February 4, 2026 • 37 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Jane Smith, Rachel Shearer, Chris Russell, and Phil Duncan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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I didn't mean in I'll just want.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
You back, but can I. Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome
to the Country. A better take that great doco on
Netflix if you're looking for something to amuse you. It's
only three parts as well, three episodes over the long weekend.
We've got lots to do before we head into the
long weekend, and I fully appreciate that a lot of
the farmers and people in the primary industry won't be
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getting a long weekend. A man who might be suffering
a long weekend is waiting on hold. Shane Jones, the
Prince of the Provinces. He's at White Tonguey. Good luck, Shane.
I'm going to get him on. In response to Sirien
Taylor on yesterday's show about gold mining and Bendigo in
Central Otago Jane Smith, North Otago Farmer Award winning environmentalists
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the demise of fake food. Interesting comments yesterday from Paul Jules.
I think it was Paul was his name, wasn't it?
From a Rabobank out of the Sydney office on fake chocolate.
We'll see what's happening. Apparently Italy has banned fake food.
Rachel sheerup pgg Wrights since GM of Wall reviewing a
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market on the up and up. Good news, good news
for the industry because remember this weekend we will be
finding out who is going to join who was going
to join TOA Henderson and of course Joel Henery in
our New Zealand team to take on or to compete
in the World Champs. Coming up with the Golden Shears
at Master and Chris Russell's ore Asie correspondent Pell Duncan.
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About three days late on the weather, we'll give you
a forecast for your long weekend and it's looking pretty good.
But up next we're off to White Tonguey. Here's the
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Prince of the Province's Martua, Shane Jones. We find him
today at White Tonguy, hopefully dodging the mud and the dildos, Shane,
You're going to have to dodge a few bullets over
your proposed mind gold mine in Central Otago. We had
Saren Taylor on the show yesterday. Did you get an
opportunity to hear what he said?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, and I've accepted his invitation to come to the
South Island and have a debate. I don't care if
it's in Terrasse or wherever it is. But look my
message to Sir Ian and that Elk, I've got no
time for this sort of chicken hearted approach in relation
to being scared of using our resources. I know that
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this is a particularly heated issue, but it's a smaller
part of a bigger question. How are we going to
create jobs, boost revenue, turn the fortunes of our economy
around if we don't take a risk and use areas
where we know there's proven natural resources. And by the way,
for those who pretend that growing grapes etc. In this
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supposedly spectacular landscape is something akin to the purity of
the Garden of Eden. Whatever we do on the landscape,
it changes the landscape. And this is only a tiny
little dot akin as I've said in the past, to
a beauty spot on the face of a on the
face of an alabaster looking beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I thought you were going to say a beauty spot
on your face.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Shane Sadly, there is a small matter of a double chin.
It may be hidden.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hey what about Serene's arsenic filled lake that got me worried?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Well, there you go, more of this misinformation. Arsenic oozes
out already from the schist rock that exists around that
part of Otago. And look, we're not talking about mining
as in the nineteen thirties, forties, fifties, sixties. It's very sophisticated.
Now you've got a huge mind just down the road
called McCrae's. And have you heard or seen of any
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catastrophic developments. No, they've continued to develop, They've continued to
find the right guard rails. My message to my foe
in ras is that you are not going to guilt
trip this government in denying Kiwi's jobs and new opportunities.
And what is largely an empty landscape in Otago. For
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a gold mine located in an area where the child
he's developed the gold mining activities in the past, Yes,
it will have some effect on the landscape. But put
it in proportion. Look, I rather think that a lot
of these activists around the Terrace area, what they're actually
doing is they're pulling up the ladder and they're denying
other Keywis from other parts of New Zealand the chance
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to move down there and enjoy twenty thirty forty fifty
years of mining activity.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The mc kray's mind, to be fair is kind of
in the middle of nowhere, I guess, And I'm just
playing devil's advocate here, Serene, Sir Graham, who's the other one,
Sir sam Nimbi is am aside. Perhaps there's no argument
about it. The central Otago landscape is perhaps more beautiful.
Can I say that it's a bit like your beauty spot?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah, well, of course it's got an amazing character to it.
But what does that mean you never have any wind farms?
Does that mean you never have any solar farms? Does
that mean they're putting far coming down there? Which is
the area's covenant farming that the vineyards. That's a tolerable
level of change to the landscape. It's a debate that
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shouldn't be driven by people who want to pull the
ladder up and Secondly, it's got to be settled, not
on this catastrophization that somehow we're going to have a
Jurassic set of outcomes. Let the process play out and
let the decision makers make their decisions on the quality
of the rational information.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We haven't got a diet for a venue yet for
the debate.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
No, no, no, I'm told that. I know my office
is dealing with Syrian and I look, I mean, he's
a very famous Kiwi and I tend to do my
politics be soft on my personality and hard on the issue.
I'm looking forward to it, whether or not I find
much of an echo chamber down there. But it's important
that South Island people concerned about the trade off between
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a mining and landscape that politician like myself from Have.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You been doing a bit of stirring of the affluent
over Penny Hener Ray.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Well, his grandfather is I may have told you on
this program, and very famous New Zealand who was the
last commander of the Great Marie Battalion of the Second
World War.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I suspect that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
What's happened is that Penny doesn't actually see a future
in the way that Willy sees it. I know both
of these guys well, but I also know Willy is
so indebted figuratively speaking in a friendship of many years
to JG. Miss tummy Heada, that he can't bring himself
to break labor away from the Maori Party, whereas Penny
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knows absolutely that the Maldi Party really have been something
to an ideological flesh in the pan. They've turned up
with all this sort of cultural peak cockery, and they're
going to find this year that there's no comparison, and
it's notonymous in all this ideological cultural peak cockery. It's
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not anonymous with political durability or effectiveness.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well. Shane Jones, Prince of the Provinces Marta, Shane, good
luck at Waitngui this weekend. I say, you might have
to dodge a few flying objects, but I'm sure you're
big enough and ugly enough to handle it.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
The last thing I want is that rather compromising object
that Stephen Joyce had to put up with coming anywhere
near my anatomy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
See you later, see Shane.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There he goes, always entertaining. Shane Jones, the Prince of
the Provinces. As soon as we get a date and
a venue for the debate between Saren Taylor and Shane
on mining gold mining in Central Otago. We'll let you know.
Bring the popcorn right up next Jane Smith in North
Otago the demise of fake food. Apparently the food pyramid
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has also been turned upside down according to Jane. And
fat is where it's at and can you leave it?
Jane Smith voting for Damian O'Connor in the way TACKI electorate.
Jane's up next?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What Ron the sun on using you'll ride and on
the starch a watch about the girl.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But your you were say got your lipstick? Markstlone your
co cup.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
She is a North Otago farmer, former warner of the
Balanced Farm Environment Awards and a bit of a favorite
here on the country. The punters lap her up. Her
name is Jane Smith. What a great intro that is, Jane.
I don't know whether you're caught up with Paul Jewels
from Rabobank, who I talked to on yesterday's show about
fake chocolate or coco free chocolate coming into vogue because
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the cost of cocoa beans is so high. It's good
to see that things like fake meat are failing around
the world because there's nothing like the real thing is.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
That exactly, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
And it's been really fascinating to see Italy taking an
actual legislative stance against synthetic food a a Frankenstein food
or Franken food. They call it so lab grind synthetic.
You know, it's almost something like out of a really
bad science fiction movie.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
And this decision that they've made is quite world leading.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Really, it effectively blocks the entry of cultivated so using
animal cells by the way, meat or milk. Not that
they should be allowed to use those terms, I believe so.
And as well as they talked about ultra processed food,
they're really wanting to push that out. And also they've
mentioned anything to do with GMO food, you know, be chemicals, feeds.
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So it's really fascinating and the most interesting thing I
found as a farmer, if you look deeper than the
decision itself, it's the reason that they made it. They
said it was one to protect public health and two
to protect traditional natural farming systems. So, you know, again
that's a wake up call for New Zealand, who seem
you know, some of our sector leaders in large corporates
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and hell bent on you know, bringing gmo food additives, intensification,
and that fake food sort of ties into all of
that as well, Jamie. So again I think that's a
really great turn of events.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And also at the same time, Jamie, I don't know
if you.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Saw that that the food pyramid so has actually been
turned up upside down so the way that it used
to be, you know, when our parents and grandparents were
learning home economics. So basically they're saying, actually, let's go
back to whole foods. Let's go back to high value,
high nutrient dense proteins and good fats Jamie.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
So you know that again.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Bodes well for traditional farming like New Zealand pasture raised
protein Jamie.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That is back, Jane, the latest from the education system,
and this really grinds my gears, and I think it
does yours as well. Look, the trouble with schoolers you
should either pass or fail, because when you get out
of school or university and you hit the real world,
you either pass or you fail. You get the job
or you don't get the job. We're not hardening young
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people up enough to the realities of the real.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
World exactly, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And I thought, you know, Eric Stanza and her team
are doing some good work in terms of standardization, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
But to see the new grading system.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So it is, and I just off my top of
my head is emerging, developing, consolidating, and then you're either
proficient or you're exceeding.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I mean you need a degree to even understand what
those grades mean.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
And then we've failed up to date as the last
twenty years with failed kids.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
To read and write.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
And now you know, to try to decipher that what's
wrong with her as you said, part will fail abc
D or even the achieved.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Not achieved or possibly you know, going above that.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
So Blair was yelling something at me today while I
was on the drafting gate this morning, Jamie in the yards.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't that I was proficient or
exceeding at my job, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So maybe I was just failing.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Or it might have been another word starting with an F. Anyhow,
I won't get in the road of a husband and
wife debate in the stockyards, Jane, and I see you've
got a new candidate in the waite Taki electorate who
you may choose or not choose to vote for, Damian O'Connor.
That's interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yes, the old ghost from the coast, Jamie. When I
heard the news, it was both both interesting and disturbing,
and equal parts, given that the economically unpalatable socialist Smaugas
board that the labor Greens served us up last time.
And you know, I've had it quite a bit to
do with Damien, particularly lately, and now I understand why
he was hanging around the wait Techi area. But I
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guess you know, as agg Minister and Trade Minister, Damien
consistently failed to stand up for farmers when his mate
David Parker treated as as environmental tourists and people literally
left exited our sector because of that, and the mental
health strain on farmers was huge.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
And it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
The wa Techi Electric is a really dynamic area, and
of course it was the birth place of social welfare
just up the road and Kourou in the Waheki Valley
in nineteen thirty eight when they were building the Waheki Dans.
But also at the same time, you know, the birthplace
of farming innovation with Thomas Brydon back in eighteen eighty
two with the first export of frozen.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Meat, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
So I know it's a large lecturate it incorporates just
south of Tamrou obviously, Omaru, Palmerston twice or Wanaka. You know,
it truly is ups to ocean, and I don't know
like it really concerns me if we did get to
a Damien in I sort of want to live in
North Itago, Jamie, not North Korea.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Shots fired mind you. Miles Anderson, your local bloke from
what I'm seeing anyhow's doing a pretty good job. But
good luck to Damien. Interesting times as we count down
to the November seventh election. In election here, Jane Smith,
good luck in the sheepyards stockyards this afternoon with your
long suffering husband Blair. Thanks Sammy, Thank you, Jane, twenty
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twenty five after twelf You're with the country today courtesy
of FMG. What company they are. They've been giving away
meat vouchers all week, five hundred bucks out Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and another five hundred today. We've got a special
representative can I call her a celebrity representative? That might
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be drawing a bit too long, abow, But we've got
a representative of FMG who's going to come in and
do the draw live for us for the final five
hundred dollar meat voucher, and it's all about National Lamb Day.
It's all happening next week. We've got the Parliamentary broadcast
on Wednesday, Southern Field Days on Friday, big National Lamb
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Day activity happening down there just outside of Gore. And
then of course next Sunday, February the fifteenth, one hundred
and forty four years I think to the day since
the Dunedin left Port Charmers bound for Europe, the birth
of our frozen export meat industry. So we've got that
to do before the end of the hour. Michelle's going
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to be in here for rural news as well, sports news,
Chris Russell and Phil Duncan whatever. I just want you back.
Oh yes, and I forgot one other thing up next.
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We are going to talk Wall. Now there's I'd almost
given up on strong Wall. To be perfectly honest with you,
I'd almost given up flown the white flag. It's back, baby,
and we'll be took. Rachel Sharer is the GM of
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PGG Rights and Wall. Look, this is a good news
story all bet coming from a low base, the recovery
in Wall, especially strong Wolf, and Rachel, I remember back
to your predecessor the late Grant Edwards, great bloke that
he was, and in those COVID lows. I think it
was about twenty twenty one, I said to Grant, looking
all all honesty, mate, I don't think we can do
a wall report because it's too depressing. We're just going
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to get negative feedback. He battled his way through that
You've been lucky to pick up the ball and run
with it. Gee, the wall market has improved from those
terrible lows.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yeah, it certainly has, and we're really grateful for that.
There's a lot of a lot of contributing factors, that's
for sure. That you know, at the end of the day,
New Zealand sheep farmers deserve for their wall to be
worth even.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
More than what it's what it's worth at the moment.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
But all the indicators are that we're heating in the
right direction. So it still always then cautiously optimistic, because
the good news is that it's sort of it's holding
these at these values, which is the most important thing,
you know, what it's like, Yeah, certainly goes up fast,
it can come down quickly too.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Strong. Wall prices have risen approximately thirty plus percent in
the past year, but here's the interesting stat and this
goes back to Grant stays, it's risen. The price of
strong wall has risen threefold since the COVID lows the
real lows of January twenty twenty one.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yes, and it couldn't have got much lower, that's for sure.
So no, we're very very pleased that in a relatively
short period of time the trajectory of wall has you know,
I think it's around eighty percent increase since twenty twenty
two the strong wall price. So long that continue on
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the output momentum.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And yesterday's sale at where was that Napeier Nake, Yes,
nape Oh, we won't about to say that for much longer.
We'll come back to that one. But so yesterday's sale
ninety nine percent clearance, strong will indicator up fourteen cents,
and this is despite an exchange rate at sixty and
a half US cents.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Yes, we were watching that with interest, thinking it may
have a greater impact than it did. But look, the
bidding from the exporters is still evident. They're still competing
to secure wall for you know that really prompt live
A're still taking orders. China particularly really active in the
market at the moment, so once again that the market
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was up. It is also you know up in the
North Island the good color walls kind of start to
come off now, so with that limited availability classics supply
and demand, that's where that's where the main improvements were.
But once again, even oddments, you know, the significant increase
and all the stuff that once upon a time you
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may have chucked away, that some of the oddments are
reaching prices nearly similar to those of not such well
presented fleeces.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So yeah, I was reading that the oddments up twelve percent,
four dollars sixty clean. That's ridiculous because as you say,
during those real lows bellies and pieces, it wasn't worth
boiling them up.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
No, and even this time, you know, six months ago,
the four dollars of sixty one was what we were
getting so good style fleeces. So yeah, there's still a
significant improvement there. And that's because those oddmnents, those bellies
and pieces get blended in with the rest of the
wall and made into products. So you know they're using
that traditionally to try and lower the price. That those
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prices are increasing because of once again limited supply.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Okay, really quickly to finish on we mentioned the sale
in NAPA yesterday. You're going to go to a single
selling center. I think it happens in what May. So everything,
all the weekly sales will be out of christ Church.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
That's right, well fortnightly sales and weekly during the peak
season will be out of christ Church. And the reason
behind that is really to get as many buyers as
we can in a room, you know, looking at the wall,
appraising the wall, and then they get into the room
and they fight like cats and dogs over that wall.
And also I think we've mentioned before Jamie the buyers
that come across from Australia who really add impetus to
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that to the bench, they're quite happy to fly into
our international airport here. And so at the end of
the day, we want to get our hard working news
on Farmers Wall in front of the many people who
are prepared to fight to buy it. So that's the
key reason that we'll be holding it down here and
down here in the South Island. But the North Island
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growers will see no difference and no change. Just their
wall will be presented to farm more buyers.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Okay, and good luck to all those sharers and wall
handlers this weekend who are looking to join Toyer Henderson
and Joel henare in our team to compete in the
World Championships alongside the Golden Shares and Masters in in
early March. Might see you there. Thanks for your time, Rachel,
Thanks Jamie twenty seven away from one. Thanks for Rachel.
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So I hope Roland Smith can make it. I'm a
bit biased, but that's last chance salone. I think for
Roland great share that is, it's going to be a
huge weekend for the sharing sharing sport industry. We'll update
all that on Monday's show. But up next talking about
sport sports news celeb reader celebrity possibly well, she's actually
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a gold medal winning athlete. That'll pique the interest to
read sports news. Michelle's got rural news. And we're going
to give away our last prize from FMG, five hundred
dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to the great team
at FMG, proud sponsors of National Lamb Day, No Big
(22:29):
It Up the storm It.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Sharing the love with a five hundred dollars meat voucher.
It's time to celebrate National Lamb Day with FMG and the.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Country, well with that Kirk gars liner. Let's give away
our final prize, five hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers.
Hopefully you spend it on LAMB for National Lambay Lame
Day courtesy of FMG and from FMG celebrity athlete Ruin
Dun Ghetto Ro. Good to have you back in the studio.
Is that is the jangle I can hear? Is from
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the two gold medals you've won at the Masters Games.
Now let's just qualify this awe bit. One was in
the ten k walk and I know you're a very
keen walker, but you were the only entrant in your age.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Group, right, I was, Jamie, because I've looked out that
everyone else went in the run and I was in
the war.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You finished first, but you also finished last. Yes, yes, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
It was embarrassing being up on the diace on my own.
But hey, you know I've got the gold medal run minete.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
And the other gold medal was for wine tasting. That's
not a sport.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Well, I trained very hard for it, Jamie, so one
might argue it is a sport. But there were seven
teams in that so it was great to take out
the gold in that very difficult too.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So FMG. Of course great sponsors. You're working for them
now of National Lamb Day. You're going to be in
Wellington next week. Are doing a bit of corporate hugging
with the politicians. Absolutely for the broadcast from the Parliament lawns.
It's going to be great fun.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Everyone comes together
for a beautiful cause as well. And she's a lamb
chop And.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I think Michelle is teed up? Have you teed up
Steve Abele? She's not on Mike at the moment. She's
trying to tee up Steve abel from the Greens just
so we can share the love for the broadcast. Right,
I've got a chocolate wheel and I've been threatened with
the sack unless I do the chocolate. Well, and there's
a reason for this. So here's the chocolate spinning wheel.
It's not a chocolate wheel, it's a spinning wheel.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Well you definitely had me at chocolate.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, yeah, and me as well. What do you think
of the I don't know whether you had yes, the
guy from rabobank on the fake chocolate. That sounds awful,
doesn't it good to see that real food is taking over.
So next week are you down at the Southern Field Days.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Yeah, I am and dad, So I will be with
that spinning wheel at the FMG site Thursday and Friday
and the team will be there on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So what do you spin to one?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Oh, there's some more Lamb vouchers as well, there's National
Lamb Day t shirts, there's merch and it's just a
bit of fun as well, and there'll be a full
team on site if you want to have a chat
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, we've got one final prize from FMG sponsors of
National Lamb Day to give away Rowena Duncan. Who is
the winner?
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Yeah, massive congratulations to Debbie Ashmore from South and do
you have won five hundred dollars worth of meat voucher
thanks to the great team at FMG. I can still
say that proud sponsor of National Lamb Day and of
course National Lamb Day February fifteenth. It is an a
chronic Kiwi celebration. We tip our hats to farmers and
world class lamb producers and it's one of my favorite
all time rural stories is how it all came to be?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yep, what is your official title that FMG is a
corporate hugger. Is that what you do?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
No, that's just what I do by nature, Jamie. But
my actual title as a client's propositions manager engagement. To
think about that for a moment.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, So basically, how do you fit that on a
business car?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
It's good hold the relationships between FMG and the various
sectors sheep and bee, horticulture, dairy, and make sure there's
insight flow.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You can get off that, mic because your replacement, Michelle
comes on. I must say Michelle's the dead opposite of you.
I used to call you the hard dog to keep
on the porch, but Michelle's a graft. She's an eight
or five sort of worker, unlike yourself. But we do
miss you, Row, We absolutely missed you. You're going to
do the sports news, but let's do rural and news
first with Michelle.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
The Country's rural news with Cod Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn bower Bread, visit steel for dot co,
dot NZI for your local stockist.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
Thanks Jamie. Just a couple of short stories. Beekeepers blocked
from getting to their hives mid harvest due to roads
closed by recent storms are expecting a lighter and later
honey harvest this year. So the storms across the Upper
North Island that happened in mid January have caused widespread
slips and this is affected then being able to click
their honey. But also the weather has apparently been an
issue as well. And also this weekend because we're not
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here tomorrow, the country's taking a break for the long
weekend for white honey. But over the weekend second of
the seven regional finals is happening down in Otago South
and for the Young FMG Young Farmer Regionals, and it's
eight of them are going to be vying for a
place at that table in the grand Final, Big.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Big week in Southland. Of course the Young Farmer Regional
Final down there and of course the Southern Field Days
getting underway Wednesday at y Murmur just outside of Gore.
His sports news with FMG Corporate Hugger Rowena Duncan.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Sports on the country with a FCO one percent ke
we owned, that's rare and.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Of course professional athlete. Yeah, two gold medals, two gold medals.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
What was your time for the ten k walk? Michelle's
a runner. You realize you're up against it here She
can run ten k's quite quickly.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yeah, well I can only run if I'm being chased, Jamie.
So I had been training around that one forty mark.
You told me I had to break one thirty, so
I did one twenty nine something. So yeah, the legs
were a bit sore after that. But hey, small ball
rifle shooting last night, first time ever, ninety one point two.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You have eather you go shooting things and the man,
not the man or too many toto.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I mean small ball was brilliant because they don't move.
But in actual sports news, New Zealand's Winter Olympic chefter mission,
Marty Toomey has praised his team's experienced athletes for easing
the nerves of the debutants. To me, says Zoey Sadowski,
Singer and Alice Robinson, attending their third games have altered
plenty of wisdom, and the green flag has belatedly dropped
on the new season of NASCAR. The opening ranks of
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the American Stockholm season was twice delayed from Monday in
North Carolina due to winter weather. Shane Van Gisbergen qualified seventeenth,
and that's your sports news, Jamie yep.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Now when you wandered in because you're staying at Hotel
Mackay at the moment.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Last night I totally ignored you. Sorry for being rude.
You had to talk to the program director instead. It
was like a yeah, I update. That's because I was
watching the third and final episode of Take That.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
You were engrossed.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Well, I love a boy band, you'd love a boy
and honestly the reviews of mixed on seeing online, but
it's a good story. It's Gary Barlow and then Robbie
Williams throwing the toys and the bitterness and then reuniting
and then you know, people loving Take That, the boy
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band for who they were.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
They have got a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Sound, they do. Indeed they've only got one good song
though anyhow. Up next to our Ossie correspondent, Chris Russell, Rowena,
good luck for your remaining events at the New Zealand
Masters Games.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Thank you so much and thanks for putting me up.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
To It's all right. And thanks to FMG your company
for doing the meat voucher prize packs this week. They
have gone off a tree a watch. He's our Ossie correspondent,
Chris Russell based out of Sydney, but he's not there today.
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He's in Bathurst under the shadow of Mount Panorama. What
a great sporting venue that is, Chris. This time a
week ago when we caught up with you, you were
sitting quite literally in the Murray River to cooled down.
It was so hot. The heat wave was on. The
heat wave has now gone. Unfortunately, it's left some scars,
particularly for Victorian farmers who lost twenty million dollars of
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livestock and the recent fires.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, and that's we're not even sure what a number
of animals have been killed in the fires, but it's
certainly a huge number and they're estimating around about twenty
million dollars worth. And of course the farmers are saying
how do we recover from that? A lot of them sheep,
which is you know, it's just something which I think
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they're really regretting, particularly the merino sheep. But the fires
really have ripped through right down in the Otway Mountains
and in various parts of Victoria and have been quite devastating.
And it wasn't just the heat, it was also the
northerly wind that came with that heat.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Jamie.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
What I found devastating. Not equally devastating, but devastating was
the Rugby World Cup draw. I thought it was going
to be a given Chris Russell that Australia or the
Wallabies would play the All Blacks at that wonderful OPTAs
Stadium in Perth. I was lucky enough to be their
last October for the Bledisloe Cup test. What a deflating draw.
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We're playing Chile and I think you're playing Hong Kong.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yes, I don't know who comes up with these, but
why would you put on the first game between Australia
and Hong Kong in an Australian hosted Rugby World Cup.
I don't get that really at all. I mean, it's
not as if it's an elimination thing where you know,
if you lose, you straight out the pool games go on.
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But anyway, that's what they've done. It's a mystery to me,
and it sounds like it's a mystery to you too, Jamie.
I think it's a mystery to everybody. We just no
one understands it. Everyone's criticizing it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Australia is set to export camel milk to the USA,
as you is wellness market Surgers. Is camel milk good
for you? What does it taste like?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, slightly salty. I've only ever had it once and
I found it. I wouldn't say it's something that I
walk over the road to buy and preference the cow's milk,
but it's certainly deemed to be something which people have
allergies to cow's milk, are able to use, and the
US apparently of taking to it. And they're about to
export the first sixty thousand liters of whole milk across
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to across to Los Angeles as part of a trial shipment,
and then they're saying that that's going to grow. In fact,
the farm that's doing this up in Queensland is going
to now milk twice a day. It's very different milking
a camel. You can't just use an ordinary shed obviously,
you've got to have taller sheds and the camel's a
little bit more finicky. These camels, of course, are not
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really camels. They're dromedaries, so they've only got one hump
and they came to the original camaliers who brought camels
to Australia when the paddle leamers couldn't get down the
Daling River.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
With a wall.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
They said, well, we'll do it for you when the
river's dry, and then they in turn got replaced by trains.
So all the cameliers just let their camels go in
the desert and they've been hanging around the desert ever since,
and people have been looking for uses for them.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Something else that hangs around like a bad smell on
Australia blowflies.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yes, well, Kagaroo Island. I spoke about this with Hamish
a couple of weeks ago when they were looking to
release these flies. Well they've now released them. They've bred
about two million sterile blowflies over there. The thing that's
unique about Lucilla caprina, which is the Australian blowfly that
causes fly strike, is that it only mates once once
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at the beginning of the season. So if you get
in first, it's your babies are going to be the
ones they produce. So by releasing the early these huge
number of sterile male blowflies, they mate initially with the females.
Therefore the progeny ain't happen because they're there ale and
therefore they're expecting they can eliminate Lucilla caprina from Kangaroo
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Island within two years, which would be amazing if we
could repleate that in Australia, well you know that whole
stripe problem becomes much more controllable.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Jamie Chris Russell, thanks for your time. We'll catch you
back again next week.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
No worries you love.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Za Very shortly. Phil Duncan to wrap the week on
the Country. Just a message from Farmstrong cause funded by FMG.
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farm well. Phil Duncan wraps the Country. He's a big
boy band fan especially take that. No time to talk
about that, Phil, Tell me what's going to happen for
the long weekends.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
Well, we've got high pressure. I'd like to say back
for good. That would be a good segue, but we've
got high pressure coming in this weekend, so it's around
the country. Off to the West at the moment, and
that's why we are going to see due to a
storm south of New Zealand, a brief bit of cold
weather moving into the South. Not majorly cold, but you'll
notice the temperatures up and down a wee that especially
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in Southland and Otago going through the long weekend and
a week cold front that tries to move up the
West coast on White Tony Day, bringing a little bit
of wet weather. So we've got some showers around the
lower half of the South Island on White Tony Day,
that brief bit of rain moving up the west coast,
and in the North Island because of a westerly flow,
there will be a bit of cloud and a few
isolated showers on the West and site. It's not going
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to be much mostly dry. Stays that way pretty much
into Saturday as well, not a great deal of difference,
and on Sunday we might see a few isolated afternoon
thunderstorms inland through both of the main island. But again
high pressure dominates the weather going right into next week
and potentially lasting right through till Thursday of next week,
when it may get a little more subtropical again for
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the North Island and Northwest is coming back into the
South Island, so it's a pretty settled we're the forecast.
It's one of the more settled ones that I've seen
over perhaps the last few months, so it's a nice change,
but still not perfect.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Who's your favorite boy band?
Speaker 11 (36:28):
I don't know, that's a hard question to It's probably
these guys.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, all right, Pel Duncan there from weather Watch. Monday's
weather Man on a Thursday. Enjoy your long weekend if
you're lucky enough to get one. We'll be back on Monday.
We'll tell you who's in our world sharing and wool
handling team. See you then.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
On you, We'll sign got your lipstick marks alone, your
cover cup. Oh yeah, you've got a business, your remotion.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Gott a there of shatter of dreams. Gotta leave it,
gotta leave it on it.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hi know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Whatever, sai whatever?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I didn't mean in I'll just want.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
You back, but can I. Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome
to the Country. A better take that great doco on
Netflix if you're looking for something to amuse you. It's
only three parts as well, three episodes over the long weekend.
We've got lots to do before we head into the
long weekend, and I fully appreciate that a lot of
the farmers and people in the primary industry won't be
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getting a long weekend. A man who might be suffering
a long weekend is waiting on hold. Shane Jones, the
Prince of the Provinces. He's at White Tonguey. Good luck, Shane.
I'm going to get him on. In response to Sirien
Taylor on yesterday's show about gold mining and Bendigo in
Central Otago Jane Smith, North Otago Farmer Award winning environmentalists
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the demise of fake food. Interesting comments yesterday from Paul Jules.
I think it was Paul was his name, wasn't it?
From a Rabobank out of the Sydney office on fake chocolate.
We'll see what's happening. Apparently Italy has banned fake food.
Rachel sheerup pgg Wrights since GM of Wall reviewing a
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market on the up and up. Good news, good news
for the industry because remember this weekend we will be
finding out who is going to join who was going
to join TOA Henderson and of course Joel Henery in
our New Zealand team to take on or to compete
in the World Champs. Coming up with the Golden Shears
at Master and Chris Russell's ore Asie correspondent Pell Duncan.
(02:11):
About three days late on the weather, we'll give you
a forecast for your long weekend and it's looking pretty good.
But up next we're off to White Tonguey. Here's the
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Prince of the Province's Martua, Shane Jones. We find him
today at White Tonguy, hopefully dodging the mud and the dildos, Shane,
You're going to have to dodge a few bullets over
your proposed mind gold mine in Central Otago. We had
Saren Taylor on the show yesterday. Did you get an
opportunity to hear what he said?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, and I've accepted his invitation to come to the
South Island and have a debate. I don't care if
it's in Terrasse or wherever it is. But look my
message to Sir Ian and that Elk, I've got no
time for this sort of chicken hearted approach in relation
to being scared of using our resources. I know that
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this is a particularly heated issue, but it's a smaller
part of a bigger question. How are we going to
create jobs, boost revenue, turn the fortunes of our economy
around if we don't take a risk and use areas
where we know there's proven natural resources. And by the way,
for those who pretend that growing grapes etc. In this
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supposedly spectacular landscape is something akin to the purity of
the Garden of Eden. Whatever we do on the landscape,
it changes the landscape. And this is only a tiny
little dot akin as I've said in the past, to
a beauty spot on the face of a on the
face of an alabaster looking beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I thought you were going to say a beauty spot
on your face.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Shane Sadly, there is a small matter of a double chin.
It may be hidden.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hey what about Serene's arsenic filled lake that got me worried?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Well, there you go, more of this misinformation. Arsenic oozes
out already from the schist rock that exists around that
part of Otago. And look, we're not talking about mining
as in the nineteen thirties, forties, fifties, sixties. It's very sophisticated.
Now you've got a huge mind just down the road
called McCrae's. And have you heard or seen of any
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catastrophic developments. No, they've continued to develop, They've continued to
find the right guard rails. My message to my foe
in ras is that you are not going to guilt
trip this government in denying Kiwi's jobs and new opportunities.
And what is largely an empty landscape in Otago. For
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a gold mine located in an area where the child
he's developed the gold mining activities in the past, Yes,
it will have some effect on the landscape. But put
it in proportion. Look, I rather think that a lot
of these activists around the Terrace area, what they're actually
doing is they're pulling up the ladder and they're denying
other Keywis from other parts of New Zealand the chance
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to move down there and enjoy twenty thirty forty fifty
years of mining activity.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The mc kray's mind, to be fair is kind of
in the middle of nowhere, I guess, And I'm just
playing devil's advocate here, Serene, Sir Graham, who's the other one,
Sir sam Nimbi is am aside. Perhaps there's no argument
about it. The central Otago landscape is perhaps more beautiful.
Can I say that it's a bit like your beauty spot?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah, well, of course it's got an amazing character to it.
But what does that mean you never have any wind farms?
Does that mean you never have any solar farms? Does
that mean they're putting far coming down there? Which is
the area's covenant farming that the vineyards. That's a tolerable
level of change to the landscape. It's a debate that
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shouldn't be driven by people who want to pull the
ladder up and Secondly, it's got to be settled, not
on this catastrophization that somehow we're going to have a
Jurassic set of outcomes. Let the process play out and
let the decision makers make their decisions on the quality
of the rational information.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We haven't got a diet for a venue yet for
the debate.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
No, no, no, I'm told that. I know my office
is dealing with Syrian and I look, I mean, he's
a very famous Kiwi and I tend to do my
politics be soft on my personality and hard on the issue.
I'm looking forward to it, whether or not I find
much of an echo chamber down there. But it's important
that South Island people concerned about the trade off between
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a mining and landscape that politician like myself from Have.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You been doing a bit of stirring of the affluent
over Penny Hener Ray.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Well, his grandfather is I may have told you on
this program, and very famous New Zealand who was the
last commander of the Great Marie Battalion of the Second
World War.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I suspect that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
What's happened is that Penny doesn't actually see a future
in the way that Willy sees it. I know both
of these guys well, but I also know Willy is
so indebted figuratively speaking in a friendship of many years
to JG. Miss tummy Heada, that he can't bring himself
to break labor away from the Maori Party, whereas Penny
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knows absolutely that the Maldi Party really have been something
to an ideological flesh in the pan. They've turned up
with all this sort of cultural peak cockery, and they're
going to find this year that there's no comparison, and
it's notonymous in all this ideological cultural peak cockery. It's
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not anonymous with political durability or effectiveness.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well. Shane Jones, Prince of the Provinces Marta, Shane, good
luck at Waitngui this weekend. I say, you might have
to dodge a few flying objects, but I'm sure you're
big enough and ugly enough to handle it.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
The last thing I want is that rather compromising object
that Stephen Joyce had to put up with coming anywhere
near my anatomy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
See you later, see Shane.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There he goes, always entertaining. Shane Jones, the Prince of
the Provinces. As soon as we get a date and
a venue for the debate between Saren Taylor and Shane
on mining gold mining in Central Otago. We'll let you know.
Bring the popcorn right up next Jane Smith in North
Otago the demise of fake food. Apparently the food pyramid
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has also been turned upside down according to Jane. And
fat is where it's at and can you leave it?
Jane Smith voting for Damian O'Connor in the way TACKI electorate.
Jane's up next?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What Ron the sun on using you'll ride and on
the starch a watch about the girl.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But your you were say got your lipstick? Markstlone your
co cup.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
She is a North Otago farmer, former warner of the
Balanced Farm Environment Awards and a bit of a favorite
here on the country. The punters lap her up. Her
name is Jane Smith. What a great intro that is, Jane.
I don't know whether you're caught up with Paul Jewels
from Rabobank, who I talked to on yesterday's show about
fake chocolate or coco free chocolate coming into vogue because
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the cost of cocoa beans is so high. It's good
to see that things like fake meat are failing around
the world because there's nothing like the real thing is.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
That exactly, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
And it's been really fascinating to see Italy taking an
actual legislative stance against synthetic food a a Frankenstein food
or Franken food. They call it so lab grind synthetic.
You know, it's almost something like out of a really
bad science fiction movie.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
And this decision that they've made is quite world leading.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Really, it effectively blocks the entry of cultivated so using
animal cells by the way, meat or milk. Not that
they should be allowed to use those terms, I believe so.
And as well as they talked about ultra processed food,
they're really wanting to push that out. And also they've
mentioned anything to do with GMO food, you know, be chemicals, feeds.
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So it's really fascinating and the most interesting thing I
found as a farmer, if you look deeper than the
decision itself, it's the reason that they made it. They
said it was one to protect public health and two
to protect traditional natural farming systems. So, you know, again
that's a wake up call for New Zealand, who seem
you know, some of our sector leaders in large corporates
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and hell bent on you know, bringing gmo food additives, intensification,
and that fake food sort of ties into all of
that as well, Jamie. So again I think that's a
really great turn of events.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And also at the same time, Jamie, I don't know
if you.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Saw that that the food pyramid so has actually been
turned up upside down so the way that it used
to be, you know, when our parents and grandparents were
learning home economics. So basically they're saying, actually, let's go
back to whole foods. Let's go back to high value,
high nutrient dense proteins and good fats Jamie.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
So you know that again.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Bodes well for traditional farming like New Zealand pasture raised
protein Jamie.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That is back, Jane, the latest from the education system,
and this really grinds my gears, and I think it
does yours as well. Look, the trouble with schoolers you
should either pass or fail, because when you get out
of school or university and you hit the real world,
you either pass or you fail. You get the job
or you don't get the job. We're not hardening young
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people up enough to the realities of the real.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
World exactly, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And I thought, you know, Eric Stanza and her team
are doing some good work in terms of standardization, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
But to see the new grading system.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So it is, and I just off my top of
my head is emerging, developing, consolidating, and then you're either
proficient or you're exceeding.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I mean you need a degree to even understand what
those grades mean.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
And then we've failed up to date as the last
twenty years with failed kids.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
To read and write.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
And now you know, to try to decipher that what's
wrong with her as you said, part will fail abc
D or even the achieved.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Not achieved or possibly you know, going above that.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
So Blair was yelling something at me today while I
was on the drafting gate this morning, Jamie in the yards.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't that I was proficient or
exceeding at my job, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So maybe I was just failing.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Or it might have been another word starting with an F. Anyhow,
I won't get in the road of a husband and
wife debate in the stockyards, Jane, and I see you've
got a new candidate in the waite Taki electorate who
you may choose or not choose to vote for, Damian O'Connor.
That's interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yes, the old ghost from the coast, Jamie. When I
heard the news, it was both both interesting and disturbing,
and equal parts, given that the economically unpalatable socialist Smaugas
board that the labor Greens served us up last time.
And you know, I've had it quite a bit to
do with Damien, particularly lately, and now I understand why
he was hanging around the wait Techi area. But I
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guess you know, as agg Minister and Trade Minister, Damien
consistently failed to stand up for farmers when his mate
David Parker treated as as environmental tourists and people literally
left exited our sector because of that, and the mental
health strain on farmers was huge.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
And it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
The wa Techi Electric is a really dynamic area, and
of course it was the birth place of social welfare
just up the road and Kourou in the Waheki Valley
in nineteen thirty eight when they were building the Waheki Dans.
But also at the same time, you know, the birthplace
of farming innovation with Thomas Brydon back in eighteen eighty
two with the first export of frozen.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Meat, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
So I know it's a large lecturate it incorporates just
south of Tamrou obviously, Omaru, Palmerston twice or Wanaka. You know,
it truly is ups to ocean, and I don't know
like it really concerns me if we did get to
a Damien in I sort of want to live in
North Itago, Jamie, not North Korea.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Shots fired mind you. Miles Anderson, your local bloke from
what I'm seeing anyhow's doing a pretty good job. But
good luck to Damien. Interesting times as we count down
to the November seventh election. In election here, Jane Smith,
good luck in the sheepyards stockyards this afternoon with your
long suffering husband Blair. Thanks Sammy, Thank you, Jane, twenty
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twenty five after twelf You're with the country today courtesy
of FMG. What company they are. They've been giving away
meat vouchers all week, five hundred bucks out Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and another five hundred today. We've got a special
representative can I call her a celebrity representative? That might
(15:15):
be drawing a bit too long, abow, But we've got
a representative of FMG who's going to come in and
do the draw live for us for the final five
hundred dollar meat voucher, and it's all about National Lamb Day.
It's all happening next week. We've got the Parliamentary broadcast
on Wednesday, Southern Field Days on Friday, big National Lamb
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Day activity happening down there just outside of Gore. And
then of course next Sunday, February the fifteenth, one hundred
and forty four years I think to the day since
the Dunedin left Port Charmers bound for Europe, the birth
of our frozen export meat industry. So we've got that
to do before the end of the hour. Michelle's going
(16:01):
to be in here for rural news as well, sports news,
Chris Russell and Phil Duncan whatever. I just want you back.
Oh yes, and I forgot one other thing up next.
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We are going to talk Wall. Now there's I'd almost
given up on strong Wall. To be perfectly honest with you,
I'd almost given up flown the white flag. It's back, baby,
and we'll be took. Rachel Sharer is the GM of
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PGG Rights and Wall. Look, this is a good news
story all bet coming from a low base, the recovery
in Wall, especially strong Wolf, and Rachel, I remember back
to your predecessor the late Grant Edwards, great bloke that
he was, and in those COVID lows. I think it
was about twenty twenty one, I said to Grant, looking
all all honesty, mate, I don't think we can do
a wall report because it's too depressing. We're just going
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to get negative feedback. He battled his way through that
You've been lucky to pick up the ball and run
with it. Gee, the wall market has improved from those
terrible lows.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yeah, it certainly has, and we're really grateful for that.
There's a lot of a lot of contributing factors, that's
for sure. That you know, at the end of the day,
New Zealand sheep farmers deserve for their wall to be
worth even.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
More than what it's what it's worth at the moment.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
But all the indicators are that we're heating in the
right direction. So it still always then cautiously optimistic, because
the good news is that it's sort of it's holding
these at these values, which is the most important thing,
you know, what it's like, Yeah, certainly goes up fast,
it can come down quickly too.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Strong. Wall prices have risen approximately thirty plus percent in
the past year, but here's the interesting stat and this
goes back to Grant stays, it's risen. The price of
strong wall has risen threefold since the COVID lows the
real lows of January twenty twenty one.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yes, and it couldn't have got much lower, that's for sure.
So no, we're very very pleased that in a relatively
short period of time the trajectory of wall has you know,
I think it's around eighty percent increase since twenty twenty
two the strong wall price. So long that continue on
(18:26):
the output momentum.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And yesterday's sale at where was that Napeier Nake, Yes,
nape Oh, we won't about to say that for much longer.
We'll come back to that one. But so yesterday's sale
ninety nine percent clearance, strong will indicator up fourteen cents,
and this is despite an exchange rate at sixty and
a half US cents.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Yes, we were watching that with interest, thinking it may
have a greater impact than it did. But look, the
bidding from the exporters is still evident. They're still competing
to secure wall for you know that really prompt live
A're still taking orders. China particularly really active in the
market at the moment, so once again that the market
(19:10):
was up. It is also you know up in the
North Island the good color walls kind of start to
come off now, so with that limited availability classics supply
and demand, that's where that's where the main improvements were.
But once again, even oddments, you know, the significant increase
and all the stuff that once upon a time you
(19:32):
may have chucked away, that some of the oddments are
reaching prices nearly similar to those of not such well
presented fleeces.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So yeah, I was reading that the oddments up twelve percent,
four dollars sixty clean. That's ridiculous because as you say,
during those real lows bellies and pieces, it wasn't worth
boiling them up.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
No, and even this time, you know, six months ago,
the four dollars of sixty one was what we were
getting so good style fleeces. So yeah, there's still a
significant improvement there. And that's because those oddmnents, those bellies
and pieces get blended in with the rest of the
wall and made into products. So you know they're using
that traditionally to try and lower the price. That those
(20:16):
prices are increasing because of once again limited supply.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Okay, really quickly to finish on we mentioned the sale
in NAPA yesterday. You're going to go to a single
selling center. I think it happens in what May. So everything,
all the weekly sales will be out of christ Church.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
That's right, well fortnightly sales and weekly during the peak
season will be out of christ Church. And the reason
behind that is really to get as many buyers as
we can in a room, you know, looking at the wall,
appraising the wall, and then they get into the room
and they fight like cats and dogs over that wall.
And also I think we've mentioned before Jamie the buyers
that come across from Australia who really add impetus to
(20:54):
that to the bench, they're quite happy to fly into
our international airport here. And so at the end of
the day, we want to get our hard working news
on Farmers Wall in front of the many people who
are prepared to fight to buy it. So that's the
key reason that we'll be holding it down here and
down here in the South Island. But the North Island
(21:14):
growers will see no difference and no change. Just their
wall will be presented to farm more buyers.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Okay, and good luck to all those sharers and wall
handlers this weekend who are looking to join Toyer Henderson
and Joel henare in our team to compete in the
World Championships alongside the Golden Shares and Masters in in
early March. Might see you there. Thanks for your time, Rachel,
Thanks Jamie twenty seven away from one. Thanks for Rachel.
(21:42):
So I hope Roland Smith can make it. I'm a
bit biased, but that's last chance salone. I think for
Roland great share that is, it's going to be a
huge weekend for the sharing sharing sport industry. We'll update
all that on Monday's show. But up next talking about
sport sports news celeb reader celebrity possibly well, she's actually
(22:06):
a gold medal winning athlete. That'll pique the interest to
read sports news. Michelle's got rural news. And we're going
to give away our last prize from FMG, five hundred
dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to the great team
at FMG, proud sponsors of National Lamb Day, No Big
(22:29):
It Up the storm It.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Sharing the love with a five hundred dollars meat voucher.
It's time to celebrate National Lamb Day with FMG and the.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Country, well with that Kirk gars liner. Let's give away
our final prize, five hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers.
Hopefully you spend it on LAMB for National Lambay Lame
Day courtesy of FMG and from FMG celebrity athlete Ruin
Dun Ghetto Ro. Good to have you back in the studio.
Is that is the jangle I can hear? Is from
(23:07):
the two gold medals you've won at the Masters Games.
Now let's just qualify this awe bit. One was in
the ten k walk and I know you're a very
keen walker, but you were the only entrant in your age.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Group, right, I was, Jamie, because I've looked out that
everyone else went in the run and I was in
the war.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You finished first, but you also finished last. Yes, yes, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
It was embarrassing being up on the diace on my own.
But hey, you know I've got the gold medal run minete.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
And the other gold medal was for wine tasting. That's
not a sport.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Well, I trained very hard for it, Jamie, so one
might argue it is a sport. But there were seven
teams in that so it was great to take out
the gold in that very difficult too.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So FMG. Of course great sponsors. You're working for them
now of National Lamb Day. You're going to be in
Wellington next week. Are doing a bit of corporate hugging
with the politicians. Absolutely for the broadcast from the Parliament lawns.
It's going to be great fun.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Everyone comes together
for a beautiful cause as well. And she's a lamb
chop And.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I think Michelle is teed up? Have you teed up
Steve Abele? She's not on Mike at the moment. She's
trying to tee up Steve abel from the Greens just
so we can share the love for the broadcast. Right,
I've got a chocolate wheel and I've been threatened with
the sack unless I do the chocolate. Well, and there's
a reason for this. So here's the chocolate spinning wheel.
It's not a chocolate wheel, it's a spinning wheel.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Well you definitely had me at chocolate.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, yeah, and me as well. What do you think
of the I don't know whether you had yes, the
guy from rabobank on the fake chocolate. That sounds awful,
doesn't it good to see that real food is taking over.
So next week are you down at the Southern Field Days.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Yeah, I am and dad, So I will be with
that spinning wheel at the FMG site Thursday and Friday
and the team will be there on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So what do you spin to one?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Oh, there's some more Lamb vouchers as well, there's National
Lamb Day t shirts, there's merch and it's just a
bit of fun as well, and there'll be a full
team on site if you want to have a chat
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, we've got one final prize from FMG sponsors of
National Lamb Day to give away Rowena Duncan. Who is
the winner?
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Yeah, massive congratulations to Debbie Ashmore from South and do
you have won five hundred dollars worth of meat voucher
thanks to the great team at FMG. I can still
say that proud sponsor of National Lamb Day and of
course National Lamb Day February fifteenth. It is an a
chronic Kiwi celebration. We tip our hats to farmers and
world class lamb producers and it's one of my favorite
all time rural stories is how it all came to be?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yep, what is your official title that FMG is a
corporate hugger. Is that what you do?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
No, that's just what I do by nature, Jamie. But
my actual title as a client's propositions manager engagement. To
think about that for a moment.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, So basically, how do you fit that on a
business car?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
It's good hold the relationships between FMG and the various
sectors sheep and bee, horticulture, dairy, and make sure there's
insight flow.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You can get off that, mic because your replacement, Michelle
comes on. I must say Michelle's the dead opposite of you.
I used to call you the hard dog to keep
on the porch, but Michelle's a graft. She's an eight
or five sort of worker, unlike yourself. But we do
miss you, Row, We absolutely missed you. You're going to
do the sports news, but let's do rural and news
first with Michelle.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
The Country's rural news with Cod Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn bower Bread, visit steel for dot co,
dot NZI for your local stockist.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
Thanks Jamie. Just a couple of short stories. Beekeepers blocked
from getting to their hives mid harvest due to roads
closed by recent storms are expecting a lighter and later
honey harvest this year. So the storms across the Upper
North Island that happened in mid January have caused widespread
slips and this is affected then being able to click
their honey. But also the weather has apparently been an
issue as well. And also this weekend because we're not
(26:55):
here tomorrow, the country's taking a break for the long
weekend for white honey. But over the weekend second of
the seven regional finals is happening down in Otago South
and for the Young FMG Young Farmer Regionals, and it's
eight of them are going to be vying for a
place at that table in the grand Final, Big.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Big week in Southland. Of course the Young Farmer Regional
Final down there and of course the Southern Field Days
getting underway Wednesday at y Murmur just outside of Gore.
His sports news with FMG Corporate Hugger Rowena Duncan.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Sports on the country with a FCO one percent ke
we owned, that's rare and.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Of course professional athlete. Yeah, two gold medals, two gold medals.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
What was your time for the ten k walk? Michelle's
a runner. You realize you're up against it here She
can run ten k's quite quickly.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yeah, well I can only run if I'm being chased, Jamie.
So I had been training around that one forty mark.
You told me I had to break one thirty, so
I did one twenty nine something. So yeah, the legs
were a bit sore after that. But hey, small ball
rifle shooting last night, first time ever, ninety one point two.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You have eather you go shooting things and the man,
not the man or too many toto.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I mean small ball was brilliant because they don't move.
But in actual sports news, New Zealand's Winter Olympic chefter mission,
Marty Toomey has praised his team's experienced athletes for easing
the nerves of the debutants. To me, says Zoey Sadowski,
Singer and Alice Robinson, attending their third games have altered
plenty of wisdom, and the green flag has belatedly dropped
on the new season of NASCAR. The opening ranks of
(28:27):
the American Stockholm season was twice delayed from Monday in
North Carolina due to winter weather. Shane Van Gisbergen qualified seventeenth,
and that's your sports news, Jamie yep.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Now when you wandered in because you're staying at Hotel
Mackay at the moment.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Last night I totally ignored you. Sorry for being rude.
You had to talk to the program director instead. It
was like a yeah, I update. That's because I was
watching the third and final episode of Take That.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
You were engrossed.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Well, I love a boy band, you'd love a boy
and honestly the reviews of mixed on seeing online, but
it's a good story. It's Gary Barlow and then Robbie
Williams throwing the toys and the bitterness and then reuniting
and then you know, people loving Take That, the boy
(29:15):
band for who they were.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
They have got a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Sound, they do. Indeed they've only got one good song
though anyhow. Up next to our Ossie correspondent, Chris Russell, Rowena,
good luck for your remaining events at the New Zealand
Masters Games.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Thank you so much and thanks for putting me up.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
To It's all right. And thanks to FMG your company
for doing the meat voucher prize packs this week. They
have gone off a tree a watch. He's our Ossie correspondent,
Chris Russell based out of Sydney, but he's not there today.
(29:53):
He's in Bathurst under the shadow of Mount Panorama. What
a great sporting venue that is, Chris. This time a
week ago when we caught up with you, you were
sitting quite literally in the Murray River to cooled down.
It was so hot. The heat wave was on. The
heat wave has now gone. Unfortunately, it's left some scars,
particularly for Victorian farmers who lost twenty million dollars of
(30:17):
livestock and the recent fires.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, and that's we're not even sure what a number
of animals have been killed in the fires, but it's
certainly a huge number and they're estimating around about twenty
million dollars worth. And of course the farmers are saying
how do we recover from that? A lot of them sheep,
which is you know, it's just something which I think
(30:41):
they're really regretting, particularly the merino sheep. But the fires
really have ripped through right down in the Otway Mountains
and in various parts of Victoria and have been quite devastating.
And it wasn't just the heat, it was also the
northerly wind that came with that heat.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Jamie.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
What I found devastating. Not equally devastating, but devastating was
the Rugby World Cup draw. I thought it was going
to be a given Chris Russell that Australia or the
Wallabies would play the All Blacks at that wonderful OPTAs
Stadium in Perth. I was lucky enough to be their
last October for the Bledisloe Cup test. What a deflating draw.
(31:20):
We're playing Chile and I think you're playing Hong Kong.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yes, I don't know who comes up with these, but
why would you put on the first game between Australia
and Hong Kong in an Australian hosted Rugby World Cup.
I don't get that really at all. I mean, it's
not as if it's an elimination thing where you know,
if you lose, you straight out the pool games go on.
(31:44):
But anyway, that's what they've done. It's a mystery to me,
and it sounds like it's a mystery to you too, Jamie.
I think it's a mystery to everybody. We just no
one understands it. Everyone's criticizing it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Australia is set to export camel milk to the USA,
as you is wellness market Surgers. Is camel milk good
for you? What does it taste like?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, slightly salty. I've only ever had it once and
I found it. I wouldn't say it's something that I
walk over the road to buy and preference the cow's milk,
but it's certainly deemed to be something which people have
allergies to cow's milk, are able to use, and the
US apparently of taking to it. And they're about to
export the first sixty thousand liters of whole milk across
(32:30):
to across to Los Angeles as part of a trial shipment,
and then they're saying that that's going to grow. In fact,
the farm that's doing this up in Queensland is going
to now milk twice a day. It's very different milking
a camel. You can't just use an ordinary shed obviously,
you've got to have taller sheds and the camel's a
little bit more finicky. These camels, of course, are not
(32:51):
really camels. They're dromedaries, so they've only got one hump
and they came to the original camaliers who brought camels
to Australia when the paddle leamers couldn't get down the
Daling River.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
With a wall.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
They said, well, we'll do it for you when the
river's dry, and then they in turn got replaced by trains.
So all the cameliers just let their camels go in
the desert and they've been hanging around the desert ever since,
and people have been looking for uses for them.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Something else that hangs around like a bad smell on
Australia blowflies.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yes, well, Kagaroo Island. I spoke about this with Hamish
a couple of weeks ago when they were looking to
release these flies. Well they've now released them. They've bred
about two million sterile blowflies over there. The thing that's
unique about Lucilla caprina, which is the Australian blowfly that
causes fly strike, is that it only mates once once
(33:42):
at the beginning of the season. So if you get
in first, it's your babies are going to be the
ones they produce. So by releasing the early these huge
number of sterile male blowflies, they mate initially with the females.
Therefore the progeny ain't happen because they're there ale and
therefore they're expecting they can eliminate Lucilla caprina from Kangaroo
(34:07):
Island within two years, which would be amazing if we
could repleate that in Australia, well you know that whole
stripe problem becomes much more controllable.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Jamie Chris Russell, thanks for your time. We'll catch you
back again next week.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
No worries you love.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Za Very shortly. Phil Duncan to wrap the week on
the Country. Just a message from Farmstrong cause funded by FMG.
Thank you FMG for that one. Farmstrong is all about
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(34:47):
your well being and relief stress, head to the farm
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farm well. Phil Duncan wraps the Country. He's a big
boy band fan especially take that. No time to talk
about that, Phil, Tell me what's going to happen for
the long weekends.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
Well, we've got high pressure. I'd like to say back
for good. That would be a good segue, but we've
got high pressure coming in this weekend, so it's around
the country. Off to the West at the moment, and
that's why we are going to see due to a
storm south of New Zealand, a brief bit of cold
weather moving into the South. Not majorly cold, but you'll
notice the temperatures up and down a wee that especially
(35:27):
in Southland and Otago going through the long weekend and
a week cold front that tries to move up the
West coast on White Tony Day, bringing a little bit
of wet weather. So we've got some showers around the
lower half of the South Island on White Tony Day,
that brief bit of rain moving up the west coast,
and in the North Island because of a westerly flow,
there will be a bit of cloud and a few
isolated showers on the West and site. It's not going
(35:50):
to be much mostly dry. Stays that way pretty much
into Saturday as well, not a great deal of difference,
and on Sunday we might see a few isolated afternoon
thunderstorms inland through both of the main island. But again
high pressure dominates the weather going right into next week
and potentially lasting right through till Thursday of next week,
when it may get a little more subtropical again for
(36:12):
the North Island and Northwest is coming back into the
South Island, so it's a pretty settled we're the forecast.
It's one of the more settled ones that I've seen
over perhaps the last few months, so it's a nice change,
but still not perfect.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Who's your favorite boy band?
Speaker 11 (36:28):
I don't know, that's a hard question to It's probably
these guys.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, all right, Pel Duncan there from weather Watch. Monday's
weather Man on a Thursday. Enjoy your long weekend if
you're lucky enough to get one. We'll be back on Monday.
We'll tell you who's in our world sharing and wool
handling team. See you then.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
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