November 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Sandra Matthews, Emma Poole and Tim Dangen, Chris Brandolino, and Jeremy Rookes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Get a New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. Brought to
you by Brent Morgan Wallen, one of the big winners
at the American Country Music Association Awards. As we go
Country on the Country on a Friday, going to kick
it off with Todd McLay, Minister of Agriculture and Trade,
just back from Apec and Peru where he signed yet
another free trade agreement. Live Animal ex Sport and my
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favorite Bandwagon at the moment. Why the banks suddenly or
not suddenly? Why are they setting emissions targets they should
be butting out?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sandra Matthews is the new.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Is the current chair of Rural Women New Zealand and
she's the newly elected president. Is she the female equivalent
in Rural New Zealand to Donald Trump? Does she want
to control anything? We'll ask her Today's Farmer panel. A
couple of dynamic young entrepreneurial farming leaders Emma Paul and
Tim Dangen brother and sister are both former Young Farmers
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of the Air. Chris Brandolino on the impending dry A
lot of the country starting to get dry at the moment,
apart from poor our South in which can't dry out.
And just to round out the show on a lighter note,
time for some gloriously bitter cynicism from a Canterbury hobby
farmer to round out the show.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, his name is Jeremy Roxs.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But let's start with the Minister of Agriculture and Trade
Todd McLay Todd, congratulations on yet another free trade agreement.
Is there anyone you haven't signed one with?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Thanks Jamie and thanks for having me on. The three
deals we've got up this year are very important for farmers.
They give really good actress I mean the UAE and
then the GCC member Saudi Arabia. I've got this prediction.
You remember, years and years ago Iran used to take
all of our LAMB and you know we're much wealthier,
and now they don't. I think Saudi Arabia has the
potential to replace them. And as far as LAMB exports,
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which wouldn't that be good news for our sheep farmers.
And then the one last week we call it actors
with a couple of smaller countries, but it's particularly good
for our wool exports and some wood and a few
other things. It's a bit more round sustainability, and we're
going to try and get other countries including that you
to join there, which just means better access for our
farmers to these markets so we can drive up the
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returns of the farm gate.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So this latest free trade agreement Todd McLay Switzerland, Costa
Rica and Iceland. This sounds like a bad pun, but
what are we going to send to Iceland? Chilled products? Sorry,
I'm sorry with a dad joke on a Friday.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So no, I like the dad jokes. They worked for
me very well. Hey, well, look that these are just
countries that come together from different parts of the world
that think similar to us. But this is an open
agreement and there will be others that will join. So
I've been talking to the UK Trade Minister about it
and he says he's a little bit interested in that
as well. The EU are very you know, I find
it interesting that one of these countries will get together,
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and two that it's about sustainability. But when I say
sustainability and environmental things, what I actually mean is products
that are sustainable environmental, like lamb, like beef, like wool,
like wood, and getting tariff rates down on that so
we can sell more. So you know, sometimes our trade
agreements or the talk we here is it's about fixing
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all the problems in the world. I want to fix
New Zealand's problems, which is allowing our farmers to sell
more overseas and get more money for it. And so
it's just a start, I reckon over the next few years,
we'll see a few more countries might join, and that
just grows the opportunity for US to export high qualities, safe,
environmentally friendly food, which is what we are producing abundance
to many more parts of the world.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Let's address the orange elephant in the room, Donald Trump
and his tariffs. What are you going to do there?
Are you going to be on applying to Washington, d C?
Come January twenty one?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah, pretty soon after that. Chris luxein this morning our
Prime Minister. He and I have been speaking of the
US Chamber of Commerce Business Summit in Auckland where there
was much more optimism, not only from the New Zealand
businesses there, but the US business is about the way forward.
So a couple of things we know about President Trump.
When he became president last time, he pulled out of
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the TPP and put tariff right tom people, including New
Zealand when it came to steal. But during that to
his time as president, their economy grew, that wecame wealthier,
and our trade went to the roof. We sold them
much more at the end of the time that he
was president in the beginning, and I predict this thing's
going to happen. So you will see us up in
the US a lot. I'll be doing trade missions up
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there with New Zealand businesses and we will be up
in Washington talking to it and once they're in place,
and I know there's doom and gloom around at the moment,
but it's been a couple of weeks and we have
got on constructively with the US under Trump previously and
we will again.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Live Animal expert, where are we at with that?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, Andrew Hogart is responsible for that. He has the
Animal Welfare Delegation, so he's working through it. He just
announced that he's ready to get some legislation to bring
into the House. We've been very clear it came through
the Act Coalition agreement that we were going to restore
live animal exports, but with a lot of conditions around that.
And the conditions are that the animals have to be
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treated the same on the ships and the countries that
they're going to as they would be in New Zealand
from the point of view of animal welfare and animal husbandry.
Andrew's been doing a lot of work on the legislation
to be able to ensure that, and there'll be a
lot of regulation behind it. So he's bringing that forward
because it is important to New Zealand less from the
value that we get from the exports, although it does
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create jobs, but you know, is it's something else that
our armors have an option available to them when it
comes to Bobby Carves as an example for them to
be read of it and send overseas and someone else
might raise them as long as they are doing it
from an animal wealth for point of view, the same
as New Zealand, and it just gives us another option.
So he's working through it very very carefully, and I
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know that when he does bring the legislation to Parliament,
all those who have an interest on both sides of
this discussion will have a chance to go to the
committee and have the affairs.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Ay, let's just finish on my favorite bandwagon. At the moment,
this is banks setting emissions targets. So if they're going
to do it, who's next? Do we have farm supply
companies such as PGG Rights and Farmlands and farm Surce
or or worse even still, imagine if local regional councils
decided to set a mission's targets. Why are the banks
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poking their nose in there? Todd mclaan, What are you
going to do about it?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah? Well I find it very unhelpful actually, And the
banks have a right to say and do what they
want with in reason except that there are only a
few of them in New Zealand and the government is
working through a policy with the Night Process with our
farmers who want to meet their obligations. But we have
to do so in such a way we don't close
down farms and just send jobs and production overseas, And
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so I don't see it as been helpful. You know
that we've started a banking inquiry, and that's underway in
Parliament with a particular focus on or all banking. I
know that they are still having hearings, the banks are
still coming in to talk to them in those committees.
I think our members, they're all MP's on those commies
to be asking the banks exactly why they're doing this,
because all it ready does is sends are very very
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poor signal widely about farming. We know that our farmers
actually are some of the world's most carbon efficient food producers,
and we've got to stop letting people around the world
tell us that we're the worst because we're not with
some of the best. But we also have to continue
to improve and we should use innovation to do this.
And the government's not going to let people close farms
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down just because somebody somewhere else thinks that we need
to be better. You know, our farmers are the best
of the world. They produce high quality, safe food. The
world wants it, and they are willing to pay more
for it, and they are interested in both the climate
change and also the environmental wal story behind it. But
we are very good at what we do. We need
to continue to improve to be better, and I just
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don't see what the banks are doing has been helpful.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, hopefully along with your banking inquiry you can hold
them to task on this one. I mean, I'll use
Westpac as the example. I got stuck into poor old
Katherine McGrath, the chief executive with Heather duplassy Ellen last night.
But she's talking about why New zealandery farmers have to
have a lower emissions profile than their Australian counterparts, and
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her reasoning was because we're starting from a lower base,
we're already more efficient, so therefore we're being punished for
being more efficient. It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, I have a lot of respect for that lady,
but she's absolutely wrong. We don't have to compare ourselves
to Australia. We have to do what's right for New Zealand.
A lot of people in the Zealand have views of
Australia and about Australia what they should do, and we
keep them to ourselves. So ultimately, actually, you know, the
government will set the target with farmers. We have an
independent review of the role of me saying against additional warming.
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You know, it's an independent science offiical view that will
inform ust after what we need to do by twenty fifty,
and then we'll set out a plan with the farming
sector to achieve it. The one thing we do need
to be mindful of. We do need to meet our
international obligations right because otherwise consumers around the world have
a choice of who they buy from. But we are
not the worst, we are some of the best at this.
We need to continue to innovate and keep improving, and
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the government will plot a course with the farming sector
that we'll all commit to which we met. Farmers don't
have to go out of business and food doesn't have
to be more expensive. But I'll tell you what we
could do from some of the bank to other than
worrying what farmers are doing. Help us get interest rates
down for them so that actually their costs go down
and they can be more profitable.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Absolutely, stop ripping farmers and business people off with awful,
awful od rights. There you go, let's pick on the
banks day, but they need to be held to account.
Todd McLay there, who is the Minister of Agriculture and
Trade doing a good job. We're going to take a
break on the other side of it. The newly elected
president of Rural Women New Zealand. She's also the current chair.
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Is anyone else going to get a look? And we'll
ask Sandra Matthews next. She's farming up in the Gisbon
region there understandably getting pretty dry.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
We'll have a yarn about that as well.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Today's farmer panel Emma Paul and Tim Dangel, Chris Brandolino
from NIWA on the weather, and Jeremy Rooks just to
round out the show.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Myself.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Myself bed being every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you go.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tell they said someone.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Me when you're riding where he's driving.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Now you is street.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You see when you're fath.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Twenty one after twelve you're with the country. It's brought
to you by Brandt. Chris Stapleton dominated the Country Music
Association awards four big prizes. As we go Country on
the Country on a Friday, of course, just not Michelle,
because your MIC's not on. Was this in Nashville? I'm
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assuming it probably was? Was it anyhow? Nashville's close? Will
it is in the United States? And our next guest,
even though she's from Tyrafadi Gisbon region, I am likening
her to a certain person of power in the States,
Donald Trump. Sandra Matthews, you're the current chair and now
the new national President of Rural Women New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is anyone else going to get a look in? Congrats
on your new appointment.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Thank you, Jamie. It's wonderful beyond and I do take
a little bit offense to the Donald Trump comment.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I must say, Okay, so not a Donald No, I'm
just it was just another dad joke that fell flat
today on the country. But I'm assuming that you'll step
aside as the chair.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yes, so Real Women New Zealand is a bit like Feed's.
There is a president that's the leader of the organization,
and if the president doesn't want to be the board
chair as well, she asked the board to appointed chair.
So that's how I came on to be chair three
years ago because Jill wanted to focus on her leader
role and I had to have the skills and strengths
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obviously for the board chair role.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
So our first board meeting in December will decide whether
we appointed chair. At this present point in time, I
don't think we will, but I need to discuss that
with the board. Yeah, and go from there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh, you've got a very good background, not only in farming,
but also in business and communication. What are you going
to bring to the role?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yeah, great question. So my strengths are in communication. I'm
a collaborative leader. I don't like to lead from the
top and tell everybody what to do. I like to
listen to people and am very aware that people's voices
need to be heard. So our communication is really a
big strength of mine. I'm also a trained facilitator and
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a business coach and have worked in banking as well,
so there's a lot of skills I bring to the
role as leader. And I've got a great network around
the country of amazing Wahini and amazing men that I've
worked with over the years and in our primary industry.
So I'm really looking.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Forward to the role.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How are you going to get on with that amazing
man in Matthews. I mean, you're not at home much
as it stands at the moment. You'll be home even
less to help out on the Tairafiti sheep and beef farm.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So I retired my dogs about two years ago and
donated them to Ian. I will say, so I'm not
physically hands on on the farm obviously, I'm still involved
in the business side of the farm and the strategic side.
Ian is my biggest supporter I do. I think I've
said to you before. I do feel sorry for as
much time because he follows along with some of my
crazy ideas. But he's right behind me and I couldn't
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do what I do without his support at home.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
How are you getting on on Tacopai Station five hundred
and thirty six hectar sheep and beef farm at Rarri
near Gisbon. I'm looking at the old NEEWA Drought Index map,
as I'm prone to do on this show, and I
see that other than Hawks Bay, you're probably the next
driest region in the country.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yes, we are. It has got dry. We haven't had
a lot of rain. We had about twenty miles last
week and that's the first rain we've had for the
whole of the month. And we didn't have much in
October either, so it has got dry. The people that
I've talked to mostly in that drought planning place, some
unloading cattle looking at a lot of the lower country
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are weaning or have weaned, so people, you know, it's
about putting those drought planning processes in place and just
keeping an eye on the drought index and making sure
that you're keeping on top of what you've got going forward.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, you've certainly had to deal with some nasties from
the weather gods only a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Gabrielle.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Now you've got this, yes, but.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
That's farming, isn't it. I mean Gabriel was pretty bad.
Hail and Gabriel when they came through, and the rainstorms afterwards,
it was pretty harrowing. And a lot of us are
still only just getting back on top of the work
and people have still got work to do. But we
farm in a dry in certain areas of the country
that are dry, and we need to really actually look
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at the plans how to cope with that. And it
does get tough. But you know, if you talk to
your neighbors and you talk to people around you, talk
to the experts, get to beef and lamb days, rural
women New Zealand come in and they can.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Help as well.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
So as long as you're talking to people and not
holding yourself behind the farm gate, I think you can
get through these things, and you do it with other
people's support.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Good on you, well, congratulations for stepping up to the
plate as the new National President of Rural Women New Zealand.
There's some really good young blood or relatively young blood
coming through. I think of the likes of Claire Williamson
and Emma Higgins who are doing a wonderful job with
their podcast and it's good. Refreshment is good.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
That is Jamie. And we've got some young ones coming
onto the board as well. Emma and Claire have now
stepped off the board as of yesterday, and we've got
some new board members coming on. So I'm really looking
forward to a really bright, inclusive future for real women
New Zealand around the country.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Good on you.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I hope you get some rain. There we go, Sandra
Matthews up in Gisbon. It is twenty seven after twelve.
Excuse me, some issues with my voice, which some people
would say is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Hello Michelle.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now we're running next Thursday. My life's just a run
at the moment, to be perfectly honest, we're running our
annual Emerson's Golf Open. Okay, Thursday, the twenty eighth of November.
If you're anywhere near Dunedin, because that's where we are,
you can come and play golf at the Otago golf
club Beal mckewan, oldest golf club in the Southern Hemmersphere,
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the best golf club on the bottom half of the
South Island. I don't think I'm biased and too biased
in saying that, So come along and play. It will
cost you nothing to play. We're going to feed and
water with a bit of Emerson's and Stucker.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Absolutely. All you have to do is text our team
to five double o nine because we need registrations. We've
got limited numbers for how many teams we can have
on this course for this Ambrose tournament should be a
lot of fun, your chance to beat Jamie, give him
some beads.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I'm going to try and hand pick a team so
that i can win our own tournament.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Oh I think I'm going to go out and load
my team with pros.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Okay, so text us on five double oh nine if
you'd like to register your team. We've got a number
of entries yesterday. We'll probably have more entries than there
are spots, but will be as fair as we can
and try and get as many people into the field.
And if you come along next Thursday you get to
taste the twenty twenty four Makaiser along with our good
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friends from Emerson, So thank you very much for that.
This is Chris Stapleton. I see there's another song here.
You've loaded up Michelle called. They have such great names,
the country music songs. I know who that is. I've
got no idea, but I love the title of the
song I found Jesus on the jail house floor. That
sounds like a Johnny Cash song or something similar era.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
So George Strait now he won the Willie Nelson Lifetime
Achievement Awards at the Country Music Association Awards, which are
currently happening. I think I'm not very good at this
whole light. You know, world times, and.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know that well, I can tell you it's it's
Thursday evening. It's Thursday evening. You need to find out.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
If this is at Nashville.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
By the way, travel story a warning. Here is one
of the best cities in the world. And I never
thought i'd like it, and I loved Nashville. Up next
to our farmer panel, a couple of real entrepreneurial young
farmers and leaders.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
In this country. Emma.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I was going to say, Emma Higgins, we've already mentioned her.
Let's go with Emma Paul and Tim dangin.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Are you taking down Medu?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thanks coming sun myself. Today's Farmer Panel features the twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three Young Farmers of the Year, respectively,
brother and sister Tim dangein twenty two Emma Paul twenty three,
I'll start with you, Tim. Great to see you at
the Morning Side Tavern in Auckland on Tuesday for the
Auckland launch of The Farmer's Poor Bear and the Farmers
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Cut Chips and along with Teradar, it was a bit
of a young Farmer's benefit day you both legitimately too.
I might add Tim one prize packs well worth coming.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Here you good a jmien Happy Friday. It was well
worth coming mate. You're keeping my fridge stock, which is
awesome and it was a neat evening and great to
celebrate the thirty years that you've been celebrating all years,
so it's neat to see.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It's a bit like a royal tour. It just goes
on and on and on, doesn't it. Eventually I guess
we'll run out of beer and chip, although we're not
actually because we've just finished with the Farmer's portum and
we're on to the Machaiser, but more about that later. Emma,
I want to go to you. You made an interesting
comment to me earlier this morning. You're talking about the
speaking engagements that you've been doing in the past couple
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of years, effectively as the Young Farmer of the Year.
Of course, you broke the grass ceiling, first female winner.
You've been talking to a lot of audiences. But you're saying,
I guess recognition and understanding of young farmers is almost
better in the older generation because they grew up with
it on television.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Yeah, that's right, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Good afternoon, and good to be here. And it's been
busy two years since winning that title, and I guess
what have noticed. It's sort of been twenty plus speaking
engagements around the country and talking to various groups and
mixed populations of old and young and rural and urban people.
And I always ask for a show of hands at
the start of these speaking things and say, you know,
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who's heard of young farmers? In Like you said, is
a direct correlation between age and who's heard of it,
And the older you are, the more you tend to
have heard of it. And that seems to be directly
because it was on the Telly, Jamie. So it's a
great fond memory of many of those people that did
watch it on the Telly, and it's such a shame
that it's no longer televised. And I know we bang
on about this all the time, but mister Luxon did
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promise me that he would get it back on the
Telly if he made Prime Minister. So I'd like you
to hold him to account for that next well, I.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Will, because I love bandwagons and I've had a few
over my thirty years in this job. I wanted to
bring back rucking and Rugby failed miserably there, bring back
Milkine schools. I sort of succeeded there, and then it's
fallen off again. But when it comes to the Young
Farmer Grand Final, I think mainstream media whatever that is
these days, needs to be covering it because a bit
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like Country Calendar, if you put it on at the
right time, it will rate it socks off totally.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'm all funny just mentioned Country Calendar there, because they
did actually reach out and get in touch before the
Grand Final and they were sort of more interested in
trees I was planting on farm rather than actually what
the story was behind the Young Farmers and engaging with
it there. So it's a bit of a shame that
the story never came to front because they would do
a really great job of showcasing it, and they've shown
glimpse of it in the past, so it'd be neat
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to see a whole episode dedicated to the Grand Final
and the journey of the young Farmers that go through
on that.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Absolutely, perhaps you're not woken up for Country Calendar. I
shouldn't say that, because they've had some really good episodes recently, right, Okay,
So Tim, when you're not in drinking beer and eating
chips in Auckland, you've got a farm out west Auckland
Way Mirrawai, the beef farm. We know parts of the
North Island, in fact parts of the country is starting
to get a bit dry.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How are you fearing here?
Speaker 10 (22:42):
We were getting really dry about a week ago, but
then we caught that sort of fifty mils over Friday Saturday, Jamie.
We've had some good follow up rains since, so it's
keep everything nice and fresh. And yes, it's a good season. Really,
we normally take any rain we can get from here
on out, so it's kepting off for good twelve months
a season farming, Emma.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
When you're not a former Young Farmer of the Year,
a mother of two, I think now a vet you're
also a white catto dairy farmer. I got a message
from a Hieraki Plane's dairy farmer this morning saying they're
starting to get rather dry.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What about you, guys.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
No, we're sharing well as well, Jamie. We caught one
hundred meals in that last down Pohen. We've hit a
couple of ten mil follow ups, so there is silent
for Africa and dropping around the place, which is really
neat to see because of course it extends into the
real contracting businesses and keeps ever on a float. So yeah,
keep the rain coming, I say, because it's been awesome
so far.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And while Tim's doing okay with his beef good prices,
especially into the US market, Emma, you're probably doing better
with your milk. Westpac have now lifted their forecast milk
price to ten bucks.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Isn't that a great story, Jamien. I had a vet
friend comment the other day that they had a couple
of farmers stopping into the vet clinic on their way
to look at boats, So it's a good sign that
things are on the turn. And maybe not quite purchasing
boat territory, but things are certainly looking up well.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
If you want to purchase a boat or win a boat,
maybe Tim Dangeen, you could enter the Young Farmer of
the Year contest because there's great prizes there.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Yeah, there's fantastic prizes available, Jamie. So we've got our
regional finals coming up early next year. It's about seven
k up for grabs for first place there, but obviously
if you may get through to the big Cheese Green final,
then yeah, the prize pool there's over one hundred k.
And I'm sure I'm with them the test the amazing prizes,
and I certainly feel very fortunate every day when I
get to jump on my brand new Honda side by
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side and skirt around the farm. It's been an awesome
leg up and here it's very grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
All right, Controversy time sort of. This is not on
the script for YouTube, so don't tak for cover here.
I was getting stuck in a wee bit talking about
Westpac doing a great job getting that milk forecast price up,
but they're also setting emissions targets as a number of
the banks. I think the banks should be butting out.
And as I said earlier in the show, what next,
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do your local regional councils start setting emissions targets? Do
your rural supply firms PGG rights and farmlands start setting them?
Where do we draw the line, Emma?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I don't know where to draw the line, Jamie, But
we've certainly got it coming from all directions, don't we.
And if we're paying for it in one place, what's
the sense and paying for it in another. I think
so maybe we can just we need to step back
and look at it as an industry and just regulate
it from one place rather than confusing farmers with all
of these different targets and shifting the golf post every
two minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, Tim, I reckon the bank should butt out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
What about you?
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Yeah? I agree, mate, And it's an interesting to see
how they've come into this space. I heard a lot
of talk about it over the last couple of years
when I was sitting around listening at conferences and things
like that. Off the backy young farmers. But I think
it's yeah, it's too much meddling. Really. I've always been
a big believer that I want to see market driven
incentives that our processes will be able to path.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
On to us.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
But yeah, I think it's getting a bit too involved.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yeah, the market will always rule Rodio. Guys, thank you
very much for your time. Enjoy the rest of your Friday.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Here we go one Jamie.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Brother and sister, Tim Dange and Emma Paul take a
break on the other side of it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
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This is classic country, isn't it. George Straight? I found
Jesus on the jail house floor. Where did you get
this one?
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From? Michelle?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
I just went through all of his songs, listened to
this one and thought, you know what, I quite like this.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Hmm.
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I think I'd sooner have Chris Stapleton or Morgan Wolland.
To be perfectly honest, that's because I'm a bit younger
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Well, my day is better for having heard that one.
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eighty nine in Manila as a part of their Asia
Cup basketball qualifying campaign. And you know how I've had
a couple of bad dad jokes.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yeah, I kind of tried to block them out.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Ye yeah, I know, okay, But one of my favorite
ones actually involves the Philippines. No no, no is when
the Warriors were going through one of the many, many
low patches and they reckon to try and improve the
team's performance, they were going to relocate the team base
to the Philippines. You know why, Why because they wanted
to be known as the Manila Folders.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
That is, that is, but also bad.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Right up next Chris Brandolino on the weather, and that
is no joke.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Kiss the Lord.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Was born, Andre do there you go, Chris s Brandolino
to join us, Chris, this is George Strait. I found
Jesus on the jailhouse floor. What a great song, What
a great title for a song, that is. But I
want to talk to you about the weather. I picked
up on a post you made on X last night
(29:18):
or Niewa did okay for November so far Gisbon twelve
percent of normal rainfall, Napier eighteen, Hemma FORUS thirteen, ash
Burton fifteen, Clyde in Central Otago.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Just nine percent.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
And yet if you go over a couple of mountain
ranges or hills into Southland it's as wet as yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, look, unfortunately, the dryness, Jamie, that is a real concern,
certainly in the short and medium term. Just looking at
the Kneewa thirty five and look, I want to really
encourage people to check out the guidance. This is describing
themes over the next thirty five days. It's the name
(30:00):
and the themes over the next certainly two to three
weeks dryness and for some could be significant dryness for
a good chunk of the North Island and a large
parts of the South And now I know a lot
of the southbound, as you mentioned, Jamie, particularly areas in
Southland and the West coast have you know, have a
fair rainfall bank count to use an expression, but other
(30:23):
areas don't. So I think we are going to see
dryness become a significant facet to our weather as we
work away the next two weeks. There's not going to
be a lot of rain Jamie, to put simply between
now in the early December, so areas like Hawk's Bay
which already already seeing very dry to extremely dry conditions
and pockets of drought having merged in parts of hawks Bay.
(30:45):
Even eastern Northland a bit dry right now showing up
on z DI I, the New Zealand Drought Index. So
that's only going to expand and intensify, and I think
other areas will be joining the dubious party as we
work away through the next couple of weeks, particularly for
the North Island.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well, I'm glad you mentioned Northland. I hadn't spotted that
on the map. I was worried about hawks By and
Gisbone East Coast.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But there you go. There's a weey bit of yellow
up the top.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
There there is, and look it's it's high pressure. So
it's going to be chilly the next couple of days.
It's going to find a bit of spotty Fraud and
interior Southland and Otago tomorrow morning. But I think once
we kind of put that in the rear view mirror
by gosh, I think by Sunday we'll start to really
warm things up for the east of the South Island,
(31:28):
so Otago, Canterbury, Southland will see some pretty warm temperatures,
particularly eastern parts of said regions, and then as we
work away into Monday, it is going to start warming
up for the southbound, but eventually the North Island. I
think next week could be a very warm week for
most maybe a puff of cool air thirty or Friday
for the South Island, but we could see temperatures. I
(31:48):
think many areas we'll see temperature as well into the
twenties for multiple days next week, and there'll be a
few areas that challenge or exceed thirty. And if you
look at the longer range, and as I meanted it'll
be dropped, it is going to be really warm. The
high pressure is going to be favoring New Zealand and
our neck of the woods right through really December, and
that's going to come with not only the dryness, but
(32:11):
multiple waves of un seasonably warm to hot weather. So
this is something that I think will be a theme
as we work away into summer, and we'll be issuing
our summer outlook I think a week from today, Jemmy
good On.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Here look forward to that.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Chris Brandolena, thank you very much for your time and
do enjoy following your posts well on social media. Very informative.
Thank you very much for your time. There's Chris Brandoleno.
This is George Straight Hey your house long love that.
Now I'd like to blame Michelle. I'd like to blame Michelle.
I'm good at offlinding blame to other people in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
It was remiss of me when I was speaking to
Emma Paul and Tim Danjin, I forgot I neglected to
mention a good friends at Courteva.
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Battle with Corteva agrascience enriching laves for generations to come.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
We'll good on your Quarteva for bringing people as intelligent
as that to the show. Now, how do I segue
from intelligence to Jeremy Rooks? I won't even try, But
I just felt like I needed some of Jeremy's gloriously
bitter cynicism from his Canterbury lifestyle arm to round out
the show. I wonder what Jeremy think. I know what
(33:26):
Ell think about the banks setting emissions targets.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
The great Rockster to wrap it.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ankus the lone bo Today.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I was born and let's turn the mic on.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I'm really starting to get into George Strait and I
found Jesus on the jailhouse floor. Next week there's a
game show here on the Country. Next week we're giving
you the chance to win with Peace agg Rights and
daily prizes of five hundred bucks to spend online at
PGG Rights and Jeremy Rooks. I want you to come
in off the long run from your Canterbury lifestyle farm
(34:11):
and I'm expecting big things for you, and I'm expecting
you and I don't agree on many things, but I
think we'll agree on the banks setting emissions targets.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
No, it's I think businesses these days overall, they just
need to stick to their core functions. Jamie and the banks,
it's just about lending money. It's not trying to be
punitive with their rates. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
And the other thing is they're giving sustainability discounts if
you meet the crit's area or your cash strap farmer
and you sign up for them. But you know, I
know what banks are like. They're not dropping their profits
to do that. Someone else will end up paying for it.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
No, but it's all part of this DEI rubbish and
sustainability crap and climate change nonsense.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Well, hang, I know you.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
No no where climate change is happening.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What climate change is happening, Jeremy.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Well, climate's always changing every day. It's not you know,
it's just a scam. But anyway, I feel like I've
just been in a David Edinburgh documentary actually, because we're
going out tonight and I think I think many males
over the age of fifty wolves sort of can cure
with what I'm saying that you're sort of the hairs
(35:18):
that come out of your body. Like Mary, My brows
are like out of control. So she's given me a
trim up. And if I could claim carbon credits on
the nose and I be a wealthy man, I'm going
to be loving good tonight, Jamie, when we're out for
drinks and it is going to be good.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Do you get extra carbon credits for ginger nostril hairs?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Well, well, I don't think that color. It doesn't matter
what color of ours. As long as they're absorbing carbins.
That's the main thing, isn't it. You can say if
they would give me and they're an extra percentage on
the money in the bank, be good.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, well you're an investor now, I'm not a borrower,
of course.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Well yeah, I'm any things. I'm mainly a garden they're
home these days on the estate here. Yeah, and they're
just getting dry by Kracky where the old sprinkler's going
flat out on on on the roses and the roadies
and things. So yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
That's it's interesting. We'll catch up with your mate Stewlo
next week. But I see, for instance, Hannah Forest, which
isn't that far away from you, thirteen percent of normal
November rainfall.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Oh yeah. Look, look it's dry everywhere, and I mean,
you know, you know, look, I mean, but luckily the
on farm sales are underway at the moment, and there's
been a few up this way. I was playing tennis
with a couple of stock agents last night, and so
you know that they're paying up the four bucks of
kilo for stores on farm at the moment, only it
on farm sales, and which is a gross amount. But
(36:43):
so that's good, and I mean it's just if it
gets dry, just going to make good decisions, Jamie. Nothing changes.
Get rid of your lambs.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, and I think of a bonus if there's such
a thing of the rice paddy field which is south
as they're certainly not going to dry out on the
short term anyhow, so I think Southland and Southwest Otago
will have the capacity to take some of the stock.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Yeah, but I think a lot of them have actually
stayed in Canterbury because I thought you normally south little
top up with lambs. But I think they've been active.
But yeah, I think quite a lot of guys with
water up here have taken lambs.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
All right, mate, I've got to go there we go.
Jeremy Rock's doing a splendid job. Yes, the nostril hairs
and the and the air heirs. Hey look, yesterday Pts
Scotti Meers and the team had a charity golf day
for farm Strong. They raised seventy five grand. What a
great effort that is. Last year over fifteen thousand farmers
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see what other farmers are up to cope when it
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dot co dot nz for free tools and resources on
how to live well and to farm. Well, that's us
(37:58):
done and dusted. Will catch you back on Monday.
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Get a New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. Brought to
you by Brent Morgan Wallen, one of the big winners
at the American Country Music Association Awards. As we go
Country on the Country on a Friday, going to kick
it off with Todd McLay, Minister of Agriculture and Trade,
just back from Apec and Peru where he signed yet
another free trade agreement. Live Animal ex Sport and my
(00:57):
favorite Bandwagon at the moment. Why the banks suddenly or
not suddenly? Why are they setting emissions targets they should
be butting out?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sandra Matthews is the new.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Is the current chair of Rural Women New Zealand and
she's the newly elected president. Is she the female equivalent
in Rural New Zealand to Donald Trump? Does she want
to control anything? We'll ask her Today's Farmer panel. A
couple of dynamic young entrepreneurial farming leaders Emma Paul and
Tim Dangen brother and sister are both former Young Farmers
(01:29):
of the Air. Chris Brandolino on the impending dry A
lot of the country starting to get dry at the moment,
apart from poor our South in which can't dry out.
And just to round out the show on a lighter note,
time for some gloriously bitter cynicism from a Canterbury hobby
farmer to round out the show.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, his name is Jeremy Roxs.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But let's start with the Minister of Agriculture and Trade
Todd McLay Todd, congratulations on yet another free trade agreement.
Is there anyone you haven't signed one with?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Thanks Jamie and thanks for having me on. The three
deals we've got up this year are very important for farmers.
They give really good actress I mean the UAE and
then the GCC member Saudi Arabia. I've got this prediction.
You remember, years and years ago Iran used to take
all of our LAMB and you know we're much wealthier,
and now they don't. I think Saudi Arabia has the
potential to replace them. And as far as LAMB exports,
(02:22):
which wouldn't that be good news for our sheep farmers.
And then the one last week we call it actors
with a couple of smaller countries, but it's particularly good
for our wool exports and some wood and a few
other things. It's a bit more round sustainability, and we're
going to try and get other countries including that you
to join there, which just means better access for our
farmers to these markets so we can drive up the
(02:44):
returns of the farm gate.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So this latest free trade agreement Todd McLay Switzerland, Costa
Rica and Iceland. This sounds like a bad pun, but
what are we going to send to Iceland? Chilled products? Sorry,
I'm sorry with a dad joke on a Friday.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So no, I like the dad jokes. They worked for
me very well. Hey, well, look that these are just
countries that come together from different parts of the world
that think similar to us. But this is an open
agreement and there will be others that will join. So
I've been talking to the UK Trade Minister about it
and he says he's a little bit interested in that
as well. The EU are very you know, I find
it interesting that one of these countries will get together,
(03:24):
and two that it's about sustainability. But when I say
sustainability and environmental things, what I actually mean is products
that are sustainable environmental, like lamb, like beef, like wool,
like wood, and getting tariff rates down on that so
we can sell more. So you know, sometimes our trade
agreements or the talk we here is it's about fixing
(03:45):
all the problems in the world. I want to fix
New Zealand's problems, which is allowing our farmers to sell
more overseas and get more money for it. And so
it's just a start, I reckon over the next few years,
we'll see a few more countries might join, and that
just grows the opportunity for US to export high qualities, safe,
environmentally friendly food, which is what we are producing abundance
to many more parts of the world.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Let's address the orange elephant in the room, Donald Trump
and his tariffs. What are you going to do there?
Are you going to be on applying to Washington, d C?
Come January twenty one?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah, pretty soon after that. Chris luxein this morning our
Prime Minister. He and I have been speaking of the
US Chamber of Commerce Business Summit in Auckland where there
was much more optimism, not only from the New Zealand
businesses there, but the US business is about the way forward.
So a couple of things we know about President Trump.
When he became president last time, he pulled out of
(04:36):
the TPP and put tariff right tom people, including New
Zealand when it came to steal. But during that to
his time as president, their economy grew, that wecame wealthier,
and our trade went to the roof. We sold them
much more at the end of the time that he
was president in the beginning, and I predict this thing's
going to happen. So you will see us up in
the US a lot. I'll be doing trade missions up
(04:57):
there with New Zealand businesses and we will be up
in Washington talking to it and once they're in place,
and I know there's doom and gloom around at the moment,
but it's been a couple of weeks and we have
got on constructively with the US under Trump previously and
we will again.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Live Animal expert, where are we at with that?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, Andrew Hogart is responsible for that. He has the
Animal Welfare Delegation, so he's working through it. He just
announced that he's ready to get some legislation to bring
into the House. We've been very clear it came through
the Act Coalition agreement that we were going to restore
live animal exports, but with a lot of conditions around that.
And the conditions are that the animals have to be
(05:36):
treated the same on the ships and the countries that
they're going to as they would be in New Zealand
from the point of view of animal welfare and animal husbandry.
Andrew's been doing a lot of work on the legislation
to be able to ensure that, and there'll be a
lot of regulation behind it. So he's bringing that forward
because it is important to New Zealand less from the
value that we get from the exports, although it does
(05:58):
create jobs, but you know, is it's something else that
our armors have an option available to them when it
comes to Bobby Carves as an example for them to
be read of it and send overseas and someone else
might raise them as long as they are doing it
from an animal wealth for point of view, the same
as New Zealand, and it just gives us another option.
So he's working through it very very carefully, and I
(06:19):
know that when he does bring the legislation to Parliament,
all those who have an interest on both sides of
this discussion will have a chance to go to the
committee and have the affairs.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Ay, let's just finish on my favorite bandwagon. At the moment,
this is banks setting emissions targets. So if they're going
to do it, who's next? Do we have farm supply
companies such as PGG Rights and Farmlands and farm Surce
or or worse even still, imagine if local regional councils
decided to set a mission's targets. Why are the banks
(06:51):
poking their nose in there? Todd mclaan, What are you
going to do about it?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah? Well I find it very unhelpful actually, And the
banks have a right to say and do what they
want with in reason except that there are only a
few of them in New Zealand and the government is
working through a policy with the Night Process with our
farmers who want to meet their obligations. But we have
to do so in such a way we don't close
down farms and just send jobs and production overseas, And
(07:16):
so I don't see it as been helpful. You know
that we've started a banking inquiry, and that's underway in
Parliament with a particular focus on or all banking. I
know that they are still having hearings, the banks are
still coming in to talk to them in those committees.
I think our members, they're all MP's on those commies
to be asking the banks exactly why they're doing this,
because all it ready does is sends are very very
(07:38):
poor signal widely about farming. We know that our farmers
actually are some of the world's most carbon efficient food producers,
and we've got to stop letting people around the world
tell us that we're the worst because we're not with
some of the best. But we also have to continue
to improve and we should use innovation to do this.
And the government's not going to let people close farms
(08:00):
down just because somebody somewhere else thinks that we need
to be better. You know, our farmers are the best
of the world. They produce high quality, safe food. The
world wants it, and they are willing to pay more
for it, and they are interested in both the climate
change and also the environmental wal story behind it. But
we are very good at what we do. We need
to continue to improve to be better, and I just
(08:20):
don't see what the banks are doing has been helpful.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, hopefully along with your banking inquiry you can hold
them to task on this one. I mean, I'll use
Westpac as the example. I got stuck into poor old
Katherine McGrath, the chief executive with Heather duplassy Ellen last night.
But she's talking about why New zealandery farmers have to
have a lower emissions profile than their Australian counterparts, and
(08:43):
her reasoning was because we're starting from a lower base,
we're already more efficient, so therefore we're being punished for
being more efficient. It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, I have a lot of respect for that lady,
but she's absolutely wrong. We don't have to compare ourselves
to Australia. We have to do what's right for New Zealand.
A lot of people in the Zealand have views of
Australia and about Australia what they should do, and we
keep them to ourselves. So ultimately, actually, you know, the
government will set the target with farmers. We have an
independent review of the role of me saying against additional warming.
(09:14):
You know, it's an independent science offiical view that will
inform ust after what we need to do by twenty fifty,
and then we'll set out a plan with the farming
sector to achieve it. The one thing we do need
to be mindful of. We do need to meet our
international obligations right because otherwise consumers around the world have
a choice of who they buy from. But we are
not the worst, we are some of the best at this.
We need to continue to innovate and keep improving, and
(09:36):
the government will plot a course with the farming sector
that we'll all commit to which we met. Farmers don't
have to go out of business and food doesn't have
to be more expensive. But I'll tell you what we
could do from some of the bank to other than
worrying what farmers are doing. Help us get interest rates
down for them so that actually their costs go down
and they can be more profitable.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Absolutely, stop ripping farmers and business people off with awful,
awful od rights. There you go, let's pick on the
banks day, but they need to be held to account.
Todd McLay there, who is the Minister of Agriculture and
Trade doing a good job. We're going to take a
break on the other side of it. The newly elected
president of Rural Women New Zealand. She's also the current chair.
(10:18):
Is anyone else going to get a look? And we'll
ask Sandra Matthews next. She's farming up in the Gisbon
region there understandably getting pretty dry.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
We'll have a yarn about that as well.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Today's farmer panel Emma Paul and Tim Dangel, Chris Brandolino
from NIWA on the weather, and Jeremy Rooks just to
round out the show.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Myself.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Myself bed being every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
If you go.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tell they said someone.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Me when you're riding where he's driving.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Now you is street.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You see when you're fath.
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(11:27):
assuming it probably was? Was it anyhow? Nashville's close? Will
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Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is anyone else going to get a look in? Congrats
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Thank you, Jamie. It's wonderful beyond and I do take
a little bit offense to the Donald Trump comment.
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I must say, Okay, so not a Donald No, I'm
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Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yes, so Real Women New Zealand is a bit like Feed's.
There is a president that's the leader of the organization,
and if the president doesn't want to be the board
chair as well, she asked the board to appointed chair.
So that's how I came on to be chair three
years ago because Jill wanted to focus on her leader
role and I had to have the skills and strengths
(12:31):
obviously for the board chair role.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
So our first board meeting in December will decide whether
we appointed chair. At this present point in time, I
don't think we will, but I need to discuss that
with the board. Yeah, and go from there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh, you've got a very good background, not only in farming,
but also in business and communication. What are you going
to bring to the role?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yeah, great question. So my strengths are in communication. I'm
a collaborative leader. I don't like to lead from the
top and tell everybody what to do. I like to
listen to people and am very aware that people's voices
need to be heard. So our communication is really a
big strength of mine. I'm also a trained facilitator and
(13:15):
a business coach and have worked in banking as well,
so there's a lot of skills I bring to the
role as leader. And I've got a great network around
the country of amazing Wahini and amazing men that I've
worked with over the years and in our primary industry.
So I'm really looking.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Forward to the role.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How are you going to get on with that amazing
man in Matthews. I mean, you're not at home much
as it stands at the moment. You'll be home even
less to help out on the Tairafiti sheep and beef farm.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So I retired my dogs about two years ago and
donated them to Ian. I will say, so I'm not
physically hands on on the farm obviously, I'm still involved
in the business side of the farm and the strategic side.
Ian is my biggest supporter I do. I think I've
said to you before. I do feel sorry for as
much time because he follows along with some of my
crazy ideas. But he's right behind me and I couldn't
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do what I do without his support at home.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
How are you getting on on Tacopai Station five hundred
and thirty six hectar sheep and beef farm at Rarri
near Gisbon. I'm looking at the old NEEWA Drought Index map,
as I'm prone to do on this show, and I
see that other than Hawks Bay, you're probably the next
driest region in the country.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yes, we are. It has got dry. We haven't had
a lot of rain. We had about twenty miles last
week and that's the first rain we've had for the
whole of the month. And we didn't have much in
October either, so it has got dry. The people that
I've talked to mostly in that drought planning place, some
unloading cattle looking at a lot of the lower country
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are weaning or have weaned, so people, you know, it's
about putting those drought planning processes in place and just
keeping an eye on the drought index and making sure
that you're keeping on top of what you've got going forward.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, you've certainly had to deal with some nasties from
the weather gods only a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Gabrielle.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Now you've got this, yes, but.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
That's farming, isn't it. I mean Gabriel was pretty bad.
Hail and Gabriel when they came through, and the rainstorms afterwards,
it was pretty harrowing. And a lot of us are
still only just getting back on top of the work
and people have still got work to do. But we
farm in a dry in certain areas of the country
that are dry, and we need to really actually look
(15:28):
at the plans how to cope with that. And it
does get tough. But you know, if you talk to
your neighbors and you talk to people around you, talk
to the experts, get to beef and lamb days, rural
women New Zealand come in and they can.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Help as well.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
So as long as you're talking to people and not
holding yourself behind the farm gate, I think you can
get through these things, and you do it with other
people's support.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Good on you, well, congratulations for stepping up to the
plate as the new National President of Rural Women New Zealand.
There's some really good young blood or relatively young blood
coming through. I think of the likes of Claire Williamson
and Emma Higgins who are doing a wonderful job with
their podcast and it's good. Refreshment is good.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
That is Jamie. And we've got some young ones coming
onto the board as well. Emma and Claire have now
stepped off the board as of yesterday, and we've got
some new board members coming on. So I'm really looking
forward to a really bright, inclusive future for real women
New Zealand around the country.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Good on you.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I hope you get some rain. There we go, Sandra
Matthews up in Gisbon. It is twenty seven after twelve.
Excuse me, some issues with my voice, which some people
would say is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Hello Michelle.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now we're running next Thursday. My life's just a run
at the moment, to be perfectly honest, we're running our
annual Emerson's Golf Open. Okay, Thursday, the twenty eighth of November.
If you're anywhere near Dunedin, because that's where we are,
you can come and play golf at the Otago golf
club Beal mckewan, oldest golf club in the Southern Hemmersphere,
(17:00):
the best golf club on the bottom half of the
South Island. I don't think I'm biased and too biased
in saying that, So come along and play. It will
cost you nothing to play. We're going to feed and
water with a bit of Emerson's and Stucker.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Absolutely. All you have to do is text our team
to five double o nine because we need registrations. We've
got limited numbers for how many teams we can have
on this course for this Ambrose tournament should be a
lot of fun, your chance to beat Jamie, give him
some beads.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I'm going to try and hand pick a team so
that i can win our own tournament.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Oh I think I'm going to go out and load
my team with pros.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Okay, so text us on five double oh nine if
you'd like to register your team. We've got a number
of entries yesterday. We'll probably have more entries than there
are spots, but will be as fair as we can
and try and get as many people into the field.
And if you come along next Thursday you get to
taste the twenty twenty four Makaiser along with our good
(17:55):
friends from Emerson, So thank you very much for that.
This is Chris Stapleton. I see there's another song here.
You've loaded up Michelle called. They have such great names,
the country music songs. I know who that is. I've
got no idea, but I love the title of the
song I found Jesus on the jail house floor. That
sounds like a Johnny Cash song or something similar era.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
So George Strait now he won the Willie Nelson Lifetime
Achievement Awards at the Country Music Association Awards, which are
currently happening. I think I'm not very good at this
whole light. You know, world times, and.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know that well, I can tell you it's it's
Thursday evening. It's Thursday evening. You need to find out.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
If this is at Nashville.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
By the way, travel story a warning. Here is one
of the best cities in the world. And I never
thought i'd like it, and I loved Nashville. Up next
to our farmer panel, a couple of real entrepreneurial young
farmers and leaders.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
In this country. Emma.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I was going to say, Emma Higgins, we've already mentioned her.
Let's go with Emma Paul and Tim dangin.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Are you taking down Medu?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thanks coming sun myself. Today's Farmer Panel features the twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three Young Farmers of the Year, respectively,
brother and sister Tim dangein twenty two Emma Paul twenty three,
I'll start with you, Tim. Great to see you at
the Morning Side Tavern in Auckland on Tuesday for the
Auckland launch of The Farmer's Poor Bear and the Farmers
(19:29):
Cut Chips and along with Teradar, it was a bit
of a young Farmer's benefit day you both legitimately too.
I might add Tim one prize packs well worth coming.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Here you good a jmien Happy Friday. It was well
worth coming mate. You're keeping my fridge stock, which is
awesome and it was a neat evening and great to
celebrate the thirty years that you've been celebrating all years,
so it's neat to see.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It's a bit like a royal tour. It just goes
on and on and on, doesn't it. Eventually I guess
we'll run out of beer and chip, although we're not
actually because we've just finished with the Farmer's portum and
we're on to the Machaiser, but more about that later. Emma,
I want to go to you. You made an interesting
comment to me earlier this morning. You're talking about the
speaking engagements that you've been doing in the past couple
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of years, effectively as the Young Farmer of the Year.
Of course, you broke the grass ceiling, first female winner.
You've been talking to a lot of audiences. But you're saying,
I guess recognition and understanding of young farmers is almost
better in the older generation because they grew up with
it on television.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Yeah, that's right, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Good afternoon, and good to be here. And it's been
busy two years since winning that title, and I guess
what have noticed. It's sort of been twenty plus speaking
engagements around the country and talking to various groups and
mixed populations of old and young and rural and urban people.
And I always ask for a show of hands at
the start of these speaking things and say, you know,
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who's heard of young farmers? In Like you said, is
a direct correlation between age and who's heard of it,
And the older you are, the more you tend to
have heard of it. And that seems to be directly
because it was on the Telly, Jamie. So it's a
great fond memory of many of those people that did
watch it on the Telly, and it's such a shame
that it's no longer televised. And I know we bang
on about this all the time, but mister Luxon did
(21:18):
promise me that he would get it back on the
Telly if he made Prime Minister. So I'd like you
to hold him to account for that next well, I.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Will, because I love bandwagons and I've had a few
over my thirty years in this job. I wanted to
bring back rucking and Rugby failed miserably there, bring back
Milkine schools. I sort of succeeded there, and then it's
fallen off again. But when it comes to the Young
Farmer Grand Final, I think mainstream media whatever that is
these days, needs to be covering it because a bit
(21:46):
like Country Calendar, if you put it on at the
right time, it will rate it socks off totally.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'm all funny just mentioned Country Calendar there, because they
did actually reach out and get in touch before the
Grand Final and they were sort of more interested in
trees I was planting on farm rather than actually what
the story was behind the Young Farmers and engaging with
it there. So it's a bit of a shame that
the story never came to front because they would do
a really great job of showcasing it, and they've shown
glimpse of it in the past, so it'd be neat
(22:14):
to see a whole episode dedicated to the Grand Final
and the journey of the young Farmers that go through
on that.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Absolutely, perhaps you're not woken up for Country Calendar. I
shouldn't say that, because they've had some really good episodes recently, right, Okay,
So Tim, when you're not in drinking beer and eating
chips in Auckland, you've got a farm out west Auckland
Way Mirrawai, the beef farm. We know parts of the
North Island, in fact parts of the country is starting
to get a bit dry.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How are you fearing here?
Speaker 10 (22:42):
We were getting really dry about a week ago, but
then we caught that sort of fifty mils over Friday Saturday, Jamie.
We've had some good follow up rains since, so it's
keep everything nice and fresh. And yes, it's a good season. Really,
we normally take any rain we can get from here
on out, so it's kepting off for good twelve months
a season farming, Emma.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
When you're not a former Young Farmer of the Year,
a mother of two, I think now a vet you're
also a white catto dairy farmer. I got a message
from a Hieraki Plane's dairy farmer this morning saying they're
starting to get rather dry.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What about you, guys.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
No, we're sharing well as well, Jamie. We caught one
hundred meals in that last down Pohen. We've hit a
couple of ten mil follow ups, so there is silent
for Africa and dropping around the place, which is really
neat to see because of course it extends into the
real contracting businesses and keeps ever on a float. So yeah,
keep the rain coming, I say, because it's been awesome
so far.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And while Tim's doing okay with his beef good prices,
especially into the US market, Emma, you're probably doing better
with your milk. Westpac have now lifted their forecast milk
price to ten bucks.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Isn't that a great story, Jamien. I had a vet
friend comment the other day that they had a couple
of farmers stopping into the vet clinic on their way
to look at boats, So it's a good sign that
things are on the turn. And maybe not quite purchasing
boat territory, but things are certainly looking up well.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
If you want to purchase a boat or win a boat,
maybe Tim Dangeen, you could enter the Young Farmer of
the Year contest because there's great prizes there.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Yeah, there's fantastic prizes available, Jamie. So we've got our
regional finals coming up early next year. It's about seven
k up for grabs for first place there, but obviously
if you may get through to the big Cheese Green final,
then yeah, the prize pool there's over one hundred k.
And I'm sure I'm with them the test the amazing prizes,
and I certainly feel very fortunate every day when I
get to jump on my brand new Honda side by
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side and skirt around the farm. It's been an awesome
leg up and here it's very grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
All right, Controversy time sort of. This is not on
the script for YouTube, so don't tak for cover here.
I was getting stuck in a wee bit talking about
Westpac doing a great job getting that milk forecast price up,
but they're also setting emissions targets as a number of
the banks. I think the banks should be butting out.
And as I said earlier in the show, what next,
(25:02):
do your local regional councils start setting emissions targets? Do
your rural supply firms PGG rights and farmlands start setting them?
Where do we draw the line, Emma?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I don't know where to draw the line, Jamie, But
we've certainly got it coming from all directions, don't we.
And if we're paying for it in one place, what's
the sense and paying for it in another. I think
so maybe we can just we need to step back
and look at it as an industry and just regulate
it from one place rather than confusing farmers with all
of these different targets and shifting the golf post every
two minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, Tim, I reckon the bank should butt out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
What about you?
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Yeah? I agree, mate, And it's an interesting to see
how they've come into this space. I heard a lot
of talk about it over the last couple of years
when I was sitting around listening at conferences and things
like that. Off the backy young farmers. But I think
it's yeah, it's too much meddling. Really. I've always been
a big believer that I want to see market driven
incentives that our processes will be able to path.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
On to us.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
But yeah, I think it's getting a bit too involved.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yeah, the market will always rule Rodio. Guys, thank you
very much for your time. Enjoy the rest of your Friday.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Here we go one Jamie.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Brother and sister, Tim Dange and Emma Paul take a
break on the other side of it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Latest and rural news and sports news before the end
of the hour.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Chris Brandolino from Newer Jeremy Rooks from Canterbury.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hello, game that you've been run.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Long long? Found Jesus' sold jail house.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Jesu.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
This is classic country, isn't it. George Straight? I found
Jesus on the jail house floor. Where did you get
this one?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
From? Michelle?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
I just went through all of his songs, listened to
this one and thought, you know what, I quite like this.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I think I'd sooner have Chris Stapleton or Morgan Wolland.
To be perfectly honest, that's because I'm a bit younger
and hipper than you are. Let's see what you've got
for rural news.
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Speaker 9 (27:06):
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and diagnosing mastitis in the herd. A new tool named
quick Mass was being developed to identify bacteria present in
the affected cow, the pathogen causing the infection, and its
reaction to antibiotics. Last month, the venture secured a twenty
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five thousand dollar kickstart grant under the Velocity one hundred
K Challenge run by the University of Auckland Center for
Innovation and Entrepreneurship. And that's for all news. You can
find more at The Country dot co dot Nz.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well, my day is better for having heard that one.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Michelle sport with AFCO.
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Speaker 4 (27:48):
Linear Co started well at the a LPGA season ending
Tour Championship in Florida. The Key We Hall of Famer
has mixed six birdies with a solitary bogie the card
and opening five under round of sixty seven, she's on
a tie for fifth, three shots off the lead, and
the Tall Blacks have lost to the Philippines ninety three
(28:09):
eighty nine in Manila as a part of their Asia
Cup basketball qualifying campaign. And you know how I've had
a couple of bad dad jokes.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yeah, I kind of tried to block them out.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Ye yeah, I know, okay, But one of my favorite
ones actually involves the Philippines. No no, no is when
the Warriors were going through one of the many, many
low patches and they reckon to try and improve the
team's performance, they were going to relocate the team base
to the Philippines. You know why, Why because they wanted
to be known as the Manila Folders.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
That is, that is, but also bad.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Right up next Chris Brandolino on the weather, and that
is no joke.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Kiss the Lord.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Was born, Andre do there you go, Chris s Brandolino
to join us, Chris, this is George Strait. I found
Jesus on the jailhouse floor. What a great song, What
a great title for a song, that is. But I
want to talk to you about the weather. I picked
up on a post you made on X last night
(29:18):
or Niewa did okay for November so far Gisbon twelve
percent of normal rainfall, Napier eighteen, Hemma FORUS thirteen, ash
Burton fifteen, Clyde in Central Otago.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Just nine percent.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
And yet if you go over a couple of mountain
ranges or hills into Southland it's as wet as yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, look, unfortunately, the dryness, Jamie, that is a real concern,
certainly in the short and medium term. Just looking at
the Kneewa thirty five and look, I want to really
encourage people to check out the guidance. This is describing
themes over the next thirty five days. It's the name
(30:00):
and the themes over the next certainly two to three
weeks dryness and for some could be significant dryness for
a good chunk of the North Island and a large
parts of the South And now I know a lot
of the southbound, as you mentioned, Jamie, particularly areas in
Southland and the West coast have you know, have a
fair rainfall bank count to use an expression, but other
(30:23):
areas don't. So I think we are going to see
dryness become a significant facet to our weather as we
work away the next two weeks. There's not going to
be a lot of rain Jamie, to put simply between
now in the early December, so areas like Hawk's Bay
which already already seeing very dry to extremely dry conditions
and pockets of drought having merged in parts of hawks Bay.
(30:45):
Even eastern Northland a bit dry right now showing up
on z DI I, the New Zealand Drought Index. So
that's only going to expand and intensify, and I think
other areas will be joining the dubious party as we
work away through the next couple of weeks, particularly for
the North Island.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well, I'm glad you mentioned Northland. I hadn't spotted that
on the map. I was worried about hawks By and
Gisbone East Coast.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But there you go. There's a weey bit of yellow
up the top.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
There there is, and look it's it's high pressure. So
it's going to be chilly the next couple of days.
It's going to find a bit of spotty Fraud and
interior Southland and Otago tomorrow morning. But I think once
we kind of put that in the rear view mirror
by gosh, I think by Sunday we'll start to really
warm things up for the east of the South Island,
(31:28):
so Otago, Canterbury, Southland will see some pretty warm temperatures,
particularly eastern parts of said regions, and then as we
work away into Monday, it is going to start warming
up for the southbound, but eventually the North Island. I
think next week could be a very warm week for
most maybe a puff of cool air thirty or Friday
for the South Island, but we could see temperatures. I
(31:48):
think many areas we'll see temperature as well into the
twenties for multiple days next week, and there'll be a
few areas that challenge or exceed thirty. And if you
look at the longer range, and as I meanted it'll
be dropped, it is going to be really warm. The
high pressure is going to be favoring New Zealand and
our neck of the woods right through really December, and
that's going to come with not only the dryness, but
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multiple waves of un seasonably warm to hot weather. So
this is something that I think will be a theme
as we work away into summer, and we'll be issuing
our summer outlook I think a week from today, Jemmy
good On.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Here look forward to that.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Chris Brandolena, thank you very much for your time and
do enjoy following your posts well on social media. Very informative.
Thank you very much for your time. There's Chris Brandoleno.
This is George Straight Hey your house long love that.
Now I'd like to blame Michelle. I'd like to blame Michelle.
I'm good at offlinding blame to other people in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
It was remiss of me when I was speaking to
Emma Paul and Tim Danjin, I forgot I neglected to
mention a good friends at Courteva.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Battle with Corteva agrascience enriching laves for generations to come.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
We'll good on your Quarteva for bringing people as intelligent
as that to the show. Now, how do I segue
from intelligence to Jeremy Rooks? I won't even try, But
I just felt like I needed some of Jeremy's gloriously
bitter cynicism from his Canterbury lifestyle arm to round out
the show. I wonder what Jeremy think. I know what
(33:26):
Ell think about the banks setting emissions targets.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
The great Rockster to wrap it.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ankus the lone bo Today.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I was born and let's turn the mic on.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I'm really starting to get into George Strait and I
found Jesus on the jailhouse floor. Next week there's a
game show here on the Country. Next week we're giving
you the chance to win with Peace agg Rights and
daily prizes of five hundred bucks to spend online at
PGG Rights and Jeremy Rooks. I want you to come
in off the long run from your Canterbury lifestyle farm
(34:11):
and I'm expecting big things for you, and I'm expecting
you and I don't agree on many things, but I
think we'll agree on the banks setting emissions targets.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
No, it's I think businesses these days overall, they just
need to stick to their core functions. Jamie and the banks,
it's just about lending money. It's not trying to be
punitive with their rates. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
And the other thing is they're giving sustainability discounts if
you meet the crit's area or your cash strap farmer
and you sign up for them. But you know, I
know what banks are like. They're not dropping their profits
to do that. Someone else will end up paying for it.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
No, but it's all part of this DEI rubbish and
sustainability crap and climate change nonsense.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Well, hang, I know you.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
No no where climate change is happening.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What climate change is happening, Jeremy.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Well, climate's always changing every day. It's not you know,
it's just a scam. But anyway, I feel like I've
just been in a David Edinburgh documentary actually, because we're
going out tonight and I think I think many males
over the age of fifty wolves sort of can cure
with what I'm saying that you're sort of the hairs
(35:18):
that come out of your body. Like Mary, My brows
are like out of control. So she's given me a
trim up. And if I could claim carbon credits on
the nose and I be a wealthy man, I'm going
to be loving good tonight, Jamie, when we're out for
drinks and it is going to be good.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Do you get extra carbon credits for ginger nostril hairs?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Well, well, I don't think that color. It doesn't matter
what color of ours. As long as they're absorbing carbins.
That's the main thing, isn't it. You can say if
they would give me and they're an extra percentage on
the money in the bank, be good.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, well you're an investor now, I'm not a borrower,
of course.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Well yeah, I'm any things. I'm mainly a garden they're
home these days on the estate here. Yeah, and they're
just getting dry by Kracky where the old sprinkler's going
flat out on on on the roses and the roadies
and things. So yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
That's it's interesting. We'll catch up with your mate Stewlo
next week. But I see, for instance, Hannah Forest, which
isn't that far away from you, thirteen percent of normal
November rainfall.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Oh yeah. Look, look it's dry everywhere, and I mean,
you know, you know, look, I mean, but luckily the
on farm sales are underway at the moment, and there's
been a few up this way. I was playing tennis
with a couple of stock agents last night, and so
you know that they're paying up the four bucks of
kilo for stores on farm at the moment, only it
on farm sales, and which is a gross amount. But
(36:43):
so that's good, and I mean it's just if it
gets dry, just going to make good decisions, Jamie. Nothing changes.
Get rid of your lambs.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, and I think of a bonus if there's such
a thing of the rice paddy field which is south
as they're certainly not going to dry out on the
short term anyhow, so I think Southland and Southwest Otago
will have the capacity to take some of the stock.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Yeah, but I think a lot of them have actually
stayed in Canterbury because I thought you normally south little
top up with lambs. But I think they've been active.
But yeah, I think quite a lot of guys with
water up here have taken lambs.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
All right, mate, I've got to go there we go.
Jeremy Rock's doing a splendid job. Yes, the nostril hairs
and the and the air heirs. Hey look, yesterday Pts
Scotti Meers and the team had a charity golf day
for farm Strong. They raised seventy five grand. What a
great effort that is. Last year over fifteen thousand farmers
(37:37):
and growers improved their well being thanks to something they
picked up from farm Strong. So check out the website
see what other farmers are up to cope when it
comes to coping with the ups and downs of farming
and especially the weather at the moment. So that's farmstrong
dot co dot nz for free tools and resources on
how to live well and to farm. Well, that's us
(37:58):
done and dusted. Will catch you back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent starkest of the
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