,
this is something we're going to have to be really
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mindful of over the coming weeks and months, is that
we're likely to see more of these events where we
have low pressure coming from the west, tap it into
some pretty rich moisture to our north and kind of
sophing that down, siphing it down to the to the
to our neck of the woods to New Zealand. Exactly
where things fall. That's a weather forecast, but I can
tell you from a theme perspective, a climate outlook, the
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next three months are looking quite wet for the top
of both islands, where the other areas of the country
under the gun for potentially having rainfall. So again, these
compounding rainfall events as the ground moistens with time, they're
gonna be more of a concern as we work away
through the rest of July. We've got to watch the
end of July early August. That seems to be an
area where there could be some heavy another I guess
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one or two big rainfall events potentially toward the end
of July to early August. And unfortunately, this is something
we'll probably have to deal with in some shape or
form for the rest of winter into early spring.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That least interesting told me to capital farmers down in
the Southland region and that saying, look, conditions have been
so good up until now, but there are a little
bit weary that winter coming is coming a little later.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, Look, touching on the lower South Island. One thing
will have to be mindful of in Southland as well
as in Tira or Otago where the where the catchments
are going from more agricultural to energy which you know,
we really we relying the water to produce a lot
of our energy and the hydro storage dams. Dryness is
going to become more of a concern as we work
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away toward the you know, toward August, September, October, basically
as we moved through the end of winter and it's
a springtime and beyond, because we're expecting a lack of
west the southwest winds. It's the westerly winds that give
the West and the lower portion of the South Island
all that rainfall that you know they notoriously get, and
that's going to be absent temperatures. We're not going to
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find many cold snaps. There'll be a few, yeah, okay, sure,
but it's not going to define the period over the
next three muths warmer than average temperatures.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Thank you very much, said is Chris Brandolina Sciences end
z there with the lightest on the way the far
emergency and action evacuations happening in that Tasman district, oar
and crudon. On a slightly more cheery note, next here
on the country. Why is the all black French second
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Test coming up tomorrow? A few changes in that all
black side just a handful, quite a conservative selection based
on continuity from the first test.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And who better to look at this than a man.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Himself, a Rugby World Cup winner from twenty eleven and
I always referred to you know, even they won a
couple of titles with the Chiefs Matter or Two's Finest
Our in Crudent of course Palmerston North Boys High as
well as how are you mate?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, thanks for having me on, Hemosier. I'm great, Thank
you you obviously just enjoyed the Test match last weekend
and looking forward to another one this weekend. Than willing
to Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Think interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, one thing I think we can say out
of this is the French top fourteen is not a
bad competition and there's a fair old swag of depth
in their players.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Oh it's huge, even for me personally. I went over
and played three seasons over there, and yeah, it is
the depth and I guess the continuity they are building
over there, and especially under Fabian Goaltier, like he's coming
and he's not afraid to make some what most people
might consider to be big calls and really blood a
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lot of youth and sort of giving younger guys an opportunity.
But yeah, obviously a bit was made before the series
of the so called caliber of team they were bringing over,
but I think they showed in that game and the
need and last weekend that they're head to play regardless
of who's on the field. They're just going to get
out there, play the French way and give it a
good crack.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, And the French way these days is it's still
an entertaining brand of footy, but it's also a pretty
well structured.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
One at times as well.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Look just looking at the selections, I see Sovana White
is on the bench there for Quinn Tupaia, who did
nothing wrong. But you know, I think this is just
a good one in terms of giving a guy a
taste a potential taste of international footy for the for
the Highland as skipper who's been who was a real
standout in Super Rugby?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Oh he was. He was a standout and he's he's
very deserved of his selection. And as you said, Quinn
got another taste. I think Quinn had an outstanding Super
Rugby season and he got a taste off the bench
last weekend. But I suppose when you when you listen
to Razor and the All Blacks speak, they are wanting
a little bit of continuity. But they also do have
to balance out the fact that it's a three Test series,
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so they do want to give some of these debutantes
or or these younger guys or not younger necessarily but
just new squads to the member new members to the squad, sorry,
an opportunity to play. And I think this is a
great opportunity for Timothy to come in there and obviously
hopefully who knows what the conditions are going to be
like and what what I guess the game status is
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going to be like when he gets in there, but
we know that he's just electric, like he offered so
much in and around the ball. He's a tough ball carrier.
I think the transition he made from the wing to
the midfield this year and super ugly was outstanding and
that probably goes a little bit unnoticed to the naked eye,
but it's not an easy transition and he did it seamlessly,
So I'm excited to see how he goes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Now, young Caleb Clarke has he's had the media blow
torch on him and you know some of that was
self invited, but he gets an opportunity to get out
there and leave all that behind because one solid performance
in a Test match and a lot is forgotten and
forgiven as it should be for a young guy. And
I'm really looking forward to him having a standout performance.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and so am I. I think Caleb,
you know, he offers so much as well, Like he's
just such a physical specimen and you want him in
and around the ball. You want to get him as
many touches in you as you can. And I do
understand the conditions in the need and are going to
be different to Wellington. But what I really liked in
regards to what the All Blacks were doing last weekend,
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they were getting the ball to the Wits weren't they.
They were prepared to give the ball a little bit
of give it to some of the athletes out wide
and see what they can do and if they're able
to do that again this weekend in Wellington, to give
the likes of Cayleb a little bit of one on
one ball and even Rico Joanna who shifted to the
right wing this weekend. I think it's just going to
allow the All Blacks to play with a little bit
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of a different dimension to probably what the French possibly
might be expecting.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, and you know you mentioned Rico Yoannie, and I
think you know and you know how tight that midfield
congestion is at international level.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I think he gets a little bit of the short.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
End of the straw occasion in terms of analysis of
his performance in the midfield. And that's why I'm looking
forward to him having a real chance again out on
the wing to carve up a bit and go back
to that Rico we remember from those twenty seven to
twenty eighteen when he was just on fire.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
So a bit more room for him hopefully.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Absolutely, And the guy played with Rico and he is
he's just world class. And yes, he also looked early
on he played on the wing and then transitioned into
the midfield, which, again, as I've already said it, it's
not an easy task. But for him to be able
to have that sort of balance and that flexibility, I
suppose is for me in a squad, it's it's second
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to none just having the ability to start on the wing,
but then maybe as the game goes on, who knows,
due to injuries or however the game might be flowing.
If you can sort of transition someone into the midfield,
it's great. And as you say, I think he does
get a little bit of unnecessary criticism at times, and
especially considering we don't all from the outside looking and
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we don't know what the messages are internally all the time,
so it's easy to judge on face value. But I
think you know the ins and outs and being an
ex player myself, like you know what's spoken about in
the in the sink drum and in as long as
you're doing your bit as well as you can to
execute the game plan and contribute there, and then that's
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all you can.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ask for as a player and as a coach.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I explain a commentary role in commentary and
comments person that you have now you enjoy that stuff
you do.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You're like a ductor water mate, you love it.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh, it's been fun. Yeah, obviously I help soon you're
talking about something you feel like, you know relatively well.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
So yeah, for me, it wasn't something that I ever
thought post Rugby would become something, but yeah, an opportunity
came up, like like they do at times, and sometimes
you just got to be brave enough to walk through
the open door.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And yeah, I've really been enjoying it. And obviously I
am really conscious and aware that I am an ex player,
so I always do have my players hat on to
a certain extent and just want to be really player
centric because I know what it's like too, you know,
like ultimately, as players, you know, if you have a
poor game, you don't need to hear about it or
read about it or this, and that is just about
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going out there and doing your best, but also making
those adjustments when you know you need to.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, fantastic, Hey, great to chat as always Aaron Cruton,
and we'll do it again.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Might you enjoyed the test match? Yeah, we'll do.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Thanks for having me on mate, cheers.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah, there you go, one of the best Aaron crewd
in that ten twelve combination and Super Rugby with Sonny,
Bill Williams and the Chiefs. That was just magic to
watch the All Black French Test live commentary on z
B Goldsport and iHeart checked that out. Elliot Smith, Bondie
and Pioneer your team for that one tomorrow night, come out.
Next on the Country Sandra Matthews on the topic of
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a connectivity. That's the Rural women in Zed president Next,
like the national president of the Rural Women's Network is
Sandra Matthews joining us on the country?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Sandra, how are you?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Good?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Thanks Hamish, excellent and rural when New Zealander is doing
really well as well right around the country.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, that's fantastic to hear one thing not going quite
so well. Well, we might be about to get some
big improvement on though. Is the old home activity? What's
happening in that space?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
That's an interesting one, isn't it. As we've been talking
about this it seems like forever. So the Infrastructure Commission
came out and endorsed a proposal of the Chorus is
put forward to increase extend the fiber network from eighty
seven percent to ninety five percent across New Zealand. You know,
initially when I read it, I thought, well, you know,
(15:23):
here we've got starlink, we've got lots of different options,
but in actual facts, for people that don't have those options, this,
this fiber network is really important. So we've endorsed that.
We think it's a really important plan and we'd like
to see the government get behind it, you know, to
prioritize it and actually prioritize the support for our ural
communities in this way. I mean, we've got massive economic
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potential in our real communities and we talk technology all
the time Halter and all these technologies coming on board
for farms and for roal communities, but without connectivity, we
can't move forward with it.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Exactly exactly, it's all about progress. Eighty seven percent to
ninety percent. What amazed me is that's that's a huge
number of households who will get the opportunity to take
up fiber.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yeah, it's really interesting. You know, they're talking about an
additional one hundred and sixty thousand addresses right around the country,
regional and rural, so it is massive and you think
about you know, Copper's been being phased out in lots
of areas and people have relied on copper, especially in
adverse events. We've got you know Nelson, we've had Gabriel
up our Way and entied arcity in the East Coast
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and you know, these these basic services are really important
for people that are in more isolated areas.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, absolutely they are. And yeah, so it is good
to see this progress.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So we do you do you have an idea of
a timeline here now that Chorus has got the green
light from Infrastructure.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Well, I think it all all depends on the funding
actually Hamish. So they've gone back to government with that,
with the proposal and the endorsement, and as a real
community supportive real communities, we're endorsing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It as well.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I have not heard about the timeline. I think the
discussions are happening. As soon as we hear about that, well,
we'll definitely be putting it out to our members as well.
The one thing I will say that we really are
we have a lot of black spots around the country,
you know, thinking about you know, the cell phone networks
and those sorts of things too which also support you know, connectivity.
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I think the one thing I will say about we
are calling to expand the five D coverage around the country.
They've been really great and put five hundred and thirty
nine mobile extra mobile towers around the country to enhance
the real connectivity. But you know, I can drive from
Hawk's Bay down to say Marsterton and the course are
dropping out all the time. And last week I was
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in the Waikato and drove from Auckland to Wakato and
my cell phone was dropping out while I'm trying to
have conversations. So you know, we really advocate for expanding
that five D coverage further around the country as well.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I do a bit of driving between Auckland and Manner
or two and actually the Auckland Whitehadow is the worst
dropout spot of all. But really we need the Era
of equal Opportunity date when it comes to digital connectivity,
because you say education, business, health, you know, our social wellbeing.
It's just it's just mind boggling that some people are
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really almost close to the dark ages when it comes.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
To that, well it is.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
And you've got to remember too, right through the royal
communities there's a different age demographic, so you've got people
the young ones that come through. I've got a cell
phone in the hand.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I mean, I'm probably one of those now and.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
I'm not that young. But you've also got old elderly
people that everything's going online. So if they don't have
options of basic connectivity, they're being left behind. And even healthcare.
You know, we talk about you know, Tellyhealth and getting
online for employments. So you know, if they don't have
those basic services, how are they're going to you know,
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take those opportunities to use Chelly Health instead of it
she driving into a town an hour or an hour
and a half away to see a doctor. You know,
there's a lot of benefits in connectivity, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Anybody that doesn't think that rural New Zealand and agriculture
and the like the backbone of this country. We need
to look after the backbone. So this is all a
good step in the right direction. Let's hope it happens right.
The Rural Women's Network one hundred years you shall, Obrady,
how's that.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
All going, Yeah, Rural Women New Zealm, Tamish. Yeah, Yeah,
it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
We're in the.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Planning just about to release at the end of July
and open up for the next twelve months with our
one hundred years. We're really proud of the one hundred
year history that we've had. You know, things have changed
so much in one hundred years, but we're still focusing
on supporting and giving the voice to rule women in
the communities to make sure we're connected and thriving. It
still hasn't changed one hundred years what our mission is.
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We're still talking about the same things healthcare, education, school buses,
all those sort of connectivity last forty years or so,
but all those things that we've been advocating for strongly
and supporting our real communities, we're still doing that one
hundred years later. So it's a massive achievement. And the
story is coming out from those long term members. It's
just incredible to hear them. So they're going to be
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coming rolling out into the wider community to hear what
real women's done over the last one hundred years. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The one I Love is out eleven around nineteen forty
five thousand pound raised to build a spitfire flowing in World.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
War Two by a son of one of the members.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Credible.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I just thought there's one of the best stories I
have heard in so long, and you know, it's just yeah, yeah,
made my day when I came across that terrible that
that was the situation they were in. But the way,
you know, the I guess the sort of link between
the member and the Sun and what they did and
are incredible.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. And these stories are popping out
up all the time. And you know, when I get
an email or a phone call from one of the
members and they're telling me about this, I just sit there.
I'm actually gobsmacked about how incredible these women have come
before us has been and how incredible the women are
that are doing the work out there today as well.
It's amazing we are that we are the support network
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of the backbone of our industry, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
We rure women? Oh well, Nikola Greg said that, you know,
rural women are the beating heart of the backbone, you know,
of the economy, and it's definitely right, it absolutely is.
Hikay Sandra Matthews, President A Rural Women New Zealand, thank
you so much for joining us.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Much appreciated, great thanks you, samsh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Hamus McKay and for Jamie McKay at a thirty five
minutes past midday.
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Local stockist, Yeah, thanks, Hamish people hoping to get their
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fifty grand blocks for five dollars fifteen, with a dollar
from every block going towards their fundraising goal. Some schools
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have sold tens of thousands of blocks. Christ Churches at
Chisnelwood Intermediate says the company advised them it had oversold
the product, forcing it to push back its fundraiser by
three months to October.
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
And in Sport despite a two week break, Ryan Fox
is feeling confident ahead of the final men's major of
the year. The key goal for is two shots off
the lead after the first round of the Scottish Open.
He says his mind is clear and he's swinging freely
now following his breakthrough brace of PGA Too Triumphs and
the Black Socks. They have suffered a first loss at
the Men's Soft World Cup in Canada. They've been beaten
seven to two by Venezuela in their final pull match.
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They must now wait until this afternoon to see if
they advance to the top four at super round. That's
sport Hamish, thank you very much, young man.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Handsome young follow through their dull tones, righty, hope carrying
on with the show coming up very shortly. I'm going
to go mulboroside down to the top of the South Island.
Richard Dawkins. Next, well, we head to a Mulborough and
feeds meat and wheel chair and of course, yeah, some
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challenging times down in that part of the world, particularly
over the hill from the Marlborough region.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Richard Dawkins joins, now.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Can I Richard, yeah, house things Amish.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Yeah, not too bad. But we're here in Auckland. I've
been down in the Mantle or two bit lately where
the weather has been pretty good. But I tell you
what over the sort of matchiaoache away some pretty concerning signs.
I mean, she's pretty wet now, but worse might be
to come.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Yeah, it could well be on its way. And look
here in Marlborough, I don't want to understate those who
are affected there. There has been a bit of damage
up the wire Ol Valley and other roading issues around
the region. But like you say, over the Hill and
the Motte Valley are our thoughts are really with those people.
And yeah, Federated Farmers certainly been active keeping in touch
with people and just offering what assistance we can.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Is there anyway, is there an eight hundred number for
people who might want to help out further or those
who need help?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What's the sort of what's the system there?
Speaker 11 (24:13):
Yeah, so look, there's various avenues people can take if
they do want to lend a hand or so. You've
obviously got real support, trust, civil defense, rural women always
do a great job of connecting people. But look, oh
eight hundred farming is the Fed's contact. Any questions or
queries just called that number.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh eight hundred farming. There you go, and I'll make
sure I repeat that as well. Look, look, without getting
too grave on it, but there are one or two
shocking stories, aren't there, you know, and people who just
who just do not need any more of the wet stuff.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, And look, we're keeping a close eye on
what's going on, particularly with key members in the community.
And also actually we you know, Feeds has actually reached
out to every member over there to check in just
to see what report has required. And yeah, we're hearing
about you know, twenty twenty people have sort of had
major impacts and the situation's pretty dire to be honest.
(25:10):
So yeah, we're connecting people where we can.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, okay, so it's good to know that the hard
yards are going in to help out those people who
are affected.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
What are you hearing sort of around the country. Are
there any other pockets that have been adversely affected?
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Oh, look at it. Certainly wet is definitely the theme
around the country. Just jetting to the Meat and Will Council.
As people are probably aware, we've got twenty four members
in twenty four regions. But yeah, look, the focus is
certainly on the top of the South just at the
moment now.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The just on the save our Sheep campaign, is this
something that's still happening.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely so, Yes, Toby did a fantastic job
of launching the Save our Sheep campaign and look, it
was highly as high successful, gained a lot of traction
and yeah, just a timing thing with our AGM and
getting the Council around the table and just working out, hey,
what are the current issues and what are the future
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issues going to be for the sheep and b sector. So,
like I said, all twenty four council members had input
there and we've come up with our list of priorities,
our list of actions. So if I could list those
off for your Hamish, that would be great.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Are you far away? Tell us what's next? Love to know?
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, So top of the list on the council's
mind was yeah, obviously this land use change into carbon farming,
which is what Save our Sheep was launched based on
that issue. And this is an example of the work
that goes on behind the scenes. The social media is
(26:52):
excellent for getting the word out there, but we've got
this powerhouse of fifty staff at Feeds and we've been
battling away. So on Tuesday I'm actually speaking to the
Select Committee. We're just rarely concerned that the way the
Climate Change Amendment Bill is constructed is it's not actually
going to be very effective at stopping that land use change.
(27:12):
So yeah, we'll be speaking to that. We're looking for
the carbon credit restriction so companies will only be able
to receive carbon credits on twenty five percent of the plantings.
We're looking for that to actually apply to all land
use classes. Currently, as the bill sits, it's just land
use is one to five and there haven't actually been
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a significant There have been plantings, don't get me wrong
on that country, and that's great, but we actually need
to see that restricted restriction to all land use classes.
So that's number one. Number two emissions is always obviously
a hot topic to the Meet and Will Council. So yeah,
if we've put a land line in the sand as
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a national Council and said no to agricultural emissions pricing
or the development of a pricing framework, we're not even
going to go there. Number Third, Number three concerned for
the councilor's wool. So obviously we have the proposals to
put wall in government buildings, which we've seen success around.
Number four is weed and pests. You know this problem
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needs to be addressed, the running rampant across the country,
from angulates to wilding pines. And finally, we'd like to
see increased crown pastoral leases and grazing on public conservation land.
And look, you know they're all multifaceted issues. You increase
the grazing of those areas, you control weeds, you control pests,
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the native bush has a chance to thrive. And we've
got more seaquestration as a country. So look, five very relevant,
five very good priorities are created by that council of
people around the country.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Absolutely, absolutely, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
There to Richard Dawkinspeed's meeting, will chair right, it is
a forty past the hour of midday. Next up, brother
and Sister FMG Young Farmers of the Year ninety Well
it was twenty three, wasn't it, Emma Pool out of
the way out own these days Riveton base the twenty
two win a Tim Dangel next on the Country.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
The Country on your Friday, Harves.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
McKay in for Jamie McKay and of course the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year, another great contest in twenty
twenty five. I mean, I think we must be up
to about fifty odd, well past the fifty year mark,
because I think around about twenty twenty two, I remember
on another life talking to Tim dangel winner back then
and of course sister and twenty three champion Pool.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
The two of them join us now, get a team.
How are you both good? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Tom? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
No good, good good. Hey Tim, you've had a move
since I last spoke to you. You've gone deep south.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I have made a surprise loaf to some, but yeah,
a bit of a shock to a system coming down
to a cooler temperatures down here. We've pretty well had
a month under our belt now and absolutely loving it spent.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yeah, and winter's taking a while.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Well hopefully it doesn't kick into any strong degree, but
certainly June July things seem to come in a bit
later these days.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Weather was yeah, absolutely, and we've had a fantastic Joane
down here. Talking to all of the old boys around
the district. They're being very happy with the conditions. We
haven't had a lot of rain, had a lot of
fine and frosted days, so we've got an offul goods start.
And if you can sort of chalk those early good
days up, then winter can only be so long, so
fingers crossed the good weather continues.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yeah, absolutely, my house things for you and the whitehadow.
Speaker 12 (30:39):
Yeah, no, we're booming here. Most farmers around the district
are saying to get into calvings. He's sort of seeing
calves pop up around the Peddis said fairly generous with
her the last week that they're it's done to turn.
And now, Hamen, I think we underfoot today. I'm towing
some calves down the track as we speaking. They're looking
pretty muddy.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Okay, righty.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I well hope he doesn't get too much worse with
the weather forecast over the next few days. F MG
Young Phara of the twenty twenty five win to Wake
out of Bay of plenty Hugh Jackson, Emma, Now.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You were obviously a good supporter of this guy, and
it died a huge winning margin too, which was pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh didn't he do so well?
Speaker 12 (31:16):
And I think the practical day must have been fairly
tight by the sounds of it. But it sounds like
you must have put in some work behind the scenes
for that technical day, you know, before he showed up,
and you know, put a few points away there which
gave him that jump.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Q competed with me.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
When I did it, and he's turned into a great mate,
so I was absolutely tough to see him take it away.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Ah, yes, so good when you watch it, you know,
do you do you do? You still do? Still get
the sort of the blood fly what a great event
it is and how proud you are to be a
past winner.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Absolutely, Homer's still an exciting thing to be a part
of and a practical day was a real spect to
kill to get along. Were at Winton. Emma did a
fantastic job of convening it down here and the weather
really play ball, which makes a huge difference. They beldween,
I reckon about three thousand people there at one stage
watching everyone take away, and it was yeah, kind of obvious.
(32:12):
I thought that Hugh had put the most preparation and
had the most experience. From the guys. It was a
really tight field and it'll be great to see a
lot of them come back because there's definitely some champions
in there. But it really stoked for Hugh. He put
in a lot of effort and that hard work suddenly
paid off.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
What are some of the things that when watching him
in those sort of the field events, so to speak,
that really stood out.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The time management was really obvious that he was really
prioritizing on not doing everything perfectly, but making sure that
he was getting points on the board in every area.
So I think that experience that Hugh has really shine
in those sorts of areas. But the range of skill
sets that all the contestants were displaying.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Was so vast.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's pretty impressive to watch them go about their day.
And it was a big day for them as well.
They started at seven point thirty and they went, you know,
foot down for the entire day up to about four pm,
and then they had two hours off, had to go
and say a speech in front of about three out
of people, and then the cargo. So it was a
big shift from them all. Absolutely, And yeah, they left
everything out there is great.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
So Eman, what would you say to somebody who didn't
win this year, who competed well? And I see there's
some real Yang's in there as well, you know, I
mean their practical experience can only improve it, you know, So.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
You know the future is bright hope for them keep
going at it.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (33:29):
Absolutely, And it took me to go Tamish. I you know,
I had to have a crack at at first and
get some experience and then go back again.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Tim was lucky to do one and done.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
But yeah, lots of people give it a crack, and
even if you don't go back anyone news hit so
much out of the contest, and like you know, I
wouldn't have pulled you out of the mate if I
hadn't have gone back again.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
So what a great thing.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
You know, if you don't win, still lots of prizes
up for lots of different things and lots of experience
to be gained, so you're not going to miss out
on anything.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Yeah, fantastic, hey, Tim.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
With the move from sort of out West Auckland orwai
Wai down to Riverden, there's the ten dollars sort of
money around for the milk solids and it feels like
it might not be a one hit wonder, which you'd.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Like to hear.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, possibly, hard to tell, isn't it early days? Yeah,
that was one of the reasons we made the move,
but it certainly wasn't the main reason. We're excited to
have a little bit of an adventure as a young
family as well, and it's a good time to do us. Yeah,
We've got a one year old daughter, so I don't
want to be pulling kids out of school or anything
like that. And I always really enjoyed my time in
(34:30):
self and when I was down there about ten years ago,
so it's good to be back. And yeah, things are
looking positive for the season ahead, absolutely, so we just
need to make sure that we do the production, get
the milk in the vet, and then hopefully the star's
going to line.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Yeah too, right, And it's a nice thing about New Zealand,
doesn't I've recently been doing a lot of workdown in
the Matter with two and I almost call myself commuting
between Auckland and the Matter were two. But New Zealand's village,
isn't it. I mean, you don't really go that far
away from where your roots are anyway, you know, we
can and hopefully your connectivities all right now we have
been talking about a bit lately, But yeah, I just
feel like good on you for you must be really
(35:05):
making a move and as you say, changing children at
school age is a difficult thing to do. So yeah,
so so so far a ten out of ten for
you on the move.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm very grateful for the Reverdend community that
I've been very welcoming to myself and my wife Jenny.
Obviously great having a supportive partner that's keen to do
something like that, because it is a bit of an
adventure for sure. But you did write that these days,
it's pretty easy to stay in touch with people, and
you know, we call home frequently to mum and dad,
and we're very fortunate that we've got a good strong
(35:35):
community base around us here and none of the neighbors
have changed, so it's easy, easy on the front. So yeah,
we're looking forward to getting stuck, and yeah, it's an
exciting time for us.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You knew who are the local retrobates and who you
had to look out for on a Friday night and things,
so that that's good inside information in terms of your
returning down there. Good to know, right, Emma. Just I
just want sort of to wrap up my time in
the matter too recent. I'm feeling a really good vibe
around farming and almost and you're sort of a feeling
of let's just get on with it, let's not sort
(36:09):
of have it's good now. But the dooms around the
corner mentality is that what you're sort of sensing definitely.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
Yeah, And I think there's a lot of farmers that
ready to crack into the season this year, aren't they.
Like we've been set up quite well in the way,
kiddo here we've had either drought, but there was a
fairly generous autumn behind that, so most people's cows are
in good neck. And yeah, I think ceilings are pretty
positive out there. And of course the money really helps,
so people have invested a lot in their farms. I
can see lots of projects that have gone on in
(36:36):
the winter period, which is just going to make things
so much easier for people when the heads of it down,
they're stuck in the mud, down cows and the likes that.
You know, the sun will shine on the other side,
and if they've spent that money to improve the infrastructure now,
then they're going to have a really good season out
of it, don't they.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
The sun shines on the other side.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
And we talk to you to twenty twenty two win
a Timm dangin twenty twenty three when a Paul brother
and sister Wellers are THEMG Young Farmer of the Year.
Thank you to you both. We'll talk again in the
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the country on your Friday heading into the weekend.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Coming up on the show, we'll catch up.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
With Aaron Cruden, World Cup winning first five eight These
days he's involved in the commentary and the comments side
of rugby, two times Super Rugby champion.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
With the Chiefs. He's gonna look at the Third Test
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We're going to catch up with two of the finest
young farmers in the country, the brother and sister Emma
Pool and Tim Dangin. We're going to catch up with
them later on the show and have a look back
on the FMG Young Farmer of the year and what
it all means. We're also going to catch up with
a rural woman and ZED president Sandra Matthews, as well
(01:40):
as Richard Dawkin's Fed Meat and Wiel chair out of
Marlborough and what help can be given to those affected
with what's happening with the rain around the country.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
And on that topic, let's get straight into it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Joined by Chris Brandolino from NEWA Good afternoon, Chris, Welcome
into the show.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
What's the lightest on this TV? Predicted Ryan, and it
is happening.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Yeah, it is happening. Good afternoon. Oh and by the way,
we're Earth Sciences New Zealand now no more needs combined
with DNS.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, it iss New Zealand. It's going into the book
right as we spak. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Yeah, it's en up of the housekeeping. Back to your clast. Yes, look,
it's bucketing down pretty good at the top of the
South Island. I'm looking at some of the very recent
observations by way that has been District Council and over
the past twenty four hours there are multiple three locations
where rainfall totals have exceeded one and thirty five millimeters
(02:44):
already and these are about the ranges and about the
higher elevations, but nonetheless very heavy rain. And we have
that red warning issued by met Service for areas for
parts of the Tasman District. Look the rainfall Mountain itself,
so this combines what's already fallen and what's gonna come,
will be upwards of two hundred millimeters, maybe a bit less,
(03:06):
maybe a bit more, and ordinarily that would trigger a
red warning. But you got to remember we had the
heavy rain two weeks ago that that was really heavy rain.
Last week we had some decent rainfall now this week.
So it's the cumulative or compounding effects of these events
which will increase the odds for things like slips and flooding,
(03:29):
and that's a big reason for the red warnings, those
impacts expected from the heavy rainfall. And it's not just
the top of the southound Hamish, it's other parts of
the country. So the top of the North Island copping
it pretty good right now, the good douse of rain,
and I think this afternoon and the evening the rest
of the North Island gets into some pretty heavy rain
for a period of time.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, it's a whole compounding then, I mean, we like
interest to compound on air deposits, but we don't like
our rain on rain, and that is a real concern.
As you said previously, not always a look, is this
a moving face? Could there be a best case scenario
that it might button off for you're pretty sure it's
a happening thing and we'll continue.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
To be so I doubt that, Hamish. I mean, we're
just starting to get into the really heavy stuff. Between
now and six o'clock basically will be the heaviest rain
for the top of the South Island. So the next
four or five six hour is going to be the
worst of it. And as I mentioned earlier, there are
multiple locations with already in excess of one hundred and
thirty five millimeters, So yeah, it's basic. We're kind of
(04:32):
midway through the journey. Other places like Katanaki, we'll see
some heavy rainfall good you know, much of the country,
the corrimandol can't sleep on them, they'll get a good
drop of rain one hundred plus millimeters or more. And
again the ground is so wet, and that's kind of
the issue. And I think as we look farther afield,
this is something we're going to have to be really
(04:52):
mindful of over the coming weeks and months, is that
we're likely to see more of these events where we
have low pressure coming from the west, tap it into
some pretty rich moisture to our north and kind of
sophing that down, siphing it down to the to the
to our neck of the woods to New Zealand. Exactly
where things fall. That's a weather forecast, but I can
tell you from a theme perspective, a climate outlook, the
(05:15):
next three months are looking quite wet for the top
of both islands, where the other areas of the country
under the gun for potentially having rainfall. So again, these
compounding rainfall events as the ground moistens with time, they're
gonna be more of a concern as we work away
through the rest of July. We've got to watch the
end of July early August. That seems to be an
area where there could be some heavy another I guess
(05:37):
one or two big rainfall events potentially toward the end
of July to early August. And unfortunately, this is something
we'll probably have to deal with in some shape or
form for the rest of winter into early spring.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That least interesting told me to capital farmers down in
the Southland region and that saying, look, conditions have been
so good up until now, but there are a little
bit weary that winter coming is coming a little later.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, Look, touching on the lower South Island. One thing
will have to be mindful of in Southland as well
as in Tira or Otago where the where the catchments
are going from more agricultural to energy which you know,
we really we relying the water to produce a lot
of our energy and the hydro storage dams. Dryness is
going to become more of a concern as we work
(06:24):
away toward the you know, toward August, September, October, basically
as we moved through the end of winter and it's
a springtime and beyond, because we're expecting a lack of
west the southwest winds. It's the westerly winds that give
the West and the lower portion of the South Island
all that rainfall that you know they notoriously get, and
that's going to be absent temperatures. We're not going to
(06:46):
find many cold snaps. There'll be a few, yeah, okay, sure,
but it's not going to define the period over the
next three muths warmer than average temperatures.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Thank you very much, said is Chris Brandolina Sciences end
z there with the lightest on the way the far
emergency and action evacuations happening in that Tasman district, oar
and crudon. On a slightly more cheery note, next here
on the country. Why is the all black French second
(07:19):
Test coming up tomorrow? A few changes in that all
black side just a handful, quite a conservative selection based
on continuity from the first test.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And who better to look at this than a man.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Himself, a Rugby World Cup winner from twenty eleven and
I always referred to you know, even they won a
couple of titles with the Chiefs Matter or Two's Finest
Our in Crudent of course Palmerston North Boys High as
well as how are you mate?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, thanks for having me on, Hemosier. I'm great, Thank
you you obviously just enjoyed the Test match last weekend
and looking forward to another one this weekend. Than willing
to Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Think interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, one thing I think we can say out
of this is the French top fourteen is not a
bad competition and there's a fair old swag of depth
in their players.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Oh it's huge, even for me personally. I went over
and played three seasons over there, and yeah, it is
the depth and I guess the continuity they are building
over there, and especially under Fabian Goaltier, like he's coming
and he's not afraid to make some what most people
might consider to be big calls and really blood a
(08:29):
lot of youth and sort of giving younger guys an opportunity.
But yeah, obviously a bit was made before the series
of the so called caliber of team they were bringing over,
but I think they showed in that game and the
need and last weekend that they're head to play regardless
of who's on the field. They're just going to get
out there, play the French way and give it a
good crack.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, And the French way these days is it's still
an entertaining brand of footy, but it's also a pretty
well structured.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
One at times as well.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Look just looking at the selections, I see Sovana White
is on the bench there for Quinn Tupaia, who did
nothing wrong. But you know, I think this is just
a good one in terms of giving a guy a
taste a potential taste of international footy for the for
the Highland as skipper who's been who was a real
standout in Super Rugby?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Oh he was. He was a standout and he's he's
very deserved of his selection. And as you said, Quinn
got another taste. I think Quinn had an outstanding Super
Rugby season and he got a taste off the bench
last weekend. But I suppose when you when you listen
to Razor and the All Blacks speak, they are wanting
a little bit of continuity. But they also do have
to balance out the fact that it's a three Test series,
(09:37):
so they do want to give some of these debutantes
or or these younger guys or not younger necessarily but
just new squads to the member new members to the squad, sorry,
an opportunity to play. And I think this is a
great opportunity for Timothy to come in there and obviously
hopefully who knows what the conditions are going to be
like and what what I guess the game status is
(09:59):
going to be like when he gets in there, but
we know that he's just electric, like he offered so
much in and around the ball. He's a tough ball carrier.
I think the transition he made from the wing to
the midfield this year and super ugly was outstanding and
that probably goes a little bit unnoticed to the naked eye,
but it's not an easy transition and he did it seamlessly,
So I'm excited to see how he goes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Now, young Caleb Clarke has he's had the media blow
torch on him and you know some of that was
self invited, but he gets an opportunity to get out
there and leave all that behind because one solid performance
in a Test match and a lot is forgotten and
forgiven as it should be for a young guy. And
I'm really looking forward to him having a standout performance.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and so am I. I think Caleb,
you know, he offers so much as well, Like he's
just such a physical specimen and you want him in
and around the ball. You want to get him as
many touches in you as you can. And I do
understand the conditions in the need and are going to
be different to Wellington. But what I really liked in
regards to what the All Blacks were doing last weekend,
(11:00):
they were getting the ball to the Wits weren't they.
They were prepared to give the ball a little bit
of give it to some of the athletes out wide
and see what they can do and if they're able
to do that again this weekend in Wellington, to give
the likes of Cayleb a little bit of one on
one ball and even Rico Joanna who shifted to the
right wing this weekend. I think it's just going to
allow the All Blacks to play with a little bit
(11:21):
of a different dimension to probably what the French possibly
might be expecting.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, and you know you mentioned Rico Yoannie, and I
think you know and you know how tight that midfield
congestion is at international level.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I think he gets a little bit of the short.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
End of the straw occasion in terms of analysis of
his performance in the midfield. And that's why I'm looking
forward to him having a real chance again out on
the wing to carve up a bit and go back
to that Rico we remember from those twenty seven to
twenty eighteen when he was just on fire.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
So a bit more room for him hopefully.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Absolutely, And the guy played with Rico and he is
he's just world class. And yes, he also looked early
on he played on the wing and then transitioned into
the midfield, which, again, as I've already said it, it's
not an easy task. But for him to be able
to have that sort of balance and that flexibility, I
suppose is for me in a squad, it's it's second
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to none just having the ability to start on the wing,
but then maybe as the game goes on, who knows,
due to injuries or however the game might be flowing.
If you can sort of transition someone into the midfield,
it's great. And as you say, I think he does
get a little bit of unnecessary criticism at times, and
especially considering we don't all from the outside looking and
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we don't know what the messages are internally all the time,
so it's easy to judge on face value. But I
think you know the ins and outs and being an
ex player myself, like you know what's spoken about in
the in the sink drum and in as long as
you're doing your bit as well as you can to
execute the game plan and contribute there, and then that's
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all you can.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ask for as a player and as a coach.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, I explain a commentary role in commentary and
comments person that you have now you enjoy that stuff
you do.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You're like a ductor water mate, you love it.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh, it's been fun. Yeah, obviously I help soon you're
talking about something you feel like, you know relatively well.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
So yeah, for me, it wasn't something that I ever
thought post Rugby would become something, but yeah, an opportunity
came up, like like they do at times, and sometimes
you just got to be brave enough to walk through
the open door.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And yeah, I've really been enjoying it. And obviously I
am really conscious and aware that I am an ex player,
so I always do have my players hat on to
a certain extent and just want to be really player
centric because I know what it's like too, you know,
like ultimately, as players, you know, if you have a
poor game, you don't need to hear about it or
read about it or this, and that is just about
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going out there and doing your best, but also making
those adjustments when you know you need to.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, fantastic, Hey, great to chat as always Aaron Cruton,
and we'll do it again.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Might you enjoyed the test match? Yeah, we'll do.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Thanks for having me on mate, cheers.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah, there you go, one of the best Aaron crewd
in that ten twelve combination and Super Rugby with Sonny,
Bill Williams and the Chiefs. That was just magic to
watch the All Black French Test live commentary on z
B Goldsport and iHeart checked that out. Elliot Smith, Bondie
and Pioneer your team for that one tomorrow night, come out.
Next on the Country Sandra Matthews on the topic of
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a connectivity. That's the Rural women in Zed president Next,
like the national president of the Rural Women's Network is
Sandra Matthews joining us on the country?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Sandra, how are you?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Good?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Thanks Hamish, excellent and rural when New Zealander is doing
really well as well right around the country.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, that's fantastic to hear one thing not going quite
so well. Well, we might be about to get some
big improvement on though. Is the old home activity? What's
happening in that space?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
That's an interesting one, isn't it. As we've been talking
about this it seems like forever. So the Infrastructure Commission
came out and endorsed a proposal of the Chorus is
put forward to increase extend the fiber network from eighty
seven percent to ninety five percent across New Zealand. You know,
initially when I read it, I thought, well, you know,
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here we've got starlink, we've got lots of different options,
but in actual facts, for people that don't have those options, this,
this fiber network is really important. So we've endorsed that.
We think it's a really important plan and we'd like
to see the government get behind it, you know, to
prioritize it and actually prioritize the support for our ural
communities in this way. I mean, we've got massive economic
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potential in our real communities and we talk technology all
the time Halter and all these technologies coming on board
for farms and for roal communities, but without connectivity, we
can't move forward with it.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Exactly exactly, it's all about progress. Eighty seven percent to
ninety percent. What amazed me is that's that's a huge
number of households who will get the opportunity to take
up fiber.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yeah, it's really interesting. You know, they're talking about an
additional one hundred and sixty thousand addresses right around the country,
regional and rural, so it is massive and you think
about you know, Copper's been being phased out in lots
of areas and people have relied on copper, especially in
adverse events. We've got you know Nelson, we've had Gabriel
up our Way and entied arcity in the East Coast
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and you know, these these basic services are really important
for people that are in more isolated areas.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, absolutely they are. And yeah, so it is good
to see this progress.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So we do you do you have an idea of
a timeline here now that Chorus has got the green
light from Infrastructure.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Well, I think it all all depends on the funding
actually Hamish. So they've gone back to government with that,
with the proposal and the endorsement, and as a real
community supportive real communities, we're endorsing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It as well.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I have not heard about the timeline. I think the
discussions are happening. As soon as we hear about that, well,
we'll definitely be putting it out to our members as well.
The one thing I will say that we really are
we have a lot of black spots around the country,
you know, thinking about you know, the cell phone networks
and those sorts of things too which also support you know, connectivity.
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I think the one thing I will say about we
are calling to expand the five D coverage around the country.
They've been really great and put five hundred and thirty
nine mobile extra mobile towers around the country to enhance
the real connectivity. But you know, I can drive from
Hawk's Bay down to say Marsterton and the course are
dropping out all the time. And last week I was
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in the Waikato and drove from Auckland to Wakato and
my cell phone was dropping out while I'm trying to
have conversations. So you know, we really advocate for expanding
that five D coverage further around the country as well.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I do a bit of driving between Auckland and Manner
or two and actually the Auckland Whitehadow is the worst
dropout spot of all. But really we need the Era
of equal Opportunity date when it comes to digital connectivity,
because you say education, business, health, you know, our social wellbeing.
It's just it's just mind boggling that some people are
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really almost close to the dark ages when it comes.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
To that, well it is.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
And you've got to remember too, right through the royal
communities there's a different age demographic, so you've got people
the young ones that come through. I've got a cell
phone in the hand.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I mean, I'm probably one of those now and.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
I'm not that young. But you've also got old elderly
people that everything's going online. So if they don't have
options of basic connectivity, they're being left behind. And even healthcare.
You know, we talk about you know, Tellyhealth and getting
online for employments. So you know, if they don't have
those basic services, how are they're going to you know,
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take those opportunities to use Chelly Health instead of it
she driving into a town an hour or an hour
and a half away to see a doctor. You know,
there's a lot of benefits in connectivity, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Anybody that doesn't think that rural New Zealand and agriculture
and the like the backbone of this country. We need
to look after the backbone. So this is all a
good step in the right direction. Let's hope it happens right.
The Rural Women's Network one hundred years you shall, Obrady,
how's that.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
All going, Yeah, Rural Women New Zealm, Tamish. Yeah, Yeah,
it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
We're in the.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Planning just about to release at the end of July
and open up for the next twelve months with our
one hundred years. We're really proud of the one hundred
year history that we've had. You know, things have changed
so much in one hundred years, but we're still focusing
on supporting and giving the voice to rule women in
the communities to make sure we're connected and thriving. It
still hasn't changed one hundred years what our mission is.
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We're still talking about the same things healthcare, education, school buses,
all those sort of connectivity last forty years or so,
but all those things that we've been advocating for strongly
and supporting our real communities, we're still doing that one
hundred years later. So it's a massive achievement. And the
story is coming out from those long term members. It's
just incredible to hear them. So they're going to be
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coming rolling out into the wider community to hear what
real women's done over the last one hundred years. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The one I Love is out eleven around nineteen forty
five thousand pound raised to build a spitfire flowing in World.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
War Two by a son of one of the members.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Credible.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I just thought there's one of the best stories I
have heard in so long, and you know, it's just yeah, yeah,
made my day when I came across that terrible that
that was the situation they were in. But the way,
you know, the I guess the sort of link between
the member and the Sun and what they did and
are incredible.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. And these stories are popping out
up all the time. And you know, when I get
an email or a phone call from one of the
members and they're telling me about this, I just sit there.
I'm actually gobsmacked about how incredible these women have come
before us has been and how incredible the women are
that are doing the work out there today as well.
It's amazing we are that we are the support network
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of the backbone of our industry, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
We rure women? Oh well, Nikola Greg said that, you know,
rural women are the beating heart of the backbone, you know,
of the economy, and it's definitely right, it absolutely is.
Hikay Sandra Matthews, President A Rural Women New Zealand, thank
you so much for joining us.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Much appreciated, great thanks you, samsh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Hamus McKay and for Jamie McKay at a thirty five
minutes past midday.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
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from every block going towards their fundraising goal. Some schools
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have sold tens of thousands of blocks. Christ Churches at
Chisnelwood Intermediate says the company advised them it had oversold
the product, forcing it to push back its fundraiser by
three months to October.
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
And in Sport despite a two week break, Ryan Fox
is feeling confident ahead of the final men's major of
the year. The key goal for is two shots off
the lead after the first round of the Scottish Open.
He says his mind is clear and he's swinging freely
now following his breakthrough brace of PGA Too Triumphs and
the Black Socks. They have suffered a first loss at
the Men's Soft World Cup in Canada. They've been beaten
seven to two by Venezuela in their final pull match.
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They must now wait until this afternoon to see if
they advance to the top four at super round. That's
sport Hamish, thank you very much, young man.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Handsome young follow through their dull tones, righty, hope carrying
on with the show coming up very shortly. I'm going
to go mulboroside down to the top of the South Island.
Richard Dawkins. Next, well, we head to a Mulborough and
feeds meat and wheel chair and of course, yeah, some
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challenging times down in that part of the world, particularly
over the hill from the Marlborough region.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Richard Dawkins joins, now.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Can I Richard, yeah, house things Amish.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Yeah, not too bad. But we're here in Auckland. I've
been down in the Mantle or two bit lately where
the weather has been pretty good. But I tell you
what over the sort of matchiaoache away some pretty concerning signs.
I mean, she's pretty wet now, but worse might be
to come.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Yeah, it could well be on its way. And look
here in Marlborough, I don't want to understate those who
are affected there. There has been a bit of damage
up the wire Ol Valley and other roading issues around
the region. But like you say, over the Hill and
the Motte Valley are our thoughts are really with those people.
And yeah, Federated Farmers certainly been active keeping in touch
with people and just offering what assistance we can.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Is there anyway, is there an eight hundred number for
people who might want to help out further or those
who need help?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What's the sort of what's the system there?
Speaker 11 (24:13):
Yeah, so look, there's various avenues people can take if
they do want to lend a hand or so. You've
obviously got real support, trust, civil defense, rural women always
do a great job of connecting people. But look, oh
eight hundred farming is the Fed's contact. Any questions or
queries just called that number.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh eight hundred farming. There you go, and I'll make
sure I repeat that as well. Look, look, without getting
too grave on it, but there are one or two
shocking stories, aren't there, you know, and people who just
who just do not need any more of the wet stuff.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, And look, we're keeping a close eye on
what's going on, particularly with key members in the community.
And also actually we you know, Feeds has actually reached
out to every member over there to check in just
to see what report has required. And yeah, we're hearing
about you know, twenty twenty people have sort of had
major impacts and the situation's pretty dire to be honest.
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So yeah, we're connecting people where we can.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, okay, so it's good to know that the hard
yards are going in to help out those people who
are affected.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
What are you hearing sort of around the country. Are
there any other pockets that have been adversely affected?
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Oh, look at it. Certainly wet is definitely the theme
around the country. Just jetting to the Meat and Will Council.
As people are probably aware, we've got twenty four members
in twenty four regions. But yeah, look, the focus is
certainly on the top of the South just at the
moment now.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The just on the save our Sheep campaign, is this
something that's still happening.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely so, Yes, Toby did a fantastic job
of launching the Save our Sheep campaign and look, it
was highly as high successful, gained a lot of traction
and yeah, just a timing thing with our AGM and
getting the Council around the table and just working out, hey,
what are the current issues and what are the future
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issues going to be for the sheep and b sector. So,
like I said, all twenty four council members had input
there and we've come up with our list of priorities,
our list of actions. So if I could list those
off for your Hamish, that would be great.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Are you far away? Tell us what's next? Love to know?
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, So top of the list on the council's
mind was yeah, obviously this land use change into carbon farming,
which is what Save our Sheep was launched based on
that issue. And this is an example of the work
that goes on behind the scenes. The social media is
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excellent for getting the word out there, but we've got
this powerhouse of fifty staff at Feeds and we've been
battling away. So on Tuesday I'm actually speaking to the
Select Committee. We're just rarely concerned that the way the
Climate Change Amendment Bill is constructed is it's not actually
going to be very effective at stopping that land use change.
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So yeah, we'll be speaking to that. We're looking for
the carbon credit restriction so companies will only be able
to receive carbon credits on twenty five percent of the plantings.
We're looking for that to actually apply to all land
use classes. Currently, as the bill sits, it's just land
use is one to five and there haven't actually been
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a significant There have been plantings, don't get me wrong
on that country, and that's great, but we actually need
to see that restricted restriction to all land use classes.
So that's number one. Number two emissions is always obviously
a hot topic to the Meet and Will Council. So yeah,
if we've put a land line in the sand as
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a national Council and said no to agricultural emissions pricing
or the development of a pricing framework, we're not even
going to go there. Number Third, Number three concerned for
the councilor's wool. So obviously we have the proposals to
put wall in government buildings, which we've seen success around.
Number four is weed and pests. You know this problem
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needs to be addressed, the running rampant across the country,
from angulates to wilding pines. And finally, we'd like to
see increased crown pastoral leases and grazing on public conservation land.
And look, you know they're all multifaceted issues. You increase
the grazing of those areas, you control weeds, you control pests,
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the native bush has a chance to thrive. And we've
got more seaquestration as a country. So look, five very relevant,
five very good priorities are created by that council of
people around the country.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Absolutely, absolutely, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
There to Richard Dawkinspeed's meeting, will chair right, it is
a forty past the hour of midday. Next up, brother
and Sister FMG Young Farmers of the Year ninety Well
it was twenty three, wasn't it, Emma Pool out of
the way out own these days Riveton base the twenty
two win a Tim Dangel next on the Country.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
The Country on your Friday, Harves.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
McKay in for Jamie McKay and of course the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year, another great contest in twenty
twenty five. I mean, I think we must be up
to about fifty odd, well past the fifty year mark,
because I think around about twenty twenty two, I remember
on another life talking to Tim dangel winner back then
and of course sister and twenty three champion Pool.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
The two of them join us now, get a team.
How are you both good? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Tom? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
No good, good good. Hey Tim, you've had a move
since I last spoke to you. You've gone deep south.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I have made a surprise loaf to some, but yeah,
a bit of a shock to a system coming down
to a cooler temperatures down here. We've pretty well had
a month under our belt now and absolutely loving it spent.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yeah, and winter's taking a while.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Well hopefully it doesn't kick into any strong degree, but
certainly June July things seem to come in a bit
later these days.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Weather was yeah, absolutely, and we've had a fantastic Joane
down here. Talking to all of the old boys around
the district. They're being very happy with the conditions. We
haven't had a lot of rain, had a lot of
fine and frosted days, so we've got an offul goods start.
And if you can sort of chalk those early good
days up, then winter can only be so long, so
fingers crossed the good weather continues.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yeah, absolutely, my house things for you and the whitehadow.
Speaker 12 (30:39):
Yeah, no, we're booming here. Most farmers around the district
are saying to get into calvings. He's sort of seeing
calves pop up around the Peddis said fairly generous with
her the last week that they're it's done to turn.
And now, Hamen, I think we underfoot today. I'm towing
some calves down the track as we speaking. They're looking
pretty muddy.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Okay, righty.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I well hope he doesn't get too much worse with
the weather forecast over the next few days. F MG
Young Phara of the twenty twenty five win to Wake
out of Bay of plenty Hugh Jackson, Emma, Now.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You were obviously a good supporter of this guy, and
it died a huge winning margin too, which was pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh didn't he do so well?
Speaker 12 (31:16):
And I think the practical day must have been fairly
tight by the sounds of it. But it sounds like
you must have put in some work behind the scenes
for that technical day, you know, before he showed up,
and you know, put a few points away there which
gave him that jump.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Q competed with me.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
When I did it, and he's turned into a great mate,
so I was absolutely tough to see him take it away.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Ah, yes, so good when you watch it, you know,
do you do you do? You still do? Still get
the sort of the blood fly what a great event
it is and how proud you are to be a
past winner.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Absolutely, Homer's still an exciting thing to be a part
of and a practical day was a real spect to
kill to get along. Were at Winton. Emma did a
fantastic job of convening it down here and the weather
really play ball, which makes a huge difference. They beldween,
I reckon about three thousand people there at one stage
watching everyone take away, and it was yeah, kind of obvious.
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I thought that Hugh had put the most preparation and
had the most experience. From the guys. It was a
really tight field and it'll be great to see a
lot of them come back because there's definitely some champions
in there. But it really stoked for Hugh. He put
in a lot of effort and that hard work suddenly
paid off.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
What are some of the things that when watching him
in those sort of the field events, so to speak,
that really stood out.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The time management was really obvious that he was really
prioritizing on not doing everything perfectly, but making sure that
he was getting points on the board in every area.
So I think that experience that Hugh has really shine
in those sorts of areas. But the range of skill
sets that all the contestants were displaying.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Was so vast.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's pretty impressive to watch them go about their day.
And it was a big day for them as well.
They started at seven point thirty and they went, you know,
foot down for the entire day up to about four pm,
and then they had two hours off, had to go
and say a speech in front of about three out
of people, and then the cargo. So it was a
big shift from them all. Absolutely, And yeah, they left
everything out there is great.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
So Eman, what would you say to somebody who didn't
win this year, who competed well? And I see there's
some real Yang's in there as well, you know, I
mean their practical experience can only improve it, you know, So.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
You know the future is bright hope for them keep
going at it.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (33:29):
Absolutely, And it took me to go Tamish. I you know,
I had to have a crack at at first and
get some experience and then go back again.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Tim was lucky to do one and done.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
But yeah, lots of people give it a crack, and
even if you don't go back anyone news hit so
much out of the contest, and like you know, I
wouldn't have pulled you out of the mate if I
hadn't have gone back again.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
So what a great thing.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
You know, if you don't win, still lots of prizes
up for lots of different things and lots of experience
to be gained, so you're not going to miss out
on anything.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Yeah, fantastic, hey, Tim.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
With the move from sort of out West Auckland orwai
Wai down to Riverden, there's the ten dollars sort of
money around for the milk solids and it feels like
it might not be a one hit wonder, which you'd.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Like to hear.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, possibly, hard to tell, isn't it early days? Yeah,
that was one of the reasons we made the move,
but it certainly wasn't the main reason. We're excited to
have a little bit of an adventure as a young
family as well, and it's a good time to do us. Yeah,
We've got a one year old daughter, so I don't
want to be pulling kids out of school or anything
like that. And I always really enjoyed my time in
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self and when I was down there about ten years ago,
so it's good to be back. And yeah, things are
looking positive for the season ahead, absolutely, so we just
need to make sure that we do the production, get
the milk in the vet, and then hopefully the star's
going to line.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Yeah too, right, And it's a nice thing about New Zealand,
doesn't I've recently been doing a lot of workdown in
the Matter with two and I almost call myself commuting
between Auckland and the Matter were two. But New Zealand's village,
isn't it. I mean, you don't really go that far
away from where your roots are anyway, you know, we
can and hopefully your connectivities all right now we have
been talking about a bit lately, But yeah, I just
feel like good on you for you must be really
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making a move and as you say, changing children at
school age is a difficult thing to do. So yeah,
so so so far a ten out of ten for
you on the move.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm very grateful for the Reverdend community that
I've been very welcoming to myself and my wife Jenny.
Obviously great having a supportive partner that's keen to do
something like that, because it is a bit of an
adventure for sure. But you did write that these days,
it's pretty easy to stay in touch with people, and
you know, we call home frequently to mum and dad,
and we're very fortunate that we've got a good strong
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community base around us here and none of the neighbors
have changed, so it's easy, easy on the front. So yeah,
we're looking forward to getting stuck, and yeah, it's an
exciting time for us.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You knew who are the local retrobates and who you
had to look out for on a Friday night and things,
so that that's good inside information in terms of your
returning down there. Good to know, right, Emma. Just I
just want sort of to wrap up my time in
the matter too recent. I'm feeling a really good vibe
around farming and almost and you're sort of a feeling
of let's just get on with it, let's not sort
(36:09):
of have it's good now. But the dooms around the
corner mentality is that what you're sort of sensing definitely.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
Yeah, And I think there's a lot of farmers that
ready to crack into the season this year, aren't they.
Like we've been set up quite well in the way,
kiddo here we've had either drought, but there was a
fairly generous autumn behind that, so most people's cows are
in good neck. And yeah, I think ceilings are pretty
positive out there. And of course the money really helps,
so people have invested a lot in their farms. I
can see lots of projects that have gone on in
(36:36):
the winter period, which is just going to make things
so much easier for people when the heads of it down,
they're stuck in the mud, down cows and the likes that.
You know, the sun will shine on the other side,
and if they've spent that money to improve the infrastructure now,
then they're going to have a really good season out
of it, don't they.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
The sun shines on the other side.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
And we talk to you to twenty twenty two win
a Timm dangin twenty twenty three when a Paul brother
and sister Wellers are THEMG Young Farmer of the Year.
Thank you to you both. We'll talk again in the
not two distant future. Much appreciated cheers. Four minutes away
from one o'clock here on the Country. Well, when we've
(37:15):
got a long to do list, it's easy to neglect
the things that keep us well and feeling on top
of things. Scheduling a little downtime to catch up with
friends and do activities you enjoy is a great, a
good way to relieve stress and pressure and stay farm strong.
To find out why the house works for you and
to lock it in, head to farmstrong dot co dot
(37:36):
nz for free tools and resources. Farmstrong dot co dot enz.
This has been the Country. I'm Hamers mackay. Keep your
feet on the ground. Shoot for the stars, you know
the story. Go ahead, Go well with all blacks and
everybody else having fun on the sports fields this weekend.
Have a great weekend. I'm Hamus McKay. Jami Back Monday,
(37:57):
We'll do it all again.
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