March 8, 2026 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Rowland and Ingrid Smith, Te Radar, and Keith Cooper.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Get a New Zealand and Welcome to the Country. I'm
Jamie McKay. The show brought to you by SUSU and Farmlands.
Really appreciate the support gold for our first guests, the
first couple of New Zealand sharing Roland Smith and Ingrid Smith.
Also on the show today, Terada, the voice behind the
FMG Young Farmer Contest. Of course the Grand Finals and
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New Plymouth and July. But before we do that, we've
got to get through the regionals. They held the Taranaki
Manala two regional finals on Saturday. We'll find out what
went on there and has this rural icon namely Radar
gone soft. Keith Cooper we used to chat to him
in this capacity as the chief executive of Silver Fern Farms.
(01:08):
These days he's the chair of the uppercluther A and
p Society. Putting in the hard yards ahead of the
Wanaka show Friday and Saturday. Remember we've got the big
Lincoln University raising funds for Sport Dinner as well and
Phil Duncan, Monday's weather Man with his autumn update. But
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let's kick off the show with, as I said in
the intro, the first couple of New Zealand sharing. Surely
they are now Roland and Ingrid Smith. Roland, I want
to start with you, winner of the World Sharing Championships
at Masterton on a magnificent Saturday night at the War
Memorial Stadium there. The world title was the one you
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were really after. Congratulations, We're all so proud.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Of you now that it was the one that there
was a goal, a heck of a final. It was
being a parent Oalse for Wall, Romney for Wall and
second cheer. So yeah, she certainly took a bit of
mental mental capacity to get through that final. And yeah,
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like I said on the night, I was absolutely buggered
after that. I was, I just everything went into the air.
And yeah, unfortunately in the open final, so half an
hour later I wasn't able to back it up. But
you know, and a deserve winner of Tor Henderson. What
an amazing athlete he is.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, he's your good mate. You're both the Northlanders. You
were representing New Zealand and the team's event. You won
that one as well. Now, Tour was a sheep ahead
of you, or got off the board a sheep ahead
of you in that World Sharing Open final, But did
you know in your harder hearts that you'd won that
because of your quality?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Look, I came off the board and I was very
happy with the way i'd sean and I had a
very solid you know, you can sort of I've done
a fair bit of it now and you can sort
of feel how things are gone. And I was, you know,
I was very pleased that I had. It was controlled
and I felt like I had done everything I could,
so certainly came away knowing they hadn't left anything the chance.
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So you know, but you can never count out the
lights for Tour or Gavin or you know, there was
the current world champion in the final too, so you
know there's jam packs full of people, so you need
to count chickens. But I was quietly, quietly confident.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You mentioned the Golden Chars Open Final, which was the
final event of the night, and you did you got
some shocking sheep, if you don't mind me saying so, Roland,
you got a few kickers there, but you were looked
like you were physically spent.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, I when I pulled out the first sheep and
it was giving me a bit of jip when I
put it down, and my hand was a pretty cramping
when I was reaching for the hand piece, and when
I turned for the end of mine, my legs idarted cramping,
and I was like, oh, it's going to be a long, long,
nineteen more sheep after this. But yeah, just you know,
I think, you know, put everything into that World finaland
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which was which was a decision that I'd made before
even sure, and it was that there's going to be
nothing after this. So yeah, hey, look I'm not a
sharer at full time anymore at all, So a few
years ago it wouldn't have matter it at all. But
you know, sort of the mental side of it, when
you're not sharing, it certainly takes it out of you
as well, just trying to remember what you meant to
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be doing. So yeah, unfortunately you couldn't get the double,
but but we got the one we were therefore.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I think it was a perfectly scripted finish, to
be perfectly honest for New Zealand and the New Zealand
team and the New Zealand shear is you're getting one
each and probably getting the ones you both wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, and look at the most successful New Zealand
team in the history of World champs So how how
cool is that you know, to be a part of
that and you know sort of going out the way.
You know, you couldn't have written it better really, So
ye proud.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Did the forty minute delay because we had a bit
of a mix up with the sheep behind the stand there.
These things do happen. Did that forty minute delay affect you, guys?
Because it was right before that World Championship Open final.
You probably were revved up and ready to go. Then
you had to sit on your thumbs for forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, sort of, you know you're getting prepared to go
up and sort of come back in and tell us
how it's ten minutes sort of four times. It is
something that you know, you are sort of gearing up
and trying to be hydrated and eating at the right
time and all that sort of thing. I mean, it's
it's a very very taxing event to the twenty sheep final.
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It's you know, sixteen seventeen minutes of you know, as
fast as your body can handle it, So yeah, no,
it definitely probably was a bit unnerving there, but you
know it's the same for everybody, so you just do
the best you can.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How tough with those big second share who tooth to
share that You've had a great summer in the Lower
North Island and the wirra Rappa region. They've grown out beautifully,
but gee, there was a lot of body masks to cover.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, and they were very, very physical, and I think
that's what took the toll in the open final was
just the sheer amount of straining to keep them under control.
Potentially that's because the technique isn't quite as good as
it once was when your full time sharing. Maybe that's
why I was quite as naked as I was. But
you know what a credit to the farmers. You know
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how many sheep were there, six or seven thousand over
the weekend, huge huge mission to get that organized, and
you're just very thankful for them to have them there
and be in such good condition. So I think everybody
was pretty happy to get to get to share such
sheep roland.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You weren't the only famous smith over the weekend. Your
better half Ingrid was featuring or so were you in
a very minor role too. I might add rollin on
country calendar and this was one of the best country
calendars for ages Ingrid, your mum, Colin, and Margaret Baines. Gee,
they're hard cases and hard workers. Did you enjoy the
program last night?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I did.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
It was really interesting because obviously they spend many many
hours filming and to see what they put in in
the shots that they put in was really cool and
just showcasing well won the beauty of the land that
they're on, but also mum and Dad's character, like they
just captured them and their work ethic and their values
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really well.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well. I love the quote I think from your father, Colin,
who said there's no place for any shirkers around here.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yes, very true.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We always knew to pitch in with enthusiasm whenever we
worked together.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, I love the way the family gets together to
do the annual sharing. And the interesting thing from my
point of view out of that was obviously the program
was about your mum and dad and the siblings you
guys as well, but there was another guy sitting in
the background with a very minor role. His name was
Roland Smith. That it wasn't even mentioned that he was
a sharer, let alone a world champion. Who was that
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by design ingrid I.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Don't actually know, because he was ringing the board as
he always does. But yeah, when he comes to share,
he just skips his head down and gets the work
done and carries us all the rest of us all
through the day. So yeah, I'm not sure what they
didn't mention that. Maybe they knew he was going to
get a bit more publicity there. This weekend just gone.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, it's rather ironic that it's coincided. What a great
weekend for your family. And I love the story. And
we've talked about this one before. You and your mum
marg setting that world record the two stand for eight
hours remind me of the Tellies.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I did four seventy and Mum did four thirty
three for a total of nine oh three.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That is amazing. And your mum's still on the end
of the hand piece.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
She is, although she had a wee bit of an
accident a few weeks ago, so she won't be on
the hand py s anytime soon, but up until that point,
she yeah, she still loves it.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
She gets up there, we'll.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Give each other spell she's on everybody's stand is having
to go, and she's still a very, very capable sharer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now I'm going to be talking to Radar are wee
bit two to Radar shortly on the show, And he's
been featuring in a woman's magazine, Ingrid. I wouldn't be
surprised if you the first couple of New Zealand Farming,
Roland and Ingrid Smith, they might want to cover for you, guys,
and a woman's magazine simply because if not for Roland's
acting ability, for your for your profile as the made
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up farmer.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Well maybe haven't. I haven't had any emails yet, but
I'll patiently.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Wait tell us about the made up farmer.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay, So that started a few years ago. I was
a mum of small children. I've been you know. I
had a career as a bank manager and as a
serializer rep. And I was at home and I really
Rollie was always out working super super hard, and he
was our main breadwinner, and I felt like I wanted
to contribute financially. And I came across this lipstick that
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doesn't come off and got the opportunity to sell it.
So I started selling that under the name KII kisses.
But as our benches evolved into farming and I became
more involved with the farm side of things but was
still wearing makeup. I kind of changed my brand to
be the made up Farmer, which is kind of a
play on words because one, I wear makeup while I'm farming,
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but also on a day to day basis, I feel
like I.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I feel like I'm just making it up as I
go along. And yeah, I had quite a following. I
just I liked doing entertaining social media posts about I
don't know anything and everything, just doing some lips sinking,
and then I get the odd troll that tries to
tell me I can't do what I'm doing while wearing makeups.
I kind of hit back at them, which has brought
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me quite a few like minded women.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So it's all good fun.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
It's a little bit of extra money, and it's Yeah,
it just seems to be growing and growing over the
last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, you've got a great following. I know all the
girls that work here follow you, and they think it's wonderful.
How do you deal with the old keyboard warriors? I mean,
it's part and parcel when you get a profile.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Yeah, so I like I anywhere is allowed to their opinion.
That they're allowed to share their opinion, and I will
often use that as content and I will make a
real coming back at them.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
But if I get.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Too nasty, I just block them. It's just not worth
giving them their attention they so desperately crave. But I
do find that when I come back at these people
that it brings more people who are like me to me.
So it does have its downside. It is it's hard
to deal with. Sometimes it affects me less now than
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it did because I make it into my advantage. But yeah,
the plus sad is that more women like me say
and they follow me and yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well you're doing a great job. Make sure you keep
up with it. Okay, tell me back to you. Roland Smith,
is this it for you? Did we get the hint
of a retirement speech between you and Norm Haraway. I'm
not quite sure the message got out there on the Grande.
I got the feeling that you were saying to Norm,
that's that I'm out of here. I'm gone.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, so it's actually a lot to remember. It's obviously
when you know, they announce, you know, the winner, and
the emotions go through your head. You know, I have
been lucky enough to win it back in twenty fourteen.
Obviously twenty seventeen never got the chance to defend it.
I was next into the team, which was which was
pretty tough. And then in twenty nineteen I was second
by point zero one of a point there. So, you know,
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to finally come back and and to be able to
prove to myself, you know, after hip surgery and all
those sort of things along the way that I you know,
to me, it's always important to back up something by
doing it again. It sort of cements the thing. And
that's always been the goal, was to win it again.
So yeah, to be able to achieve that, even though
I'm not a sharer as such anymore, it's been a
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pretty tough sort of a journey of the last six weeks,
but yeah, that was the goal was This was it.
There's no more for me anymore, so I won't be
competing it in his Zeald Shares or anything like that. Yeah,
and to be able to go out on top of
pretty awesome. So I just forgot to mention it when
I was speaking, But yeah, no, there's Yeah, that's me done. Potentially,
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in the future of my kids decide they want to
get into it, then I might come back and support
them and share along with them. But yeah, for the moment,
we'll be sitting back and helping the future sharing rather
than being being in it. Yeah, that's me, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I was really impressed by your Northland mate Taller Henderson,
winner of the Golden Shares Open final. He's a week
bit younger than you. He's still a very experienced sharer,
but he'd have to be odds on. You would think
in three years time in Australia.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
One hundred percent. He's spent ten years over there sharing.
He's a very very capable marino sharer, so you know,
as far as an all round sharer and he's only
he's a good as it gets. So yeah, look, it'll
be interesting to see whether or not he decides to
keep on his journey. I'm sure he will. But again,
it's a big, big sacrifice to be at that level,
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whether it be on your family or whether it be career.
You know, whether us was farming every time that we
decide to go to be competing, you know, you're sacrificing,
whether it be on farm decisions, because farming is an
everyday decision. Farmers know that, so you know, a big sacrifice.
So you know for how much a journey that him
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and the same we need to make. And again that's
the reason that I'm stepping away now is because you know,
that's enough for us and for me and focus on
the future of our farming and things like that. But yes,
it's in a very good state house sharing industry. Look
at the one hundred and twenty open shares on the
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weekend and you know, look, we got very very very
good future.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I believe yea.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And it was great to meet Mike Anderson Tower's father
who drives them all around the country quite literally to
support his sharing. And I'll tell you who else it
was great to meet. I was walking over for a
bear and the fans owe. Unfortunately that closed the bar
on me Roland while the delay was on. Anyhow, we
got back in there, Shane mcmanaway and myself and I
ran into a bloke who introduced himself as Roger Cox,
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and I said, well, I know who you are. You've
won three Golden Sheer Open titles and it was great
to catch up with John Fagan, so David's older brother
as well, who's also won a Golden Shar's title and
the Golden Pliers. And I said to these guys, we
need to start a campaign, Roland, and you'll be all
for this. Before the Open final, we need to get
all the previous winners up on stage for a photo
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while we've still got them.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, there's some legends in our industry.
And you know it's great to see John. I saw
him before the final there and you know, and David.
How amazing. You know, David Fagan, he's you know, well,
he's the goat of our industry and still there supporting
and helping you and even Johnny Kirkpatrick, you know, up
there making sure everything was being on before the final.
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You know that some incredible people in our industry and
you're just very thankful that they pop back, which is
what it's all about, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Okay, Roland Smith, Ingrid Smith, thank you so much for
your time, Ingrid. A great country calendar, one of the
best I've seen ever. You're from a legendary family. You
keep up the good work as the made up farmer
and Roland Smith. You just enjoy doing what you love.
You've got iron disease, get onto those diggers and the
tractors and away you go. You've earnt it.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Cheers, cheers Jane, Thank you, Ingrid.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
There we go. Roland Smith and Ingrid Smith. They're absolute legends.
And what a great, what a great weekend it was
in Masterton. The Golden Shares. Of course, we've got the
New Zealand Shares coming up in Tiquity and early April.
She was attempted to go to that one. Up next
to Radar I in jest I talked about rolling the
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Ingrid being in the women's magazines. They might be with
Ingrid's business just as social media channels, but anyhow, Radar
has been in them. So we're going to talk to
him about that and the FMG Young Farmer of the
Year regional finals they're continuing on. That's up next on
the Country. Our next guest is a rural icon. He's
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taken a break from his farm. He's been lugging tantalized
posts over his shoulder, sort of a West Auckland version
of pine Tree Meads, but has this rural icon son
of a Whitecaddo dairy farmer. Gone soft? Has he sold
his soul to the woman's magazines? I was making my
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way home from the Golden Shares yesterday in the airport
lounge and there it was the New Zealand Woman's Weekly,
Desperate Fergie's Next Move. This is Sarah Ferguson. She's very dangerous.
Engelbert humpadink I feel as young as ever. Just a
couple of the stories that grabbed my attention. He's had
a lot of work done on his face, That old
guy but Terader Andrew Lumston. What's the story of a
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bloke like you being in the women's magazines?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Look to be honest, I haven't read the story. Actually,
we were doing some promo obviously for the book that
came out last year, and we've got various book festivals
that have been attending over the last a little while.
It's got rural Keevi country, rural New Zealand and a
hundred objects, and so, you know, you like to get
the word out there that amongst all the different audiences
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that the book is out or the show is out.
In fact, I just did the world premiere of the
live version of it last week at the Hamilton Arts Festival.
So we'll we'll be trucking that around. So any anywhere
you can get a little bit of a mention about
about the book and about things. Reminds people that you're
not dead, Jimmy, you know, and I'm clearly in good company.
There's another another great redhead.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And there Bergie.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I've had less work done than than Engel Bird, but
I've got a good moisturizing regim. I put my tumb
block on this morning because we're having an unprecedented last
bit of late summer up here in Auckland. It's dry
drying the white caddow. It was pretty dried out in
Tadannaki Manawa two as well, you know, not something we'll
had for the last couple of months.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, I was a wire rapper for the weekend and
we've talked about this already, but my goodness, they're having
a royaler of the season. And you should have seen
radar the size of the sheep they had to share
in the Golden Shar's finals. They have had a very
good summer. Indeed, Radio let's go across to the other
side of the Lower North Island the Taranaki man Or
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two regional final. What happened over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Look, Charlie, what's going to happen? A new power couple
emerged in the farming sector in the Taranaki man Or
two region. I've done this for a while. I've probably
done more than fifty or sixty regional finals. I've never
seen an engaged couple when all four of those of
your of your your sectional prizes. So Sarah Lockhart engaged
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two David Reesby, who took out the title and Sarah
she was stoked. She took out a couple of the
practical things. Let me just have a look. She took
a resports and I have never seen someone so happy
to win her own power tools. Agrisports Milwaukee sponsors that
they give you a nice voucher. So Sarah took out
the egg Resports. David took out the Agri Knowledge Prize.
(20:58):
He's a smart guy. Sarah also, I'm just flicking through
the category. Sarah also took out the Agri Business Award,
and David took out the agris Skills Like. What a
spread for a young couple and very happy. I suspect
for their relations who went with that narrows down the wedding.
The wedding presents we're going to have to get. But no,
David reeveesbeat former Grand finalists back I think season fifty
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six and that wet, wet weekend up in fun at eight.
He is back and you can really see, you know,
you see people win this, particularly in those regionals and
they head through to the Grand Final and the raw
emotion from the young guy. He worked so jolly hard
to get back to it, pushed all the way to
the end by you know, by his fellow competitors. And
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it was a pretty strong field too. There were plenty
of people who had competed before. So a great win
for David Reesby.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, surely the first couple of young farmers is the
brother and sister, Tim and Emma.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Look, Tim dang Pool, you've got You've got Tim Pole
and sorry Tim Dangen and Emma Pool, but you've also
got Chris Paul, husband of Emma. He was a pretty
good Grand finalist as well. I think did he come
second to Tim Maybe, yes.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I think he did. Yeah, they kept it in the
family for a couple of years.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
There they really they really really did. Don't know, all
the very best to them. Where what are we now?
Over halfway through we've got four of the seven done,
so we've got a great lineup of young Grand finalists
and we've got three more to go.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You're off to the East Coast this weekend, then you
get a break for a fortnight why Kattobay have plenty,
then you get a break I think for Easter Northern
Regional Final. It's all building towards that big Grand Final.
The Shear in New Plymouth, New Plums.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah, I believe the practical day is in gorgeous Stratford,
so I'll look forward to that, and then I think
this first week of July we're down there as well,
so it's going to be interesting. You've You've got a
lot of tough and very smart Grand finalists so far
from around the regions, and I suspect you've probably spoken
to some where young Jack Taggart, he was actually there.
He won Old Angie a few weeks back. We've got
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Thomas Lee from Otago Southland and Bryce Wynn took out Pairsman.
So there's the four of them so far, and there's
another what twenty twenty four competitors now sitting around thinking
is it going to be me to make up those
final three and.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Thomas Slee, of course, son of Richard Slee, who's a
former New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year. They're keeping
it in the family as well. Maybe they're the first
family of young farmers.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
They are. And actually we had your old mate Andrew
Hoggart was there to present some prizes on Saturday as well.
He's a former Young Farmer of the Year two thousand
and three. I think he won. And we both stood
there and went, you know, some of these people probably
weren't even born in two thousand and three, And sure
enough one of the young organizers from the Young Farmer's
Club went, yeah, I wasn't born until two thousand and nine.
(23:43):
I was, oh, great, wow, Now.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I think my old mate Andrew Hoggard right. No one
likes the corrector, but sometimes people need to be corrected.
I don't think he won the Grand Final. I think
he was in the Grand Final because my records I'm
just looking and speaking off Mike here would suggest that
Robert kempthorm another good Southland to one in two thousand
and three.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Oh well, maybe maybe he didn't. I thought it. Well,
maybe one maybe won the Tara Man region.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Not sure well, I think I think he was a
grand finalist, so he obviously one obviously won a region.
All right, Well, it's nice to know that you're.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Not dead, not well, not well.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Not if you're in the woman's magazines.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I know what I feel like. I have to put
a little bit of extra petrol in the auga today
because I'm a bit concerned that the clay at the
top of the hills is going to be a bit
firm as I start to dig these posts them later on.
So if you never hear from me again, Jamie, I'm
still trying to get a post.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
On the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now Are you really carrying the tantalized posts on your
shoulder like the great I've used.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
My little mower tractor and my mower trailer which is
as sophisticated as I get to load the post up,
and I've dropped them off and waiting for the neighbor
and the ghost mentioned to come around and open the gate,
and I'm going to lug them up to the top
of the hill and then I will be carrying them
up and down. But I have I'm going to strategically
choose the lighter one to carry the greater distance.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You truly are living on a life sentence block rater.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
It's the kind of renovation that you have to do
on one of these properties, that is it a new
kitchen or a new barthroom or a deck. But it
does make it worthwhile when you can see a nice
new fence in there.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Plus it gives you rural cred even if you are
in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. I enjoyed the story
by the way. You're punching above your weight there with
your partner Ruth, I might add too as well.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Yes, yes, and also great. She did a lot of
research and wrote a lot of the book as well,
and has helped out a lot on the on the
show of the book. So actually, next time I think
we're down in Wanka in a couple of weeks, I
do the White Kado Bay of plenty one and then
I've got to get all the way from the Bay
of plenty straight down to Wannaka for an evening discussion
on the book. So if anyone's down there part of
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the aspiring conversations, we'll encourage we'll bring something.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Along as well.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
If you've got a rural object that you think should
be part of it, bring it along. Because one of
the great things about the book you can discuss all
the many, many, many other objects that could have made it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
That is a great read. I can tell you that
because I've read it. Okay, radar, thanks for your time.
We'll catch you again and we'll have a look at
the East coast. Final.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Di's do that all right?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Good on your radar. It is twenty four away from
more one. You are with the country just getting organized.
Here up next rural news and sports news Keith Cooper,
Phil Duncan to come.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
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Speaker 3 (26:32):
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Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hiatyo, Michelle Watt, Good Afternoon, Got.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
For us Afternoon Jamie, and in the news today, Safer
Farms has welcomed its first three regional champions. That are
we taking the farm without her message directly into their
rural communities. Why are rapper sheep Farmer and beef Farmer.
Sorry Roger Barton who was the winner of the twenty
twenty two are who fenwa Young Mary Farmer Award for
Sheep and Beef Chloe Butcher Harries who is a twenty
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twenty four Young Farmer of the Oh so no she
she was Fenwa Young Mary Award for Sheet and Beef
far of the Year. I have that written quite wrong.
And also we've got George Dowson who was a twenty
he was a twenty twenty four Young Farmer of the Year,
who'll be sharing their own safety experiences, practical tips and
lessons learned with other farms. I can't think of three
better people to do that, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
All RIGHTEO, there we go. That's rural news now our
news boss machine has pooped itself. So sport sport, well,
I'd missed out on my game of golf over the
weekend and whirre a rapper, that's sports news. I should
play the liner, shouldn't I.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Sports on the country with alfco Q owned.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
That's rare.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Drag the clubs all the way up there, Michelle and
had to drag them all back down again. They didn't
get a go at all. I don't know what's happened
to the sports news. We will come back to that one,
but at least I didn't play badly this weekend.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Hey, that's exercise for you though, isn't it, Jamie dragging
those golf clubs around. Are Looking at the twelve thirty headlines.
In sport, Captain Mitchell Satner is defending his decision to
bowl first in the New Zealand's ninety six run T
twenty World Cup Cricket final lost to India and fifth
Transtatsman Women's final out of five on the World Semon
Series circuit between New Zealand and Australia. They'll meet for
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Vancouver at two eight pm and that's the sports.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That's sports news. Well rescued. You dragged that one out
of your backside quite literally. Well done, Michelle. You'll we'll
be in christ Church tomorrow for the Impact sum looking
forward to that one. I'm love the life of a
traveling salesman at the moment. Get home from that and
then it's off to Wanaka for Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Up next.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Talking about Wanaka. The bloke who's running the show quite literally,
former chief executive of Silver Fern Farms. These days he's
the chair of the Uppercluther Amp Society. King Keith Cooper.
Haven't chatted to this bloke on the country for ages.
His name is Keith Cooper. Some of his friends used
(30:23):
to call him King Keith Cooper because back in the
day he was the chief executive of Silverfern Farms. These
days he's on the show in his capacity as chair
of the Uppercluther Amp Society. Wanker Show on Friday and Saturday.
Rarely looking forward to that, Keith, before we talk about
that and the Lincoln fundraising dinner on Thursday night at Wanaka?
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Do you miss the meat industry? Do you wish you
were running Silverfern Farms now? With these record red meat prices?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Good afternoon, Jamie was going to be back on air
again and having a chat about these things. You can
obviously trace back these records licensed to all the foundation
work that was done in my cared in charge. So
we put in place with strategy, the strategies and our
delivery and the farmers should be happy with it and thankful.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Do you like the structure of the red meat industry
at the moment? Obviously Silver Fern Farms got in bed
with Shanghai mailing. That was under your watch, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
It was post me, that was post you. It was
post me And obviously you're alloding to Alliance.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Of Alliance and Dawn Meats.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yes, yeah, and that was always going to happen in
the industry, it's been under capitalized for years, needed new capital.
There's been newcomers have brought fresh capital, and there's been
new partners. So that's just the evolution of the industry
and it's needed.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You're a keen observer of the industry. Are these current
prices sustainable? We live in a troubled world.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Keith, Well, you go back to the structure of the industry.
It hasn't changed over the years. People have been doing
different things with branding, but ultimately we're still in the
commodity markets. Will be in acted by commodity price cycles
and currency price cycles, which are impacted by the global
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economic conditions and turmoils. So we are subject to the markets,
markets chains, and our volatile So history would say these
high prices will settle, if not decrease, and then they'll
probably bounce back at some point. But I would be
hesitant to say this is the new norm.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What is Keith Cooper doing with themselves himself? Should I
say these days? Are you retired and wanaka living off
all the money you made when you were a highly
paid chief executive?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well, as of the last hour, I've been loading bike
racks for the AMP Show onto the grounds for those
who bike around town. Who would have thought that? And
I've been chairing the AMP Society, and for my sins,
I've actually been pulling Kaylin around the show grounds for
the last three months to present a lovely green patch
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for the for the people that come to the wantic
To Show this weekend. So I'm member the time in
my life you could say.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, good on you, Keith, You've earned your retirement. I
know you worked hard when you had the top job.
Are you going to the Lincoln University backing sport dinner
at Alan Dippy's vintage tractor garage or it's more than
a garage on Thursday night? Are you an old boy
of Lincoln?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Ah, if you get the tie, you'll under way, aren't you. No,
I'm not an old boy, but I actually know a
lot of the old boys and I've been privileged to
be invited along by some of the old Scllywags that
were Illumini of Lincoln, who I came across in my
time at Silver fir And Farm. So it'll be good
catch up with a whole lot of people that I've
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spent a lot of time with.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wanaka show Friday and Saturday. Are you most famous for
the Jack Russell Race.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Oh, we've sort of become a bit that way. People
have tried to impersonate it. People have tried to have
a peg race, but I think we're certainly the home
of the Jack Russell Race. Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Now you've got some national competitions going on Friday and Saturday.
Obviously in Wanaica, Central Otago, it's heartland Fine Wall country.
You've got the New Zealand Supreme Marinos Show and the
New Zealand Fine Wall Supreme fleeh Show.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Yeah, we are becoming the home of some of these
national competitions, possibly because you Wantaka an A and P
show next to a lake in the high country as
a top spot to showcases national events. So yeah, we've
got the Fine Will Obviously the Marinos is the right
place to have it. X Men, Strong Men, Strong Women
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this year yep. So it's the home of many national
events now we're buying to pick up a few more
in the coming years.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I haven't been to the Wanaka Show for ages because
over the years i've been involved on this very weekend
and it's going on this weekend and Parmerston North and
it'll be great the New Zealand Rural Games. So this
is a chance for me to have a look at
Wanica for people like me who haven't been there for
a number of years. What are the must do is Keith.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Oh, We've got a bit of a catchphrase. It's the
same bit different and what we mean by that we're
saying it's an a MP show always will be. So
it's the same priniers last year, but it's what we
have is the add ons. This year we've got an
All Breeds Beef group around up which is focusing on
young people and beef. Every great show needs a great bar.
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We've got a Scapegrace bar this year. One of how
Sports are doing a motorbike demo force. And then on
top of that we've got the traditional things, the Blacksmith
and Ferry competition, Life and leisure, local art that was
new last year hugely popular. We've got the Agri Exchange
back for the second time. This is our focus on
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all things technically if you like or agritech things on
farm to assist farmers and how they increase increase their productivity.
Then got Jack lass Away. So part of what we're
doing here is trying to focus on things and encourage
industry participants that work with farmers to come along. And
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then there's the entertainment side of it as well, and
then the course of the exhibitors, and then there's a
trade store, so there's something for everybody.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Looking forward to it. Friday and Saturday. The one Aker
show the Lincoln I don't know if there's any seats
left for that. Just google that one see if you
can get a seat for the Lincoln University backing Sport Dinner.
Guest speakers for that one, Andy Dalton, Gary Stead and
Rachel Stead Keith Cooper. When I'm finished my MC duties
on Thursday night, we'll have a beer. It'll be good
to catch up again.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Great stuff and it's always good to chat on the
Farming show.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Well it's the country, Keith. Move with the times. This
is not like twenty fifteen when you were a highly
paid chief executive of Silver Firm Farms we've all moved on. Keith, Hey,
you'll see yesterday's man, so am I in a lot
of people's mind. I'll see you not yesterday but on Thursday.
Thanks for your time. Great, Thanks Jenny, welcome back to
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the country. Great weekend and the wire Rapper for the
Golden Shares and the World Sharing Championships. Met lots of
great people. Great to meet Roger Cox, three times Golden
Shares Open winner, Shane Mcmanawaan Lynette, his lovely wife hosting us. Fantastic. Gee,
they've got a fantastic farming operation. We'll see a bit
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him at the Impact Summit over the tomorrow and the
Zander McDonald Awards tomorrow night. I just want to give
a shout out to someone we met at Martinborough, Mary Lowry,
former HUNTERBLL farmer these days in a wik and I
retirement village. Mary won't mind me saying this. She's close
to one hundred than she is fifty, but gee, she's
got a lot of life and a great to meet you. Mary,
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absolutely fantastic. You keep listening because, as I say here
on the country, every listener is a prisoner. We do
appreciate your listening. We'll be back to wrap it next. Hey,
that wraps the Just got a text and from my
offside a cousin, Hamish mackay fell in here on the
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country reminded me Roger Cox and the valves and drench ads.
Those were the days. We'll catch you from christ Church tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Get a New Zealand and Welcome to the Country. I'm
Jamie McKay. The show brought to you by SUSU and Farmlands.
Really appreciate the support gold for our first guests, the
first couple of New Zealand sharing Roland Smith and Ingrid Smith.
Also on the show today, Terada, the voice behind the
FMG Young Farmer Contest. Of course the Grand Finals and
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New Plymouth and July. But before we do that, we've
got to get through the regionals. They held the Taranaki
Manala two regional finals on Saturday. We'll find out what
went on there and has this rural icon namely Radar
gone soft. Keith Cooper we used to chat to him
in this capacity as the chief executive of Silver Fern Farms.
(01:08):
These days he's the chair of the uppercluther A and
p Society. Putting in the hard yards ahead of the
Wanaka show Friday and Saturday. Remember we've got the big
Lincoln University raising funds for Sport Dinner as well and
Phil Duncan, Monday's weather Man with his autumn update. But
(01:30):
let's kick off the show with, as I said in
the intro, the first couple of New Zealand sharing. Surely
they are now Roland and Ingrid Smith. Roland, I want
to start with you, winner of the World Sharing Championships
at Masterton on a magnificent Saturday night at the War
Memorial Stadium there. The world title was the one you
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were really after. Congratulations, We're all so proud.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Of you now that it was the one that there
was a goal, a heck of a final. It was
being a parent Oalse for Wall, Romney for Wall and
second cheer. So yeah, she certainly took a bit of
mental mental capacity to get through that final. And yeah,
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like I said on the night, I was absolutely buggered
after that. I was, I just everything went into the air.
And yeah, unfortunately in the open final, so half an
hour later I wasn't able to back it up. But
you know, and a deserve winner of Tor Henderson. What
an amazing athlete he is.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, he's your good mate. You're both the Northlanders. You
were representing New Zealand and the team's event. You won
that one as well. Now, Tour was a sheep ahead
of you, or got off the board a sheep ahead
of you in that World Sharing Open final, But did
you know in your harder hearts that you'd won that
because of your quality?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Look, I came off the board and I was very
happy with the way i'd sean and I had a
very solid you know, you can sort of I've done
a fair bit of it now and you can sort
of feel how things are gone. And I was, you know,
I was very pleased that I had. It was controlled
and I felt like I had done everything I could,
so certainly came away knowing they hadn't left anything the chance.
(03:16):
So you know, but you can never count out the
lights for Tour or Gavin or you know, there was
the current world champion in the final too, so you
know there's jam packs full of people, so you need
to count chickens. But I was quietly, quietly confident.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You mentioned the Golden Chars Open Final, which was the
final event of the night, and you did you got
some shocking sheep, if you don't mind me saying so, Roland,
you got a few kickers there, but you were looked
like you were physically spent.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, I when I pulled out the first sheep and
it was giving me a bit of jip when I
put it down, and my hand was a pretty cramping
when I was reaching for the hand piece, and when
I turned for the end of mine, my legs idarted cramping,
and I was like, oh, it's going to be a long, long,
nineteen more sheep after this. But yeah, just you know,
I think, you know, put everything into that World finaland
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which was which was a decision that I'd made before
even sure, and it was that there's going to be
nothing after this. So yeah, hey, look I'm not a
sharer at full time anymore at all, So a few
years ago it wouldn't have matter it at all. But
you know, sort of the mental side of it, when
you're not sharing, it certainly takes it out of you
as well, just trying to remember what you meant to
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be doing. So yeah, unfortunately you couldn't get the double,
but but we got the one we were therefore.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I think it was a perfectly scripted finish, to
be perfectly honest for New Zealand and the New Zealand
team and the New Zealand shear is you're getting one
each and probably getting the ones you both wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, and look at the most successful New Zealand
team in the history of World champs So how how
cool is that you know, to be a part of
that and you know sort of going out the way.
You know, you couldn't have written it better really, So
ye proud.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Did the forty minute delay because we had a bit
of a mix up with the sheep behind the stand there.
These things do happen. Did that forty minute delay affect you, guys?
Because it was right before that World Championship Open final.
You probably were revved up and ready to go. Then
you had to sit on your thumbs for forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, sort of, you know you're getting prepared to go
up and sort of come back in and tell us
how it's ten minutes sort of four times. It is
something that you know, you are sort of gearing up
and trying to be hydrated and eating at the right
time and all that sort of thing. I mean, it's
it's a very very taxing event to the twenty sheep final.
(05:42):
It's you know, sixteen seventeen minutes of you know, as
fast as your body can handle it, So yeah, no,
it definitely probably was a bit unnerving there, but you
know it's the same for everybody, so you just do
the best you can.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How tough with those big second share who tooth to
share that You've had a great summer in the Lower
North Island and the wirra Rappa region. They've grown out beautifully,
but gee, there was a lot of body masks to cover.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, and they were very, very physical, and I think
that's what took the toll in the open final was
just the sheer amount of straining to keep them under control.
Potentially that's because the technique isn't quite as good as
it once was when your full time sharing. Maybe that's
why I was quite as naked as I was. But
you know what a credit to the farmers. You know
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how many sheep were there, six or seven thousand over
the weekend, huge huge mission to get that organized, and
you're just very thankful for them to have them there
and be in such good condition. So I think everybody
was pretty happy to get to get to share such
sheep roland.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You weren't the only famous smith over the weekend. Your
better half Ingrid was featuring or so were you in
a very minor role too. I might add rollin on
country calendar and this was one of the best country
calendars for ages Ingrid, your mum, Colin, and Margaret Baines. Gee,
they're hard cases and hard workers. Did you enjoy the
program last night?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I did.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
It was really interesting because obviously they spend many many
hours filming and to see what they put in in
the shots that they put in was really cool and
just showcasing well won the beauty of the land that
they're on, but also mum and Dad's character, like they
just captured them and their work ethic and their values
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really well.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well. I love the quote I think from your father, Colin,
who said there's no place for any shirkers around here.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yes, very true.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We always knew to pitch in with enthusiasm whenever we
worked together.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, I love the way the family gets together to
do the annual sharing. And the interesting thing from my
point of view out of that was obviously the program
was about your mum and dad and the siblings you
guys as well, but there was another guy sitting in
the background with a very minor role. His name was
Roland Smith. That it wasn't even mentioned that he was
a sharer, let alone a world champion. Who was that
(08:14):
by design ingrid I.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Don't actually know, because he was ringing the board as
he always does. But yeah, when he comes to share,
he just skips his head down and gets the work
done and carries us all the rest of us all
through the day. So yeah, I'm not sure what they
didn't mention that. Maybe they knew he was going to
get a bit more publicity there. This weekend just gone.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, it's rather ironic that it's coincided. What a great
weekend for your family. And I love the story. And
we've talked about this one before. You and your mum
marg setting that world record the two stand for eight
hours remind me of the Tellies.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I did four seventy and Mum did four thirty
three for a total of nine oh three.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That is amazing. And your mum's still on the end
of the hand piece.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
She is, although she had a wee bit of an
accident a few weeks ago, so she won't be on
the hand py s anytime soon, but up until that point,
she yeah, she still loves it.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
She gets up there, we'll.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Give each other spell she's on everybody's stand is having
to go, and she's still a very, very capable sharer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now I'm going to be talking to Radar are wee
bit two to Radar shortly on the show, And he's
been featuring in a woman's magazine, Ingrid. I wouldn't be
surprised if you the first couple of New Zealand Farming,
Roland and Ingrid Smith, they might want to cover for you, guys,
and a woman's magazine simply because if not for Roland's
acting ability, for your for your profile as the made
(09:45):
up farmer.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Well maybe haven't. I haven't had any emails yet, but
I'll patiently.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Wait tell us about the made up farmer.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay, So that started a few years ago. I was
a mum of small children. I've been you know. I
had a career as a bank manager and as a
serializer rep. And I was at home and I really
Rollie was always out working super super hard, and he
was our main breadwinner, and I felt like I wanted
to contribute financially. And I came across this lipstick that
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doesn't come off and got the opportunity to sell it.
So I started selling that under the name KII kisses.
But as our benches evolved into farming and I became
more involved with the farm side of things but was
still wearing makeup. I kind of changed my brand to
be the made up Farmer, which is kind of a
play on words because one, I wear makeup while I'm farming,
(10:44):
but also on a day to day basis, I feel
like I.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I feel like I'm just making it up as I
go along. And yeah, I had quite a following. I
just I liked doing entertaining social media posts about I
don't know anything and everything, just doing some lips sinking,
and then I get the odd troll that tries to
tell me I can't do what I'm doing while wearing makeups.
I kind of hit back at them, which has brought
(11:11):
me quite a few like minded women.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So it's all good fun.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
It's a little bit of extra money, and it's Yeah,
it just seems to be growing and growing over the
last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, you've got a great following. I know all the
girls that work here follow you, and they think it's wonderful.
How do you deal with the old keyboard warriors? I mean,
it's part and parcel when you get a profile.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Yeah, so I like I anywhere is allowed to their opinion.
That they're allowed to share their opinion, and I will
often use that as content and I will make a
real coming back at them.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
But if I get.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Too nasty, I just block them. It's just not worth
giving them their attention they so desperately crave. But I
do find that when I come back at these people
that it brings more people who are like me to me.
So it does have its downside. It is it's hard
to deal with. Sometimes it affects me less now than
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it did because I make it into my advantage. But yeah,
the plus sad is that more women like me say
and they follow me and yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well you're doing a great job. Make sure you keep
up with it. Okay, tell me back to you. Roland Smith,
is this it for you? Did we get the hint
of a retirement speech between you and Norm Haraway. I'm
not quite sure the message got out there on the Grande.
I got the feeling that you were saying to Norm,
that's that I'm out of here. I'm gone.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, so it's actually a lot to remember. It's obviously
when you know, they announce, you know, the winner, and
the emotions go through your head. You know, I have
been lucky enough to win it back in twenty fourteen.
Obviously twenty seventeen never got the chance to defend it.
I was next into the team, which was which was
pretty tough. And then in twenty nineteen I was second
by point zero one of a point there. So, you know,
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to finally come back and and to be able to
prove to myself, you know, after hip surgery and all
those sort of things along the way that I you know,
to me, it's always important to back up something by
doing it again. It sort of cements the thing. And
that's always been the goal, was to win it again.
So yeah, to be able to achieve that, even though
I'm not a sharer as such anymore, it's been a
(13:23):
pretty tough sort of a journey of the last six weeks,
but yeah, that was the goal was This was it.
There's no more for me anymore, so I won't be
competing it in his Zeald Shares or anything like that. Yeah,
and to be able to go out on top of
pretty awesome. So I just forgot to mention it when
I was speaking, But yeah, no, there's Yeah, that's me done. Potentially,
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in the future of my kids decide they want to
get into it, then I might come back and support
them and share along with them. But yeah, for the moment,
we'll be sitting back and helping the future sharing rather
than being being in it. Yeah, that's me, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I was really impressed by your Northland mate Taller Henderson,
winner of the Golden Shares Open final. He's a week
bit younger than you. He's still a very experienced sharer,
but he'd have to be odds on. You would think
in three years time in Australia.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
One hundred percent. He's spent ten years over there sharing.
He's a very very capable marino sharer, so you know,
as far as an all round sharer and he's only
he's a good as it gets. So yeah, look, it'll
be interesting to see whether or not he decides to
keep on his journey. I'm sure he will. But again,
it's a big, big sacrifice to be at that level,
(14:40):
whether it be on your family or whether it be career.
You know, whether us was farming every time that we
decide to go to be competing, you know, you're sacrificing,
whether it be on farm decisions, because farming is an
everyday decision. Farmers know that, so you know, a big sacrifice.
So you know for how much a journey that him
(15:03):
and the same we need to make. And again that's
the reason that I'm stepping away now is because you know,
that's enough for us and for me and focus on
the future of our farming and things like that. But yes,
it's in a very good state house sharing industry. Look
at the one hundred and twenty open shares on the
(15:23):
weekend and you know, look, we got very very very
good future.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I believe yea.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And it was great to meet Mike Anderson Tower's father
who drives them all around the country quite literally to
support his sharing. And I'll tell you who else it
was great to meet. I was walking over for a
bear and the fans owe. Unfortunately that closed the bar
on me Roland while the delay was on. Anyhow, we
got back in there, Shane mcmanaway and myself and I
ran into a bloke who introduced himself as Roger Cox,
(15:51):
and I said, well, I know who you are. You've
won three Golden Sheer Open titles and it was great
to catch up with John Fagan, so David's older brother
as well, who's also won a Golden Shar's title and
the Golden Pliers. And I said to these guys, we
need to start a campaign, Roland, and you'll be all
for this. Before the Open final, we need to get
all the previous winners up on stage for a photo
(16:13):
while we've still got them.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, there's some legends in our industry.
And you know it's great to see John. I saw
him before the final there and you know, and David.
How amazing. You know, David Fagan, he's you know, well,
he's the goat of our industry and still there supporting
and helping you and even Johnny Kirkpatrick, you know, up
there making sure everything was being on before the final.
(16:37):
You know that some incredible people in our industry and
you're just very thankful that they pop back, which is
what it's all about, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Okay, Roland Smith, Ingrid Smith, thank you so much for
your time, Ingrid. A great country calendar, one of the
best I've seen ever. You're from a legendary family. You
keep up the good work as the made up farmer
and Roland Smith. You just enjoy doing what you love.
You've got iron disease, get onto those diggers and the
tractors and away you go. You've earnt it.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Cheers, cheers Jane, Thank you, Ingrid.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
There we go. Roland Smith and Ingrid Smith. They're absolute legends.
And what a great, what a great weekend it was
in Masterton. The Golden Shares. Of course, we've got the
New Zealand Shares coming up in Tiquity and early April.
She was attempted to go to that one. Up next
to Radar I in jest I talked about rolling the
(17:29):
Ingrid being in the women's magazines. They might be with
Ingrid's business just as social media channels, but anyhow, Radar
has been in them. So we're going to talk to
him about that and the FMG Young Farmer of the
Year regional finals they're continuing on. That's up next on
the Country. Our next guest is a rural icon. He's
(18:03):
taken a break from his farm. He's been lugging tantalized
posts over his shoulder, sort of a West Auckland version
of pine Tree Meads, but has this rural icon son
of a Whitecaddo dairy farmer. Gone soft? Has he sold
his soul to the woman's magazines? I was making my
(18:24):
way home from the Golden Shares yesterday in the airport
lounge and there it was the New Zealand Woman's Weekly,
Desperate Fergie's Next Move. This is Sarah Ferguson. She's very dangerous.
Engelbert humpadink I feel as young as ever. Just a
couple of the stories that grabbed my attention. He's had
a lot of work done on his face, That old
guy but Terader Andrew Lumston. What's the story of a
(18:47):
bloke like you being in the women's magazines?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Look to be honest, I haven't read the story. Actually,
we were doing some promo obviously for the book that
came out last year, and we've got various book festivals
that have been attending over the last a little while.
It's got rural Keevi country, rural New Zealand and a
hundred objects, and so, you know, you like to get
the word out there that amongst all the different audiences
(19:09):
that the book is out or the show is out.
In fact, I just did the world premiere of the
live version of it last week at the Hamilton Arts Festival.
So we'll we'll be trucking that around. So any anywhere
you can get a little bit of a mention about
about the book and about things. Reminds people that you're
not dead, Jimmy, you know, and I'm clearly in good company.
There's another another great redhead.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And there Bergie.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I've had less work done than than Engel Bird, but
I've got a good moisturizing regim. I put my tumb
block on this morning because we're having an unprecedented last
bit of late summer up here in Auckland. It's dry
drying the white caddow. It was pretty dried out in
Tadannaki Manawa two as well, you know, not something we'll
had for the last couple of months.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, I was a wire rapper for the weekend and
we've talked about this already, but my goodness, they're having
a royaler of the season. And you should have seen
radar the size of the sheep they had to share
in the Golden Shar's finals. They have had a very
good summer. Indeed, Radio let's go across to the other
side of the Lower North Island the Taranaki man Or
(20:12):
two regional final. What happened over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Look, Charlie, what's going to happen? A new power couple
emerged in the farming sector in the Taranaki man Or
two region. I've done this for a while. I've probably
done more than fifty or sixty regional finals. I've never
seen an engaged couple when all four of those of
your of your your sectional prizes. So Sarah Lockhart engaged
(20:36):
two David Reesby, who took out the title and Sarah
she was stoked. She took out a couple of the
practical things. Let me just have a look. She took
a resports and I have never seen someone so happy
to win her own power tools. Agrisports Milwaukee sponsors that
they give you a nice voucher. So Sarah took out
the egg Resports. David took out the Agri Knowledge Prize.
(20:58):
He's a smart guy. Sarah also, I'm just flicking through
the category. Sarah also took out the Agri Business Award,
and David took out the agris Skills Like. What a
spread for a young couple and very happy. I suspect
for their relations who went with that narrows down the wedding.
The wedding presents we're going to have to get. But no,
David reeveesbeat former Grand finalists back I think season fifty
(21:19):
six and that wet, wet weekend up in fun at eight.
He is back and you can really see, you know,
you see people win this, particularly in those regionals and
they head through to the Grand Final and the raw
emotion from the young guy. He worked so jolly hard
to get back to it, pushed all the way to
the end by you know, by his fellow competitors. And
(21:40):
it was a pretty strong field too. There were plenty
of people who had competed before. So a great win
for David Reesby.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, surely the first couple of young farmers is the
brother and sister, Tim and Emma.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Look, Tim dang Pool, you've got You've got Tim Pole
and sorry Tim Dangen and Emma Pool, but you've also
got Chris Paul, husband of Emma. He was a pretty
good Grand finalist as well. I think did he come
second to Tim Maybe, yes.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I think he did. Yeah, they kept it in the
family for a couple of years.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
There they really they really really did. Don't know, all
the very best to them. Where what are we now?
Over halfway through we've got four of the seven done,
so we've got a great lineup of young Grand finalists
and we've got three more to go.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You're off to the East Coast this weekend, then you
get a break for a fortnight why Kattobay have plenty,
then you get a break I think for Easter Northern
Regional Final. It's all building towards that big Grand Final.
The Shear in New Plymouth, New Plums.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah, I believe the practical day is in gorgeous Stratford,
so I'll look forward to that, and then I think
this first week of July we're down there as well,
so it's going to be interesting. You've You've got a
lot of tough and very smart Grand finalists so far
from around the regions, and I suspect you've probably spoken
to some where young Jack Taggart, he was actually there.
He won Old Angie a few weeks back. We've got
(22:57):
Thomas Lee from Otago Southland and Bryce Wynn took out Pairsman.
So there's the four of them so far, and there's
another what twenty twenty four competitors now sitting around thinking
is it going to be me to make up those
final three and.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Thomas Slee, of course, son of Richard Slee, who's a
former New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year. They're keeping
it in the family as well. Maybe they're the first
family of young farmers.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
They are. And actually we had your old mate Andrew
Hoggart was there to present some prizes on Saturday as well.
He's a former Young Farmer of the Year two thousand
and three. I think he won. And we both stood
there and went, you know, some of these people probably
weren't even born in two thousand and three, And sure
enough one of the young organizers from the Young Farmer's
Club went, yeah, I wasn't born until two thousand and nine.
(23:43):
I was, oh, great, wow, Now.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I think my old mate Andrew Hoggard right. No one
likes the corrector, but sometimes people need to be corrected.
I don't think he won the Grand Final. I think
he was in the Grand Final because my records I'm
just looking and speaking off Mike here would suggest that
Robert kempthorm another good Southland to one in two thousand
and three.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Oh well, maybe maybe he didn't. I thought it. Well,
maybe one maybe won the Tara Man region.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Not sure well, I think I think he was a
grand finalist, so he obviously one obviously won a region.
All right, Well, it's nice to know that you're.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Not dead, not well, not well.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Not if you're in the woman's magazines.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I know what I feel like. I have to put
a little bit of extra petrol in the auga today
because I'm a bit concerned that the clay at the
top of the hills is going to be a bit
firm as I start to dig these posts them later on.
So if you never hear from me again, Jamie, I'm
still trying to get a post.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
On the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now Are you really carrying the tantalized posts on your
shoulder like the great I've used.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
My little mower tractor and my mower trailer which is
as sophisticated as I get to load the post up,
and I've dropped them off and waiting for the neighbor
and the ghost mentioned to come around and open the gate,
and I'm going to lug them up to the top
of the hill and then I will be carrying them
up and down. But I have I'm going to strategically
choose the lighter one to carry the greater distance.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You truly are living on a life sentence block rater.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
It's the kind of renovation that you have to do
on one of these properties, that is it a new
kitchen or a new barthroom or a deck. But it
does make it worthwhile when you can see a nice
new fence in there.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Plus it gives you rural cred even if you are
in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. I enjoyed the story
by the way. You're punching above your weight there with
your partner Ruth, I might add too as well.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Yes, yes, and also great. She did a lot of
research and wrote a lot of the book as well,
and has helped out a lot on the on the
show of the book. So actually, next time I think
we're down in Wanka in a couple of weeks, I
do the White Kado Bay of plenty one and then
I've got to get all the way from the Bay
of plenty straight down to Wannaka for an evening discussion
on the book. So if anyone's down there part of
(25:46):
the aspiring conversations, we'll encourage we'll bring something.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Along as well.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
If you've got a rural object that you think should
be part of it, bring it along. Because one of
the great things about the book you can discuss all
the many, many, many other objects that could have made it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
That is a great read. I can tell you that
because I've read it. Okay, radar, thanks for your time.
We'll catch you again and we'll have a look at
the East coast. Final.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Di's do that all right?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Good on your radar. It is twenty four away from
more one. You are with the country just getting organized.
Here up next rural news and sports news Keith Cooper,
Phil Duncan to come.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Nothing lefts a magma be small, look your stock fall.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
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Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hiatyo, Michelle Watt, Good Afternoon, Got.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
For us Afternoon Jamie, and in the news today, Safer
Farms has welcomed its first three regional champions. That are
we taking the farm without her message directly into their
rural communities. Why are rapper sheep Farmer and beef Farmer.
Sorry Roger Barton who was the winner of the twenty
twenty two are who fenwa Young Mary Farmer Award for
Sheep and Beef Chloe Butcher Harries who is a twenty
(28:20):
twenty four Young Farmer of the Oh so no she
she was Fenwa Young Mary Award for Sheet and Beef
far of the Year. I have that written quite wrong.
And also we've got George Dowson who was a twenty
he was a twenty twenty four Young Farmer of the Year,
who'll be sharing their own safety experiences, practical tips and
lessons learned with other farms. I can't think of three
better people to do that, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
All RIGHTEO, there we go. That's rural news now our
news boss machine has pooped itself. So sport sport, well,
I'd missed out on my game of golf over the
weekend and whirre a rapper, that's sports news. I should
play the liner, shouldn't I.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Sports on the country with alfco Q owned.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
That's rare.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Drag the clubs all the way up there, Michelle and
had to drag them all back down again. They didn't
get a go at all. I don't know what's happened
to the sports news. We will come back to that one,
but at least I didn't play badly this weekend.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Hey, that's exercise for you though, isn't it, Jamie dragging
those golf clubs around. Are Looking at the twelve thirty headlines.
In sport, Captain Mitchell Satner is defending his decision to
bowl first in the New Zealand's ninety six run T
twenty World Cup Cricket final lost to India and fifth
Transtatsman Women's final out of five on the World Semon
Series circuit between New Zealand and Australia. They'll meet for
(29:39):
Vancouver at two eight pm and that's the sports.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That's sports news. Well rescued. You dragged that one out
of your backside quite literally. Well done, Michelle. You'll we'll
be in christ Church tomorrow for the Impact sum looking
forward to that one. I'm love the life of a
traveling salesman at the moment. Get home from that and
then it's off to Wanaka for Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Up next.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Talking about Wanaka. The bloke who's running the show quite literally,
former chief executive of Silver Fern Farms. These days he's
the chair of the Uppercluther Amp Society. King Keith Cooper.
Haven't chatted to this bloke on the country for ages.
His name is Keith Cooper. Some of his friends used
(30:23):
to call him King Keith Cooper because back in the
day he was the chief executive of Silverfern Farms. These
days he's on the show in his capacity as chair
of the Uppercluther Amp Society. Wanker Show on Friday and Saturday.
Rarely looking forward to that, Keith, before we talk about
that and the Lincoln fundraising dinner on Thursday night at Wanaka?
(30:45):
Do you miss the meat industry? Do you wish you
were running Silverfern Farms now? With these record red meat prices?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Good afternoon, Jamie was going to be back on air
again and having a chat about these things. You can
obviously trace back these records licensed to all the foundation
work that was done in my cared in charge. So
we put in place with strategy, the strategies and our
delivery and the farmers should be happy with it and thankful.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Do you like the structure of the red meat industry
at the moment? Obviously Silver Fern Farms got in bed
with Shanghai mailing. That was under your watch, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
It was post me, that was post you. It was
post me And obviously you're alloding to Alliance.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Of Alliance and Dawn Meats.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yes, yeah, and that was always going to happen in
the industry, it's been under capitalized for years, needed new capital.
There's been newcomers have brought fresh capital, and there's been
new partners. So that's just the evolution of the industry
and it's needed.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You're a keen observer of the industry. Are these current
prices sustainable? We live in a troubled world.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Keith, Well, you go back to the structure of the industry.
It hasn't changed over the years. People have been doing
different things with branding, but ultimately we're still in the
commodity markets. Will be in acted by commodity price cycles
and currency price cycles, which are impacted by the global
(32:06):
economic conditions and turmoils. So we are subject to the markets,
markets chains, and our volatile So history would say these
high prices will settle, if not decrease, and then they'll
probably bounce back at some point. But I would be
hesitant to say this is the new norm.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What is Keith Cooper doing with themselves himself? Should I
say these days? Are you retired and wanaka living off
all the money you made when you were a highly
paid chief executive?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well, as of the last hour, I've been loading bike
racks for the AMP Show onto the grounds for those
who bike around town. Who would have thought that? And
I've been chairing the AMP Society, and for my sins,
I've actually been pulling Kaylin around the show grounds for
the last three months to present a lovely green patch
(32:59):
for the for the people that come to the wantic
To Show this weekend. So I'm member the time in
my life you could say.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, good on you, Keith, You've earned your retirement. I
know you worked hard when you had the top job.
Are you going to the Lincoln University backing sport dinner
at Alan Dippy's vintage tractor garage or it's more than
a garage on Thursday night? Are you an old boy
of Lincoln?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Ah, if you get the tie, you'll under way, aren't you. No,
I'm not an old boy, but I actually know a
lot of the old boys and I've been privileged to
be invited along by some of the old Scllywags that
were Illumini of Lincoln, who I came across in my
time at Silver fir And Farm. So it'll be good
catch up with a whole lot of people that I've
(33:40):
spent a lot of time with.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wanaka show Friday and Saturday. Are you most famous for
the Jack Russell Race.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Oh, we've sort of become a bit that way. People
have tried to impersonate it. People have tried to have
a peg race, but I think we're certainly the home
of the Jack Russell Race. Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Now you've got some national competitions going on Friday and Saturday.
Obviously in Wanaica, Central Otago, it's heartland Fine Wall country.
You've got the New Zealand Supreme Marinos Show and the
New Zealand Fine Wall Supreme fleeh Show.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Yeah, we are becoming the home of some of these
national competitions, possibly because you Wantaka an A and P
show next to a lake in the high country as
a top spot to showcases national events. So yeah, we've
got the Fine Will Obviously the Marinos is the right
place to have it. X Men, Strong Men, Strong Women
(34:37):
this year yep. So it's the home of many national
events now we're buying to pick up a few more
in the coming years.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I haven't been to the Wanaka Show for ages because
over the years i've been involved on this very weekend
and it's going on this weekend and Parmerston North and
it'll be great the New Zealand Rural Games. So this
is a chance for me to have a look at
Wanica for people like me who haven't been there for
a number of years. What are the must do is Keith.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Oh, We've got a bit of a catchphrase. It's the
same bit different and what we mean by that we're
saying it's an a MP show always will be. So
it's the same priniers last year, but it's what we
have is the add ons. This year we've got an
All Breeds Beef group around up which is focusing on
young people and beef. Every great show needs a great bar.
(35:23):
We've got a Scapegrace bar this year. One of how
Sports are doing a motorbike demo force. And then on
top of that we've got the traditional things, the Blacksmith
and Ferry competition, Life and leisure, local art that was
new last year hugely popular. We've got the Agri Exchange
back for the second time. This is our focus on
(35:44):
all things technically if you like or agritech things on
farm to assist farmers and how they increase increase their productivity.
Then got Jack lass Away. So part of what we're
doing here is trying to focus on things and encourage
industry participants that work with farmers to come along. And
(36:05):
then there's the entertainment side of it as well, and
then the course of the exhibitors, and then there's a
trade store, so there's something for everybody.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Looking forward to it. Friday and Saturday. The one Aker
show the Lincoln I don't know if there's any seats
left for that. Just google that one see if you
can get a seat for the Lincoln University backing Sport Dinner.
Guest speakers for that one, Andy Dalton, Gary Stead and
Rachel Stead Keith Cooper. When I'm finished my MC duties
on Thursday night, we'll have a beer. It'll be good
to catch up again.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Great stuff and it's always good to chat on the
Farming show.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Well it's the country, Keith. Move with the times. This
is not like twenty fifteen when you were a highly
paid chief executive of Silver Firm Farms we've all moved on. Keith, Hey,
you'll see yesterday's man, so am I in a lot
of people's mind. I'll see you not yesterday but on Thursday.
Thanks for your time. Great, Thanks Jenny, welcome back to
(37:00):
the country. Great weekend and the wire Rapper for the
Golden Shares and the World Sharing Championships. Met lots of
great people. Great to meet Roger Cox, three times Golden
Shares Open winner, Shane Mcmanawaan Lynette, his lovely wife hosting us. Fantastic. Gee,
they've got a fantastic farming operation. We'll see a bit
(37:21):
him at the Impact Summit over the tomorrow and the
Zander McDonald Awards tomorrow night. I just want to give
a shout out to someone we met at Martinborough, Mary Lowry,
former HUNTERBLL farmer these days in a wik and I
retirement village. Mary won't mind me saying this. She's close
to one hundred than she is fifty, but gee, she's
got a lot of life and a great to meet you. Mary,
(37:44):
absolutely fantastic. You keep listening because, as I say here
on the country, every listener is a prisoner. We do
appreciate your listening. We'll be back to wrap it next. Hey,
that wraps the Just got a text and from my
offside a cousin, Hamish mackay fell in here on the
(38:04):
country reminded me Roger Cox and the valves and drench ads.
Those were the days. We'll catch you from christ Church tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
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