October 8, 2025 • 37 mins
Hamish McKay talks to Mike Green, Blake Holgate, Laura Koot, and Andrew Gibson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hope you're having a cracking day wherever you are, whatever
you might be doing. I know it's going a game
Busters and the Taranaki.
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We're going to go to the Engle would Sail.
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Over the course of the next hour, check out market
price is there? Mental Health Awareness Week brought to you
by Federated Farmers. We're going to catch up with the
wonderful Laura Coot coming up the Feelite Foundation, Farmstrong Champion
Real Country. She is amazing to get her insight into
Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
How are we.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Stretching our food budget and choices. We'll look at that
over the next hour as well, but right out a
shout out to all the golfers doing it hard at
Wairaki today for the PTS Logistics Charity Golf Tournament for Farmstrong,
big fundraiser there. I'm going to be there to night
with Joe Smith, Sam Whitelock, Verncotta. It's going to be
a great night note out, a great day happening there
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right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And we're going to kick the show off really just.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
By continuing our theme of all things mental Health Awareness
week here on the country. Eight after midday, Well many,
A fine thing has started over a conversation in a
little town called Bulls for a woman called Sue Foley,
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who's a long time friend of mine. I started out
in radio many many years ago in Palmerston, North and
Sue and I was sitting in a little booth. She
was reading the news and the first time I ever
had read a sports bulletin, she handed it to me
and she said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And I'm like, oh no, what have I done to
deserve this? But she doesn't mark around and she was
involved in a chat that led to a fantastic event
over a field days time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This year up in the White Shadow for the Rural
Property Trust.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Now joining us now is the person who was having
the conversation with Sue, Mike Green.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Mike, how you things going all right?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Good? Thanks good.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It's not the Royal Property Trust, it's for the Rural
Support Trust.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Rule Support Trust. The hell of the hell have I
written down here? You know sometimes when you do things mechanically.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sorry, yeah, rural support.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, so shall we form the Rural Property Trust later on, Mike,
we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
La money from there. So Sue and you were having
a chat, what did that lead to?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Basically, what we're talking about was just an opportunity with
the field to get industry together and get them all
in the room, have a fundraiser, but more importantly, get
the right audience here to tell the audience what Rural
Support Trust do do out there and the great work
they do in the community, and tell the story and
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help support with some funding to operate.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And it went gangbusters, right, this is beyond your wildest dreams.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah. We end up with five hundred and forty people
there for dinner at Claudman's, including the Prime Minister, have
other politicians and he the CEOs and board members suggest
or Sue Dreagans will be the most board member CEOs
in one room out of the rural sector. Yeah, anyvage
you ever been too. So it's gone really well.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And it's going to be bigger than being who already
planning for twenty six.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, look, we're well, well it's actually already sold out
around basically after we finished the first time round. Everyone's
committed and a lot of new partners are stepping in
as well.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Last year we.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Just over three hundred thousand dollars to Rule Support Trust,
which will enable them to do plenty work out there,
which is great. But the big thing is what we're
trying to do, Hamish is get the industry to debrand
and for community good. Example is you know we've got
four of the five banks as B, A and Z
B and zed West, Pack, third companies, Balance and Ravens
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down upon tear open country where a lot of businesses
will only go into event if it's exclusive rights. And
so what we're treating is it's an industry good proposition
we have on benefits and it's back to the royal community.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That is magnificent, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Like you and I would have thought that that would
be challenging, but Sue's Foley said to me, you make
the impossible happen, so that community good, non exclusive, industry
wide bloody heard Mike K. So that's that's what's really
rolled out here, hasn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
It is, and it's even having all the politicians sitting
at the same table across party. He's the key thing
as well. It's you know, the whole thing is if
we can get a strong rural community where people actually
taking notice of what's going on and acting and helping.
If people someone gets in a bit of strife early,
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you know, people will make better decisions on farm you know,
they'll produce more increased duty to and obviously use more
product on that as well. So you know, so win
whin we're round.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The win when when win cycle absolutely Now you talked
about the three hundred thousand dollars been raised and the
stuff that the Rural Support trusts formerly nine is the
Rural Property Trust things to me, No, the Rural Support
Trust can do you know what are some Just give
me an example of a hands on success story I
guess of buyer support of the Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, look, I think one great. You know some of
the great examples. One in particular was given on the
night where Dan Parks had reached out for help. You know,
she actually she's pretty hectophone LinkedIn.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
And she's also tied up with Farmstrong as an ambassador
for them, and she told a story and basically on
the night she had stated, if she hadn't reached out
to rule support frust, her husband would be a solid
parent with three young children. I think she's got Yeah,
so it's you know some Yeah, they do some bloody
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amazing stuff and very important stuff. And obviously around the
adverse events space as well as the wellness space, that's
very active out there.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
And you'd never know with somebody idea and that that
was the case, would you. It would have been really
hard to have picked that because so vibrant and full
of it, and yet what goes on that we don't
know sometimes yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And it's that stuff that you know, there's that mask
there often goes you know across and people are hesitant
to put the hand up for help. And a lot
of it is you know, we rely on as leads
from now a lot of leeds coming from real professionals,
connections there also from neighbor's community and just being vigual
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into what's going on out there to help support. But
you know, the an example of the work real Support
Crust does also amishers. There was a social impact or
return on investment study done just recently and for every
dollar put it into real Support Crust that gives a
return of between four sixteen and five fifty, which is
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right at the top end for sixty volunteers.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that is remarkable, how Mike, there
is one small probably will have is that that the
Michelle and I you know, Michelle added a need and
doesn't you know we need to get her up next year.
And so we're just a bit concerned that Jamie might
be that his table might be a bit tighter because
you have to fit in a couple extra chairs.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But you know, seeing as it's sold out.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
We'll sure you can make your water wait, so'll be
easy to fit.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Easy to put me in and feed me. I'm cheap
to feed.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
My It is sensational to chat and you do an
amazing you are you what you do is amazing The
Rural Support Trust and and you know again one of
many groups that do an incredible work right across the
the spectrum, right across the mental health and on farm wellness.
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Fantastic hate and we'll catch up soon, Mike, thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Very much for joining me.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Hey, look, just a quick shout out and thank you
to all their partners and those that have helped us
and attend to really appreciate your support.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Cheers yep, excellent, thanks very much. There we go, Thank
you very much, Mike Green right. Coming up on the
country che is going to be a good event next year,
looking forward to that already and a big night. I've
got Tawpa tonight too as well with the farmstrong.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Crew, right t ho.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Blake Holgate from Rabobank is next in there our habits.
How are they changing in the supermarket in these challenging times.
That's next on the Country that Love to Horts.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Health.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Sav This is the country on your Thursday, Hamers McKay
and for Jamie McKay for another few days into next week.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Research by Rabobank and Kiwi Harvest has highlighted some yeah,
some all some amazing stuff really and how Kiwi shop
and and go about preparing their food as well as
where and what they eat. So we're going to delve
into this a little bit today. Blake Holgate from Rabobank
joins us to look at this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Blake afternoon has great.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
To have you with us.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The first well, let's just deal with this what people
are spending on food Kiwi households and average are two
hundred and forty dollars per week. I don't know how
they do that, but that seems and that's not much
of an increase on twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
No, yes, that's right, Hamish. So that was an increase
of two dollars over the last two years. Now, what
we know is food place inflation has gone up by
significantly more than that, So Stats New Zealand tells us
it's gone up by around six percent over that time.
So what that means is Kiwi households have have relatively
less purchasing pair with their growthroughs and are having to
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make some decisions around what they do with that. And
what we heard was a third of them are buying less,
a third of them are downgrading the products or brands,
and half a kerewis are actively more looking at those
promotions and specials.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You just can't rock into the supermarket, can you with
the trolley and make those changes on the hoof?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Can you?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There's a lot of thought gone into this to be
able to do two hundred and forty dollars a week
given the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Food and yeah, exactly, hey marsh, And that's another behavior
that came through in the stats. So more key, we
just saying preparing meals that they're sitting down for the
week and going gee, what are we going to be
buying and cotting this week and preparing lists. So they're
heading into the supermarket with their mind up on what
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they're going to buy and they tending to stick to that.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, my wife would do a huge chicken Lasania and
I'll say to twenty one year old home from Lincoln
for the holidays or whatever, mate, that's your dinner for
the next three nights. Yeah, I'm sure there's lots of
that happening, you know, put together a tasty meal and
spread it out a bit.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, thinking how you can Again, it's
about maximizing that the value of the spend when you
do go into the supermarket.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
The flower effect, of course, though is the places that
we go to eat or get our takeaways from they
take a hit because of this. And you can see
that it's cyclical right through the right through the community.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, I mean, you know, right through the supply chain, right,
So anyone that's producing food in New Zealand that goes
into the domestic food market will in some way be
feeling it, and different types of food and different supply
chains are more or less exposed to the domestic market.
But those that are, I suspect already feeling.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It eating meat. I mean, meat isn't cheap. How are
we seeing what trends are we seeing there?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, this is called an interesting one Hamish, So we
still get one in five kiwi's saying that they're planning
to reduce red meat consumption going forward, but this is
actually a step that's trended down over the last three surveys,
so I've got less Keyweds saying they're going to reduce
their red meat consumption. And interestingly, when you dive into
the generational stats, is that Generation Z, so that that
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young generation have actually the numbers that saying they going
to reduce red meat consumptions dropped, so there's actually more
of them looking to consume red meat consumption, which is
We've found quite an interesting stat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Their whole sort of fitness regime, the run clubs, all
those sorts of things, and the proteins and everything that
I'm not surprised though that Gen Z and that eight
in to twenty eight spectrum are looking at increasing their
meat consumption, turning a few ideas on their head. Right,
food are provenance, This is increasingly important. People want to
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know where it's been produced.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Another interesting stat that can to Hamish is Kiwis want
to know where their food comes from and are more
willing to purchase local food if they know where it's
coming from, which also ties into another stat that said,
you know, New Zealand's have a general high awareness around
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food production systems and where food is coming from.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
There's some interesting stuff on here.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And also we saw the rise and rise of the
likes of Hollow Fresh and uber Eats and the various
ways of getting pre prepared meals to your house.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But a bit of a drop off there, I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
So when we first started asking this question, you know,
five or six years ago, those home delivery services were
relatively new, so we started to see substantial growth. And
then obviously COVID came along with the lockdown and restaurants
and food service providers and really a real jump in
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the use of those services. That's actually dropped off substantially
over the last two years, as obviously restaurants have come
back online and normal eating out behaviors that have come back,
but also at the cost of living, as we touched
on at the start of them TOEW, people are looking
at how they can reduce their foods being costs and
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I suspect this has thrown shown through through these steps.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
We're talking with Blake Holgate Rabobank, head of Sustainable Business Development.
Blake Ill puts you on the spot here, do you
do a weekly list yourself? Are you doing a food budget?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You know what you're going to buy when you go
into that supermarket and the meals you're going to prepare.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Well, I'm told by my wife what we're going to
have Hamish, so she is very well organized.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
To be fear.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I wouldn't say it's one shop per a week, but
there's sort of one main shot and then there'll be
more good instructions through the week to pick up some pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Say as we go along the old can you grab
and they think it takes five minutes and it's half
and now by the time you've gone into the supermarket, right, yeah, no,
look it, look at it. Yeah, it's it's one of
those things. I get the how much we're going to
spend on groceries this week and then.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Just need just going to pop out and get you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
It's I think it's the same in many households, but
had great research, very interesting and Blake good to chat.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Thank you very much for joining us here on the country.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Thanks Famus.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Looking out for our farmers on the country with Federated
Farmers proud supporters of Mental Health Awareness Week?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Can I go now?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Michelle? Have you've given me the all clear? Twelve twenty
eight that I jumped the gun? Was I Zoe Hobbs
out of the starting blocks there? A doesn't matter? Doesn't matter?
Twelve twenty eight. We're going to go down to the
deep deep South and Inland a bit. And a good
friend of mine who doesn't you know it doesn't call
me as often as she used to back in.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The day, but Laura Coot, hello, how are you?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Oh famous? I miss you too and I am so
that we get to a quick catch up today.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, and a fantastic mental Health Awareness Week. And of course,
so just for those who are the initiated, we know
you of course from real country across social media. You're
a farmstrong champion, Fairlight Foundation. You keep yourself pretty busy.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's you know? You tell us about an average week
in the life of Laura Keop.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Josh An average week, there is no such thing anymore.
In addition to yes being super proud of running the
Fairlight Foundation, we're in fifty year. Yeah, the interns and
graduates are doing well.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Real country.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
We're going into the busy season hosting farm shows for
guests from around the world, as well as continuing on
with my confidence building workshops, teaching people farm skills to
earn confidence and their abilities. I'm also a mum Haymers,
don't forget that one and a half year old, three
and a half year old now. And I'm also about
to launch my first online business, as everyone is these days.
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But the Southern Girl Finishing School was going online, so
it's going to be a platform aimed at mothers with
children to help them both are in confidence in their abilities.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
So there's always a lot going on.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
But just this morning I was picking up force per
and rounding up sheep and recording some videos and dropping
kids off to Kindy.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
It's just always busy in the day of a life, Laura.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I tell you the go go go right, Okay, underplanning
everything that you just talked about there too, in particular
of the growing the confidence. And this would never have
been something that I would have imagined in one hundred years.
But there was a time where you didn't feel good
about yourself and had no confidence and was allowing others
to make decisions for you, and that obviously was something
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that you needed to change.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
It is really hard to imagine now.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It's even hard to imagine myself now, but I had
no confidence until I was as a person. I was
battling a pretty severe eating disorder. I was not living
a life that I was proud of, and because I
didn't have confidence in myself, I allowed everyone else to
make decisions for me. So I was doing work and
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performing really well professionally, and I was very competent professionally,
but I never sat myself down and went what is
it that I want? Who do I want to be,
and what is really important to me?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
So when I.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Got to this place at twenty nine, I was really
really struggling, and I hit a bit of a rock bottom,
like I think a lot of people do. And so
getting to that point, I really had to take ownership
of that myself. I wasn't good at talking about it.
I wasn't good at opening up to people about it.
And so for me, the start was volunteering at a
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horse sanctuary in Auckland. That was the start of how
I changed everything.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Wow, So that was so you though, had to personally
hit rock bottom. I mean you had to feel the
jarring effect of that before you could turn it around.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
And once I turned it around volunteering at that horse sanctuary,
like can you imagine, I was suited and booted. I
was working in corporate living in Auckland, and that was
not who I was. And for me, going out to
the horse danctuary and the smell of the horses and
working with horses and helping out and volunteering, I got
this little feel good and then that was what opened
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it up for me to then draw a picture one
day of the type of life that I wanted. Dog
with the four wheel drive truck, horse mountains my life
in five years, and then from there I changed my
whole life to chase down.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
What it is that I wanted.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And the reason that I think this is all so important,
it's because I've learned through my own experience that until
you understand what you're really capable of, and until you
have confidence in yourself. Low confidence in low self belief
often does go hand in hand with really poor mental
health as well.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent. There is
every choice along the way, the recovery being a good one,
or is there do you have to sort of you know,
do you have to cass a few frogs.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And you know to get it right?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
There is no linear path or progression at one step forward, learning,
adjusting the plan as you go, and being you know,
very forthright. It actually wasn't until I became a mother
that I actually thought the professional help that I really needed.
I drengthened a lot of my fortitude by doing things
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that I didn't think I was capable of, like setting
up my own business, like changing my whole life and
pursuewing and building something that I could be really passionate about.
And through that process I met myself. I then met
the love of my life, and you know, then we
got married and I was pregnant, and I was still
terrified because although I'd done all these incredible things, I
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was still a people pleased at a high performer. I
would overwhelm myself regularly, and I was still battling a
pretty severe eating disorder. And it wasn't until my daughter
hit the ground and I went, I am not going
to be passing this on to her. I need to
get some proper help, and you know, seeking the help
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for me it was a hypnotherapist in Queenstown and she
helped me see that.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
A lot of the struggles.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
That I was having it wasn't about fixing the eating
disorder and the nail biting. It was about fixing the internal,
subconscious traits that I had held with me since being
a really young person.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
And I just cannot say what a weight.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Off my shoulders it was to no longer be living
in you know, I still like to please people, I
still like to perform, but not to the point where
it's detrimental to my mental health. It's been a journey,
a really really long journey where it's only recently where
I can sort of say, yeah, I'm in a really
good play.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Wow, so here knowing you as I do and having
spent a bit of time with you over the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Years, those sort of the chinks in your armor. I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I couldn't see I couldn't see the trees for the forest.
But now you say it I actually start to do
in a few dots. Did anybody ever say anything to you?
Or was it you that had to primarily you with
the source of your recovery.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I had to be the source of my own recovery
because like a lot of people, I don't I didn't
like to talk about it. I didn't know how to
talk about it. There was so much shame around what
I was doing, like who wants to admit that they
make themselves sick?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Like that'sful and that's shameful.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And I didn't want to hurt my parents or my
friends and family around me because I worried about them,
thinking gosh, why didn't we see this?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Or I didn't want pity, and so I didn't know
how to talk about it. And I really had to
dig deep.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
And fix this and thought this out myself.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
But had I not done that, I wouldn't be so
aware now of.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
The fact that other people go through I think it's
one in five years old adults will experience a mental
health challenge, and that presents in so many different ways.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
It doesn't all look like my journey.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
But since I've been opened up about my story, other
people open up to me, and it is the people
that you least accept And so because of what I've
been through, a lot of.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
My focus and everything that.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I do is about how you can help others to
see the stones and other people and to have that
first conversation or what do you do to reach out.
Like a couple of weeks ago, I have some really
good friends who have just gone into dairy farming. It's
their first seat and they had a really high number
of cars depths and it's been terrible weather, and you know,
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they did actually stay to me. Look, we are struggling,
but not everyone will do that, and so I didn't
know what to do. I don't know much about dairy farming.
I can't really be constructive. So what I did is
I made them stoudo. I drove over there, I turned up,
gave a hand in the carving pens, made some lunch,
hatty down over.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
A cup of tea, and left. And knowing that.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The way to show up for someone who was struggling
and how to have.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Those first conversations is so important.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
But I wouldn't understand that had I not been through
my own stuff to start with.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, what you're saying there was a lot like Ali Ludeman,
who was on the show with Us yesterday, who lost
two young sons and was talking about grief and that
don't ask what you can do, actually just do something.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You know. It's like you did you cook over your wink,
you know.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
And you know, people that are struggling, they don't want
to be.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
A burden, they don't want your pity. They don't know
how to talk about it, and they a lot of
like for me, I didn't know what was going to
affex me or what would be right.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
And you do you want to.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Push people away because if you're not feeling good, it's
not easy to have someone.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Else in your space.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
And so it's about just understanding how to show up
and how to have those conversations. And Catherine Wright was
an incredible counselor focused on the egg industry down here
in Piano and she ran a mental health first aid
program in Moscone last year.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
And my dad, at.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Seventy two years of age, went along to this and
he got so much out of it because he grew
up in the generation of you just don't talk about
these things.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
You just know. You just get on with it and
you do the work and you sort it out.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
And you know, being able to identify whether it's your
co worker, your employee, someone on your sports team, you
make your family, knowing how to support them as just
as important as recognizing the signs yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Absolutely, absolutely wonderful to chat Laura.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Thank you so much for sharing your story and kee
about the great work down there, real Country Fearlight Foundation.
That is Laura Coat joining us here on the country
Federated Farmers bringing us Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The country's world news with cop Cadet, New Zealand's leading
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Speaker 10 (27:28):
And in Ron New is a vegabond sheet that grew
a shriek like fleece as looking for a new home
after being rescued from the Central Otago Wilderness. For SBCA
staff talk about three hours to catch the eighty caligram
you now called Milly after a member of the public
spotted her near Miller's flat in late September. Animal Welfare
inspector Alana Kopper said Millie was roaming in a scrub
(27:50):
patch near the Closa River, having probably been separated from
her mob and they're worried obviously because of so much
woolf she fell in the river. It really wouldn't be
great for Millie. So story it kind of like another
Shriek story. It makes you wonder how many sheep are
roaming up around in those hills. Are Hamish and right
now for sport.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Sports with FCO, visit them online at f CO dot
co dot nz.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The old Shrek story a righty ho in sport.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
A number of players have been released for the NPC
from the all Black squad White Out, I get back Anton,
let It Brown, Luke Jacobson and Sammapini Finale for their
game against Otago and that is that is Friday night
Tomorrow night by plenty. They get Tavita Muffalo and Pasiliol
Tossi for their game against Tasmand Saturday afternoon and told
(28:39):
Wronga and the game on Saturday night in Napier Tartanhak
you have the services of Josh Lord Brady McAllister back
for Canterbury against Counties Monaco. Five in a row for
the Steelers as they make it into the quarterfinals. That
game Sunday afternoon in christ Church. A lot of complaints
about too many picks of the Formula One driver's partners
(28:59):
instead of consent trading on the on track racing activity.
And Ronaldo Cristiano billionaire football, different league, isn't it, Michelle?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That sort of money.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I mean, we were just talking off about this earlier,
about how there will be there'll never be a billionaire
rugby player like football, and you know baseball. In fact,
when I studied sport at UNI many many years ago,
baseball was the top paid athletes. That was back in
the early two thousands and things like that. So it
just shows a difference. Really, we're in a bubble.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Some of those NBA boys get paid pretty well, But
when Winston Reid was basically a reserve at west Ham
United towards the mid to the bottom of the Premier Division,
he was on more money in a week than the
whole of the crusaders entire pay bill for that same
week in Credibay. Mind you going coming up, PGG writes
and Livestock report, we're gowned to the naki right out
(29:58):
is that time of the country where it's time to
che make out what's happening in the market out there.
And who better to check this out with than heading
to the Tartanake, Andrew Gibson PGG live stock yet.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
How are you famous? Good? Thanks mate, very good.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You sound like you're quite busy out there.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
There's a you know, a nice cacophony of sounds happening
in the background.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Yeah, we just got a we've got an in milk
sale today just at the in good sale yards and
just drafting up mate. So here's a nice line of
cares if people want to jump jump on bitter and
ever knowsyyah.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Good stuff and no doubt the good prices are part
of the banter too. But also but a footy happening too.
We'll talk about that at the end though, Taranaki, you
have got a quarter final? What what you know? What
are you expecting today? What's been the standout recently in
the sale yards?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (30:47):
And milks that traded trading pretty good.
Speaker 11 (30:49):
I like I should go pretty well today.
Speaker 12 (30:50):
There's a nice selection out of a nice Holstein herd
that we take our annually well bred sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You know.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
The end milk sales have been making around between three
in sort of four to two around the place, so
they're trading really well with the with the player and
the demand. That's there, and look everything's selling well, shit,
it's you know, the markets are strong on everything, which
is just awesome to see.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, long long may that continue. Okay, So and what
about the beef side of things. What are we seeing there?
Speaker 12 (31:20):
Oh, beef's trading well, we've come out of you know,
the winter's been fairly wet and soggy for most places
here and Taranicki and guys that were just starting to
grow some some good grass and just need some.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
Sunshine out to get us going.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
But the markets are good, you know, based on the schedule,
and once we do hit that grass market, it's you know,
we should see some pretty extreme levels just.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Once again a supplying demand thing and it's a short
term cattle. We're trading that real good.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
So yeah, there's no complaints on any any division at
the moment right A dairy beef world.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
More people said that the calf rearing world. I mean,
I know it's challenging. It takes up a lot of
time and space when it happens, but there seems to
be some good all around that as a future practice
in an increase in there, you're seeing.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
An increase obviously this year.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
You know, everyone was saying that we're going to be
short of the cattle around the country. So uh, we
traded a lot more through the sale yards and sales
around the North Island, not only in Taranaki but.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
Around the rest of the country too, But.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
A lot of farmers have probably read a few more
so that there will be more hitting the ground. And
when we start their first dary beef, we've got one
next Thursday, and from there on the numbers should roll
out pretty thick. And hopefully the you know, the Hawks
may get some rain and into the market and and
you know, and everyone tops up on some good numbers.
But there will be some some real nice line to
calves around.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, good stuff. Now, a righty, let's talk a quick
bit of footy here. Josh Lord's been released for Taranaki.
But that'll be a pretty tough trip for the for
the the Amber and Blacks over to the Mighty Hawk's Bay.
Speaker 12 (32:56):
Yeah, well they don't when they go there on holiday,
so they ain't got one job to do over there.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
But it's good to get Lordie back. And I see
Meatkins's back at full back.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
We've missed some little bit but and Josh Jacobs signed
up for the Highlanders so yeah, the boys.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hopefully we get.
Speaker 12 (33:11):
You know, our straps and can roll them over there.
But yeah, they'll be a tough be a tough chance,
but some good good rugby being played at the moment.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I reckon, hey, and I've got an idea. The NPC
is damn good.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Why are these Saudis with all their money instead of
going into the stupid rugby three sixty come and buy
the NPC, play a full round down here and then
take it up to Saudi for a month or something.
I don't know, thinking outside the square and pay our
boys what they're worth. But as you're right, I mean,
there is some great forty happening, hey, Hedrew, thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Go well at Englewood today.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That is PGG Livestocks, Andrew Gibson out of the Taranaki
here on the country.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
I'm sad, but at Jimmy Barnesy and Moss Cold Chisel
the best.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The ass is. How fantastic are they be?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Mental Health Awareness Week we've had some great guests, including
Laura Coot today and earlier on Mike Green as well
from the Rural Support Trust. Big Day coming up Thursday,
twenty third of October three to five thirty at the Hawks.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Bay A and P Rural Roundup.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
They're going to be there, the Mates of Mates for Mates,
You'll know, this wonderful organization. They've got some great speakers there.
Our man Matt Holden has got some great speakers lined
up there. Sarah Donaldson well Being consultant and wide a
coordinator for the Rural Support Trust, the Wayne Forest, David Todd,
Toddy MC.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
It's a great day twenty third of October three to
five thirty pm to find out some more about that a.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Shameless mental health plague for myself, Michelle, Can I do that?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Am I?
Speaker 10 (34:58):
Of course you can, Yeah, of course you can. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well you know that I've been down here and I've
been sort of communing a bit between Auckland and the
Manter we two and working almost two full time drives
and loving every minute.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, they have my first auction for my new company
down here.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Tremains across the side of the goods, which was a
lot of fun auctioneer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Do you think I'd go right? Yeah? I go right,
I love it.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Celebrities a CEA class, celebrity C plus maybe and today
my first listing's gone live Lovely little lifestyle block in
me your call if you want to be a hobby farmer.
It's got a one stand wallshit, which I think is
so cute. You can just potter away by yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Ae. Can you imagine me doing that?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Eh, retirement plan?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
No? No?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Well no, this particular place you wouldn't be actually you
wouldn't be retiring to. It's got about seven paddocks in
an orchard. But you can check it out on Tremaine's
Hamish mcguy that's my name anyway. It's enough of a
self indulgent plug mental health Awareness week, but that has
made me feel good because I'm working bloody hard and
as we all do, as we all do, and you know,
I have this thing in my life called this is
(35:58):
what gets me by. It's called monpor muff for meal,
My why, my family, And I'm sure that we all
think like that at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
We just need to remind ourselves of that. Do you
like that? You like that? I do like that.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I do like that mon pork muff for meal always
like a little bit of the old French Lingua.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hey, wonderful. We should we do it all again tomorrow?
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Yeah, let's do it all again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Oh keep a good plan. Oh you keep me on.
Oh I'm allowed to stay on, am I?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Have you given me this great Thanks to all our
guests today, Andrew Gibson, Mike Green, Laura Cootoo.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who else did I miss out there? Oh look, you know,
just loving it.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Thank you very much con Federated Farmers too for supporting
us to do this Mental Health Awareness Week and bring
you that coverage.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Tied again. It on a bit of Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Hope you're having a cracking day wherever you are, whatever
you might be doing. I know it's going a game
Busters and the Taranaki.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We're going to go to the Engle would Sail.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Over the course of the next hour, check out market
price is there? Mental Health Awareness Week brought to you
by Federated Farmers. We're going to catch up with the
wonderful Laura Coot coming up the Feelite Foundation, Farmstrong Champion
Real Country. She is amazing to get her insight into
Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
How are we.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Stretching our food budget and choices. We'll look at that
over the next hour as well, but right out a
shout out to all the golfers doing it hard at
Wairaki today for the PTS Logistics Charity Golf Tournament for Farmstrong,
big fundraiser there. I'm going to be there to night
with Joe Smith, Sam Whitelock, Verncotta. It's going to be
a great night note out, a great day happening there
(01:26):
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And we're going to kick the show off really just.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
By continuing our theme of all things mental Health Awareness
week here on the country. Eight after midday, Well many,
A fine thing has started over a conversation in a
little town called Bulls for a woman called Sue Foley,
(01:52):
who's a long time friend of mine. I started out
in radio many many years ago in Palmerston, North and
Sue and I was sitting in a little booth. She
was reading the news and the first time I ever
had read a sports bulletin, she handed it to me
and she said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And I'm like, oh no, what have I done to
deserve this? But she doesn't mark around and she was
involved in a chat that led to a fantastic event
over a field days time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This year up in the White Shadow for the Rural
Property Trust.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Now joining us now is the person who was having
the conversation with Sue, Mike Green.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Mike, how you things going all right?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Good? Thanks good.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It's not the Royal Property Trust, it's for the Rural
Support Trust.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Rule Support Trust. The hell of the hell have I
written down here? You know sometimes when you do things mechanically.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sorry, yeah, rural support.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, so shall we form the Rural Property Trust later on, Mike,
we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
La money from there. So Sue and you were having
a chat, what did that lead to?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Basically, what we're talking about was just an opportunity with
the field to get industry together and get them all
in the room, have a fundraiser, but more importantly, get
the right audience here to tell the audience what Rural
Support Trust do do out there and the great work
they do in the community, and tell the story and
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help support with some funding to operate.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And it went gangbusters, right, this is beyond your wildest dreams.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah. We end up with five hundred and forty people
there for dinner at Claudman's, including the Prime Minister, have
other politicians and he the CEOs and board members suggest
or Sue Dreagans will be the most board member CEOs
in one room out of the rural sector. Yeah, anyvage
you ever been too. So it's gone really well.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And it's going to be bigger than being who already
planning for twenty six.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, look, we're well, well it's actually already sold out
around basically after we finished the first time round. Everyone's
committed and a lot of new partners are stepping in
as well.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Last year we.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Just over three hundred thousand dollars to Rule Support Trust,
which will enable them to do plenty work out there,
which is great. But the big thing is what we're
trying to do, Hamish is get the industry to debrand
and for community good. Example is you know we've got
four of the five banks as B, A and Z
B and zed West, Pack, third companies, Balance and Ravens
(04:33):
down upon tear open country where a lot of businesses
will only go into event if it's exclusive rights. And
so what we're treating is it's an industry good proposition
we have on benefits and it's back to the royal community.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That is magnificent, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Like you and I would have thought that that would
be challenging, but Sue's Foley said to me, you make
the impossible happen, so that community good, non exclusive, industry
wide bloody heard Mike K. So that's that's what's really
rolled out here, hasn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
It is, and it's even having all the politicians sitting
at the same table across party. He's the key thing
as well. It's you know, the whole thing is if
we can get a strong rural community where people actually
taking notice of what's going on and acting and helping.
If people someone gets in a bit of strife early,
(05:26):
you know, people will make better decisions on farm you know,
they'll produce more increased duty to and obviously use more
product on that as well. So you know, so win
whin we're round.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The win when when win cycle absolutely Now you talked
about the three hundred thousand dollars been raised and the
stuff that the Rural Support trusts formerly nine is the
Rural Property Trust things to me, No, the Rural Support
Trust can do you know what are some Just give
me an example of a hands on success story I
guess of buyer support of the Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, look, I think one great. You know some of
the great examples. One in particular was given on the
night where Dan Parks had reached out for help. You know,
she actually she's pretty hectophone LinkedIn.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
And she's also tied up with Farmstrong as an ambassador
for them, and she told a story and basically on
the night she had stated, if she hadn't reached out
to rule support frust, her husband would be a solid
parent with three young children. I think she's got Yeah,
so it's you know some Yeah, they do some bloody
(06:32):
amazing stuff and very important stuff. And obviously around the
adverse events space as well as the wellness space, that's
very active out there.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
And you'd never know with somebody idea and that that
was the case, would you. It would have been really
hard to have picked that because so vibrant and full
of it, and yet what goes on that we don't
know sometimes yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And it's that stuff that you know, there's that mask
there often goes you know across and people are hesitant
to put the hand up for help. And a lot
of it is you know, we rely on as leads
from now a lot of leeds coming from real professionals,
connections there also from neighbor's community and just being vigual
(07:16):
into what's going on out there to help support. But
you know, the an example of the work real Support
Crust does also amishers. There was a social impact or
return on investment study done just recently and for every
dollar put it into real Support Crust that gives a
return of between four sixteen and five fifty, which is
(07:39):
right at the top end for sixty volunteers.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that is remarkable, how Mike, there
is one small probably will have is that that the
Michelle and I you know, Michelle added a need and
doesn't you know we need to get her up next year.
And so we're just a bit concerned that Jamie might
be that his table might be a bit tighter because
you have to fit in a couple extra chairs.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But you know, seeing as it's sold out.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
We'll sure you can make your water wait, so'll be
easy to fit.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Easy to put me in and feed me. I'm cheap
to feed.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
My It is sensational to chat and you do an
amazing you are you what you do is amazing The
Rural Support Trust and and you know again one of
many groups that do an incredible work right across the
the spectrum, right across the mental health and on farm wellness.
(08:30):
Fantastic hate and we'll catch up soon, Mike, thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Very much for joining me.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Hey, look, just a quick shout out and thank you
to all their partners and those that have helped us
and attend to really appreciate your support.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Cheers yep, excellent, thanks very much. There we go, Thank
you very much, Mike Green right. Coming up on the
country che is going to be a good event next year,
looking forward to that already and a big night. I've
got Tawpa tonight too as well with the farmstrong.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Crew, right t ho.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Blake Holgate from Rabobank is next in there our habits.
How are they changing in the supermarket in these challenging times.
That's next on the Country that Love to Horts.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Health.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Sav This is the country on your Thursday, Hamers McKay
and for Jamie McKay for another few days into next week.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Research by Rabobank and Kiwi Harvest has highlighted some yeah,
some all some amazing stuff really and how Kiwi shop
and and go about preparing their food as well as
where and what they eat. So we're going to delve
into this a little bit today. Blake Holgate from Rabobank
joins us to look at this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Blake afternoon has great.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
To have you with us.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The first well, let's just deal with this what people
are spending on food Kiwi households and average are two
hundred and forty dollars per week. I don't know how
they do that, but that seems and that's not much
of an increase on twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
No, yes, that's right, Hamish. So that was an increase
of two dollars over the last two years. Now, what
we know is food place inflation has gone up by
significantly more than that, So Stats New Zealand tells us
it's gone up by around six percent over that time.
So what that means is Kiwi households have have relatively
less purchasing pair with their growthroughs and are having to
(10:33):
make some decisions around what they do with that. And
what we heard was a third of them are buying less,
a third of them are downgrading the products or brands,
and half a kerewis are actively more looking at those
promotions and specials.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You just can't rock into the supermarket, can you with
the trolley and make those changes on the hoof?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Can you?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There's a lot of thought gone into this to be
able to do two hundred and forty dollars a week
given the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Food and yeah, exactly, hey marsh, And that's another behavior
that came through in the stats. So more key, we
just saying preparing meals that they're sitting down for the
week and going gee, what are we going to be
buying and cotting this week and preparing lists. So they're
heading into the supermarket with their mind up on what
(11:19):
they're going to buy and they tending to stick to that.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, my wife would do a huge chicken Lasania and
I'll say to twenty one year old home from Lincoln
for the holidays or whatever, mate, that's your dinner for
the next three nights. Yeah, I'm sure there's lots of
that happening, you know, put together a tasty meal and
spread it out a bit.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, thinking how you can Again, it's
about maximizing that the value of the spend when you
do go into the supermarket.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
The flower effect, of course, though is the places that
we go to eat or get our takeaways from they
take a hit because of this. And you can see
that it's cyclical right through the right through the community.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, I mean, you know, right through the supply chain, right,
So anyone that's producing food in New Zealand that goes
into the domestic food market will in some way be
feeling it, and different types of food and different supply
chains are more or less exposed to the domestic market.
But those that are, I suspect already feeling.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It eating meat. I mean, meat isn't cheap. How are
we seeing what trends are we seeing there?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, this is called an interesting one Hamish, So we
still get one in five kiwi's saying that they're planning
to reduce red meat consumption going forward, but this is
actually a step that's trended down over the last three surveys,
so I've got less Keyweds saying they're going to reduce
their red meat consumption. And interestingly, when you dive into
the generational stats, is that Generation Z, so that that
(12:54):
young generation have actually the numbers that saying they going
to reduce red meat consumptions dropped, so there's actually more
of them looking to consume red meat consumption, which is
We've found quite an interesting stat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Their whole sort of fitness regime, the run clubs, all
those sorts of things, and the proteins and everything that
I'm not surprised though that Gen Z and that eight
in to twenty eight spectrum are looking at increasing their
meat consumption, turning a few ideas on their head. Right,
food are provenance, This is increasingly important. People want to
(13:30):
know where it's been produced.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Another interesting stat that can to Hamish is Kiwis want
to know where their food comes from and are more
willing to purchase local food if they know where it's
coming from, which also ties into another stat that said,
you know, New Zealand's have a general high awareness around
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food production systems and where food is coming from.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
There's some interesting stuff on here.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And also we saw the rise and rise of the
likes of Hollow Fresh and uber Eats and the various
ways of getting pre prepared meals to your house.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But a bit of a drop off there, I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
So when we first started asking this question, you know,
five or six years ago, those home delivery services were
relatively new, so we started to see substantial growth. And
then obviously COVID came along with the lockdown and restaurants
and food service providers and really a real jump in
(14:36):
the use of those services. That's actually dropped off substantially
over the last two years, as obviously restaurants have come
back online and normal eating out behaviors that have come back,
but also at the cost of living, as we touched
on at the start of them TOEW, people are looking
at how they can reduce their foods being costs and
(14:57):
I suspect this has thrown shown through through these steps.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
We're talking with Blake Holgate Rabobank, head of Sustainable Business Development.
Blake Ill puts you on the spot here, do you
do a weekly list yourself? Are you doing a food budget?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You know what you're going to buy when you go
into that supermarket and the meals you're going to prepare.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Well, I'm told by my wife what we're going to
have Hamish, so she is very well organized.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
To be fear.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I wouldn't say it's one shop per a week, but
there's sort of one main shot and then there'll be
more good instructions through the week to pick up some pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Say as we go along the old can you grab
and they think it takes five minutes and it's half
and now by the time you've gone into the supermarket, right, yeah, no,
look it, look at it. Yeah, it's it's one of
those things. I get the how much we're going to
spend on groceries this week and then.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Just need just going to pop out and get you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
It's I think it's the same in many households, but
had great research, very interesting and Blake good to chat.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Thank you very much for joining us here on the country.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Thanks Famus.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Looking out for our farmers on the country with Federated
Farmers proud supporters of Mental Health Awareness Week?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Can I go now?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Michelle? Have you've given me the all clear? Twelve twenty
eight that I jumped the gun? Was I Zoe Hobbs
out of the starting blocks there? A doesn't matter? Doesn't matter?
Twelve twenty eight. We're going to go down to the
deep deep South and Inland a bit. And a good
friend of mine who doesn't you know it doesn't call
me as often as she used to back in.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The day, but Laura Coot, hello, how are you?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Oh famous? I miss you too and I am so
that we get to a quick catch up today.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, and a fantastic mental Health Awareness Week. And of course,
so just for those who are the initiated, we know
you of course from real country across social media. You're
a farmstrong champion, Fairlight Foundation. You keep yourself pretty busy.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's you know? You tell us about an average week
in the life of Laura Keop.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Josh An average week, there is no such thing anymore.
In addition to yes being super proud of running the
Fairlight Foundation, we're in fifty year. Yeah, the interns and
graduates are doing well.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Real country.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
We're going into the busy season hosting farm shows for
guests from around the world, as well as continuing on
with my confidence building workshops, teaching people farm skills to
earn confidence and their abilities. I'm also a mum Haymers,
don't forget that one and a half year old, three
and a half year old now. And I'm also about
to launch my first online business, as everyone is these days.
(18:00):
But the Southern Girl Finishing School was going online, so
it's going to be a platform aimed at mothers with
children to help them both are in confidence in their abilities.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
So there's always a lot going on.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
But just this morning I was picking up force per
and rounding up sheep and recording some videos and dropping
kids off to Kindy.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
It's just always busy in the day of a life, Laura.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I tell you the go go go right, Okay, underplanning
everything that you just talked about there too, in particular
of the growing the confidence. And this would never have
been something that I would have imagined in one hundred years.
But there was a time where you didn't feel good
about yourself and had no confidence and was allowing others
to make decisions for you, and that obviously was something
(18:49):
that you needed to change.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
It is really hard to imagine now.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It's even hard to imagine myself now, but I had
no confidence until I was as a person. I was
battling a pretty severe eating disorder. I was not living
a life that I was proud of, and because I
didn't have confidence in myself, I allowed everyone else to
make decisions for me. So I was doing work and
(19:14):
performing really well professionally, and I was very competent professionally,
but I never sat myself down and went what is
it that I want? Who do I want to be,
and what is really important to me?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
So when I.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Got to this place at twenty nine, I was really
really struggling, and I hit a bit of a rock bottom,
like I think a lot of people do. And so
getting to that point, I really had to take ownership
of that myself. I wasn't good at talking about it.
I wasn't good at opening up to people about it.
And so for me, the start was volunteering at a
(19:50):
horse sanctuary in Auckland. That was the start of how
I changed everything.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Wow, So that was so you though, had to personally
hit rock bottom. I mean you had to feel the
jarring effect of that before you could turn it around.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
And once I turned it around volunteering at that horse sanctuary,
like can you imagine, I was suited and booted. I
was working in corporate living in Auckland, and that was
not who I was. And for me, going out to
the horse danctuary and the smell of the horses and
working with horses and helping out and volunteering, I got
this little feel good and then that was what opened
(20:30):
it up for me to then draw a picture one
day of the type of life that I wanted. Dog
with the four wheel drive truck, horse mountains my life
in five years, and then from there I changed my
whole life to chase down.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
What it is that I wanted.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And the reason that I think this is all so important,
it's because I've learned through my own experience that until
you understand what you're really capable of, and until you
have confidence in yourself. Low confidence in low self belief
often does go hand in hand with really poor mental
health as well.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent. There is
every choice along the way, the recovery being a good one,
or is there do you have to sort of you know,
do you have to cass a few frogs.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And you know to get it right?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
There is no linear path or progression at one step forward, learning,
adjusting the plan as you go, and being you know,
very forthright. It actually wasn't until I became a mother
that I actually thought the professional help that I really needed.
I drengthened a lot of my fortitude by doing things
(21:42):
that I didn't think I was capable of, like setting
up my own business, like changing my whole life and
pursuewing and building something that I could be really passionate about.
And through that process I met myself. I then met
the love of my life, and you know, then we
got married and I was pregnant, and I was still
terrified because although I'd done all these incredible things, I
(22:06):
was still a people pleased at a high performer. I
would overwhelm myself regularly, and I was still battling a
pretty severe eating disorder. And it wasn't until my daughter
hit the ground and I went, I am not going
to be passing this on to her. I need to
get some proper help, and you know, seeking the help
(22:26):
for me it was a hypnotherapist in Queenstown and she
helped me see that.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
A lot of the struggles.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
That I was having it wasn't about fixing the eating
disorder and the nail biting. It was about fixing the internal,
subconscious traits that I had held with me since being
a really young person.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
And I just cannot say what a weight.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Off my shoulders it was to no longer be living
in you know, I still like to please people, I
still like to perform, but not to the point where
it's detrimental to my mental health. It's been a journey,
a really really long journey where it's only recently where
I can sort of say, yeah, I'm in a really
good play.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Wow, so here knowing you as I do and having
spent a bit of time with you over the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Years, those sort of the chinks in your armor. I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I couldn't see I couldn't see the trees for the forest.
But now you say it I actually start to do
in a few dots. Did anybody ever say anything to you?
Or was it you that had to primarily you with
the source of your recovery.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I had to be the source of my own recovery
because like a lot of people, I don't I didn't
like to talk about it. I didn't know how to
talk about it. There was so much shame around what
I was doing, like who wants to admit that they
make themselves sick?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Like that'sful and that's shameful.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And I didn't want to hurt my parents or my
friends and family around me because I worried about them,
thinking gosh, why didn't we see this?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Or I didn't want pity, and so I didn't know
how to talk about it. And I really had to
dig deep.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
And fix this and thought this out myself.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
But had I not done that, I wouldn't be so
aware now of.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
The fact that other people go through I think it's
one in five years old adults will experience a mental
health challenge, and that presents in so many different ways.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
It doesn't all look like my journey.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
But since I've been opened up about my story, other
people open up to me, and it is the people
that you least accept And so because of what I've
been through, a lot of.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
My focus and everything that.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I do is about how you can help others to
see the stones and other people and to have that
first conversation or what do you do to reach out.
Like a couple of weeks ago, I have some really
good friends who have just gone into dairy farming. It's
their first seat and they had a really high number
of cars depths and it's been terrible weather, and you know,
(25:08):
they did actually stay to me. Look, we are struggling,
but not everyone will do that, and so I didn't
know what to do. I don't know much about dairy farming.
I can't really be constructive. So what I did is
I made them stoudo. I drove over there, I turned up,
gave a hand in the carving pens, made some lunch,
hatty down over.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
A cup of tea, and left. And knowing that.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The way to show up for someone who was struggling
and how to have.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Those first conversations is so important.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
But I wouldn't understand that had I not been through
my own stuff to start with.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, what you're saying there was a lot like Ali Ludeman,
who was on the show with Us yesterday, who lost
two young sons and was talking about grief and that
don't ask what you can do, actually just do something.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You know. It's like you did you cook over your wink,
you know.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
And you know, people that are struggling, they don't want
to be.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
A burden, they don't want your pity. They don't know
how to talk about it, and they a lot of
like for me, I didn't know what was going to
affex me or what would be right.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
And you do you want to.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Push people away because if you're not feeling good, it's
not easy to have someone.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Else in your space.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
And so it's about just understanding how to show up
and how to have those conversations. And Catherine Wright was
an incredible counselor focused on the egg industry down here
in Piano and she ran a mental health first aid
program in Moscone last year.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
And my dad, at.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Seventy two years of age, went along to this and
he got so much out of it because he grew
up in the generation of you just don't talk about
these things.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
You just know. You just get on with it and
you do the work and you sort it out.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
And you know, being able to identify whether it's your
co worker, your employee, someone on your sports team, you
make your family, knowing how to support them as just
as important as recognizing the signs yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Absolutely, absolutely wonderful to chat Laura.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Thank you so much for sharing your story and kee
about the great work down there, real Country Fearlight Foundation.
That is Laura Coat joining us here on the country
Federated Farmers bringing us Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The country's world news with cop Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower brand visit steel for dot cot
on In said for your local stockist.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
And in Ron New is a vegabond sheet that grew
a shriek like fleece as looking for a new home
after being rescued from the Central Otago Wilderness. For SBCA
staff talk about three hours to catch the eighty caligram
you now called Milly after a member of the public
spotted her near Miller's flat in late September. Animal Welfare
inspector Alana Kopper said Millie was roaming in a scrub
(27:50):
patch near the Closa River, having probably been separated from
her mob and they're worried obviously because of so much
woolf she fell in the river. It really wouldn't be
great for Millie. So story it kind of like another
Shriek story. It makes you wonder how many sheep are
roaming up around in those hills. Are Hamish and right
now for sport.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Sports with FCO, visit them online at f CO dot
co dot nz.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The old Shrek story a righty ho in sport.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
A number of players have been released for the NPC
from the all Black squad White Out, I get back Anton,
let It Brown, Luke Jacobson and Sammapini Finale for their
game against Otago and that is that is Friday night
Tomorrow night by plenty. They get Tavita Muffalo and Pasiliol
Tossi for their game against Tasmand Saturday afternoon and told
(28:39):
Wronga and the game on Saturday night in Napier Tartanhak
you have the services of Josh Lord Brady McAllister back
for Canterbury against Counties Monaco. Five in a row for
the Steelers as they make it into the quarterfinals. That
game Sunday afternoon in christ Church. A lot of complaints
about too many picks of the Formula One driver's partners
(28:59):
instead of consent trading on the on track racing activity.
And Ronaldo Cristiano billionaire football, different league, isn't it, Michelle?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That sort of money.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I mean, we were just talking off about this earlier,
about how there will be there'll never be a billionaire
rugby player like football, and you know baseball. In fact,
when I studied sport at UNI many many years ago,
baseball was the top paid athletes. That was back in
the early two thousands and things like that. So it
just shows a difference. Really, we're in a bubble.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Some of those NBA boys get paid pretty well, But
when Winston Reid was basically a reserve at west Ham
United towards the mid to the bottom of the Premier Division,
he was on more money in a week than the
whole of the crusaders entire pay bill for that same
week in Credibay. Mind you going coming up, PGG writes
and Livestock report, we're gowned to the naki right out
(29:58):
is that time of the country where it's time to
che make out what's happening in the market out there.
And who better to check this out with than heading
to the Tartanake, Andrew Gibson PGG live stock yet.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
How are you famous? Good? Thanks mate, very good.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You sound like you're quite busy out there.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
There's a you know, a nice cacophony of sounds happening
in the background.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Yeah, we just got a we've got an in milk
sale today just at the in good sale yards and
just drafting up mate. So here's a nice line of
cares if people want to jump jump on bitter and
ever knowsyyah.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Good stuff and no doubt the good prices are part
of the banter too. But also but a footy happening too.
We'll talk about that at the end though, Taranaki, you
have got a quarter final? What what you know? What
are you expecting today? What's been the standout recently in
the sale yards?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (30:47):
And milks that traded trading pretty good.
Speaker 11 (30:49):
I like I should go pretty well today.
Speaker 12 (30:50):
There's a nice selection out of a nice Holstein herd
that we take our annually well bred sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You know.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
The end milk sales have been making around between three
in sort of four to two around the place, so
they're trading really well with the with the player and
the demand. That's there, and look everything's selling well, shit,
it's you know, the markets are strong on everything, which
is just awesome to see.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, long long may that continue. Okay, So and what
about the beef side of things. What are we seeing there?
Speaker 12 (31:20):
Oh, beef's trading well, we've come out of you know,
the winter's been fairly wet and soggy for most places
here and Taranicki and guys that were just starting to
grow some some good grass and just need some.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
Sunshine out to get us going.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
But the markets are good, you know, based on the schedule,
and once we do hit that grass market, it's you know,
we should see some pretty extreme levels just.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Once again a supplying demand thing and it's a short
term cattle. We're trading that real good.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
So yeah, there's no complaints on any any division at
the moment right A dairy beef world.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
More people said that the calf rearing world. I mean,
I know it's challenging. It takes up a lot of
time and space when it happens, but there seems to
be some good all around that as a future practice
in an increase in there, you're seeing.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
An increase obviously this year.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
You know, everyone was saying that we're going to be
short of the cattle around the country. So uh, we
traded a lot more through the sale yards and sales
around the North Island, not only in Taranaki but.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
Around the rest of the country too, But.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
A lot of farmers have probably read a few more
so that there will be more hitting the ground. And
when we start their first dary beef, we've got one
next Thursday, and from there on the numbers should roll
out pretty thick. And hopefully the you know, the Hawks
may get some rain and into the market and and
you know, and everyone tops up on some good numbers.
But there will be some some real nice line to
calves around.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, good stuff. Now, a righty, let's talk a quick
bit of footy here. Josh Lord's been released for Taranaki.
But that'll be a pretty tough trip for the for
the the Amber and Blacks over to the Mighty Hawk's Bay.
Speaker 12 (32:56):
Yeah, well they don't when they go there on holiday,
so they ain't got one job to do over there.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
But it's good to get Lordie back. And I see
Meatkins's back at full back.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
We've missed some little bit but and Josh Jacobs signed
up for the Highlanders so yeah, the boys.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hopefully we get.
Speaker 12 (33:11):
You know, our straps and can roll them over there.
But yeah, they'll be a tough be a tough chance,
but some good good rugby being played at the moment.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I reckon, hey, and I've got an idea. The NPC
is damn good.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Why are these Saudis with all their money instead of
going into the stupid rugby three sixty come and buy
the NPC, play a full round down here and then
take it up to Saudi for a month or something.
I don't know, thinking outside the square and pay our
boys what they're worth. But as you're right, I mean,
there is some great forty happening, hey, Hedrew, thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Go well at Englewood today.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That is PGG Livestocks, Andrew Gibson out of the Taranaki
here on the country.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
I'm sad, but at Jimmy Barnesy and Moss Cold Chisel
the best.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The ass is. How fantastic are they be?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Mental Health Awareness Week we've had some great guests, including
Laura Coot today and earlier on Mike Green as well
from the Rural Support Trust. Big Day coming up Thursday,
twenty third of October three to five thirty at the Hawks.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Bay A and P Rural Roundup.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
They're going to be there, the Mates of Mates for Mates,
You'll know, this wonderful organization. They've got some great speakers there.
Our man Matt Holden has got some great speakers lined
up there. Sarah Donaldson well Being consultant and wide a
coordinator for the Rural Support Trust, the Wayne Forest, David Todd,
Toddy MC.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
It's a great day twenty third of October three to
five thirty pm to find out some more about that a.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Shameless mental health plague for myself, Michelle, Can I do that?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Am I?
Speaker 10 (34:58):
Of course you can, Yeah, of course you can. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well you know that I've been down here and I've
been sort of communing a bit between Auckland and the
Manter we two and working almost two full time drives
and loving every minute.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, they have my first auction for my new company
down here.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Tremains across the side of the goods, which was a
lot of fun auctioneer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Do you think I'd go right? Yeah? I go right,
I love it.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Celebrities a CEA class, celebrity C plus maybe and today
my first listing's gone live Lovely little lifestyle block in
me your call if you want to be a hobby farmer.
It's got a one stand wallshit, which I think is
so cute. You can just potter away by yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Ae. Can you imagine me doing that?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Eh, retirement plan?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
No? No?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Well no, this particular place you wouldn't be actually you
wouldn't be retiring to. It's got about seven paddocks in
an orchard. But you can check it out on Tremaine's
Hamish mcguy that's my name anyway. It's enough of a
self indulgent plug mental health Awareness week, but that has
made me feel good because I'm working bloody hard and
as we all do, as we all do, and you know,
I have this thing in my life called this is
(35:58):
what gets me by. It's called monpor muff for meal,
My why, my family, And I'm sure that we all
think like that at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
We just need to remind ourselves of that. Do you
like that? You like that? I do like that.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
I do like that mon pork muff for meal always
like a little bit of the old French Lingua.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hey, wonderful. We should we do it all again tomorrow?
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Yeah, let's do it all again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Oh keep a good plan. Oh you keep me on.
Oh I'm allowed to stay on, am I?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Have you given me this great Thanks to all our
guests today, Andrew Gibson, Mike Green, Laura Cootoo.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who else did I miss out there? Oh look, you know,
just loving it.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Thank you very much con Federated Farmers too for supporting
us to do this Mental Health Awareness Week and bring
you that coverage.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Tied again. It on a bit of Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
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