November 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Andrew Gibson, Chris Russell, and Wayne Langford.
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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 (00:15):
Sky Gooday, New Zealand and welcome to the Country. It's
brought to you by Brent. My name is Jamie McKay,
Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, the Aussie politician or he was,
(00:37):
I don't know what he's doing now, and Blue sky
Mine because we're going to kick off the show today
with the self titled Marta of Mining Shane Jones. I
wonder what he makes of the hecoy. I know what
he thinks about pronouns and I absolutely agree with him
on that one. Andrew Gibson is Taranaki's regional livestock manager
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for PG, she writes, and he is. I think at
Inglewood today they've got a big calf seile on there,
including two hundred IHC carves up up for auction. Great cause.
That one will tell you how you can donate to
that very very worthy cause. A lot of optimism out
there at the moment in livestock circles. Chris Russell, our
Australian correspondent, sent me a email earlier this morning. He's
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the most organized of my correspondents and he reckons that
the election of Trump might spell the end of Wokism
his words, not mine in Australia and can he dare
dare to dream about a Grand Slam for the Wallabies.
They haven't had one since nineteen eighty four. Also today
it's the Fonterra agm. It's happening at the Devon Hotel.
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I think in New Plymouth. We're going to go there
a wee bit later in the year because in the
air in the hour, should I say, because President of
Federated Farmers Wayne Langford is there, along with Greenpea and
a few other interested parties. So all that on the
show today. Michelle will be and with the latest and
rural news, will have sports news for you. And we're
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getting near the end of our giveaways of the fun packs, Yes,
the extra crispy Pale Ale the Farmers Pour from Emerson's
and that magnificent range of potato chips, Sultan Vinegar, maple
bacon and green onion from our friends at Heartland Chips.
So listen out for that one. But back at the
Prince of the Provinces, he is the Prince of the provinces,
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the self titled now Martua of Mining, Shane Jones, Drill, Baby, Drill.
How excited are you about Trump's election? Does this spell
the end of Wokism around the world? Changeones.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He's broken the back of all these fairy tales, social engineering, woke,
excessiveness and it had to happen. And the fact that
he's put together an extraordinary coalition of different ethnic groups
and he swept the board. And I have to say
I was wrong when I thought that he was not
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within the popular vote. But on the matter of vote today,
I'm down in Mardi Hicicu deeps Health's about to speaking
in the cargo now.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's good to see you going to war against pronouns.
I think they should be banned. If you've got a
name like Brian, you don't need a he or a
hymn behind your name.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, that just shows how far the elite power culture
nestled in the bureaucracy in Wellington has moved away from
the garden variety challenges that Qiwi household's face. I don't
want anyone communicating with me as a minister or a politician,
whether he or she or they are them, and more importantly,
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I don't care if you're a Catholic in atheists, I
don't care what your background is. I want you to
do your job. And I just feel that the bureaucracy
has mandated these minority concerns and they've ended up alienating
the majority of kiwi's which is why New Zealand First
is the only party in politics that has some resemblance
to the voters who sent Trump to Washington.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, Trump's all about America first. You and Winston are
about New Zealand First. Could you be the next Trump?
I mean, Winston won't be around forever. Seane Jones, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We regard our leader as Eva Green and he's going
to be standing at the next election. But you know,
I think bear in righte about New Zealand First. A
New Zealand First equals economic sovereignty. New Zealand First equals
national sovereign are resilience, New Zealand First, Hapoo second, New
Zealand First, Gang's last are distant, distant, faint echo at
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the bottom of the long drop.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Talking about your man Trump, you were on fire in
the house yesterday. You were calling the Greens the cabbage
patch kids. Great analogy there, But you said Trump has
put the tetrapod of wokeism to the sword, And I
had to look up Shane Jones because I haven't got
as good a grasp on the English language as you.
What a tetrapod is? Isn't it like a four legged
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animal or beast?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, it's a four legged critter, and let's place it
four legs at the greens and labor have popularized. Number
one is treachery they closed down the refinery. Number two
is duplicity, they closed down the oil and gas industry.
And number three is unicorn kisses because they seem to
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believe that climatism is the new religion we all have
to adhere to. And number four is irrelevance because they've
made themselves so marginal that they'll never ever enjoy power
for as long and say extole pronouns about progress of
an economic, social, and community nature.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now I'm starting to feel sorry for you, know, your
garden variety random frog or multicolored skink, because their very
existence is under threat by you, because you're going to
bulldoze them or drill them up or bury them somewhere
when you build a road.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, the brend Dorwins costs another told nine to six
million dollars because of frog policies. We don't have six
million dollars at a time when the frogs are in
the one hundreds, if not thousands. And quite frankly, if
you want to breed some frogs, just play a cocky
who breeds cows? Ostriches emuse they know they give them
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a bit of money, they'll say, work out how to
breed some of these supposedly endangered species. We've ended up weaponizing,
gaifying and quite frankly, moving species protection to a point
it's holding the ability of us to deliver infrastruate and
cost in a cost effective manner. And I've got every
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right to pull that ideology out because the people who
hide behind weaponizing frogs and elevating skinks as if there's
some sort of religious icon are really opposed to development.
They want to thrust us back into some sort of
climate ideological riddle sort of I don't know, pre colonial existence.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now I see your Fast Track Approvals Bill as getting
its second reading, and this is quoting you again, Shane Jones.
You say the genius of the spill, very humble of
you to say that the genius of the spell is
it represents a one stop shop. You could do a
trump and say this is a beautiful bill, a beautiful bill.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Ah. Oh, well, you know I've got my own. I've
sort of a home there in since Stephen's School in
the nineteen seventies, where you needed a quick tongue if
you weren't a good rugby player, and we did do
a bit of boxing, and the coach always said to me, Shane,
you've got a very strong chin. But by the time
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you landed to punch your opponents on the other side of.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The ring, were you a good rugby player at school?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Very average, very average. We had some great rugby players.
We had Kyle Baker on the Mary or Blecks. To
know who you Clark got on the Mary or blessed.
I was a very average rugby player, but I toiled
away in the front row, but knew that I would
never grace the fields of rugby greatness such as Richie mccaugh.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, Shane, you and I are the same generation. We
both went to high school secondary school in the seventies.
Of course, in the seventies we also had Dame Fena
Cooper walking the length of the country or half the
length of the country. I can't quite remember, but they
in those days, I think they walked the whole way,
didn't they.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Ah. Yes, this is not a keykoi. This is a
khar koi. And more importantly, it's a rolling marshaling event
to try and expand the multi part and it's built
upon Marxist principles of identity politics in trying to be
little and undermine the right wing of politics. But they've
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met their match in Mamutu because I know the language,
I know the culture, and I was there when Dame
Tina actually came to Saint Stephen's school in nineteen seventy five,
and in fact, in nineteen seventy six, I was the
school orator who greeted her on the mara known as
Tepuaer named after the famous Maldi matriarch from the King Movement.
So I don't need any whipper snappers, and I don't
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need any latter day Saints who only discovered that their
Maldi half a dozen years ago. I'm the true blue
Kiwi who's very proud of a ewe faka Pappa and
is bilingual. And I'm not going to cow. I'm not
going to be shouted down, and I look forward to
engaging with the protesters when they come to White Tongue,
but I'll have no tolerance for the gangs. Gang should
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not use Raga Tahi Farno or protesters as human shields
for their criminality.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Are you concerned at the coverage the hekoy is getting
on our two network news channels television channels I'm talking
about We've got reporters marching along beside them, almost acting
as cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, I think we've got too many reporters that are
hoping that there'll be a spirit of some sort of
lynch mob emerge in the progress of the march. I
think it's wrong that so much time and effort has
been dedicated by publicly funded media. For example, I'm in
christ in the Cargol today. This is a national meeting
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of all the community trusts and I'm seeing a whole
lot of events down here and engagements. And why isn't
the media covering the long suffering regions that generate quite
frankly the wealth of the country. But no, they're looking
for this sort of low blow, instant gotcha sort of
politics that sadly is on display every day as ordinary
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keys get hacked off with the inconvenience of the organizers
of the Heikoi March.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
One to quickly finish on I'm surprised you're not an
Azerbaijan for Cop out or Cop twenty nine didn't get
off to a great start this conference. When the President
said or was a gift from God, he sounds a
bit like you.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
While oil and gas fuels that part of the world,
that event in Azerbaijan, Baku Baku was actually a city,
a major area that played a great role in the
Great Game when the British were active with their spies
and soldiers in that part of the world. Given that
it's close to Russia. My advice to Chloe who's over there,
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is behave yourself and don't try spreading your misinformation and
hysteria that we have to sadly put up with on
a regular basis here in New Zealand, and perhaps you'll
find a job somewhere in those distant claims. Stop bothering
my good self.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Shane Jones, Prince of the Province, is self titled Martua
of Mining. Enjoy the rest of your day in the
deep South with the good folk down there?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Do you want to mate?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Nineteen after twelve Shane Jones to kick off the country.
How good is that man? I think he's my favorite politician.
Few people in tex Land think likewise, what have we
got here? Yeah? Ho, go Shane Jones. He's a great,
honest man. Another one says, I'm loving Shane Jones. He
says what most of us think. And let me just
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refresh the screen here. Starting to really like Shane Jones. Cheers, guys,
keep up the good work. I think he does. I
think he does a good job. He articulates what a
lot of us are thinking but are perhaps afraid to say.
And I think he's right. I think we're seeing the
beginning of the end of workism. And it doesn't it
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can't happen too soon for me. Michelle, when you came
here and you took this job, and I said, you
are I just wanted to call you a producer. You
demanded to be an executive producer. But I did say
to you, whatever you do, you're not allowed a pronoun
behind your name. And if you're a Michelle, you're obviously
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she her right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well technically, actually, Jamie Michelle and French in France as
a male name or a female name.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
How do you think I get on with Jamie and
I haven't bothered with I haven't bothered with pronouns.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I'm not going to get into this discussion. I feel
like it's a whole that we can't dig out of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, no, I love it. I love it. Honestly. I'm
not a hue or I wasn't a huge fan of Trump,
but we've got him now, and honestly, I think some
of the changes that he might make around the world
could be useful for us. It's interesting. I know most
organized correspondent, as Chris Russell, always sends an email a
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page long with topics to choose from. And one of
the things we're going to discuss with him a week
bit later in the hours, will Trump's elections spell the
end of Wokism in Australia. Apparently the Yanks are going
to pull the pin on some of the American or
Australian companies that they think are too woke. It's an
interesting time. It's just changing times around the world. Up next,
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we're going to Heartland, New Zealand, Englewood to catch up
with Andrew Gibson. He is there with PGG Rights in
real estate. I think they've got a calf sail there
and I reckon that. In fact, I know they've got
some of those IHC carbs up for grabs Chris Russell
and of course sticking with the Taranaki region there we
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will find Wayne Langford a week bit later in the hour.
He's the president of Federated Farmers. He's at that Fonterra
Agm and New Plymouth along with Greenpeace and a few
other interested parties. Monthly here on the country we catch
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up with the team from PGG Rights and to have
a look at the stock sales market. Got some great
sound effects today from the Inglewood calf Sail where we
find Andrew Gibson from PGG Rights. And you've got a
couple of hundred IHC calves up for offer today, Andrew.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Hey, Jamie, Yeah we do. We've got their annual big
push for the CAWT sale scheme. Yeah, and it's good,
good numbers. Were just having a draft up at the
moment with all shapes and sizes and colors and breeds.
But yeah, it's also the generosity of all farmers once
again is so good.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, absolutely brilliant. I was talking to Greg Miller the
other day and he was saying that they're getting pretty
good money as well.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Yeah that when the market has been good, it's and
God deserve to get it too.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
They took a bit of a risk again buying them
and doing that again. But now look that the early
sales we've had around around the province have been really good.
Hope the Hawks may hang in there and get a
bit more rain and can keep things coming a long.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, Okay, it's very dry on the other side of
the island. How are you fearing in Taranaki.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, we've been really good seth Taranaki is still relatively dry,
but looks we're going to get some forecasts rain tonight
which looks like it's going to come through. But we're
growing like we've been warm the last few days and
guys are really sting to grow some good grass. We're
out Tarannikee kettle fair yesterday and yeah, markets are strong
as it is really positive.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, a lot of demand for beef beef animals here
in New Zealand and obviously the demand especially out of
the States, is very good. It's just keeping that market high.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, the line Commanday, we can't control that here. We're
just a fairly small country obviously with limited amount of
area were in farming. And yeah, look it is it's
just positive. It's it's looking positive turn. I think it'll
hold up for quite a while. We may get a
bit of a dip before we get dry, but apart
from that we should be all guns blazing.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You've already sold a couple of reheards the season. Isn't
that quite early in the season for that.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Yeah, it probably isn't these days. It used to be
if you didn't see, we heard before Christmas things were
looking a bit nervous, but now this happens late. But yeah,
we managed to kick over a couple of really nice
dairy herds a couple of weeks ago, a couple of
six hundred care herds and down down the south townik
there really nice. Yeah, good outcome for both people. They
are really happy and then obviously committed early and it's
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always a bit of a risk not know where that
market's going to be, but you know, both the indoors
and purchaser are happy, so that's all we can ask.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, if you excuse the bad pun, the dairy. The
dairy scene is rather bollish at the moment. What do
you have to pay for a decent cow?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Those couple of herds us around the twenty two fifty
and twenty three fifty for first the June delivery. Yeah, look,
I don't know where it's going to end up. We
had a conference call the other morning with all of
our team around the country and nobody really quite knows.
The payout is looking positive what you're saying before. But
you know, we've just got to get those farm sales
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happening and then get a bit of a enthusiasm back
in with the young generation and hopefully they can sort
of see see a bit of a positive outlook for
them and the future with their families to be on
the farms, just like when we got brought up on them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, absolutely, well I can get ten bucks as for
a milk price. I'll encourage a few young and keen
and enthusiastic people to get into the industry. Let's hope so.
And let's finish on the sheep. They're sort of the
forgotten animal in some ways these days. But it's been
in tough times for the past few years. But we're
hearing that things are on the upper weebit there as well,
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which is good and long overdue.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah. Absolutely, we don't trade a lot of sheep now
and through that our sales those you know, the numbers
have sort of dropped away, but what has come through
is selling really well and by all accounts of fielding
market is strong where a lot of our bigger numbers go.
You know. Yeah, it is looking really real positive and
that's all we can ask is that guys are making
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some good money. But the new season lands look like
they're going to kick along real good, so yeah, that's
good for them.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Okay. Andrew Gibson from PGG Rights and Livestock, thanks for
your time and once again on behalf of the IHC
calf scheme. I obviously have a connection myself, thanks to
you and the team at PGG Rights and for all
the work you do and you stock agents who do
a lot of unpaid work for this wonderful course. We
really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Yeah, look, we're happy to help Jamie. You know, the
farmer supplies an article and they donating them, so we
really appreciate their feedback. And we're just one little part
of the world to make it happen and put the
money to a good cause, so not a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, and remember the farmers. If you want to make
a donation to the IHC calf Scheme, just google it,
very easy to do. You can donate the real thing
or you can donate a virtual animal. Andrew Gibson enjoy
the rest of your day in ngor Dave Leverage Country.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Thanks James, cheers mate.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thanks Andrew bang on twelve thirty. My voice is going
on me. I hope it survives tomorrow at the christ
Jet show. Some of your feedback coming in on Shane Jones.
Why doesn't AIRPM have the balls? That Jones has? Great interview,
Thank you Texter. Joan Jones none too please, though she's
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still blaming Shane and Winston for putting Jacinda into power
in twenty seventeen. I think we've got to build a
bridge and get over that, Joan. I think Shane and
Winston have seen the light, haven't they Give us your
feedback on five double O nine and Michelle also, I
know the fun packs have been very well received around
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the country. You ring the lucky people up after one
o'clock each day and tell them who's one who won
yesterday's fun packs.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yesterday we had Russell Faulkner from Gore and Adrian Benny
from Balls. Had great chat to those two lovely gentlemen yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Did you run those past me? I did, rocking Russ Faulkner,
I know, Russ. That's like inside of trading there. Oh,
good luck, got away with that one at Russell. There
you go, Michelle picks them, not me. Don't shoot the messenger.
What have we got a couple left today?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, we'll give away two more today, So one to
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Speaker 2 (21:26):
And your career address or your rd address so we
can send it straight to you. And they are about
to be shipped off very very shortly. Right up next
to the latest and rural news, we've got sports news.
Chris Russell's our assie correspondent. We'll catch up with him.
And Wayne Langford is at the Fonterra AGM. They're about
to break. I think they started at ten thirty this morning,
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green peace of their causing, making a nuisance of themselves.
I don't know whether there was much to come out
of the AGM. We will ask Wwayne Langford and interestingly
he's also about to undertake a far or a boost
Farmer Confidence tour around the country with the Prime Minister.
Federated Farmers getting close with the PM to encourage farming
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good on.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Them in the event of something happening to me.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Welcome back to the country. My name's Jamie McKay. Very
shortly the latest in rural news with Michelle Watt, and
we'll have sports news for you as well. But first
summer on farm means long days and new challenges to
keep your stock and good health. That's why here at
the Country we've teamed up with PGG Rights since experienced
Animal production team for a special three part podcast series
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practical tips and helpful advice for dairy, sheep and beef
farmers across New Zealand to maintain optimal animal health during
the busy summer months. There's a lot on your plate weaning, drenching,
plus battling fly and facial exma. The PGG Rights and
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Speaker 2 (23:51):
Alrightio, Michelle, what are you?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
God?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Are we getting any murmurings or news out of the Fonterra,
AGM and New Plymouth.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I haven't had anything, so hopefully Wayne's able to update
us on what's going on there. Yeah, do you think soon?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I wonder if they provided tomatoes, preferably soft mushy ones
to throw at the Green Peace Oh sorry, carry on, Watson.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I wondered where you were going with.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That anyhow, So they're protesting in the wrong place. Oil,
oil and dairy cows dominate that wonderful region. I don't
know if greenpeace would be that welcome there anyhow, where
you go?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Okay, right, The government has awarded scholarships to six territory
students to boost on the ground support for farmers and growers.
Agricultural Minister Tom McLay and Associate Agricultural Minister Andrew Hoggard
made the announcement. The scholarships are each valued at five
thousand dollars and have been awarded to Lincoln University students
Georgia hanging Bottom, Ashton Robinson and Henry Bartram and Massi
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University students Mark Williams and Ala Bryan and Otago University
student Georgie Burden, who are studying agricultural science, veterary science,
science or commerce.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
And it's raw news sport.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We're the half go oh Kiwi to the bone since
nineteen oh four.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
A major decision looms overnight for World Rugby. The Sports
power Brokers are in Dublin to vote on the next
chair of the organization to replace the outgoing Bill Beaumont,
and I think we're going to vote for the Elsie
Bloke Robinson right back home. Satisfaction from Hurricanes coach Clay
Clark laid Law, with four National sevens players getting picked
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up by Super Rugby franchises next season. Laidlaw, the former
New Zealand men's coach in the format, says building a
pipeline for players was always a priority. And Steven Alka
is reflecting on resurrecting his professional golf career as he
returns home to Arizona, a two time overall winner of
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the PGA's Champions Tour. The fifty three year olds come
of age on the senior circuit over the last three seasons,
winning eight tournaments. That is your sports news. Do you
want to win the fun pack from Emerson's and Heartland Chips?
Your name will text us on five double nine, your
name and your full career address, and Michelle will pick
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out someone as after one o'clock and give you a bell.
But up next it's Chris Russell.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
In the event there is something others?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
ELSI correspondent Chris Russell. Chris does Donald Trump's election as
the forty seventh President of the United States spell the
end of Wokism? Perhaps something good can come out of
the Trumpster being elected?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Well, I think that's probably the highlight, mind you, we've
got to respond to that. I was reading last week
that there's a big US based global investment house who
have about one half trillion dollars under management, is absolutely
slaking our woke policies. And even before Trump was confirmed
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at having won, they'd already decided to have no investment
in Australia because of all the policies we have of
choosing low carbon energy alternatives, choosing people members of their
boards that run the companies here based on some sort
of gender quota rather than being based on who is
the best person for the job. You know, And I
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think you know, this is hopefully now going to be
a worldwide trend where we start getting back to a
realistic approach to all this, and I think that's the
hope that everyone else. I mean, once upon a time,
woke was the sort of term of pride by people
who are seeking social justice and climate environmental responsibility, and
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of course the female and the LGBT group and someone
were major force in all that. But now it's being
used as a term of derision by people who think
that all those movements have gone way too far in
and now beginning the harm our economic prosperity, and so Trump,
he doesn't care about all that stuff in America, is
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going to have a big effect. It'll be very interesting
to see whether it has any influence on what we
have here. I don't think that it's going to influence Albo,
he's too far down that road, but might have a
big influence on our election next year.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Jamie, Yeah, I don't fancy Elbow's chances to be perfectly honest,
right like us, you're wondering what Trump's going to do
around tariff's, especially for meat. The US is a huge
market for both of our countries. You're suggesting any US
meat tariff would likely be gazumped by the insatiable demand
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they have, especially for our beef, and that's what we're
hearing as well.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yes, well, I mean they're still in a liquidation phase
in their beef markets in America. That's flinly to become
to an end at some stage, but at the moment,
you know, nobody can keep up beef up to them.
We're not seeing it so much reflecting prices because there
are a lot of other countries that are also selling
a lot of beef. But we've had another record month
last month, admittedly only by fifty tons, but still it's
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right up there in terms of the amount of beef
that we've shipped and exported globally. And the other factor
I think Jamie will be that although we're likely to
see or potentially see some tariffs unless unless Trump decides
not to do that because they need the beef and
be of Australia's relationship, but we're certainly going to see
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a drop in the value of the Australian dollar against
the US dollar, and that, of course is good for
our exporters. It might make our fertilizers and everything dearer,
but it certainly as good if we can see our
dollar drop below sixty five cents consistently. That increases our
returns and would make up somewhat for any kind of
twenty percent tariff for anything that he might be putting
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on our meats.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, let's finish on this one. Dare to dream as
the first Grand Slam Series win since nineteen eighty four.
I'm talking about the Wallabies here on the horizon after
a great finish and when over England and I look
back at your nineteen eighty four rugby team. You had
the Allas Nick Jones David Campeze. It was a great
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side under Ellen Jones. I swept all before them in Europe.
Do you reckon this slot can do that?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Chris?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh look, I'm daring to dream. As I said in
my note to you. You know, it's just that England
I think was the big challenge out of this Grand
Slam Tour we're on at the moment, and we beat
them just after four minutes of extra time. I might
add with an amazing Jorganson try which was just brilliant
and again set up by Joseph Sowali, who I think
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everyone was scorting the fact that we'd taken someone straight
out of rugby league and then shoved him straight into
a Wallaby side. But by gee, he hasn't forgotten any
of his schoolboys skills. He had an absolute blinder. I
thought he played amazingly and so I just I'm just
sitting there thinking, Wow, can we perhaps dream about this.
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We've got a new coach, We've got these amazing this
new amazing player in the side who seems to turn
their whole confidence in themselves inside out. So we've got
three more sides. We've got Wales this weekend. Well you know.
I mean, if if form has anything to do with it,
we should have at least a good game. If not
beat the Whales reasonably, well, then we've got Scotland and Ireland,
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and you know there's more chance of beating them than
there was a beating England. So look, we're sitting here,
all us fanatics, hoping that this might be the first
time in a return of those Housier years Jamie might.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Have something to do with that key. We coaching your side.
Chris Russell, thanks for your time and remember go woke,
go broke. See you later, see mate, have you seen.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Listen else.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Needs? Indeed, it is eleven away from nine. I hope
my voice can survive tomorrow at the christ Church slash
Canterbury show. Michelle having some issues Tomorrow We're going to
be there with Toyota and we've got the new Toyota
hard that I'm driving around with at the moment, and
just to prove that the hybrids can do everything all
(32:05):
other utes can do plus more, they've actually got more
get up and go. We're towing a big three and
a half ton billboard around. In fact, I think Toyota
are doing that right around all the amp shows this year,
and you and I were at a launch last night
of the new Pratoh yeah, yeah, the hybrid Prato, And
of course you've got the high lucks, so it's the
(32:28):
way to go. I'm not an EV fan, but the
hybrids are absolutely the way to go. And if it
comes to a really great car, the hybrid Rare four,
there you go. And I own one, so I can
say that with all honesty, and I paid for it
as well, Michelle, you'll be pleased to know. Right we're
going to take a break on the other side of it.
Hopefully he's got out of that AGM at New Plymouth,
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the President of Federated Farmers Wayne langor the AGM for Fonterra.
Of course, mister Jones. Okay, we've tracked him down. He's
got out of the meeting or has the meeting finished?
(33:13):
The annual Meeting for Fonterra and New Plymouth Waye lengthor
President of Federated Farmers. What came out of the AGM
today other than green Peace protesting outside frame taste.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
What a waste of time that was. They showed out
for a photo probably to put on the newsletter or something,
then headed off, not really interested in protesting it all
just back in donations I think, so there's nothing to
see there. But otherwise yet no pretty constructive Fonterra a GM.
You know, a very good, good result from the cop
this year, a couple of pretty key farewells from the borders,
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they reduced their board numbers and a couple of old
board members stepping down. So relatively probably i'd say a
very positive mood. As a whole.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You'd have to be a bit mean spirited and churlish
if you were a Fonterra shareholder at the moment win
and and winging at the annual general meeting. Everything's sort
of heading in the right direction. The milk price, the
share price, the dividend, they're all heading up.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Yeah, I think that was the move of it. There
was some questions around the sale of the brands and
as you can imagine that that will that will grow
over the next year, and that's what that's what a
corporate is all about, about having the discussion and seeing
where it goes. So there will be interesting and there'll
be some challenges there for the Cooperative Council who spoke
to that as well. On that and and collecting the
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farmer sentiment, so you know it'll be interesting twelve months.
That's definitely not not all all.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Some selling the consumer brands that's worth about two dollars
a share or something, so you know that's going to
make your share price look pretty good. You would think, well,
they might even hand some cash back to you, who knows.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Yeah, yeah know, And and personally, you know, I'm trying
to trying to stay out of that. That's not a
lot of space that feeds to go on. Like I said,
that's that's the space for the Cooporative Council to handle
and let their farmers speak so if they're not getting
heard they can come to fens. Let's hope the corporate
Council steps up in their space now.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
On Tuesday, November the twenty sixth, you and the Prime
Minister Gee you're moving in rear air there, Wayne Langford,
are kicking off a farmer or boost farmer confidence tour
you starting at Mystery Creek Events Center Tuesday the twenty sixth.
You wind it up in what's going to say an
impacago sorry in Southland at the y Mumou Field Day's
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site just outside of Gore. On the following Wednesday, So
how many places are you getting to?
Speaker 7 (35:32):
Yeah, we're heading, mister Craig, Like we say, in the
twenty sixth, we'll be an Asturt and on the twenty
ninth at the Events center there and then and then
down to way Murma on the fourth. We'd love to
do more, and I think the Prime Minister's keen to
do more, but we're just getting those destinations signed off early.
Obviously we'd love a bigger crowd as possible to get
there and hear what the government's doing for agriculture and
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see how they're getting in behind us and obviously what
direction they want to take as well. I think that'll
be pretty key for well, not only young farmers but
our order farmers to get along in here as well,
because that's where you that's where you make the investment
right and understand what you're going with your businesses as understanding,
you know what support you're going to get from the
government or what direction the government taking as well. And
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so I think it will be key for many people
across the board to get along and here all the
promises saying.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You can criticize this current government till the cows come home,
and plenty of people on the hecoy are but to
be fair from a farming point of view, and this
extends to David Seymour and Winston and Shane Jones as well,
you literally couldn't ask more from a government to be
farmer friendly.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Well, that's certainly certainly cracking in and and I'm really
conscious that probably both you and I, Jamie, you know,
you spend a lot of time talking to these guys,
you know, really really understand that. But for the average farmer,
you know, sometimes it's for just to hear it triggling
from the horse's mouth ride. And so that's what we thought.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Let's get the.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Prime Minister, the Minister mclay's going to come out and
a number of other ministers as well well, so that
farmers can literally just stand there and ask the guy
face to face what he's thinking on this sort of
thinking on that, we'll check in a couple of barbecues
and a few strawberry and chocolate milks as well, and
it should be a really good day out not only
for farmers but also their families and stuff as well.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Hey, Wayne lengthor just on a lighter note, did the
PR Department at Federated Farmers, namely Aaron, who does a
good job. In my mind, did he ever encourage you
to put a pronoun behind your email signature? Are you
pro pronouns?
Speaker 7 (37:29):
I've never never gone there well a name like Wayne.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I mean you can't. I mean it goes without saying
you're a bloke, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
I tend to get pronoun.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Where I go.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's your acronym. Anyhow, you and the team at Federated
Farmers keep up for good work farming. Let's make farming
great again. There you go. I'm starting to sound like
Trump more and more every day. It's a bit of
a worry. Got to go, yolope, thanks for your time.
There we go. That's us done and dusted for today.
I'm about the job up on a plane. Will catch
it from christ Church and the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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I don't know what he's doing now, and Blue sky
Mine because we're going to kick off the show today
with the self titled Marta of Mining Shane Jones. I
wonder what he makes of the hecoy. I know what
he thinks about pronouns and I absolutely agree with him
on that one. Andrew Gibson is Taranaki's regional livestock manager
(00:59):
for PG, she writes, and he is. I think at
Inglewood today they've got a big calf seile on there,
including two hundred IHC carves up up for auction. Great cause.
That one will tell you how you can donate to
that very very worthy cause. A lot of optimism out
there at the moment in livestock circles. Chris Russell, our
Australian correspondent, sent me a email earlier this morning. He's
(01:23):
the most organized of my correspondents and he reckons that
the election of Trump might spell the end of Wokism
his words, not mine in Australia and can he dare
dare to dream about a Grand Slam for the Wallabies.
They haven't had one since nineteen eighty four. Also today
it's the Fonterra agm. It's happening at the Devon Hotel.
(01:48):
I think in New Plymouth. We're going to go there
a wee bit later in the year because in the
air in the hour, should I say, because President of
Federated Farmers Wayne Langford is there, along with Greenpea and
a few other interested parties. So all that on the
show today. Michelle will be and with the latest and
rural news, will have sports news for you. And we're
(02:09):
getting near the end of our giveaways of the fun packs, Yes,
the extra crispy Pale Ale the Farmers Pour from Emerson's
and that magnificent range of potato chips, Sultan Vinegar, maple
bacon and green onion from our friends at Heartland Chips.
So listen out for that one. But back at the
Prince of the Provinces, he is the Prince of the provinces,
(02:47):
the self titled now Martua of Mining, Shane Jones, Drill, Baby, Drill.
How excited are you about Trump's election? Does this spell
the end of Wokism around the world? Changeones.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He's broken the back of all these fairy tales, social engineering, woke,
excessiveness and it had to happen. And the fact that
he's put together an extraordinary coalition of different ethnic groups
and he swept the board. And I have to say
I was wrong when I thought that he was not
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within the popular vote. But on the matter of vote today,
I'm down in Mardi Hicicu deeps Health's about to speaking
in the cargo now.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's good to see you going to war against pronouns.
I think they should be banned. If you've got a
name like Brian, you don't need a he or a
hymn behind your name.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, that just shows how far the elite power culture
nestled in the bureaucracy in Wellington has moved away from
the garden variety challenges that Qiwi household's face. I don't
want anyone communicating with me as a minister or a politician,
whether he or she or they are them, and more importantly,
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I don't care if you're a Catholic in atheists, I
don't care what your background is. I want you to
do your job. And I just feel that the bureaucracy
has mandated these minority concerns and they've ended up alienating
the majority of kiwi's which is why New Zealand First
is the only party in politics that has some resemblance
to the voters who sent Trump to Washington.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, Trump's all about America first. You and Winston are
about New Zealand First. Could you be the next Trump?
I mean, Winston won't be around forever. Seane Jones, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We regard our leader as Eva Green and he's going
to be standing at the next election. But you know,
I think bear in righte about New Zealand First. A
New Zealand First equals economic sovereignty. New Zealand First equals
national sovereign are resilience, New Zealand First, Hapoo second, New
Zealand First, Gang's last are distant, distant, faint echo at
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the bottom of the long drop.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Talking about your man Trump, you were on fire in
the house yesterday. You were calling the Greens the cabbage
patch kids. Great analogy there, But you said Trump has
put the tetrapod of wokeism to the sword, And I
had to look up Shane Jones because I haven't got
as good a grasp on the English language as you.
What a tetrapod is? Isn't it like a four legged
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animal or beast?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, it's a four legged critter, and let's place it
four legs at the greens and labor have popularized. Number
one is treachery they closed down the refinery. Number two
is duplicity, they closed down the oil and gas industry.
And number three is unicorn kisses because they seem to
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believe that climatism is the new religion we all have
to adhere to. And number four is irrelevance because they've
made themselves so marginal that they'll never ever enjoy power
for as long and say extole pronouns about progress of
an economic, social, and community nature.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now I'm starting to feel sorry for you, know, your
garden variety random frog or multicolored skink, because their very
existence is under threat by you, because you're going to
bulldoze them or drill them up or bury them somewhere
when you build a road.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, the brend Dorwins costs another told nine to six
million dollars because of frog policies. We don't have six
million dollars at a time when the frogs are in
the one hundreds, if not thousands. And quite frankly, if
you want to breed some frogs, just play a cocky
who breeds cows? Ostriches emuse they know they give them
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a bit of money, they'll say, work out how to
breed some of these supposedly endangered species. We've ended up weaponizing,
gaifying and quite frankly, moving species protection to a point
it's holding the ability of us to deliver infrastruate and
cost in a cost effective manner. And I've got every
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right to pull that ideology out because the people who
hide behind weaponizing frogs and elevating skinks as if there's
some sort of religious icon are really opposed to development.
They want to thrust us back into some sort of
climate ideological riddle sort of I don't know, pre colonial existence.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now I see your Fast Track Approvals Bill as getting
its second reading, and this is quoting you again, Shane Jones.
You say the genius of the spill, very humble of
you to say that the genius of the spell is
it represents a one stop shop. You could do a
trump and say this is a beautiful bill, a beautiful bill.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Ah. Oh, well, you know I've got my own. I've
sort of a home there in since Stephen's School in
the nineteen seventies, where you needed a quick tongue if
you weren't a good rugby player, and we did do
a bit of boxing, and the coach always said to me, Shane,
you've got a very strong chin. But by the time
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you landed to punch your opponents on the other side of.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The ring, were you a good rugby player at school?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Very average, very average. We had some great rugby players.
We had Kyle Baker on the Mary or Blecks. To
know who you Clark got on the Mary or blessed.
I was a very average rugby player, but I toiled
away in the front row, but knew that I would
never grace the fields of rugby greatness such as Richie mccaugh.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, Shane, you and I are the same generation. We
both went to high school secondary school in the seventies.
Of course, in the seventies we also had Dame Fena
Cooper walking the length of the country or half the
length of the country. I can't quite remember, but they
in those days, I think they walked the whole way,
didn't they.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Ah. Yes, this is not a keykoi. This is a
khar koi. And more importantly, it's a rolling marshaling event
to try and expand the multi part and it's built
upon Marxist principles of identity politics in trying to be
little and undermine the right wing of politics. But they've
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met their match in Mamutu because I know the language,
I know the culture, and I was there when Dame
Tina actually came to Saint Stephen's school in nineteen seventy five,
and in fact, in nineteen seventy six, I was the
school orator who greeted her on the mara known as
Tepuaer named after the famous Maldi matriarch from the King Movement.
So I don't need any whipper snappers, and I don't
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need any latter day Saints who only discovered that their
Maldi half a dozen years ago. I'm the true blue
Kiwi who's very proud of a ewe faka Pappa and
is bilingual. And I'm not going to cow. I'm not
going to be shouted down, and I look forward to
engaging with the protesters when they come to White Tongue,
but I'll have no tolerance for the gangs. Gang should
(09:54):
not use Raga Tahi Farno or protesters as human shields
for their criminality.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Are you concerned at the coverage the hekoy is getting
on our two network news channels television channels I'm talking
about We've got reporters marching along beside them, almost acting
as cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, I think we've got too many reporters that are
hoping that there'll be a spirit of some sort of
lynch mob emerge in the progress of the march. I
think it's wrong that so much time and effort has
been dedicated by publicly funded media. For example, I'm in
christ in the Cargol today. This is a national meeting
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of all the community trusts and I'm seeing a whole
lot of events down here and engagements. And why isn't
the media covering the long suffering regions that generate quite
frankly the wealth of the country. But no, they're looking
for this sort of low blow, instant gotcha sort of
politics that sadly is on display every day as ordinary
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keys get hacked off with the inconvenience of the organizers
of the Heikoi March.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
One to quickly finish on I'm surprised you're not an
Azerbaijan for Cop out or Cop twenty nine didn't get
off to a great start this conference. When the President
said or was a gift from God, he sounds a
bit like you.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
While oil and gas fuels that part of the world,
that event in Azerbaijan, Baku Baku was actually a city,
a major area that played a great role in the
Great Game when the British were active with their spies
and soldiers in that part of the world. Given that
it's close to Russia. My advice to Chloe who's over there,
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is behave yourself and don't try spreading your misinformation and
hysteria that we have to sadly put up with on
a regular basis here in New Zealand, and perhaps you'll
find a job somewhere in those distant claims. Stop bothering
my good self.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Shane Jones, Prince of the Province, is self titled Martua
of Mining. Enjoy the rest of your day in the
deep South with the good folk down there?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Do you want to mate?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Nineteen after twelve Shane Jones to kick off the country.
How good is that man? I think he's my favorite politician.
Few people in tex Land think likewise, what have we
got here? Yeah? Ho, go Shane Jones. He's a great,
honest man. Another one says, I'm loving Shane Jones. He
says what most of us think. And let me just
(12:37):
refresh the screen here. Starting to really like Shane Jones. Cheers, guys,
keep up the good work. I think he does. I
think he does a good job. He articulates what a
lot of us are thinking but are perhaps afraid to say.
And I think he's right. I think we're seeing the
beginning of the end of workism. And it doesn't it
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can't happen too soon for me. Michelle, when you came
here and you took this job, and I said, you
are I just wanted to call you a producer. You
demanded to be an executive producer. But I did say
to you, whatever you do, you're not allowed a pronoun
behind your name. And if you're a Michelle, you're obviously
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she her right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well technically, actually, Jamie Michelle and French in France as
a male name or a female name.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
How do you think I get on with Jamie and
I haven't bothered with I haven't bothered with pronouns.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I'm not going to get into this discussion. I feel
like it's a whole that we can't dig out of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, no, I love it. I love it. Honestly. I'm
not a hue or I wasn't a huge fan of Trump,
but we've got him now, and honestly, I think some
of the changes that he might make around the world
could be useful for us. It's interesting. I know most
organized correspondent, as Chris Russell, always sends an email a
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page long with topics to choose from. And one of
the things we're going to discuss with him a week
bit later in the hours, will Trump's elections spell the
end of Wokism in Australia. Apparently the Yanks are going
to pull the pin on some of the American or
Australian companies that they think are too woke. It's an
interesting time. It's just changing times around the world. Up next,
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we're going to Heartland, New Zealand, Englewood to catch up
with Andrew Gibson. He is there with PGG Rights in
real estate. I think they've got a calf sail there
and I reckon that. In fact, I know they've got
some of those IHC carbs up for grabs Chris Russell
and of course sticking with the Taranaki region there we
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will find Wayne Langford a week bit later in the hour.
He's the president of Federated Farmers. He's at that Fonterra
Agm and New Plymouth along with Greenpeace and a few
other interested parties. Monthly here on the country we catch
(15:01):
up with the team from PGG Rights and to have
a look at the stock sales market. Got some great
sound effects today from the Inglewood calf Sail where we
find Andrew Gibson from PGG Rights. And you've got a
couple of hundred IHC calves up for offer today, Andrew.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Hey, Jamie, Yeah we do. We've got their annual big
push for the CAWT sale scheme. Yeah, and it's good,
good numbers. Were just having a draft up at the
moment with all shapes and sizes and colors and breeds.
But yeah, it's also the generosity of all farmers once
again is so good.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, absolutely brilliant. I was talking to Greg Miller the
other day and he was saying that they're getting pretty
good money as well.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Yeah that when the market has been good, it's and
God deserve to get it too.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
They took a bit of a risk again buying them
and doing that again. But now look that the early
sales we've had around around the province have been really good.
Hope the Hawks may hang in there and get a
bit more rain and can keep things coming a long.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, Okay, it's very dry on the other side of
the island. How are you fearing in Taranaki.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, we've been really good seth Taranaki is still relatively dry,
but looks we're going to get some forecasts rain tonight
which looks like it's going to come through. But we're
growing like we've been warm the last few days and
guys are really sting to grow some good grass. We're
out Tarannikee kettle fair yesterday and yeah, markets are strong
as it is really positive.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, a lot of demand for beef beef animals here
in New Zealand and obviously the demand especially out of
the States, is very good. It's just keeping that market high.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, the line Commanday, we can't control that here. We're
just a fairly small country obviously with limited amount of
area were in farming. And yeah, look it is it's
just positive. It's it's looking positive turn. I think it'll
hold up for quite a while. We may get a
bit of a dip before we get dry, but apart
from that we should be all guns blazing.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You've already sold a couple of reheards the season. Isn't
that quite early in the season for that.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Yeah, it probably isn't these days. It used to be
if you didn't see, we heard before Christmas things were
looking a bit nervous, but now this happens late. But yeah,
we managed to kick over a couple of really nice
dairy herds a couple of weeks ago, a couple of
six hundred care herds and down down the south townik
there really nice. Yeah, good outcome for both people. They
are really happy and then obviously committed early and it's
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always a bit of a risk not know where that
market's going to be, but you know, both the indoors
and purchaser are happy, so that's all we can ask.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, if you excuse the bad pun, the dairy. The
dairy scene is rather bollish at the moment. What do
you have to pay for a decent cow?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Those couple of herds us around the twenty two fifty
and twenty three fifty for first the June delivery. Yeah, look,
I don't know where it's going to end up. We
had a conference call the other morning with all of
our team around the country and nobody really quite knows.
The payout is looking positive what you're saying before. But
you know, we've just got to get those farm sales
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happening and then get a bit of a enthusiasm back
in with the young generation and hopefully they can sort
of see see a bit of a positive outlook for
them and the future with their families to be on
the farms, just like when we got brought up on them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, absolutely, well I can get ten bucks as for
a milk price. I'll encourage a few young and keen
and enthusiastic people to get into the industry. Let's hope so.
And let's finish on the sheep. They're sort of the
forgotten animal in some ways these days. But it's been
in tough times for the past few years. But we're
hearing that things are on the upper weebit there as well,
(18:42):
which is good and long overdue.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah. Absolutely, we don't trade a lot of sheep now
and through that our sales those you know, the numbers
have sort of dropped away, but what has come through
is selling really well and by all accounts of fielding
market is strong where a lot of our bigger numbers go.
You know. Yeah, it is looking really real positive and
that's all we can ask is that guys are making
(19:06):
some good money. But the new season lands look like
they're going to kick along real good, so yeah, that's
good for them.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Okay. Andrew Gibson from PGG Rights and Livestock, thanks for
your time and once again on behalf of the IHC
calf scheme. I obviously have a connection myself, thanks to
you and the team at PGG Rights and for all
the work you do and you stock agents who do
a lot of unpaid work for this wonderful course. We
really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Yeah, look, we're happy to help Jamie. You know, the
farmer supplies an article and they donating them, so we
really appreciate their feedback. And we're just one little part
of the world to make it happen and put the
money to a good cause, so not a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, and remember the farmers. If you want to make
a donation to the IHC calf Scheme, just google it,
very easy to do. You can donate the real thing
or you can donate a virtual animal. Andrew Gibson enjoy
the rest of your day in ngor Dave Leverage Country.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Thanks James, cheers mate.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thanks Andrew bang on twelve thirty. My voice is going
on me. I hope it survives tomorrow at the christ
Jet show. Some of your feedback coming in on Shane Jones.
Why doesn't AIRPM have the balls? That Jones has? Great interview,
Thank you Texter. Joan Jones none too please, though she's
(20:23):
still blaming Shane and Winston for putting Jacinda into power
in twenty seventeen. I think we've got to build a
bridge and get over that, Joan. I think Shane and
Winston have seen the light, haven't they Give us your
feedback on five double O nine and Michelle also, I
know the fun packs have been very well received around
(20:45):
the country. You ring the lucky people up after one
o'clock each day and tell them who's one who won
yesterday's fun packs.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yesterday we had Russell Faulkner from Gore and Adrian Benny
from Balls. Had great chat to those two lovely gentlemen yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Did you run those past me? I did, rocking Russ Faulkner,
I know, Russ. That's like inside of trading there. Oh,
good luck, got away with that one at Russell. There
you go, Michelle picks them, not me. Don't shoot the messenger.
What have we got a couple left today?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, we'll give away two more today, So one to
the south, one to the north. Text in to five
double O nine with your full address and yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And your career address or your rd address so we
can send it straight to you. And they are about
to be shipped off very very shortly. Right up next
to the latest and rural news, we've got sports news.
Chris Russell's our assie correspondent. We'll catch up with him.
And Wayne Langford is at the Fonterra AGM. They're about
to break. I think they started at ten thirty this morning,
(21:48):
green peace of their causing, making a nuisance of themselves.
I don't know whether there was much to come out
of the AGM. We will ask Wwayne Langford and interestingly
he's also about to undertake a far or a boost
Farmer Confidence tour around the country with the Prime Minister.
Federated Farmers getting close with the PM to encourage farming
(22:09):
good on.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Them in the event of something happening to me.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Welcome back to the country. My name's Jamie McKay. Very
shortly the latest in rural news with Michelle Watt, and
we'll have sports news for you as well. But first
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(22:42):
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(23:02):
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(23:25):
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Speaker 2 (23:51):
Alrightio, Michelle, what are you?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
God?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Are we getting any murmurings or news out of the Fonterra,
AGM and New Plymouth.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I haven't had anything, so hopefully Wayne's able to update
us on what's going on there. Yeah, do you think soon?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I wonder if they provided tomatoes, preferably soft mushy ones
to throw at the Green Peace Oh sorry, carry on, Watson.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I wondered where you were going with.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That anyhow, So they're protesting in the wrong place. Oil,
oil and dairy cows dominate that wonderful region. I don't
know if greenpeace would be that welcome there anyhow, where
you go?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Okay, right, The government has awarded scholarships to six territory
students to boost on the ground support for farmers and growers.
Agricultural Minister Tom McLay and Associate Agricultural Minister Andrew Hoggard
made the announcement. The scholarships are each valued at five
thousand dollars and have been awarded to Lincoln University students
Georgia hanging Bottom, Ashton Robinson and Henry Bartram and Massi
(24:48):
University students Mark Williams and Ala Bryan and Otago University
student Georgie Burden, who are studying agricultural science, veterary science,
science or commerce.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
And it's raw news sport.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We're the half go oh Kiwi to the bone since
nineteen oh four.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
A major decision looms overnight for World Rugby. The Sports
power Brokers are in Dublin to vote on the next
chair of the organization to replace the outgoing Bill Beaumont,
and I think we're going to vote for the Elsie
Bloke Robinson right back home. Satisfaction from Hurricanes coach Clay
Clark laid Law, with four National sevens players getting picked
(25:25):
up by Super Rugby franchises next season. Laidlaw, the former
New Zealand men's coach in the format, says building a
pipeline for players was always a priority. And Steven Alka
is reflecting on resurrecting his professional golf career as he
returns home to Arizona, a two time overall winner of
(25:46):
the PGA's Champions Tour. The fifty three year olds come
of age on the senior circuit over the last three seasons,
winning eight tournaments. That is your sports news. Do you
want to win the fun pack from Emerson's and Heartland Chips?
Your name will text us on five double nine, your
name and your full career address, and Michelle will pick
(26:06):
out someone as after one o'clock and give you a bell.
But up next it's Chris Russell.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
In the event there is something others?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
ELSI correspondent Chris Russell. Chris does Donald Trump's election as
the forty seventh President of the United States spell the
end of Wokism? Perhaps something good can come out of
the Trumpster being elected?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Well, I think that's probably the highlight, mind you, we've
got to respond to that. I was reading last week
that there's a big US based global investment house who
have about one half trillion dollars under management, is absolutely
slaking our woke policies. And even before Trump was confirmed
(26:56):
at having won, they'd already decided to have no investment
in Australia because of all the policies we have of
choosing low carbon energy alternatives, choosing people members of their
boards that run the companies here based on some sort
of gender quota rather than being based on who is
the best person for the job. You know, And I
(27:18):
think you know, this is hopefully now going to be
a worldwide trend where we start getting back to a
realistic approach to all this, and I think that's the
hope that everyone else. I mean, once upon a time,
woke was the sort of term of pride by people
who are seeking social justice and climate environmental responsibility, and
(27:39):
of course the female and the LGBT group and someone
were major force in all that. But now it's being
used as a term of derision by people who think
that all those movements have gone way too far in
and now beginning the harm our economic prosperity, and so Trump,
he doesn't care about all that stuff in America, is
(28:01):
going to have a big effect. It'll be very interesting
to see whether it has any influence on what we
have here. I don't think that it's going to influence Albo,
he's too far down that road, but might have a
big influence on our election next year.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Jamie, Yeah, I don't fancy Elbow's chances to be perfectly honest,
right like us, you're wondering what Trump's going to do
around tariff's, especially for meat. The US is a huge
market for both of our countries. You're suggesting any US
meat tariff would likely be gazumped by the insatiable demand
(28:32):
they have, especially for our beef, and that's what we're
hearing as well.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yes, well, I mean they're still in a liquidation phase
in their beef markets in America. That's flinly to become
to an end at some stage, but at the moment,
you know, nobody can keep up beef up to them.
We're not seeing it so much reflecting prices because there
are a lot of other countries that are also selling
a lot of beef. But we've had another record month
last month, admittedly only by fifty tons, but still it's
(29:00):
right up there in terms of the amount of beef
that we've shipped and exported globally. And the other factor
I think Jamie will be that although we're likely to
see or potentially see some tariffs unless unless Trump decides
not to do that because they need the beef and
be of Australia's relationship, but we're certainly going to see
(29:21):
a drop in the value of the Australian dollar against
the US dollar, and that, of course is good for
our exporters. It might make our fertilizers and everything dearer,
but it certainly as good if we can see our
dollar drop below sixty five cents consistently. That increases our
returns and would make up somewhat for any kind of
twenty percent tariff for anything that he might be putting
(29:42):
on our meats.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, let's finish on this one. Dare to dream as
the first Grand Slam Series win since nineteen eighty four.
I'm talking about the Wallabies here on the horizon after
a great finish and when over England and I look
back at your nineteen eighty four rugby team. You had
the Allas Nick Jones David Campeze. It was a great
(30:04):
side under Ellen Jones. I swept all before them in Europe.
Do you reckon this slot can do that?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Chris?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh look, I'm daring to dream. As I said in
my note to you. You know, it's just that England
I think was the big challenge out of this Grand
Slam Tour we're on at the moment, and we beat
them just after four minutes of extra time. I might
add with an amazing Jorganson try which was just brilliant
and again set up by Joseph Sowali, who I think
(30:32):
everyone was scorting the fact that we'd taken someone straight
out of rugby league and then shoved him straight into
a Wallaby side. But by gee, he hasn't forgotten any
of his schoolboys skills. He had an absolute blinder. I
thought he played amazingly and so I just I'm just
sitting there thinking, Wow, can we perhaps dream about this.
(30:53):
We've got a new coach, We've got these amazing this
new amazing player in the side who seems to turn
their whole confidence in themselves inside out. So we've got
three more sides. We've got Wales this weekend. Well you know.
I mean, if if form has anything to do with it,
we should have at least a good game. If not
beat the Whales reasonably, well, then we've got Scotland and Ireland,
(31:16):
and you know there's more chance of beating them than
there was a beating England. So look, we're sitting here,
all us fanatics, hoping that this might be the first
time in a return of those Housier years Jamie might.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Have something to do with that key. We coaching your side.
Chris Russell, thanks for your time and remember go woke,
go broke. See you later, see mate, have you seen.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Listen else.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Needs? Indeed, it is eleven away from nine. I hope
my voice can survive tomorrow at the christ Church slash
Canterbury show. Michelle having some issues Tomorrow We're going to
be there with Toyota and we've got the new Toyota
hard that I'm driving around with at the moment, and
just to prove that the hybrids can do everything all
(32:05):
other utes can do plus more, they've actually got more
get up and go. We're towing a big three and
a half ton billboard around. In fact, I think Toyota
are doing that right around all the amp shows this year,
and you and I were at a launch last night
of the new Pratoh yeah, yeah, the hybrid Prato, And
of course you've got the high lucks, so it's the
(32:28):
way to go. I'm not an EV fan, but the
hybrids are absolutely the way to go. And if it
comes to a really great car, the hybrid Rare four,
there you go. And I own one, so I can
say that with all honesty, and I paid for it
as well, Michelle, you'll be pleased to know. Right we're
going to take a break on the other side of it.
Hopefully he's got out of that AGM at New Plymouth,
(32:51):
the President of Federated Farmers Wayne langor the AGM for Fonterra.
Of course, mister Jones. Okay, we've tracked him down. He's
got out of the meeting or has the meeting finished?
(33:13):
The annual Meeting for Fonterra and New Plymouth Waye lengthor
President of Federated Farmers. What came out of the AGM
today other than green Peace protesting outside frame taste.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
What a waste of time that was. They showed out
for a photo probably to put on the newsletter or something,
then headed off, not really interested in protesting it all
just back in donations I think, so there's nothing to
see there. But otherwise yet no pretty constructive Fonterra a GM.
You know, a very good, good result from the cop
this year, a couple of pretty key farewells from the borders,
(33:45):
they reduced their board numbers and a couple of old
board members stepping down. So relatively probably i'd say a
very positive mood. As a whole.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You'd have to be a bit mean spirited and churlish
if you were a Fonterra shareholder at the moment win
and and winging at the annual general meeting. Everything's sort
of heading in the right direction. The milk price, the
share price, the dividend, they're all heading up.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Yeah, I think that was the move of it. There
was some questions around the sale of the brands and
as you can imagine that that will that will grow
over the next year, and that's what that's what a
corporate is all about, about having the discussion and seeing
where it goes. So there will be interesting and there'll
be some challenges there for the Cooperative Council who spoke
to that as well. On that and and collecting the
(34:31):
farmer sentiment, so you know it'll be interesting twelve months.
That's definitely not not all all.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Some selling the consumer brands that's worth about two dollars
a share or something, so you know that's going to
make your share price look pretty good. You would think, well,
they might even hand some cash back to you, who knows.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Yeah, yeah know, And and personally, you know, I'm trying
to trying to stay out of that. That's not a
lot of space that feeds to go on. Like I said,
that's that's the space for the Cooporative Council to handle
and let their farmers speak so if they're not getting
heard they can come to fens. Let's hope the corporate
Council steps up in their space now.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
On Tuesday, November the twenty sixth, you and the Prime
Minister Gee you're moving in rear air there, Wayne Langford,
are kicking off a farmer or boost farmer confidence tour
you starting at Mystery Creek Events Center Tuesday the twenty sixth.
You wind it up in what's going to say an
impacago sorry in Southland at the y Mumou Field Day's
(35:27):
site just outside of Gore. On the following Wednesday, So
how many places are you getting to?
Speaker 7 (35:32):
Yeah, we're heading, mister Craig, Like we say, in the
twenty sixth, we'll be an Asturt and on the twenty
ninth at the Events center there and then and then
down to way Murma on the fourth. We'd love to
do more, and I think the Prime Minister's keen to
do more, but we're just getting those destinations signed off early.
Obviously we'd love a bigger crowd as possible to get
there and hear what the government's doing for agriculture and
(35:54):
see how they're getting in behind us and obviously what
direction they want to take as well. I think that'll
be pretty key for well, not only young farmers but
our order farmers to get along in here as well,
because that's where you that's where you make the investment
right and understand what you're going with your businesses as understanding,
you know what support you're going to get from the
government or what direction the government taking as well. And
(36:15):
so I think it will be key for many people
across the board to get along and here all the
promises saying.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You can criticize this current government till the cows come home,
and plenty of people on the hecoy are but to
be fair from a farming point of view, and this
extends to David Seymour and Winston and Shane Jones as well,
you literally couldn't ask more from a government to be
farmer friendly.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Well, that's certainly certainly cracking in and and I'm really
conscious that probably both you and I, Jamie, you know,
you spend a lot of time talking to these guys,
you know, really really understand that. But for the average farmer,
you know, sometimes it's for just to hear it triggling
from the horse's mouth ride. And so that's what we thought.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Let's get the.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Prime Minister, the Minister mclay's going to come out and
a number of other ministers as well well, so that
farmers can literally just stand there and ask the guy
face to face what he's thinking on this sort of
thinking on that, we'll check in a couple of barbecues
and a few strawberry and chocolate milks as well, and
it should be a really good day out not only
for farmers but also their families and stuff as well.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Hey, Wayne lengthor just on a lighter note, did the
PR Department at Federated Farmers, namely Aaron, who does a
good job. In my mind, did he ever encourage you
to put a pronoun behind your email signature? Are you
pro pronouns?
Speaker 7 (37:29):
I've never never gone there well a name like Wayne.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I mean you can't. I mean it goes without saying
you're a bloke, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
I tend to get pronoun.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Where I go.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's your acronym. Anyhow, you and the team at Federated
Farmers keep up for good work farming. Let's make farming
great again. There you go. I'm starting to sound like
Trump more and more every day. It's a bit of
a worry. Got to go, yolope, thanks for your time.
There we go. That's us done and dusted for today.
I'm about the job up on a plane. Will catch
it from christ Church and the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
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