June 26, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Kendall Langston, Chris Brandolino, Rachel Shearer, Stu Duncan and Stu Loe.
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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 (00:17):
How good ay and welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie mckaye.
(00:39):
Straight into it. Today's songs from nineteen eighty five. I've
got a rugby reunion in Riversdale, forty years on from
great times with some farmers down south. Our first guest
is of a similar generation to me, Shane Jones, Minister
of getting rid of Regional Councils. Where were you, by
the way, in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Nineteen eighty five, my third child, tor Heir, was born.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I was helping dad.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'd recently come back from Australia grow strawberries on a
couple of paddocks and we put in a massive amount
of watermelons and cash crops. Because, as you may recall,
those were the early days of rogerenomics, so things were
pretty challenging.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, farming in those days was about to be described
nineteen eighty five the first year, first full year of
the Longey Douglas governments, and farming was designated to be
a sunset industry. How wrong were.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They Yeah, while, as I recall, the vision was to
create a switzerland of money changes and money lenders in
the South Pacific. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mother Nature's given us a bounty here, and it's our
job to use it and completely ensure that our next
generation better off than you and I.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now I alway did Harvard Universe? Did he fit in
amongst all of this?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
For you?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Born in nineteen fifty nine with four children, set off
in early nineteen ninety Ya Hawaii, washed up in Boston.
A couple of friends from Quebec came down, met us
at the airport. Found out where our flat was, a
place called Brookline, not very far away from where the
famous political dynasty the Kennedys grew up. And therefore the
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guts of eighteen months two years with my late wife
and our four kids. So it wasn't for the fainthearted.
But at the end of the studies spent three or
four months touring around America campgrounds of America.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now you've been upsetting people on the South Island, namely
the Otago Regional Council, because you want what are regional
councils anyhow, you've called them the Kremlin of the South Island.
Is this because they're not allowing you to dig baby
dig at the mccray's mine and land from Dunedin because
of an endangered moth.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The Otago Regional Council is obviously the pollop bureau. It
is peopled by antagonistic, angry, smelly, hippie greeny sort of characters.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Tell us how you really feel.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Thirty thousand odd square miles that they're responsible for. At most,
this gold mining extension would cover a couple of hundred
hectess at most, and just divide that into the thirty
thousand square kilometers and then you will understand why this
council and their reports designed to undermine and close down mining,
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destroy jobs, get rid of economic wealth. They have no
authority to do it, and I dismiss all of their
reports as ideological graffiti. I know that they're stronger than
me because we're not checking them every day. So we're
going to disestablish the regional Councils of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So what's the new format then? Do we just have
unitary authorities?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, there's a great deal of sense. I mean today
there's a bad flood in and around Tasman Bay Nelson.
They don't have a regional council. I'm sure the people
up there are coping with the challenges. By the way,
if you want to know how to deal with floods
and changes in weather systems, then build stop banks. Who's
the guy who's found the two hundred million dollars to
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build the stop banks? You're talking to him. That's why
I don't believe, and I never have in all this
moral hysteria to do with climate. And you should be
happy that I have announced that we have pulled out
of some oil anti oil alliance that just Cinda signed
us up to in twenty twenty one. I'm sick of
all these hippie health, after school care JA cinder orientated initiatives.
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We've got to abandon them all.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now you realize the Otago Regional Council, and a good
old rugby mate of mine is actually I think the
vice chair. He mightn't like this, but they're just building
a big, flash new building here in indeed, and I
think it's worth something like fifty million bucks. Huge. It's
the size of an indoor stadium almost, and I worry
that they're going to fill up with bureaucrats.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, the Prime Minister has endorsed what I've said. The
Prime Mister has said after the RMA changes there won't
be a need for Regional Council. So I can't comment
on why Otago whites are willing to put that level
of capital into a new building. But know this from me.
We had a summit recently with an investment purpose to
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attract international investors. What do we have in Otago. We
have a tiny, unelected, unknown group of people, with their
deep hostility towards mining. They have elevated some sort of
naked moth found dead to a status that's more important
than mining, income, jobs, exports, and if anything, that turned
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the Regional Council into a sitting duck.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now I'm reading from the Otago Daily Time Shame, where
you made the front page today. You're saying all this
for a dead moth, it's an ideological attempt to defeat mining.
It's truly unbelievable. This is a part of New Zealand
where no one goes, and you're talking about the McCrae's
mine inland from Otaga. I want to remind you go there, Shane,
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the mother listeners.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
There's thirty thousand odd kilometers that this council's in charge of.
So they've decided where the landscape has already compromised because
there's been a mine there mate the judgment being exercised
by these Zealots. They're allowed to get away with it
because the councilors are too weak. The councilors are either
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compromised with their ideological proclivities or they're too weak to
haul in the scribblers that are ruining our economy. That's
why the councilors have to go. And I'm taking a
remit to our party conference in September. I know the
party will back this remit. We're going to the next election.
It's good to hear the Prime Minister encourage my line
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of thinking. And all of you people who are currently
working for regional councils acting in a manner it's very
hostile and destructive economic development. You either change your ways
or change your job.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How do you realize? And I think he was a
former New Zealand first MP, Michael Laws as on the
Otago Regional Council.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, Michael Laws, without a sliver of doubt, will support
what I'm saying. But as I recall Michael has always
locked in some sort of mortal moral debate with all
the communists and the apparachniks from the Kremlin that populate
your council. I can't understand why the people of Otaga
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allowing a tiny, unelected, unelectable group of Zealots write these
ideologically driven types of graffiti to stop jobs, stop my,
stop economic development at a time where we've just introduced
fast just introduced only fast Trak, but foreign direct investment,
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legislative improvements, and you've got a tiny group hidden like
a bed bug in the crease of an ideological sheet
they have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Just to finish on you. Have you kind of New
Zealand's Donald Trump? In some ways? I think is that
a compliment? I'm not sure, Shane. He said drill baby, drill,
You said dig baby, dig. So you're kind of a
wee bit Trumpish or Trumpish there. Do you think he
deserves a Nobel peace price? People are talking about that.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Ah, yes, yes, yes, Well I won't grace your show
with an F bomb. But I'll tell you what, There's
a great deal to be said for the way in
which he intervenes and breaks mindsets, and he breaks people's
established orthodoxies of the way. They are set in their ways,
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and that's what we're trying to do through New Zealand. First,
we're breaking the grievance mentality of Marridom's largest tribe than
Upooli and its God is my witness. It's going to happen,
probably happen after the next election. We are going to
get rid of regional councils and look doc doc represent
over thirty three percent of the country's landscape. Of course
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there are cases why we should look after national parks,
but the cohed Only National Park has got a lot
of minerals under it. We may need to revisit that
the next election.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Hey, do you realize that our joint Tapooky Rugby Club
fundraiser You're very much the star. I'm just the minor
support act. Shane has sold out all those Kiwi fruit growers.
They've had a good season. They're going to wander along
on August the twenty second and they're going to beg
bid up big time on the auction items and they're
expecting you. They're expecting Shane Jones off piece off the
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chain and unplugged ah and maybe unhanded I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Ah, well, I shall endeavor mate to be an entertaining
personality from the political super anything to generate some support
or worthy local initiatives. You know that as well as
I do. That's the blood I come from, born and
bred just north of Kaita. But I am very, very
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disturbed and about your hippie orientated Jacinda a Dern sandpit
people destroying mining in the Otago area.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And we're not having it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Dog baby deg Shane Jones, thanks for your time.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
See yea.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We last caught up with our next guest on the
country when he was representing US in Brisbane for the
Angus World back in May. He's joining us again today
to talk farm succession. His name is Kendall Langston grew
up on the family farm in South Canterbury. He's the
Chair of Rainer Irrigation, vice President of Angus n Z
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and a partner and strategic advisor at a leading advisory firm,
Pivot and Pace. Kendall, You've mented lots of people on
farm succession, but it got a bit personal for you
when your mom passed away recently.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Look well, I guess like all farming families our farm,
we've had the land and the family for one hundred
and ten years. And you know is Rabobank outline. We're
one of many that's going through and about to go
through it on the land. Very hard to navigate the
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complexity of it without some help, That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, you've written an interesting column on it, which we're
putting up here on our website. You say, succession in
a family business isn't a transaction. It's a test of leadership,
patients and values. And earlier in the week I caught
up with a dynamic young woman by the name of
Bridey Verbickis and she won the Emerging leaders Award at
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the PIN Summit and her family is going through farm
succession and what they're doing or what they did to
make it work was gott an independent arbiter effectively in
and they sat around the kitchen table and thrashed it out.
Is that a good idea?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I look, definitely. I think you know, the learnings from
having supported the facilitation of this and then having gone
through it yourself. You've got to start the conversation. And
it takes a long time. I mean, it was a
good well over ten years for us in it and
it evolved. So it's definitely a process and a journey,
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and you do need good, good advice and support to
help you navigate some of the get the emotional hat
or the personal hat versus the collective family hat on.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I think one of the best comments I heard went
around what Rabobank was saying when they released their white
paper or whatever they've called it this week. Equal is
not equitable necessarily.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Definitely, And look, I only have one other sibling, my brother,
who's remained on the farm. But you know, beef and
rolling hill country in southern Canterbury, you know it can't
be equal. You know there's complexity. You've got to set
it up for the future, and you're also trying to
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balance some of those things like, you know, my mother's
wishes versus you know, our own personal endeavors, our families.
You know, when you're throwing spouses and kids and things,
so it gets complex really quickly. And then when you
throw in a challenge like an illness which my mother had,
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and then you know you take on the parapernie as well,
it gets further complicated. You get conflicted, so you need
help through this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Kendall Langston, thanks for some of your time. Just put
on your vice president's hat very quickly for Angus New Zealand.
You must be wrapped with the record prices being paid
for balls, beef balls.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Oh look, it's absolutely stoked, you know, it's really it
just shows your confidence in the beef industry at the
moment and obviously our breeders they work hard at the
top of your game, and you know as a breed
society where we're working hard to enable that with good marketing,
good communications, good services. So yeah, I absolutely staked. I
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think it's indicative of confidence in the farming industry and
people investing in their beef herds and in their future
genetics for their businesses.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, some people have certainly bid up when it comes
to balls. What do we get over one hundred and
sixty grand? Great money for a black beauty one of
those angles balls. Kendall Langston, thanks for some of your
time today on farm succession.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No worries. Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It is twenty five after twelve. You're with the country.
Brought to you by Brent Songs from nineteen eighty five
for the Riversdale rugby team great Side. It was brilliantly
led to I might add Shane Jones. Yeah, what an
interesting life. He had nineteen eighty five, four kids and
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he went to Harvard as what a thirty year old interesting. Sorry,
we had to get in and out of Shane pretty
quickly because he had to go to something else. Didn't
get a chance to tease what was on the show.
That's Kendall Langston, good bloke, actually a farm succession. It's
a very very hot topic at the moment. Chris Brandolino's
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up next from Niwa the Neewa weather guys, a big
wet hitting the country. We've heard about the flooding in
Nelson and Marlborough. You know, I thought with you guys
well worn though. I guess thunderstorm mornings this afternoon or
today for the North Island will update what the weather's
going to be like at your place. But I guess
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it is smack bang in the middle of winter if
you're going to get this weather better now than closer
to springtime if you're a farmer. Rachel Sharer from PGG
Rights and Wall. The Wall season finished yesterday. We start
a new one in July. Wall up twenty four percent
year on year from last season, but it's coming off
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an incredibly low base. So we'll put that into perspective,
hopefully with Rachel and then our farmer panel before the
end of the hour, Stu Duncan and the Manototo, Stu
Low and Canterbury. I'm worried about Stu former Canterbury and
Crusader of course himself. You'll be insufferable, Michelle. I'll have
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rural news for you. We'll have sports news for you
as well. I see a forty year old old Cristiano
Ronaldo has just signed on for Uber millions. It's a
good athlete, that guy. It's all on the country as
we play some great songs from nineteen eighty five, Welcome
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back to the Country twenty nine after twelve Hall and
Oates biggest selling duo of the nineteen eighties. Nineteen eighty
Five's my theme you today, just because I can. Chris
Brandolino joins us from New work. Chris, where were you
in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh, upstate New York, in the capital region of New
York State, Albany, New York. So yeah, that's why I
was probably looking at class clouds and doing weather stuff
like I am now much changed.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
As long as you're not an angry old man shouting
at clouds, as has been accused of being. So let's
talk about clouds. There's too many of them parked themselves
over top of Nelson and Marlborough. Some really really heavy
rain there. We've got thunderstorm warming warnings. Should I say
for the North Island this afternoon, Chris give it to
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us baby.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Look, the heavy rain continues right now for far eastern
Tasman into the Nelson area, certainly Marlborough and blend him
seeing very pretty studying heavy rain at the moment. That's
going to continue basically Nelson Richmond eastbound at least of
the afternoon, I think overnight hours it may persist toward
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eastern Marlborough. So there's still more rain to come. So unfortunately,
not good news there. And some places looking at the
Tasman District rain gauges and the higher elevations of the
Tasman District have received over four hundred millimeters of rain
in thirty six hours, so a real beluge. In places
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in Marlboro and across the Nelson area have received more
than a month worth the rain in about a day
day and a half. So this is what we're seeing flooding.
Now in other parts of the country, we still are
seeing very active weather. We have heavy rain across much
of the Waikato, much of the eastern Tetanaki region. We
could really use the rain in eastern portions of the
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wider rapid southeastern North Island where it's been still dry,
so hopefully some rain gets in there. The heavy rain
is about to clear the Northland and even Auckland area,
so the weather will improve in Waikato, but it may
take some time and then eventually this all goes away.
So the good news is that as we work away
into tomorrow, things will be much better across the country.
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We're still going to have some rain across the top
of the South Island and parts of New Zealand for tomorrow,
but not that much. There will be some snow to
lower levels in Otago tomorrow as well and some wind.
Things really settled down early next week, so a nice
couple days early next week before another low comes in
from the Tasman Sea tugging down moisture from the subtropics
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and tropics. That looks to be toward Thursday into Friday
of next week, so honestly, guys, it's wash rinse repeat.
We could be doing it again and doing it again
next week, and I think July is going to be
a very active month. We are likely to see some
visitors from the north, which means these moist air flows
keeping us warm, but also increasing the offs or these
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big rain events like we're seeing today and that we
very well may see later next week.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Okay, Chris Brandolina, thanks for your time. I know you've
been flat out there at Neeware monitoring all this weather.
And I must say to all the way the fullcasters,
they got it pretty much row it, didn't they so
everyone on the Nelson Marlboro region was warned it was coming.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
He's gone, Hello, Michelle, your Mike's not on, by the way,
we'll hear from you in just a moment. We've got
to keep the show on the road, so we're going
to come back. We've got one of our something we
prepared a weave it earlier, the old FMG region off.
In fact, I can turn this on, Michelle. We're going
to hear from justin Ryegrock today. This is our fifth
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of seven Young Farmer regions. I think six of the
seven are actually finalists. We had one who couldn't do it,
so someone else from the region did it, and you're
going to update us on the voting.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Oh well, I'll.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Probably give an update on Monday because I'm not quite
sure how quickly the voting's moving. But I have a
look at the numbers today. See I they've changed over
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So listen to this young man, he's coming up after
the break, and remember you've got to vote, and you've
got to vote before July the fifth, which is.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Where Grand Final night.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Next Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And the artist formerly known as Rowena Duncan, your predecessor,
who is the judas that she has has gone to
FMG with that blessings, I might add where we'll be
catching up with her on the ground down and in
the cargo. Plus hopefully if he's listening, George Dodson, we're
going to get a hold of you as well, George,
So we'll do that after the break, before the end
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of the hour. Rachel Scherer, what a great name for
the GM of Walah for PGG Wrightson and a farmer
panel Stu Duncan and Stu Low. Today's FMG Young Farmer
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Region Representative is justin Ryegrock for Northern. Okay, Justin, you've
got sixty seconds to sell your region to the rest
of the country. Off you go.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Yeah, good day everyone. I'm Justin Ryerock, representing the Northern
Region for the young the year. I've been brought up
in the Northern Region all my life off of dairy farm,
so I'm currently dairy farming myself more than sort of
one of the smaller regions, if not the smallest, So
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if the more votes are better for us, really, my
chosen charity is Gumboot Friday. They do do amazing work
and providing free counseling sessions for everyone under anyone under
twenty five. Mental health is obviously quite big in the
rural sector, so to be able to raise money for
that would be would be go a long way.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Time's up, thanks Justin. When you've just heard Justin Ryegrock's
pitch for Northern Now it's over to you to go
and vote in the FMG region off. Go to FMG
dot co dot z forward slash region op and vote
before July five. Yep, and that website again FMG dot
co dot in z a region off. Michelle will update
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the state of play as because we've still got two
more young farmers to play Monday and Tuesday of next week,
and you've got until Grand final night, as Michelle said,
to decide which region you want to win. The region
of the winning region, by the way, will come away
with provincial glory and much more according to my script
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which you provided me, Michelle, including five thousand dollars for
their chosen charity, one thousand dollars to the senior contestant,
one thousand dollars to be split among the junior contestants.
Well they're school kids. That would be good, a grand
split amongst the team, and one thousand dollars to be
split among the agrikids as well. So there you go.
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The website is FMG dot co dot and said region off.
Lots of feedback coming in about Shane Jones. Will get
back to that, but Michelle, I hope you've got a
lengthy rural news because I haven't even pre read sports news.
I've got no idea there, Watson, not Here you.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
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Speaker 9 (25:11):
Yeah, I've got some great News here Jamie Soo. New
Zealand shearers Toll Henderson and Jack Fagan have just arrived
in the UK, ready for the first of six Test
matches in the Four Nations Tour, starting at Lockinheard Shares
in Scotland this weekend. Northland shearer Tol Henderson, representing New
Zealand for the first time, claimed his place after winning
the New Zealand Open Sharing Championship. Fagan, who was in
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the Walls of New Zealand tour team last year, retained
his position as third place skater in the New Zealand
Shearers Circuit final and both events being shorn in Tequitti
in April. Following the Test on Saturday, Henderson and Fagan
or sheer against England at the Great Yorkshire Show at
Harrogate on July ninth, France at the French Shars and
Bossick on July thirteenth, and then the three match series
against Wales with a Test at Coufy on July nineteenth
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and the Royal wal Show on July twenty third at
the cor And Shares on July twenty six and they're
going to be sharing Blackie. They're known as Blackie's jam.
Have you ever shown any of those before?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, Shawn, black Sheep before.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Black face those black face Locke and here have you
ever Shawn?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Have they got horns?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
I don't, so they're quite the cute. I feel like,
kind of lame, like a city person saymeus, but they
are quite cute. Sheet those ones.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Michelle Watt was rural news. That was some sightful con
right now. Songs from nineteen eighty five getting ready for
the Boomers Disco. I'm putting on tomorrow and I'll enjoy
it if no one else enjoys it. Anyhow do you
like the song Phil Collins Phil Bailey?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
I love Phil Collins.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Do you know who Phil Bailey is?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
It's not kind of like the other guy from Wham,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No? No, no, no, no, not at all, because in
Wham there was George Michael and the other bloke didn't
really do much. But Phil Bailey's from Earth Wind and Fire.
Oh I didn't know that he does this song. You
have knowledge gat something you've learned today? Okay, Well, while
we've been rambling, I've been trying to multitask and read
the sports news, so I don't completely cock it up.
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But see how I go.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Sport with AFCO. Visit them online at AFCO dot co
dot nzed.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Now as I was alluding to it at the top
of the air Portuguese football great Cristiano Ronaldo signed a
new two year contract with Saudi club Al Nasa, reportedly
worth three hundred and eighty million dollars perannum. The new
deal was confirmed the day after the latest coach resigned,
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Stefano Pioli is the fourth gaffer to depart since Ronaldo
joined in twenty twenty three. I think he's forty years
of age. Not bad money if you can get it.
And talking about rugby, Wellington Rugby Referees Association chair n
Dallas claims the shortage of whistleblowers means some community matches
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can't go ahead. The Horifinua Corpity Union has postponed all
fixtures this weekend in a stand against abuse. And I
know you player, but a footy back in the day yep,
And I don't know. I just don't know where people
get off abusing referees. You well, if you want to
abuse a referee, go and abuse Been O'Keeffe or someone
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who's being paid a fortune. Well, no, I mean seriously,
a professional. He's he's accountable, he's responsible, That's what I meant.
And Ben o'keef's a very good referee obviously, But why
abuse someone who's giving up their Saturday afternoon to referee
your game or your kid's game.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I mean it's bad sportsmanship to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, referees a human, They make mistakes like the rest
of it. You don't get abuse, Or I didn't used to.
When I dropped the high ball under pressure back in
nineteen eighty five for Riversdale, No exactly.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Do you still remember that? Was it that one moment?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Only did it once?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
No? No.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I used to have a bloke on the wing called Gav.
I'll look forward to seeing him tonight, and he was
sort of fearless. He was converted hooker. We moved him
out to the way and when the bombs went up,
I just said, it's yours, Gaff, and he would come
in and take the punishment. Those were the days. More
stories to come after the weekend Up next to Rachel Sharer,
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We're going to talk wall. It was good to catch
up with our next guest in person at the Primary
Industry New Zealand Awards on Tuesday evening in christ Church,
her hometown. I think Rachel Sharer GM of Wall for
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PGG Wrightson and Rachel before we talk about the end
of season Rap, did you enjoy the Pinn's Conference and
the awards?
Speaker 10 (29:42):
I most definitely did, and was very grateful to be
hosted by yourself and Rowena on what I believe was
her swan song. So thank you so much for for
the opportunity to attend. It was a great night out.
Always really awesome to see those amazing people across our
industry who were doing such good, great things.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Something that sticks in my mind is and we spoke
to her on was It Wednesday show? The emerging leader
that Bridey of Verbiguusy, the dairy farmer from the Bay
are plenty. They're talking about her as being a potential
leader of Federated farmers in a decade or so and
I'm thinking her And then the closing note address for
the conference came from Emma Paul and Tim Danje and
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no strangers to listeners to this show, but I'm thinking
g agricultures and good heart with people like that leading
the charge, the next generation coming through isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 10 (30:33):
I was just sitting with one of our new reps
who came on board and you'll be the same. But
it's quite horrifying to know what year these ones coming
through were born in. But like the future generation, the passion,
the dedication and just the technical expertise coming through through
our sector enter our business, it's just so encouraging to see.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I absolutely love.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
It to highlight my highlight of my job. Good on
watching these passion that young ones coming through.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Well, I also think and it works for me here,
like working with younger people, I think helps keep you
awey bit younger. You don't get too stuck in your ways,
although a lot of people would say I am anyhow,
let's get off me and onto wall. Now it's been
stuck in it's ways unfortunately for several decades now. But
I'm going to be a Pollyanna here. Glass half full.
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We closed out the season yesterday's auction and compared to
the same time last year, we finished the season twenty
four percent up, which is good. But Rachel, as you
and I both know, off a very low base.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, it is off a really low base, and what
we're starting to see coming through. I was sitting on
the bench yesterday actually helping out because it was a
dual option on both islands, and it's really interesting to
see those buyers. You know, they physically instect that wall
and the wall that's been really well prepared. They really
see something in it and you know they spark up
in The competition that they have for that wall is
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really evident because they're viewed it and they've seen it
and they spark up. But it's also coming off the
back of really low base but what you say, it's
coming off the back of low supply, So it's really
important to have that as well prepared wall as people
can because the buyers are seeing are seeing a price
difference in that. But as I always say, we've got
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a really long way to go, Jamie, we've got to
get those prices up.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Absolutely. Look Australian walls different than as we're mainly strong
crossbred wall here in this country. We do have some
fine wall. Obviously they're mainly fine wall, are there? Clip
is now the smallest it's been for one hundred years.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I know, isn't that? You know you contemplate the value
of the fine wall that comes out of Australia and
to have the smallest clip they have for one hundred years.
It really is a concern across the world. This dropping
demand in supply also the reduction in quality. You know,
the British wall clip has now been seen to be
of the lowest quality it's been for a very long time.
(32:58):
So you know, as a bit of a Pollyanna, I
see that as an opportunity for the New Zealand wall clip.
We are known as being a superior clip across the
across the globe, so hopefully we can start blending in
a bit more New Zealand wall now that the British
quality is declining as much as it is.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So we had our final action of the season yesterday.
First sale of the News season is July seventeen. My
challenge to you is Rachel, between now and then you
need to go away, put your thinking cap on and
come up with a really good use for strong cross
spread wall other than carpets.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, And there's a lot of good people out
there doing good things. But look, the word coming in
from the sheds across the country is that this pre
lamb wall that's coming off, or what's about to come off,
is it actually going to be really high quality across
most regions. It's been good quality conditions for growing wool
and we're just looking forward to seeing those trucks starting
to roll into our wall stores.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Okay, Rachel Scherer, thanks for your time. Good to catch
up in person. And Christjitch during the week.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
And just actually I've just noticed our first sale of
the new season is actually the tenth of July, and
Napiar I got better. The seventeenth of July is the
first one down here on the South Island.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh you gave me fake news.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
I did.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
I'm sorry for that.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
See you Laterie. Yes, thank you Rachel. Now a message
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and downs of the job. Head to farmstrong dot co
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what works for you and lock it in. Eddie god
bless Shane Jones. I'm voting New Zealand first next year
and that's from a national voter, Scott and here's Shane
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from North o'target. It looks like Shane Jones needs to
look into the Waitaki District Council. They are full of
greenies also and making it very hard for farmers. We're
going to wrap it with a couple of farmers and
I'm going to go off scraps. I want to talk
about the importance of the local rugby club to rural
and New Zealand. Ok, I'm going to wrap it with
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their farmer panels, Stu Duncans, Stu Low Running out of time, boys,
but I just want to because I've got a rugby
reunion on this weekend and I know you're both rugby nuts,
especially you stew you played for Canterbury and the Crusaders.
You're not allowed to mention the Crusaders, but talk to
me about the importance of your local rugby club and
your case Glenmark to your local community.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, like all small places around the New Zealand here
it's very important. It was the rural workforces getting Swallows
have recently combined the Chiwiot so we're going to Chiwiot
and yeah, I mean that that helps. But yeah, everyone's
got to travel a bit further. But the done age
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vehicles in roads a lot better than it was. There
were smaller clubs and they had got closer to get
up Stu Duncan.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Of course the many are Toto maggots Andrew Howes rugby club.
You you draw them in from quite a big catchment.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Yeah, there's pretty much the whole minute. There's a millionacres
of land in the Minnieu Toto surrounded by mountains and
they come from Danzy's path, some of them now coming
back from duned and local kids that have gone to
work in Duneda. So it's a week you come up
on a Thursday night and play rugby here right down
to the eye of Alleys and Batan. So that's a
huge area here.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Hey, Stu. People often ask me about what I do now,
But when I look back with rose tinted spectacles and think,
maybe the happiest time in my life was in the
twenties farming. I was making no money at all, but
you know, young, having a family, getting married, playing footy
that they were good, uncomplicated years.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Yeah, and I went to the rugby club the other day,
have a sponsor's day and you look around and all
the week kids are running around and the we kids
are looking after the bigger kids are looking after the
week kids, and remember running getting the ball and all
the mun's just sitting there yarn in a bit of
a catch up. So you going to the rabr to
match and it's the same thing happening as kids run
around there with the lemonade and chips like the whole day.
So it's videly important that we keep these clubs and
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we're lucky. We're low on numbers here again, but.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's great, all right, stud Low you would have got
twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
You'd endorse that, Oh definitely. Yeah, the whole community when
the dab kick off in the morning and you've got parents'
grandparents and Nandy's uncles all turn up to support the
kids and they generally hang around and watch the bigger
fellows go around the afternoon. So it's all good for
every community, really, heart and.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Soul of rural New Zealand. There we go our farmer
panels Stu Duncan ste Lowe wrapping the show for today.
Next week we've got Lisa Carrington on the show, looking
forward to that She's is it official? Yep, Michelle's noding
So she's the new Zestprey global brand ambassador. How good
will she be in that role? I'll catch you back,
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probably slightly the worse for wear. On Monday, catch all
the latest from the land.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's the Country Podcast with Jamie McGue Thanks to Brent,
the starkest of the leading agriculture brands,
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 (00:17):
How good ay and welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie mckaye.
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Straight into it. Today's songs from nineteen eighty five. I've
got a rugby reunion in Riversdale, forty years on from
great times with some farmers down south. Our first guest
is of a similar generation to me, Shane Jones, Minister
of getting rid of Regional Councils. Where were you, by
the way, in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Nineteen eighty five, my third child, tor Heir, was born.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I was helping dad.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'd recently come back from Australia grow strawberries on a
couple of paddocks and we put in a massive amount
of watermelons and cash crops. Because, as you may recall,
those were the early days of rogerenomics, so things were
pretty challenging.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, farming in those days was about to be described
nineteen eighty five the first year, first full year of
the Longey Douglas governments, and farming was designated to be
a sunset industry. How wrong were.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They Yeah, while, as I recall, the vision was to
create a switzerland of money changes and money lenders in
the South Pacific. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mother Nature's given us a bounty here, and it's our
job to use it and completely ensure that our next
generation better off than you and I.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now I alway did Harvard Universe? Did he fit in
amongst all of this?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
For you?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Born in nineteen fifty nine with four children, set off
in early nineteen ninety Ya Hawaii, washed up in Boston.
A couple of friends from Quebec came down, met us
at the airport. Found out where our flat was, a
place called Brookline, not very far away from where the
famous political dynasty the Kennedys grew up. And therefore the
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guts of eighteen months two years with my late wife
and our four kids. So it wasn't for the fainthearted.
But at the end of the studies spent three or
four months touring around America campgrounds of America.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Now you've been upsetting people on the South Island, namely
the Otago Regional Council, because you want what are regional
councils anyhow, you've called them the Kremlin of the South Island.
Is this because they're not allowing you to dig baby
dig at the mccray's mine and land from Dunedin because
of an endangered moth.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The Otago Regional Council is obviously the pollop bureau. It
is peopled by antagonistic, angry, smelly, hippie greeny sort of characters.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Tell us how you really feel.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Thirty thousand odd square miles that they're responsible for. At most,
this gold mining extension would cover a couple of hundred
hectess at most, and just divide that into the thirty
thousand square kilometers and then you will understand why this
council and their reports designed to undermine and close down mining,
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destroy jobs, get rid of economic wealth. They have no
authority to do it, and I dismiss all of their
reports as ideological graffiti. I know that they're stronger than
me because we're not checking them every day. So we're
going to disestablish the regional Councils of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So what's the new format then? Do we just have
unitary authorities?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, there's a great deal of sense. I mean today
there's a bad flood in and around Tasman Bay Nelson.
They don't have a regional council. I'm sure the people
up there are coping with the challenges. By the way,
if you want to know how to deal with floods
and changes in weather systems, then build stop banks. Who's
the guy who's found the two hundred million dollars to
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build the stop banks? You're talking to him. That's why
I don't believe, and I never have in all this
moral hysteria to do with climate. And you should be
happy that I have announced that we have pulled out
of some oil anti oil alliance that just Cinda signed
us up to in twenty twenty one. I'm sick of
all these hippie health, after school care JA cinder orientated initiatives.
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We've got to abandon them all.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now you realize the Otago Regional Council, and a good
old rugby mate of mine is actually I think the
vice chair. He mightn't like this, but they're just building
a big, flash new building here in indeed, and I
think it's worth something like fifty million bucks. Huge. It's
the size of an indoor stadium almost, and I worry
that they're going to fill up with bureaucrats.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, the Prime Minister has endorsed what I've said. The
Prime Mister has said after the RMA changes there won't
be a need for Regional Council. So I can't comment
on why Otago whites are willing to put that level
of capital into a new building. But know this from me.
We had a summit recently with an investment purpose to
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attract international investors. What do we have in Otago. We
have a tiny, unelected, unknown group of people, with their
deep hostility towards mining. They have elevated some sort of
naked moth found dead to a status that's more important
than mining, income, jobs, exports, and if anything, that turned
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the Regional Council into a sitting duck.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now I'm reading from the Otago Daily Time Shame, where
you made the front page today. You're saying all this
for a dead moth, it's an ideological attempt to defeat mining.
It's truly unbelievable. This is a part of New Zealand
where no one goes, and you're talking about the McCrae's
mine inland from Otaga. I want to remind you go there, Shane,
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the mother listeners.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
There's thirty thousand odd kilometers that this council's in charge of.
So they've decided where the landscape has already compromised because
there's been a mine there mate the judgment being exercised
by these Zealots. They're allowed to get away with it
because the councilors are too weak. The councilors are either
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compromised with their ideological proclivities or they're too weak to
haul in the scribblers that are ruining our economy. That's
why the councilors have to go. And I'm taking a
remit to our party conference in September. I know the
party will back this remit. We're going to the next election.
It's good to hear the Prime Minister encourage my line
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of thinking. And all of you people who are currently
working for regional councils acting in a manner it's very
hostile and destructive economic development. You either change your ways
or change your job.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How do you realize? And I think he was a
former New Zealand first MP, Michael Laws as on the
Otago Regional Council.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, Michael Laws, without a sliver of doubt, will support
what I'm saying. But as I recall Michael has always
locked in some sort of mortal moral debate with all
the communists and the apparachniks from the Kremlin that populate
your council. I can't understand why the people of Otaga
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allowing a tiny, unelected, unelectable group of Zealots write these
ideologically driven types of graffiti to stop jobs, stop my,
stop economic development at a time where we've just introduced
fast just introduced only fast Trak, but foreign direct investment,
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legislative improvements, and you've got a tiny group hidden like
a bed bug in the crease of an ideological sheet
they have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Just to finish on you. Have you kind of New
Zealand's Donald Trump? In some ways? I think is that
a compliment? I'm not sure, Shane. He said drill baby, drill,
You said dig baby, dig. So you're kind of a
wee bit Trumpish or Trumpish there. Do you think he
deserves a Nobel peace price? People are talking about that.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Ah, yes, yes, yes, Well I won't grace your show
with an F bomb. But I'll tell you what, There's
a great deal to be said for the way in
which he intervenes and breaks mindsets, and he breaks people's
established orthodoxies of the way. They are set in their ways,
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and that's what we're trying to do through New Zealand. First,
we're breaking the grievance mentality of Marridom's largest tribe than
Upooli and its God is my witness. It's going to happen,
probably happen after the next election. We are going to
get rid of regional councils and look doc doc represent
over thirty three percent of the country's landscape. Of course
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there are cases why we should look after national parks,
but the cohed Only National Park has got a lot
of minerals under it. We may need to revisit that
the next election.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Hey, do you realize that our joint Tapooky Rugby Club
fundraiser You're very much the star. I'm just the minor
support act. Shane has sold out all those Kiwi fruit growers.
They've had a good season. They're going to wander along
on August the twenty second and they're going to beg
bid up big time on the auction items and they're
expecting you. They're expecting Shane Jones off piece off the
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chain and unplugged ah and maybe unhanded I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Ah, well, I shall endeavor mate to be an entertaining
personality from the political super anything to generate some support
or worthy local initiatives. You know that as well as
I do. That's the blood I come from, born and
bred just north of Kaita. But I am very, very
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disturbed and about your hippie orientated Jacinda a Dern sandpit
people destroying mining in the Otago area.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And we're not having it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Dog baby deg Shane Jones, thanks for your time.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
See yea.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We last caught up with our next guest on the
country when he was representing US in Brisbane for the
Angus World back in May. He's joining us again today
to talk farm succession. His name is Kendall Langston grew
up on the family farm in South Canterbury. He's the
Chair of Rainer Irrigation, vice President of Angus n Z
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and a partner and strategic advisor at a leading advisory firm,
Pivot and Pace. Kendall, You've mented lots of people on
farm succession, but it got a bit personal for you
when your mom passed away recently.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Look well, I guess like all farming families our farm,
we've had the land and the family for one hundred
and ten years. And you know is Rabobank outline. We're
one of many that's going through and about to go
through it on the land. Very hard to navigate the
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complexity of it without some help, That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, you've written an interesting column on it, which we're
putting up here on our website. You say, succession in
a family business isn't a transaction. It's a test of leadership,
patients and values. And earlier in the week I caught
up with a dynamic young woman by the name of
Bridey Verbickis and she won the Emerging leaders Award at
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the PIN Summit and her family is going through farm
succession and what they're doing or what they did to
make it work was gott an independent arbiter effectively in
and they sat around the kitchen table and thrashed it out.
Is that a good idea?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I look, definitely. I think you know, the learnings from
having supported the facilitation of this and then having gone
through it yourself. You've got to start the conversation. And
it takes a long time. I mean, it was a
good well over ten years for us in it and
it evolved. So it's definitely a process and a journey,
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and you do need good, good advice and support to
help you navigate some of the get the emotional hat
or the personal hat versus the collective family hat on.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I think one of the best comments I heard went
around what Rabobank was saying when they released their white
paper or whatever they've called it this week. Equal is
not equitable necessarily.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Definitely, And look, I only have one other sibling, my brother,
who's remained on the farm. But you know, beef and
rolling hill country in southern Canterbury, you know it can't
be equal. You know there's complexity. You've got to set
it up for the future, and you're also trying to
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balance some of those things like, you know, my mother's
wishes versus you know, our own personal endeavors, our families.
You know, when you're throwing spouses and kids and things,
so it gets complex really quickly. And then when you
throw in a challenge like an illness which my mother had,
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and then you know you take on the parapernie as well,
it gets further complicated. You get conflicted, so you need
help through this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Kendall Langston, thanks for some of your time. Just put
on your vice president's hat very quickly for Angus New Zealand.
You must be wrapped with the record prices being paid
for balls, beef balls.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Oh look, it's absolutely stoked, you know, it's really it
just shows your confidence in the beef industry at the
moment and obviously our breeders they work hard at the
top of your game, and you know as a breed
society where we're working hard to enable that with good marketing,
good communications, good services. So yeah, I absolutely staked. I
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think it's indicative of confidence in the farming industry and
people investing in their beef herds and in their future
genetics for their businesses.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, some people have certainly bid up when it comes
to balls. What do we get over one hundred and
sixty grand? Great money for a black beauty one of
those angles balls. Kendall Langston, thanks for some of your
time today on farm succession.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No worries. Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It is twenty five after twelve. You're with the country.
Brought to you by Brent Songs from nineteen eighty five
for the Riversdale rugby team great Side. It was brilliantly
led to I might add Shane Jones. Yeah, what an
interesting life. He had nineteen eighty five, four kids and
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he went to Harvard as what a thirty year old interesting. Sorry,
we had to get in and out of Shane pretty
quickly because he had to go to something else. Didn't
get a chance to tease what was on the show.
That's Kendall Langston, good bloke, actually a farm succession. It's
a very very hot topic at the moment. Chris Brandolino's
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up next from Niwa the Neewa weather guys, a big
wet hitting the country. We've heard about the flooding in
Nelson and Marlborough. You know, I thought with you guys
well worn though. I guess thunderstorm mornings this afternoon or
today for the North Island will update what the weather's
going to be like at your place. But I guess
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it is smack bang in the middle of winter if
you're going to get this weather better now than closer
to springtime if you're a farmer. Rachel Sharer from PGG
Rights and Wall. The Wall season finished yesterday. We start
a new one in July. Wall up twenty four percent
year on year from last season, but it's coming off
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an incredibly low base. So we'll put that into perspective,
hopefully with Rachel and then our farmer panel before the
end of the hour, Stu Duncan and the Manototo, Stu
Low and Canterbury. I'm worried about Stu former Canterbury and
Crusader of course himself. You'll be insufferable, Michelle. I'll have
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rural news for you. We'll have sports news for you
as well. I see a forty year old old Cristiano
Ronaldo has just signed on for Uber millions. It's a
good athlete, that guy. It's all on the country as
we play some great songs from nineteen eighty five, Welcome
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back to the Country twenty nine after twelve Hall and
Oates biggest selling duo of the nineteen eighties. Nineteen eighty
Five's my theme you today, just because I can. Chris
Brandolino joins us from New work. Chris, where were you
in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh, upstate New York, in the capital region of New
York State, Albany, New York. So yeah, that's why I
was probably looking at class clouds and doing weather stuff
like I am now much changed.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
As long as you're not an angry old man shouting
at clouds, as has been accused of being. So let's
talk about clouds. There's too many of them parked themselves
over top of Nelson and Marlborough. Some really really heavy
rain there. We've got thunderstorm warming warnings. Should I say
for the North Island this afternoon, Chris give it to
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us baby.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Look, the heavy rain continues right now for far eastern
Tasman into the Nelson area, certainly Marlborough and blend him
seeing very pretty studying heavy rain at the moment. That's
going to continue basically Nelson Richmond eastbound at least of
the afternoon, I think overnight hours it may persist toward
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eastern Marlborough. So there's still more rain to come. So unfortunately,
not good news there. And some places looking at the
Tasman District rain gauges and the higher elevations of the
Tasman District have received over four hundred millimeters of rain
in thirty six hours, so a real beluge. In places
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in Marlboro and across the Nelson area have received more
than a month worth the rain in about a day
day and a half. So this is what we're seeing flooding.
Now in other parts of the country, we still are
seeing very active weather. We have heavy rain across much
of the Waikato, much of the eastern Tetanaki region. We
could really use the rain in eastern portions of the
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wider rapid southeastern North Island where it's been still dry,
so hopefully some rain gets in there. The heavy rain
is about to clear the Northland and even Auckland area,
so the weather will improve in Waikato, but it may
take some time and then eventually this all goes away.
So the good news is that as we work away
into tomorrow, things will be much better across the country.
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We're still going to have some rain across the top
of the South Island and parts of New Zealand for tomorrow,
but not that much. There will be some snow to
lower levels in Otago tomorrow as well and some wind.
Things really settled down early next week, so a nice
couple days early next week before another low comes in
from the Tasman Sea tugging down moisture from the subtropics
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and tropics. That looks to be toward Thursday into Friday
of next week, so honestly, guys, it's wash rinse repeat.
We could be doing it again and doing it again
next week, and I think July is going to be
a very active month. We are likely to see some
visitors from the north, which means these moist air flows
keeping us warm, but also increasing the offs or these
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big rain events like we're seeing today and that we
very well may see later next week.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Okay, Chris Brandolina, thanks for your time. I know you've
been flat out there at Neeware monitoring all this weather.
And I must say to all the way the fullcasters,
they got it pretty much row it, didn't they so
everyone on the Nelson Marlboro region was warned it was coming.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
He's gone, Hello, Michelle, your Mike's not on, by the way,
we'll hear from you in just a moment. We've got
to keep the show on the road, so we're going
to come back. We've got one of our something we
prepared a weave it earlier, the old FMG region off.
In fact, I can turn this on, Michelle. We're going
to hear from justin Ryegrock today. This is our fifth
(21:27):
of seven Young Farmer regions. I think six of the
seven are actually finalists. We had one who couldn't do it,
so someone else from the region did it, and you're
going to update us on the voting.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Oh well, I'll.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Probably give an update on Monday because I'm not quite
sure how quickly the voting's moving. But I have a
look at the numbers today. See I they've changed over
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So listen to this young man, he's coming up after
the break, and remember you've got to vote, and you've
got to vote before July the fifth, which is.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Where Grand Final night.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Next Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And the artist formerly known as Rowena Duncan, your predecessor,
who is the judas that she has has gone to
FMG with that blessings, I might add where we'll be
catching up with her on the ground down and in
the cargo. Plus hopefully if he's listening, George Dodson, we're
going to get a hold of you as well, George,
So we'll do that after the break, before the end
(22:21):
of the hour. Rachel Scherer, what a great name for
the GM of Walah for PGG Wrightson and a farmer
panel Stu Duncan and Stu Low. Today's FMG Young Farmer
(22:46):
Region Representative is justin Ryegrock for Northern. Okay, Justin, you've
got sixty seconds to sell your region to the rest
of the country. Off you go.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Yeah, good day everyone. I'm Justin Ryerock, representing the Northern
Region for the young the year. I've been brought up
in the Northern Region all my life off of dairy farm,
so I'm currently dairy farming myself more than sort of
one of the smaller regions, if not the smallest, So
(23:16):
if the more votes are better for us, really, my
chosen charity is Gumboot Friday. They do do amazing work
and providing free counseling sessions for everyone under anyone under
twenty five. Mental health is obviously quite big in the
rural sector, so to be able to raise money for
that would be would be go a long way.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Time's up, thanks Justin. When you've just heard Justin Ryegrock's
pitch for Northern Now it's over to you to go
and vote in the FMG region off. Go to FMG
dot co dot z forward slash region op and vote
before July five. Yep, and that website again FMG dot
co dot in z a region off. Michelle will update
(24:03):
the state of play as because we've still got two
more young farmers to play Monday and Tuesday of next week,
and you've got until Grand final night, as Michelle said,
to decide which region you want to win. The region
of the winning region, by the way, will come away
with provincial glory and much more according to my script
(24:23):
which you provided me, Michelle, including five thousand dollars for
their chosen charity, one thousand dollars to the senior contestant,
one thousand dollars to be split among the junior contestants.
Well they're school kids. That would be good, a grand
split amongst the team, and one thousand dollars to be
split among the agrikids as well. So there you go.
(24:46):
The website is FMG dot co dot and said region off.
Lots of feedback coming in about Shane Jones. Will get
back to that, but Michelle, I hope you've got a
lengthy rural news because I haven't even pre read sports news.
I've got no idea there, Watson, not Here you.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
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Speaker 9 (25:11):
Yeah, I've got some great News here Jamie Soo. New
Zealand shearers Toll Henderson and Jack Fagan have just arrived
in the UK, ready for the first of six Test
matches in the Four Nations Tour, starting at Lockinheard Shares
in Scotland this weekend. Northland shearer Tol Henderson, representing New
Zealand for the first time, claimed his place after winning
the New Zealand Open Sharing Championship. Fagan, who was in
(25:33):
the Walls of New Zealand tour team last year, retained
his position as third place skater in the New Zealand
Shearers Circuit final and both events being shorn in Tequitti
in April. Following the Test on Saturday, Henderson and Fagan
or sheer against England at the Great Yorkshire Show at
Harrogate on July ninth, France at the French Shars and
Bossick on July thirteenth, and then the three match series
against Wales with a Test at Coufy on July nineteenth
(25:56):
and the Royal wal Show on July twenty third at
the cor And Shares on July twenty six and they're
going to be sharing Blackie. They're known as Blackie's jam.
Have you ever shown any of those before?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, Shawn, black Sheep before.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Black face those black face Locke and here have you
ever Shawn?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Have they got horns?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
I don't, so they're quite the cute. I feel like,
kind of lame, like a city person saymeus, but they
are quite cute. Sheet those ones.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Michelle Watt was rural news. That was some sightful con
right now. Songs from nineteen eighty five getting ready for
the Boomers Disco. I'm putting on tomorrow and I'll enjoy
it if no one else enjoys it. Anyhow do you
like the song Phil Collins Phil Bailey?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
I love Phil Collins.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Do you know who Phil Bailey is?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
It's not kind of like the other guy from Wham,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No? No, no, no, no, not at all, because in
Wham there was George Michael and the other bloke didn't
really do much. But Phil Bailey's from Earth Wind and Fire.
Oh I didn't know that he does this song. You
have knowledge gat something you've learned today? Okay, Well, while
we've been rambling, I've been trying to multitask and read
the sports news, so I don't completely cock it up.
(27:01):
But see how I go.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Sport with AFCO. Visit them online at AFCO dot co
dot nzed.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Now as I was alluding to it at the top
of the air Portuguese football great Cristiano Ronaldo signed a
new two year contract with Saudi club Al Nasa, reportedly
worth three hundred and eighty million dollars perannum. The new
deal was confirmed the day after the latest coach resigned,
(27:29):
Stefano Pioli is the fourth gaffer to depart since Ronaldo
joined in twenty twenty three. I think he's forty years
of age. Not bad money if you can get it.
And talking about rugby, Wellington Rugby Referees Association chair n
Dallas claims the shortage of whistleblowers means some community matches
(27:51):
can't go ahead. The Horifinua Corpity Union has postponed all
fixtures this weekend in a stand against abuse. And I
know you player, but a footy back in the day yep,
And I don't know. I just don't know where people
get off abusing referees. You well, if you want to
abuse a referee, go and abuse Been O'Keeffe or someone
(28:12):
who's being paid a fortune. Well, no, I mean seriously,
a professional. He's he's accountable, he's responsible, That's what I meant.
And Ben o'keef's a very good referee obviously, But why
abuse someone who's giving up their Saturday afternoon to referee
your game or your kid's game.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I mean it's bad sportsmanship to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, referees a human, They make mistakes like the rest
of it. You don't get abuse, Or I didn't used to.
When I dropped the high ball under pressure back in
nineteen eighty five for Riversdale, No exactly.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Do you still remember that? Was it that one moment?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Only did it once?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
No? No.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I used to have a bloke on the wing called Gav.
I'll look forward to seeing him tonight, and he was
sort of fearless. He was converted hooker. We moved him
out to the way and when the bombs went up,
I just said, it's yours, Gaff, and he would come
in and take the punishment. Those were the days. More
stories to come after the weekend Up next to Rachel Sharer,
(29:12):
We're going to talk wall. It was good to catch
up with our next guest in person at the Primary
Industry New Zealand Awards on Tuesday evening in christ Church,
her hometown. I think Rachel Sharer GM of Wall for
(29:34):
PGG Wrightson and Rachel before we talk about the end
of season Rap, did you enjoy the Pinn's Conference and
the awards?
Speaker 10 (29:42):
I most definitely did, and was very grateful to be
hosted by yourself and Rowena on what I believe was
her swan song. So thank you so much for for
the opportunity to attend. It was a great night out.
Always really awesome to see those amazing people across our
industry who were doing such good, great things.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Something that sticks in my mind is and we spoke
to her on was It Wednesday show? The emerging leader
that Bridey of Verbiguusy, the dairy farmer from the Bay
are plenty. They're talking about her as being a potential
leader of Federated farmers in a decade or so and
I'm thinking her And then the closing note address for
the conference came from Emma Paul and Tim Danje and
(30:22):
no strangers to listeners to this show, but I'm thinking
g agricultures and good heart with people like that leading
the charge, the next generation coming through isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 10 (30:33):
I was just sitting with one of our new reps
who came on board and you'll be the same. But
it's quite horrifying to know what year these ones coming
through were born in. But like the future generation, the passion,
the dedication and just the technical expertise coming through through
our sector enter our business, it's just so encouraging to see.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I absolutely love.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
It to highlight my highlight of my job. Good on
watching these passion that young ones coming through.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Well, I also think and it works for me here,
like working with younger people, I think helps keep you
awey bit younger. You don't get too stuck in your ways,
although a lot of people would say I am anyhow,
let's get off me and onto wall. Now it's been
stuck in it's ways unfortunately for several decades now. But
I'm going to be a Pollyanna here. Glass half full.
(31:22):
We closed out the season yesterday's auction and compared to
the same time last year, we finished the season twenty
four percent up, which is good. But Rachel, as you
and I both know, off a very low base.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, it is off a really low base, and what
we're starting to see coming through. I was sitting on
the bench yesterday actually helping out because it was a
dual option on both islands, and it's really interesting to
see those buyers. You know, they physically instect that wall
and the wall that's been really well prepared. They really
see something in it and you know they spark up
in The competition that they have for that wall is
(31:58):
really evident because they're viewed it and they've seen it
and they spark up. But it's also coming off the
back of really low base but what you say, it's
coming off the back of low supply, So it's really
important to have that as well prepared wall as people
can because the buyers are seeing are seeing a price
difference in that. But as I always say, we've got
(32:19):
a really long way to go, Jamie, we've got to
get those prices up.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Absolutely. Look Australian walls different than as we're mainly strong
crossbred wall here in this country. We do have some
fine wall. Obviously they're mainly fine wall, are there? Clip
is now the smallest it's been for one hundred years.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I know, isn't that? You know you contemplate the value
of the fine wall that comes out of Australia and
to have the smallest clip they have for one hundred years.
It really is a concern across the world. This dropping
demand in supply also the reduction in quality. You know,
the British wall clip has now been seen to be
of the lowest quality it's been for a very long time.
(32:58):
So you know, as a bit of a Pollyanna, I
see that as an opportunity for the New Zealand wall clip.
We are known as being a superior clip across the
across the globe, so hopefully we can start blending in
a bit more New Zealand wall now that the British
quality is declining as much as it is.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So we had our final action of the season yesterday.
First sale of the News season is July seventeen. My
challenge to you is Rachel, between now and then you
need to go away, put your thinking cap on and
come up with a really good use for strong cross
spread wall other than carpets.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, And there's a lot of good people out
there doing good things. But look, the word coming in
from the sheds across the country is that this pre
lamb wall that's coming off, or what's about to come off,
is it actually going to be really high quality across
most regions. It's been good quality conditions for growing wool
and we're just looking forward to seeing those trucks starting
to roll into our wall stores.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Okay, Rachel Scherer, thanks for your time. Good to catch
up in person. And Christjitch during the week.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
And just actually I've just noticed our first sale of
the new season is actually the tenth of July, and
Napiar I got better. The seventeenth of July is the
first one down here on the South Island.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh you gave me fake news.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
I did.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
I'm sorry for that.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
See you Laterie. Yes, thank you Rachel. Now a message
from farm Strong in case I forget it. Just like
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(34:37):
and downs of the job. Head to farmstrong dot co
dot in zed, hit the toolbox tab, download your free
copy farmstrong dot co dot in z to find out
what works for you and lock it in. Eddie god
bless Shane Jones. I'm voting New Zealand first next year
and that's from a national voter, Scott and here's Shane
(34:58):
from North o'target. It looks like Shane Jones needs to
look into the Waitaki District Council. They are full of
greenies also and making it very hard for farmers. We're
going to wrap it with a couple of farmers and
I'm going to go off scraps. I want to talk
about the importance of the local rugby club to rural
and New Zealand. Ok, I'm going to wrap it with
(35:28):
their farmer panels, Stu Duncans, Stu Low Running out of time, boys,
but I just want to because I've got a rugby
reunion on this weekend and I know you're both rugby nuts,
especially you stew you played for Canterbury and the Crusaders.
You're not allowed to mention the Crusaders, but talk to
me about the importance of your local rugby club and
your case Glenmark to your local community.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, like all small places around the New Zealand here
it's very important. It was the rural workforces getting Swallows
have recently combined the Chiwiot so we're going to Chiwiot
and yeah, I mean that that helps. But yeah, everyone's
got to travel a bit further. But the done age
(36:11):
vehicles in roads a lot better than it was. There
were smaller clubs and they had got closer to get
up Stu Duncan.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Of course the many are Toto maggots Andrew Howes rugby club.
You you draw them in from quite a big catchment.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Yeah, there's pretty much the whole minute. There's a millionacres
of land in the Minnieu Toto surrounded by mountains and
they come from Danzy's path, some of them now coming
back from duned and local kids that have gone to
work in Duneda. So it's a week you come up
on a Thursday night and play rugby here right down
to the eye of Alleys and Batan. So that's a
huge area here.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Hey, Stu. People often ask me about what I do now,
But when I look back with rose tinted spectacles and think,
maybe the happiest time in my life was in the
twenties farming. I was making no money at all, but
you know, young, having a family, getting married, playing footy
that they were good, uncomplicated years.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Yeah, and I went to the rugby club the other day,
have a sponsor's day and you look around and all
the week kids are running around and the we kids
are looking after the bigger kids are looking after the
week kids, and remember running getting the ball and all
the mun's just sitting there yarn in a bit of
a catch up. So you going to the rabr to
match and it's the same thing happening as kids run
around there with the lemonade and chips like the whole day.
So it's videly important that we keep these clubs and
(37:28):
we're lucky. We're low on numbers here again, but.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's great, all right, stud Low you would have got
twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
You'd endorse that, Oh definitely. Yeah, the whole community when
the dab kick off in the morning and you've got parents'
grandparents and Nandy's uncles all turn up to support the
kids and they generally hang around and watch the bigger
fellows go around the afternoon. So it's all good for
every community, really, heart and.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Soul of rural New Zealand. There we go our farmer
panels Stu Duncan ste Lowe wrapping the show for today.
Next week we've got Lisa Carrington on the show, looking
forward to that She's is it official? Yep, Michelle's noding
So she's the new Zestprey global brand ambassador. How good
will she be in that role? I'll catch you back,
(38:15):
probably slightly the worse for wear. On Monday, catch all
the latest from the land.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
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