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October 5, 2025 • 37 mins

Hamish McKay talks to Richard Wyeth, Wayne Langford, Phil Duncan, and Mark Patterson.

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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 Brent You're specialist in
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Commencing, countdown engines, arm to check, ignition and May God's
Love be with you, Miss.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Constructed to me, this is the Country brought to you
by Brand It is Mental Health Awareness Week. I'm Hamus
mckaye and for Jamie mckaye for another week or so?
Was he swans away over there on the far coast
of Australia. After watching the All Blacks beat the Wallabies.
He night, I'll be happy about that. I hope the

(01:00):
rooster is not waking him early in the morning. Still
though he was a little bit grumpy about that pre match.
Good to see the All Blacks, a Lackeye and co
Young Tupaya are liking it. Razor seems to be starting
to get his finger on the pulse a little bit more.
Back to back wins. That was good. How good's that?
Rubber Man? Reese Walsh, I hate the Broncos, keep drinking

(01:21):
the water. Rees fantastic world under you and the Broncos
eh and the keyw coach winning that that was magnificent.
The day Noel and Saga rolling on talk about a minefield.
Say there you go plenty to keep you entertained on
the farm at a busy time of the year when
you're hitting about in the you too, he might be
down there. You know what's the water cooler equivalent on
the farm? I suppose it's the local a having a

(01:42):
beer at the local watering hole, the Avenue pub or
the parvat pong AAA where they had a bit of
fun over the weekend, I understand. Coming up on the show.
The latter's from the New sinile A CEO Richard wythe
but Weather Chat with Phil Duncan. It is mental Health
Awareness Week and we speak to a man who is

(02:03):
very very prominent in that field from his own experience
too and always happy to share that our president of
Federated Farmers and Wool into China. One of the many
things that we will discuss over the course of the
next hour.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
It is nine after midday.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
You are tuned into the country on your Monday. Hamish mackay,
Bo Luke and Luke Duke. Jamie McKay of course still
swining over there in Perth, probably out for a round
or two of golf once he gets up over there.
I hope the rooster's not still out his window and
waking him early. Jamie. The things he has to put
up with, that poor guy, right, I hope. But he
does love a challenge. Now. Speaking of loving a challenge,

(02:52):
our next guest certainly does. He is the new CEO
since May of sin Lay, Richard Wythe How are you?

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Good?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Thanks Hamish, Yeah, great to have you on the show.
I mean, am I right to say you do love
a challenge?

Speaker 7 (03:07):
Yeah? Absolutely? I get bored pretty easily, so my challenge
is always good.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Nothing boring about taking over Sinley, though, would imagine? How
has it been the time you've been running the ship?

Speaker 7 (03:18):
Yeah, it's certainly been interesting.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
I started at the back end of May and walked
into a pretty few significant manufacturing challenges, so you so
I had to hit the ground running. There wasn't any
time for nice handovers or anything like that. But it's
been good. It's been a good, good few months.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Do you feel like there's been a bit of a
positive turn in that time since May, since you've been
at the Helm.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Yeah, it's interesting, isn't It's like any challenge was sort
of just you just got to build momentum, and sometimes
you have a few steps back, but you've just got
to keep work on building that momentum. So I think
certainly the announcement of the North Island asset so last
week is a real positive and that builds big momentum quickly,
but we've still got to get out baby steps and
make sure we do the the basics well too.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, so momentum when you get there too. It's perception too,
isn't it. Because instantly when I read that story and
SUDDENY go okay, there's a bit of a sea change
happening here, and the plans and the goals you have,
you can start to start to see them over time,
I guess become a reality.

Speaker 8 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean momentum and positiveness is really important now
and people come to work and goa right, we've got
that thing done, and now we just we can just
keep winning us a bit like a sports team. I
use sports and analogies all the time. And hesh, I
was watching that Dallas Cowboys Netflix program on the Plan
the other day, and you know, they went through a
number of years of really poor performance and they started
building up, building up, and then they had a long

(04:39):
tenure of really high success and you know business is
quite similar in that respect.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I suppose are plenty of good argue that the
Crusaders were the most rubbish team around in the early days,
are super rugby begin and then you know, rose to
their challenges. So there's all sorts of sporting and analogies
we can use, Richard, So what are the future visions
cina A too? What does that look like?

Speaker 7 (05:01):
Yeah, look, I mean there's two parts to it.

Speaker 8 (05:02):
So the short term is just operational stability and quality performance,
you know, to the end of this year, and then
really it's right we've got to focus back on done
sound on Look, I haven't I'm still working on it.
So my goal or my objective by the end of
March is basically have a really clear strategy, a really
clear plan of what we're doing for the next five years.
So you know, there's a lot of things we can do,

(05:23):
but strategy is about choice at the end of the day.
So it's really deciding with the board what are we
going to be going forward. And I think you know,
the bones of this business are absolutely really strong, so
really good foundation to grow from. So I'm very excited
about what that looks like.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, and I know here you say it's about from
being reactive to proactive, key kind of change there, you know.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
I mean I look around this business and you know,
when your hear is on fie, you're running around like
a mad person. You're not you're not taking the time
to think purely because you can't. And you know when
you're just having to know you've got to fix the problem,
You've got to do a root cause analysis. All of
that time and energy is important for that period of time,
but it doesn't allow you to look forward. And I

(06:10):
think that's the big shift. I want the whole business
to go on. So they've actually got the time to
think about how do we you know, what do we
look like and how do we execute that a bit
better so we don't have to be reactive. So yeah,
that's that's a journey wrong Hamish, yep.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
So when you when you go and slice three hundred
and seven millions of debt three hundred and seven million
dollars of debt with the sale of those North Island
assets to Abbit, how much breathing space does that create?
How much time does that give you? As opposed to
as you say, flying around like a you know something
or other something or other.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
Yeah, look, I mean it's we've carried a lot of debt.
The main the thing with data is that it's ultimately
is just money. And what that really costs you is
I mean you've got to spend time with you know,
instead of talking to one bank and you've probably got
ten of them in the room, so that takes a
bit more coffee to get through. But aside from there,
it just it gives you the space that you can
survive as a business. I mean, twelve months ago, you know,

(07:05):
the board we're having weekly daily meetings just about around survival.
So it does give you that breathing space and it
allows us to look at what we're going to do
and where we're going to invest that money going forward.
So it's yeah, I mean being having very little data
is certainly a good thing in the dairy industry.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So the subsidiary Dairy Wicks tell me just a little
bit more about that. That's obviously performs pretty well. And
as a proactive business.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, absolutely, it's a predominantly a consumer business, very proactive.
Tim Carter leads that he's done a fantastic job over
many years leading that business and he's got a great
team of people around him. And you know, they've got
the dairy Works brand in Alpine and Talbot Forest and
they're mainly focused on consumer in New Zealand a little
bit of food service as well, and they're branching out

(07:51):
into Australia and you know, good stable business with good
profits and for me it's really exciting. They've got a
great opportunity to continue to grow that business.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
So you've been there since in the role of CEO
since May. Richard, you said March would be about when
you'd really like to have your your finger on the
pulse up. We had another conversation around then you'd feel
confident that you'd have a few more ducks in a row.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yeah, I absolutely know.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
By then, you know where we're set in terms of
how we've delivered against our operational stability for the next
six months and really have a view of what the
next sort of three to five years is going to
look like.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
You don't come to this as a rookie, Richard, obviously,
you know, you have your You've had experience with Westland.
You were there at a time of great transformation then
and you know, and also before that Meraca up in
central North Island. You know, you've been pretty hands on
for quite some time.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah, look I have.

Speaker 8 (08:51):
I mean I cut my first three years at Open
Country prior to that, so I think.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
I mean, I've been.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
Involved in building factories. Actually someone that asked me the
other day and I think it's over a billion dollars
worth of assets over so the eighteen years have been
involved in the industry and I've seen a lot of
things and yeah, so look, I hope I'm well placed
to help this business grow and that's certainly my intention.
We need a bit of time, but yeah, look, I

(09:16):
think the industry has evolved a lot. It's fragmented with
obviously the foundation of Fonterra in the early two thousands.
We've seen some consolidation over the last few months which
has been really interesting with Mediaca Matara Valley and obviously
our divestment as well.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
So yeah, it's an interesting and dynamic time for the
dair industry. But that's what's great about it.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
You know, we are the backbone of the New Zealand economy.
We'll see the money flowing into rural into urban areas. Eventually,
it'll take a bit of time. But you know, we're
delivering a huge amount of value for the country, so
it's exciting to be involved in the industry. And certainly yeah, yeah,
it's incredibly dynamic, which is great fun.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Back by ant of the Country took the words right
out of my mouth, Richard wat CEO of sin Lay.
You're based out of Canterbury, out of cross Church, Richard,
is that.

Speaker 8 (10:02):
The Yeah, absolutely, sitting in the office and it doesn't
stand at the moment. I've certainly I'm a big believer
in you know, being with the engine roomors.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
So yeah, based the christ Church. Yeah, so no, we
love it down here.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, but you might have had a cheek your weekend
at the wire rapper. Did you did you anything to
report from there? Did you discover you know, anything that
you might like to report.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
I tell you what, it was pretty weird, but they
need a bit more rain up there. It was actually
weird in christ Church.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
But now you've got family, all the all the family
and the wire episode. Try to get up to Marston
and still got a bit of a farming interest up there.
So just go and check on that and make sure
my cousin's doing a good job of looking after it
BC contracting and put a bit of a plug into
stew But he's a he's a great, great character who
looks after the fam for me and does a great job.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
So no, I always love getting up to Marthden. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I think I seem to remember a wife and the
Wire Rapper forty team at some I don't know, there's
some rings a bell.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Anyway, Yeah, probably cousin Joe.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
It was a pretty pretty good footballer. Yep, we've had
we've had a few, but he was in the war
for Bush team.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, the mighty Warre Rapper Bush a good stuff. Hey, Richard,
good at chat and we will chat again. No doubt
Jamie will at some stage, or it may be myself
if he decides to swam off to a rugby game somewhere.
But really appreciate your time, Richard. Why, thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (11:20):
Thanks Amus, Cheers, cheers.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
The real poppy version of David Bowie that we got
by the mid early eighties, wasn't it. He love a
bit of Bowie. I know that that is Michelle Watts
selection out of Dunedin today. I don't know what the
Jay mister would be saying about Bowie selection songs. So
I'm going with them. I'm okay with them, I'm all good. Hey. Later,
I'm going to check in on the results of the
sharing at Alexandra. Over the weekend, we're going to catch

(12:09):
up with the Zealand first, Mark Patterson. I wrote down
in my notes here Market Patterson, so he's responsible for
the market. Mark, you know what's coming up. We'll talk
to you a little later on also Phil Duncan, we'll
check in with the weather as well. And of course
right now though it is Mental Health Awareness.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Week, looking out for our farmers on the country with
Federated Farmers proud supporters of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Great to have your company on the country and a
very important topic Mental Health Awareness Week. To discuss this further.
Federated Farmers National President all around good guy Wayne Langford
get owayne, how are you?

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Oh, not too bad? Beautiful sunny day and go on
bdays so you can't.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Complain about that radio look way, And there's an important
thing here with Mental Health weekness that you have a
role with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission now that
provides that rural voice to that table. That's obviously very important.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, it was an opportunity that was put forward by
the minister around a year ago, actually arounds Tummer year ago,
and so I was I of selecting on the Mental
Health and Wiling Commission there obviously, Yeah, as you say, Nanning,
a rural voice. The rural community is the second largest
community outside of Auckland City, which is often quite forgotten,

(13:29):
but I'm quite keen on reminding people of and so
so yeah, to get a real voice around that table
and to make sure that the represented was extremely important.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Absolutely of course the backbone of the country. But I
don't need to go there with you on that particular topic.
So Federated Farmers obviously big supporters of Mental Health Awareness Week.
And you know it's all about visibility, isn't it. It is?

Speaker 5 (13:54):
And you know what we're really conscious of is that,
you know, we we spend a lot, a lot of
our time, you know, lobby and advocating for farmers and
and and really pushing the buttons there at times, and
every now and then you've just got to step back
and and just make sure as they'll think over says,
you know the top paddics all right, or you know
you're looking after yourself and and and so that's why

(14:16):
we're really keen to get in behind Mental Health Awareness
Week just to make sure that we do do slow
down and reflect on that. It's an important topic across
not only all New Zealand, but particularly rural New Zealand.
So so it's really really cool to be a part
of it.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, nationwide, it's it's it's it's all of us to
get the topic without a doubt. What's the current state
of play for rural mental health support with the government?
Is it a strategy? Is it working?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, so it's a work in progress, I'd say that much.
I'd say we've gone from this phase of acknowledgement and
awareness which is which has been fantastic. And I mentioned
a few of those that have done some great work
in that in that place, you know, Sir John Kue
and stug Avery, Mike King. That's those sort of people
that have they've got to up there and got amongst it.

(15:01):
Now we're moving into this next phases I like to
call it where we're going to say, right, what are
we going to do about this and what does it
look like going forward? And so I know that the
Royal sector came together and as you know, I've been
calling on teammate to do this for quite some time.
And this this is one example where we all got
together really well. We had young farmers, Royal Woman, darien Z,

(15:24):
Beef and Lamb, all all the industry bodies plus plus
a lot more of the primary sector as well, ficially
forestry and others in the room to say, hey, what
can we do here? Obviously some of it comes down
to funding and being able to do what we do.
So it's great to see that the government have got
them behind us as well. And you would have seen
TESSI and at Field days there when they announced almost

(15:46):
a million dollars a year to go towards our Mental
Health Fund which the primary sector groups can apply for
and to help them do what they do. So that's
a pretty cool result.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, fantastic. Now long might this in the case your
personal story, It's been well documented, but it is always
positive when it is when other people become aware of it.
And I've all but got yolo tattooed onto onto my forehead.
But just before we wrap it up today, what a
couple of practical tips just for somebody to have a

(16:18):
better day, better week. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
See the other time you're particularly on farming things have
flat out, you know. Just I can't emphasize enough to
get off farm just a little bit. I went for
a drive, you say, with my wife. We just went out.
We got an ice cream on the beach and just
and just fresh enough of it, if you know what
I mean. Just just get off farm, do something different
and it just gets things gone. The other thing, which
I'm big one I was just talking to someone about

(16:41):
the other day, is it don't be shy to go
and give a mate hand on his farm. It's amazing
how good farming is when you're when you're not in
charge of making all good decisions and you know, on
your own farm, you got to think about this, and
you got to think about that, and you've got to
do all these things. When you go and have a
mate on their farm, you're just farming. It's just it's
the thing that you enjoy. And so no doubt he'll

(17:03):
appreciate the help and you'll get a bit of you know,
you'll get a bit of something for your own soul
out of it as well. So yeah, I haven't been
out tailing lambs for a while. That my best man's
plays out on the coast. But I'm just saying this
reminds me I better better ring him up and see
if he needs a hand to knock off a few
towels on his lambs are string.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Get out there, Get out there, Wayne Langford, Federated Farmer's
National President. This is Mental Health Awareness Week and hopeless
old romantic at and ice cream at the beach, You
beautiful man, cheers Waite much appreciate it, thanks time. Okay, Michelle,
what Dunedin? What was your hopeless romantic ice cream at
the beach? Good for your mental health moment over the weekend?

(17:44):
Please chick in right now.

Speaker 10 (17:46):
I attended the Port Charmer's Seafood Festival and did something
very English and had ice cream and fish and chips
in the room.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
My goodness, I saw this old old BBC flip last
night just scrolling social media. Years one tends to do
occasionally about the staple diet of the North and the
South and the East and the West of the UK.
How good were the fish and chips? They tell me
what was it? Did you know what the fish was?

Speaker 7 (18:09):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (18:09):
Fish was so good. I shared impanades. That wasn't traditional
fish and chips. It was crab and lemon, grass, very fancy,
but very nice, very nice.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Very Scottish gentry landed in Dunedin type. That's pretty cool. Yolo,
of course, yolo if you heard me mention that is
Wayne's sort of those monogram Really, isn't it. You only
live once, You only live once, You only get one
shot at it. Make the most of it. Get yourself off,
go and have some what was it again?

Speaker 10 (18:34):
You had? I sound very fancy.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm not really at all. We're going to come back
to earth. Next to what we're going to do. Weather
coming up. We're going to have weather. We'll have news,
rural news, and sport. We'll check out those sharing results
from Alexandra. As the sharing season gets under, what I'm
gonna get it as many sharing competitions as I can,
as I can. I might. I might even enter the
Victorians class.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Hey, you take me along with the old I'd love
to go watch it. Actually, I actually really bucket list
thing for me is learning how to shear a sheep.
Just putting it out there.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Okay, I think I could teach you how to share one,
but not fast.

Speaker 10 (19:08):
I don't think i'd be fast.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Jamie did beat me at the sharing because I ran
out of steam. I was like one breath. We had
a two sheep shearing competition at the New Zealand Sharing Championship,
particularly a few years back. I absolutely was just owning
him and then I ran out of puff, big fat me.
That was the one who before you know, before I
got a few pounds sliced off for a rematch, a
rematch all that'd be good, Hey, that'd be good. You

(19:32):
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Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
The name Phil Duncan just means weather. Phil joins us.
Now get a fel How are you?

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Oh, I'm good, buddy, How are you good?

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Thank you good? Thank you some some Look. I spent
my time between Manawatu and the Auckland and Auckland these days,
and it wasn't any warmer up in Auckland. She's been
pretty chilly, and I hear it's dry and the wire
wrapper plenty of rain in Canterbury. Give us the lowdown.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
It's a full on spring this year, and you know,
it's keextbook spring in many ways because we're getting all
the windy weather at the right time and most of
the rains falling on the western side of the country.
But it is starting to dry out the east, and
we are starting to get complaints from the west about
how wet it's come. So we're getting sort of more

(20:42):
than the average amount of rain right along the western
side of the country average to more than above average,
while eastern areas are seeing you know, average to below average,
especially about Hawks Bay wideed Upper and now we're seeing
Marlbourg starting to show signs of drying out. Although Canterbury
did get some rain over the weekend. I'm not sure
exactly how much fell everywhere, but there was some rain
that came through over the last couple of days.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, I understand that it's the case in canna Read,
but is that early enough to be drawing out down
those prone areas that are prone to dry on us
down the Hawks By Water uper Marlborough.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah, and most of these areas you're sort of coming
into that time of the year where you start to
feel the westerly is blowing and the ground starts to
dry out, but there are some problem areas like Hawks Bay,
where it's been dry than usual pretty much all year
in some parts, you know, particularly around sort of a
thirty minute drive outside of the Hastings area. You're inside
that bubble of drive. The normal and the windy weather

(21:38):
we're getting is it's only going to make the East
dryer because we've got these westerly winds off and on,
gale force at times, maybe even severe gale as we
go into the coming weekend. And so it's just spring
at peak spring right at the moment. This is the
time of year that it happens, but to some areas
it's just been going on for two months nearly.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, yes, okay, so some golf ones. Who's most
likely to cop.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
That, Well, it's it's probably the mountainous areas around the
South Island, the hills and the ranges, so that that
includes large parts of Southland, Otago, Canterbury, Marlborough and then
in the in the North Island, Wellington Wided Upper and
the ranges going up along Hawk's Bay and into the
Grisbane area. Those are the areas most likely to be windyest.

(22:22):
But you know, there's a number of areas around all
of those places that could be just as wendy. So
it's it's going to be a classic spring week this
week with some polar airflows in the South Island and
at the same time subtropical airflows coming into the country
as well.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, well on a person that I've got a cheeky
couple of nights with my lovely wife coming up on
the Coramandal this weekend. Can you give me a little
bit of insight and do what might be happening over there.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Well, it might be a little bit windy, that's the
that's the main seas of this weekend, so it probably
won't be too bad in that area. Coramandal probably fairly dry,
but there might be some showers coming through on the
sun by the looks of it, So yeah, it's not
a bad weekend. It'll be warm with subtropical winds.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Right. Our magnificent hosts, they won't mind me mentioning John
and Katrina. They look after us beautifully, so the weather
won't matter. It'll just be lovely anyway. It's twenty nine
years since I met my wife today, best of my
life twenty nine years ago today, pel there you go
to it just get Yeah. I always remember October sixth
I'll never forget it. Hey Fell, thank you very much.
There as Phil Duncle with the latest weather. Keep an

(23:25):
eye out for those gale winds up in the and
the Nalia higher country. Hopefully it can get a bit
of moisture through the eastern part of the country too,
where it started to dry out a bit. I'm Hamus
mckuaye in for Jamie mckaye. You are listening to the
Country wherever you are, whatever you might be doing, I
hope you're having a cracking old Monday. The show brought
to you by Brand Don't Forget It as mental health

(23:46):
awareness Week. Last week we heard about those osies getting
a bit of wall away to China. Rull away, Are
we getting a wall away to China? We're going to
be talking to Mark Patterson from his Hidland first on
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Speaker 10 (24:26):
Happy anniversary, Homish.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Happy anniversary from meeting wife day. Is that happy.

Speaker 10 (24:32):
Anniversary that's you're you're a good husband, remembering that.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Nine years ago. Years. It's a beautiful story. It's right
up there with Wayne Langford's you know, ice Cream on
the beach.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
Oh, actually his story how he met his wife, the
great one. I have to relay it to you later on.
But in rural News, Alan Dippy is as well known
and WONNICA for not only his developments but his astonishing
vintage tractor collection, which has caused chaos of blocked roads
as thousands turned up to get a peak. Apparently, Duppy's
love of tractors went out of control, from which just
one in twenty seventeen to about three hundred today. But

(25:07):
he's having trouble storing them in his two rugby field
size sheds, so be selling more than one hundred of
them in an auction. He's not sure how much the
collection has cost him over the years, but it was
enough for his accountant to put their foot down and
forbid him from buying any more. Imagine seeing that many
tech tractors. And if you ever been to Wanaka, I
don't know if you have Hamish, but that wheels over
Wanaka or the Toy Museum actually fantastic place to go.

(25:31):
Definitely worth going there.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh love and old Mascy thirty five has got one line.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
Round there you go awesome and right let's get on
with sport.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Sport with AFCO Kiwi to the bone since nineteen oh four.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Alright, let's keep the bottom tooth down and full up
the comb. The results from the new Zella Morinos Shares
Sharing More Handling Championship held at Alex over the weekend
out In final the title went to a Amy Boothman
see from Crookwell in New South Wales. Jamie Shaw has
twelve sheep and twenty one point twenty one minutes six seconds.

(26:09):
Runner up out of Matawa, Brett Roberts just yeah two
or three points in. It's a reasonably comprehensive victory for Jamie.
Bothman Chris Vickers of Palmerston finishing in third place. Now
man Jack Fagan in fourth place. He was the quickest
quickest off the board. Oh no, he was just behind
Pirta Abraham who finished in fifth place. Actually to be

(26:30):
fair the open wool handling no surprise here. Look at
this name synonymous with success in wool handling. From working
out at Gisbon and Motchuaka Joel Henari second place to
Pagan Remedy and Funi Waihapi of Alexander in third, Jasmine
Topoki of Napier finishing in fourth place. The senior sharing
title was won by Tafaani Taylor of Owakuni and the

(26:54):
senior final in the wool handling Tiam Mason from Pure
Pure taking out that as well. And congratulations to the
shearing and wool handling team of Koru Mah that does
ring a Kha pa Wai, Troy Christy, Pagan, Timody and
Funi Wayhappy who won that particular event. Oh this is see,
this is winning our appetite, Michelle to be at a
big shearing competition or more of them, including the World Championships,

(27:17):
the Golden Cheers coming up in March. And I just
wanted to mention the rubber man Reese Welsh. Can that
boy bounce off anything? How good were the Broncos? He
there you go. I'm Reilly Handy from the All Blacks too.
That's our sport. Okay. It is twelve forty five fifteen

(27:44):
minutes away from one time flys. You're having fun. The
country board to you by Brant. We talked about that
all that Ossie wall going into China last week, the
big spike about a thirty five percent hike and demand
prices in a very short plea period of time. We're
going to talk around that now. And a man who's

(28:05):
been to a China recently on rule duties will impact
China up the Nanjing, New Zealand First Minister for Rural
Communities Associate Minister for ag Mark Patterson today, Mark, how
are you so harmus? Good?

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Good? Good?

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Good?

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:21):
So how did we go up in China? What did
you see? What impact did we make and what can
we glean from it going forward?

Speaker 12 (28:28):
Well, it must have been one of my better speeches
because we've seen the price surge off the back of it.
But the supply that the message of constrained supply coming
out of New Zealand for strong or sent me has
obviously got through. We are the Saudi Arabia strong wall.
We are the major supply of the premium strong white walls.

(28:50):
So that's good. But also you know, demands is returned
to natural fibers. There's some regulation out of the EU
that's also helping. So so yeah, on balance, dry very positive. Indeed,
where are.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
We at with strong wall compared to say a year
ago in terms of return to farmers and when you know,
when they were thinking about, you know, like how on
earth am I going to pay the sharers to knock
this stuff off? It's not even worth it. Where are
we at now, Well.

Speaker 12 (29:18):
You're certainly seeing you know, probably a twenty percent surge
over the last couple of weeks, so where it sits
as opposed to last year, I'll be pulling pulling that
out of my backside, but probably about a dollar a
kilo more, which is which is good. Now you'll be
getting a check rather than a bill for your sharing.
But we do know there's quite a long way to

(29:39):
go and we're just starting to get back. But at
least the signs of very very positive.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Okay, well that is good. I mean I'm happy with
that twenty percent now, twenty percent down the track, another
twenty minute. It all helps, It all rolls on the
Domino effect. Because he's the Aussies, Chris Rascally Olsi corresponded,
was telling us last week was about thirty thirty five percent.
He reckons a bit to do with the Chinese Army
having a bit of getting sort of new coats shirts
bar to bullets. Is that something that you heard that

(30:05):
they're getting that there'll be a bit of demand there
given how many of them there are about four million
of them.

Speaker 12 (30:09):
I think yeah, well, I think it's a uniform of
full Stop is a big market for their fine wall,
and of course we've seen that the New Zealand fine wall,
which is a smaller part of our clip of course,
but that's really responded in tandem with the Aussie price.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I think the main thing with our strong wall isn't
it that there's been a lot of many a talk
fest to many. But when you start getting an impact
like twenty percent, and as I say that domino effect
or at least and you're getting paid, you can actually
pay the sharers and not sort of pull your hair
out at I suppose they're almost at all Black level,
aren't they with the current all black team. You know,

(30:46):
it's the strong wall. The signs are the signs are positive.
Now other stuff going on here? You, of course, you
are Minister for Rural Communities. This is Mental Health Awareness Week,
Mark Patterson, New Zealand First, a very important week on
our calendar.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
Yeah, absolutely it is. We know that farmers, particularly success
are susceptible to mental health issues given the isolation that
often comes with the farming lifestyle and a rural lifestyle.
So you know, it's a good opportunity to just but yes,
check in on putting the shin a light on that.
And Matt DC myself actually have been going around as

(31:28):
Associate Minister of Health, go around doing these rural road
shows and just it's been quite apparent to me that
actually rural health in general, not just the mental health
side of things, has been under enormous pressure and just
trying to, I guess listen to what's happening on the ground,
what we're the real pressure points as where they want

(31:49):
us to intervene. So we've got some incredibly valuable feedback
out of I think we've done about twelve of those
around the country of the last two or three months.
But you know the other side of that is the
real support trust the Farmstrongs that we've got on behind
with our rural Health package that was announced that the

(32:10):
field goes and just trying to I guess elevate the
work that they're doing because they do some incredible work
for us in our farming community. So you know, we're
very grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Never enough though, never enough. We need everything we can.
What are the pressure points that you'd refer to?

Speaker 12 (32:26):
Well, I guess the thing is every every area is different.
You know, summit's like maternity services, others it's pharmacy, but
the consistent ones of workforce clearly. Travel allowances is another one,
and a real desire to deliver more services close to
home so that rural communities and people living in royal

(32:50):
communities don't have to travel through the base hospitals for
sometimes some relatively basic procedures. So it's just access to services,
I guess in general.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah, I think that's radical, isn't it, Because we've seen
some horror stories of a lack of a lack of
those that sort of will access and also slight from
the other end, a lack of understanding and putting things off.
So we must we must hammer away there. Okay, Mark,
thank you very much for joining us. That does Mark Patterson,

(33:19):
New Zealand, First Minister for Rural Communities, Associate Minister for
Aggres some good news on our strong wool here. I
was a bit dumb founder that we're only around about
four hundred and forty six million dollars of walle exported
one hundred and seventy six million of that went into China.
But come on, strong wool, come on back, come on
and the water is fine, need more of it? Eh,

(33:40):
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Great to had your company today on the Country brought
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I think as well. Right now recapping the show today
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(34:50):
assets and got rid of three hundred and seven a
million dollars worth of debt, we'll see what the positivity
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keep in touch with Richard on that one going forward
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He's our wonderful, wonderful president Federated Farmer's President Wayne Langford

(35:14):
and the Mental Health Awareness Week and his ice cream
out on the beach. He's the big one for getting
off farm, just getting off farm Goff, getting off farm Goff.
There you go? Was that Joff GoF or Joff Goff
or joff Hey? Okay, we are standing by for Hamish

(35:38):
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apparently there's been a bit of an incident. See how
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