November 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Peter McBride, George Dodson, Hugh Jackson, Chris Brandolino, Hamish McKay, and Barry Soper.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie McKay.
The show is brought to you by Brent. Michelle's gone
country on the Country on a Friday with a bit
of jelly roll. Like jelly roll on the show. Today,
we're going to head to Shanghai to kick off proceedings.
Peter McBride waiting for us there. Fonterra's chairman at the
(00:58):
International Import and in Shanghai. Really big deal. He's going
to tell us all about it very shortly, and I'm
going to ask him what he thinks of the Chinese economy.
Today's Farmer Panel are the two best young farmers currently
in the country? Can I say that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
One of them's the current Young Farmer of the Year,
Hugh Jackson twenty twenty five. This year, and the other
one is George Dodson twenty twenty four. Will have a
look at the issues of the day there. Chris Brandolino
on the weather look getting worryingly dry in parts of
the country, especially Hawk's Bay seems to be the epty
Center and Canterbury's in a bit of an early summer
(01:38):
heat wave. I wonder if the weather will hold through
to the big christ Church or Canterbury amp show next week.
Hamish MacKaye on sport, Barry Soper on politics, Michelle Worth
rural news. We'll have a look at sports news for
you as well. It's all on the country. But Peter
McBride and Shanghai to kick off proceedings, you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Where you can go.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We head all over the show on the country. The
artist formerly known as the Farming Show, got two shows
in there. This man is the big show when it
comes to Fonterra. He is the chairman, Peter McBride. He
is in Shanghai for the China International Import Expo known
as c double Ie. Hey, Peter, before I talk about
(02:37):
what's happening in Shanghai, this huge expo, I want to
talk about Winston Peters. You probably don't but I do,
because he was on the show yesterday and he was
getting stuck into you and Miles Hurrell effectively saying you're
on the take, You're getting a backhand, or you will
get a backhanded for getting the steal across the line.
Does that annoy you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Not?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Really? I think it's a bit misguiters. Clearly there are
no deals or backhanders or bonuses related to any part
of the steel, Jamie, So I just don't accept that.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, well, fair enough. Eighty eight and a half percent
of your Farmer shareholders voted in favor of the steel.
I would have thought it's a pretty good result for Fonterra.
You must have been absolutely pleased or wrapped yourself in,
Miles and the team, executive team and the directors are
with the mandate you got.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, we were in obviously a huge effort when in
over the last eighteen months and secularly in the last
sort of six weeks leading into the conversations with Farmers.
You know, Farmer, the commercial people, they make commercial decisions
and I think there for them, you know, we made
that as clear as possible that pathway wanted to go down.
So we still fundingly believe this is in the best
(03:50):
long term interests of Fonterira shareholders, but also New German.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'd agree with you and disagree with Winston as I have.
You've taken many trips to China over the years. In fact,
I first met you in China in twenty nineteen around
our farming and footy tour to the Rugby World Cup
in Japan. But you know, wearing your not only your
dairy hat but also formerly your Zestpury hat. But this
is your first time at the China International Import Exo.
(04:19):
How big a deal is this event?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's a huge de sessially my third time. I'll heir
a couple of times with Desprey and this is the
first time with Montier, so it is a big deal.
It's very important obviously to the Chinese stage this event
from a trade perspective, and obviously trade at in front
of your one's mind at the moment, so it is
really critically important.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
As a part of your display, you've got a full
sized milk tanker.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool now it is. The scene
looks great. We've got a lot of our food service
bakery type products on displowed, so it's quite cool.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So four million visitors through the yours during the period
of this expo. How much traction does Fonterra get. I mean,
is it one of these events where you can't afford
not to be at it?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
We it's a critical event for us to be it.
You know, obviously after forty decades of investment in growth
in China and being one of our most important strategic market,
you know, it's really important that we are here. But
we also get valuable insights into the Chinese market from
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an event like this. So you know, I'm down under
made of power of the relationships that you build through
these events.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Talk to me about your take on the Chinese economy
at the moment. My guy over there is a fellow
by the name of Hunter McGregor. You may have come
across them in your travels. He reckons the Chinese economy
is sort of stuck in neutral orwe But what are
you hearing because I know, for instance, at this week's
Global Dary Trade event, the Chinese were very active.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I think, well, let's say huge economy, James. So you know,
it's always can have its own sort of momentum. It
doesn't feel like it's sucking neutral from our perspective. What's
interesting was gend two is that while we're observing in
China in particular, is that our customers are really short
on the inventry. So that's a really positive thing. I guess,
(06:21):
you know, when when there's risk and town around trade
and tariffs and all that sort of thing, people tend
to say but short and they really look after their
working capital. So you know, I just think, you know,
it's just a slight reflection of a bit of understataincy.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Do you think ten dollars a ten dollars milk price
is under threat for this season twenty five twenty six
or is it too early to say.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I think it's a bit early to say.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
I think it is under a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
But like I said, with those inventories being really short,
as our volumes come Upenetic and team pretty quickly as well,
so you know, there's sad bit of a share to
play out yet. So you know, seceely go.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Just a final one for you. It's a huge event,
this expo, over many areas, over many days. Do you
get a chance probably not to go and have a
look around yourself.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, I had a bit of a lot yesterday. I
particularly wanted to go and meet some of the form
of Visbury customers next door, have a look around the
fruit fection in the I mainly focus on the agricultural
part of it.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I'm not a.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Checko sort of a guy, so I'm teen to meet
people from you know they've had relationships with in the past,
and just have a look at, you know, the other
Mu Zealman companies that are on displays. You know they
look great. It's for good I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Good on you. Hey, Peter McBride, the chair of Fonterra,
thanks for some of your time from the China International
Import Expo. Safe travels home.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It is fourteen after twelve, yes, Chair of Fonterra, Peter McBride.
I say about that bloke, success follows him around. He
was very successful when he was at Zesbury and you'd
have to say they've done a pretty good Albert Fonterra,
although some people would disagree, namely Winston. He's a text
(08:05):
that came in at half past two yesterday afternoon. Hello
Jamien team, always enjoy your show and humor. Well, thank
you Texter. And then you go on to write Winston
is totally just playing the five percent rule. If he
picks up fringe outliers, that's all he needs. He's not
worried about the eighty eight point four to seven percent
(08:27):
that agree with Peter McBride and describing his rhetoric as
hysterical nonsense. Keep up the great work. Thank you for
the nice text.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Look, I think Winston Texter has got his sites set
above five percent. I think in the past he possibly
has played the five percent rule to get past the
threshold because they can't win an electric electorate seat. I
don't know. I've got a feeling they're a double digit
party this time around. It's going to be interesting, really interesting.
(09:00):
I'll discuss that with Barry Soaper a wee but later
in the hour. But up next it is the Farmer
Panel twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of
the Year George Dodson and Hugh Jackson. Lot to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I can hear you were I'm dreaming you channel the
Farmer Panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute built
off with truck DNA, smell you live, came away, I'll want.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You ad you Okay, it is Today's Farmer Panel twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of the Year
George Dodson and Hugh Jackson, and you will start with
you as the incumbent Young Farmer of the Year. We
don't normally do requests on this show, but this is
your musical request. The bush Buds of the song is
called good Company. Did I get that right?
Speaker 9 (10:06):
You sure, Jamie?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
It's an absolute bang of the song and the bush
Buds they've got some good music, good key week band
and a good nid of mine. Finn McColl is the
lead singing guitarist there and Young Farmers fellow Young Farmer's mate.
So it's great to see them doing some awesome stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So where do the bush Buds hail from?
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Taranaki? Taranaki there, so from the Taranaki man and he
along with his brother and dad and a few others. Yeah,
they've really hitten their strips and doing some cool stuff.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
So go along.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
And give it a list and you'll won't be disappointed.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Well, well we are sampling it as they say in radio. Hugh, Well,
I've still got you talking about young farmers. You two,
obviously the young Farmer District competitions are on. You go
from the districts to the regionals to the Grand Final
if you're good enough.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
We've had w like at about any district last Saturday
and had a cracking Summer's day for it and twenty
seven entrants which a good turnout in the end, and
some testing modules. So it's great to find that top
eight and send them through to the next stage and
start the season again.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
You and George not only share titles as Young Farmers
of the Year. I think you both cut your teeth, Am,
I right in saying this. George at the Thornberry Young
Farmer Club in Southland.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Yeah, that's correct. That's actually where I met you. So yeah, yeah,
pretty close to our hearts, I'll say that club.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You've got a ninetieth re union coming up. Are you
both heading down?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
I'm talking me out.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Sorry. One at a time, lads, One at a time,
you go too.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Yeah, yeah, heading down next Saturday. It's going to be
an awesome, awesome event down there, and make sure you
get along. If you've been involved with the club, or
even if you've just been involved with Young Farmers down
those ways, it's going to be really cool event.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
George, are you going down as well from your Canterbury
dairy farm?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Unfortunately not, Jamie will right in the thick of mailing,
we've on our fourth day of mating now, so quite
at the moment and a little bit short on staff,
so I wasn't quite able to make it happen.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All right, Well here you're going down. You didn't bring
your chainsaw down with you to southn and make yourself
useful over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Yeah, I'll definitely have to pack it all right, Jamie.
They've had a rough run down there, for sure, and
it's pretty tough, two springs in a row having some
some rough weathers. So thoughts and m prayers go out
to them and hopefully they get some good weather soon.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
They've been hammered by the wind. George, I keep forgetting
where you were. You were in Dunsandal, but you've moved
somewhere else, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Yeah, I'm sort of near Darfield now, I've just gone
a bit more inland.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yeah, okay, so we know that a bit further up
the road in North Canterbury. What a hell of a hiding,
especially in the Culvid and area there. How did you
guys fare with the big win a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
We got off quite lucky, to be fair, we had
about probably an hour of probably the worst wins I've
ever seen, but it blew through pretty quick and apart
from that one hour, probably wasn't even the windiest day
of that week, to be fair for us.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Uh, while I've got you, because all you've all got
some topics you want to talk about, I'll stay with you, George.
You want to talk about the Dairy Industry Awards. I
note a bit like the Young Farmers which is up
and underway for next season. The nominations are open now
for the Dairy Industry Awards.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yes, you can actually enter yourself for all the dairy
industry awards. So they are closing I think on the
fifth of December. So if you're a dairy trainee, or
a dairy manager or a sheer farmer. And there's also
a few new awards such as the Alumni of the
Year now, so there's a bit of something for everyone.
So if you're a dairy farmer, then get stuck into it.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Are you worried about the downward trend in the global
dairy trade auction? We haven't had a positive one since
beginning of August.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
No, it's certainly a little bit concerning, isn't it. But
I think we all knew it was coming, right. It's
been a couple decent payouts in a year, and especially
last season with a ten dollars plus payout when you
the area is pretty cyclical and it was always going
to come down at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Not affecting the cow price. I note that cows which
were sort of not languishing. I guess it's not languishing
if you're in the market to buy them. But eighteen
hundred to two grand now three thousand to three and
a half thousand dollars. They're valuable units.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Oh, incredibly expensive. And I've just seen a dairy farm
down at Require has sold just in the last week
for a record in Canterbury of eighty six thousand dollars
a hect here, So pretty phenomenal money and dairy at
the moment.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, now that's an A two farm, right, Yeah, it's
got all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yes, so a very high performance I speck farm.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, eighty six thousand a heck there, it's almost like
a keyw fruit auction. What about you, you, Hugh, you're
a sheep and beef farmer in the North Island. Remind
me where you're farming again? Sorry, I should be better
prepared for this, right the.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
Mighty Piacu, the advance right on the north coast, just
the coast just north of Raglam there.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So, and how's your season going?
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Good?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Yeah, we've we've had some good rain up till the
last week and we're starting to really dry out now,
some hot days and warm temperatures, but we cannot we
can cannot really complain. There's been obviously some dry temperatures
and the hawks fan the likes of that, so we're
in a good spot.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
Really.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
You also want to touch today on mental fitness and
that's that's been tested for a lot of farmers in
the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's never never anything trees fall
down and too much water or too much done. So
it's important to make sure you look after yourself and
get out there. A really important reminder. So this week
for me and hitt home pretty hard. One of my
neighbors passed away pretty unexpended expectively and I'm actually just
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finished the funeral proceedings today, So it sort of puts
things in perspective of a bit, and you've got to
make sure that when the sea's flat or when the
conditions are right, you get out there and make the
most of things, because you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, George Dodson, Getting off farm so important. Obviously very
difficult for you dairy farmers at this time of the year.
You've just got through carving and' now and mating. You're
making silence. It's in some ways it's the perfect storm
of work.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I just try to get off a little bit every day,
you know, and try get out to the young Farmers meetings.
Even though we're quite busy in the day, we can
still make a couple of hours in the evening. So
whether it's just making time for a small thing like
taking a partner out to the pub for a quick
meal or going down the river for a quick swim
after work, you can make it work. It's just maybe
a little bit less time than you'd hope for during
the likes of summer and the quiet times a year.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And one final one, George, you wanted to comment on
the Super rugby team announcement. You're not one of those
Crusaders fans, are you?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Definitely not, Jamie. Hundred percent up the Highlanders. So it's
good to see our team looking so positive and a
good opportunity to build heading into twenty twenty seven when
we do get Josh Jacob joining us as well. So
good couple of years coming up for Highlanders there.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, I reckon we get Josh Jacob. Min's you Cam
Miller's doing all right the Gore boy, but we get
Josh Jacob and Dylan Pleasure nine and ten in twenty
twenty seven Jamie Joseph coaching. Yeah, I think I watch
out for the Highlanders.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yeah, for sure. It's going to be a World Cup
as yet. World Cup year as well. And we know
what happened in twenty fifteen who won the supertitle end
when All Black class won the World Cup. So could
we get a bit of bit of dejovu?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Okay, and Hugh for your sons, who do you support?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
You'll be a chiefs man, you have to be, Yeah,
chiefs man, Jamie Sertz. We've got close the last couple
of years and I'm sure they'll give it another good
nuts this year.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well the perennial Bridesmaids. Here's some of the bush buds.
The song is called good Company. You two have been
good company today on the show George Dodson, Hugh R.
Jackson our farmer panel for today. It's twenty eight after twelve.
Up next, we're gonna have a lot. I was talking
to Stevevan Harrison central Hawk's Bay, remember him, the artist
(18:18):
formerly known as Steve Wan Harris, and he said, it's
getting worryingly dry and when we look at the Kneeward
Drought Index map, yeah, Hawks Bay is standing out like
a beacon at the moment. Apparently the wire rap is
getting quite dry. Canterbury's getting dryish also as well. So
we'll have a look at the weather and perhaps throw
out a forecast for the christ Church or cup and
(18:42):
Show week in christ Church next week. Minds you Bay
of Islands AMP show is on tomorrow, New Zealand's oldest
agg show, first held in eighteen forty two. A beautiful
part of the country. That is Chris Brandolino. Up next, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Look you by your good company, say away.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I want to weather on the country with farmlands helping
to prevent parasite outbreaks.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
This summer.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh look you by your good company.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Smell Away bush Buds. They're quite catchy, Hugh kind of.
Michelle said they sound a bit six sixty ish. What
do you reckon? Let us know on our text line
which is five double nine or your feedback there radio here.
He is from NIWA or Earth Sciences, New Zealand. I
(19:46):
better get it right, Chris Brandolino. I'm looking at your
drought index map, Chris and a farm and Hawks Bay.
I'm not liking it.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Yeah, well there's a good reason not to like it.
It's dry. So yeah, we have dry to very dry
conditions have e merged in Hawks Bay, particularly central and
lower Hawks Bay, so that is an area worth watching.
We did publish our latest hotspot report. My steam colleague
Chester he worked on that, and that's on our website.
If you want to type in hotspot into Uncle Google,
(20:17):
you could direct it to that and that'll kind of
articulate the expectations for rainfall or lack thereof over the
coming week. But yeah, it'd certainly dry there.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
As I said about earlier in Mishell, I was talking
to Steven Harris, a Central hawks By Native, and he
was saying, yes, it's getting a bit worryingly dry. Nothing
they haven't seen before, and one good dollop rome could
change things, he said. Gisbon was okay, but why a
rapper is starting to dry off as well. And Canterbury
with all those winds that they've had, you know, sometimes
(20:47):
you're only a week away from a drought in Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
Look, we've had these persistent sort of west and northwest winds,
sometimes going south of west and we turned cold, but
generally west and Northwest's trace back to that sudden stratospheric
warming event we've been talking about that happened back in
September over the South Pole over Antarctica, and that basically
displaced or moved all the storminess that normally is over
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the continent into the southern Ocean and that has really
accentuated the wind and we're still seeing lingering effects of that,
and that'll probably continue for the rest of the month,
maybe in a slightly different fashion. Indications are Jamie, that
high pressure is going to be quite strong and persistent
near in east of the Chathams, almost blocking and what
that will do is when we see a trough of
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low pressure go over say the Aussy Bite or the
Southern Ocean or the Tasman Sea areas to our west,
we're going to see northwest flows and these chances for
maybe some bigger rainfalls because of those airflows. In fact,
as we look into next week, well let's start with
the weekend. In fact, we are going to see some
spotty but heavy showers and thunderstorms. I think the day
(21:58):
to watch is Saturn and well Saturday an Sunday, which
is the weekend by the way. As I said, but
if you're listening from northern Waikato to Aukland and Northland regions,
there will be spotty but very heavy rain over the
next couple of days, probably triggered by the sea breeze
that'll happen again on Sunday, but probably a little farther
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south Central Plateau. Maybe Hawk's Bay gets some rain, but
probably not the areas that need it. Then we have
to watch for a pretty decent front that'll move through
Monday afternoon and evening, give a good drop of rain
to Southland, maybe some thunderstorms. Good drop a rain to
the west of the South Island, top of the South Island,
much of the country except the places that probably need it.
(22:40):
Eastern areas and then Jamie, I guess you're interested in
Canterbury for some reason.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Next week is that right?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, well it's cup on show week and the Rising's
on all week and the show let me just check.
The show is Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Okay.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well yeah, So it looks wet. So there's going to
be a low dropping down from the north basically, and
that looks to occur probably Wednesday into Thursday, So the
top of the North Island we got to watch up
for heavy rain could be a problem. That kind of
heavy rain. That'll be Wednesday to Wednesday night. These things
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will change with timing and the detail, but that's the
theme right now. And that same low is forecast to
drop south. It looks to give northern parts in eastern
parts of the South Island a good drop of rain.
It looks like Thursday from Canterbury North into Marlborough. Some
of that rain could be heavy. It won't last very long,
maybe twelve hours, but it could rain pretty good for
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that period of time, and it's gonna stay warm. Generally speaking,
we're gonna be unusually warm for the weekend into early
next week. We'll cool off maybe for a little bit
after that low passes Thursday, but generally speaking, warm is
going to be the theme. Could be a couple of
cooler days later next week, then we could see another resurgence,
(24:00):
some significant warmth later in the month.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
There we go, Chris Brandolino from me. We'll bring the jacket.
It sounds like the rain jacket to christ Church. Won't
be cold, but it could be wet. And if you've
got a fascinator and you're at Cup and Show week,
you might want to take an umbrella as well. Up next,
Michelle with the latest in rural news. We'll have a
look at sports news for you before the end of
(24:26):
the hour. Amish mckaye on sport, very sober on politics, dem.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Near Burme l one knows him, Mamatra.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Now don't know, can't she? Isn't he? Jelly rolling halfway
to Hell? Michelle Watt going country on the country on
a Friday. I like jelly roll.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
He's good time. He's playing in Auckland tomorrow night with Shaboozie.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Actually we we've got some Shaboozy on the bob.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
We have got some Shaboozi on Oh, we'll get something.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
A big Shaboozi fan talking about shaboozi or just boozy.
Someone's having a crack at me at the Dunedin bear Fest,
which is on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I'm not sure where this rumor is a service from Jamie,
but apparently there's rumors that you're shouting at the Dunedin
beer Fest today and people keep texting and asking about it.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
No, no, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not shouting, but
i am. I'll tell you what. I am shouting kind
of vicariously at the christ Church. Well I call it
the christ Church or the Canterbury Amp Show.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
It's got royal status, so I think it's the Royal
imp Show, hosted by the Canterbury Amp Association.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Thank god they've got rid of the New Zealand Agricultural Show.
I don't know why they ever went there anyhow. I
am shouting next Thursday or this Thursday coming up because
we've got the Emerson's Tiny Pub and it is the
launch of the twenty twenty five Mikaiso, which is a
hop oil infused New Zealand pilsner.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It sounds nice, well, it sounds nice. Well, we'll find
out on Thursday or you won't because you've got to
stay here and do the work. But ay, well, here's
Rural News.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
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Speaker 7 (26:16):
And in Rural News, Canterbury nursery manager Jake Linklater has
taken out the Young Horticulturists of the Year title after
excelling in a two day contest showcasing New Zealand's top
young talent. It's the second consecutive year a Young Plant
Producer of the Year has claimed the supreme trophy. So
first place in that competition was, of course Jake link Later,
(26:37):
second place was Young Forticulturist Nina Downer and third place
was Young Amenity River Fosters. The congratulations to all those
finalists in those awards. And you've got some sports news
Jamie Sport.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
On the country with AFCO one percent. Ke, we owned.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
That's rare, all right.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
So they all blacks are in Edinburgh. I didn't realize
the silver ferns, well, they're in Glasgow on the other
side of the country. The silver ferns have arrived in Glasgow,
insisting they are united despite the drama surrounding Dame Nolen
Taru's reinstatement as coach and her truths. We talked a
lot about her truths. New Zealand plays Scotland and two
(27:17):
Tests before meeting England in three as preparation for next
year's Commonwealth Games, and of course the All Blacks are
in Edinburgh. They are prepared to face Scotland on Sunday morning.
Who's going to get up and watch it live? I
think it's about three or four in the morning. I
think I might my skyt.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Hey you could just lie in bed and listen to
the gold Sport commentary and you lie there all day
and listen to acc with the cracket at one fifteen pm.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Right, okay, Now, I think I'll just smile my skyte
and watch it at about six or six thirty. Veteran
playmaker Bowden Barrett, the only member of the matchday squad
to have more than one start against Scotland and the
only one who's played them three times, admits he's weary
of the skyt that's despite never losing to them. Barrett
(28:03):
says his visits to Murrayfield and twenty fourteen, twenty seventeen
and twenty twenty two were close run affairs. Great weekend
of sport coming up, the cricket, the netball and the
rugby and the bfest right here in Dunedin under the roof.
Up next it's Hamish MacKaye on sport and the fielding Saleyards.
(28:24):
He sent me a text this morning. I think he
just goes down and has a cup of tea at
the fielding sale yards right in the middle of town
on a Friday morning. That's where he gets to do
a lot of prospecting. And he said there was a
big stare dropped dead in the sale yards. Imagine that
you're getting up to three grand for a cattle beast
at the moment. That would make your eyes water, wouldn't it.
(28:45):
Hamish MacKaye.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
Next, Mackay on sport with farm lands, prevent Paris on
outbreaks and score a wind.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
This summer there's a few.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, going country on the country on a Friday. This
man goes country on a Friday because every Friday he
goes to the fielding stock sale yards right in the
middle of the town, just near the clock tower, and
he goes and has a cup of tea and catches
up with what's happening with all the farmers Hamish Mackay
and MacKaye on sport. But Hamish, hey, before we talk
about sport, tell me about this cattle beast that turned
(29:25):
its toes up this morning in the middle of the
fielding sale yards.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, it was hard.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
To know what happened. I did, you know, as I do,
I sort of cocker hoop, go over there and you know,
do the old you know, real estate agent, think how
you doing, And took this guy and he was just
just sense that he was a bit upset, and I said, oh, jeezy, okay.
He said, oh, just sorry, mate, I'm sorry. I from
a but not that attendive. But Tony pointed and there
was one of his lovely rangey two year old stairs
under a tar ball and dead.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
It pinched a nerve or.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Something must have got paps got down in the truck
or something like that. But it just to me, you know,
he wasn't here. You know, I should probably go through
the ring for two and a half thousand and three
thousand dollars, But just the emotion around, you know, that
sort of you know farmer's care, you know, I think
some of those people miss that, you know, and but
they had the vets there straight away, so I guess,
you know, insurance and all those things happened. But the
(30:13):
point thing is that he was clearly quite. You know,
I'd be quite. You know, Initially I thought, geez, he
doesn't like me.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
But I very quickly.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Well, iamous, I'd bear wee but terry too if I
had a two and a half thousand dollars cattle beast
to turn its toes up on me as well. So
you can't get and we've discussed this before, much more
rural than the Fielding stockyards on a Friday morning, you
get a real feel for provincial New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What what what?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
What's the barama to like? In your reading?
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Yeah, it looked pretty good, pretty good, Like there's a
there's a I guess there's sort of a slightly defensive
system or if you're like force Field, around farmers and
around the community, because we've been there, done that before
in terms of good times, and I guess there's the
worry that they might not last.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So there's a sort of there's a but.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
I think there's a newfound sort of optimist optimism which
will breed some longevity. So things are feeling pretty good
and people are starting to talk about the footy again
this weekend and talk about the All Blacks and wondering
what's going on with Razors camp and wanted to get
the inside from me. So yeah, you know, I fielding's
pretty bob, but he can't get a park. That's the
hardest thing.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So yeah, well it's a happening sort of place. Well
what do you make of the Scottish rugby team? And
there's a few lines and there Finn Russell arguably the
best first five and world rugby at the moment. They've
never beaten us, we've drawn twice. Do you like the
look at this all black team?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Well, they've had a couple of near misses. I mean,
the all black team conservative. You know, I still can't
understand why we're not prepared to give the Ruben loves
of this world the chance. But I guess he wants
those guys who saw to got their act together against
the tiring Irish give them another opportunity to get out
in the park and do it again. A couple of
changes for the Scots that I had big Xander ferguson
(31:59):
the line, in the front row and they've dropped under Mrva,
the big South African born winger, but they'd bring in
another one. Kyle Stain is a hell of a good
footy player and as you mentioned, find Russell I reckon
he is the best rough slava going around and watched
Rory Hutches in at center. Look, it's going to happen
one day, isn't it sooner or later? You know, we
had the nineteen ninety of the teams that won the
cow Cutter Cup in the Grand Slam. They came offully close.
(32:21):
You know, I remember the Great White Shark and those
guys and the govern Eastings and the team that drew
with the late Stewey Wilson's team in eighty three, So
they have come close.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah. Stu Wilson one of my favorite All Blacks, favorite
bloke too, howly captain the All Black twice, All Blacks
twice and Test matches, and old Steward used to joke
about being the worst All Black captain of all time
because he drew one and lost one.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Drew one and lost one, and he had the kahoonahs
to smile about it, and except today that's.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
He was a great winger, and he was a great
winger full stop. He went to early because of the
professional rules that got him out of the game. He
should have still still been there. Okay, talking about greats
from back in the days in the eighties, Peter Bellas,
isn't he from around? Well, he's Wanganui, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah, So I.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Wanted to mention this because I feel, I don't know,
you would have been the same those summers of cricket
and bowls on the on the wireless, you know, going
back through the seventies, eighties, nineties, and you'd always hear
Peter Ballace from Ara Maho and why to he Wanan.
He's finals and he's been inaugurated into the the initial
the first ever World Bowls Fall of Fame. So he's
in the local one and then he's herel and one.
(33:33):
But I just think that that's a name that's synonymous
with bowls and summer, Peter Bellas, Ara Maho.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
No other name that's synonymous with bowls in the summer.
I don't know where he is these days, but he
was a great bloke as well. Stu Scott, Oh, Stu Scott.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Yeah, although the year go oh yeah, unbelievable names. Right,
so when you say that it makes the hair stand
up on the back of my neck.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
You want to a Hamish. Finally, you want to get
a shameless plug in for the Bulls any rugby team.
It's the Bulls ball, not the Bulls Balls exactly.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
DJ fifty dollars door sales at the Bull's Domain Saturday
night from seven o'clock. The Bulls wah Any women's rugby team.
It's their fundraiser night. We need to sell a few
more tickets. I'm going to go out there and I'm
going to be available to drive people home, like I'll
be not a dollar driver. But but there is transport
from Fielding Bulls in Martin and yeah, the Bulls Wahiney
Women's rugby fundrais. I mean, I've seen a couple of
(34:31):
pictures of the hall. All it's going to be a
good party. Don't miss out on it.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Get out there, Good on your Hamish, enjoy your weekend,
enjoy the footy. Thanks for your time there. We got
Hamosh McKay on sport. Actually, I'm just waiting to get
a hold of Barries soapers who's going down to Gore.
We'll tell you why and he was born and bred
and Gore. Stu Wilson I think was was Stu born
and Gore? I think he might have been. Jenny Shipley
(34:57):
was born and Gore. Farmstrongs before I forget. Farmstrong's all
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(35:19):
this weekend. Farmstrong dot co, dot and z learn to
live well and farm well. Barry Soper rahps the country next.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well my mind, I can't count that the times you
made me.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Feel like them wrapping the country with Barries Soaper born
and bread and Gore. Actually we were paying tribute to
Stu Wilson. What a great rugby winger stew was, What
a great character he was. He was born in Gore
and sharing the stable with you and Gore. You were
born in a stable or in a manger? Weren't you?
Barry with Jenny, Barry Sooba with Jenny Shipley?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
You good afternoon, Jamie. Yes, Jenny and I were born
within days of each other here and Gore and often
said that, Really, I think they switched names at birth
and I should have been the prime minister and she
may have been a commentator. Who knows?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
What are you doing in Gore? Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
My sister who was only forty months older than me.
She died when I was in hospital two years ago,
and we're coming here as a family to bury her
ashes in the family plot.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Lovely woman, Linda sober, lovely, lovely woman anyhow, as was
your mother, my auntie? Can you can I use the
word lovely to describe to party Mari and how things
are going in their party?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Well it's an abomination, actually, Jamie. I mean I found
it amusing yesterday when Debbie na Rivapako wasn't asking questions
by the existent Prime Minister, and sitting right behind him
was Takuta Ferris and Marmino Kapakinhi and they were whispering
(37:09):
to each other. And of course, you know they have
to sit within proximity of people that want to get
rid of them from the party, so you know what's
going to happen. There's going to be a showdown, clearly,
and John tammaheady, he's not entirely safe, but I suspect
that he wields quite a lot of power. I see
his daughter, she's been posting on Facebook as well and
(37:34):
adding fuel to the far And there's Tamihiri's daughter is
RAWI waited his wife and works for the party, so
there's a lot of family involved in them.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Just finally I got thirty seconds coming on Winston. We
had him on the show yesterday. He's starting to maneuver
and position himself and pole position for the election, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
No doubt about it, Jamie, I think you know he
was shrewd. He decided he would take the Deputy Prime
minister's job in the first eighteen months and then hand
it over to David Sebo, who is now more constrained.
But Winston can get on back on the campaign trail,
which is where he does very well.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah all right, hey, enjoy your family occasion in Gore
and rest in peace. Land A Soper, thank you very
much for your time. Barry's Soper. That wraps us for today.
Will catch you back on Monday. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie McKay.
The show is brought to you by Brent. Michelle's gone
country on the Country on a Friday with a bit
of jelly roll. Like jelly roll on the show. Today,
we're going to head to Shanghai to kick off proceedings.
Peter McBride waiting for us there. Fonterra's chairman at the
(00:58):
International Import and in Shanghai. Really big deal. He's going
to tell us all about it very shortly, and I'm
going to ask him what he thinks of the Chinese economy.
Today's Farmer Panel are the two best young farmers currently
in the country? Can I say that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
One of them's the current Young Farmer of the Year,
Hugh Jackson twenty twenty five. This year, and the other
one is George Dodson twenty twenty four. Will have a
look at the issues of the day there. Chris Brandolino
on the weather look getting worryingly dry in parts of
the country, especially Hawk's Bay seems to be the epty
Center and Canterbury's in a bit of an early summer
(01:38):
heat wave. I wonder if the weather will hold through
to the big christ Church or Canterbury amp show next week.
Hamish MacKaye on sport, Barry Soper on politics, Michelle Worth
rural news. We'll have a look at sports news for
you as well. It's all on the country. But Peter
McBride and Shanghai to kick off proceedings, you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Where you can go.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We head all over the show on the country. The
artist formerly known as the Farming Show, got two shows
in there. This man is the big show when it
comes to Fonterra. He is the chairman, Peter McBride. He
is in Shanghai for the China International Import Expo known
as c double Ie. Hey, Peter, before I talk about
(02:37):
what's happening in Shanghai, this huge expo, I want to
talk about Winston Peters. You probably don't but I do,
because he was on the show yesterday and he was
getting stuck into you and Miles Hurrell effectively saying you're
on the take, You're getting a backhand, or you will
get a backhanded for getting the steal across the line.
Does that annoy you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Not?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Really? I think it's a bit misguiters. Clearly there are
no deals or backhanders or bonuses related to any part
of the steel, Jamie, So I just don't accept that.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, well, fair enough. Eighty eight and a half percent
of your Farmer shareholders voted in favor of the steel.
I would have thought it's a pretty good result for Fonterra.
You must have been absolutely pleased or wrapped yourself in,
Miles and the team, executive team and the directors are
with the mandate you got.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, we were in obviously a huge effort when in
over the last eighteen months and secularly in the last
sort of six weeks leading into the conversations with Farmers.
You know, Farmer, the commercial people, they make commercial decisions
and I think there for them, you know, we made
that as clear as possible that pathway wanted to go down.
So we still fundingly believe this is in the best
(03:50):
long term interests of Fonterira shareholders, but also New German.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'd agree with you and disagree with Winston as I have.
You've taken many trips to China over the years. In fact,
I first met you in China in twenty nineteen around
our farming and footy tour to the Rugby World Cup
in Japan. But you know, wearing your not only your
dairy hat but also formerly your Zestpury hat. But this
is your first time at the China International Import Exo.
(04:19):
How big a deal is this event?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's a huge de sessially my third time. I'll heir
a couple of times with Desprey and this is the
first time with Montier, so it is a big deal.
It's very important obviously to the Chinese stage this event
from a trade perspective, and obviously trade at in front
of your one's mind at the moment, so it is
really critically important.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
As a part of your display, you've got a full
sized milk tanker.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool now it is. The scene
looks great. We've got a lot of our food service
bakery type products on displowed, so it's quite cool.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So four million visitors through the yours during the period
of this expo. How much traction does Fonterra get. I mean,
is it one of these events where you can't afford
not to be at it?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
We it's a critical event for us to be it.
You know, obviously after forty decades of investment in growth
in China and being one of our most important strategic market,
you know, it's really important that we are here. But
we also get valuable insights into the Chinese market from
(05:31):
an event like this. So you know, I'm down under
made of power of the relationships that you build through
these events.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Talk to me about your take on the Chinese economy
at the moment. My guy over there is a fellow
by the name of Hunter McGregor. You may have come
across them in your travels. He reckons the Chinese economy
is sort of stuck in neutral orwe But what are
you hearing because I know, for instance, at this week's
Global Dary Trade event, the Chinese were very active.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I think, well, let's say huge economy, James. So you know,
it's always can have its own sort of momentum. It
doesn't feel like it's sucking neutral from our perspective. What's
interesting was gend two is that while we're observing in
China in particular, is that our customers are really short
on the inventry. So that's a really positive thing. I guess,
(06:21):
you know, when when there's risk and town around trade
and tariffs and all that sort of thing, people tend
to say but short and they really look after their
working capital. So you know, I just think, you know,
it's just a slight reflection of a bit of understataincy.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Do you think ten dollars a ten dollars milk price
is under threat for this season twenty five twenty six
or is it too early to say.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I think it's a bit early to say.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
I think it is under a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
But like I said, with those inventories being really short,
as our volumes come Upenetic and team pretty quickly as well,
so you know, there's sad bit of a share to
play out yet. So you know, seceely go.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Just a final one for you. It's a huge event,
this expo, over many areas, over many days. Do you
get a chance probably not to go and have a
look around yourself.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, I had a bit of a lot yesterday. I
particularly wanted to go and meet some of the form
of Visbury customers next door, have a look around the
fruit fection in the I mainly focus on the agricultural
part of it.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I'm not a.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Checko sort of a guy, so I'm teen to meet
people from you know they've had relationships with in the past,
and just have a look at, you know, the other
Mu Zealman companies that are on displays. You know they
look great. It's for good I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Good on you. Hey, Peter McBride, the chair of Fonterra,
thanks for some of your time from the China International
Import Expo. Safe travels home.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It is fourteen after twelve, yes, Chair of Fonterra, Peter McBride.
I say about that bloke, success follows him around. He
was very successful when he was at Zesbury and you'd
have to say they've done a pretty good Albert Fonterra,
although some people would disagree, namely Winston. He's a text
(08:05):
that came in at half past two yesterday afternoon. Hello
Jamien team, always enjoy your show and humor. Well, thank
you Texter. And then you go on to write Winston
is totally just playing the five percent rule. If he
picks up fringe outliers, that's all he needs. He's not
worried about the eighty eight point four to seven percent
(08:27):
that agree with Peter McBride and describing his rhetoric as
hysterical nonsense. Keep up the great work. Thank you for
the nice text.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Look, I think Winston Texter has got his sites set
above five percent. I think in the past he possibly
has played the five percent rule to get past the
threshold because they can't win an electric electorate seat. I
don't know. I've got a feeling they're a double digit
party this time around. It's going to be interesting, really interesting.
(09:00):
I'll discuss that with Barry Soaper a wee but later
in the hour. But up next it is the Farmer
Panel twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of
the Year George Dodson and Hugh Jackson. Lot to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I can hear you were I'm dreaming you channel the
Farmer Panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute built
off with truck DNA, smell you live, came away, I'll want.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You ad you Okay, it is Today's Farmer Panel twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five Young Farmers of the Year
George Dodson and Hugh Jackson, and you will start with
you as the incumbent Young Farmer of the Year. We
don't normally do requests on this show, but this is
your musical request. The bush Buds of the song is
called good Company. Did I get that right?
Speaker 9 (10:06):
You sure, Jamie?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
It's an absolute bang of the song and the bush
Buds they've got some good music, good key week band
and a good nid of mine. Finn McColl is the
lead singing guitarist there and Young Farmers fellow Young Farmer's mate.
So it's great to see them doing some awesome stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So where do the bush Buds hail from?
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Taranaki? Taranaki there, so from the Taranaki man and he
along with his brother and dad and a few others. Yeah,
they've really hitten their strips and doing some cool stuff.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
So go along.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
And give it a list and you'll won't be disappointed.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Well, well we are sampling it as they say in radio. Hugh, Well,
I've still got you talking about young farmers. You two,
obviously the young Farmer District competitions are on. You go
from the districts to the regionals to the Grand Final
if you're good enough.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
We've had w like at about any district last Saturday
and had a cracking Summer's day for it and twenty
seven entrants which a good turnout in the end, and
some testing modules. So it's great to find that top
eight and send them through to the next stage and
start the season again.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
You and George not only share titles as Young Farmers
of the Year. I think you both cut your teeth, Am,
I right in saying this. George at the Thornberry Young
Farmer Club in Southland.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Yeah, that's correct. That's actually where I met you. So yeah, yeah,
pretty close to our hearts, I'll say that club.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You've got a ninetieth re union coming up. Are you
both heading down?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
I'm talking me out.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Sorry. One at a time, lads, One at a time,
you go too.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Yeah, yeah, heading down next Saturday. It's going to be
an awesome, awesome event down there, and make sure you
get along. If you've been involved with the club, or
even if you've just been involved with Young Farmers down
those ways, it's going to be really cool event.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
George, are you going down as well from your Canterbury
dairy farm?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Unfortunately not, Jamie will right in the thick of mailing,
we've on our fourth day of mating now, so quite
at the moment and a little bit short on staff,
so I wasn't quite able to make it happen.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All right, Well here you're going down. You didn't bring
your chainsaw down with you to southn and make yourself
useful over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Yeah, I'll definitely have to pack it all right, Jamie.
They've had a rough run down there, for sure, and
it's pretty tough, two springs in a row having some
some rough weathers. So thoughts and m prayers go out
to them and hopefully they get some good weather soon.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
They've been hammered by the wind. George, I keep forgetting
where you were. You were in Dunsandal, but you've moved
somewhere else, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Yeah, I'm sort of near Darfield now, I've just gone
a bit more inland.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yeah, okay, so we know that a bit further up
the road in North Canterbury. What a hell of a hiding,
especially in the Culvid and area there. How did you
guys fare with the big win a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
We got off quite lucky, to be fair, we had
about probably an hour of probably the worst wins I've
ever seen, but it blew through pretty quick and apart
from that one hour, probably wasn't even the windiest day
of that week, to be fair for us.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Uh, while I've got you, because all you've all got
some topics you want to talk about, I'll stay with you, George.
You want to talk about the Dairy Industry Awards. I
note a bit like the Young Farmers which is up
and underway for next season. The nominations are open now
for the Dairy Industry Awards.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yes, you can actually enter yourself for all the dairy
industry awards. So they are closing I think on the
fifth of December. So if you're a dairy trainee, or
a dairy manager or a sheer farmer. And there's also
a few new awards such as the Alumni of the
Year now, so there's a bit of something for everyone.
So if you're a dairy farmer, then get stuck into it.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Are you worried about the downward trend in the global
dairy trade auction? We haven't had a positive one since
beginning of August.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
No, it's certainly a little bit concerning, isn't it. But
I think we all knew it was coming, right. It's
been a couple decent payouts in a year, and especially
last season with a ten dollars plus payout when you
the area is pretty cyclical and it was always going
to come down at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Not affecting the cow price. I note that cows which
were sort of not languishing. I guess it's not languishing
if you're in the market to buy them. But eighteen
hundred to two grand now three thousand to three and
a half thousand dollars. They're valuable units.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Oh, incredibly expensive. And I've just seen a dairy farm
down at Require has sold just in the last week
for a record in Canterbury of eighty six thousand dollars
a hect here, So pretty phenomenal money and dairy at
the moment.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, now that's an A two farm, right, Yeah, it's
got all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yes, so a very high performance I speck farm.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, eighty six thousand a heck there, it's almost like
a keyw fruit auction. What about you, you, Hugh, you're
a sheep and beef farmer in the North Island. Remind
me where you're farming again? Sorry, I should be better
prepared for this, right the.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
Mighty Piacu, the advance right on the north coast, just
the coast just north of Raglam there.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So, and how's your season going?
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Good?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Yeah, we've we've had some good rain up till the
last week and we're starting to really dry out now,
some hot days and warm temperatures, but we cannot we
can cannot really complain. There's been obviously some dry temperatures
and the hawks fan the likes of that, so we're
in a good spot.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
Really.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
You also want to touch today on mental fitness and
that's that's been tested for a lot of farmers in
the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's never never anything trees fall
down and too much water or too much done. So
it's important to make sure you look after yourself and
get out there. A really important reminder. So this week
for me and hitt home pretty hard. One of my
neighbors passed away pretty unexpended expectively and I'm actually just
(16:07):
finished the funeral proceedings today, So it sort of puts
things in perspective of a bit, and you've got to
make sure that when the sea's flat or when the
conditions are right, you get out there and make the
most of things, because you never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, George Dodson, Getting off farm so important. Obviously very
difficult for you dairy farmers at this time of the year.
You've just got through carving and' now and mating. You're
making silence. It's in some ways it's the perfect storm
of work.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I just try to get off a little bit every day,
you know, and try get out to the young Farmers meetings.
Even though we're quite busy in the day, we can
still make a couple of hours in the evening. So
whether it's just making time for a small thing like
taking a partner out to the pub for a quick
meal or going down the river for a quick swim
after work, you can make it work. It's just maybe
a little bit less time than you'd hope for during
the likes of summer and the quiet times a year.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And one final one, George, you wanted to comment on
the Super rugby team announcement. You're not one of those
Crusaders fans, are you?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Definitely not, Jamie. Hundred percent up the Highlanders. So it's
good to see our team looking so positive and a
good opportunity to build heading into twenty twenty seven when
we do get Josh Jacob joining us as well. So
good couple of years coming up for Highlanders there.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, I reckon we get Josh Jacob. Min's you Cam
Miller's doing all right the Gore boy, but we get
Josh Jacob and Dylan Pleasure nine and ten in twenty
twenty seven Jamie Joseph coaching. Yeah, I think I watch
out for the Highlanders.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yeah, for sure. It's going to be a World Cup
as yet. World Cup year as well. And we know
what happened in twenty fifteen who won the supertitle end
when All Black class won the World Cup. So could
we get a bit of bit of dejovu?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Okay, and Hugh for your sons, who do you support?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
You'll be a chiefs man, you have to be, Yeah,
chiefs man, Jamie Sertz. We've got close the last couple
of years and I'm sure they'll give it another good
nuts this year.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well the perennial Bridesmaids. Here's some of the bush buds.
The song is called good Company. You two have been
good company today on the show George Dodson, Hugh R.
Jackson our farmer panel for today. It's twenty eight after twelve.
Up next, we're gonna have a lot. I was talking
to Stevevan Harrison central Hawk's Bay, remember him, the artist
(18:18):
formerly known as Steve Wan Harris, and he said, it's
getting worryingly dry and when we look at the Kneeward
Drought Index map, yeah, Hawks Bay is standing out like
a beacon at the moment. Apparently the wire rap is
getting quite dry. Canterbury's getting dryish also as well. So
we'll have a look at the weather and perhaps throw
out a forecast for the christ Church or cup and
(18:42):
Show week in christ Church next week. Minds you Bay
of Islands AMP show is on tomorrow, New Zealand's oldest
agg show, first held in eighteen forty two. A beautiful
part of the country. That is Chris Brandolino. Up next, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Look you by your good company, say away.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I want to weather on the country with farmlands helping
to prevent parasite outbreaks.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
This summer.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh look you by your good company.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Smell Away bush Buds. They're quite catchy, Hugh kind of.
Michelle said they sound a bit six sixty ish. What
do you reckon? Let us know on our text line
which is five double nine or your feedback there radio here.
He is from NIWA or Earth Sciences, New Zealand. I
(19:46):
better get it right, Chris Brandolino. I'm looking at your
drought index map, Chris and a farm and Hawks Bay.
I'm not liking it.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Yeah, well there's a good reason not to like it.
It's dry. So yeah, we have dry to very dry
conditions have e merged in Hawks Bay, particularly central and
lower Hawks Bay, so that is an area worth watching.
We did publish our latest hotspot report. My steam colleague
Chester he worked on that, and that's on our website.
If you want to type in hotspot into Uncle Google,
(20:17):
you could direct it to that and that'll kind of
articulate the expectations for rainfall or lack thereof over the
coming week. But yeah, it'd certainly dry there.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
As I said about earlier in Mishell, I was talking
to Steven Harris, a Central hawks By Native, and he
was saying, yes, it's getting a bit worryingly dry. Nothing
they haven't seen before, and one good dollop rome could
change things, he said. Gisbon was okay, but why a
rapper is starting to dry off as well. And Canterbury
with all those winds that they've had, you know, sometimes
(20:47):
you're only a week away from a drought in Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
Look, we've had these persistent sort of west and northwest winds,
sometimes going south of west and we turned cold, but
generally west and Northwest's trace back to that sudden stratospheric
warming event we've been talking about that happened back in
September over the South Pole over Antarctica, and that basically
displaced or moved all the storminess that normally is over
(21:12):
the continent into the southern Ocean and that has really
accentuated the wind and we're still seeing lingering effects of that,
and that'll probably continue for the rest of the month,
maybe in a slightly different fashion. Indications are Jamie, that
high pressure is going to be quite strong and persistent
near in east of the Chathams, almost blocking and what
that will do is when we see a trough of
(21:35):
low pressure go over say the Aussy Bite or the
Southern Ocean or the Tasman Sea areas to our west,
we're going to see northwest flows and these chances for
maybe some bigger rainfalls because of those airflows. In fact,
as we look into next week, well let's start with
the weekend. In fact, we are going to see some
spotty but heavy showers and thunderstorms. I think the day
(21:58):
to watch is Saturn and well Saturday an Sunday, which
is the weekend by the way. As I said, but
if you're listening from northern Waikato to Aukland and Northland regions,
there will be spotty but very heavy rain over the
next couple of days, probably triggered by the sea breeze
that'll happen again on Sunday, but probably a little farther
(22:19):
south Central Plateau. Maybe Hawk's Bay gets some rain, but
probably not the areas that need it. Then we have
to watch for a pretty decent front that'll move through
Monday afternoon and evening, give a good drop of rain
to Southland, maybe some thunderstorms. Good drop a rain to
the west of the South Island, top of the South Island,
much of the country except the places that probably need it.
(22:40):
Eastern areas and then Jamie, I guess you're interested in
Canterbury for some reason.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Next week is that right?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, well it's cup on show week and the Rising's
on all week and the show let me just check.
The show is Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Okay.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well yeah, So it looks wet. So there's going to
be a low dropping down from the north basically, and
that looks to occur probably Wednesday into Thursday, So the
top of the North Island we got to watch up
for heavy rain could be a problem. That kind of
heavy rain. That'll be Wednesday to Wednesday night. These things
(23:17):
will change with timing and the detail, but that's the
theme right now. And that same low is forecast to
drop south. It looks to give northern parts in eastern
parts of the South Island a good drop of rain.
It looks like Thursday from Canterbury North into Marlborough. Some
of that rain could be heavy. It won't last very long,
maybe twelve hours, but it could rain pretty good for
(23:40):
that period of time, and it's gonna stay warm. Generally speaking,
we're gonna be unusually warm for the weekend into early
next week. We'll cool off maybe for a little bit
after that low passes Thursday, but generally speaking, warm is
going to be the theme. Could be a couple of
cooler days later next week, then we could see another resurgence,
(24:00):
some significant warmth later in the month.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
There we go, Chris Brandolino from me. We'll bring the jacket.
It sounds like the rain jacket to christ Church. Won't
be cold, but it could be wet. And if you've
got a fascinator and you're at Cup and Show week,
you might want to take an umbrella as well. Up next,
Michelle with the latest in rural news. We'll have a
look at sports news for you before the end of
(24:26):
the hour. Amish mckaye on sport, very sober on politics, dem.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Near Burme l one knows him, Mamatra.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Now don't know, can't she? Isn't he? Jelly rolling halfway
to Hell? Michelle Watt going country on the country on
a Friday. I like jelly roll.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
He's good time. He's playing in Auckland tomorrow night with Shaboozie.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Actually we we've got some Shaboozy on the bob.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
We have got some Shaboozi on Oh, we'll get something.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
A big Shaboozi fan talking about shaboozi or just boozy.
Someone's having a crack at me at the Dunedin bear Fest,
which is on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I'm not sure where this rumor is a service from Jamie,
but apparently there's rumors that you're shouting at the Dunedin
beer Fest today and people keep texting and asking about it.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
No, no, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not shouting, but
i am. I'll tell you what. I am shouting kind
of vicariously at the christ Church. Well I call it
the christ Church or the Canterbury Amp Show.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
It's got royal status, so I think it's the Royal
imp Show, hosted by the Canterbury Amp Association.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Thank god they've got rid of the New Zealand Agricultural Show.
I don't know why they ever went there anyhow. I
am shouting next Thursday or this Thursday coming up because
we've got the Emerson's Tiny Pub and it is the
launch of the twenty twenty five Mikaiso, which is a
hop oil infused New Zealand pilsner.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It sounds nice, well, it sounds nice. Well, we'll find
out on Thursday or you won't because you've got to
stay here and do the work. But ay, well, here's
Rural News.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
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dot NZM for your local stuckist.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
And in Rural News, Canterbury nursery manager Jake Linklater has
taken out the Young Horticulturists of the Year title after
excelling in a two day contest showcasing New Zealand's top
young talent. It's the second consecutive year a Young Plant
Producer of the Year has claimed the supreme trophy. So
first place in that competition was, of course Jake link Later,
(26:37):
second place was Young Forticulturist Nina Downer and third place
was Young Amenity River Fosters. The congratulations to all those
finalists in those awards. And you've got some sports news
Jamie Sport.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
On the country with AFCO one percent. Ke, we owned.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
That's rare, all right.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
So they all blacks are in Edinburgh. I didn't realize
the silver ferns, well, they're in Glasgow on the other
side of the country. The silver ferns have arrived in Glasgow,
insisting they are united despite the drama surrounding Dame Nolen
Taru's reinstatement as coach and her truths. We talked a
lot about her truths. New Zealand plays Scotland and two
(27:17):
Tests before meeting England in three as preparation for next
year's Commonwealth Games, and of course the All Blacks are
in Edinburgh. They are prepared to face Scotland on Sunday morning.
Who's going to get up and watch it live? I
think it's about three or four in the morning. I
think I might my skyt.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Hey you could just lie in bed and listen to
the gold Sport commentary and you lie there all day
and listen to acc with the cracket at one fifteen pm.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Right, okay, Now, I think I'll just smile my skyte
and watch it at about six or six thirty. Veteran
playmaker Bowden Barrett, the only member of the matchday squad
to have more than one start against Scotland and the
only one who's played them three times, admits he's weary
of the skyt that's despite never losing to them. Barrett
(28:03):
says his visits to Murrayfield and twenty fourteen, twenty seventeen
and twenty twenty two were close run affairs. Great weekend
of sport coming up, the cricket, the netball and the
rugby and the bfest right here in Dunedin under the roof.
Up next it's Hamish MacKaye on sport and the fielding Saleyards.
(28:24):
He sent me a text this morning. I think he
just goes down and has a cup of tea at
the fielding sale yards right in the middle of town
on a Friday morning. That's where he gets to do
a lot of prospecting. And he said there was a
big stare dropped dead in the sale yards. Imagine that
you're getting up to three grand for a cattle beast
at the moment. That would make your eyes water, wouldn't it.
(28:45):
Hamish MacKaye.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
Next, Mackay on sport with farm lands, prevent Paris on
outbreaks and score a wind.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
This summer there's a few.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, going country on the country on a Friday. This
man goes country on a Friday because every Friday he
goes to the fielding stock sale yards right in the
middle of the town, just near the clock tower, and
he goes and has a cup of tea and catches
up with what's happening with all the farmers Hamish Mackay
and MacKaye on sport. But Hamish, hey, before we talk
about sport, tell me about this cattle beast that turned
(29:25):
its toes up this morning in the middle of the
fielding sale yards.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, it was hard.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
To know what happened. I did, you know, as I do,
I sort of cocker hoop, go over there and you know,
do the old you know, real estate agent, think how
you doing, And took this guy and he was just
just sense that he was a bit upset, and I said, oh, jeezy, okay.
He said, oh, just sorry, mate, I'm sorry. I from
a but not that attendive. But Tony pointed and there
was one of his lovely rangey two year old stairs
under a tar ball and dead.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
It pinched a nerve or.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Something must have got paps got down in the truck
or something like that. But it just to me, you know,
he wasn't here. You know, I should probably go through
the ring for two and a half thousand and three
thousand dollars, But just the emotion around, you know, that
sort of you know farmer's care, you know, I think
some of those people miss that, you know, and but
they had the vets there straight away, so I guess,
you know, insurance and all those things happened. But the
(30:13):
point thing is that he was clearly quite. You know,
I'd be quite. You know, Initially I thought, geez, he
doesn't like me.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
But I very quickly.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Well, iamous, I'd bear wee but terry too if I
had a two and a half thousand dollars cattle beast
to turn its toes up on me as well. So
you can't get and we've discussed this before, much more
rural than the Fielding stockyards on a Friday morning, you
get a real feel for provincial New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What what what?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
What's the barama to like? In your reading?
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Yeah, it looked pretty good, pretty good, Like there's a
there's a I guess there's sort of a slightly defensive
system or if you're like force Field, around farmers and
around the community, because we've been there, done that before
in terms of good times, and I guess there's the
worry that they might not last.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So there's a sort of there's a but.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
I think there's a newfound sort of optimist optimism which
will breed some longevity. So things are feeling pretty good
and people are starting to talk about the footy again
this weekend and talk about the All Blacks and wondering
what's going on with Razors camp and wanted to get
the inside from me. So yeah, you know, I fielding's
pretty bob, but he can't get a park. That's the
hardest thing.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So yeah, well it's a happening sort of place. Well
what do you make of the Scottish rugby team? And
there's a few lines and there Finn Russell arguably the
best first five and world rugby at the moment. They've
never beaten us, we've drawn twice. Do you like the
look at this all black team?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Well, they've had a couple of near misses. I mean,
the all black team conservative. You know, I still can't
understand why we're not prepared to give the Ruben loves
of this world the chance. But I guess he wants
those guys who saw to got their act together against
the tiring Irish give them another opportunity to get out
in the park and do it again. A couple of
changes for the Scots that I had big Xander ferguson
(31:59):
the line, in the front row and they've dropped under Mrva,
the big South African born winger, but they'd bring in
another one. Kyle Stain is a hell of a good
footy player and as you mentioned, find Russell I reckon
he is the best rough slava going around and watched
Rory Hutches in at center. Look, it's going to happen
one day, isn't it sooner or later? You know, we
had the nineteen ninety of the teams that won the
cow Cutter Cup in the Grand Slam. They came offully close.
(32:21):
You know, I remember the Great White Shark and those
guys and the govern Eastings and the team that drew
with the late Stewey Wilson's team in eighty three, So
they have come close.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah. Stu Wilson one of my favorite All Blacks, favorite
bloke too, howly captain the All Black twice, All Blacks
twice and Test matches, and old Steward used to joke
about being the worst All Black captain of all time
because he drew one and lost one.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Drew one and lost one, and he had the kahoonahs
to smile about it, and except today that's.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
He was a great winger, and he was a great
winger full stop. He went to early because of the
professional rules that got him out of the game. He
should have still still been there. Okay, talking about greats
from back in the days in the eighties, Peter Bellas,
isn't he from around? Well, he's Wanganui, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah, So I.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Wanted to mention this because I feel, I don't know,
you would have been the same those summers of cricket
and bowls on the on the wireless, you know, going
back through the seventies, eighties, nineties, and you'd always hear
Peter Ballace from Ara Maho and why to he Wanan.
He's finals and he's been inaugurated into the the initial
the first ever World Bowls Fall of Fame. So he's
in the local one and then he's herel and one.
(33:33):
But I just think that that's a name that's synonymous
with bowls and summer, Peter Bellas, Ara Maho.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
No other name that's synonymous with bowls in the summer.
I don't know where he is these days, but he
was a great bloke as well. Stu Scott, Oh, Stu Scott.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Yeah, although the year go oh yeah, unbelievable names. Right,
so when you say that it makes the hair stand
up on the back of my neck.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
You want to a Hamish. Finally, you want to get
a shameless plug in for the Bulls any rugby team.
It's the Bulls ball, not the Bulls Balls exactly.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
DJ fifty dollars door sales at the Bull's Domain Saturday
night from seven o'clock. The Bulls wah Any women's rugby team.
It's their fundraiser night. We need to sell a few
more tickets. I'm going to go out there and I'm
going to be available to drive people home, like I'll
be not a dollar driver. But but there is transport
from Fielding Bulls in Martin and yeah, the Bulls Wahiney
Women's rugby fundrais. I mean, I've seen a couple of
(34:31):
pictures of the hall. All it's going to be a
good party. Don't miss out on it.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Get out there, Good on your Hamish, enjoy your weekend,
enjoy the footy. Thanks for your time there. We got
Hamosh McKay on sport. Actually, I'm just waiting to get
a hold of Barries soapers who's going down to Gore.
We'll tell you why and he was born and bred
and Gore. Stu Wilson I think was was Stu born
and Gore? I think he might have been. Jenny Shipley
(34:57):
was born and Gore. Farmstrongs before I forget. Farmstrong's all
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(35:19):
this weekend. Farmstrong dot co, dot and z learn to
live well and farm well. Barry Soper rahps the country next.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well my mind, I can't count that the times you
made me.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Feel like them wrapping the country with Barries Soaper born
and bread and Gore. Actually we were paying tribute to
Stu Wilson. What a great rugby winger stew was, What
a great character he was. He was born in Gore
and sharing the stable with you and Gore. You were
born in a stable or in a manger? Weren't you?
Barry with Jenny, Barry Sooba with Jenny Shipley?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
You good afternoon, Jamie. Yes, Jenny and I were born
within days of each other here and Gore and often
said that, Really, I think they switched names at birth
and I should have been the prime minister and she
may have been a commentator. Who knows?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
What are you doing in Gore? Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
My sister who was only forty months older than me.
She died when I was in hospital two years ago,
and we're coming here as a family to bury her
ashes in the family plot.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Lovely woman, Linda sober, lovely, lovely woman anyhow, as was
your mother, my auntie? Can you can I use the
word lovely to describe to party Mari and how things
are going in their party?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Well it's an abomination, actually, Jamie. I mean I found
it amusing yesterday when Debbie na Rivapako wasn't asking questions
by the existent Prime Minister, and sitting right behind him
was Takuta Ferris and Marmino Kapakinhi and they were whispering
(37:09):
to each other. And of course, you know they have
to sit within proximity of people that want to get
rid of them from the party, so you know what's
going to happen. There's going to be a showdown, clearly,
and John tammaheady, he's not entirely safe, but I suspect
that he wields quite a lot of power. I see
his daughter, she's been posting on Facebook as well and
(37:34):
adding fuel to the far And there's Tamihiri's daughter is
RAWI waited his wife and works for the party, so
there's a lot of family involved in them.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Just finally I got thirty seconds coming on Winston. We
had him on the show yesterday. He's starting to maneuver
and position himself and pole position for the election, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
No doubt about it, Jamie, I think you know he
was shrewd. He decided he would take the Deputy Prime
minister's job in the first eighteen months and then hand
it over to David Sebo, who is now more constrained.
But Winston can get on back on the campaign trail,
which is where he does very well.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah all right, hey, enjoy your family occasion in Gore
and rest in peace. Land A Soper, thank you very
much for your time. Barry's Soper. That wraps us for today.
Will catch you back on Monday. Have a great weekend.
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