June 7, 2026 • 40 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, David Seymour, Farmer Tom Martin, Blair McLean, and Phil Duncan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's The Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to farmlands, from tanks to traps,
trusted for water control.
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I should ever.
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Well enclosure and trouble there.
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The way we do today.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
You can.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Get a new Zealand Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie McKay.
Two sleeps to go and then Field Days kicks off.
Really looking forward to one man who will be at
field Days as our opening guest. I'll tell you he's
on the show before I introduce them. Actually, David Seymour,
act party leader. We'll talk to him about Field Days.
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Farmer Tom Martin caught up with them earlier this morning.
A UK farming correspondent, The drought's over. Just schedule a
cricket test at Lord's or have Wimbledon on the horizon
and bang, there goes the end of the drought in
England or parts of England. A Blair Blizzard MacLean aur
viticulture correspondent, looking at an industry that's rarely facing some
(01:22):
headwinds with the wine glutton. We're looking at an interesting
story in Farmers Weekly about you know, wine lower, lower
alcohol content and also less calories. Phil Duncan on the weather.
But this, by the way, is Dione Warrick and Friends.
And that's what friends are for. Let's introduce onto the country,
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friend of the Country, President of Federated Farmers, Wayne Langford,
and the song is that's what friends are for. I'm
starting to feel like I'm not loved by as much
by Federated Farmers as much as I should be, Jack
Tame yesterday the dupla c allen at this morning, Wayne Lanthort,
I feel like a jilted bride at the altar you've
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done to me for Jack and Heather good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Well, Jamie, you could feel like that, or you could
feel like a farmer and actually work on the weekends.
Maybe that would be any bit better.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Good.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Good to get our election platform out there, and we
are underway for election twenty twenty six. It's going to
be a big couple of months coming up. Of course,
they've still worth some week to go before they shut
down the government in September. But our platform is online
and where.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
We go, Wayne, I spend a lot of time on
the weekends tilling the soil. It's called golf anyhow, Okay,
So in twenty twenty three, you guys at Federated Farmers
had twelve key demands and I think you've managed to
get them all across the line, or the government has
in the intervening three years. This year, it's only a
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five strong election year wish list. Have you run out
of things to moan about?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Wayne?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Definitely not. You're right, twelve points to restore a farmer
confidence with our last last platform, and it was a
significant one was there was some big bold issues in there,
you know, replacing their rima and that sort of thing,
and so we were really getting the big samurai saw it,
I guess out to cut through some of that. Now
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we're probably coming back in with a scalp, i'd say,
and it's time to start improving those those small issues
or they're still big issues for farmers. But how can
we how can we start to get these ten percent
wins that are going to improve productivity across the farming nation.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Okay, let's have a look at these five and we'll
just swept through them quickly because there's sort of subsets
to each of them. I mean, you've got like five
subsets to each subject. So offentially, essentially wayane, your wish
list is twenty five strong strong.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
We'll kind of double it. Don't tell anyone we'll double it, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Number one cuss cut the cost of farming, and I
do like this one stop and centivizing whole farm conversions
to permit carbon forestry. That has been a real issue.
Is that now in the rare vision mirror?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Not quite, So we're still going to ask there. Recess
still all out on the classics and seven land until
we've got got some work to do there. That's now
significant breeding country across the country. So I still got
some work to do there. It's still an ask. We
still wanted it in there. Just like you'll see, there's
still some work to do on wolding pines. We've got
an awesome announcement last weekend the weekend before and one
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hundred million dollars going into walling pines. Our ask is, hey,
let's make sure we keep there going for ten years
so we can really stop on the foot on them.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Other things under the cut the cost of Farming section
has used farm plans to replace resourts consents. We're on
track with that one. And introduce no new Texas for farmers.
Number two on your wish list of five empower community
conservation and I really like this one, Wayne permanently doubling
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funding for the Q two National Trust. To be honest,
it needs to be.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Quite it really does. I don't know if you listeners know,
but the QW two Trust, the area within the K
two Trust across the country is the fourth biggest national
park in New Zealand and that is controlled and looked
after by farmers like that. That is one of the
best conservation stories we've got across the country. It could
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be the largest conservation or the largest national park in
the country if it gets the funding to allow it
to do so. And so so we're definitely backing there
and it needs the funding. The funding goes into setting
up the covenants and helping with some of the fencing
and materials and the advice that goes on there. It's
you know, it's great work and it's and it's a
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very cheap outcome for the government get a significant conservation result.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
It's the best money the government can spend on conservation.
You also want to restore grazing to five hundred hectares
of Department of Dockland, which is a great idea. At
number three, enable technology and infrastructure. You want to provide
seed funding for new water store projects, and we just
can't have enough of those.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Well.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I mean, we've had a meter of rain and Golden
Bay in the last month, and I know, come January
febrydings here, I'm going to be wishing I had some
of that stored up to be able to use it,
you know. And that's the same story across the country.
I don't think we're regretting any water scheme that we
put in across this country, and so we need to
start looking how we can do more of it and
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what we can do in that space, because it's you know,
we now know how to do it properly, we know
how to do it more and mentally friendly. Let's just
crack on and do it before it gets too expensive
to do anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Number four or five, and we're getting through the list
nicely here, Wayne Length and President of Federated Farmers support
young farmers, and you're really keen to empower rural schools
to teach egg and I think that's great.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yeah, we've seen we're center picked up on the amount
of egg missing out of the curriculum between years one
and ten. And as we know there's a very influential
time with Lincoln's learning, but also a great time for
them to learn about agriculture and just how much of
a backbone it is to this country. You know, my
boys have just headed off the university and I've said
to them, even if you're not going in hands on farming,
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make sure you always keep an eye on egg because
that is that is where the backbone, where the money
comes from in this country. And if you're not a
hands on farming I say, there's always a chance or
an opportunity to make them, make them gough by being
involved with farming.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And finally, the fifth on your wish list, and this
will be a harder fix. You want to fix local government.
Good luck with that, Wayne lanth And so you want
to establish a single layer of local government. I think
we all agree on that one. You want to separate
the provincial areas from the major cities because they do
have different there's a there's a real conflict of interest
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between rural and urban and they have their own issues
and problems. And you also want to remove the need
for cultural impact assessments, which are a bit of a
roadblock how.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
They could be jaman as we were getting at here,
and what we're saying is they just need to be
done better. Broad Brushing cultural areas across a whole province
or a whole area is is not helping with cultural
impact statements. If there is a culturally sensitive area that
we need to look after, cool name, say where it
is and let's look after it. But it's not broad rushing.
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You know, entire farms and entire provinces in the areas
that are going to restrict farming and ultimately cause every
farmer to get consent to farm on that area.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
WAYE. Langford, a president of Federated Farmers, Thanks for your time.
How are you spending three or four days at field Days.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I've got three days at field Days and I'm just
changing my flights now to make sure i can watch
the Crusaders beat the Chiefs on Friday night. So I'm
looking forward to that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, you should be staying up there for that game.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I will be staying up there for that game. Don't
tell my wife because she's staying with me, but we
will be staying for that game for sure, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, okay, look,
I think the Chiefs are going to take a lot
of beating at home, and the hurricanes are going to
take a lot of beating at home the following week. Anyhow,
that's just how I see it, Wayne Langford, President of
Federated Farmers, keep up the good work. And why wouldn't
you pay your fed Farmers suba eh.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah, another announcement coming today, Jamie. Look out for it
and as you said, it makes you sub all the
more worth it. So thanks Lly, Jammie King.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
We'll wait with baited breath for that announcement. We hear
on the grapevine that it's going to be a really
good one, so I think that might be later today. Anyhow,
this is the country. We're here in Dunedin today and tomorrow,
then off to the big smoke of the tron Wednesday,
Thursday Friday. We will be broadcasting from the Farmland site
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just as you're sort of going through the main entrance
gates at field Days there site e E one eight
from Wednesday to Friday will be there. It would be
great to see you poppin and say hello. And if
you're a Farmland's shareholder and there's about sixty or seventy
thousand of you around the country, swipe your farmland's card,
call in for a coffee and a sweet, take a
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seat in the good chair. I don't know what the
good chare is. I have to find out when I
get there and tell them what rural means to you,
farmlands great supporters of farmers. Now there was a wee
bit of thithering at the beginning of the interview with
Wayne Langford. That's because Michelle came in and interrupted me
and I can't multitask, I can't talk and read it.
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At the same time, she did pass me a note
very important. So a large earthquake has just struck in
the Philippines and our National Emergency I think it's like
something like eight point two on the Richter scale, which
is big. So our National Emergency Management Agency says it's
assessing whether the Shakh has created a tsunami which could
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affect New Zealand. We'll update that story for you as
more comes to hand, but just beware of that one.
Be aware of that one. A large earthquake in the
Philippines could have some could cause us some issues. So
we'll update that as soon as we know more. Up
next to Deputy Prime Minister, Act Party Leader David Seymour,
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Why is he only turning up to field Days on Saturday?
We'll ask him next if.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You can remember.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
And as far as alphan soon, here's the act party
leader and the Deputy Prime ministers name is David Seymour.
Normally I'd try and catch him at field Days. But David,
you're not going to be at field Days until Saturday.
You realize, of course that's the towns Day. If you
want the farmer vote, you need to be there Wednesday,
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Thursday or Friday. You're leaving the field wide open for Winston.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, he'll be up against Andrew Hogard, who I dare
say is a bit more farming knowledge than anyone else
in Parliament. Frankly, and you accuse me. You're going on
the towny day. I am a towney. I may afford
you because I've actually got some understanding an empathy for
rural his zeland. But town he's gone towny Day, and
Andrew Hoggat will be there for the prior days.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Well, that's a shame our paths won't cross. Nevermind, hey,
talking about acts politicians with real farm and cred, We're
losing one of the best. In my mind, Mark Cameron.
He's had these kidney and health issues and he's had
a heart problem. He's off the donal list for a
kidney transplant. Now, now, that was a bloke who was
a breath of fresh air in Parliament, a bit of
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common sense. He basically got out of the overalls and
the gun boots, bought a suit for the first time
in his life, went down to Wellington and did something.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I really like the write up on Stuff. Don't hear
me say that every day? But Stuff website had a
ride up on Mark and it said he put on
the suit, but he didn't change much else about himself
when he went from farming to politics. I would credit
Mark Cameron with the changes to methane. I think if
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it hadn't been for Mark Cameron scaring the but Jesus
out of the National Party in rural New Zealand for
five years and then getting into government as we did
in twenty three and negotiating those changes to get the
methane levels in the Zero CARBONAC down to a more
reasonable target. But it hadn't been for all that, I
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don't think that change would happen, and I think we'd
still be facing a major challenge with methone targets for farming.
And the reason I say this is about a third
of Parliament changes every year, so basically there's forty or
fifty new ones and forty or fifty go out, So
about every sort of six to nine years, the whole
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Parliament changes over except for a few dinosaurs, of which
I'm kind of slowly becoming one, and most of those
people who go through they can't actually put anything next
to their name. But I believe that is mark achievement,
and it's a profound one. And he's done an awful
lot else besides to achieve what he came in for,
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which is to basically restore the dignity of Baal, New Zealand,
because you think back to twenty twenty when he got
in just constantly been castigated as public enemy number one
for everything, and he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Real good blog to boot. All right, what did you
make of the Federated Farmer's election year wish list?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh? I look pretty reasonable. I've got to say. I
think there's a lot of things there. Resource management reform, yep.
What we're doing with that new law I think is
going to be a game changer for New Zealand bringing
in more activities into farm environment plans that don't need
any resource consent in the meantime. Yep, well Andrew Hogart
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is doing that. So I think, you know, we can
point to good progress and maybe there's more activities that
like broad in. It's always an open conversation. We never
said we're going to do everything in three years. Otherwisen't
be running for office again. And you know, more encouragement
of rural New Zealand and the curriculum and education and
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also in the apprenticeships. I mean all of that. I think,
you know, we cannot say that rather we've done to
some extent, but we could do more. So I would say, look,
they're basically challenging us to stretch further in the direction
that we've already been moving. Oh and local government reform
you know underway a lot of those mergers to ensure that,
you know, rural voters don't get out voted by large
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urban areas who have a lot of votes but often
not a lot of understanding of the practicalities of farming.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Finally, what did you make of the labelist than I
don't even know if you've seen this release this morning
Hipkins at one, Sepaloney two, Leader and Deputy Leader, Barbara
Edmonds Finance at three, Willie Jackson four, Megan Wood's five, Asia,
Old Town Road Averel at number six. Interestingly, Karen macinnulty's
down at ten, Jenny Anderson twelve, Damien O'Connor Trade, Joe
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Luxton Agriculture at sixteen and seventeen. Minds you, if Labor
polls as they are at the moment, they might bring
in quite a few lists MPs.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Look, I mean, I think the best indicator of future
performance is past performance. So if you look at what
labor have done in the past, very loose on the spending,
ends up in inflation, ends up in higher interest rates,
and not a lot of respect for the idea that
it's actually effort and a reward that makes the world
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go around. There's a lot of well, you know, if
you've done well, it's probably just luck, and we're going
to whack you for it. If you haven't done well,
we're going to subsidize you till you start moving. I
think at the end of the day, the difference between
us and the Labor Party is that we actually do
believe you get one shot in New time on Earth,
and you've got to make the most of it, and
if it's payoff, then you should get to keep more
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of the reward for it. And similarly, you should be
responsible for your actions the other directions. So you know
that's really the difference here. And so whatever whoever their
list is, whatever policies they eventually release, we know that
the net effect of a labor government is that the
harder you try, the more you get whapped. They drain
the joy from life, and that tends to hit rural
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in New Zealand the hardest because if your rural, you
tend to take more risks, live by your wits in
a bit of good or bad weather, more than most.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Indeed, lest we forget David Seymour AC Party Leader, Deputy
Prime Minister and Mark Cameron go, well, my friend absolutely, brother,
Yes there is a good story. Is I've got on
stuff credit where credits due about Mark Cameron. So also
we're just gonna Michelle's frantically looking to update the earthquake
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that struck the Philippines and whether it might cause us
an army here will get you the info as soon
as we get it. Has some text trafficking on five
to do nine, Jamie. I'm not a farmer, but it's
a great great to listen to Wayne Langford and the
outcome focused federated farmer's story and this Texter. Sharon goes
on to say, I suggest the Q two trust story
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needs broader promotion across New Zealand for public awareness. You
bang on there, Sharon. I'm very passionate about K two
National Trust. I've got to covenant myself and I think
there's good news on the horizon, but my lips are sealed.
Muzz and Hawk Space says, that's a big earthquake. I
haven't had any warnings yet, No Muzz, but listen to
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your favorite radio show. I'm like your favorite president, and
we will update you as soon as we get the information.
Right up next on the Country, it's a UK farm
and correspondent farmer Tom Martin caught up with them earlier
this morning because it's like after one o'clock in the
morning over there, some really interesting commentary around what's happening
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in the UK. Blair MacLean, We've got a fun pack.
We've got some fun packs to cheer you up on
a Monday. And Phil Duncan on the Weather with a
field day's forecast, which is going to be good.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You can fall. Please come on me, oh, you as
on me.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Here's a UK farming correspondent, social media influencer farmer Tom Martin.
And last time I chatted to you, Tom, you were
desperately dry. Of course you're in your spring starting out
the summer months. Of course since we've chatted, we've had
a cricket test at Lord's. We won't mention the result.
There's another one at the Oval next week, remembering your
farming just up the road from London, and of course
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Wimbledon's about to happen. So drought over? Can we declare
it over?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
We've definitely had some rain. We've definitely had some rain,
and we've had some rain across the whole of the country,
not a huge amount of this stage, very isolated showers.
So they had an inch and a half thirty five
mil of rain about ten miles from here on the
same day that we had four millimeters. So some people
have been lucky and some people less so. But we're
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still way behind where we'd normally be. I think some
of the crop yields will have been impacted here in
the east already, so the winter stone crops, this is
the time when they really need to be putting on weight,
and this is where their yel comes in. And a
lot of the springstone crops didn't really get away the
springstone barley weeks, those kind of things didn't really get
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away with a very very dry start. So there'll already
be a yell penalty there as well, but certainly a
little bit happier than I was when we last about
Jennie and all.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
That's on top of largely poor prices for grain as well.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
It's a bit of a shocker, isn't it, Particularly particularly
those for those grain grain farmers like myself. I mean,
when we three years ago we had the start of
the Ukraine War, we saw fuel prices jump up and
fertilizer as well. But at the same time that was,
you know, we had grain prices that were between kind
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of sixty and ninety percent higher than they are now,
and so that was kind of rewarding that those high
fuel and high fertilizer prices. Now we're in the kind
of worst of both worlds, where we've got the high
input prices and low selling prices. All we need now
is a stormy harvest and there'll be a lot of
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people in a spot of other.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
We talked last time we chatted about diversification. Have you
furthered that discussion any further? Does that make sense?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Sort of?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Does?
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah? Do you know? I've got my I'm hosting a
reunion next weekend for the course, the Agricultural Business Management Course.
So I went on a few years ago with the
Worship Company of Farmers and we're basically focusing on diversification.
The opportunities for growth and profit within broad scale arable
agriculture is so slim I think, I think businesses will
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be be relying on diversifications. So we're visiting a number
of sites. Were pleased to know rire squeezing in a
vineyard and the brewery, but looking at looking at on
farm diversifications and how we can basically how we can
stare afloat.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well, don't start a vineyard or a brewery, because the
wine industry and the craft brewing industry here in New
Zealand anyhow, certainly got their struggles.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
At the moment, we're we're in a we're in a
sunny place in England for wine in particular, we're where
climate change is serving us pretty well one of my
I've been trying some great, great English wines recently. We're
very close to the Rutnham Vineyard, which is an absolutely
fantastic place, started to start about five years ago, already
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making award winning whites and roses and reds and sparkle
I mean literally, we're we're in a great We're in
a great spot, those wonderful that kind of wonderful climatic
range that in the past has allowed Champagne to produce
what fantastic sparkling wine. Is my rating North towards the
polls with climate change and putting us in pole position
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to stick it to the French, which is something that
we love to do.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
You've been wanting to do for centuries. So while I
hope climate change comes to the party for Wimbledon and
you get through that unscathed, we won't mention the Lord's
Cricket Test wasn't too toughed about that result. The other
really interesting thing in the UK at the moment is
your politics, and this is really something that is affecting
farmers big time. With the inheritance text now Sakeir Starmer
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is going to face a challenge by the Greater Manchester
Mayor Andy Burnham. But first Burnham has to win the
Makerfield by election on June the eighteenth. Is it a
done deal that he will one it? Surely it does.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
It's looking very like that, but it's you know, the
vote goes with the people, and the people will speak
and we'll see what happens. It could go either way.
And by either way, I mean we've got a lot
of parties buying for influence, if not power here in
the UK. But the two key parties there are the
kind of right leaning Reform Party and obviously the left
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leaning Labor Party. Andy Burnham is the Labor mayor of
Manchester and he's now pitching in. One of the Labor
MP's for the Makefield constituency stepped aside. He stepped down
so that they could trigger that that local election and
Andy Burnham could stand. Now, you're going to put yourself
in the position of the people of Makerfield. You know
there'll be some who will be staunch reform and staunch Labor.
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But if you're a floating voter, you've got to think,
do you want to have Andy Burnham as your local MP.
Who's going to make a make a challenge on the
Labor leadership. Now that could mean you have the prestige
of having potentially the fruit of future Prime minister as
your local member of Parliament. But equally, if you want
to get stuff done in your constituency, do you want
to have the Prime Minister as your local MP and
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never potentially never see him or certainly have trouble of
trouble getting kind of influence in the local areas. So
it's going to be a very very interesting thing. It's
a a little bit of a pre run over the
election in a couple of years time, where I think
Reform will be strong and Labor well, we'll just see
what happens with them. So it'll certainly be very interesting.
And Keirstarmer is in the strange situation of obviously wanting
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Labor to succeed, but perhaps not wanting somebody who's already
said on his on his ticket that he's going to
challenge for the Labor leadership and therefore to be Prime
Minister of the UK as soon as he's were he
to be elected.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Stunning times and British politics. Hey, I'm just about out
of time, tom As I said, I don't want to
talk about the Lord's cricket Test. I was going to
talk to you about the friendly and the will and
the football Soccer World Cup England one Harry Kane. Here
are they all whites? No, you don't even know anything
about it. But I did say to you that I
watched a really interesting doco over the weekend, I think
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on Netflix about Vinnie Jones, the soccer hooligan who became
a movie star.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Now, now, Jamie, I think we call that filibustering, which
is just filling the time so they can't talk about
the important. But maybe next time we can talk about
the next Test match.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, the Oval. Bring it on. Farmer Tom Martin, thank
you very much for your time from the UK.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Thank you, Jermie.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Tom caught up with them earlier this morning, twenty four
away from one up next Michelle, Well, we've got the
Aarhufenoa and the Timber sports and rural news, and we'll
update sport for you. We'll update the tsunami a warning
if there is indeed one before the end of the hour.
Your chance to win a fun pack with our viticulture
correspondent Blair Blizzard MacLean plus Phil Duncan on the weather,
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welcome back to the country very shortly. The latest and
rural news we'll have a look at those are Hufenoa
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Speaker 5 (28:00):
Michelle Watt, just have you got an update on the
Philippines earthquake and any tsunami chants for US?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
I do so.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
The National Emergency Management Agency is on tsunami watch still
at the moment, in the wake of a seven point
eight magnitude earthquake in the Philippines. It struck just before
eleven forty New Zealand time and the n EMA and
gn IS Science are assessing whether it's created a tsunami
which could affect New Zealand. Any tsunami would not arrive
for at least ten hours, so just keep an eye
on those warnings and on the news out there, folks
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for that one and over the weekend. Lots of competitions happening.
National and world records tumbled and bought a piece at
the weekend, with two top ki we ax men claiming
victory and taking away still sport world titles. Matty Gower
from Taranaki snatched a victory in its first if A
World titled by just five hundreds of a second and
he won the Still Timbersports Rookies Under twenty five World Championship.
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King Country farmer Jack Jordan said another world record on
his way to achieving a four peat at the Stell
Timber Sports World Trophy as well, and Ossie based kei
We Ashley Mark, who competed and the first ever Still
timber Sports World Women's Championship finish just off the podium
in fourth place. And over the weekend of course, a
Hufenowa was also on one of New Zealand's I think
it is actually New Zealand's oldest farming award. Mart High
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Pacific Ewe Collective was named the winner of the twenty
twenty six are who Fenawa Trophy and also Tirina Joe
was the winner of the twenty twenty six are Hoo
Finowa Young Mari Grower of the Year. And that's rural news.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Wey, thanks Michelle, and that's all about recognizing excellence and
Maori farming which is a huge part of the agg economy.
Let's have a look at sport.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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Speaker 5 (29:40):
Success, maybe we got the right guy after all. All
Blacks head coach Dave Rennie can now devoters full attention
to the job. He's guided Corbet to the Japanese rugby
title with victory in the final against Kabota in Tokyo.
He's got Tony Brown in twenty twenty eight as well.
That'll be great. We will have, we will have.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I just had a slight update about that earthquakes. I
just wanted to get it in. So apparently the n
EMA saysa is unlikely to be a tsunami effect in
New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
You ruined my rugby story. Sorry, I can't concentrate and
read it at the same time.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
I thought the earthquake was more important.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Well, no, let's be honest. Tony Brown coaching eight's pretty important, okay.
And Nelly Corter Nellie Cord has won the US Woman's
Golf Open, claiming a fourth major title. The world number
one has prevailed by one shot after carting a final
round two under par sixty nine to finish at nine
under overall at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
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So that is your rural news. Up next, it is
Blair Blizzard MacLean your chance to win on the country
and is giveaway time here on the country. We're going
to give away a couple of fun packs courtesy of
aviticulture correspondent Blair Blizzard MacLean based out of Blenham. Now
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we're going to at some of the head ones facing
the wine industry and what we can do about it
and what you can do about it as a consumer.
But first, Blair, I cannot believe that a man of
your experience, gravitas and let's just face it straight out celebrity,
has never been.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
To field Days afternoon. Jane. Yeah, hard to believe actually
sometimes so as a horticulturalist, we do take that June
period off on holiday and go for a bit of
a leave. So I haven't been here for some of that.
But no, I haven't managed to get a donut score
like you have pretty much over the last thirty years.
You've been go well.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
PGG Wrights and has a huge presence at field Days.
We're going to do some stuff there on Wednesday afternoon
with the IHC, which I'm really looking forward to. But
they could chuck you in a corner blee. You could
give away a few poor a few savs and get
the punters coming in.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Certainly be given away a bit of seven on blanc,
and there's some great seven blanc out there, probably just
sixty or seventy million leads too much at the moment. Unfortunately,
weal to.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Me because I read an interesting story online this morning
on Farmers Weekly Credit where credits due about low alcohol
wine and low alcohol pino noir and how they're basically
doing it on the grape rather than in the lab.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, a lot of work done in the field, Jamie
to get low alcohol wine. A lot of canopy management,
a lot of water management, and taking the fruit early.
So the essence are all correct. Doctor John Forrest and
Bridget Forest and the daughter Beef actually started a lot
of that, probably nearly two decades ago, doing low alcohol wine,
and then most other wineries are doing some part of
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the portfolio, you know, having that wine it's sort of
nine percent to sometimes eight percent alcohol, and the manchic
is trying to have it taste exactly like a normal
full alcohol one, which a lot of them are doing now.
So you know, the big health kick and everyone trying
to get into having better, you know, looking after eybody's
(32:58):
leaves alcohol you can take a bye. Actually they're reasoning.
I've had their reasoning before. Low alcohol reasonings drink good
as well, so you get into that.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
So does less alcohol equate to less calories?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yes, it does, yep, and they also they'll actually have
that on the label. They have like low carbon low
alcohol as well. Side it's good for you all around.
And we've got a re surplus of wine at the moment,
so yeah, we need to be drinking more of that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
The industry is really facing some headwinds at the moment worldwide.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, so the same thing. The whole world is just
drinking less alcohol, looking for more healthy options, the whole
dietary thing so and more food, better food, you know.
Hence while the meat's going so well. So yeah, there's
some certainly changes in the industry and we've got to
focus on doing quality booze, which we are. The twenty
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twenty six seven blongs is fantastic. I've knocked a couple
of those over. So yeah, we're just we're in this
situation now where we're probably got seventy odd million leaders
too much servion blanc or wine in yelland and wine
companies are looking at that and capping growers' volumes and
just trying to focus on quality.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Are their growers who have gotten nowhere for their grapes
to grow this season to go.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Should I say yes, yes, Jamie. Yeah. Every day or
every week I talk to grows who have either been
given notice of their contracts. Some of these contracts have
still got two or three years to go, or have
lost their contract completely we think, And it's really hard
to get a number on it, but there's at least
a couple to three thousand hectories which is ten percent
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of the Marlborough grape growing area that could be either
uncontracted mothboard somewhere they put the vines to sleep pretty
much for a year and just get the sheep and
to graze it, or people growers have lost their contracts.
So yeah, it's a bit tough here at the moment.
And beautiful Marlbourne.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Well, let's cheer people up because you you did mention
the Forest family. They're behind Forest Estate wines and they,
as you say, have been producing low alcohol wines for
a long time. So have fun packs today, one for
the North Island, one for the South.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, so you're talking about lower alcohol pinum noir. The
pinum wire is very good. So they're going to do
a mixed fun pack for the North Island and one
for the South Island of pen and NOI servion blanc
Reese Lean and maybe chuck your favorite in there with
the cougar juice, Jamie and to the six packs. So yeah,
we're going to give away some low alcohol wine from
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Forest to State Wines.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Well there you go, and of course the cougar juice
is slang for a Peno Greek. Now we're going to
test your spelling ability out there in God's own if
you want to win the fun packs, We've got one
for the North Island, one for the South Island. You
need to text us on five double oh nine and
you need to write Forest Estate Wines and you've got
to spell it correctly or else we'll eliminate you. So
(35:56):
just google it. Get the spelling right, five double o
nine right, Forest the State Wines, your name and your
career address so Blair can get it out to you.
And just before I go, Blair, thank you very much
and thank you for us to State Wines for offering
a couple of fun packs today. You're raising money, I
think for the rescue chopper in your region. You want
an all Blacks.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Jersey, Yes, yeh, Jamie, thanks thanks for that for the
plug Here Nelson Mulble Rescue Helicopter. We're having a fundraiser
on the fifteenth August. It's going to be a quiz night.
I think they've got a good EMC and we're having
an option. So we're after an all black, signed all
black jersey if we can. If anybody knows or any
jerseys really in the Highlanders would be great, but an
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all black one would be primo. So yeah, anybody out
there or wanting to donate to that, give me a
call on PG fruit Feed Blenham here and yeah and
we'll take anything.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, or just text me on five double O nine
and I'll get it to you. Smiley, Barrett might better
find a jersey for you. Failing that, I could give
you a personally signed Riversdale Rugby jersey. Would you like
that from the nineteen eighties that I can't fit anymore?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
No, No, of my rock for one doesn't fit either.
So there's no dirt on that either side.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Well there's no white chalk on it because you never
got over the line. That's another story for another day.
Blair Blizzard MacLean, thanks for your time today on the country.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Weather on the Country with Fiji, where happiness comes naturally.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Okay, let's wrap it with Phil Duncan from weather Watch
on a Monday field day's forecast. Phil, this will take
all of two seconds. It's just going to be fine.
That's the one good air word. The bad air word
is fog. Could there be some issues at the airport
this week?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah, good day, Jamie. Yeah, I'm just looking at the
fog forecaster we've got at Ruralweather dot co dot m
jen and it certainly looks foggy. The risk of fog
around Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and so that could be
a problem at Hamilton Airport. Hopefully it's not. It's likely
to break up at some point in the mid morning,
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but yeah, that could be a problem.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
And it's going to be quite cold.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
At night, especially for Wednesday night going into Thursday, overnight
low of one, so there could be a frost around.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
So well, there could be three air words there, you go, fine,
foggy and frosty. Now shak horror. Here's a press release
from the Met Service. Winter returns strong winds, hazard as swells,
frosty knights. But if we're going to get winter. Early
June's not a bad time to get.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
It, exactly, and I think there'd be quite a few
regions that are saying it's finally arriving because we've had
such a sentiled, mild kind of end to autumn in
a number of regions, especially in the North Island. So yeah,
it's a kind of a return to where we should be.
But there is a very strong high pressure zone almost
what I would class is powerful. It's going to be
around ten thirty seven ten thirty eight Hector pascals later
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this week, so that's kind of what we had in
mid to late May brought all that sentil dry weather.
So there could be a few showers around, but it's
going to be pretty settle going into this weekend and
going into next week where's all this high pressure around.
There's still be some showers here and there, but the
winds will be late. That's why we're seeing fog and
frost in the forecast, and it may be, you know,
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not until late next week that we get another change
coming through. We're technically still in neutral, so anything can happen,
but that al Nino is building, and maybe a word
tomorrow about that one about it being closer to a riding.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, okay, Phil Duncan, thank you very much for your time.
We won't see you at Phiel Days you're not there
the year, but we'll see you next Monday on the show.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Sounds good.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
There we go, Phil Duncan, great weather man. Now you're
coming in thick and fast to win the fun packs
from Blair Blizzard MacLean and Forest Estate Wine. Spell Forest correctly,
look it up, gurgle it, spell it correctly, or you're
not on the drawer, and remember to write your name
and your career address because we're going to pick a
winner out very very shortly and we'll career it off
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to you or Blair Blizzard MacLean. Well, so write your
name and your career rest. Thank you to Forest Estate Wines.
Catch it tomorrow. Two sleeps to.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Go Catch all the latest from the land. It's the
Country Podcast with Jamie Mackay. Thanks to farmlands from tanks
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Catch all the latest from the land. It's The Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to farmlands, from tanks to traps,
trusted for water control.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I should ever.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well enclosure and trouble there.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The way we do today.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
You can.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Get a new Zealand Welcome to the Country. I'm Jamie McKay.
Two sleeps to go and then Field Days kicks off.
Really looking forward to one man who will be at
field Days as our opening guest. I'll tell you he's
on the show before I introduce them. Actually, David Seymour,
act party leader. We'll talk to him about Field Days.
(01:00):
Farmer Tom Martin caught up with them earlier this morning.
A UK farming correspondent, The drought's over. Just schedule a
cricket test at Lord's or have Wimbledon on the horizon
and bang, there goes the end of the drought in
England or parts of England. A Blair Blizzard MacLean aur
viticulture correspondent, looking at an industry that's rarely facing some
(01:22):
headwinds with the wine glutton. We're looking at an interesting
story in Farmers Weekly about you know, wine lower, lower
alcohol content and also less calories. Phil Duncan on the weather.
But this, by the way, is Dione Warrick and Friends.
And that's what friends are for. Let's introduce onto the country,
(01:44):
friend of the Country, President of Federated Farmers, Wayne Langford,
and the song is that's what friends are for. I'm
starting to feel like I'm not loved by as much
by Federated Farmers as much as I should be, Jack
Tame yesterday the dupla c allen at this morning, Wayne Lanthort,
I feel like a jilted bride at the altar you've
(02:06):
done to me for Jack and Heather good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Well, Jamie, you could feel like that, or you could
feel like a farmer and actually work on the weekends.
Maybe that would be any bit better.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Good.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Good to get our election platform out there, and we
are underway for election twenty twenty six. It's going to
be a big couple of months coming up. Of course,
they've still worth some week to go before they shut
down the government in September. But our platform is online
and where.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
We go, Wayne, I spend a lot of time on
the weekends tilling the soil. It's called golf anyhow, Okay,
So in twenty twenty three, you guys at Federated Farmers
had twelve key demands and I think you've managed to
get them all across the line, or the government has
in the intervening three years. This year, it's only a
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five strong election year wish list. Have you run out
of things to moan about?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Wayne?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Definitely not. You're right, twelve points to restore a farmer
confidence with our last last platform, and it was a
significant one was there was some big bold issues in there,
you know, replacing their rima and that sort of thing,
and so we were really getting the big samurai saw it,
I guess out to cut through some of that. Now
(03:20):
we're probably coming back in with a scalp, i'd say,
and it's time to start improving those those small issues
or they're still big issues for farmers. But how can
we how can we start to get these ten percent
wins that are going to improve productivity across the farming nation.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Okay, let's have a look at these five and we'll
just swept through them quickly because there's sort of subsets
to each of them. I mean, you've got like five
subsets to each subject. So offentially, essentially wayane, your wish
list is twenty five strong strong.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
We'll kind of double it. Don't tell anyone we'll double it, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Number one cuss cut the cost of farming, and I
do like this one stop and centivizing whole farm conversions
to permit carbon forestry. That has been a real issue.
Is that now in the rare vision mirror?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Not quite, So we're still going to ask there. Recess
still all out on the classics and seven land until
we've got got some work to do there. That's now
significant breeding country across the country. So I still got
some work to do there. It's still an ask. We
still wanted it in there. Just like you'll see, there's
still some work to do on wolding pines. We've got
an awesome announcement last weekend the weekend before and one
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hundred million dollars going into walling pines. Our ask is, hey,
let's make sure we keep there going for ten years
so we can really stop on the foot on them.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Other things under the cut the cost of Farming section
has used farm plans to replace resourts consents. We're on
track with that one. And introduce no new Texas for farmers.
Number two on your wish list of five empower community
conservation and I really like this one, Wayne permanently doubling
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funding for the Q two National Trust. To be honest,
it needs to be.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Quite it really does. I don't know if you listeners know,
but the QW two Trust, the area within the K
two Trust across the country is the fourth biggest national
park in New Zealand and that is controlled and looked
after by farmers like that. That is one of the
best conservation stories we've got across the country. It could
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be the largest conservation or the largest national park in
the country if it gets the funding to allow it
to do so. And so so we're definitely backing there
and it needs the funding. The funding goes into setting
up the covenants and helping with some of the fencing
and materials and the advice that goes on there. It's
you know, it's great work and it's and it's a
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very cheap outcome for the government get a significant conservation result.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
It's the best money the government can spend on conservation.
You also want to restore grazing to five hundred hectares
of Department of Dockland, which is a great idea. At
number three, enable technology and infrastructure. You want to provide
seed funding for new water store projects, and we just
can't have enough of those.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Well.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I mean, we've had a meter of rain and Golden
Bay in the last month, and I know, come January
febrydings here, I'm going to be wishing I had some
of that stored up to be able to use it,
you know. And that's the same story across the country.
I don't think we're regretting any water scheme that we
put in across this country, and so we need to
start looking how we can do more of it and
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what we can do in that space, because it's you know,
we now know how to do it properly, we know
how to do it more and mentally friendly. Let's just
crack on and do it before it gets too expensive
to do anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Number four or five, and we're getting through the list
nicely here, Wayne Length and President of Federated Farmers support
young farmers, and you're really keen to empower rural schools
to teach egg and I think that's great.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yeah, we've seen we're center picked up on the amount
of egg missing out of the curriculum between years one
and ten. And as we know there's a very influential
time with Lincoln's learning, but also a great time for
them to learn about agriculture and just how much of
a backbone it is to this country. You know, my
boys have just headed off the university and I've said
to them, even if you're not going in hands on farming,
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make sure you always keep an eye on egg because
that is that is where the backbone, where the money
comes from in this country. And if you're not a
hands on farming I say, there's always a chance or
an opportunity to make them, make them gough by being
involved with farming.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And finally, the fifth on your wish list, and this
will be a harder fix. You want to fix local government.
Good luck with that, Wayne lanth And so you want
to establish a single layer of local government. I think
we all agree on that one. You want to separate
the provincial areas from the major cities because they do
have different there's a there's a real conflict of interest
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between rural and urban and they have their own issues
and problems. And you also want to remove the need
for cultural impact assessments, which are a bit of a
roadblock how.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
They could be jaman as we were getting at here,
and what we're saying is they just need to be
done better. Broad Brushing cultural areas across a whole province
or a whole area is is not helping with cultural
impact statements. If there is a culturally sensitive area that
we need to look after, cool name, say where it
is and let's look after it. But it's not broad rushing.
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You know, entire farms and entire provinces in the areas
that are going to restrict farming and ultimately cause every
farmer to get consent to farm on that area.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
WAYE. Langford, a president of Federated Farmers, Thanks for your time.
How are you spending three or four days at field Days.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I've got three days at field Days and I'm just
changing my flights now to make sure i can watch
the Crusaders beat the Chiefs on Friday night. So I'm
looking forward to that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, you should be staying up there for that game.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I will be staying up there for that game. Don't
tell my wife because she's staying with me, but we
will be staying for that game for sure, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, okay, look,
I think the Chiefs are going to take a lot
of beating at home, and the hurricanes are going to
take a lot of beating at home the following week. Anyhow,
that's just how I see it, Wayne Langford, President of
Federated Farmers, keep up the good work. And why wouldn't
you pay your fed Farmers suba eh.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah, another announcement coming today, Jamie. Look out for it
and as you said, it makes you sub all the
more worth it. So thanks Lly, Jammie King.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
We'll wait with baited breath for that announcement. We hear
on the grapevine that it's going to be a really
good one, so I think that might be later today. Anyhow,
this is the country. We're here in Dunedin today and tomorrow,
then off to the big smoke of the tron Wednesday,
Thursday Friday. We will be broadcasting from the Farmland site
(09:39):
just as you're sort of going through the main entrance
gates at field Days there site e E one eight
from Wednesday to Friday will be there. It would be
great to see you poppin and say hello. And if
you're a Farmland's shareholder and there's about sixty or seventy
thousand of you around the country, swipe your farmland's card,
call in for a coffee and a sweet, take a
(10:00):
seat in the good chair. I don't know what the
good chare is. I have to find out when I
get there and tell them what rural means to you,
farmlands great supporters of farmers. Now there was a wee
bit of thithering at the beginning of the interview with
Wayne Langford. That's because Michelle came in and interrupted me
and I can't multitask, I can't talk and read it.
(10:21):
At the same time, she did pass me a note
very important. So a large earthquake has just struck in
the Philippines and our National Emergency I think it's like
something like eight point two on the Richter scale, which
is big. So our National Emergency Management Agency says it's
assessing whether the Shakh has created a tsunami which could
(10:41):
affect New Zealand. We'll update that story for you as
more comes to hand, but just beware of that one.
Be aware of that one. A large earthquake in the
Philippines could have some could cause us some issues. So
we'll update that as soon as we know more. Up
next to Deputy Prime Minister, Act Party Leader David Seymour,
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Why is he only turning up to field Days on Saturday?
We'll ask him next if.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You can remember.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
And as far as alphan soon, here's the act party
leader and the Deputy Prime ministers name is David Seymour.
Normally I'd try and catch him at field Days. But David,
you're not going to be at field Days until Saturday.
You realize, of course that's the towns Day. If you
want the farmer vote, you need to be there Wednesday,
(11:39):
Thursday or Friday. You're leaving the field wide open for Winston.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, he'll be up against Andrew Hogard, who I dare
say is a bit more farming knowledge than anyone else
in Parliament. Frankly, and you accuse me. You're going on
the towny day. I am a towney. I may afford
you because I've actually got some understanding an empathy for
rural his zeland. But town he's gone towny Day, and
Andrew Hoggat will be there for the prior days.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Well, that's a shame our paths won't cross. Nevermind, hey,
talking about acts politicians with real farm and cred, We're
losing one of the best. In my mind, Mark Cameron.
He's had these kidney and health issues and he's had
a heart problem. He's off the donal list for a
kidney transplant. Now, now, that was a bloke who was
a breath of fresh air in Parliament, a bit of
(12:29):
common sense. He basically got out of the overalls and
the gun boots, bought a suit for the first time
in his life, went down to Wellington and did something.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I really like the write up on Stuff. Don't hear
me say that every day? But Stuff website had a
ride up on Mark and it said he put on
the suit, but he didn't change much else about himself
when he went from farming to politics. I would credit
Mark Cameron with the changes to methane. I think if
(13:00):
it hadn't been for Mark Cameron scaring the but Jesus
out of the National Party in rural New Zealand for
five years and then getting into government as we did
in twenty three and negotiating those changes to get the
methane levels in the Zero CARBONAC down to a more
reasonable target. But it hadn't been for all that, I
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don't think that change would happen, and I think we'd
still be facing a major challenge with methone targets for farming.
And the reason I say this is about a third
of Parliament changes every year, so basically there's forty or
fifty new ones and forty or fifty go out, So
about every sort of six to nine years, the whole
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Parliament changes over except for a few dinosaurs, of which
I'm kind of slowly becoming one, and most of those
people who go through they can't actually put anything next
to their name. But I believe that is mark achievement,
and it's a profound one. And he's done an awful
lot else besides to achieve what he came in for,
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which is to basically restore the dignity of Baal, New Zealand,
because you think back to twenty twenty when he got
in just constantly been castigated as public enemy number one
for everything, and he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Real good blog to boot. All right, what did you
make of the Federated Farmer's election year wish list?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh? I look pretty reasonable. I've got to say. I
think there's a lot of things there. Resource management reform, yep.
What we're doing with that new law I think is
going to be a game changer for New Zealand bringing
in more activities into farm environment plans that don't need
any resource consent in the meantime. Yep, well Andrew Hogart
(14:47):
is doing that. So I think, you know, we can
point to good progress and maybe there's more activities that
like broad in. It's always an open conversation. We never
said we're going to do everything in three years. Otherwisen't
be running for office again. And you know, more encouragement
of rural New Zealand and the curriculum and education and
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also in the apprenticeships. I mean all of that. I think,
you know, we cannot say that rather we've done to
some extent, but we could do more. So I would say, look,
they're basically challenging us to stretch further in the direction
that we've already been moving. Oh and local government reform
you know underway a lot of those mergers to ensure that,
you know, rural voters don't get out voted by large
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urban areas who have a lot of votes but often
not a lot of understanding of the practicalities of farming.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Finally, what did you make of the labelist than I
don't even know if you've seen this release this morning
Hipkins at one, Sepaloney two, Leader and Deputy Leader, Barbara
Edmonds Finance at three, Willie Jackson four, Megan Wood's five, Asia,
Old Town Road Averel at number six. Interestingly, Karen macinnulty's
down at ten, Jenny Anderson twelve, Damien O'Connor Trade, Joe
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Luxton Agriculture at sixteen and seventeen. Minds you, if Labor
polls as they are at the moment, they might bring
in quite a few lists MPs.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Look, I mean, I think the best indicator of future
performance is past performance. So if you look at what
labor have done in the past, very loose on the spending,
ends up in inflation, ends up in higher interest rates,
and not a lot of respect for the idea that
it's actually effort and a reward that makes the world
(16:34):
go around. There's a lot of well, you know, if
you've done well, it's probably just luck, and we're going
to whack you for it. If you haven't done well,
we're going to subsidize you till you start moving. I
think at the end of the day, the difference between
us and the Labor Party is that we actually do
believe you get one shot in New time on Earth,
and you've got to make the most of it, and
if it's payoff, then you should get to keep more
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of the reward for it. And similarly, you should be
responsible for your actions the other directions. So you know
that's really the difference here. And so whatever whoever their
list is, whatever policies they eventually release, we know that
the net effect of a labor government is that the
harder you try, the more you get whapped. They drain
the joy from life, and that tends to hit rural
(17:20):
in New Zealand the hardest because if your rural, you
tend to take more risks, live by your wits in
a bit of good or bad weather, more than most.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Indeed, lest we forget David Seymour AC Party Leader, Deputy
Prime Minister and Mark Cameron go, well, my friend absolutely, brother,
Yes there is a good story. Is I've got on
stuff credit where credits due about Mark Cameron. So also
we're just gonna Michelle's frantically looking to update the earthquake
(17:53):
that struck the Philippines and whether it might cause us
an army here will get you the info as soon
as we get it. Has some text trafficking on five
to do nine, Jamie. I'm not a farmer, but it's
a great great to listen to Wayne Langford and the
outcome focused federated farmer's story and this Texter. Sharon goes
on to say, I suggest the Q two trust story
(18:15):
needs broader promotion across New Zealand for public awareness. You
bang on there, Sharon. I'm very passionate about K two
National Trust. I've got to covenant myself and I think
there's good news on the horizon, but my lips are sealed.
Muzz and Hawk Space says, that's a big earthquake. I
haven't had any warnings yet, No Muzz, but listen to
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your favorite radio show. I'm like your favorite president, and
we will update you as soon as we get the information.
Right up next on the Country, it's a UK farm
and correspondent farmer Tom Martin caught up with them earlier
this morning because it's like after one o'clock in the
morning over there, some really interesting commentary around what's happening
(18:58):
in the UK. Blair MacLean, We've got a fun pack.
We've got some fun packs to cheer you up on
a Monday. And Phil Duncan on the Weather with a
field day's forecast, which is going to be good.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You can fall. Please come on me, oh, you as
on me.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Here's a UK farming correspondent, social media influencer farmer Tom Martin.
And last time I chatted to you, Tom, you were
desperately dry. Of course you're in your spring starting out
the summer months. Of course since we've chatted, we've had
a cricket test at Lord's. We won't mention the result.
There's another one at the Oval next week, remembering your
farming just up the road from London, and of course
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Wimbledon's about to happen. So drought over? Can we declare
it over?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
We've definitely had some rain. We've definitely had some rain,
and we've had some rain across the whole of the country,
not a huge amount of this stage, very isolated showers.
So they had an inch and a half thirty five
mil of rain about ten miles from here on the
same day that we had four millimeters. So some people
have been lucky and some people less so. But we're
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still way behind where we'd normally be. I think some
of the crop yields will have been impacted here in
the east already, so the winter stone crops, this is
the time when they really need to be putting on weight,
and this is where their yel comes in. And a
lot of the springstone crops didn't really get away the
springstone barley weeks, those kind of things didn't really get
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away with a very very dry start. So there'll already
be a yell penalty there as well, but certainly a
little bit happier than I was when we last about
Jennie and all.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
That's on top of largely poor prices for grain as well.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
It's a bit of a shocker, isn't it, Particularly particularly
those for those grain grain farmers like myself. I mean,
when we three years ago we had the start of
the Ukraine War, we saw fuel prices jump up and
fertilizer as well. But at the same time that was,
you know, we had grain prices that were between kind
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of sixty and ninety percent higher than they are now,
and so that was kind of rewarding that those high
fuel and high fertilizer prices. Now we're in the kind
of worst of both worlds, where we've got the high
input prices and low selling prices. All we need now
is a stormy harvest and there'll be a lot of
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people in a spot of other.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
We talked last time we chatted about diversification. Have you
furthered that discussion any further? Does that make sense?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Sort of?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Does?
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah? Do you know? I've got my I'm hosting a
reunion next weekend for the course, the Agricultural Business Management Course.
So I went on a few years ago with the
Worship Company of Farmers and we're basically focusing on diversification.
The opportunities for growth and profit within broad scale arable
agriculture is so slim I think, I think businesses will
(21:58):
be be relying on diversifications. So we're visiting a number
of sites. Were pleased to know rire squeezing in a
vineyard and the brewery, but looking at looking at on
farm diversifications and how we can basically how we can
stare afloat.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well, don't start a vineyard or a brewery, because the
wine industry and the craft brewing industry here in New
Zealand anyhow, certainly got their struggles.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
At the moment, we're we're in a we're in a
sunny place in England for wine in particular, we're where
climate change is serving us pretty well one of my
I've been trying some great, great English wines recently. We're
very close to the Rutnham Vineyard, which is an absolutely
fantastic place, started to start about five years ago, already
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making award winning whites and roses and reds and sparkle
I mean literally, we're we're in a great We're in
a great spot, those wonderful that kind of wonderful climatic
range that in the past has allowed Champagne to produce
what fantastic sparkling wine. Is my rating North towards the
polls with climate change and putting us in pole position
(23:04):
to stick it to the French, which is something that
we love to do.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
You've been wanting to do for centuries. So while I
hope climate change comes to the party for Wimbledon and
you get through that unscathed, we won't mention the Lord's
Cricket Test wasn't too toughed about that result. The other
really interesting thing in the UK at the moment is
your politics, and this is really something that is affecting
farmers big time. With the inheritance text now Sakeir Starmer
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is going to face a challenge by the Greater Manchester
Mayor Andy Burnham. But first Burnham has to win the
Makerfield by election on June the eighteenth. Is it a
done deal that he will one it? Surely it does.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
It's looking very like that, but it's you know, the
vote goes with the people, and the people will speak
and we'll see what happens. It could go either way.
And by either way, I mean we've got a lot
of parties buying for influence, if not power here in
the UK. But the two key parties there are the
kind of right leaning Reform Party and obviously the left
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leaning Labor Party. Andy Burnham is the Labor mayor of
Manchester and he's now pitching in. One of the Labor
MP's for the Makefield constituency stepped aside. He stepped down
so that they could trigger that that local election and
Andy Burnham could stand. Now, you're going to put yourself
in the position of the people of Makerfield. You know
there'll be some who will be staunch reform and staunch Labor.
(24:26):
But if you're a floating voter, you've got to think,
do you want to have Andy Burnham as your local MP.
Who's going to make a make a challenge on the
Labor leadership. Now that could mean you have the prestige
of having potentially the fruit of future Prime minister as
your local member of Parliament. But equally, if you want
to get stuff done in your constituency, do you want
to have the Prime Minister as your local MP and
(24:51):
never potentially never see him or certainly have trouble of
trouble getting kind of influence in the local areas. So
it's going to be a very very interesting thing. It's
a a little bit of a pre run over the
election in a couple of years time, where I think
Reform will be strong and Labor well, we'll just see
what happens with them. So it'll certainly be very interesting.
And Keirstarmer is in the strange situation of obviously wanting
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Labor to succeed, but perhaps not wanting somebody who's already
said on his on his ticket that he's going to
challenge for the Labor leadership and therefore to be Prime
Minister of the UK as soon as he's were he
to be elected.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Stunning times and British politics. Hey, I'm just about out
of time, tom As I said, I don't want to
talk about the Lord's cricket Test. I was going to
talk to you about the friendly and the will and
the football Soccer World Cup England one Harry Kane. Here
are they all whites? No, you don't even know anything
about it. But I did say to you that I
watched a really interesting doco over the weekend, I think
(25:50):
on Netflix about Vinnie Jones, the soccer hooligan who became
a movie star.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Now, now, Jamie, I think we call that filibustering, which
is just filling the time so they can't talk about
the important. But maybe next time we can talk about
the next Test match.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, the Oval. Bring it on. Farmer Tom Martin, thank
you very much for your time from the UK.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Thank you, Jermie.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Tom caught up with them earlier this morning, twenty four
away from one up next Michelle, Well, we've got the
Aarhufenoa and the Timber sports and rural news, and we'll
update sport for you. We'll update the tsunami a warning
if there is indeed one before the end of the hour.
Your chance to win a fun pack with our viticulture
correspondent Blair Blizzard MacLean plus Phil Duncan on the weather,
(26:37):
welcome back to the country very shortly. The latest and
rural news we'll have a look at those are Hufenoa
awards and sport. But first talk to anyone involved in harvest,
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Speaker 5 (28:00):
Michelle Watt, just have you got an update on the
Philippines earthquake and any tsunami chants for US?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
I do so.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
The National Emergency Management Agency is on tsunami watch still
at the moment, in the wake of a seven point
eight magnitude earthquake in the Philippines. It struck just before
eleven forty New Zealand time and the n EMA and
gn IS Science are assessing whether it's created a tsunami
which could affect New Zealand. Any tsunami would not arrive
for at least ten hours, so just keep an eye
on those warnings and on the news out there, folks
(28:29):
for that one and over the weekend. Lots of competitions happening.
National and world records tumbled and bought a piece at
the weekend, with two top ki we ax men claiming
victory and taking away still sport world titles. Matty Gower
from Taranaki snatched a victory in its first if A
World titled by just five hundreds of a second and
he won the Still Timbersports Rookies Under twenty five World Championship.
(28:51):
King Country farmer Jack Jordan said another world record on
his way to achieving a four peat at the Stell
Timber Sports World Trophy as well, and Ossie based kei
We Ashley Mark, who competed and the first ever Still
timber Sports World Women's Championship finish just off the podium
in fourth place. And over the weekend of course, a
Hufenowa was also on one of New Zealand's I think
it is actually New Zealand's oldest farming award. Mart High
(29:14):
Pacific Ewe Collective was named the winner of the twenty
twenty six are who Fenawa Trophy and also Tirina Joe
was the winner of the twenty twenty six are Hoo
Finowa Young Mari Grower of the Year. And that's rural news.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Wey, thanks Michelle, and that's all about recognizing excellence and
Maori farming which is a huge part of the agg economy.
Let's have a look at sport.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sports on the country. With AFCO invested in your farming.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Success, maybe we got the right guy after all. All
Blacks head coach Dave Rennie can now devoters full attention
to the job. He's guided Corbet to the Japanese rugby
title with victory in the final against Kabota in Tokyo.
He's got Tony Brown in twenty twenty eight as well.
That'll be great. We will have, we will have.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I just had a slight update about that earthquakes. I
just wanted to get it in. So apparently the n
EMA saysa is unlikely to be a tsunami effect in
New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
You ruined my rugby story. Sorry, I can't concentrate and
read it at the same time.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
I thought the earthquake was more important.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Well, no, let's be honest. Tony Brown coaching eight's pretty important, okay.
And Nelly Corter Nellie Cord has won the US Woman's
Golf Open, claiming a fourth major title. The world number
one has prevailed by one shot after carting a final
round two under par sixty nine to finish at nine
under overall at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
(30:38):
So that is your rural news. Up next, it is
Blair Blizzard MacLean your chance to win on the country
and is giveaway time here on the country. We're going
to give away a couple of fun packs courtesy of
aviticulture correspondent Blair Blizzard MacLean based out of Blenham. Now
(30:59):
we're going to at some of the head ones facing
the wine industry and what we can do about it
and what you can do about it as a consumer.
But first, Blair, I cannot believe that a man of
your experience, gravitas and let's just face it straight out celebrity,
has never been.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
To field Days afternoon. Jane. Yeah, hard to believe actually
sometimes so as a horticulturalist, we do take that June
period off on holiday and go for a bit of
a leave. So I haven't been here for some of that.
But no, I haven't managed to get a donut score
like you have pretty much over the last thirty years.
You've been go well.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
PGG Wrights and has a huge presence at field Days.
We're going to do some stuff there on Wednesday afternoon
with the IHC, which I'm really looking forward to. But
they could chuck you in a corner blee. You could
give away a few poor a few savs and get
the punters coming in.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Certainly be given away a bit of seven on blanc,
and there's some great seven blanc out there, probably just
sixty or seventy million leads too much at the moment. Unfortunately,
weal to.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Me because I read an interesting story online this morning
on Farmers Weekly Credit where credits due about low alcohol
wine and low alcohol pino noir and how they're basically
doing it on the grape rather than in the lab.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, a lot of work done in the field, Jamie
to get low alcohol wine. A lot of canopy management,
a lot of water management, and taking the fruit early.
So the essence are all correct. Doctor John Forrest and
Bridget Forest and the daughter Beef actually started a lot
of that, probably nearly two decades ago, doing low alcohol wine,
and then most other wineries are doing some part of
(32:37):
the portfolio, you know, having that wine it's sort of
nine percent to sometimes eight percent alcohol, and the manchic
is trying to have it taste exactly like a normal
full alcohol one, which a lot of them are doing now.
So you know, the big health kick and everyone trying
to get into having better, you know, looking after eybody's
(32:58):
leaves alcohol you can take a bye. Actually they're reasoning.
I've had their reasoning before. Low alcohol reasonings drink good
as well, so you get into that.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
So does less alcohol equate to less calories?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yes, it does, yep, and they also they'll actually have
that on the label. They have like low carbon low
alcohol as well. Side it's good for you all around.
And we've got a re surplus of wine at the moment,
so yeah, we need to be drinking more of that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
The industry is really facing some headwinds at the moment worldwide.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, so the same thing. The whole world is just
drinking less alcohol, looking for more healthy options, the whole
dietary thing so and more food, better food, you know.
Hence while the meat's going so well. So yeah, there's
some certainly changes in the industry and we've got to
focus on doing quality booze, which we are. The twenty
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twenty six seven blongs is fantastic. I've knocked a couple
of those over. So yeah, we're just we're in this
situation now where we're probably got seventy odd million leaders
too much servion blanc or wine in yelland and wine
companies are looking at that and capping growers' volumes and
just trying to focus on quality.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Are their growers who have gotten nowhere for their grapes
to grow this season to go.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Should I say yes, yes, Jamie. Yeah. Every day or
every week I talk to grows who have either been
given notice of their contracts. Some of these contracts have
still got two or three years to go, or have
lost their contract completely we think, And it's really hard
to get a number on it, but there's at least
a couple to three thousand hectories which is ten percent
(34:38):
of the Marlborough grape growing area that could be either
uncontracted mothboard somewhere they put the vines to sleep pretty
much for a year and just get the sheep and
to graze it, or people growers have lost their contracts.
So yeah, it's a bit tough here at the moment.
And beautiful Marlbourne.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Well, let's cheer people up because you you did mention
the Forest family. They're behind Forest Estate wines and they,
as you say, have been producing low alcohol wines for
a long time. So have fun packs today, one for
the North Island, one for the South.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, so you're talking about lower alcohol pinum noir. The
pinum wire is very good. So they're going to do
a mixed fun pack for the North Island and one
for the South Island of pen and NOI servion blanc
Reese Lean and maybe chuck your favorite in there with
the cougar juice, Jamie and to the six packs. So yeah,
we're going to give away some low alcohol wine from
(35:33):
Forest to State Wines.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Well there you go, and of course the cougar juice
is slang for a Peno Greek. Now we're going to
test your spelling ability out there in God's own if
you want to win the fun packs, We've got one
for the North Island, one for the South Island. You
need to text us on five double oh nine and
you need to write Forest Estate Wines and you've got
to spell it correctly or else we'll eliminate you. So
(35:56):
just google it. Get the spelling right, five double o
nine right, Forest the State Wines, your name and your
career address so Blair can get it out to you.
And just before I go, Blair, thank you very much
and thank you for us to State Wines for offering
a couple of fun packs today. You're raising money, I
think for the rescue chopper in your region. You want
an all Blacks.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Jersey, Yes, yeh, Jamie, thanks thanks for that for the
plug Here Nelson Mulble Rescue Helicopter. We're having a fundraiser
on the fifteenth August. It's going to be a quiz night.
I think they've got a good EMC and we're having
an option. So we're after an all black, signed all
black jersey if we can. If anybody knows or any
jerseys really in the Highlanders would be great, but an
(36:35):
all black one would be primo. So yeah, anybody out
there or wanting to donate to that, give me a
call on PG fruit Feed Blenham here and yeah and
we'll take anything.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, or just text me on five double O nine
and I'll get it to you. Smiley, Barrett might better
find a jersey for you. Failing that, I could give
you a personally signed Riversdale Rugby jersey. Would you like
that from the nineteen eighties that I can't fit anymore?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
No, No, of my rock for one doesn't fit either.
So there's no dirt on that either side.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Well there's no white chalk on it because you never
got over the line. That's another story for another day.
Blair Blizzard MacLean, thanks for your time today on the country.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
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Speaker 5 (37:30):
Okay, let's wrap it with Phil Duncan from weather Watch
on a Monday field day's forecast. Phil, this will take
all of two seconds. It's just going to be fine.
That's the one good air word. The bad air word
is fog. Could there be some issues at the airport
this week?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah, good day, Jamie. Yeah, I'm just looking at the
fog forecaster we've got at Ruralweather dot co dot m
jen and it certainly looks foggy. The risk of fog
around Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and so that could be
a problem at Hamilton Airport. Hopefully it's not. It's likely
to break up at some point in the mid morning,
(38:05):
but yeah, that could be a problem.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
And it's going to be quite cold.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
At night, especially for Wednesday night going into Thursday, overnight
low of one, so there could be a frost around.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
So well, there could be three air words there, you go, fine,
foggy and frosty. Now shak horror. Here's a press release
from the Met Service. Winter returns strong winds, hazard as swells,
frosty knights. But if we're going to get winter. Early
June's not a bad time to get.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
It, exactly, and I think there'd be quite a few
regions that are saying it's finally arriving because we've had
such a sentiled, mild kind of end to autumn in
a number of regions, especially in the North Island. So yeah,
it's a kind of a return to where we should be.
But there is a very strong high pressure zone almost
what I would class is powerful. It's going to be
around ten thirty seven ten thirty eight Hector pascals later
(38:52):
this week, so that's kind of what we had in
mid to late May brought all that sentil dry weather.
So there could be a few showers around, but it's
going to be pretty settle going into this weekend and
going into next week where's all this high pressure around.
There's still be some showers here and there, but the
winds will be late. That's why we're seeing fog and
frost in the forecast, and it may be, you know,
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not until late next week that we get another change
coming through. We're technically still in neutral, so anything can happen,
but that al Nino is building, and maybe a word
tomorrow about that one about it being closer to a riding.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, okay, Phil Duncan, thank you very much for your time.
We won't see you at Phiel Days you're not there
the year, but we'll see you next Monday on the show.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Sounds good.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
There we go, Phil Duncan, great weather man. Now you're
coming in thick and fast to win the fun packs
from Blair Blizzard MacLean and Forest Estate Wine. Spell Forest correctly,
look it up, gurgle it, spell it correctly, or you're
not on the drawer, and remember to write your name
and your career address because we're going to pick a
winner out very very shortly and we'll career it off
(39:55):
to you or Blair Blizzard MacLean. Well, so write your
name and your career rest. Thank you to Forest Estate Wines.
Catch it tomorrow. Two sleeps to.
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