June 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Te Radar, George Dodson, Rick Ladd, Gabe Ross and Riley Meason, Jessi Morgan and Adam Thompson, Jenni Vernon and Richard Lindroos.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
John Deere construction equipment.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You know, alarm, your.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Cold beer on Friday night, a pair of jeans and figures,
right and radio, A good air New Zealand and welcome
to the Country. Day three here at Mystery Creek. Not
a bad day actually if you're thinking of coming along,
but a great show for you today. But I'm going
to get straight into it because he's my favorite politician
(00:36):
of the day at the moment, the Prince of the Provinces,
Shane Jones. I have come bearing gifts from Open Country Cheese.
They want to bribe you, Shane with a block of
cheese that's gold. Hey, folks, good to be back.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm going to tell you that people would probably want
me to have Swiss cheese full of holes. I fear
I might have to declare this, but there's a reason
that I'm a hundred cages and it's probably too much
carb and probably too much cheese and the wrong sort
of tucker.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But good to be here.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I myself, as you know, born and bred on a
farm and have never forgotten the foundational influences of farm life.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Did you plant a whole lot of pine trees on
your own farm?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Too much gorse in the far North.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Look, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Why I have to be reminded at this particular mystery
Creek event of the billion tree strategy. It was a
great idea in its time, right tree, right place. I've
actually just met with the FEDS and they said, the
last time we had you here, Shane Jones, we wanted
to punch you in the nose. I said, Oh, that's
now the Greenies, not the farmers.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh that looks like that other. It sounds like that
other great New Zealand first idea to put your cinder
in Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I I love talking to Chamie because it gives me
a chance to tell the truth. And twenty twenty why
did all the farmers wives vote for your cinder and
throw Winston and Shane on the scrap heap? But wait,
we're back twenty twenty six. You can redeem yourselves now.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm looking talking about Federated Farmers And I just found
this one this morning trolling through the net chain. They
commissioned their own political poll in the week following the
budget and not well, I guess not surprisingly because they're
swarming around here. National fifty four Act nineteen, New Zealand
First eight and then Labour, Greens and to Party Maori
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barely registering. But the surprise number for me, in all seriousness,
was that New Zealand First is only rating at eight
percent with the farmers. Because to be fair to you,
and I see your good man over there, Mark Patterson,
you're doing a good job or you certainly have the farmers' backs.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well, we're halfway through the cycle and our appeal to
the farmers is a little bit like my political career.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're late bloomers.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So I wait until August September next year and the
farmers will realize that they need a dependable backbone in politics.
Winston and our party represent that opportunity because the other
side of politics. There's a reason why Labors at three
percent in that pole. But don't for a moment think
that one pole reflects all of the electoral outcomes.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Information out yesterday or this morning from Beef and Lamb,
who are just behind us here at Mystery Creek research
carried out on basically carbon farm and close to forty
thousand I know you don't want me to go on
about trees, but you've got to face this one. Show.
Close to forty thousand hectares of sheep and beef farms
have been sold four forestries since September of last year.
(03:38):
And I know that Luxeon Chrystal Luxon made the announcement
at the Southern Field Days or down at the Southern
Field Days site in December, but the onslaught of the
pine trees hasn't stopped.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, Look, the PMS made his decision and the way
to I guess, moderate the development of carbon forestry is
to restrict who can actually register a forest with the ETS.
And that's it the heart of what Minister Todd has
been promoting. But our colleague, who provides a lot of
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direction to our party, Mark Patterson, has said, don't completely
throw the ETS out, but look at refining it and
narrowing its application so we don't worsen the situation and
we don't want to worsen the situation with cockies.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But hey, all you.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Farmers, I got to tell you, if I was to
stop you selling your land, you would say, Shane Jones,
you're a communist. No, I'm not the communist. That's Chloe
in the other crowd. So you've got to bear in
mind if you want property rights, you want the ability
to do what you feel is appropriate for your land,
then weigh up all those decisions. But the ability to
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plaster the landscape and pine trees for carbon purposes, as
you well know, as the Prime Minister has articulated, has
reached its high point.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Should we be going Should we be allowing one hundred
percent offsetting very few other countries and we the only
country that does it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
While you're really raising a deeper question, which is what
we're taking to the next election. Why are the food
industries of New Zealand subject to this un driven set
of climate obligations. We're taking remits to our party conference
in September, and if we can get our party members
to accept that food industry should be exempt from the
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Paris Accord, then we'll be able to take that board
as a key part of our manifesto and God willing
contribute that to the formation of a future government if
we get enough folks on the center right side.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So basically you and Winston just want us out of
Paris right Well.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Winston's the Foreign Minister and Paris Accord is a part
of foreign policy and as great line to me as
when talking about foreign affairs, Shane Jones, Yes, stick to
your lane and less it's more. And as he flew
out to Paris and to Nice, and as he goes
to other places New York and such famous sites of
great influence, he says, Shane, I'm going to New York
(06:03):
and you're going to Mournua. So there's the.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Money in the real power lies. To be fair to you,
You've just come back this week from Singapore. What was
on over there.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Our large conference where we were promoting investment to ReVibe,
reinvigorate the gas industry. Without gas will be condemned to
use Indonesian coal. I got nothing against the Indonesians. We
should be digging up our own coal. And my message
to the dairy farming producers and processes stop this mad
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drive flight towards demonizing the coal industry. We are going
to need all options, including gas and coal well towards
twenty to fifty. And this unicorn kissing fairytale territory that
somehow wind and solar is going to save New Zealand,
and New Zealand single handedly can save the planet from
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the climate cultism.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's not the state of New Zealand first beliefs. Well,
there you go. He's getting a big hand from the
crowd here at Mystery Creek. Just finally, August the twenty
second to poke the Rugby club. You and I are
doing a fundraiser together. Ah, yes, and we're going to
let you off the chain. Chatham House Rules? How good
(07:21):
will that be if you're anywhere there's a pookey Ah?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Chatham House Rules didn't work too good for Phil goth
So I kind of regard most of what I have
to say. It's going to make its way to the
front page of the paper. But look, it's really important
for politicians who like to promote personality, and of course
Mark Patterson will say Shane promote ego.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
There's a difference between the feckless South.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And the reckless North or was it the other way around.
I've got my colleagues, Mark and Andy and the audience,
and it's good to be here as a team, and
it's really good also to go out and support fundraising
activities and Jenny, Jenny years constantly making sure that I
don't make a fool of myself in parliament. Jenny Markrop
you haven't begun to make an impression as of yet.
(08:10):
But Jenny also has been fighting a fight Jamie against
the Auckland City Council for the for the over development
or property and the destruction of our marine farming industry.
So it's not only terrestrial farming. I'm also a champion
for marine farming. I'll be there at Tippuke. I was
a rugby player, but as my father said, Shane, you
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were born with a dictionary in your mouth and it
didn't stop when it went on the rugby field.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, Shane Jones, thank you very much
for your time. Enjoyed the cheese from Open Country there, folks,
there we go, Shane Jones, good value. Right, We're going
to take a break here on the country. Up next
the Voice of Field Days and the Voice of the
FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final which is
coming up in Embercargo in early July. We have got tareda.
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We'll be back after the break day. It is nineteen
after twelve. You're with the Country, brought to you by Brent.
I think we've got some Brent Green tractor toys to
give away. A reck lad coming up a week bit
later in the air. But the sky is the voice
of field Days and the voice of the FMG Young
(09:18):
Farmer of the Year Grand Final, which is coming up
in Inbicargo in early July. Andrew Lumsdon AKA to Radar,
you better pack your scarf and your winter waves.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I have been acclimatizing by moving slowly further south.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So Mystery Creek has been great. I'm warm here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
By the time we get to Invercargo, I'll be good.
But I'll tell you what, I'm hoping to look a
little bit better on Grand Final Day than you look today.
Jamie had a little bit of a competition I heard
out there last night, a little bit of sort of
into radio awards and off off off Broadway.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, we went off piece. It was the Rural Broadcasting
Radio Awards and we're throwing podcasts in there as well.
Podcast So it was just basically three or four hours
in the in the Hamilton, the spates Alehouse and then
the try and just ripping on each other.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It was funn Look, I say it every year.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
One of these single best things about Field Days is
that everybody who matters is in a room.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It was interesting you know.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It has the big the soapy thing, the MPI thing
yesterday some of the awards that the primary lunch dinner,
you had everybody who matted there. And I think for
those European delegations for the you know that we're twenty
five different nations, for them to see that you can
have a sector where everybody who matters is in a room.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't think you were there, but you know, you
know you had your radio show.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I was at the spates Alee were you were.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's been great catching up with people anyway, great pleasure
last night.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Look, I could talk about anything.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We had the Innovation Awards last night and I said,
with it, not a single one of these stands at
Field Days. I think there's something like eleven hundred exhibitors
would be there without somebody at some point having a
bloody good idea.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And that's what we were celebrating last night.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I think. And I've got to get in there before
we ditch and hit the road. But I think the
best thing you can do at field Days, especially if
you've never been before, is go to the Innovation inside.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Look, and one of the single best things in there.
You've got to see the kids every year. I know
Saint Paul's has a great representation the ideas that are
coming out from kids and innovators, and all they need
to do is they just need a bit of They
just need a little bit of encourage. In fact, one
of the ones from the one that won the Younger
the Young Innovator one Saint Paul's Collegiate with the Kiwi prone.
But a way of just taking clips off orchards doesn't
(11:21):
need to be high tech. We had people using lasers
for this, that and the other thing. We had bowluses
great solution for what do we do with all of
our Bobby calves, classic New Zealand thing. Look at a
Bobby claf what are we going to do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why don't we eat it?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
And Meaty taking out one of the awards for since
you're sort of a high tech kind of jerky.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah I met him. It's the I think South Islandary
event last year Daniel Carson's's name, and this is exactly
what we need to do because the Bobby calf issue
for the dairy industry is a huge issue and it's
one that won't go away, so we have to find
an end use for.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Them and that end us, as it turns out, is
being put into all kinds of you know, other food
and food ingredients. Really interesting thing about this the number
of innovations there to use downstream products, you know, waste sheepskins.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think there were various other bits and pieces.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
What do we do with something that doesn't have a use,
and being New Zealand's week, we think we could probably
do something with that.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The Prototype section was won by a product called emit less.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
YE by Ruminant Biotechnical because a slow release BOWLSS which
they reckon can deliver amazingly seventy five percent methane reduction
in cattle for one hundred days from a single treatment,
and I know they've been working on that for a
long time. As we say, met won the early Stage
one Growth and Scale Crop x A Varto one, which
first of its kind technology uses direct measurements to determine
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the transpiration of a crop, which obviously if that is
something you need to know, it's a pretty good tool.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And yeah, yeah, okay's I'm just going to wrap this
because I've got the twenty twenty four Young Farmer of
the Year George Dodson over there and we're going to
talk and he'll be handing over the cloak of knowledge
and then the cargo.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yes he will.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Have you got an early favorite for us, No, I can't.
We had Hugh Jackson on the show I think yesterday
promoting his Young Farmer's Party in.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hamilton's night it is tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Are you too old for a Young Farmer's Party?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yes I am.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
But hey, look you've got a few people who have
been there before. You've got people who are new. I
just saw them on stage over at the MPI conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You cannot pick a winner, all right, Well.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
We're going to talk to a winner next, Thanks Rader.
We're going to talk to a winner next. Here on
the Country. It is the twenty twenty four Young Farmer
of the Year, George Dobson, one of the most eligible bachelors.
I'm told George, yes or no, we'll find out in
a minute. He was a bit of a hit at
the Big Rural Support Trust debate on Wednesday night at
the Claudlands Events Center, so we'll take a break. Also
(13:44):
on the show, before the end of the hour, we
were a couple of young guys who I ran into
at the Toyota site yesterday Gabe Ross and Riley Meeson.
They are the weekend Mish, so we're going to talk
to them. We're going to talk to New Zealand's power
couple of farming, Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. Rick lad
to give away some green tractors, and we've got some
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Open Country cheese to give away, and we're gonna wrap
it with Jenny Vernon and Richard Lindrew's. Jenny's the chair here,
the president at Field days A. Richard is the new
chief executive. So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
First block of cheese goes to those people right behind
you there, George from Drummond. They've come all the way
from Drummond and their dairy farmers from Drummond. I'm not
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ad supply Open Country or Fonterra. We'll give me the cheesebag.
I know you can have it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You go sample some excellent product from Open Country Dairy.
We'll be back with George Dodson after the break.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Here we fanzy lay up bees on a day.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Nay twenty six. After twelve years with the Country brought
to you by Brent, We're giving away Open Country cheese.
I've got a green tractor to give away courtesy of
our wonderful sponsors. Brant will do that before the end
of the hour.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
But here he is.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Are you the most eligible bachelor in Canterbury, George Dodson
or is that just rumor?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I think there was a rumor started by James Mega. Jamie,
I've actually got a partner back home, so definitely not
on the bachelor list.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, you did very well technically. Technically you were the
best debater and that big Rural Support Trust debate at
Claudland's five hundred and forty people on Wednesday night. Have
you done a bit of that.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Mainly just a bit of speeches and stuff from Grand
Final last year. It was definitely a change in pressure
when the Prime Minister's sitting about ten meters in funny you,
so it was quite terrifying. But yeah, I think my
debate structure was pretty good and most of the other
guys on the debate were pretty keen on sort of
some personal level attacks against the other politicians which was
quite funny. But it was a great event.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Hell has been the Young Farmer of the year. Changed
your life.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I probably would struggle to overstate it to be Fitz. Yeah,
like you say, life changing, the opportunities for the things
like the Royal Support Trust event that I just talked about,
career opportunities, and then getting in to speaking to young
people and stuff, trying to get them into farming, which
is one of my main ambitions. So across the board,
you know, absolutely life changing.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Tell us about your farming operation.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Yes, I've actually just moved farm. So I was on
a four hundred and forty cow dairy farm in Canterbury
last season and recently have moved up to the foothills
of Horta down in Canterbury. So we have a seven
hundred and thirty cow dairy farm there which I'm managing
with my.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Father so as the ultimate Dame well Through farm succession
to take over the family farm.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Yeah, it's not actually our family farm. He's been just
managing it for about five or sixty years now, but
we do have some plans in the next couple of
years to purchase a farm among us and the wider
family as well.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So what does in the cargo hold for you? And
it's only about three weeks away, isn't it for young farmer?
Grand final Yeah, it's quite a little bit sad.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Actually you have to give up my cloak and my crown,
but give it on to another really deserving winner. So
for me, it's a bit of a speech to talk
about about my year and what the competition's given me
and then handing over my cloak and the trophy to
the winner.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Have you got any early favorites?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I mean we went.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I mentioned Hugh Jackson. We spoke to him yesterday. I
think he represented Southland once or Otago's Southland. He's up here.
He's wiebop now, isn't he. Yes, So so at second
time must help. Were you a second time or a
first timer?
Speaker 8 (17:22):
No, it was my first time and we're all first
timers last year which was quite good. But yeah, I
don't think there's any favorites that it can go anyone's way,
and I didn't expect to be up on the podium
last year. But you can't go past the guys with
a bit of experience, and that's a massive help for them.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And we'll final word of advice for these seven aspiring
young Farmers of the Year.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Yeah, make sure you harness every opportunity that comes your way.
At the end of the day. There's only one winner,
but you'll still get so much out of the competition
and you've just got to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Okay, Hey George, great catching up with you again. Mate.
We'll catch up with you down on in Picargo for
that FMG. Young farmer there, Rick lad here, where is
he there? I'm just going to get Rick up at
the moment. Rick is the director of sales for Brent
our wonderful sponsors here, and we have a green tractor
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to give away to someone who wants a toy tractor.
So well, there's some people over there while I will
decide that in a moment. But hey, Rick, great to
catch up again. You were on on Wednesday and a
lot of anticipation. It was only half a day in
really good inquiry. People don't buy tractors on Wednesdays and
Thursdays at field days. They look, they kick the tires.
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So today a lot of business will be transacted for
perhaps in the next couple of weeks. Tell me how
it's gone. If tractor sales are the barometer of field days,
how good are these field days been, Jamie Bass.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
If I've seen, mate, over the last twelve years that
have been coming in this capacity in sales. I would
say this has been the most buoyant I've ever seen it.
You can tell by just by talking to people, mate,
if this is a genuine inquiry they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Because you're right, we go back.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We have to go praise their trades.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Eight times out of ten, we've got to go take
on a trade as part of selling tractors, right, so
we can go back catch up, and then we're all
about relationships and we go back to that, go back
to that local dealership. We try to get as many
salesm as we can spread through the country on site.
But yet your question is as a been boint, mate,
Yes it is. It's game changer.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Been good.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So as normally I guess if you're turning over a
track the every I don't know, eight or nine years
or something like that. I don't know what the shelf
life of is of these modern tractors, but as your
trade normally enough to get your deposit for these finance
deals you're running.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Yeah, it is with John dere and it's resale Jamie,
well done, Yes it is. You can if we're sitting
around that thirty percent forty percent deposit. Again, we tried
to bring that with my finite structures that are put
in today and to get those low interest rates. Historically
they've had to come at a at a quite a
heavy contribution to the deal. But I've tried to keep
that deposit as low as we can to to really,
you know, there's no point being cash flow conscious when
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we're asking for a trade plus a whole lot of
cash to get a competitive interest straight.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
So no, no, it's it's been good.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
And yeah, generally with John Dere the traders covered in
that deposit.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, you've got a special deal on for that ninety
five horse power tractor. This is kind of your base model,
John Dare, but it's got the bells and whistles, it's
got the loader and all that sort of stuff with
the ideal handy tractor for around the farm. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, so that's our the five ninety five horsepower and yeah,
so that's got point ninety five percent finance. That's a
that's a wicked little tractor. So that's got a touch
of our six thousand series on it too. It's now
got the power quad transmission well proven since the nineties
and so they've brought that down into the five thousands,
which has been huge for John Deare. And it's got
a half framed chessis lifting capacity of a six thousand
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on the rear.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
And yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Great tractor for us.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
How does this tractor go?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The seven R three?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Dirty mates, we've got a few of those around it.
They're good tractor, mate, well, good high horsepower, short wheelbase tractor.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Jay.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right here we go. We've got the tractor to giveaway
to someone here at Mystery Creek. And put your hands
up if you want this, and and Rick you can
pick somebody mate.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
We're going for these little too.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Down in the blue on the left hand side.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There that lady there was she going to play with
the tractor herself. Is this for children or grand grandkids?
Where are you from? Funger?
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh, there you go a good client. Both the sons
have got green tractors and now the grandson.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
There we go right good on you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Hey, listen, thank you very much, thank you for coming along. Well,
it's wonderful. We're going to take a break here at
Mystery Creek. Well done, Rick, thanks for supporting us. Mate.
Rowena will be here with Rural News Mark Kelly's in
Auckland we'll have a look at the latest in sport,
see how Ryan Fox is getting on at that US
Open brutal golf course. Before the end of the hour,
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my weekend Mish boys are there. They go there looking
forward to catching up with these lads. They've just done
a roady two field days with Toyota. Also before the
end of the hour, Richard Richard the new chief executive.
And Jenny Vernon, she is an absolute legend. Plus the
power couple of New Zealand farming, That's what I'm calling them,
(22:08):
Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. It's all on the country
and it's all happening before one o'clock for.
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Speaker 3 (22:24):
Guest, are you going to announce me, Jamie? No, no, no,
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Yes it is. He'll be say hello John, He'll be
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Speaker 11 (22:43):
State Highway three three through Tartanuki's awa quin Or Gorge
remains closed until further notice following a mud slide yesterday afternoon.
Rain has also delayed the opening of the Mount Hut Skifield.
Flooding has also been affecting parts of POTTDUA overnight Net
Service forecaster says that's due to an active band of
weather that's been moving up over the Lower North Island.
(23:05):
So thanks so much for Michelle and Dunedin for coming
up with my rural news.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But I also just want to talk.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
About one of the Young Innovator of the Year candidates.
They didn't win last night, I think they should have.
They came up with a steel milk filter sock. So
instead of I think around the country we go through
five million milk socks in a year cost average farmer
around seven hundred dollars, this one is one hundred and
fifty dollars. Your rinse it after every milking. You only
need one for the season, and it's made out of
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like a really really fine metal. It is amazing. These
kids from Saint Paul's collegiate go in places, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Are you getting a backhander for this?
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Absolutely not. I was just so inspired by them. You
haven't made it to the innovation have yet, but I
tell you what it is, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There we go. Rowena dun Come with Rural News has
Mark Kelly with Sport.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
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Speaker 1 (23:54):
Visit them online at FCO dot co dot.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Enzed golfer Ryan fox has shot a two over past
seventy two to sit in a sheer for thirty third
during the opening round of the U one hundred and
twenty fifth US Open on the Oakmond Course. He's six
shots behind outright leader JJ Spawn. Foxy's one rogue hole
was a double bogie in the par four fourteenth where
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he got stuck in two Bunkets and Cricket News Ossie
are one hundred and forty four for eight in their
second innings the lead of two hundred and eighteen heading
into the third day of the World Test Championship Cricket
final against South Africa at Lord's Back to mister Creek.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, thanks Mark, it is twenty one away from one.
I ran into these guys at the Toyota site I'm
not sure they're not brand ambassadors, but they're the boys,
the lads from the weekend Mish. And you know, social
media is not totally my thing, but I'm told you
guys are huge. You've done a courtesy of Toyota, a
roadie to the field days. Tell us about that. I'll
(24:53):
start with with you, a Gabe. Let let me start
that again. I'll start with you, Gabe Ross.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Thanks for having us on board here, Jamie. We've come
down or come up actually from our hometown in Harwia
and we spent about six days driving a Prado up
to here, a few.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Days in Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
It was absolutely fantastic and we got involved in plenty
of activities.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Now and we're gonna come to your mate and just
chick Riley Meeson. But you're from a very well known
I guess farming business, entrepreneurial family, the Ross family. Your
mum and dad own Lake Harweia station.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, No, it's a fantastic place to
call home. I absolutely love it down there on Harwi.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And your brother Finn, I think he's your older brother,
isn't he He was the startup I think with Eve
McCullum for future farmers.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Finn's a very ambitious, bright young man. So he's a
fantastic older brother. And yeah, I learned a lot from him.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Okay, let's welcome in courtesy of Toyota. Riley Meeson. What's
your background, Riley mate?
Speaker 13 (25:54):
My background's a bit of footy and then a bit
of a machine operating, a bit of fun. You know
that's all all about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So the Weekend Mish I did some homework on you guys,
so let me see what it says. The lads from
the Weekend Mish Mish a multi media platform showcasing outdoor
adventures and promoting sustainability and conservation. And I guess that's
where Lake harwea station comes in. And then Rowena's footnote
was think hunting and fishing escapades plus survivor skills. To
(26:21):
that end, one of you, or was it both of
you won the TV show tracks.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Yeah, now that's right, Jamie, Riley and I both Competitive Tract,
which was a reality TV show about three years ago at.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
The air two years ago. I think Riley is that correct?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
And yeah, we're lucky enough to win it after eight
weeks of running away from the sas guys and the bush.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It was good fun. How do you monetize because we're
all in the media, it's all about making money or
you get the sack quite literally. How do you how
do you monetize your podcasts and your social channels at
the weekend? Miss right?
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Yeah, so it's a bit a bit more tricky New Zealand.
It's not as easy as states in other countries. You know,
overseas they get paid by views on Instagram and TikTok,
but in New Zealand we don't have that feature. So
we do brand deals, brand partnerships like with Twurda, and
we also do get monetized for our YouTube channel, so
that is paid perview. But that's our main streams of
our income. Yeah, brand partnerships.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And so talk to me about the roadie from Lake
Harwa up to here, and what were you lane cruiser
or a prato?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We're in a land cruise ofer prato yea.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
So we start started in hardware and we cruise on
up the west coast of Friends Joseph, where we tried
to little bit of hunting, very unsuccessful, and then we
buzzed on over to christ Shirt's a bit a fine
dining had a nice steak which was interesting. And then
from there we shot up to the Mold for Sounds.
We did a bit of fishing and diving. Never done
anything up there for so that was absolutely stunning. And
then yeah, up to the North Fold was pretty cool.
(27:42):
Got to go through the old Twurd headquarters, a bit
of a tour. It was pretty special. And then Yeah,
threw rod and we ended up here at Field Days.
There was an absolutely worked road trip at lancaus A Prato,
super comfy.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, And on Wednesday show we had Dame Valerie Adams
and Richie mccaugh and I wandered along to the toy
out of sight earlier in the morning and I witnessed
Dame Valerie destroy Richie mccare on that power pool thing
you've got going. And I know you two are probably
worn out because you've been competing against each other. So
who finally won the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Head to head?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I was actually Valerie Adams.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No no, no, no no no, I'm talking about you too.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I know Riley and I well, we lost to Valerie,
and Riley's been losing to me over the.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Last couple of times. I was waiting for a start
there and I.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Just want to get it out there that a pensioner
unnamed beat Wayne Yolo Langord, the president of Federated Farmers.
That was pretty impressive, wasn't it. Well, yeah, there was impressive, Jamie.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
I think there was.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Actually the poll of the day was unreal.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We'll leave it at that. I don't know if I
want to be associated with the poll of the day,
but hey, well done lads. Great to have your hair
courtesy of Toyota. Enjoy your trip back. The lads from
the weekend, Miss gabros and Riley Meeson will take a
break and we have got the power Couple, the power
Couple I've calling them, although I think Claire's weaseling out
(28:59):
because she's lost a voice. But one half of the
power couple up after the break. That's Adam Thompson and
a lady from Predator Free Ends that I'm told, And
we're going to wrap it with Jenny Vernon, Richard Lindrew's
from Field Days coming up to thirteen away from one
of the country, wrapping day three for us at the
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Field Days. Remember they're open again tomorrow. It will be
big crowds in here at Mystery Creek, right. It was
to be the place for the power couple of New
Zealand Farming, Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. I've got one
half of the team, Adam Thompson. Your wife's actually better
than you, and I was sort of hoping that she
would turn up. If I had to lose one, it
was you. But what's happened to Claire?
Speaker 14 (29:42):
Yeah, poor oor clear has lost her voice. She's been
down there help and talk about trees all week and
for me and it shows up today no voice. So
he was too much fun.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And she wears many many hats, including a very good
podcast called Blakehiels and Track to Whales, thank you very much.
But she's also a mortgage broker. Let's just give out
some free advice on mortgages here, Adam. If you're a
farmer out there, do you ride the floating rate down
or do you get in and fixed now? Because the
long term rates, some of them are even going up. God,
(30:14):
I love that because you used to be a mortgage
broker as well.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
I'm a retired mortgage broker of about five years. So
the current advice from Claire is that you want to
be probably fixing short term of view to fixing long
term in the next set of six or twelve months
as we part to bought them out in the market.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, I think that's pretty good advice. Take some of
those short term rates and then lock it in a
bit longer. Okay, we haven't got Claire Williamson, but we've
got Jesse Morgan from Predator Free en Z.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
And you don't like cats, No, I don't like feral cats.
You're right, So feral cats obviously a huge problem on farm.
We've got to stand and we've had about eighty percent
of our conversations about controlling feral cats, and so we
need to do something about them. We also need to
add them to the Predator Free strategy, which is out
for consultation at the moment. But yeah, come and talk
(31:03):
to us about feral cats and how you best control
them on farm, because we know that they're a real
problem out there and increasing all over the place.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So, Jesse, what about the old pet moggie at home?
You let them out at night and they go out
and kill native birds. Should we ban cats? I shouldn't mind.
My sister's are real cat ladies. You'll kill me for
saying this, but I mean, your average domesticated cat is
a pest as well.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Absolutely all cats hunt and they all really highly skilled hunters.
And so what we suggest is that you keep your
cat safe and happy at home. So responsible cat ownership
in New Zealand needs to include microchipping, desexing and keeping
your cat at home.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But so otherwise, can you not let your cat out
outdoors at all? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 15 (31:44):
Yeah, I mean that happens all over the world right.
New Zealand is weird because we don't have apex predators
and so we let our cats rome. But actually we
should be keeping our cats at home. It's better for
cats and it's better for wildlife. They also spread toxo
on farm and which is a huge issue, and so
the are spreading end up into Maui's dolphin and kill
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the Maoi dolphin too, which is highly endangered. So yeah,
so cats have got huge issues and have a huge
impact on our native species.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Shane Jones might beg to differ on the Maui's dolphins.
He's not worried about the dolphins anyhow. You Adam, you
and Claire seriously wear so many hats and you are
a bit of a power couple of New Zealand farming.
You've got the mortgage business, clear's got a fashion business.
You're doing all sorts of things.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But you have a.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Native nursery restore native and you do great work.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 14 (32:34):
No, we love it. And it's this time of the
year we've fled out. I feel a little bit bad.
I'm here undercover a field days and my team are
out in the rain planting trees all over the white
Keatdow today. But no, we love it this time of
the years like Christmas for a nurseryman. The trees are
going on the ground, they're looking great. So farmers are
doing great things spending their money on that too.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I love planting native trees. I've got a wetland down
in Southam where I potter around and plant native trees.
But they are a bit of a labor of love.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
It's just a to have a plan for these things, Jamie.
Especially up here in the Wye at oatland of milk
and honey. We grow some beautiful trees. Good planning, the
right tree in the right place, and the good maintenance
project and there wignings farmers some really good results here,
which is great.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you at your standing you're at the other end
of the main pavilion to us what sort of deals
you got going. I'll give you a shameless plague for
you and restore native nursery.
Speaker 14 (33:20):
Bloody brilliant free delivery on the North Island on trees
or what is over a thousand plants. And of course
we're for a full service from advice right through planning
and planting as well. So if you kenny cat native trees,
we're down here in the.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Four Okay, there we go. Adam Thompson and Jesse Morgan.
Lovely to meet you, Jesse. And remember, if you've got
a moggie at home, what about putting a bell round
their neck?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
You do that.
Speaker 15 (33:40):
It doesn't really work for lizards as well, so I
mean it can work a little bit, but they learn
to hunt. They're so clever, these things. They learn to
hunt and not have their bell ring.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm glad Shane Jones isn't here because he doesn't like
dolphins or lizards or skinks. We just well blind frogs
would be good.
Speaker 15 (33:56):
If he didn't like feral cats too, that would be
a good addoation.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You need to track them down and tell them to
have a crack at the Federal cats lovely to chat. Hey,
we're going to take a break here at the Country.
It is eight away from one and we're going to
wrap it with the chair and the chief executive of
Field Days. So we have Jenny Vernon and Richard Lindrews
to wrap it.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Em.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Okay, we're going to wrap the country day three for us.
We're heading back to Dunedin HQ. But not before I
give away my last block of open country cheese. I'll
give it to Rowena and you can go and find
someone deserving. Deserving Rowena can sort that one out. Here's
a couple of stars, the new chief one relatively new
chief executive. It is his first Field Days, Richard Lindrus
(34:43):
and of course Jenny Vernon. You are a legend, Jenny,
and I'm going to talk to you on a tick.
But Richard, how's your first Field Days gone?
Speaker 10 (34:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Fantastic. But I was just a bit worried about you.
Speaker 16 (34:52):
It was Robs just saying that had a very large
night last night, Jamie, And well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I've been coming to Field Days Richard for like thirty years.
Every year I say to myself, I'm not gonna nothing
good happens after midnight.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Well I heard it wasn't that good for you?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Well, it was the Rural Broadcasting Awards, which is just
three radio companies ripping the hell out of each other.
It was a lot of fun, so it was a
good night out. But thank you very much on behalf
of us here. It ends in me and the country
for giving us this prime spot to broadcast.
Speaker 16 (35:22):
For you are the best spot at Field Days that
the crowd is streaming through, obviously to see the exhibitlers,
but also to see you.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
What a prime spot.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I don't know about seeing me. I'll tell you. They
were here in their hordes to see Shane Jones, very
popular man, popular man, popular man. Jenny Vernon. You're the
board chair and I think president, and you have such
a long history and association with this event. You were
at the Rural Support Trust debate on Wednesday night, over
three hundred thousand dollars raised, and you know we needed
(35:52):
to get it wrapped up. It finished at about ten
and you had to go straight home because you were
getting up at three o'clock in the morning to make
food for the volunteers here.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
That's absolutely correct. The brown building over there, we start
breakfast at six am. For all our volunteers. And so
somebody has to cook that food, Jamie, And so yes
the team I leave home at halfas three.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Wow, that's Mike Hoskins.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Jamie fried poach and scrambled three varieties.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And Jenny, you're famous also for being the first, No,
you are famous. This is an honor to meet you
in person. You're famous for being the first woman female
to ever be awarded in enough Field scholarship.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
Yes, that's greet Jamie. It was a privilege to be
awarded in nineteen ninety four, and I traveled and studied
deregulation of the milk marketing board, the Dutch flower industry
and cooperatives.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You are an absolute legend. Hey, what's the feedback of
Richard Linders, chief executive that you're getting from the punters.
We had Rick lad from Brand here talking about and
I know some of your other tractor partners like Case
who are just round the corner here. They're doing really good.
Speaker 16 (37:02):
Coach and even blue Honda they are going really well.
I think you know post budget that what the government
has done in a few announcements at field days as well,
are really setting the pace and incentivising the attendee. So
you know, well we have great crowds coming through and
we're looking forward a really big super said day. The
tills are ring as well, so well done aggy business.
(37:23):
As you heard yesterday, sixty billion revenue. Business of forecasts
are up. You know, we had to lead New Zealand
economy and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
All right, there we go. Oh, Jenny's giving you the
hurry up. She's saying, well, you're giving no no. Look,
this is what we look at, Jenny. See this clock here.
I've got till twelve fifty seven fifteen and I'm rocking
twelve fifty six forty five, so I do have thirty
seconds to wrap this. Richard Lindros, Jenny Vernon, thank you
so much and well done the pair of you. This
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is like this is John Key at the Rugby World Cup.
There's a trump fun all right, that's us done and dusted.
I've got to go back to Dunedin and go into
the studio tonight to do the best of the country.
You can hear that tomorrow morning on a news talk
said b I might even get to the second half
of the footy and have a great weekend. New Zealand.
We'll catch you back on Monday.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
You know, alarm, your.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Cold beer on Friday night, a pair of jeans and figures,
right and radio, A good air New Zealand and welcome
to the Country. Day three here at Mystery Creek. Not
a bad day actually if you're thinking of coming along,
but a great show for you today. But I'm going
to get straight into it because he's my favorite politician
(00:36):
of the day at the moment, the Prince of the Provinces,
Shane Jones. I have come bearing gifts from Open Country Cheese.
They want to bribe you, Shane with a block of
cheese that's gold. Hey, folks, good to be back.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm going to tell you that people would probably want
me to have Swiss cheese full of holes. I fear
I might have to declare this, but there's a reason
that I'm a hundred cages and it's probably too much
carb and probably too much cheese and the wrong sort
of tucker.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But good to be here.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I myself, as you know, born and bred on a
farm and have never forgotten the foundational influences of farm life.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Did you plant a whole lot of pine trees on
your own farm?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Too much gorse in the far North.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Look, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Why I have to be reminded at this particular mystery
Creek event of the billion tree strategy. It was a
great idea in its time, right tree, right place. I've
actually just met with the FEDS and they said, the
last time we had you here, Shane Jones, we wanted
to punch you in the nose. I said, Oh, that's
now the Greenies, not the farmers.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh that looks like that other. It sounds like that
other great New Zealand first idea to put your cinder
in Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I I love talking to Chamie because it gives me
a chance to tell the truth. And twenty twenty why
did all the farmers wives vote for your cinder and
throw Winston and Shane on the scrap heap? But wait,
we're back twenty twenty six. You can redeem yourselves now.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm looking talking about Federated Farmers And I just found
this one this morning trolling through the net chain. They
commissioned their own political poll in the week following the
budget and not well, I guess not surprisingly because they're
swarming around here. National fifty four Act nineteen, New Zealand
First eight and then Labour, Greens and to Party Maori
(02:29):
barely registering. But the surprise number for me, in all seriousness,
was that New Zealand First is only rating at eight
percent with the farmers. Because to be fair to you,
and I see your good man over there, Mark Patterson,
you're doing a good job or you certainly have the farmers' backs.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well, we're halfway through the cycle and our appeal to
the farmers is a little bit like my political career.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're late bloomers.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So I wait until August September next year and the
farmers will realize that they need a dependable backbone in politics.
Winston and our party represent that opportunity because the other
side of politics. There's a reason why Labors at three
percent in that pole. But don't for a moment think
that one pole reflects all of the electoral outcomes.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Information out yesterday or this morning from Beef and Lamb,
who are just behind us here at Mystery Creek research
carried out on basically carbon farm and close to forty
thousand I know you don't want me to go on
about trees, but you've got to face this one. Show.
Close to forty thousand hectares of sheep and beef farms
have been sold four forestries since September of last year.
(03:38):
And I know that Luxeon Chrystal Luxon made the announcement
at the Southern Field Days or down at the Southern
Field Days site in December, but the onslaught of the
pine trees hasn't stopped.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, Look, the PMS made his decision and the way
to I guess, moderate the development of carbon forestry is
to restrict who can actually register a forest with the ETS.
And that's it the heart of what Minister Todd has
been promoting. But our colleague, who provides a lot of
(04:11):
direction to our party, Mark Patterson, has said, don't completely
throw the ETS out, but look at refining it and
narrowing its application so we don't worsen the situation and
we don't want to worsen the situation with cockies.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But hey, all you.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Farmers, I got to tell you, if I was to
stop you selling your land, you would say, Shane Jones,
you're a communist. No, I'm not the communist. That's Chloe
in the other crowd. So you've got to bear in
mind if you want property rights, you want the ability
to do what you feel is appropriate for your land,
then weigh up all those decisions. But the ability to
(04:47):
plaster the landscape and pine trees for carbon purposes, as
you well know, as the Prime Minister has articulated, has
reached its high point.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Should we be going Should we be allowing one hundred
percent offsetting very few other countries and we the only
country that does it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
While you're really raising a deeper question, which is what
we're taking to the next election. Why are the food
industries of New Zealand subject to this un driven set
of climate obligations. We're taking remits to our party conference
in September, and if we can get our party members
to accept that food industry should be exempt from the
(05:25):
Paris Accord, then we'll be able to take that board
as a key part of our manifesto and God willing
contribute that to the formation of a future government if
we get enough folks on the center right side.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So basically you and Winston just want us out of
Paris right Well.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Winston's the Foreign Minister and Paris Accord is a part
of foreign policy and as great line to me as
when talking about foreign affairs, Shane Jones, Yes, stick to
your lane and less it's more. And as he flew
out to Paris and to Nice, and as he goes
to other places New York and such famous sites of
great influence, he says, Shane, I'm going to New York
(06:03):
and you're going to Mournua. So there's the.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Money in the real power lies. To be fair to you,
You've just come back this week from Singapore. What was
on over there.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Our large conference where we were promoting investment to ReVibe,
reinvigorate the gas industry. Without gas will be condemned to
use Indonesian coal. I got nothing against the Indonesians. We
should be digging up our own coal. And my message
to the dairy farming producers and processes stop this mad
(06:37):
drive flight towards demonizing the coal industry. We are going
to need all options, including gas and coal well towards
twenty to fifty. And this unicorn kissing fairytale territory that
somehow wind and solar is going to save New Zealand,
and New Zealand single handedly can save the planet from
(06:58):
the climate cultism.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's not the state of New Zealand first beliefs. Well,
there you go. He's getting a big hand from the
crowd here at Mystery Creek. Just finally, August the twenty
second to poke the Rugby club. You and I are
doing a fundraiser together. Ah, yes, and we're going to
let you off the chain. Chatham House Rules? How good
(07:21):
will that be if you're anywhere there's a pookey Ah?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Chatham House Rules didn't work too good for Phil goth
So I kind of regard most of what I have
to say. It's going to make its way to the
front page of the paper. But look, it's really important
for politicians who like to promote personality, and of course
Mark Patterson will say Shane promote ego.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
There's a difference between the feckless South.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And the reckless North or was it the other way around.
I've got my colleagues, Mark and Andy and the audience,
and it's good to be here as a team, and
it's really good also to go out and support fundraising
activities and Jenny, Jenny years constantly making sure that I
don't make a fool of myself in parliament. Jenny Markrop
you haven't begun to make an impression as of yet.
(08:10):
But Jenny also has been fighting a fight Jamie against
the Auckland City Council for the for the over development
or property and the destruction of our marine farming industry.
So it's not only terrestrial farming. I'm also a champion
for marine farming. I'll be there at Tippuke. I was
a rugby player, but as my father said, Shane, you
(08:32):
were born with a dictionary in your mouth and it
didn't stop when it went on the rugby field.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, Shane Jones, thank you very much
for your time. Enjoyed the cheese from Open Country there, folks,
there we go, Shane Jones, good value. Right, We're going
to take a break here on the country. Up next
the Voice of Field Days and the Voice of the
FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final which is
coming up in Embercargo in early July. We have got tareda.
(08:58):
We'll be back after the break day. It is nineteen
after twelve. You're with the Country, brought to you by Brent.
I think we've got some Brent Green tractor toys to
give away. A reck lad coming up a week bit
later in the air. But the sky is the voice
of field Days and the voice of the FMG Young
(09:18):
Farmer of the Year Grand Final, which is coming up
in Inbicargo in early July. Andrew Lumsdon AKA to Radar,
you better pack your scarf and your winter waves.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I have been acclimatizing by moving slowly further south.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So Mystery Creek has been great. I'm warm here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
By the time we get to Invercargo, I'll be good.
But I'll tell you what, I'm hoping to look a
little bit better on Grand Final Day than you look today.
Jamie had a little bit of a competition I heard
out there last night, a little bit of sort of
into radio awards and off off off Broadway.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, we went off piece. It was the Rural Broadcasting
Radio Awards and we're throwing podcasts in there as well.
Podcast So it was just basically three or four hours
in the in the Hamilton, the spates Alehouse and then
the try and just ripping on each other.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It was funn Look, I say it every year.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
One of these single best things about Field Days is
that everybody who matters is in a room.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It was interesting you know.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It has the big the soapy thing, the MPI thing
yesterday some of the awards that the primary lunch dinner,
you had everybody who matted there. And I think for
those European delegations for the you know that we're twenty
five different nations, for them to see that you can
have a sector where everybody who matters is in a room.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't think you were there, but you know, you
know you had your radio show.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I was at the spates Alee were you were.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's been great catching up with people anyway, great pleasure
last night.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Look, I could talk about anything.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We had the Innovation Awards last night and I said,
with it, not a single one of these stands at
Field Days. I think there's something like eleven hundred exhibitors
would be there without somebody at some point having a
bloody good idea.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And that's what we were celebrating last night.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I think. And I've got to get in there before
we ditch and hit the road. But I think the
best thing you can do at field Days, especially if
you've never been before, is go to the Innovation inside.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Look, and one of the single best things in there.
You've got to see the kids every year. I know
Saint Paul's has a great representation the ideas that are
coming out from kids and innovators, and all they need
to do is they just need a bit of They
just need a little bit of encourage. In fact, one
of the ones from the one that won the Younger
the Young Innovator one Saint Paul's Collegiate with the Kiwi prone.
But a way of just taking clips off orchards doesn't
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need to be high tech. We had people using lasers
for this, that and the other thing. We had bowluses
great solution for what do we do with all of
our Bobby calves, classic New Zealand thing. Look at a
Bobby claf what are we going to do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why don't we eat it?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
And Meaty taking out one of the awards for since
you're sort of a high tech kind of jerky.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah I met him. It's the I think South Islandary
event last year Daniel Carson's's name, and this is exactly
what we need to do because the Bobby calf issue
for the dairy industry is a huge issue and it's
one that won't go away, so we have to find
an end use for.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Them and that end us, as it turns out, is
being put into all kinds of you know, other food
and food ingredients. Really interesting thing about this the number
of innovations there to use downstream products, you know, waste sheepskins.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think there were various other bits and pieces.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
What do we do with something that doesn't have a use,
and being New Zealand's week, we think we could probably
do something with that.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The Prototype section was won by a product called emit less.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
YE by Ruminant Biotechnical because a slow release BOWLSS which
they reckon can deliver amazingly seventy five percent methane reduction
in cattle for one hundred days from a single treatment,
and I know they've been working on that for a
long time. As we say, met won the early Stage
one Growth and Scale Crop x A Varto one, which
first of its kind technology uses direct measurements to determine
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the transpiration of a crop, which obviously if that is
something you need to know, it's a pretty good tool.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And yeah, yeah, okay's I'm just going to wrap this
because I've got the twenty twenty four Young Farmer of
the Year George Dodson over there and we're going to
talk and he'll be handing over the cloak of knowledge
and then the cargo.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yes he will.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Have you got an early favorite for us, No, I can't.
We had Hugh Jackson on the show I think yesterday
promoting his Young Farmer's Party in.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hamilton's night it is tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Are you too old for a Young Farmer's Party?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yes I am.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
But hey, look you've got a few people who have
been there before. You've got people who are new. I
just saw them on stage over at the MPI conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You cannot pick a winner, all right, Well.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
We're going to talk to a winner next, Thanks Rader.
We're going to talk to a winner next. Here on
the Country. It is the twenty twenty four Young Farmer
of the Year, George Dobson, one of the most eligible bachelors.
I'm told George, yes or no, we'll find out in
a minute. He was a bit of a hit at
the Big Rural Support Trust debate on Wednesday night at
the Claudlands Events Center, so we'll take a break. Also
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on the show, before the end of the hour, we
were a couple of young guys who I ran into
at the Toyota site yesterday Gabe Ross and Riley Meeson.
They are the weekend Mish, so we're going to talk
to them. We're going to talk to New Zealand's power
couple of farming, Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. Rick lad
to give away some green tractors, and we've got some
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Open Country cheese to give away, and we're gonna wrap
it with Jenny Vernon and Richard Lindrew's. Jenny's the chair here,
the president at Field days A. Richard is the new
chief executive. So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
First block of cheese goes to those people right behind
you there, George from Drummond. They've come all the way
from Drummond and their dairy farmers from Drummond. I'm not
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ad supply Open Country or Fonterra. We'll give me the cheesebag.
I know you can have it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You go sample some excellent product from Open Country Dairy.
We'll be back with George Dodson after the break.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Here we fanzy lay up bees on a day.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Nay twenty six. After twelve years with the Country brought
to you by Brent, We're giving away Open Country cheese.
I've got a green tractor to give away courtesy of
our wonderful sponsors. Brant will do that before the end
of the hour.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
But here he is.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Are you the most eligible bachelor in Canterbury, George Dodson
or is that just rumor?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I think there was a rumor started by James Mega. Jamie,
I've actually got a partner back home, so definitely not
on the bachelor list.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, you did very well technically. Technically you were the
best debater and that big Rural Support Trust debate at
Claudland's five hundred and forty people on Wednesday night. Have
you done a bit of that.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Mainly just a bit of speeches and stuff from Grand
Final last year. It was definitely a change in pressure
when the Prime Minister's sitting about ten meters in funny you,
so it was quite terrifying. But yeah, I think my
debate structure was pretty good and most of the other
guys on the debate were pretty keen on sort of
some personal level attacks against the other politicians which was
quite funny. But it was a great event.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Hell has been the Young Farmer of the year. Changed
your life.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I probably would struggle to overstate it to be Fitz. Yeah,
like you say, life changing, the opportunities for the things
like the Royal Support Trust event that I just talked about,
career opportunities, and then getting in to speaking to young
people and stuff, trying to get them into farming, which
is one of my main ambitions. So across the board,
you know, absolutely life changing.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Tell us about your farming operation.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Yes, I've actually just moved farm. So I was on
a four hundred and forty cow dairy farm in Canterbury
last season and recently have moved up to the foothills
of Horta down in Canterbury. So we have a seven
hundred and thirty cow dairy farm there which I'm managing
with my.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Father so as the ultimate Dame well Through farm succession
to take over the family farm.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Yeah, it's not actually our family farm. He's been just
managing it for about five or sixty years now, but
we do have some plans in the next couple of
years to purchase a farm among us and the wider
family as well.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So what does in the cargo hold for you? And
it's only about three weeks away, isn't it for young farmer?
Grand final Yeah, it's quite a little bit sad.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Actually you have to give up my cloak and my crown,
but give it on to another really deserving winner. So
for me, it's a bit of a speech to talk
about about my year and what the competition's given me
and then handing over my cloak and the trophy to
the winner.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Have you got any early favorites?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I mean we went.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I mentioned Hugh Jackson. We spoke to him yesterday. I
think he represented Southland once or Otago's Southland. He's up here.
He's wiebop now, isn't he. Yes, So so at second
time must help. Were you a second time or a
first timer?
Speaker 8 (17:22):
No, it was my first time and we're all first
timers last year which was quite good. But yeah, I
don't think there's any favorites that it can go anyone's way,
and I didn't expect to be up on the podium
last year. But you can't go past the guys with
a bit of experience, and that's a massive help for them.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And we'll final word of advice for these seven aspiring
young Farmers of the Year.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Yeah, make sure you harness every opportunity that comes your way.
At the end of the day. There's only one winner,
but you'll still get so much out of the competition
and you've just got to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Okay, Hey George, great catching up with you again. Mate.
We'll catch up with you down on in Picargo for
that FMG. Young farmer there, Rick lad here, where is
he there? I'm just going to get Rick up at
the moment. Rick is the director of sales for Brent
our wonderful sponsors here, and we have a green tractor
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to give away to someone who wants a toy tractor.
So well, there's some people over there while I will
decide that in a moment. But hey, Rick, great to
catch up again. You were on on Wednesday and a
lot of anticipation. It was only half a day in
really good inquiry. People don't buy tractors on Wednesdays and
Thursdays at field days. They look, they kick the tires.
(18:34):
So today a lot of business will be transacted for
perhaps in the next couple of weeks. Tell me how
it's gone. If tractor sales are the barometer of field days,
how good are these field days been, Jamie Bass.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
If I've seen, mate, over the last twelve years that
have been coming in this capacity in sales. I would
say this has been the most buoyant I've ever seen it.
You can tell by just by talking to people, mate,
if this is a genuine inquiry they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Because you're right, we go back.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We have to go praise their trades.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Eight times out of ten, we've got to go take
on a trade as part of selling tractors, right, so
we can go back catch up, and then we're all
about relationships and we go back to that, go back
to that local dealership. We try to get as many
salesm as we can spread through the country on site.
But yet your question is as a been boint, mate,
Yes it is. It's game changer.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Been good.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So as normally I guess if you're turning over a
track the every I don't know, eight or nine years
or something like that. I don't know what the shelf
life of is of these modern tractors, but as your
trade normally enough to get your deposit for these finance
deals you're running.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Yeah, it is with John dere and it's resale Jamie,
well done, Yes it is. You can if we're sitting
around that thirty percent forty percent deposit. Again, we tried
to bring that with my finite structures that are put
in today and to get those low interest rates. Historically
they've had to come at a at a quite a
heavy contribution to the deal. But I've tried to keep
that deposit as low as we can to to really,
you know, there's no point being cash flow conscious when
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we're asking for a trade plus a whole lot of
cash to get a competitive interest straight.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
So no, no, it's it's been good.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
And yeah, generally with John Dere the traders covered in
that deposit.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, you've got a special deal on for that ninety
five horse power tractor. This is kind of your base model,
John Dare, but it's got the bells and whistles, it's
got the loader and all that sort of stuff with
the ideal handy tractor for around the farm. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, so that's our the five ninety five horsepower and yeah,
so that's got point ninety five percent finance. That's a
that's a wicked little tractor. So that's got a touch
of our six thousand series on it too. It's now
got the power quad transmission well proven since the nineties
and so they've brought that down into the five thousands,
which has been huge for John Deare. And it's got
a half framed chessis lifting capacity of a six thousand
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on the rear.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
And yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Great tractor for us.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
How does this tractor go?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The seven R three?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Dirty mates, we've got a few of those around it.
They're good tractor, mate, well, good high horsepower, short wheelbase tractor.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Jay.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right here we go. We've got the tractor to giveaway
to someone here at Mystery Creek. And put your hands
up if you want this, and and Rick you can
pick somebody mate.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
We're going for these little too.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Down in the blue on the left hand side.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There that lady there was she going to play with
the tractor herself. Is this for children or grand grandkids?
Where are you from? Funger?
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh, there you go a good client. Both the sons
have got green tractors and now the grandson.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
There we go right good on you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Hey, listen, thank you very much, thank you for coming along. Well,
it's wonderful. We're going to take a break here at
Mystery Creek. Well done, Rick, thanks for supporting us. Mate.
Rowena will be here with Rural News Mark Kelly's in
Auckland we'll have a look at the latest in sport,
see how Ryan Fox is getting on at that US
Open brutal golf course. Before the end of the hour,
(21:46):
my weekend Mish boys are there. They go there looking
forward to catching up with these lads. They've just done
a roady two field days with Toyota. Also before the
end of the hour, Richard Richard the new chief executive.
And Jenny Vernon, she is an absolute legend. Plus the
power couple of New Zealand farming, That's what I'm calling them,
(22:08):
Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. It's all on the country
and it's all happening before one o'clock for.
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Speaker 3 (22:24):
Guest, are you going to announce me, Jamie? No, no, no,
that was the liner Mark Kelly got trigger happy in
Auckland doing a great job up there. Marcus, we've got
to look after the sponsors of this. Is John mcavhnie,
Yes it is. He'll be say hello John, He'll be
grumpy if we don't give Steelford A big pat on
the back anyhow, where you go, all right, and you're
a real news.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
State Highway three three through Tartanuki's awa quin Or Gorge
remains closed until further notice following a mud slide yesterday afternoon.
Rain has also delayed the opening of the Mount Hut Skifield.
Flooding has also been affecting parts of POTTDUA overnight Net
Service forecaster says that's due to an active band of
weather that's been moving up over the Lower North Island.
(23:05):
So thanks so much for Michelle and Dunedin for coming
up with my rural news.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But I also just want to talk.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
About one of the Young Innovator of the Year candidates.
They didn't win last night, I think they should have.
They came up with a steel milk filter sock. So
instead of I think around the country we go through
five million milk socks in a year cost average farmer
around seven hundred dollars, this one is one hundred and
fifty dollars. Your rinse it after every milking. You only
need one for the season, and it's made out of
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like a really really fine metal. It is amazing. These
kids from Saint Paul's collegiate go in places, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Are you getting a backhander for this?
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Absolutely not. I was just so inspired by them. You
haven't made it to the innovation have yet, but I
tell you what it is, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There we go. Rowena dun Come with Rural News has
Mark Kelly with Sport.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Sport with a FCO.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Visit them online at FCO dot co dot.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Enzed golfer Ryan fox has shot a two over past
seventy two to sit in a sheer for thirty third
during the opening round of the U one hundred and
twenty fifth US Open on the Oakmond Course. He's six
shots behind outright leader JJ Spawn. Foxy's one rogue hole
was a double bogie in the par four fourteenth where
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he got stuck in two Bunkets and Cricket News Ossie
are one hundred and forty four for eight in their
second innings the lead of two hundred and eighteen heading
into the third day of the World Test Championship Cricket
final against South Africa at Lord's Back to mister Creek.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, thanks Mark, it is twenty one away from one.
I ran into these guys at the Toyota site I'm
not sure they're not brand ambassadors, but they're the boys,
the lads from the weekend Mish. And you know, social
media is not totally my thing, but I'm told you
guys are huge. You've done a courtesy of Toyota, a
roadie to the field days. Tell us about that. I'll
(24:53):
start with with you, a Gabe. Let let me start
that again. I'll start with you, Gabe Ross.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Thanks for having us on board here, Jamie. We've come
down or come up actually from our hometown in Harwia
and we spent about six days driving a Prado up
to here, a few.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Days in Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
It was absolutely fantastic and we got involved in plenty
of activities.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Now and we're gonna come to your mate and just
chick Riley Meeson. But you're from a very well known
I guess farming business, entrepreneurial family, the Ross family. Your
mum and dad own Lake Harweia station.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, No, it's a fantastic place to
call home. I absolutely love it down there on Harwi.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And your brother Finn, I think he's your older brother,
isn't he He was the startup I think with Eve
McCullum for future farmers.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Finn's a very ambitious, bright young man. So he's a
fantastic older brother. And yeah, I learned a lot from him.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Okay, let's welcome in courtesy of Toyota. Riley Meeson. What's
your background, Riley mate?
Speaker 13 (25:54):
My background's a bit of footy and then a bit
of a machine operating, a bit of fun. You know
that's all all about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So the Weekend Mish I did some homework on you guys,
so let me see what it says. The lads from
the Weekend Mish Mish a multi media platform showcasing outdoor
adventures and promoting sustainability and conservation. And I guess that's
where Lake harwea station comes in. And then Rowena's footnote
was think hunting and fishing escapades plus survivor skills. To
(26:21):
that end, one of you, or was it both of
you won the TV show tracks.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Yeah, now that's right, Jamie, Riley and I both Competitive Tract,
which was a reality TV show about three years ago at.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
The air two years ago. I think Riley is that correct?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
And yeah, we're lucky enough to win it after eight
weeks of running away from the sas guys and the bush.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It was good fun. How do you monetize because we're
all in the media, it's all about making money or
you get the sack quite literally. How do you how
do you monetize your podcasts and your social channels at
the weekend? Miss right?
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Yeah, so it's a bit a bit more tricky New Zealand.
It's not as easy as states in other countries. You know,
overseas they get paid by views on Instagram and TikTok,
but in New Zealand we don't have that feature. So
we do brand deals, brand partnerships like with Twurda, and
we also do get monetized for our YouTube channel, so
that is paid perview. But that's our main streams of
our income. Yeah, brand partnerships.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And so talk to me about the roadie from Lake
Harwa up to here, and what were you lane cruiser
or a prato?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We're in a land cruise ofer prato yea.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
So we start started in hardware and we cruise on
up the west coast of Friends Joseph, where we tried
to little bit of hunting, very unsuccessful, and then we
buzzed on over to christ Shirt's a bit a fine
dining had a nice steak which was interesting. And then
from there we shot up to the Mold for Sounds.
We did a bit of fishing and diving. Never done
anything up there for so that was absolutely stunning. And
then yeah, up to the North Fold was pretty cool.
(27:42):
Got to go through the old Twurd headquarters, a bit
of a tour. It was pretty special. And then Yeah,
threw rod and we ended up here at Field Days.
There was an absolutely worked road trip at lancaus A Prato,
super comfy.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, And on Wednesday show we had Dame Valerie Adams
and Richie mccaugh and I wandered along to the toy
out of sight earlier in the morning and I witnessed
Dame Valerie destroy Richie mccare on that power pool thing
you've got going. And I know you two are probably
worn out because you've been competing against each other. So
who finally won the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Head to head?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I was actually Valerie Adams.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No no, no, no no no, I'm talking about you too.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I know Riley and I well, we lost to Valerie,
and Riley's been losing to me over the.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Last couple of times. I was waiting for a start
there and I.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Just want to get it out there that a pensioner
unnamed beat Wayne Yolo Langord, the president of Federated Farmers.
That was pretty impressive, wasn't it. Well, yeah, there was impressive, Jamie.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
I think there was.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Actually the poll of the day was unreal.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We'll leave it at that. I don't know if I
want to be associated with the poll of the day,
but hey, well done lads. Great to have your hair
courtesy of Toyota. Enjoy your trip back. The lads from
the weekend, Miss gabros and Riley Meeson will take a
break and we have got the power Couple, the power
Couple I've calling them, although I think Claire's weaseling out
(28:59):
because she's lost a voice. But one half of the
power couple up after the break. That's Adam Thompson and
a lady from Predator Free Ends that I'm told, And
we're going to wrap it with Jenny Vernon, Richard Lindrew's
from Field Days coming up to thirteen away from one
of the country, wrapping day three for us at the
(29:20):
Field Days. Remember they're open again tomorrow. It will be
big crowds in here at Mystery Creek, right. It was
to be the place for the power couple of New
Zealand Farming, Adam Thompson and Claire Williamson. I've got one
half of the team, Adam Thompson. Your wife's actually better
than you, and I was sort of hoping that she
would turn up. If I had to lose one, it
was you. But what's happened to Claire?
Speaker 14 (29:42):
Yeah, poor oor clear has lost her voice. She's been
down there help and talk about trees all week and
for me and it shows up today no voice. So
he was too much fun.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And she wears many many hats, including a very good
podcast called Blakehiels and Track to Whales, thank you very much.
But she's also a mortgage broker. Let's just give out
some free advice on mortgages here, Adam. If you're a
farmer out there, do you ride the floating rate down
or do you get in and fixed now? Because the
long term rates, some of them are even going up. God,
(30:14):
I love that because you used to be a mortgage
broker as well.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
I'm a retired mortgage broker of about five years. So
the current advice from Claire is that you want to
be probably fixing short term of view to fixing long
term in the next set of six or twelve months
as we part to bought them out in the market.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, I think that's pretty good advice. Take some of
those short term rates and then lock it in a
bit longer. Okay, we haven't got Claire Williamson, but we've
got Jesse Morgan from Predator Free en Z.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
And you don't like cats, No, I don't like feral cats.
You're right, So feral cats obviously a huge problem on farm.
We've got to stand and we've had about eighty percent
of our conversations about controlling feral cats, and so we
need to do something about them. We also need to
add them to the Predator Free strategy, which is out
for consultation at the moment. But yeah, come and talk
(31:03):
to us about feral cats and how you best control
them on farm, because we know that they're a real
problem out there and increasing all over the place.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So, Jesse, what about the old pet moggie at home?
You let them out at night and they go out
and kill native birds. Should we ban cats? I shouldn't mind.
My sister's are real cat ladies. You'll kill me for
saying this, but I mean, your average domesticated cat is
a pest as well.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Absolutely all cats hunt and they all really highly skilled hunters.
And so what we suggest is that you keep your
cat safe and happy at home. So responsible cat ownership
in New Zealand needs to include microchipping, desexing and keeping
your cat at home.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But so otherwise, can you not let your cat out
outdoors at all? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 15 (31:44):
Yeah, I mean that happens all over the world right.
New Zealand is weird because we don't have apex predators
and so we let our cats rome. But actually we
should be keeping our cats at home. It's better for
cats and it's better for wildlife. They also spread toxo
on farm and which is a huge issue, and so
the are spreading end up into Maui's dolphin and kill
(32:04):
the Maoi dolphin too, which is highly endangered. So yeah,
so cats have got huge issues and have a huge
impact on our native species.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Shane Jones might beg to differ on the Maui's dolphins.
He's not worried about the dolphins anyhow. You Adam, you
and Claire seriously wear so many hats and you are
a bit of a power couple of New Zealand farming.
You've got the mortgage business, clear's got a fashion business.
You're doing all sorts of things.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But you have a.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Native nursery restore native and you do great work.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 14 (32:34):
No, we love it. And it's this time of the
year we've fled out. I feel a little bit bad.
I'm here undercover a field days and my team are
out in the rain planting trees all over the white
Keatdow today. But no, we love it this time of
the years like Christmas for a nurseryman. The trees are
going on the ground, they're looking great. So farmers are
doing great things spending their money on that too.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I love planting native trees. I've got a wetland down
in Southam where I potter around and plant native trees.
But they are a bit of a labor of love.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
It's just a to have a plan for these things, Jamie.
Especially up here in the Wye at oatland of milk
and honey. We grow some beautiful trees. Good planning, the
right tree in the right place, and the good maintenance
project and there wignings farmers some really good results here,
which is great.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you at your standing you're at the other end
of the main pavilion to us what sort of deals
you got going. I'll give you a shameless plague for
you and restore native nursery.
Speaker 14 (33:20):
Bloody brilliant free delivery on the North Island on trees
or what is over a thousand plants. And of course
we're for a full service from advice right through planning
and planting as well. So if you kenny cat native trees,
we're down here in the.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Four Okay, there we go. Adam Thompson and Jesse Morgan.
Lovely to meet you, Jesse. And remember, if you've got
a moggie at home, what about putting a bell round
their neck?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
You do that.
Speaker 15 (33:40):
It doesn't really work for lizards as well, so I
mean it can work a little bit, but they learn
to hunt. They're so clever, these things. They learn to
hunt and not have their bell ring.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm glad Shane Jones isn't here because he doesn't like
dolphins or lizards or skinks. We just well blind frogs
would be good.
Speaker 15 (33:56):
If he didn't like feral cats too, that would be
a good addoation.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You need to track them down and tell them to
have a crack at the Federal cats lovely to chat. Hey,
we're going to take a break here at the Country.
It is eight away from one and we're going to
wrap it with the chair and the chief executive of
Field Days. So we have Jenny Vernon and Richard Lindrews
to wrap it.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Em.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Okay, we're going to wrap the country day three for us.
We're heading back to Dunedin HQ. But not before I
give away my last block of open country cheese. I'll
give it to Rowena and you can go and find
someone deserving. Deserving Rowena can sort that one out. Here's
a couple of stars, the new chief one relatively new
chief executive. It is his first Field Days, Richard Lindrus
(34:43):
and of course Jenny Vernon. You are a legend, Jenny,
and I'm going to talk to you on a tick.
But Richard, how's your first Field Days gone?
Speaker 10 (34:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Fantastic. But I was just a bit worried about you.
Speaker 16 (34:52):
It was Robs just saying that had a very large
night last night, Jamie, And well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I've been coming to Field Days Richard for like thirty years.
Every year I say to myself, I'm not gonna nothing
good happens after midnight.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Well I heard it wasn't that good for you?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Well, it was the Rural Broadcasting Awards, which is just
three radio companies ripping the hell out of each other.
It was a lot of fun, so it was a
good night out. But thank you very much on behalf
of us here. It ends in me and the country
for giving us this prime spot to broadcast.
Speaker 16 (35:22):
For you are the best spot at Field Days that
the crowd is streaming through, obviously to see the exhibitlers,
but also to see you.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
What a prime spot.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I don't know about seeing me. I'll tell you. They
were here in their hordes to see Shane Jones, very
popular man, popular man, popular man. Jenny Vernon. You're the
board chair and I think president, and you have such
a long history and association with this event. You were
at the Rural Support Trust debate on Wednesday night, over
three hundred thousand dollars raised, and you know we needed
(35:52):
to get it wrapped up. It finished at about ten
and you had to go straight home because you were
getting up at three o'clock in the morning to make
food for the volunteers here.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
That's absolutely correct. The brown building over there, we start
breakfast at six am. For all our volunteers. And so
somebody has to cook that food, Jamie, And so yes
the team I leave home at halfas three.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Wow, that's Mike Hoskins.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Jamie fried poach and scrambled three varieties.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And Jenny, you're famous also for being the first, No,
you are famous. This is an honor to meet you
in person. You're famous for being the first woman female
to ever be awarded in enough Field scholarship.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
Yes, that's greet Jamie. It was a privilege to be
awarded in nineteen ninety four, and I traveled and studied
deregulation of the milk marketing board, the Dutch flower industry
and cooperatives.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You are an absolute legend. Hey, what's the feedback of
Richard Linders, chief executive that you're getting from the punters.
We had Rick lad from Brand here talking about and
I know some of your other tractor partners like Case
who are just round the corner here. They're doing really good.
Speaker 16 (37:02):
Coach and even blue Honda they are going really well.
I think you know post budget that what the government
has done in a few announcements at field days as well,
are really setting the pace and incentivising the attendee. So
you know, well we have great crowds coming through and
we're looking forward a really big super said day. The
tills are ring as well, so well done aggy business.
(37:23):
As you heard yesterday, sixty billion revenue. Business of forecasts
are up. You know, we had to lead New Zealand
economy and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
All right, there we go. Oh, Jenny's giving you the
hurry up. She's saying, well, you're giving no no. Look,
this is what we look at, Jenny. See this clock here.
I've got till twelve fifty seven fifteen and I'm rocking
twelve fifty six forty five, so I do have thirty
seconds to wrap this. Richard Lindros, Jenny Vernon, thank you
so much and well done the pair of you. This
(37:51):
is like this is John Key at the Rugby World Cup.
There's a trump fun all right, that's us done and dusted.
I've got to go back to Dunedin and go into
the studio tonight to do the best of the country.
You can hear that tomorrow morning on a news talk
said b I might even get to the second half
of the footy and have a great weekend. New Zealand.
We'll catch you back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
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