June 11, 2026 • 40 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Sir David Fagan, Mike Green, Emma Poole, Adam Thompson, Kevin "Smiley" Barrett, Riley Kennedy, Tom Young, Winston Peters, Campbell Parker, Tania Houghton, and Hunter Darry.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch you're the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to farmlands helping to keep
animals fed and thriving, Loop.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Stuff worgainst is your truck break?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Did you put through my did you expan?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Canadian Zell?
Speaker 5 (00:23):
And Welcome to the Country, Day three here at Mystery
Creek National Agricultural Field Days. Gee, honestly, they don't release
the crowd attendance numbers here and I wish they would.
I must chase up Richard Lindrew's the chief executive because
I think we've broken records this year.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
There are so many people here.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
We've got a cast of thousands to talk to today,
quite literally, and our swinger, I don't know if that's
the right word to describe him.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
As Winston Peters.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
So we're gonna have to shuffle the show for when
Winston arrives, hopefully at about twelve thirty. And I can
tell you, having listened to him addressing the Federated Farmer's
Adkapacy site, he's in. He's in a cantankerous mood and
he will be up for a fight, but straight into it. Well,
he's a very important man. The world's greatest stever sharer.
I had the second greatest stever sharer maybe on the
(01:10):
show yesterday rolland Smith mis bloke, Well, his record will
never be beaten. His name is Sir David Fagan. And David,
you were at the Big Rural Industry Leaders event and
debate on Wednesday night. And this man besides you will
bring him in in a minute, but you were there
and you were mentioned in the same breath as Sir
William Gallagher, Willie Apiata and Richie McCaw.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
You're moving in very high circles now.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
There was an amazing event and it was an absolute privilege,
and I must think Mike for getting us along there.
What an incredible thing, and what they're doing with fundraising
for that, and the stories we heard and the story
we heard from Taranaki.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
There wasn't a dry iron the room.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
And my wife and I left there going home thinking
any little problems you got, we haven't really got any
after hearing some of the stories there and what my
doing with fundraising there, and what a privilege it was
to be there and rub shoulders for some really famous people.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay, the Mikey's referring to as Mike Green, the man
behind the Rural Industry Leaders Event and the debate.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
The debate was a lot of fun. Mike, you get
bigger and better every year. What is have you got
a final number? How much was raised for the Rural
Support Trust?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
We will finish up round about that four twenty four
to thirty thousand with the horse to go yet, which
we're looking at putting up in Cragger which Dutch big deals.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Well, I mean the horse. This is a giant horse
made out of horseshes. It's a brilliant sculpture. You we
were talking after the event. We passed it it or
you passed it in but you reckon it could be
worth fifty or eighty grand.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We'll get more than that good offer of fifteen now
and we reckon. We'll get up to possible around there
eighty two hundred k or just over to go up
to Cragger.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
So what's the next expansion plan for the Rural Industry
Leaders Event.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, this year we're wanting to get into the arena
at Cordlin's but couldn't, so we will be coming year.
We'll we're at six twenty people in the room this time,
will by Tommy invite all the industry award winning Future
Leaders of Rural into the room. There's been another thirty
to fifty theresay status brief. If we go anywhere between
(03:17):
now seven fifty to eight hundred we've got for an
unadvertised event. We've got a got a que over end
about two to three hundred stills to come in. So yeah,
it's no shortage of people wanted to get in. We've
another had ten partners chasing us since the end of
the event.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Bring it on and everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It's a vibe. It's like a bipart of that event.
I know all the big banks are and they're all
sponsoring you and supporting you. They're not competing with one another. David, Oh,
Sir David Fagan, I bet I couldn't get it right.
I knew him when he was just playing old David
way back when he won his first ever sharing competition
in my hometown of Riversdale, way back when. But you're here,
I think, or you've got the can Am gere on,
You're like the canam Ambassador. What is the vibe out there?
(03:58):
Because I've been talking to called salespeople and motorbike people
and they've been going really well.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
House.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Can I go Yeah, it's been good. I've been This
is my third day here now on the stand. Quite
glad to get off the stand actually have a walk around.
And yeah, it's been good. It's been good. There's a
good vibe out there in the rural sector and we
feel it on farm too, real and Zeale's in a
good place. You know, if it wasn't for what was
happening in the Middle East, we're really humming.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh but wait, there's more. Trump's signaling a piece. There
will be the time yet.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Will be all right.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You know, the world's got to eat, so farming's will
always going to be good. And ye're on the stand
at Cana. We've just got so much interest in new products.
They've got new defenders out there. And on eleven o'clock
on Wednesday we launched the first ever Outlander fully electric
quad bike and it is amazing and it's coming to
my place on Monday.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I've already driven it. I'm not a greenie, but.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'll tell you what, it's got some grunt and it's
going to be really interesting to see how the uptakers
with New Zealand farming with electric on quad bike and
it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm quite
sure it's going to go really.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Around electrification as the future.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Mike, just quickly from you, what are you doing here
at Field Days other than stating the obvious organizing a
huge fundraise of it made over four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh, look, it's a good opportunity to catch up a
lot of people here and extract some more funds. So
you've got plenty of victims out there and take the
money away again.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Victim Slash Sponsors, Mike Green, Sir David Fagan, thanks for
your time, you're with the country. Thanks for listening in.
We're justss waiting for Winston Peters hopefully at about twelve thirty.
But up next it's can I call them a Young
Farmer panel? One of them I can. Emma Paul twenty
twenty helped me out here twenty twenty three didn't. Wasn't
(05:46):
an Emma Young Farmer of the Year and a bloke
who's not really a young farmer anymore. He's a middle
aged farmer, but he's a great blog and he's the
man behind restore Native Nursery Here in the Waycatto, Adam Thompson,
Emma Paul up there.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Oh am, I taking me here.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Welcome back to the country. We're broadcasting from the Farmland
site site. He one o eight.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Come along and say hello, or come in and see
the farmlands team and if you're a farmland shareholder to
swipe your card, they'll give you a breakfast, coffee, lunch,
you name it. They're doing a great job of catering
right to It was going to be the Young Farmer panel,
but I lost one of the young farmers, George Dodson,
so I got a middle aged farmer and I'll start
with the youngest of the two on the Farmer panel,
(06:34):
Emma Paul twenty twenty three, Young Farmer of the Year,
as I'm fond of saying, and I'm I am a
shocker for repeating myself.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You did break the grass ceiling.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Good Ajmie. Nice to be here, and you'll have to
excuse my voice today. It sounds like I've been out partying,
but it's quite the opposite. And it was hard to
wrangle three children and come to the come to the field.
Today's today, and I have bought them along with me,
but I'm thinking it's a mistake now, But I think
they're enjoying.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Well, I saw a happy Chris there, so he'll be
no doubt doing the hard yards looking after that. So
we talked to Sir David Fagan, who's a bit of
an ambassador for can Am.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I know, I think you're involved with the Blue Tractors,
aren't you.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Yeah, not Canam, but New Holland Tractors will be at
the site there this afternoon with the FMG Young Farmer
of the Year contestants are coming around at two o'clock.
I've got a bit of a quiz to run for them.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And of course that that Young Farmer Grand Finals happening,
and well it's in less than a month's time. It's
probably about three weeks time, and Taranaki.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Right totally, and they've got short countdown there for them.
They'll be handing in their projects shortly and putting the
polishing touches on their physical skills. I think there, Jamie.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Now, you can't sit on the fence here, Emma, don't
disappoint me. Is there a favorite who do we need
to watch out for? I don't know if well, I've
got a soft spot for young Tom Slee from Southland.
I know his father and his father, Richard was a
Young Farmer of the Year himself.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Yeah, there's a few good, good characters in there. David
Ruiesby competed with Chris and Tim what was that twenty
twenty two? You'd know better than I he'd put in
a good effort then, So it'd be cool to see
how he goes this year, coming back for a round two.
And I think he's pretty keen to take you.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, and he's a hell of a nice bloke. He's
got a job for a mate of mine son, so
he is a really good he's he oh he is?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
He a man or too, Taranaki is dairy farmer. Yees.
So he's the local representative.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
He is, he's his hometown. It's always a good place
to try and take it out when you're at home.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
All right, middle aged farmer Adam Thompson. Now you do
great work.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You run a company, you do a whole lot of things,
you and your wife Claire, but you restore native nurseries.
You've got a site just inside the main pavilion. I
literally between here where we're broadcasting from, and the media center.
I tracked past there, I don't know ten times a
day of this is my third day here, so maybe
I've walked past your site twenty or thirty times.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Do you know what, Adam, No, I've yet to see you,
meaning on the tools.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
It's too many good people here, jbe.
Speaker 10 (08:57):
I get caught up having good conversations as we do
it days and yeah, lots of good bugguess so love
that too.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You know, sparmers are doing Okay, look a look at
the look at the crowds here. I think this record
crowd so eventually we'll get a number. I think this
is going to be record attendance field days. Has it
equated record sales for you?
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Yeah, not necessarily for field days, but some really awesome
conversations and just like just as husual, just farmers doing
really cool stuff. They could be spending their extra bit
of money on overseas holidays and a new boat, but
a lot of them are spending it on trees and
doing really cool stuff on farms. So yeah, we're having
really good yarns. But yeah, it probably not heaps more
than usual, but but yeah, lots of farmers do and
cool stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And just a final word for you, you and I,
well we're going to plant some native trees in weeks
a mirrow which is just I had to look it
up on the map. They won the Rabobank Good Deeds
promotion and that's sort of on the hills up above Cambridge.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Yep, that's right in our hoods. So we're about five
minutes down the road. My kids are standing over there.
They go to the Tamuro School and yep they'll be
out there helping you, Jamie. So if you need any tips,
the young Thompson, Clara and Maverick, they'll show you how
to plant the trees on the day. That'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Okay, Just now, I've got a young I've got a
young farmer, a middle aged farmer.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And here's an old farmer.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Can I call him that? That's probably not being kind.
I just I see he's turned up. You might know
this Blokus, the sire of the Barrett clan. But more
importantly these days he's a television star. He's starring on
the Light Force Solar ads with his boys. Smiley Barrett
come in and say hello, there we go. You might
need to sit down talk into that. Good to see you, mate.
Here's a legend, good aughning, Jeremie. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
(10:34):
I'm surprised that all I see hasn't made better use
of your services, Smiley, because we could bread all blacks
for a long long time.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
You've got a very good track record, mate.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I just sort of better not be rood and passed
by today sort of Robin this morning. Or I want
to go to field is to meet Winnie. So if
she can't, well he's going to.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Be here hopefully at twelve thirty. And I won't hold
you up. But the team. How many Barretts are playing
this weekend? Two out of three?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Right, yeah, I think yeah, that's it's right, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so call it for me tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I mean Scott's not going to be obviously playing for
the Crusaders tonight. It's the Chiefs against the Crusaders here
in Hamilton. The town is absolutely you just need to
lean over into that. Call that game for me.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It gonna be a tough one, Jamie. Yeah, I would
have to go with It's it's that cycle. If the
Chiefs can't get that psych out of the head of
the Crusaders, they're just they are crumbling at the at
the final head. Or yes, so it'll be a big one,
but that's that's a big mental block for them, I
think is that finals footy, but as you know, finals foody,
(11:48):
it's it's on the day and hopefully we don't want
to see cards.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Nothing butting and the other.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
The other game I think is more clear cutters that
Hurricanes have been the best team this season. Jeordie's playing
really good rugby for the Hurricane and they will beat
the Blues.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Sorry Blues fans out there.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah it's but ye again, Jamie, Finals footing. You just
don't know what can happen, you know, and then Blues
could pull out of the bag. But I think it's
going to be fine using you this time here. This
tracks are a bit slippery and it would probably suit
the Blues game.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
But yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, it's the Hurricanes to lose.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Okay, one more question for me from me for you
be honest here, how many takes did it gets you
to do your acting piece for the lightful Solar thing?
Because you're pretty good, if you don't mind me saying so.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
John's here somewhere in the crowd today so you could
bat for me. We were there pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
It was under budget, under budget.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Good to see you, Smiley Barrett, an absolute legend of
a dairy farm up and along with his wife Robin.
I think some of the genetics, a good number of
the genetics might come from Robin. But they've done a
great child, great family. We're waiting for Winston to turn up,
so as Tom Young in the crowd.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Is he here?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
No, we look, we'll figure someone else to talk to.
I might have to talk to the rural broadcaster of
the year anointed last night.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I don't know why did he beat me? I don't know.
Riley Kennedy from Business Desk. We've got Winstont coming.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We're going to talk to Wendy Paul, chief executive of
Growing Future Farmers Campbell Parker.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Is he here from Darian's Idiot.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
We'll have a yarn to him and even if I
can track him down, talk a bit more footy with
Hunter Darry, a bit of a legend down south and
of course sees the father of Sam Derry. Right, We're
going to take a break back on the other side
of it.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Welcome back to the country, day three of four.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Let's have a look at the time, getting too many
messages on my watch. Twelve twenty three. We're desperately waiting
for Tom Young from AFCO if you're lucky enough to
be an f CO shareholder, I can tell you, for
the umpteenth year in a row, AFCO is the best
place to get lunch here at the Field Days. Just
want to give a shout out to a couple of
(14:04):
people who have come up and made themselves known. Emma
from Hawks Bay, who's Muzzer's stepsister. Muzz is a bitter
and twisted man, but we do enjoy his texts on
the country. And right in front of me, I've got
Henry van der Holst fifty three years of attending Field Days,
Klcocky from RAPAOA and Henry is I'm fond of saying
(14:25):
every listener is a prisoner.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Thank you very much? Right this man.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Last night and I was crowned Rural Broadcaster of the
Year at our sort of in house radio and podcast
awards Riley Kennedy. If you subscribe to Business Desk, he
does all the rural stuff there.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Riley, is this the greatest honor of your life?
Speaker 12 (14:44):
It's an honor and a privilege and probably second only
to having to share an Airbnb with you all week.
Speaker 11 (14:52):
And I'd just like to fact check you. You said
that if you're lucky enough to be a thank.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
You don't encourage him.
Speaker 12 (14:59):
If you're lucky enough to an a FCO shareholder, Well,
there's only one a FCO shareholder, and that's the Telly's family.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I think you mean f CO supply I f CO supplier.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Sorry, yeah, I'm getting confused with Fonterra not a shareholder.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yeah, but not quite good. Actually, now, I think.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Winston's coming at about twelve thirty and we're going to
give him a lamb chop.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
So don't you eat them all? Hey, listen, what on
a serious vein you do? Right?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You do the rural stuff for business desk. If you
don't subscribe, I suggest you subscribe. What are the big
stories out there?
Speaker 11 (15:28):
The fact that that lamb chop is really good.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
But I think it's been a great field days everyone
who's been pretty upbeat.
Speaker 11 (15:37):
The big story is.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
That Levern's got a lot more money now. I suspect
the attendance numbers, if we ever find them out, might
reflect that. I doubt we'll ever find out how many
people came through the gate. But let's another story.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Well, why why are we so secretive over attendance numbers? Especially?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I understand why they might have just kept quiet about
them during the COVID years when it was a bit
tough for drawing a crowd. But I've been coming to
this for thirty years. I don't think I've seen bigger crowds.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
No, and I wonder whether this few will change.
Speaker 12 (16:05):
But I understand that Wednesday was actually a record day,
not that I know the figures, but I have been
told that Wednesday was a record day for the open.
So and I'm sure we've been given the crowd that's
here today and also yesterday that would have continued on.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
To Okay, well done last night and the in House
Radio and Podcast Awards Rural Broadcaster of the Year Riley Kennedy.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Can we get Tom Young? He's the man.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Who's responsible, not a He can't be a shareholder of
AFCO because the Tallies own that.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And who wants to argue with the Talli's a Tom
you know, that's right. That's right, Jamie.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, you do without fear or favor. I can tell
you that you do the best lunches at field days.
I want to talk to you because you're the national
Livestock Manager for AFCO. I want to talk to you
about that stuff, red meat, the protein boom. You've been
in the business quite a while, have you ever known
it to be as good as it is now?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, heaven, to be honest. So I mean we're we're
sitting on record prices, which I think everyone's well aware of,
and we can say that the prices are actually going
to go up.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Again next week.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So yeah, we're sort of an unprecedented times And at
this point in time, the outlook even heading into the
next sort of sex to twelve months, still looks positive.
I wouldn't I wouldn't probably look too far past that
because it's very hard to get a view that far out.
But right now, the next the next sort of sex
(17:30):
to twelve months looks looks good.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So when you say the price is going to go
up next week, I assume you're talking of what about
the beef and lamb schedules.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
One hundred percent? So you know the prices in both
islands are going to lift again, and I think you
know there's a little bit left to go. We've got
a lemb contract out now, we've got two lamb contracts out.
We've got one in the North Island, one in the
South Island. They peak at twelve dollars twenty, which I
think it was only a few years ago you were
(17:58):
calling me ten dollars, Tom recorded Teams.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, it's not that long ago. It's like two to
three seasons ago, was it. We were at six dollars,
five dollars eighty and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, that's right. So a real turnaround and sort of
the fortunes now. So market's are you know, markets are
fundamentally sound. The world wants read meat and that's looking good. Okay,
Lamb's looking really good. We've talked about lamb. What about beef.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That's the big story, especially in the US, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, so, I mean beef beef as much the same.
I mean, beef is going from you know, strong strength
to strength. So again the schedules next week both prime
Bullen and how.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'm going to lift again?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So yeah, the long way it continue.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
All right, Well, I just see someone has wandered in here.
Now you brought some of these for Winston.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
To charge and bring these for Winston, I thought, yeah,
I thought Riley might have got them all.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well yeah no, given a chance to believe you me,
he would have been rooming with them, not rooming with them.
In the same house. Couldn't fit two of us in
one room. But you don't get to be the rural
broadcast of the air for nothing. So what we're going
to do is we're going to take a break because
he's a very busy man. He's got a busy schedule
up next. Let's get the gloves off and have a
bit of a go with Winston. And actually, if you
(19:08):
can feed him a couple of lamb chops or lamb
wrecks before he gets going, he might have his mouth
to fall to argue. I don't think that would ever happen.
We'll take a break here on the Country. It's coming
up to twelve thirty.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
GOV.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Welcome back to the Country.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
We're at farm Lands.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
They've been great hosts. Hopefully at the end of the
our Tarnia Hilton to wrap it. But there's a keynote
interview for today and there's a good crowd turned up
to see him and to hear him, including Smiley Barrett,
who wants to meet Winston Peters. Okay, Winston Peters, I
went and listened to you at Federated Farmers this morning.
You got stuck into the poor old feeds. You're in
(19:48):
a cantankerous mood. No, I wasn't I tell people the
facts they've done. He here celebrating the fact that we've
got sort of record exports and we haven't. Our exports
are good, yes, but they could be so much better
if he added, he was coming to our economy, our
workforce and our people.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
But it's not. It's going to other economies, and we're
worsing that. We're setting off to the French, we're setting
off to the Irish, We're setting off to everybody, but
looking after our own people. And when you've got things
like added value and it's lost to our economy, you
become a price taker and not a price May.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You realize there's probably heaps of Fonterra Farmer shareholders out
there who quite happily pocketed the four hundred grand.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well that quite have we. But don't forget they went
into China, blew one point four bill and went bankrupt
and nobody could sent the prison for it. Well that
with that, over and over. I was for a long
long time. I was on the Rag Cultural Sect Committee
in nineteen seventy eight, when half you were never born.
That's how long I've been watching the aad culturals are setting.
And what I'm really saying is that if we were
(20:45):
a clever, smart country like Singapore, like there I say
crazily as at the moment, or like the Irish ar
at the moment and have been since they become the
Celtic Tiger, we'd be doing so much better.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You made the announcement this morning out some pole that's
coming out this afternoon. I don't know whether it's a
legit pole, and I know you only comment on good polls,
the ones that suit shirt.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So you said there's going to be a sea change.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Now I'm telling there is a sea change. I'm talking
about a pole that I saw last night, a pole
of ten thousand New Zealanders, not this hopeless one thousand
pole which is coming out today. But even that pole
will indicate that there's a sea change going on at
the moment. And the great news for you, Jami and
your audiences, there's a big move to a party called
New Zealand first. Now I know that as a long
(21:33):
National Party supporter, you're going to want to celebrate that,
won't you, Because we're the only thing, probably the national
party up at the moment, don't you realize that.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, I realized that.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I realized that you've kept chippy to touch, which is
good because you didn't really stay true to your word
in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I've always been true. I've always been true to my word.
I never ever gave a commitment before twenty twenty three.
Is so which way I'd go? Didn't do it in
twenty seven, and didn't do it in forteen, didn't do
it nine ninety three before the m MP or nine
ninety six when the first MP start. I never have,
So don't tell a lie on your program.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Shane Jones was on the program yesterday and he was
very definitive about where New Zealand first and you stood
over the Paris Agreement.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Tell the punters what you're gonna do with Paris?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeh, what I've been saying for a long time. If
you've got four countries India, China, Russia and the United
States guilty of and responsible for sixty percent of the
emissions already, what hope have we got of changing anything
with our small percentage? And you know we can sneeze
now they can sneeze, That'll be our whole emissions for
the year. It's dramatically, a hopeless calls were on and
(22:40):
yet you got the National Party went off to Paris
and signed up. Now I know you all voted for them,
but when Paula Benna went off to Paris and signed up,
what are these things you're signing up to. Well that
it's worse as twenty two billion dollars coming out of
our economy to try and correct our responsibility to the
Paris Accord. That's the worst case scenario. And can we
afford that, No, we can't. Just in case we can't
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afford it, they've gone and committed themselves to pay thirty
five billion to India over the next for fifteen years.
And you'll look at me and at about now and
now I don't thought you've been down here writing and
protesting when have conned their vest turn up to other
day because they're back in the deal.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I'm not.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
And what I'm saying about the Paris Accord, it's over,
it's finished, it's a waste about time and we are
not going to go along with it.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Why do you keep burying your head in the sand
over issues such as the India Free Trade Agreement and
age of eligibility for National super I know you're going
to buy them.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
In a free trade in them. It's not a trade agreement,
it's of emigration to them. It's agreement for immigration and
serious immigration coming in from India and out here in
this cunning and it's not a matter of being Indian
or pro Inian or pro Chinese. Our immigration policy sue
based on people we need not even need us. Look
at Ireland at the moment, look at the UK, look
at the Europe and the Apean disaster of careless immigration,
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and we're not having it here.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You said this morning at Federated Farmers that we can
afford the cur At superannuation scheme. It's currently using something
like five or just over five five cent five two
percent of GDP. You threw the example out there of
nations such as some of these European nations where they
retire when they're about forty five eight or ten percent
for Spain. But realistically, you know as well as I do,
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that we can't afford to stay on this current path.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Isn't this amazing? Did he mention the Color fun The
Color Fund was a fun begun twenty years ago to
put away money for when there was a big cost
rise in supernuation. It's now ninety two billion dollars. But
National NAC never mentioned that fun and I'll tell you why.
The purpose of which there was going to be used
they don't tend to do that. They want to privatize it.
(24:44):
And you know what they wanted to actually do. What
they're saying is we can't run an economy properly, and
so we'll keep on getting grandmother and grandfather's savings to
try and disguise how badly we're doing. That's only what's
going on. And there are people sitting here, right here,
right now, who remember when we were going at five
and a half percent year after year after year, five
and a half percent growth year after year after year
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and becoming number one in the world. We're still that
great country.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yeah, but hang on there.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
You know the Minister for Labor back then, the Minister
of Labor back then, this is how good we were.
He didn't have an elephantine memory or fantastic memory, but
he knew every unemployed people, a person registered. Guess why
they're only twenty nine not on thousand, three, one hundred
and twenty nine. And I'm telling these people and National
(25:28):
Layer buddy, get out of the way you can't run
the economy, give me a chance.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
How can we afford A final question on this one,
how can we afford a system where by the year
twenty fifty or sixty or whatever it does, we'll have
two workers for every one super anuitants.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
But that's such a joke. Look, we've got Ai coming.
Ai is with us right here, right now. They're going
to be dramatic changes going forward. Everybody have making all
these sorts of forecasts. That's going to happen. That's not
going to happen. The reason why we backed, and we
were in opposition at the time, the then Cullen Fund,
because it were designed to smooth out the rising costs
of the baby boomers. Well, the money has been put away,
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there's ninety two billion in rising It's been the most
successful fund. But nobody mentions that. And the only reason
why they don't mention is they don't intend to use
it for its purpose. It's a great way instead of
saying to everybody, I'm hopeless, I'll just go and get
the retire all the savings from a former era, and
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then I'll privatize those and then I'll somehow make the
balance the books balance. Well, the books are never going
to balance their way until we turn our economy's growth
rate around. Is it possible to growth four and five percent?
Of course it is, But no of their policies.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
You and I'll agree to disagree on India free trade
and superannuation, one thing.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
He doesn't really talking about on any free trade deal.
On any free trade deal, there's a luxo out there
and he's promising you that there's going to be big
trade and meat. Well, look this is the farming show.
He can't tell me Australia success record of the last
five years in India because they're sales in India when
it comes to meat have been pathetic, and so will
there be for us. Take apples for example, we now
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level to next, what apples do India? Yes? When the
two months we don't produce apples? You know, do some
research here.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
One thing we can agree on, one thing we can aground.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
No, No, you're stuck in the seventies where the country
these days, Winston, we used to be the farming show.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Just one more.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Let let's just agree on something. I think you and
I will both agree that you're doing a good job
as Foreign minister.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
I'm not going to get an argument from you. There,
am I so wearing that hat?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
I I'm god, Ar'm out there using all my experiences
for long and the betterment of my country.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
And doing a good job. Talk to me, what do
you know?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
What's what's the intel you've heard this morning about the
Middle East and Trump look.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
At everyone to build people's hopes up. But it's quite promising.
There's a momentum of understanding. We send out ambassador back
in just in the last few days into Iran so
that we'd be closer to the action. There is it
possibility that peace might at long last break out. But
all I'm saying is take your fingers crossed, but don't
be too optimistic. Let's hope it develops and that they
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realize that there's no there's no winners here now anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Winston Peter's New Zealand first leader, Foreign minister. Get him
a big hand.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
He's largely doing a good job for his country. Ah.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
And just one, just one thing before I go. You've
got to voture. Though you can carry on your ponchean
birting for hopeless political parties. But I said, est on
your second bird, you take out some Insurance.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Hey, you'll be pleased to know I've just got a
text and from Federated Farmers the PR Department and they're
saying Shane Jones yesterday, Winston Peters today is sure you're
not standing for New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
First I can assure you I'm not. But there it
goes Winston Peters. Hey, we're going to.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Go and Smiley Barrett over there wants to have a
yarn to you. Hey, we're going to take a break,
come back with rural news and sports news before the
end of the hour. Is Campbell Parker here and see
here somewhere? Yeah, okay, yeah, so we've got We'll got
Campbell Parker, Tarania Halton and Hunter Darry if I can
squeez him, and we'll be back.
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Speaker 1 (30:19):
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Speaker 9 (30:23):
That's real.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Yes, thanks Jamie. Ryan Fox has built as solid opening
round as he looks to go back to back at
the Canadian Golf Open. Fox's carted for under sixty six
with just one bogey to be tied for nineteenth. There
is a six way type of the lead at six
under back to field days.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, thank you Mark, doing a great job paneling for
us right from we had beef and lamb New Zealand
and Horticulture in z on yesterday, so it's only right
that we should chat to the team from Derry in
z And with me, I've got the top dog. Yes,
Campbell Parker, chief executive of Derry in ZED. What's the vibe, Campbell, Oh.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
The ViBe's been very good. Jobie, very positive.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
I think the weather's helped to But you know, right
around the country everyone's had a really good growing season.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
Product prices are pretty good.
Speaker 14 (31:11):
Tough for our colleagues and arable and viticulture, but everyone
else is having in pretty good years.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
So the ViBe's been good.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
So what's the message you've been passing on Because you're
in the advocacy hub with Federated Farmers, aren't you.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
Yeah, we've been on our own site in the main
plus also science farmers and advocacy.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yep. What is the main features on your stand? What's
your message?
Speaker 11 (31:33):
Yeah, it's the main messages around.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
You know, we still have massive opportunity around both productivity
and efficiency and we've got to keep driving forward because
you know, we've got a lot of hungry people out
in the world and we produce really good products in
New Zealand.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
Say, how do we keep leaning forward on that?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
So you came out was it last week or the
week before with your e contractor cost tracker cost of
production for dairy farm and it's because of the fuel crisis.
Hopefully there might be some light at the end of
the tunnel there. But you know, the returns, the income
side of the ledge is very good, but we do
have some issues on the cost side.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Yeah, there certainly are, Jamie, and if you look at
the break even milk price, it went from eight dollars
thirty six up to eight dollars seventy nine. But the
main one is there's quite a bit of volatility and
you saw that with Fonterra's opening milk price as well,
around midpoint.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
Of nine to seventy five. It sounds great, but a range.
Speaker 14 (32:21):
Of eight to eleven dollars, so that's really highlighting the
volatility and the price pressure is real, you know when
that's coming through. And we talk about the five f
so fertilizer, freight, feed and fuel obviously, but the other
one is financed, so s inflation starts to cap finance
will be a challenge as well.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
The dairy farmers pay you with great love and gratitude
a levy. What are you spending on at the moment.
Speaker 14 (32:49):
Yeah, so it's along well, a whole range of things,
but about seventy five percent of ours is largely into
science and research and also our extension activities in terms
of the work we do with armers, so that's where
the bulk of that levey goes. And we've just announced
there was announcements here at Field Days as well. Around
we've got a big project to work around with beef
and LAMB on dairy beef opportunities, some work around resilient
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pastures and we've just announced what we call responsible Dairy,
which is the ability to drive productivity, efficiency and environmental outcomes.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
So they take a fair chunk of that money as well.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
And I put it to you, I don't need to
wrap this, but dairy beef is going to be one
of the big issues of the next decade and dairy
farming right.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
And it's a big opportunity.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
We announced that project back on the twelfth of March
and the farmer uptake has been really strong and there's
lots of good work happening across the sector. So you know,
coupled with things like hurting technology, virtual fencing, opportunities to
productivity and beef are big as well.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
All right, Campbell Parker mate, good to see you, and
I know and I know that you're a bit of
a Chiefs fan, are you calling?
Speaker 14 (33:49):
Oh yeah, the Chiefs. I've got a son over here,
his Crusaders. He's born in Canterbury. But I think it'll
be a good game tonight and I hope the Chiefs win.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Well, I still think the Hurricanes are going to take
a lot of beating regard ardless of who wins tonight,
because I'm assuming they're going to beat the Blues.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
But you enjoy You'll be at the footy tonight and Theron, Yeah,
will be.
Speaker 11 (34:06):
It doesn't look like it's going to rain, so hopefully
it's a good game of footy.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It's a good day for day three here at Field Days.
We've got to take a break on the other side
of it. Tarnia Hailton our host here from Farmlands, and
I've got to talk a wee bit of footy and
get a Blues perspective, although I think he's a Crusader
fan through and through. Hunter Darry from Donnahees just to
give us a perspective of an exhibitor here, Campbell Parker,
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Thanks for your time.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
We'll be back after the break.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Nine away from one, wrapping our three days at field Days.
That wonderful hosts have been Farmland's more about that in
a moment, But next week is Men's Health Weeks, so
let's double down on the things that help keep or
help us live well and farm well. Catch up with
your mates and neighbors and find a bit of time
to do stuff that helps you recharge physically and mentally.
(34:57):
Last year, twenty thousand farmers boosted their well being things
to Farmstrong. Make sure you're one of them and encourage
your mates to get on board as well. Head to
farmstrong dot co dot nz for free tools and resources.
They do a great job. Someone else who does a
great job is the Rural Support Trust. We had Mike
Green on earlier in the air. They raised four hundred
and twenty grand plus they've got a flash statue or
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sculpture to sell you it.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Huge fundraiser for the Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Tarnia Halton, chief executive of Farmlands, thank you very much
for hosting us for these past three days. Talk to
me about what you're doing with the Rural Support Trust
because you had a big launch on Wednesday.
Speaker 15 (35:34):
We did, and thanks for bringing it up. It's been
great to have you guys on the site. So Farmlands
in conjunction with Rural Support Trust and ignite oltaioa launched
on Wednesday, a new platform for rural communities, farmers and
growers and their farno all around the country to be
able to access. So you can jump onto it via
the Rural Support Trust website and it enables you to
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book support sessions, whether online, in person, in or over
the phone, across many different parts of your health and
well being. So obviously it's a really big support Jamie
for mental health, but you can also access nutrition advice,
you can access financial advice. It's really about saying we
know that around fifty percent of the people who make
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contact with Rural Support actually need to be recommended to
other providers for further support, and this is the platform
that we're going to be able to make that happen
for rural New Zealand. So it's a really big step forward.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Okay, good on you and good on Farmlands for getting
behind the Rural Support Trust. You are here, you're one
of the biggest sites. You've had people streaming in and out.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
The whole time.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
I can't believe how incredibly busy it's been, and I
know you've been the chief executive since when twenty twenty one?
Speaker 15 (36:46):
Yeah, end of twenty one.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Okay, so talk to me. This is the best field
days in your tenure crowd wise participation.
Speaker 15 (36:52):
Yeah, absolutely, it's been incredibly busy. We've had lots of
people through out site. But I think the really exciting
thing and what you notice walking around Mystery Crete is
the good positive vibe that is there. There's obviously people
quite rightly, I'm giving a lot of consideration to what
the coming season looks like and what any impact from
the Middle East might be, but definitely a much more
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positive vibe than we've seen for a little while. And
we're enjoying having so many people come through our site.
We've just launched down new brand positioning and it's our
team is full of energy and I know that that
is being experienced by customers coming through the Farmlands site.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Yes, and I love the we are positioning statement right
beside us. We'll never rest. Some rural never gets up early.
Everyone else is just like love your work.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
One of your recent acquisitions is Donahues right Doneghese Yes, Donighese, Donaghuez.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I better get it right.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So I'm going to bid you farewell, TARNI thank you,
thank you very much for hosting us. You have been wonderful,
as have all your staff. So I'm just going to
finish with this bloke from Doneghese Hunter Darry talk a
bit of footy this the Super Rugby set tomorrow. He's
the father of Sam Dairy, the All Black lock and
his wife Katrina is the All Black nutritionist.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
She stars in the Wheat Big Sads. Now.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Sam and Katrina are pretty healthy. I don't know if
you would fall into that category, would.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You, Hunter.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
Well, don't tell anyone, Jamie, but I've been trying a
new high fat, high alcohol diet.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I don't think it's working, but I'm not a quitter.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
No, and I noticed that last night at the spates
Ale House. Great to catch up with you, okay, Donaghy's
so you were a shareholder and that are you a
wealthy man? You should just retire and follow your Sonner
around the world watching All Black rugby.
Speaker 16 (38:38):
Yeah, that'll be great, Jamie, but you've got to do
something and I love what I do and having a
big brother like Farmlands now will allow us to innovate
more and bring more products in the market to help
farmers and that's going to be so exciting. So we're
really pumped about the future and I can't wait to
get into it.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Well, you and I are of a similar generation. I
might have a couple of years on your like I've
been coming here for over thirty. I reckon you might
even be longer than that because you have you been
in the egg industry all your life.
Speaker 16 (39:07):
No, detective, if you remember back in the days when
you were just a scallywag and yeah, no, twenty four
years and it is really positive, fantastic the numbers. Normally
you have one or two good days, but three fantastic days.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Okay, So pick tonight's game because I reckon, Sam Darry
and the Blues are going to get a bit of
a towelling from the hurricane. Sorry about that, but picked tonight.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Game for me.
Speaker 16 (39:30):
I think the Crusader's are proven. I think the Chiefs
choked quite often, and I think we're going to.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
See it again.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You're in Hamilton, right, and do you give the Blues
anych other?
Speaker 16 (39:40):
I give the Blues classes permanent body. Barrett's back and
here's class. Don't give up on him.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Go the Blues.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Yeah, no, a Barrett will never let you down. Hunter.
Great to see you last night. Thanks much.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Jes spokes al house he had to put up with
all the noise with the Rural Radio and Podcast Awards.
What's just just basically a pistake from everyone in the industry,
but it was great. It was great to have the
four rural radio shows all in one room, all together
at one time. Hey, we'll catch you back in Dunedin
on Monday.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Take care, we're out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Stuff worgainst is your truck break?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Did you put through my did you expan?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Canadian Zell?
Speaker 5 (00:23):
And Welcome to the Country, Day three here at Mystery
Creek National Agricultural Field Days. Gee, honestly, they don't release
the crowd attendance numbers here and I wish they would.
I must chase up Richard Lindrew's the chief executive because
I think we've broken records this year.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
There are so many people here.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
We've got a cast of thousands to talk to today,
quite literally, and our swinger, I don't know if that's
the right word to describe him.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
As Winston Peters.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
So we're gonna have to shuffle the show for when
Winston arrives, hopefully at about twelve thirty. And I can
tell you, having listened to him addressing the Federated Farmer's
Adkapacy site, he's in. He's in a cantankerous mood and
he will be up for a fight, but straight into it. Well,
he's a very important man. The world's greatest stever sharer.
I had the second greatest stever sharer maybe on the
(01:10):
show yesterday rolland Smith mis bloke, Well, his record will
never be beaten. His name is Sir David Fagan. And David,
you were at the Big Rural Industry Leaders event and
debate on Wednesday night. And this man besides you will
bring him in in a minute, but you were there
and you were mentioned in the same breath as Sir
William Gallagher, Willie Apiata and Richie McCaw.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
You're moving in very high circles now.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
There was an amazing event and it was an absolute privilege,
and I must think Mike for getting us along there.
What an incredible thing, and what they're doing with fundraising
for that, and the stories we heard and the story
we heard from Taranaki.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
There wasn't a dry iron the room.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
And my wife and I left there going home thinking
any little problems you got, we haven't really got any
after hearing some of the stories there and what my
doing with fundraising there, and what a privilege it was
to be there and rub shoulders for some really famous people.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay, the Mikey's referring to as Mike Green, the man
behind the Rural Industry Leaders Event and the debate.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
The debate was a lot of fun. Mike, you get
bigger and better every year. What is have you got
a final number? How much was raised for the Rural
Support Trust?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
We will finish up round about that four twenty four
to thirty thousand with the horse to go yet, which
we're looking at putting up in Cragger which Dutch big deals.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Well, I mean the horse. This is a giant horse
made out of horseshes. It's a brilliant sculpture. You we
were talking after the event. We passed it it or
you passed it in but you reckon it could be
worth fifty or eighty grand.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We'll get more than that good offer of fifteen now
and we reckon. We'll get up to possible around there
eighty two hundred k or just over to go up
to Cragger.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
So what's the next expansion plan for the Rural Industry
Leaders Event.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, this year we're wanting to get into the arena
at Cordlin's but couldn't, so we will be coming year.
We'll we're at six twenty people in the room this time,
will by Tommy invite all the industry award winning Future
Leaders of Rural into the room. There's been another thirty
to fifty theresay status brief. If we go anywhere between
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now seven fifty to eight hundred we've got for an
unadvertised event. We've got a got a que over end
about two to three hundred stills to come in. So yeah,
it's no shortage of people wanted to get in. We've
another had ten partners chasing us since the end of
the event.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Bring it on and everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It's a vibe. It's like a bipart of that event.
I know all the big banks are and they're all
sponsoring you and supporting you. They're not competing with one another. David, Oh,
Sir David Fagan, I bet I couldn't get it right.
I knew him when he was just playing old David
way back when he won his first ever sharing competition
in my hometown of Riversdale, way back when. But you're here,
I think, or you've got the can Am gere on,
You're like the canam Ambassador. What is the vibe out there?
(03:58):
Because I've been talking to called salespeople and motorbike people
and they've been going really well.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
House.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Can I go Yeah, it's been good. I've been This
is my third day here now on the stand. Quite
glad to get off the stand actually have a walk around.
And yeah, it's been good. It's been good. There's a
good vibe out there in the rural sector and we
feel it on farm too, real and Zeale's in a
good place. You know, if it wasn't for what was
happening in the Middle East, we're really humming.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh but wait, there's more. Trump's signaling a piece. There
will be the time yet.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Will be all right.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You know, the world's got to eat, so farming's will
always going to be good. And ye're on the stand
at Cana. We've just got so much interest in new products.
They've got new defenders out there. And on eleven o'clock
on Wednesday we launched the first ever Outlander fully electric
quad bike and it is amazing and it's coming to
my place on Monday.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I've already driven it. I'm not a greenie, but.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'll tell you what, it's got some grunt and it's
going to be really interesting to see how the uptakers
with New Zealand farming with electric on quad bike and
it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm quite
sure it's going to go really.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Around electrification as the future.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Mike, just quickly from you, what are you doing here
at Field Days other than stating the obvious organizing a
huge fundraise of it made over four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh, look, it's a good opportunity to catch up a
lot of people here and extract some more funds. So
you've got plenty of victims out there and take the
money away again.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Victim Slash Sponsors, Mike Green, Sir David Fagan, thanks for
your time, you're with the country. Thanks for listening in.
We're justss waiting for Winston Peters hopefully at about twelve thirty.
But up next it's can I call them a Young
Farmer panel? One of them I can. Emma Paul twenty
twenty helped me out here twenty twenty three didn't. Wasn't
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an Emma Young Farmer of the Year and a bloke
who's not really a young farmer anymore. He's a middle
aged farmer, but he's a great blog and he's the
man behind restore Native Nursery Here in the Waycatto, Adam Thompson,
Emma Paul up there.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Oh am, I taking me here.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Welcome back to the country. We're broadcasting from the Farmland
site site. He one o eight.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Come along and say hello, or come in and see
the farmlands team and if you're a farmland shareholder to
swipe your card, they'll give you a breakfast, coffee, lunch,
you name it. They're doing a great job of catering
right to It was going to be the Young Farmer panel,
but I lost one of the young farmers, George Dodson,
so I got a middle aged farmer and I'll start
with the youngest of the two on the Farmer panel,
(06:34):
Emma Paul twenty twenty three, Young Farmer of the Year,
as I'm fond of saying, and I'm I am a
shocker for repeating myself.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You did break the grass ceiling.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Good Ajmie. Nice to be here, and you'll have to
excuse my voice today. It sounds like I've been out partying,
but it's quite the opposite. And it was hard to
wrangle three children and come to the come to the field.
Today's today, and I have bought them along with me,
but I'm thinking it's a mistake now, But I think
they're enjoying.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Well, I saw a happy Chris there, so he'll be
no doubt doing the hard yards looking after that. So
we talked to Sir David Fagan, who's a bit of
an ambassador for can Am.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I know, I think you're involved with the Blue Tractors,
aren't you.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Yeah, not Canam, but New Holland Tractors will be at
the site there this afternoon with the FMG Young Farmer
of the Year contestants are coming around at two o'clock.
I've got a bit of a quiz to run for them.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And of course that that Young Farmer Grand Finals happening,
and well it's in less than a month's time. It's
probably about three weeks time, and Taranaki.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Right totally, and they've got short countdown there for them.
They'll be handing in their projects shortly and putting the
polishing touches on their physical skills. I think there, Jamie.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Now, you can't sit on the fence here, Emma, don't
disappoint me. Is there a favorite who do we need
to watch out for? I don't know if well, I've
got a soft spot for young Tom Slee from Southland.
I know his father and his father, Richard was a
Young Farmer of the Year himself.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Yeah, there's a few good, good characters in there. David
Ruiesby competed with Chris and Tim what was that twenty
twenty two? You'd know better than I he'd put in
a good effort then, So it'd be cool to see
how he goes this year, coming back for a round two.
And I think he's pretty keen to take you.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, and he's a hell of a nice bloke. He's
got a job for a mate of mine son, so
he is a really good he's he oh he is?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
He a man or too, Taranaki is dairy farmer. Yees.
So he's the local representative.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
He is, he's his hometown. It's always a good place
to try and take it out when you're at home.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
All right, middle aged farmer Adam Thompson. Now you do
great work.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You run a company, you do a whole lot of things,
you and your wife Claire, but you restore native nurseries.
You've got a site just inside the main pavilion. I
literally between here where we're broadcasting from, and the media center.
I tracked past there, I don't know ten times a
day of this is my third day here, so maybe
I've walked past your site twenty or thirty times.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Do you know what, Adam, No, I've yet to see you,
meaning on the tools.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
It's too many good people here, jbe.
Speaker 10 (08:57):
I get caught up having good conversations as we do
it days and yeah, lots of good bugguess so love
that too.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You know, sparmers are doing Okay, look a look at
the look at the crowds here. I think this record
crowd so eventually we'll get a number. I think this
is going to be record attendance field days. Has it
equated record sales for you?
Speaker 10 (09:17):
Yeah, not necessarily for field days, but some really awesome
conversations and just like just as husual, just farmers doing
really cool stuff. They could be spending their extra bit
of money on overseas holidays and a new boat, but
a lot of them are spending it on trees and
doing really cool stuff on farms. So yeah, we're having
really good yarns. But yeah, it probably not heaps more
than usual, but but yeah, lots of farmers do and
cool stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And just a final word for you, you and I,
well we're going to plant some native trees in weeks
a mirrow which is just I had to look it
up on the map. They won the Rabobank Good Deeds
promotion and that's sort of on the hills up above Cambridge.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Yep, that's right in our hoods. So we're about five
minutes down the road. My kids are standing over there.
They go to the Tamuro School and yep they'll be
out there helping you, Jamie. So if you need any tips,
the young Thompson, Clara and Maverick, they'll show you how
to plant the trees on the day. That'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Okay, Just now, I've got a young I've got a
young farmer, a middle aged farmer.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And here's an old farmer.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Can I call him that? That's probably not being kind.
I just I see he's turned up. You might know
this Blokus, the sire of the Barrett clan. But more
importantly these days he's a television star. He's starring on
the Light Force Solar ads with his boys. Smiley Barrett
come in and say hello, there we go. You might
need to sit down talk into that. Good to see you, mate.
Here's a legend, good aughning, Jeremie. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
(10:34):
I'm surprised that all I see hasn't made better use
of your services, Smiley, because we could bread all blacks
for a long long time.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
You've got a very good track record, mate.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I just sort of better not be rood and passed
by today sort of Robin this morning. Or I want
to go to field is to meet Winnie. So if
she can't, well he's going to.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Be here hopefully at twelve thirty. And I won't hold
you up. But the team. How many Barretts are playing
this weekend? Two out of three?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Right, yeah, I think yeah, that's it's right, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so call it for me tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I mean Scott's not going to be obviously playing for
the Crusaders tonight. It's the Chiefs against the Crusaders here
in Hamilton. The town is absolutely you just need to
lean over into that. Call that game for me.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It gonna be a tough one, Jamie. Yeah, I would
have to go with It's it's that cycle. If the
Chiefs can't get that psych out of the head of
the Crusaders, they're just they are crumbling at the at
the final head. Or yes, so it'll be a big one,
but that's that's a big mental block for them, I
think is that finals footy, but as you know, finals foody,
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it's it's on the day and hopefully we don't want
to see cards.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Nothing butting and the other.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
The other game I think is more clear cutters that
Hurricanes have been the best team this season. Jeordie's playing
really good rugby for the Hurricane and they will beat
the Blues.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Sorry Blues fans out there.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah it's but ye again, Jamie, Finals footing. You just
don't know what can happen, you know, and then Blues
could pull out of the bag. But I think it's
going to be fine using you this time here. This
tracks are a bit slippery and it would probably suit
the Blues game.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
But yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, it's the Hurricanes to lose.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Okay, one more question for me from me for you
be honest here, how many takes did it gets you
to do your acting piece for the lightful Solar thing?
Because you're pretty good, if you don't mind me saying so.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
John's here somewhere in the crowd today so you could
bat for me. We were there pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
It was under budget, under budget.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Good to see you, Smiley Barrett, an absolute legend of
a dairy farm up and along with his wife Robin.
I think some of the genetics, a good number of
the genetics might come from Robin. But they've done a
great child, great family. We're waiting for Winston to turn up,
so as Tom Young in the crowd.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Is he here?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
No, we look, we'll figure someone else to talk to.
I might have to talk to the rural broadcaster of
the year anointed last night.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I don't know why did he beat me? I don't know.
Riley Kennedy from Business Desk. We've got Winstont coming.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We're going to talk to Wendy Paul, chief executive of
Growing Future Farmers Campbell Parker.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Is he here from Darian's Idiot.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
We'll have a yarn to him and even if I
can track him down, talk a bit more footy with
Hunter Darry, a bit of a legend down south and
of course sees the father of Sam Derry. Right, We're
going to take a break back on the other side
of it.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Welcome back to the country, day three of four.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Let's have a look at the time, getting too many
messages on my watch. Twelve twenty three. We're desperately waiting
for Tom Young from AFCO if you're lucky enough to
be an f CO shareholder, I can tell you, for
the umpteenth year in a row, AFCO is the best
place to get lunch here at the Field Days. Just
want to give a shout out to a couple of
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people who have come up and made themselves known. Emma
from Hawks Bay, who's Muzzer's stepsister. Muzz is a bitter
and twisted man, but we do enjoy his texts on
the country. And right in front of me, I've got
Henry van der Holst fifty three years of attending Field Days,
Klcocky from RAPAOA and Henry is I'm fond of saying
(14:25):
every listener is a prisoner.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Thank you very much? Right this man.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Last night and I was crowned Rural Broadcaster of the
Year at our sort of in house radio and podcast
awards Riley Kennedy. If you subscribe to Business Desk, he
does all the rural stuff there.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Riley, is this the greatest honor of your life?
Speaker 12 (14:44):
It's an honor and a privilege and probably second only
to having to share an Airbnb with you all week.
Speaker 11 (14:52):
And I'd just like to fact check you. You said
that if you're lucky enough to be a thank.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
You don't encourage him.
Speaker 12 (14:59):
If you're lucky enough to an a FCO shareholder, Well,
there's only one a FCO shareholder, and that's the Telly's family.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I think you mean f CO supply I f CO supplier.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Sorry, yeah, I'm getting confused with Fonterra not a shareholder.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yeah, but not quite good. Actually, now, I think.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Winston's coming at about twelve thirty and we're going to
give him a lamb chop.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
So don't you eat them all? Hey, listen, what on
a serious vein you do? Right?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You do the rural stuff for business desk. If you
don't subscribe, I suggest you subscribe. What are the big
stories out there?
Speaker 11 (15:28):
The fact that that lamb chop is really good.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
But I think it's been a great field days everyone
who's been pretty upbeat.
Speaker 11 (15:37):
The big story is.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
That Levern's got a lot more money now. I suspect
the attendance numbers, if we ever find them out, might
reflect that. I doubt we'll ever find out how many
people came through the gate. But let's another story.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Well, why why are we so secretive over attendance numbers? Especially?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I understand why they might have just kept quiet about
them during the COVID years when it was a bit
tough for drawing a crowd. But I've been coming to
this for thirty years. I don't think I've seen bigger crowds.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
No, and I wonder whether this few will change.
Speaker 12 (16:05):
But I understand that Wednesday was actually a record day,
not that I know the figures, but I have been
told that Wednesday was a record day for the open.
So and I'm sure we've been given the crowd that's
here today and also yesterday that would have continued on.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
To Okay, well done last night and the in House
Radio and Podcast Awards Rural Broadcaster of the Year Riley Kennedy.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Can we get Tom Young? He's the man.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Who's responsible, not a He can't be a shareholder of
AFCO because the Tallies own that.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And who wants to argue with the Talli's a Tom
you know, that's right. That's right, Jamie.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, you do without fear or favor. I can tell
you that you do the best lunches at field days.
I want to talk to you because you're the national
Livestock Manager for AFCO. I want to talk to you
about that stuff, red meat, the protein boom. You've been
in the business quite a while, have you ever known
it to be as good as it is now?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, heaven, to be honest. So I mean we're we're
sitting on record prices, which I think everyone's well aware of,
and we can say that the prices are actually going
to go up.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Again next week.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So yeah, we're sort of an unprecedented times And at
this point in time, the outlook even heading into the
next sort of sex to twelve months, still looks positive.
I wouldn't I wouldn't probably look too far past that
because it's very hard to get a view that far out.
But right now, the next the next sort of sex
(17:30):
to twelve months looks looks good.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So when you say the price is going to go
up next week, I assume you're talking of what about
the beef and lamb schedules.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
One hundred percent? So you know the prices in both
islands are going to lift again, and I think you
know there's a little bit left to go. We've got
a lemb contract out now, we've got two lamb contracts out.
We've got one in the North Island, one in the
South Island. They peak at twelve dollars twenty, which I
think it was only a few years ago you were
(17:58):
calling me ten dollars, Tom recorded Teams.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, it's not that long ago. It's like two to
three seasons ago, was it. We were at six dollars,
five dollars eighty and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, that's right. So a real turnaround and sort of
the fortunes now. So market's are you know, markets are
fundamentally sound. The world wants read meat and that's looking good. Okay,
Lamb's looking really good. We've talked about lamb. What about beef.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That's the big story, especially in the US, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, so, I mean beef beef as much the same.
I mean, beef is going from you know, strong strength
to strength. So again the schedules next week both prime
Bullen and how.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'm going to lift again?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So yeah, the long way it continue.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
All right, Well, I just see someone has wandered in here.
Now you brought some of these for Winston.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
To charge and bring these for Winston, I thought, yeah,
I thought Riley might have got them all.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well yeah no, given a chance to believe you me,
he would have been rooming with them, not rooming with them.
In the same house. Couldn't fit two of us in
one room. But you don't get to be the rural
broadcast of the air for nothing. So what we're going
to do is we're going to take a break because
he's a very busy man. He's got a busy schedule
up next. Let's get the gloves off and have a
bit of a go with Winston. And actually, if you
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can feed him a couple of lamb chops or lamb
wrecks before he gets going, he might have his mouth
to fall to argue. I don't think that would ever happen.
We'll take a break here on the Country. It's coming
up to twelve thirty.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
GOV.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Welcome back to the Country.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
We're at farm Lands.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
They've been great hosts. Hopefully at the end of the
our Tarnia Hilton to wrap it. But there's a keynote
interview for today and there's a good crowd turned up
to see him and to hear him, including Smiley Barrett,
who wants to meet Winston Peters. Okay, Winston Peters, I
went and listened to you at Federated Farmers this morning.
You got stuck into the poor old feeds. You're in
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a cantankerous mood. No, I wasn't I tell people the
facts they've done. He here celebrating the fact that we've
got sort of record exports and we haven't. Our exports
are good, yes, but they could be so much better
if he added, he was coming to our economy, our
workforce and our people.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
But it's not. It's going to other economies, and we're
worsing that. We're setting off to the French, we're setting
off to the Irish, We're setting off to everybody, but
looking after our own people. And when you've got things
like added value and it's lost to our economy, you
become a price taker and not a price May.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You realize there's probably heaps of Fonterra Farmer shareholders out
there who quite happily pocketed the four hundred grand.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well that quite have we. But don't forget they went
into China, blew one point four bill and went bankrupt
and nobody could sent the prison for it. Well that
with that, over and over. I was for a long
long time. I was on the Rag Cultural Sect Committee
in nineteen seventy eight, when half you were never born.
That's how long I've been watching the aad culturals are setting.
And what I'm really saying is that if we were
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a clever, smart country like Singapore, like there I say
crazily as at the moment, or like the Irish ar
at the moment and have been since they become the
Celtic Tiger, we'd be doing so much better.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You made the announcement this morning out some pole that's
coming out this afternoon. I don't know whether it's a
legit pole, and I know you only comment on good polls,
the ones that suit shirt.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So you said there's going to be a sea change.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Now I'm telling there is a sea change. I'm talking
about a pole that I saw last night, a pole
of ten thousand New Zealanders, not this hopeless one thousand
pole which is coming out today. But even that pole
will indicate that there's a sea change going on at
the moment. And the great news for you, Jami and
your audiences, there's a big move to a party called
New Zealand first. Now I know that as a long
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National Party supporter, you're going to want to celebrate that,
won't you, Because we're the only thing, probably the national
party up at the moment, don't you realize that.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, I realized that.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I realized that you've kept chippy to touch, which is
good because you didn't really stay true to your word
in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I've always been true. I've always been true to my word.
I never ever gave a commitment before twenty twenty three.
Is so which way I'd go? Didn't do it in
twenty seven, and didn't do it in forteen, didn't do
it nine ninety three before the m MP or nine
ninety six when the first MP start. I never have,
So don't tell a lie on your program.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Shane Jones was on the program yesterday and he was
very definitive about where New Zealand first and you stood
over the Paris Agreement.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Tell the punters what you're gonna do with Paris?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeh, what I've been saying for a long time. If
you've got four countries India, China, Russia and the United
States guilty of and responsible for sixty percent of the
emissions already, what hope have we got of changing anything
with our small percentage? And you know we can sneeze
now they can sneeze, That'll be our whole emissions for
the year. It's dramatically, a hopeless calls were on and
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yet you got the National Party went off to Paris
and signed up. Now I know you all voted for them,
but when Paula Benna went off to Paris and signed up,
what are these things you're signing up to. Well that
it's worse as twenty two billion dollars coming out of
our economy to try and correct our responsibility to the
Paris Accord. That's the worst case scenario. And can we
afford that, No, we can't. Just in case we can't
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afford it, they've gone and committed themselves to pay thirty
five billion to India over the next for fifteen years.
And you'll look at me and at about now and
now I don't thought you've been down here writing and
protesting when have conned their vest turn up to other
day because they're back in the deal.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I'm not.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
And what I'm saying about the Paris Accord, it's over,
it's finished, it's a waste about time and we are
not going to go along with it.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Why do you keep burying your head in the sand
over issues such as the India Free Trade Agreement and
age of eligibility for National super I know you're going
to buy them.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
In a free trade in them. It's not a trade agreement,
it's of emigration to them. It's agreement for immigration and
serious immigration coming in from India and out here in
this cunning and it's not a matter of being Indian
or pro Inian or pro Chinese. Our immigration policy sue
based on people we need not even need us. Look
at Ireland at the moment, look at the UK, look
at the Europe and the Apean disaster of careless immigration,
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and we're not having it here.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You said this morning at Federated Farmers that we can
afford the cur At superannuation scheme. It's currently using something
like five or just over five five cent five two
percent of GDP. You threw the example out there of
nations such as some of these European nations where they
retire when they're about forty five eight or ten percent
for Spain. But realistically, you know as well as I do,
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that we can't afford to stay on this current path.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Isn't this amazing? Did he mention the Color fun The
Color Fund was a fun begun twenty years ago to
put away money for when there was a big cost
rise in supernuation. It's now ninety two billion dollars. But
National NAC never mentioned that fun and I'll tell you why.
The purpose of which there was going to be used
they don't tend to do that. They want to privatize it.
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And you know what they wanted to actually do. What
they're saying is we can't run an economy properly, and
so we'll keep on getting grandmother and grandfather's savings to
try and disguise how badly we're doing. That's only what's
going on. And there are people sitting here, right here,
right now, who remember when we were going at five
and a half percent year after year after year, five
and a half percent growth year after year after year
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and becoming number one in the world. We're still that
great country.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yeah, but hang on there.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
You know the Minister for Labor back then, the Minister
of Labor back then, this is how good we were.
He didn't have an elephantine memory or fantastic memory, but
he knew every unemployed people, a person registered. Guess why
they're only twenty nine not on thousand, three, one hundred
and twenty nine. And I'm telling these people and National
(25:28):
Layer buddy, get out of the way you can't run
the economy, give me a chance.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
How can we afford A final question on this one,
how can we afford a system where by the year
twenty fifty or sixty or whatever it does, we'll have
two workers for every one super anuitants.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
But that's such a joke. Look, we've got Ai coming.
Ai is with us right here, right now. They're going
to be dramatic changes going forward. Everybody have making all
these sorts of forecasts. That's going to happen. That's not
going to happen. The reason why we backed, and we
were in opposition at the time, the then Cullen Fund,
because it were designed to smooth out the rising costs
of the baby boomers. Well, the money has been put away,
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there's ninety two billion in rising It's been the most
successful fund. But nobody mentions that. And the only reason
why they don't mention is they don't intend to use
it for its purpose. It's a great way instead of
saying to everybody, I'm hopeless, I'll just go and get
the retire all the savings from a former era, and
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then I'll privatize those and then I'll somehow make the
balance the books balance. Well, the books are never going
to balance their way until we turn our economy's growth
rate around. Is it possible to growth four and five percent?
Of course it is, But no of their policies.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
You and I'll agree to disagree on India free trade
and superannuation, one thing.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
He doesn't really talking about on any free trade deal.
On any free trade deal, there's a luxo out there
and he's promising you that there's going to be big
trade and meat. Well, look this is the farming show.
He can't tell me Australia success record of the last
five years in India because they're sales in India when
it comes to meat have been pathetic, and so will
there be for us. Take apples for example, we now
(27:08):
level to next, what apples do India? Yes? When the
two months we don't produce apples? You know, do some
research here.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
One thing we can agree on, one thing we can aground.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
No, No, you're stuck in the seventies where the country
these days, Winston, we used to be the farming show.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Just one more.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Let let's just agree on something. I think you and
I will both agree that you're doing a good job
as Foreign minister.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
I'm not going to get an argument from you. There,
am I so wearing that hat?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
I I'm god, Ar'm out there using all my experiences
for long and the betterment of my country.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
And doing a good job. Talk to me, what do
you know?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
What's what's the intel you've heard this morning about the
Middle East and Trump look.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
At everyone to build people's hopes up. But it's quite promising.
There's a momentum of understanding. We send out ambassador back
in just in the last few days into Iran so
that we'd be closer to the action. There is it
possibility that peace might at long last break out. But
all I'm saying is take your fingers crossed, but don't
be too optimistic. Let's hope it develops and that they
(28:18):
realize that there's no there's no winners here now anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Winston Peter's New Zealand first leader, Foreign minister. Get him
a big hand.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
He's largely doing a good job for his country. Ah.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
And just one, just one thing before I go. You've
got to voture. Though you can carry on your ponchean
birting for hopeless political parties. But I said, est on
your second bird, you take out some Insurance.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Hey, you'll be pleased to know I've just got a
text and from Federated Farmers the PR Department and they're
saying Shane Jones yesterday, Winston Peters today is sure you're
not standing for New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
First I can assure you I'm not. But there it
goes Winston Peters. Hey, we're going to.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Go and Smiley Barrett over there wants to have a
yarn to you. Hey, we're going to take a break,
come back with rural news and sports news before the
end of the hour. Is Campbell Parker here and see
here somewhere? Yeah, okay, yeah, so we've got We'll got
Campbell Parker, Tarania Halton and Hunter Darry if I can
squeez him, and we'll be back.
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Mark Kelly here he is with sport Sport.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
On the country with a fco we owned.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
That's real.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Yes, thanks Jamie. Ryan Fox has built as solid opening
round as he looks to go back to back at
the Canadian Golf Open. Fox's carted for under sixty six
with just one bogey to be tied for nineteenth. There
is a six way type of the lead at six
under back to field days.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, thank you Mark, doing a great job paneling for
us right from we had beef and lamb New Zealand
and Horticulture in z on yesterday, so it's only right
that we should chat to the team from Derry in
z And with me, I've got the top dog. Yes,
Campbell Parker, chief executive of Derry in ZED. What's the vibe, Campbell, Oh.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
The ViBe's been very good. Jobie, very positive.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
I think the weather's helped to But you know, right
around the country everyone's had a really good growing season.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
Product prices are pretty good.
Speaker 14 (31:11):
Tough for our colleagues and arable and viticulture, but everyone
else is having in pretty good years.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
So the ViBe's been good.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
So what's the message you've been passing on Because you're
in the advocacy hub with Federated Farmers, aren't you.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
Yeah, we've been on our own site in the main
plus also science farmers and advocacy.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yep. What is the main features on your stand? What's
your message?
Speaker 11 (31:33):
Yeah, it's the main messages around.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
You know, we still have massive opportunity around both productivity
and efficiency and we've got to keep driving forward because
you know, we've got a lot of hungry people out
in the world and we produce really good products in
New Zealand.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
Say, how do we keep leaning forward on that?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
So you came out was it last week or the
week before with your e contractor cost tracker cost of
production for dairy farm and it's because of the fuel crisis.
Hopefully there might be some light at the end of
the tunnel there. But you know, the returns, the income
side of the ledge is very good, but we do
have some issues on the cost side.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Yeah, there certainly are, Jamie, and if you look at
the break even milk price, it went from eight dollars
thirty six up to eight dollars seventy nine. But the
main one is there's quite a bit of volatility and
you saw that with Fonterra's opening milk price as well,
around midpoint.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
Of nine to seventy five. It sounds great, but a range.
Speaker 14 (32:21):
Of eight to eleven dollars, so that's really highlighting the
volatility and the price pressure is real, you know when
that's coming through. And we talk about the five f
so fertilizer, freight, feed and fuel obviously, but the other
one is financed, so s inflation starts to cap finance
will be a challenge as well.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
The dairy farmers pay you with great love and gratitude
a levy. What are you spending on at the moment.
Speaker 14 (32:49):
Yeah, so it's along well, a whole range of things,
but about seventy five percent of ours is largely into
science and research and also our extension activities in terms
of the work we do with armers, so that's where
the bulk of that levey goes. And we've just announced
there was announcements here at Field Days as well. Around
we've got a big project to work around with beef
and LAMB on dairy beef opportunities, some work around resilient
(33:12):
pastures and we've just announced what we call responsible Dairy,
which is the ability to drive productivity, efficiency and environmental outcomes.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
So they take a fair chunk of that money as well.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
And I put it to you, I don't need to
wrap this, but dairy beef is going to be one
of the big issues of the next decade and dairy
farming right.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
And it's a big opportunity.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
We announced that project back on the twelfth of March
and the farmer uptake has been really strong and there's
lots of good work happening across the sector. So you know,
coupled with things like hurting technology, virtual fencing, opportunities to
productivity and beef are big as well.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
All right, Campbell Parker mate, good to see you, and
I know and I know that you're a bit of
a Chiefs fan, are you calling?
Speaker 14 (33:49):
Oh yeah, the Chiefs. I've got a son over here,
his Crusaders. He's born in Canterbury. But I think it'll
be a good game tonight and I hope the Chiefs win.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Well, I still think the Hurricanes are going to take
a lot of beating regard ardless of who wins tonight,
because I'm assuming they're going to beat the Blues.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
But you enjoy You'll be at the footy tonight and Theron, Yeah,
will be.
Speaker 11 (34:06):
It doesn't look like it's going to rain, so hopefully
it's a good game of footy.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It's a good day for day three here at Field Days.
We've got to take a break on the other side
of it. Tarnia Hailton our host here from Farmlands, and
I've got to talk a wee bit of footy and
get a Blues perspective, although I think he's a Crusader
fan through and through. Hunter Darry from Donnahees just to
give us a perspective of an exhibitor here, Campbell Parker,
(34:29):
Thanks for your time.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
We'll be back after the break.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Nine away from one, wrapping our three days at field Days.
That wonderful hosts have been Farmland's more about that in
a moment, But next week is Men's Health Weeks, so
let's double down on the things that help keep or
help us live well and farm well. Catch up with
your mates and neighbors and find a bit of time
to do stuff that helps you recharge physically and mentally.
(34:57):
Last year, twenty thousand farmers boosted their well being things
to Farmstrong. Make sure you're one of them and encourage
your mates to get on board as well. Head to
farmstrong dot co dot nz for free tools and resources.
They do a great job. Someone else who does a
great job is the Rural Support Trust. We had Mike
Green on earlier in the air. They raised four hundred
and twenty grand plus they've got a flash statue or
(35:19):
sculpture to sell you it.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Huge fundraiser for the Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Tarnia Halton, chief executive of Farmlands, thank you very much
for hosting us for these past three days. Talk to
me about what you're doing with the Rural Support Trust
because you had a big launch on Wednesday.
Speaker 15 (35:34):
We did, and thanks for bringing it up. It's been
great to have you guys on the site. So Farmlands
in conjunction with Rural Support Trust and ignite oltaioa launched
on Wednesday, a new platform for rural communities, farmers and
growers and their farno all around the country to be
able to access. So you can jump onto it via
the Rural Support Trust website and it enables you to
(35:55):
book support sessions, whether online, in person, in or over
the phone, across many different parts of your health and
well being. So obviously it's a really big support Jamie
for mental health, but you can also access nutrition advice,
you can access financial advice. It's really about saying we
know that around fifty percent of the people who make
(36:18):
contact with Rural Support actually need to be recommended to
other providers for further support, and this is the platform
that we're going to be able to make that happen
for rural New Zealand. So it's a really big step forward.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Okay, good on you and good on Farmlands for getting
behind the Rural Support Trust. You are here, you're one
of the biggest sites. You've had people streaming in and out.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
The whole time.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
I can't believe how incredibly busy it's been, and I
know you've been the chief executive since when twenty twenty one?
Speaker 15 (36:46):
Yeah, end of twenty one.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Okay, so talk to me. This is the best field
days in your tenure crowd wise participation.
Speaker 15 (36:52):
Yeah, absolutely, it's been incredibly busy. We've had lots of
people through out site. But I think the really exciting
thing and what you notice walking around Mystery Crete is
the good positive vibe that is there. There's obviously people
quite rightly, I'm giving a lot of consideration to what
the coming season looks like and what any impact from
the Middle East might be, but definitely a much more
(37:14):
positive vibe than we've seen for a little while. And
we're enjoying having so many people come through our site.
We've just launched down new brand positioning and it's our
team is full of energy and I know that that
is being experienced by customers coming through the Farmlands site.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Yes, and I love the we are positioning statement right
beside us. We'll never rest. Some rural never gets up early.
Everyone else is just like love your work.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
One of your recent acquisitions is Donahues right Doneghese Yes, Donighese, Donaghuez.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I better get it right.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So I'm going to bid you farewell, TARNI thank you,
thank you very much for hosting us. You have been wonderful,
as have all your staff. So I'm just going to
finish with this bloke from Doneghese Hunter Darry talk a
bit of footy this the Super Rugby set tomorrow. He's
the father of Sam Dairy, the All Black lock and
his wife Katrina is the All Black nutritionist.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
She stars in the Wheat Big Sads. Now.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Sam and Katrina are pretty healthy. I don't know if
you would fall into that category, would.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You, Hunter.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
Well, don't tell anyone, Jamie, but I've been trying a
new high fat, high alcohol diet.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I don't think it's working, but I'm not a quitter.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
No, and I noticed that last night at the spates
Ale House. Great to catch up with you, okay, Donaghy's
so you were a shareholder and that are you a
wealthy man? You should just retire and follow your Sonner
around the world watching All Black rugby.
Speaker 16 (38:38):
Yeah, that'll be great, Jamie, but you've got to do
something and I love what I do and having a
big brother like Farmlands now will allow us to innovate
more and bring more products in the market to help
farmers and that's going to be so exciting. So we're
really pumped about the future and I can't wait to
get into it.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Well, you and I are of a similar generation. I
might have a couple of years on your like I've
been coming here for over thirty. I reckon you might
even be longer than that because you have you been
in the egg industry all your life.
Speaker 16 (39:07):
No, detective, if you remember back in the days when
you were just a scallywag and yeah, no, twenty four
years and it is really positive, fantastic the numbers. Normally
you have one or two good days, but three fantastic days.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Okay, So pick tonight's game because I reckon, Sam Darry
and the Blues are going to get a bit of
a towelling from the hurricane. Sorry about that, but picked tonight.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Game for me.
Speaker 16 (39:30):
I think the Crusader's are proven. I think the Chiefs
choked quite often, and I think we're going to.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
See it again.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You're in Hamilton, right, and do you give the Blues
anych other?
Speaker 16 (39:40):
I give the Blues classes permanent body. Barrett's back and
here's class. Don't give up on him.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Go the Blues.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Yeah, no, a Barrett will never let you down. Hunter.
Great to see you last night. Thanks much.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Jes spokes al house he had to put up with
all the noise with the Rural Radio and Podcast Awards.
What's just just basically a pistake from everyone in the industry,
but it was great. It was great to have the
four rural radio shows all in one room, all together
at one time. Hey, we'll catch you back in Dunedin
on Monday.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Take care, we're out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie Mackay. Thanks to farmlands helping to keep
animals fed and thriving.
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