February 2, 2026 • 35 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Mark Hooper, Don Morrison, Mark de Lautour, and Rick Ladd.
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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 Farmland's hit those summer pests.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Harders, competents, small free body on that good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I in New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. Sorry for
the loss of transmission earlier in the hour a linking
issue in Auckland. Will do our best to battle through
the show. Today. I'm going to be chatting very shortly
to Mark Hooper from Federated Farmers. They're worried that the government,
through the r m A reforms, is going to be
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effectively enabling fresh water to be taxed. We can't have that,
can we? Don Morrison, high profile Southland sheep and beef farmer, Cananabuscrow.
You might have seen him on Country Calendar, Former Alliance
board director. He's one of the alumni behind the Lincoln
University backing ALU Sport dinner in Wanaka and March ahead
(01:13):
of the Wanaka show. Mark de Latore, Chief Executive Open
Country Dairy dis back from the Golf Food Trade show
in the Middle East. Why Trump is good for business
and it looks like we might get another positive global
dairy trade auction tonight. We're Glad tractor sales. They're up
ten percent here this year. That's great in the UK,
(01:33):
believe it or not, they're the lowest on record, and
the lowest since before the Second World War. And Phil
Duncan on the weather. We've got all that to do
between now and one o'clock and hopefully we're on air.
God only knows. But what I'm going to do is
just leave you with the wee bit of music from
the Grammys yesterday. What about those outfits day? And hopefully
(01:57):
we'll come back with Mark Hooper Federated Farmers. M A
Reform spokesperson.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Kissy sends her phone. But I'm trying to kiss your
lits for real. Red hearts, Red hearts, that's what mine. Yeah,
come give me something I can feel.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Don't you want me? Let go?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Won't you?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Baby?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Don't you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I can now see to But I go crazy? Are
you going to do this?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
This? Me?
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Me yet?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
But it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But it?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
But it but.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
A clerk?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Drink smoke three body that go back, go back, go?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, welcome back to the country. I think I'm Jamie McKay.
Are we on, Michelle? God he knows what's happening, Okay,
I'll just battle away and pretend we are some linking
issues in Auckland, let's hopefully, and I apologize to Federated
Farmers RMA Reform spokesperson Mark Cooper, who's had to sit
through all of this. Sorry about that. Mark. Hey, I'm
(03:11):
just trying to get a thumbs up. Honestly, I've got
no idea if I'm on air or not. This is
really annoying me. But anyhow, Mark, I'm going to assume
we are on air. How are you going, mate? I
hope you're going better than me. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, things are all good to here in Taranaki at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I am pleased to hear it. Right. What's this about
Federated Farmers saying that farmers are going to be taxed
for fresh water? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Well, look, I guess it's kind of one of those things.
I would say it's part of the value of a
fence membership. That We've got a really good policy team
digging deep into the new Natural Environment Bill and buried
way down the bottom there and about clause three hundred
and thirteen something that there's a there's a clause there
(04:02):
around natural resource levees, which if you cross reference that
with the other clauses. You find that that includes water
of course, and so the ability for the minister in
the future to place a levy on the use of water,
so effectively a water tax. Yes, a bit of a
(04:23):
surprise that one popped up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well what are you doing about it?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, well that's a really good question, and it comes
back to the wider issue of this Natural Environment Bill,
and I guess kind of the key message here is
that it's really failed to deliver on the promised reform
that we were hoping for, and it's got a lot
of sort of fundamental flaws and areas that we're concerned with,
(04:49):
and this potential water tax is one of those. So
it does raise the question what is the strategy. Can
we now, given where the process is that these things
fixed through the sleek committee process, or do we have
to put additional pressure on the government and say, hey,
we need to have a bit of a rethink here
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in terms of, you know, making sure this delivers on
what was promised.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You're also the Federated Farmer's Banking spokesperson. What's happening there?
Weren't you jumping up and down just before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah, just before Christmas, we had the return of the
results of the Reserve Bank Capital Requirements review, and so
that was a review that or process that the Reserve
Bank could put in place back in twenty nineteen, doubling
the capital holding requirements that banks had to have given
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them protection for one and two hundred year event. There
was a great bit of advocacy in one sense in
terms of the fact that we got that to the
point where it was reviewed and there was a positive
result came out of It's basically an estimate of a
twenty three basis points is likely to be the flow
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through effect in terms of a benefit to commercial lending
for the rule sector. So you know, good result in
the sense that from our banking surveys, average farm loan
around four and a half to four point nine million,
so ten or eleven thousand dollars worth of saving there
with those twenty three basis points. But you know, at
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the same time we also, I guess in our media
at the time we called it a little bit like
getting work socks for Christmas. It wasn't a complete dud,
but it could have been a whole lot better.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hey, quickly, because I'm way behind time and I apologize
for the technical difficulties not of my making for once.
What's the season like in Taranaki.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well, it's running pretty well at the moment. You know,
it was a bit of a mixed bag earlier on
variable kind of results between we've been quite wet and
what who have you. But summers shaping up. We keep
getting bits of rain. Grass is growing pretty well and
productions up for the summer. So it's looking pretty good
at the stage.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay, Mark Hooper, out of out of Taranaki, thank you
very much for your time. Federated Farmers spokesperson. He wears
many hats rima Reform Banking National board member, and of
course he's a Taranaki dairy farmer as well. Okay, the
good news is now that we're finally on air, the
good news is we've got another one of those meat
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packs for they're full of lamb. It's National Lamb Day
coming up on February the fifteenth, and it's and it's
an opportunity to celebrate our farmers and our world class
lamb producers. FMG loved that company have given us five
one hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers to give away
every day this week. We'll announce the winner before the
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end of the show. But if you haven't entered yet,
not too late to enter. If not for today, for
tomorrow's show at the Country dot Co god end z
up next. Don Morrison used to be on the well.
He stood aside from the board of the Alliance Group
when Dawn Meets took over just before Christmas. High profile
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Southland Sheep and Beef farming. You might have seen him
on Country Calendar growing a bit of cannabis to supplement
the income. Don't panic, it's not that sort of cannabis.
And he is one of the alumni along with Andy
Borland from Scales Corp, who were running a big sports
dinner on the eve of the Wanaka show coming up
on Thursday, March the twelfth. We'll talk about that next.
(08:49):
A little bit of smoke Barer and a shimmy under
grave all rolling into the spark. Everybody knows again and
by swinging from an old friend. You might have seen
this guy recently on Country Calendar. His name is Don Morrison,
very well known Southland Sheep and Beef farm, a former
director of the Alliance Group and he was on Country Calendar,
(09:12):
amongst other things for growing cannabis. I might come back
to the cannabis in a tick, but he's busy loading lambs,
offers Southland Farm to go to the works. How much
money will he be making from that? We'll ask him
also in a tick. But don Howie. The reason I've
got you on the show today is you're one of
the alumni from Lincoln University who was behind the backing
(09:33):
Lincoln University sport supporters Deneka Dinnica dinner, Let's try dinner
and Wanaka. That's what I was trying to spit out,
Howie on the eve of the Wanaka show. Good afternoon,
welcome to the country. How much are those lambsworth?
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I sued a jaming I said, be here, look be's
they'll be will wide the mask they should make eighteen
and over, so probably two hundred dollars a lamb plus.
So it's a good space to be a seap palmer
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Jamie, Well, how are you and I went to Lincoln
together in the early nineteen eighties. You went on to
far greater things than me as a farmer. Have you
known it better times for sheep farming?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
No? Look I haven't, Jamie, And look it comes up
to probably three years ago, our most challenging financial year,
where commodity prices were and where interest rates were. We
saw quite an escalation and prices last year. And this
is as good as it gets for us, Shamie.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So you're pretty well connected. As I said as a
former director of the Alliance Group, you've never known better times.
But can they last?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Look, I think based on two things that connect their
Jamie is probably that beef price. Based on beef volumes
in the States, and so the demand looks really good
for certainly a couple of years forward. And I think
then you linked the red meat price of the land
back to the beef. I think we've got some pretty
solid prices as long as the beef holds up, because
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you've got that connectivity, that relationship that exists between the two.
So reasonably confident and you know, not to say able
to sustain these prices. But in the next couple of years,
I think are looking good. I think right now our
big worry is probably that midterm election in the States
and really what happens to global economy. Global economies. You know,
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as a as a reaction to that, you got.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Into cannabis growing on your farm. It's the low strength
stuff of course, how we Otherwise everyone would be running
around your farm having picking their own crops. But you
got into it as a diversification to spread your risk
on the farm. Has it been worth it or has
it been a labor of love?
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I think it's been a bit of both, Jamie. We've
we've learned a lot and I look in those first years,
this is actually a fifth season growing and those first
seasons were learning systems, learning genetics, you know, learning a
bit about the plant and actually building relationships. So it
was a fairly challenging industry in those first two years.
(11:58):
I think there was a lot of nascent behaviors that
would be typical of a startup business. What we've done
now is identified people in the value chain and the
supply chain that we're happy to work with and are
good to work with. So yeah, fifth season planting and
it's been a matter of just reinvesting. Each crop gets
reinvested into growing the operation and basically now the infrastructure
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we've got to put in to be really successful at it. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You along with Andy balland Andy Borland is the chief
executive of the Scales Group, very well known in New
Zealand agri business circles. Are you two amongst others are
behind this Lincoln University alumni supporters dinner in Wanaka on
the eve of the Wanaka show coming up on Thursday,
March the twelfth. What was the inspiration behind this look?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
We put together an evening earlier in the year in
May which was primarily for Lincoln University, right, people who
played rugby for Lincoln University, sorry Lincoln College before it
came University had a really successful weekend in christ Church
and said we need to follow this up. And so
what we're doing is having the Gala dinner on the
(13:08):
Thursday night before the One Offer show and it's effectively
a fundraiser for sports, all sports teams, including the rugby
club at Lincoln College, and really building I guess the
nest egg where we can, you know, maybe have some
specific facilities around hospitality if that's an option in the future.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You've got some really good guest speakers headlined I guess
by Andy Dalton, former Lincoln College student, All Black Captain
captain to the Rugby World Cup even though he didn't
play in nineteen eighty seven and Gary Stead, former Black
Caps cricketer and coach, and I think his wife Rachel's
heavily involved in Lincoln sport as well.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Certainly they're our main gallery of speakers, Jamie and I
think they're going to bring a great well, great insight
we can hear from Andy. Certainly Gary is going to
have a great story on the cricket and Rachel's just
been heavily involved in sport at Lincoln College. So we're
going to have yourself, I believe, is the Esteemed MC
just a little bit of a couch chat with those
guys between one of the courses. And look, it's really
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going to be a social function, very casual for alumni,
anyone that's interested and certainly partners. So we want to
make this a something where you can bring your wife,
your girlfriend, your boyfriend, whatever you want to bring along
to enjoy the evening. And we've also been been fortunate
to get some Central product Central Otago products in terms
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of some of the wines from Timbo Morrison Zeker and
James Child Patterson is with Canyon Brewery, so we're also
going to have them up getting a bit of a
guest spot along with Alan Diffey who has so generously
provided his great track to shared facility to actually host
the function. So really it's going to be a great night.
(14:56):
Limited to two hundred people. We've got twenty tables of
ten and bookings are coming in. But this is just
an opportunity to put that message out there. Anyone going
to the Wontaka Show to come along and join us
for Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, Alan Dippy, one of the most successful former students
of Lincoln University slash College. Hey, how do you get
a ticket?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
There? Actually on the Lincoln alumni site. But if you
want to contact Andy Borland myself, even if someone flicks
you an email Jamie.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We can.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
You can flick it onto us and we can get
the details to them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, my email addresses Jamie at the Country dot cod
and said Donald Howie Morrison. Thanks for your time, good
luck with those lambs getting them onto the truck, and
good luck spending that check.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, thanks Jamie, appreciate and look forward to a cat's
up on Monica.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Prepare for excessive freezer bragging rights. It's time to celebrate
National Ram Day with FMG and the Country.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yes, we'll talking to Howie about the lamb's our chance
to give you some Lamb the thinner product courtesy of
f MG. So let's find out who yesterday's or was
it Today's National Lamb Day winner is Michelle Good Afternoon, afternoon,
what a panic start to the show.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I got my steps and that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, okay, so we're on here. We've confirmed that, which
is wonderful. Okay, So this is what's up for grabs,
five hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to the
great team at FMG. They're proud sponsors of National Lamb
Day along with Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Of course
AG proud rabobanker in there as well. Will be broadcasting
from the Parliamentary Lawn next Tuesday and of course down
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at the Southern Field Day's next Friday or Friday week
are there'll be lots of National Lamb Day activity. That's Friday,
the thirteenth. National Lamb Day is of course Sunday the fifteenth.
So if you've missed out on the prize today, or
if you miss out on the prize and all of
you are part from one of you will have a
crack tomorrow, enter at the Country dot co dot NZ
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and we'll fill your freezer with five hundred dollars worth
of world class lamb all thanks to f MG and
today's wanna Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I do want to spin that wheel? First, we'll find
out who spin the wheel.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Got to spin the wheel? I'll get sacked. That mightn't
be a bad thing here, I mean, let me just
try spinning this thing here right there? You go, wonderful
sound effect. Thank you Michelle for reminding me the National
Lamb Day winner. I think they've got a spinning wheel thing,
because isn't that happening? It feel bad?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It is something cool with the prize and stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's definitely worth Yeah, so you will go and go
and see FMG at the Field days next week and
you'll figure out why they're so keen on a on
a spinning wheel. Your chance to win again. But Elaine
Duncan from Tasman, you are today's winner if you want
to win tomorrow, we've got two more chances left tomorrow
and Thursday. The Country dot co dot z. What we
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might do after the break is go to Rural news
and sports news. Mark de Latorte is coming up on
the Country. He's the chief executive of Open Country Dairy.
He's just back from the Golf Food trade show in
the Middle East, and I've got good news for you
dairy farmers out there. It looks like we're going to
get another positive GDT auction tonight and tract to sales.
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Can you believe it? In the UK at their lowest
This is number of registrations per annum at their lowest
since before the Second World War. We've got to count
our blessings in this country because g farming's in trouble
in the UK. Okay, after the break, Rural news and
sports news with Michelle and Me and some Grammy music.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Thank God, run.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Welcome back to the country. Twenty six excuse me away
from one. Are just clarifying what's happening next week. It's
a move moving feast are no pun intended? So the
Parliamentary Barbecue, it was going to be on the Tuesday,
but it's they've moved it to the Wednesday. Okay, so
we're going up on Tuesday, but the broadcast will be
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on the Wednesday so we can accommodate a Prime Minister.
Chippy's going to turn up as well, and who knows
who else. So that's on Wednesday. Then on Friday we're
down to Gore, Southland. Why Murmur just outside of Gore.
Fantastic Southern field days. As the field day's season gets underway,
of course we've got Northland CD and then we move on.
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Is there an East Coast Farming Expo? Dave Martin text
me if there is one this year? And of course
Mystery Creek really looking forward to that. And the big
debate for the Rural Support Trust is happening again, so
very very exciting, equally exciting as rural news. I've got
no idea what it is, but Michelle, there you go, the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
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Speaker 4 (20:04):
Thanks for that exciting intro, Jamie. I always feel privileged
when I get you know that kind of build up.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I built you up. You better have something good for me.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I feel bad.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Who's this is Grammy Music?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
This is Billie Eilish and Phineas her brother. They won
the Song of the Year I think last last night at.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The Grammy so good Times and tan Lines. Who things that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Good Times and tan Lines is not Chris Stapleton, Zach
Topp who won traditional country album?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
M hm, And what's the guy who won that? Was
it bad bunny?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, but I tried to find some bad bunny. I'm
glad you have any.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's a rapper. I'm glad you didn't find any bad bunny.
What do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
In rural news? Obviously we had those massive storms over
the last month up north and farms at the top
of the East Coast who have been smashed with that
was stock isolated and extensive damage on the land and infrastructure.
Clearer picture of the level of damage is starting to
emerge after those downpours, so I think we'll try and
catch up with some farmers up there at some point
over the next few week or so. So if you
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have been affected, feel free to flick a text through
to us, and we never know, you might hear yourself
on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Sports on the Country with AFCO invested in your foaming success.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah okay, just and I haven't had a chance to
really delve into this, but the rugby or the Rugby
World Cup drawer has just been announced, so the All
Blacks and the Wallabies will open that twenty twenty seven
World Cup campaigns in Perth at that magnificent optic stadium.
We were lucky enough to be there in October for
the Test match against the Wallabies. But they're not going
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to be playing each other. Okay. New Zealand will play
Chile on October the second, so that's going to be
a pretty easy warm up game for them. A day
after Australia opened the tournament against Hong Kong. And I
must say, Michelle not even had to look at the
drawer and I will have a look during the commercial
break to see who else has got wo But it
would be good if the World Cup open with a
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you know, a really good clash. I mean, Australia versus
Hong Kong. Really, is that what you want to want
to open a Rugby World Cup with?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, it's not that, well, I want to say, it's
not exciting. It's just that you know who's gonna win there?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, okay, but well they could have started with Australia
New Zealand. I need to check whether we're in the
same poll anyhow. Up next tonight tonight we've got a
global Dairy Trade auction. All my go to people, including
Mike McIntyre at Jardin, say it's going to be good.
So up next we'll get commentary from Mark de Latour
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on the on tonight's Global Dairy Trade auction.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Seats in the man Who's twenty years clean, He said,
everybody here has not the same people.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Nobody walks through these doors on a Winnis tree. Here's
the chief executive of our second biggest dairy company here
in New Zealand. His name is Mark Delatour. The company
is Open Country, Derry, Mark. You're a very educated man.
You don't get a high paying job like yours without
an education. You're not, perchance an old boy of Lincoln
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University slash College.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Are you no good afternoon, Jamie. No, it's I don't
know about the well paid comment. Well we can debate that,
but I actually I am a graduate of the greatest
university in New Zealand, which of course is Wykio. So
at least get that clear that the best alumni come
from Wyeda University.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, I can't say to you're a ticket to the
Lincoln alumni raising money for sport dinner. Okay, I'll move
on from that. One. Last time I chatted to you
in mid January, you were just about to jump on
a plane, of course going to the front end of
it to head to the Golf Food Trade Show in
the Middle East. How did it go?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I was an excellent show, and I've got endless grief
about saying I always turn left Jamie in jest, but agently,
the Golf Food Show was fantastic. That is our main
that we go to and it's because of its location.
You've got the European buyers there, Asia, Middle East, Africa.
You've got just about everyone in and out during the
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three or four days there so lots of lots of
things to discuss. We we you know, had lots of
schgital meetings and and really covered the new products and
sites that we had, so milk concentrates, but cheese and
of course the products coming out of Medaca and Matara
Valley milk, you know, which is different from what what
we were talking about a year ago with those customers.
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So it was a really good show and in the
really positive tone for buyers.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
More and more of our businesses coming out of that
neck of the woods.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah it is, you know, there's there's you know, it
doesn't doesn't hurt that that Donald Trump is saber rattling
over there and and you know, buyers look to secure
food supply at those times, and and you know, with
threats around Iran and of course the conflict in Israel.
While we don't sell it rate that at all, it's
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obviously an opportunity for us to put plenty of food
in there because at times like that, that's what people
try to lock down on. So good good demand on
that part of the world.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So war is good for business. It reminds me you'll
be far too young to remember this, as am I,
but that was the story behind the Korean wall boom
in the early nineteen fifties. The Americans bought as much
of our wall as we could produce. It was worth
a pound to pound. Goodness knows what that would be
in today's doll is probably about fifty dollars a kilo.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, that's right. And you know, all jests and jokes aside.
You know, no one celebrates war, but it is a
reality at the moment in the world we live in,
and New Zealand's job is to feed people and we're
doing our best to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
One of the comments you made to me in the
break was that carbon for some of your European buyers
who are very carbon sensitive. Could that be yesterday's story.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I think you've definitely seen.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I mean, we.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Want to sound arrogant, but we did call it a
while ago that this may not be long lasting. I
think the carbon efficiency, shall we call that that the
world was chasing, has taken second fiddle now because of
the geopolitical pressures in the world, and what we're seeing
is a little bit of a study in human nature here, Jomie,
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where you know, basic things like food food security is
taken and profitability has taken precedent over things like carbon efficiency.
So we'll go Our message was open country, our scope
one and two emissions or as good as anyone's in
the world. Will hold a torch up on our scope
one and two emissions. With the investments that we've made
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in New Zealand, farmers are and always have been the
most carbon efficient in the world. So we're celebrating it,
we're not defending it and really using it as a
sales tool for New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Derry, let me see how good you are a nostroder
Mastella tour aka Mark, because I'm going to ask you
to pick tonight's gdt auction our third for twenty twenty six.
We've had two really positive ones to kick off the
new calendar year, but that came off the back of
nine downward auctions to wind out twenty twenty five. Are
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we going to head up again? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
I think we are.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I think based on what we saw at gold Food,
I think there's, like I said, a really positive tone,
massive interest in butter cheese. Ironically, it looks like it's
going to be short in the market for the next
six months, and that's a little bit opposed to what
everyone was expecting with lots of new cheese production out
of America. But it looks like it's short for the
next six months. And homal Powder's definitely turned a corner.
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So after a tough December January, I guess we've definitely
seen a turn, and my expectations are we'll see a
positive It may not be a huge jump, but it
should be a positive move on the gedt Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So final question for you, this is appearing to not
be a dead cat bounce. Fonterra is currently at about
nine bucks. I guess that's the industry's standard. Do you
see that number going up?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
All I can talk about is us on this case,
I mean we're still If you look at our full
periods and the way we pay for milk across the season,
our average is just over nine thirty and we think
we're probably pretty good on that. You know, with a
bit of luck, there might be ten more cents than
that at the end of the season. We'll see how
we go, but we're pretty positive.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Will take that because at one stage it was looking
like an eight towards the end of last year. Mark
de Latour, thank you for some of your time today
on the country.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
No From before I go, Jamie, look forward to seeing
everyone at the way Mumu Field days. We're going to
be down there. We've got a big stand and rumor
has it we're going to be doing some cheese tasting
with some beer and wine as well. So all welcome
to our stand at the way mum moom Fields.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Well, that sounds like fun, sounds like what you do
at Mystery Creek. Okay, we'll see you and why Moomoo
in a week's time sounds good?
Speaker 7 (29:06):
A run from me winning runs in.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Put it up, I call it the barometer of the
health of New Zealand farming. Tractor sales as we head
into the field day season. Well, let's welcome on to
the show. Reck, lad he's the director of sales for Brandt.
With a name like that, he could have been on
the red carpet yesterday at the Grammy's Reck. Sorry about
going on about your name. Hey, but mate, we're up
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ten percent year on year here in New Zealand, which
is good, which is a good, healthy sign. But what
really interested me in this report from the industry was
the fact that in the UK, tractor registrations had fell
to their lowest level on record in twenty twenty five,
and the lowest since before the Second World War. We've
(29:53):
got to count our blessings in this country.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Good afternoon, Yeah, good Afton, Jamie, Goodrafton.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
This is good to check.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Yeah mate, they are pret celebery numbers are yes yet
for us? Mate, for a ten percent jumping in the
industry from yere on you yes, good, hid in the
right direction. But yeah, Jamie, it's still coming from a
very low place, you know. Really, we're still free to
be sent down on what we would have been probably
three years ago.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
So still a lot of work to do.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
But we're not out of the woods. But hey, it
is heading in the right direction for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I noticed that the TIMER president that's an acronym
for Tractor and Machinery Association president, Jaden Drought said that
he thinks twenty twenty six is going to be a
positive year as well.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Here's hoping.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I guess for me an election, you're always strove in
another curve for survived to twenty five this head and
hope you get fixed in twenty twenty six. But yeah,
I think for me, I think we're still going to see.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I guess the.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Global uncertainty is still there. I hope that numbers do
keep training in it in this direction. But election here
I feel could sure another curveball in there for us.
But yeah, we're still doing well mate.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Hey, just HARKing back to those UK numbers, Rick lad.
The interesting thing was that they're hardly selling any high
horsepower tractors and that's because of the downgrading, if you want,
of the profitability for arable farmers. And I know that
here in New Zealand at the moment, the pastoral farmers
are doing okay the sheep, beef and dairy, but are
(31:24):
arable farmers are struggling. But are you seeing that here
as well?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
No, we definitely are. Again, it's that level of uncertainty
that's out there again, and we're seeing that track filter
right through to the grain price. What's also putting pressure
from that to Jamie is obviously an exporting nation. The
dollar works well when exporting, but unfortunately the consequence that
when we're importing equipment and like we do as well,
you know, seem to center of our tractors do come
out of that European factory, that europuts pressure on that
(31:52):
as well. So I would say they're probably experiencing the
same thing we are, and the gate returns just aren't
consistent with the increases that we've seen overly.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hey, you're based in Gisbon. How's the region faring, mate?
Speaker 8 (32:05):
I guess despite what we're what's happened on the coast,
we're okay. You know, we didn't have the rain that
was I guess they had they head up the top
of the cape north through Gabrielle. So quit farmers are
doing well. Growers are doing well. Apple's doing okay. We
just probably need some hot days and some cool nights, Mate,
to bring up those sugar levels and hopefully to begin
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early earlier, early start.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
To harvest and you need some of those roads opened.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Yes, that again, I guess there is in another logistical nightmare.
I guess we're I wouldn't say we're used to it.
That's I would not say that world, but you know
it does happen unfortunately. But yeah, hey, and for the
qure for it and apple growers mate that need to
send their their fruit out of town to be packed,
it does throw an added layer of logistics to get
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the job done. So can't have it all, dam.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Rick lad Well, you've almost got it all director of
sales brand there as I say, I was only joking
about the red carpet at the Grammys. Did you see
some of those outfits?
Speaker 8 (33:06):
I did see the couple, mate, Yeah, there wasn't much
to see.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
No, they weren't. Didn't happen in our day, Rick, anyhow,
Always good to catch up, mate, and good luck for
the upcoming field day season.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Jamie thinks a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Good on your Rick, Rick lad there from Brent track
to sales up ten percent, all bit from a low base,
but better than the UK. What are Dog's breakfast egg
is over there? Just reminding you well. Congratulations Alane Duncan
from Tasman. Your today's winner for the excuse me, five
hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to a great
team at FMG. We've got the spinning wheel here in
(33:44):
the studio. They've got it at YMUMU next week. Get
along and see them. If you want to enter the
competition to win five hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers
on tomorrow's show, go not don't text us, because that
one gets you in the comp Go to our website.
The Country dot co dot n said, this is jelly
Roll Michelle, Hello you good to see you back in there,
(34:06):
jelly Roll. I love jelly Roll? And what did he
win it? The Grammys?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I know you do, and that's why I put it
on there. But he won Best Contemporary Country Album with
Beautifully Broken. This is one of the songs off it.
It's not one that we've played before, so I said, oh, yeah,
it's quite cool though.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I got to go country on the country now.
The All Blacks and the Wallabies will both open that
twenty twenty seven World Cup campaigns in Perth, but disappointingly
because they're in the same pool. I check that out
during the break, but not not against each other. We're
going to play Chile on October the second. The Aussies
open it the day before by playing Hong Kong. Yawn, yawn, yawn.
(34:42):
And I just had a quick look at those polls.
So there's US in Australia and Paul A. You would
fancy our chances there. Paul B goes without saying South
Africa will win that. Paul C also goes without saying
Argentina will win that. The six pools Ireland and Scotland.
I think that's going to be the most competitive, Paul,
because Scotland doesn't. Scotland are pretty good these days.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It'll be a great game to watch it.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yet, Yeah, that'll be a really good game. France will
bolt home and Paul E and in Paul F once
again it's England. They've got whales in there, but she's
I reckon Riversdale would beat Wales.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Poor inventors of rugby and they you know, they never
get into it.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
They didn't invent rugby. Where did you get them from?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Is a place called rugby and whales?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
No, it's in England.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I bet you're a coffee tomorrow morning. Rugby is in
England finish tomorrow. Back me Up, Texters. We're going to
come back tomorrow and we're going to try and get
our show on air for you. Just for a special treat,
we're going to give away some lamb tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Farmland's hit, those summer
pests hard
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay thanks to Farmland's hit those summer pests.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Harders, competents, small free body on that good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I in New Zealand. Welcome to the Country. Sorry for
the loss of transmission earlier in the hour a linking
issue in Auckland. Will do our best to battle through
the show. Today. I'm going to be chatting very shortly
to Mark Hooper from Federated Farmers. They're worried that the government,
through the r m A reforms, is going to be
(00:51):
effectively enabling fresh water to be taxed. We can't have that,
can we? Don Morrison, high profile Southland sheep and beef farmer, Cananabuscrow.
You might have seen him on Country Calendar, Former Alliance
board director. He's one of the alumni behind the Lincoln
University backing ALU Sport dinner in Wanaka and March ahead
(01:13):
of the Wanaka show. Mark de Latore, Chief Executive Open
Country Dairy dis back from the Golf Food Trade show
in the Middle East. Why Trump is good for business
and it looks like we might get another positive global
dairy trade auction tonight. We're Glad tractor sales. They're up
ten percent here this year. That's great in the UK,
(01:33):
believe it or not, they're the lowest on record, and
the lowest since before the Second World War. And Phil
Duncan on the weather. We've got all that to do
between now and one o'clock and hopefully we're on air.
God only knows. But what I'm going to do is
just leave you with the wee bit of music from
the Grammys yesterday. What about those outfits day? And hopefully
(01:57):
we'll come back with Mark Hooper Federated Farmers. M A
Reform spokesperson.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Kissy sends her phone. But I'm trying to kiss your
lits for real. Red hearts, Red hearts, that's what mine. Yeah,
come give me something I can feel.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Don't you want me? Let go?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Won't you?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Baby?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Don't you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I can now see to But I go crazy? Are
you going to do this?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
This? Me?
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Me yet?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
But it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But it?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
But it but.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
A clerk?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Drink smoke three body that go back, go back, go?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, welcome back to the country. I think I'm Jamie McKay.
Are we on, Michelle? God he knows what's happening, Okay,
I'll just battle away and pretend we are some linking
issues in Auckland, let's hopefully, and I apologize to Federated
Farmers RMA Reform spokesperson Mark Cooper, who's had to sit
through all of this. Sorry about that. Mark. Hey, I'm
(03:11):
just trying to get a thumbs up. Honestly, I've got
no idea if I'm on air or not. This is
really annoying me. But anyhow, Mark, I'm going to assume
we are on air. How are you going, mate? I
hope you're going better than me. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, things are all good to here in Taranaki at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I am pleased to hear it. Right. What's this about
Federated Farmers saying that farmers are going to be taxed
for fresh water? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Well, look, I guess it's kind of one of those things.
I would say it's part of the value of a
fence membership. That We've got a really good policy team
digging deep into the new Natural Environment Bill and buried
way down the bottom there and about clause three hundred
and thirteen something that there's a there's a clause there
(04:02):
around natural resource levees, which if you cross reference that
with the other clauses. You find that that includes water
of course, and so the ability for the minister in
the future to place a levy on the use of water,
so effectively a water tax. Yes, a bit of a
(04:23):
surprise that one popped up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well what are you doing about it?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, well that's a really good question, and it comes
back to the wider issue of this Natural Environment Bill,
and I guess kind of the key message here is
that it's really failed to deliver on the promised reform
that we were hoping for, and it's got a lot
of sort of fundamental flaws and areas that we're concerned with,
(04:49):
and this potential water tax is one of those. So
it does raise the question what is the strategy. Can
we now, given where the process is that these things
fixed through the sleek committee process, or do we have
to put additional pressure on the government and say, hey,
we need to have a bit of a rethink here
(05:10):
in terms of, you know, making sure this delivers on
what was promised.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You're also the Federated Farmer's Banking spokesperson. What's happening there?
Weren't you jumping up and down just before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah, just before Christmas, we had the return of the
results of the Reserve Bank Capital Requirements review, and so
that was a review that or process that the Reserve
Bank could put in place back in twenty nineteen, doubling
the capital holding requirements that banks had to have given
(05:48):
them protection for one and two hundred year event. There
was a great bit of advocacy in one sense in
terms of the fact that we got that to the
point where it was reviewed and there was a positive
result came out of It's basically an estimate of a
twenty three basis points is likely to be the flow
(06:09):
through effect in terms of a benefit to commercial lending
for the rule sector. So you know, good result in
the sense that from our banking surveys, average farm loan
around four and a half to four point nine million,
so ten or eleven thousand dollars worth of saving there
with those twenty three basis points. But you know, at
(06:32):
the same time we also, I guess in our media
at the time we called it a little bit like
getting work socks for Christmas. It wasn't a complete dud,
but it could have been a whole lot better.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hey, quickly, because I'm way behind time and I apologize
for the technical difficulties not of my making for once.
What's the season like in Taranaki.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well, it's running pretty well at the moment. You know,
it was a bit of a mixed bag earlier on
variable kind of results between we've been quite wet and
what who have you. But summers shaping up. We keep
getting bits of rain. Grass is growing pretty well and
productions up for the summer. So it's looking pretty good
at the stage.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay, Mark Hooper, out of out of Taranaki, thank you
very much for your time. Federated Farmers spokesperson. He wears
many hats rima Reform Banking National board member, and of
course he's a Taranaki dairy farmer as well. Okay, the
good news is now that we're finally on air, the
good news is we've got another one of those meat
(07:36):
packs for they're full of lamb. It's National Lamb Day
coming up on February the fifteenth, and it's and it's
an opportunity to celebrate our farmers and our world class
lamb producers. FMG loved that company have given us five
one hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers to give away
every day this week. We'll announce the winner before the
(07:57):
end of the show. But if you haven't entered yet,
not too late to enter. If not for today, for
tomorrow's show at the Country dot Co god end z
up next. Don Morrison used to be on the well.
He stood aside from the board of the Alliance Group
when Dawn Meets took over just before Christmas. High profile
(08:18):
Southland Sheep and Beef farming. You might have seen him
on Country Calendar growing a bit of cannabis to supplement
the income. Don't panic, it's not that sort of cannabis.
And he is one of the alumni along with Andy
Borland from Scales Corp, who were running a big sports
dinner on the eve of the Wanaka show coming up
on Thursday, March the twelfth. We'll talk about that next.
(08:49):
A little bit of smoke Barer and a shimmy under
grave all rolling into the spark. Everybody knows again and
by swinging from an old friend. You might have seen
this guy recently on Country Calendar. His name is Don Morrison,
very well known Southland Sheep and Beef farm, a former
director of the Alliance Group and he was on Country Calendar,
(09:12):
amongst other things for growing cannabis. I might come back
to the cannabis in a tick, but he's busy loading lambs,
offers Southland Farm to go to the works. How much
money will he be making from that? We'll ask him
also in a tick. But don Howie. The reason I've
got you on the show today is you're one of
the alumni from Lincoln University who was behind the backing
(09:33):
Lincoln University sport supporters Deneka Dinnica dinner, Let's try dinner
and Wanaka. That's what I was trying to spit out,
Howie on the eve of the Wanaka show. Good afternoon,
welcome to the country. How much are those lambsworth?
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I sued a jaming I said, be here, look be's
they'll be will wide the mask they should make eighteen
and over, so probably two hundred dollars a lamb plus.
So it's a good space to be a seap palmer
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Jamie, Well, how are you and I went to Lincoln
together in the early nineteen eighties. You went on to
far greater things than me as a farmer. Have you
known it better times for sheep farming?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
No? Look I haven't, Jamie, And look it comes up
to probably three years ago, our most challenging financial year,
where commodity prices were and where interest rates were. We
saw quite an escalation and prices last year. And this
is as good as it gets for us, Shamie.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So you're pretty well connected. As I said as a
former director of the Alliance Group, you've never known better times.
But can they last?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Look, I think based on two things that connect their
Jamie is probably that beef price. Based on beef volumes
in the States, and so the demand looks really good
for certainly a couple of years forward. And I think
then you linked the red meat price of the land
back to the beef. I think we've got some pretty
solid prices as long as the beef holds up, because
(10:57):
you've got that connectivity, that relationship that exists between the two.
So reasonably confident and you know, not to say able
to sustain these prices. But in the next couple of years,
I think are looking good. I think right now our
big worry is probably that midterm election in the States
and really what happens to global economy. Global economies. You know,
(11:19):
as a as a reaction to that, you got.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Into cannabis growing on your farm. It's the low strength
stuff of course, how we Otherwise everyone would be running
around your farm having picking their own crops. But you
got into it as a diversification to spread your risk
on the farm. Has it been worth it or has
it been a labor of love?
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I think it's been a bit of both, Jamie. We've
we've learned a lot and I look in those first years,
this is actually a fifth season growing and those first
seasons were learning systems, learning genetics, you know, learning a
bit about the plant and actually building relationships. So it
was a fairly challenging industry in those first two years.
(11:58):
I think there was a lot of nascent behaviors that
would be typical of a startup business. What we've done
now is identified people in the value chain and the
supply chain that we're happy to work with and are
good to work with. So yeah, fifth season planting and
it's been a matter of just reinvesting. Each crop gets
reinvested into growing the operation and basically now the infrastructure
(12:22):
we've got to put in to be really successful at it. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You along with Andy balland Andy Borland is the chief
executive of the Scales Group, very well known in New
Zealand agri business circles. Are you two amongst others are
behind this Lincoln University alumni supporters dinner in Wanaka on
the eve of the Wanaka show coming up on Thursday,
March the twelfth. What was the inspiration behind this look?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
We put together an evening earlier in the year in
May which was primarily for Lincoln University, right, people who
played rugby for Lincoln University, sorry Lincoln College before it
came University had a really successful weekend in christ Church
and said we need to follow this up. And so
what we're doing is having the Gala dinner on the
(13:08):
Thursday night before the One Offer show and it's effectively
a fundraiser for sports, all sports teams, including the rugby
club at Lincoln College, and really building I guess the
nest egg where we can, you know, maybe have some
specific facilities around hospitality if that's an option in the future.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You've got some really good guest speakers headlined I guess
by Andy Dalton, former Lincoln College student, All Black Captain
captain to the Rugby World Cup even though he didn't
play in nineteen eighty seven and Gary Stead, former Black
Caps cricketer and coach, and I think his wife Rachel's
heavily involved in Lincoln sport as well.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Certainly they're our main gallery of speakers, Jamie and I
think they're going to bring a great well, great insight
we can hear from Andy. Certainly Gary is going to
have a great story on the cricket and Rachel's just
been heavily involved in sport at Lincoln College. So we're
going to have yourself, I believe, is the Esteemed MC
just a little bit of a couch chat with those
guys between one of the courses. And look, it's really
(14:12):
going to be a social function, very casual for alumni,
anyone that's interested and certainly partners. So we want to
make this a something where you can bring your wife,
your girlfriend, your boyfriend, whatever you want to bring along
to enjoy the evening. And we've also been been fortunate
to get some Central product Central Otago products in terms
(14:33):
of some of the wines from Timbo Morrison Zeker and
James Child Patterson is with Canyon Brewery, so we're also
going to have them up getting a bit of a
guest spot along with Alan Diffey who has so generously
provided his great track to shared facility to actually host
the function. So really it's going to be a great night.
(14:56):
Limited to two hundred people. We've got twenty tables of
ten and bookings are coming in. But this is just
an opportunity to put that message out there. Anyone going
to the Wontaka Show to come along and join us
for Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, Alan Dippy, one of the most successful former students
of Lincoln University slash College. Hey, how do you get
a ticket?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
There? Actually on the Lincoln alumni site. But if you
want to contact Andy Borland myself, even if someone flicks
you an email Jamie.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We can.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
You can flick it onto us and we can get
the details to them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, my email addresses Jamie at the Country dot cod
and said Donald Howie Morrison. Thanks for your time, good
luck with those lambs getting them onto the truck, and
good luck spending that check.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, thanks Jamie, appreciate and look forward to a cat's
up on Monica.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Prepare for excessive freezer bragging rights. It's time to celebrate
National Ram Day with FMG and the Country.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yes, we'll talking to Howie about the lamb's our chance
to give you some Lamb the thinner product courtesy of
f MG. So let's find out who yesterday's or was
it Today's National Lamb Day winner is Michelle Good Afternoon, afternoon,
what a panic start to the show.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I got my steps and that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, okay, so we're on here. We've confirmed that, which
is wonderful. Okay, So this is what's up for grabs,
five hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to the
great team at FMG. They're proud sponsors of National Lamb
Day along with Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Of course
AG proud rabobanker in there as well. Will be broadcasting
from the Parliamentary Lawn next Tuesday and of course down
(16:43):
at the Southern Field Day's next Friday or Friday week
are there'll be lots of National Lamb Day activity. That's Friday,
the thirteenth. National Lamb Day is of course Sunday the fifteenth.
So if you've missed out on the prize today, or
if you miss out on the prize and all of
you are part from one of you will have a
crack tomorrow, enter at the Country dot co dot NZ
(17:05):
and we'll fill your freezer with five hundred dollars worth
of world class lamb all thanks to f MG and
today's wanna Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I do want to spin that wheel? First, we'll find
out who spin the wheel.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Got to spin the wheel? I'll get sacked. That mightn't
be a bad thing here, I mean, let me just
try spinning this thing here right there? You go, wonderful
sound effect. Thank you Michelle for reminding me the National
Lamb Day winner. I think they've got a spinning wheel thing,
because isn't that happening? It feel bad?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It is something cool with the prize and stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's definitely worth Yeah, so you will go and go
and see FMG at the Field days next week and
you'll figure out why they're so keen on a on
a spinning wheel. Your chance to win again. But Elaine
Duncan from Tasman, you are today's winner if you want
to win tomorrow, we've got two more chances left tomorrow
and Thursday. The Country dot co dot z. What we
(18:01):
might do after the break is go to Rural news
and sports news. Mark de Latorte is coming up on
the Country. He's the chief executive of Open Country Dairy.
He's just back from the Golf Food trade show in
the Middle East, and I've got good news for you
dairy farmers out there. It looks like we're going to
get another positive GDT auction tonight and tract to sales.
(18:23):
Can you believe it? In the UK at their lowest
This is number of registrations per annum at their lowest
since before the Second World War. We've got to count
our blessings in this country because g farming's in trouble
in the UK. Okay, after the break, Rural news and
sports news with Michelle and Me and some Grammy music.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Thank God, run.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Welcome back to the country. Twenty six excuse me away
from one. Are just clarifying what's happening next week. It's
a move moving feast are no pun intended? So the
Parliamentary Barbecue, it was going to be on the Tuesday,
but it's they've moved it to the Wednesday. Okay, so
we're going up on Tuesday, but the broadcast will be
(19:13):
on the Wednesday so we can accommodate a Prime Minister.
Chippy's going to turn up as well, and who knows
who else. So that's on Wednesday. Then on Friday we're
down to Gore, Southland. Why Murmur just outside of Gore.
Fantastic Southern field days. As the field day's season gets underway,
of course we've got Northland CD and then we move on.
(19:33):
Is there an East Coast Farming Expo? Dave Martin text
me if there is one this year? And of course
Mystery Creek really looking forward to that. And the big
debate for the Rural Support Trust is happening again, so
very very exciting, equally exciting as rural news. I've got
no idea what it is, but Michelle, there you go, the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
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Speaker 4 (20:04):
Thanks for that exciting intro, Jamie. I always feel privileged
when I get you know that kind of build up.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I built you up. You better have something good for me.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I feel bad.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Who's this is Grammy Music?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
This is Billie Eilish and Phineas her brother. They won
the Song of the Year I think last last night at.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The Grammy so good Times and tan Lines. Who things that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Good Times and tan Lines is not Chris Stapleton, Zach
Topp who won traditional country album?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
M hm, And what's the guy who won that? Was
it bad bunny?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, but I tried to find some bad bunny. I'm
glad you have any.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's a rapper. I'm glad you didn't find any bad bunny.
What do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
In rural news? Obviously we had those massive storms over
the last month up north and farms at the top
of the East Coast who have been smashed with that
was stock isolated and extensive damage on the land and infrastructure.
Clearer picture of the level of damage is starting to
emerge after those downpours, so I think we'll try and
catch up with some farmers up there at some point
over the next few week or so. So if you
(21:04):
have been affected, feel free to flick a text through
to us, and we never know, you might hear yourself
on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
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Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah okay, just and I haven't had a chance to
really delve into this, but the rugby or the Rugby
World Cup drawer has just been announced, so the All
Blacks and the Wallabies will open that twenty twenty seven
World Cup campaigns in Perth at that magnificent optic stadium.
We were lucky enough to be there in October for
the Test match against the Wallabies. But they're not going
(21:38):
to be playing each other. Okay. New Zealand will play
Chile on October the second, so that's going to be
a pretty easy warm up game for them. A day
after Australia opened the tournament against Hong Kong. And I
must say, Michelle not even had to look at the
drawer and I will have a look during the commercial
break to see who else has got wo But it
would be good if the World Cup open with a
(22:00):
you know, a really good clash. I mean, Australia versus
Hong Kong. Really, is that what you want to want
to open a Rugby World Cup with?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, it's not that, well, I want to say, it's
not exciting. It's just that you know who's gonna win there?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, okay, but well they could have started with Australia
New Zealand. I need to check whether we're in the
same poll anyhow. Up next tonight tonight we've got a
global Dairy Trade auction. All my go to people, including
Mike McIntyre at Jardin, say it's going to be good.
So up next we'll get commentary from Mark de Latour
(22:35):
on the on tonight's Global Dairy Trade auction.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Seats in the man Who's twenty years clean, He said,
everybody here has not the same people.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Nobody walks through these doors on a Winnis tree. Here's
the chief executive of our second biggest dairy company here
in New Zealand. His name is Mark Delatour. The company
is Open Country, Derry, Mark. You're a very educated man.
You don't get a high paying job like yours without
an education. You're not, perchance an old boy of Lincoln
(23:09):
University slash College.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Are you no good afternoon, Jamie. No, it's I don't
know about the well paid comment. Well we can debate that,
but I actually I am a graduate of the greatest
university in New Zealand, which of course is Wykio. So
at least get that clear that the best alumni come
from Wyeda University.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, I can't say to you're a ticket to the
Lincoln alumni raising money for sport dinner. Okay, I'll move
on from that. One. Last time I chatted to you
in mid January, you were just about to jump on
a plane, of course going to the front end of
it to head to the Golf Food Trade Show in
the Middle East. How did it go?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I was an excellent show, and I've got endless grief
about saying I always turn left Jamie in jest, but agently,
the Golf Food Show was fantastic. That is our main
that we go to and it's because of its location.
You've got the European buyers there, Asia, Middle East, Africa.
You've got just about everyone in and out during the
(24:10):
three or four days there so lots of lots of
things to discuss. We we you know, had lots of
schgital meetings and and really covered the new products and
sites that we had, so milk concentrates, but cheese and
of course the products coming out of Medaca and Matara
Valley milk, you know, which is different from what what
we were talking about a year ago with those customers.
(24:32):
So it was a really good show and in the
really positive tone for buyers.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
More and more of our businesses coming out of that
neck of the woods.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah it is, you know, there's there's you know, it
doesn't doesn't hurt that that Donald Trump is saber rattling
over there and and you know, buyers look to secure
food supply at those times, and and you know, with
threats around Iran and of course the conflict in Israel.
While we don't sell it rate that at all, it's
(25:01):
obviously an opportunity for us to put plenty of food
in there because at times like that, that's what people
try to lock down on. So good good demand on
that part of the world.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So war is good for business. It reminds me you'll
be far too young to remember this, as am I,
but that was the story behind the Korean wall boom
in the early nineteen fifties. The Americans bought as much
of our wall as we could produce. It was worth
a pound to pound. Goodness knows what that would be
in today's doll is probably about fifty dollars a kilo.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, that's right. And you know, all jests and jokes aside.
You know, no one celebrates war, but it is a
reality at the moment in the world we live in,
and New Zealand's job is to feed people and we're
doing our best to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
One of the comments you made to me in the
break was that carbon for some of your European buyers
who are very carbon sensitive. Could that be yesterday's story.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I think you've definitely seen.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I mean, we.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Want to sound arrogant, but we did call it a
while ago that this may not be long lasting. I
think the carbon efficiency, shall we call that that the
world was chasing, has taken second fiddle now because of
the geopolitical pressures in the world, and what we're seeing
is a little bit of a study in human nature here, Jomie,
(26:25):
where you know, basic things like food food security is
taken and profitability has taken precedent over things like carbon efficiency.
So we'll go Our message was open country, our scope
one and two emissions or as good as anyone's in
the world. Will hold a torch up on our scope
one and two emissions. With the investments that we've made
(26:47):
in New Zealand, farmers are and always have been the
most carbon efficient in the world. So we're celebrating it,
we're not defending it and really using it as a
sales tool for New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Derry, let me see how good you are a nostroder
Mastella tour aka Mark, because I'm going to ask you
to pick tonight's gdt auction our third for twenty twenty six.
We've had two really positive ones to kick off the
new calendar year, but that came off the back of
nine downward auctions to wind out twenty twenty five. Are
(27:21):
we going to head up again? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
I think we are.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I think based on what we saw at gold Food,
I think there's, like I said, a really positive tone,
massive interest in butter cheese. Ironically, it looks like it's
going to be short in the market for the next
six months, and that's a little bit opposed to what
everyone was expecting with lots of new cheese production out
of America. But it looks like it's short for the
next six months. And homal Powder's definitely turned a corner.
(27:47):
So after a tough December January, I guess we've definitely
seen a turn, and my expectations are we'll see a
positive It may not be a huge jump, but it
should be a positive move on the gedt Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So final question for you, this is appearing to not
be a dead cat bounce. Fonterra is currently at about
nine bucks. I guess that's the industry's standard. Do you
see that number going up?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
All I can talk about is us on this case,
I mean we're still If you look at our full
periods and the way we pay for milk across the season,
our average is just over nine thirty and we think
we're probably pretty good on that. You know, with a
bit of luck, there might be ten more cents than
that at the end of the season. We'll see how
we go, but we're pretty positive.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Will take that because at one stage it was looking
like an eight towards the end of last year. Mark
de Latour, thank you for some of your time today
on the country.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
No From before I go, Jamie, look forward to seeing
everyone at the way Mumu Field days. We're going to
be down there. We've got a big stand and rumor
has it we're going to be doing some cheese tasting
with some beer and wine as well. So all welcome
to our stand at the way mum moom Fields.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Well, that sounds like fun, sounds like what you do
at Mystery Creek. Okay, we'll see you and why Moomoo
in a week's time sounds good?
Speaker 7 (29:06):
A run from me winning runs in.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Put it up, I call it the barometer of the
health of New Zealand farming. Tractor sales as we head
into the field day season. Well, let's welcome on to
the show. Reck, lad he's the director of sales for Brandt.
With a name like that, he could have been on
the red carpet yesterday at the Grammy's Reck. Sorry about
going on about your name. Hey, but mate, we're up
(29:32):
ten percent year on year here in New Zealand, which
is good, which is a good, healthy sign. But what
really interested me in this report from the industry was
the fact that in the UK, tractor registrations had fell
to their lowest level on record in twenty twenty five,
and the lowest since before the Second World War. We've
(29:53):
got to count our blessings in this country.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Good afternoon, Yeah, good Afton, Jamie, Goodrafton.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
This is good to check.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Yeah mate, they are pret celebery numbers are yes yet
for us? Mate, for a ten percent jumping in the
industry from yere on you yes, good, hid in the
right direction. But yeah, Jamie, it's still coming from a
very low place, you know. Really, we're still free to
be sent down on what we would have been probably
three years ago.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
So still a lot of work to do.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
But we're not out of the woods. But hey, it
is heading in the right direction for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I noticed that the TIMER president that's an acronym
for Tractor and Machinery Association president, Jaden Drought said that
he thinks twenty twenty six is going to be a
positive year as well.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Here's hoping.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I guess for me an election, you're always strove in
another curve for survived to twenty five this head and
hope you get fixed in twenty twenty six. But yeah,
I think for me, I think we're still going to see.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I guess the.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Global uncertainty is still there. I hope that numbers do
keep training in it in this direction. But election here
I feel could sure another curveball in there for us.
But yeah, we're still doing well mate.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Hey, just HARKing back to those UK numbers, Rick lad.
The interesting thing was that they're hardly selling any high
horsepower tractors and that's because of the downgrading, if you want,
of the profitability for arable farmers. And I know that
here in New Zealand at the moment, the pastoral farmers
are doing okay the sheep, beef and dairy, but are
(31:24):
arable farmers are struggling. But are you seeing that here
as well?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
No, we definitely are. Again, it's that level of uncertainty
that's out there again, and we're seeing that track filter
right through to the grain price. What's also putting pressure
from that to Jamie is obviously an exporting nation. The
dollar works well when exporting, but unfortunately the consequence that
when we're importing equipment and like we do as well,
you know, seem to center of our tractors do come
out of that European factory, that europuts pressure on that
(31:52):
as well. So I would say they're probably experiencing the
same thing we are, and the gate returns just aren't
consistent with the increases that we've seen overly.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hey, you're based in Gisbon. How's the region faring, mate?
Speaker 8 (32:05):
I guess despite what we're what's happened on the coast,
we're okay. You know, we didn't have the rain that
was I guess they had they head up the top
of the cape north through Gabrielle. So quit farmers are
doing well. Growers are doing well. Apple's doing okay. We
just probably need some hot days and some cool nights, Mate,
to bring up those sugar levels and hopefully to begin
(32:27):
early earlier, early start.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
To harvest and you need some of those roads opened.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Yes, that again, I guess there is in another logistical nightmare.
I guess we're I wouldn't say we're used to it.
That's I would not say that world, but you know
it does happen unfortunately. But yeah, hey, and for the
qure for it and apple growers mate that need to
send their their fruit out of town to be packed,
it does throw an added layer of logistics to get
(32:54):
the job done. So can't have it all, dam.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Rick lad Well, you've almost got it all director of
sales brand there as I say, I was only joking
about the red carpet at the Grammys. Did you see
some of those outfits?
Speaker 8 (33:06):
I did see the couple, mate, Yeah, there wasn't much
to see.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
No, they weren't. Didn't happen in our day, Rick, anyhow,
Always good to catch up, mate, and good luck for
the upcoming field day season.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Jamie thinks a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Good on your Rick, Rick lad there from Brent track
to sales up ten percent, all bit from a low base,
but better than the UK. What are Dog's breakfast egg
is over there? Just reminding you well. Congratulations Alane Duncan
from Tasman. Your today's winner for the excuse me, five
hundred dollars worth of meat vouchers thanks to a great
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(33:44):
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The Country dot co dot n said, this is jelly
Roll Michelle, Hello you good to see you back in there,
(34:06):
jelly Roll. I love jelly Roll? And what did he
win it? The Grammys?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I know you do, and that's why I put it
on there. But he won Best Contemporary Country Album with
Beautifully Broken. This is one of the songs off it.
It's not one that we've played before, so I said, oh, yeah,
it's quite cool though.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I got to go country on the country now.
The All Blacks and the Wallabies will both open that
twenty twenty seven World Cup campaigns in Perth, but disappointingly
because they're in the same pool. I check that out
during the break, but not not against each other. We're
going to play Chile on October the second. The Aussies
open it the day before by playing Hong Kong. Yawn, yawn, yawn.
(34:42):
And I just had a quick look at those polls.
So there's US in Australia and Paul A. You would
fancy our chances there. Paul B goes without saying South
Africa will win that. Paul C also goes without saying
Argentina will win that. The six pools Ireland and Scotland.
I think that's going to be the most competitive, Paul,
because Scotland doesn't. Scotland are pretty good these days.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It'll be a great game to watch it.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yet, Yeah, that'll be a really good game. France will
bolt home and Paul E and in Paul F once
again it's England. They've got whales in there, but she's
I reckon Riversdale would beat Wales.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Poor inventors of rugby and they you know, they never
get into it.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
They didn't invent rugby. Where did you get them from?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Is a place called rugby and whales?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
No, it's in England.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I bet you're a coffee tomorrow morning. Rugby is in
England finish tomorrow. Back me Up, Texters. We're going to
come back tomorrow and we're going to try and get
our show on air for you. Just for a special treat,
we're going to give away some lamb tomorrow as well.
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