September 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Kate Acland, Maegen Blom, Doug Avery, Tom Martin, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, and Phil Duncan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent. You're specialist in
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To see you have your mercede.
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Would you want to car? Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome
to the Country. The show is brought to you by Brent.
This is number one on iHeart Country Radio. Darlin by
Chase Matthews. So there you go, right the darling of
the well. You know she won't like me calling her that.
The chair the chair of Beef and Lamb New Zealand
is Kate Eckland. Now, Beef and Lamb New Zealand have
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just come out with their new season Outlock, good news
from a profitability point of view, and we're going to
tell you some really interesting numbers on what you can
expect for your average Lamb price for the twenty five
twenty sixth season, the one just heading into Ditto for Beef.
The Zander McDonald panel today, Megan Blohm and Doug Avery,
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The Resilient Farmer Earlier this morning, I caught up with
Farmer Tom Martin, our UK farming correspondent. They've got back
British Farming Day. It's a celebration of farming in the UK,
of such a thing as possible under the Labor government
over there. At the moment we'll talk to Farmer Tom
about that. We've got a Sheep and Beef panel Farmer
panel today, stew Duncan and Stelo what are they going
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to do with all their money? And if I can
track them down before the end of the hour. It
is Phil Duncan, Monday's weather man on a Tuesday. It's
all on the country today. Plus we've got a special
celebrity sports newsreader. It's going to join us at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You say, we have a baby.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
What you want to car him?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Was he car you don Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let's kick off today's show with today's big news story
Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Their new season outlook is
out and it highlights highes for sheep and beef, but
risk of headwinds on the horizon. To tell us more
and to tell us about the vastly improved profits for
sheep and beef farmers as Beef and Land New Zealand
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board chair Kate Ackland. Kate, I want to start if
I can with the profit. Last season was one of
the worst for farmers since the GFC farm profit before
tax nineteen thousand dollars. Forty percent of farms, sheep and
beef farms running at a loss, terrible numbers. They're in
for a much better season this season.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, look, hi, Jamie, I mean I think a lot
of us have forgotten just how bad that was, and
it was particularly bad for those those farmers that are
very heavy on sheep. To remember that the sheep prices
were I would probably not too much for the streets
to say catastrophic. So really break to becoming art with
the good news that the current season we're forecasting a
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rise of one point four billion dollars of exportings despite
having lower export volumes, and then the twenty five to
twenty sixth season forecasters for that to remain steady.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Now in the twenty four to twenty five season, the
one we're in currently, profitability has or well rebound to
one hundred and thirty nine thousand, or just one hundred
and thirty nine thousand for the coming season. That goes
up to one hundred and sixty six and a half thousand,
and while that sounds good when you think of all
the money you've got invested in a sheep and beef farm,
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your return on investment still isn't that great.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, look, that's an all seasons average, and that is
actually relative to recent years. It's actually a really good number.
So that takes in all different sizes of farm. I
think the numbers to look at actually is what we're
forecasting for the average stock prices. So the all season
average land price we're looking at one hundred and eighty
dollars for the coming year, and steers and heses and
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bulls are over two thousand dollars, so you know, really
good solid returns for the seat. I think the other
one that we're really trying to highlight is that, as
we know, some has spend money in their local communities.
So seven point two billion dollars of farm gate returns
fifteen point five million dollars is bent by farmers every
day in their local communities, so it doesn't just stop
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at the farm gate. This is good news for all
of rural New Zealand and those small towns.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Let's look at some of the risk of headwinds on
the horizon. So far, touch Wood, Trump's tariffs haven't rarely
been a killer for red meat. Will that remain so.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Look, we're forecasting the tariffs could take five hundred million
dollars out of red meat returns. So it is absolutely
a risk. And I think we've talked about this before
the fact that New Zealand is on fifteen percent and
a lot of our competitors are on the ten percent,
that remains a really significant risk and that could take
some of the some of the shine out of the returns.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We're certainly getting good returns. Let's put the US to
one side, But the EU and the UK, off the
back of free trade agreements, we're getting much better deals
in there.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They absolutely are. They're becoming some of our highest value markets.
And since the tariff announcements in April, we've seen a
big push of more product into those markets and a
reduction of what we're sending to the US. So I
think it just speaks to the value of having those
really good diversified training options for US as a country.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
A couple of other risks of headwinds, A stronger forecast
for the New Zealand dollar. Well that's in the lap
of the gods a wee, but that one, but this
one maybe we can do something about or can we
loss of productive New Zealand farmland to carbon forestry. You
guys are saying if we didn't have carbon forestry, we'd
be exporting two billion dollars more in red meat exports.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well that's what we're forecasting that the sector has lost
in the last five years just from the reduction in
stock numbers through a forestation and predicting that out by
twenty fifty the country could forego nearly thirty six billion
dollars in red meat export yesterday. Forestation trend continues, so
you know, we need to think as we continue to
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plant these trees, we need to think about the broader
on tax to New Zealand as a whole, because the
redmick sceptor will continue to return year after year profits
that are spent in local communities.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Food producing land should produce food, not pine trees. Right tree,
right place, Kate Eckland. While I've got your house the
season going in mid Canterbury.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well we've had a great start to spring. But as
the windy old Northwest day today, so be quite good
to get some of the rain that's forecast tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Okay, we'll send some up from the Deep South. Thanks
for some of your time today. A really positive new
season outlook from Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Thanks Anny
Burdeen after twelve, Thank you Kate. On yesterday's show, Excuse Me,
we spoke to Nadia Limb about her new TV program
which starts tomorrow night. The book's coming out shortly as well,
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Nardia's Farm Kitchen. I think Michelle's picked a couple of winners.
We'll let you know who they are or who you
are before the end of the hour. But up next,
why you should enter the Xander McDonald Awards. If you're
between the ages of twenty one to thirty five and
you're working an egg, what's in it for you? We're
going to talk to our current holder New Zealand holder
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Megan Blom and Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer. What's the
connection between those two Well, Marlborough for starters. They're up
next on the country, have a baby? What you want
to Carlin?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Who was it? Car you done?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The kids? You count and as around it then and
now it's.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Always enjoy this panel on the country the Xander McDonald
Award panel and they normally throw up past winners, although
to be fair, one of the panelists today is a
bit long and the tooth to be a past winner?
Am I being a bit unkind to you? Dug Avery
that a resilient farmer. Great to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Ah, No, great to be back. No, you're right on
the number there mate. You know, like pretty much hiding
under a rock these days, which is a good place
to be. But love to be involved with the Xander Reward.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And that's because Xander McDonald, who tragically died I think
in about twenty fourteen, fell off a windmill, suffered fatal
injuries on his outback farm in Australia. He was a
great made of yours.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Oh yeah, I went to several conferences with him and
we were organizing the conference at Brisbane when this terrible
accident happened only a few weeks before, and he literally
died a week or so before the conference and we'd
all been working together to get it going. So it
was a bit of a show stunner really, and this
award was born from that time. There was a small
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panel of was going led by Sean Mcmanorway, David Foot
and others, and it's turned us something absolutely special. As
I've often described it, it's an incubator of success.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's an Australasian award. We have an Australian winner. This
year's Australian winner was Jack O'Connor, and we have a
New Zealand winner. And this year's New Zealand winner was
Megan Blom and Megan from Southland dairy farming background. But yeah,
these days based in Marlborough, so this is not only
a Xander MacDonald Award panel, it's a Marlborough panel. And
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you and Doug know each other quite well.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Yeah, we sure do. And I think Doug's pretty proud
to have a mulberry and on the list.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Jamie Obins stopped smiling since she told me she had
eaten Matt Hooded. Myself encouraged her to eat her and
we thought that she might wait a few years and
just sort of get ready. But a typical blonde, they
are bred to win and to get into it, and
she was just straight over the edge and then she
rings up to that I've eaten Megan.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I was hoping that you might claim Southland glory.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I mean, I've got my heart in two places. I
love south Wind, but I'm pretty happy up here in
Marlborough too. I've got my muscles up here. So then, yeah,
that's what's keeping me busy.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Let's talk about your background, because you've talked about the
imposter syndrome, and as Doug said, you're only twenty four.
So the age qualification period if you want, is twenty
one to thirty five years of age. By the time
you've been an agriculture till you're thirty five, you've got
a few runs on the board, not so many when
you were twenty four. This was a gutsy effort to
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make the call.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
It definitely felt bullzy, like I was quite nervous to enter.
But then my sister she sort of pushed me the
she kind of nudged me over the edge. So she
was saying, because Doug was encouraging me, met hood and
I had a whole lot of other people encouraging me,
like why don't you just give it a go? And
I was like, oh, nah, I don't know if I'm ready.
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I don't really know if aquaculture, you know, fits into
the award. And my sister was like, if all of
these people were encouraging you, you probably match what the
award's looking for, so you should definitely just give it
a go. And I was like, honestly, what have I
got to lose? So I put my occasion and it
was a bit scary, and I was like, oh, wonder.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
How this is going to go.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
But yeah, no, really really glad that I just took
the punt and jumped in and gave it a go,
and yeah, look what's happened.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You're the operations manager at the family business, Mills Bay Muscles,
but you have got a good dairy farming background from
your Southland days.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You're pretty adamant that on the south Wind Behaves grew
up on a dairy farm in Southland. And my family
is still down there, my sister, her partner, my brother
and his wife, and my parents and the whole team
down there, proud South with Southland dairy farmers down there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Dog, What did you see in Megan to encourage her?
And you are obviously very encouraging for her to enter, Like.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I first met the family, I guess, And when I
met the family, I met Megan eventually not thry to
the art and Helen are amazing parents. They're amazing human beings,
and they liked he realized that the whole family was amazing.
And you know, when I the pretout few times I
met Megan, I realized that she was a way way
ahead of her years and maturity in the things that
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she was looking for. So she was always going to
be a contender for this level of the process. And
when I look at the other's famous best was on
Country Keller, the Conscious Valley Meets and Sarah Howe land Afire,
She's steep competition. I've always been pleased to haven't been
a judge because I'd find it so hard to split it.
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But I knew when I met Maigan that she was
a winner because she's been bred to win.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think the year before last, this is how difficult
it is to win. Did we not have Tim Danjin
the Young Farmer of the Year, to enter and he
couldn't when I think he got pipped at the post
by Nancy Crawlshaw.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Well, one of the things I'd say, I've just been
to the conference over on the Gold Coast, and if
you get into the last six or eight or whatever
it is, you're already a winner and it's very, very
hard to pull it to the end. But as I
said before, this is an opportunity to incubate success in
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agriculture on both sides of the Tasman and Megan is
going to be an amazing ambatador for the muscle industry
but also agriculture in general, as is the rest of
Earth family, as are the others finelists.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Oh, jump on the back of what you're saying there, like,
you can't really lose if you apply. What you're doing
is you're sitting down to really think about what you're doing,
what you're proud of, what you're doing in your industry,
and then you submit your application and even that thought
process in itself is valuable. And then you get shortlisted,
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and then there's the shortlist interviews and you really really
have to nail down what are you doing, what are
you passionate about, what are you proud of? And then
you present yourself to the judging panel, and that in
itself is an experience. And they're meeting the other shortlisted
candidates and then making it to the finalist. No matter
how far you get in the process, you're winning.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well, Megan, that was my question why should people enter.
You've answered that already the networking opportunities alone just before
I let you go, Doug Overy tomorrow Wednesday, I think
you're jumping on a plane to head to the University
of Oregon for some speaking gigs. I thought you said
you were hiding under a stone and retired in Marlborough.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Well I pretty much was, but I made the mistake
of doing a pre the zoom call to them back
in twenty twenty one, and the head of agronomy at
the university decided that i'b's next keynote speaker when he
put on a big pasture conference. So that's what I am,
and I'm taking a long way to get to Oregon.
I'm starting off in Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Phoenix, Arizona. You need to go to the Big Apple
while you're there and you'll no doubt finish up and
knock them dead at the University of Oregon. If you
want to enter the Xander McDonald Awards for twenty twenty six,
you need to go to the website Xander McDonald Award
all one word McDonald without an a dot com. You
need to be between twenty one to thirty five years
of age. A Megan Blomb Always good to catch up
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with you. I still call you a Southlander and Doug,
you can take the boy out of Marlborough, but you'll
never take the Marlborough out of a boy.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I'm not shift the south And anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, but wait for you down there. See you later,
See you, Megan. Yes, Xander McDonald award you enter if
you're between twenty one and thirty five. I wonder if
our celebrity sports news reader is between twenty one and
thirty five. I think that ship has sailed for her,
but she'll be in here shortly with Michelle. Michelle's also
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got the winners from yesterday's Yarn with Nadia Liim the
who won the Nadia's Farm Kitchen cookbooks. But up next.
Earlier this morning I caught up with that UK farming correspondent,
farmer Tom Martin, social media influencer. Wednesday, UK time is
back British Farming Day. We'll talk Tom about that arable farming.
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And he's been watching the rugby Women's or the Rugby
World Cup for women. He's been to a couple of games.
We'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You can't find this fun open the battle.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
With you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He's our guy in the UK, farmer Tom Martin, social
media influencer Tom, Will you be influencing other farmers on
Wednesday your time for the Back British Farming Day?
Speaker 10 (16:34):
I hope so, I hope I'll be influencing them to
really get behind it, because this is about basically getting
some public support and some political support. This is a
time when we need a huge amount of both, and
we've certainly struggled for political support, but it's a good
time to remind the politicians that I think behind probably
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our doctors and nurses. As farmers, we are very highly
thought of. Its great to exhibit some of the great
stuff we do here in the UK to produce food,
look after the environment.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Does your average urban nite in the UK value farmers?
I know you're saying they do, but you're a knit
and porter of food, do.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
You know they in a kind of similar way. They
do lots of surveys in supermarkets and they say, you know,
are you looking for high welfare food? Nearly everyone says yes,
and they go in and buy a five pound chicken
five dollar chicken. You know, people would say they value farmers,
but actually are they walking the walk up possibly, possibly not,
and probably when it comes down to two, you know
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they probably put other things higher up in their in
their priorities.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Sir care starmer and has labor government certainly not making
life easy for farmers in the UK. And we know
that the inheritance tax has gone down like a cup
of cold sick. Could he be a one term prime minister?
And I say that because what the Deputy Prime Minister's
just said the heave ho.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
Well, I think he's limped in to the end of
his first year. Could you know? Could could he be?
Could he be a less than one term prime minister?
I mean, I think in the UK, unless you're a
train driver or an asylum seeker, it's it's very difficult
to see anyone who's doing better than better than they were.
And you know the Donald Trump Trump question he always
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asked when he was campaigning, you know, do you feel
wealthier than than than last year? I can't think of
many people who who will be able to say yes
to that.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You mentioned an influence What are you doing to influence
other people? As an influenza as opposed to influenza.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
Just I had a bit of influencer last week. Actually
I can't recommend it retweeting a few things I've got
there as a radio interview got tomorrow and and it's
just about you know, encouraging each other and everybody doing
their bit, whether that's a conversation a pub come station
with a New Zealand radio station conversation or a kind
of letter to the to the local MP. It's something
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that we all need to get behind and it's going
to take all of us.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Are you and your dad still suing the British government
and that's part one of the question. Part two us
Do you need a character reference from SID New Zealand
radio station.
Speaker 10 (19:19):
Yeah, I think I think that that could just tip it. Yes,
absolutely we are. We're still in progress. We're waiting for
the government to respond at the moment we are hearing
that completely unrelatedly, the government is now issuing new guidelines
to say that they don't need to really consult when
they bring some of these some of these new policies in,
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which is pretty disgusting to be honest. But yes, we're
absolutely still in progress. There is a they call it
a crowd justice campaign going on, so if people want
to contribute to that supporting British farmers. That would be
a great thing to do with about British farming day
this week when.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You're not influencing what's happening on farm, are your heading
into your autumn as we hid into air spring in
the southern hemisphere, no doubt. Are all your springstone crops
harvested and are your autumn zone crops getting in the ground.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Yeah, I've got a little bit of buckwheat to harvest,
but everything else is harvested and that'd be the same
across the UK passably, a little bit of grain maize
and some harvests possibly in the North and in Scotland
where they're often you know, several weeks behind. It's been
pretty dry. We've had a lot of people have had
an inch of rain, but not much more. The ground
still pretty dry. We've put in some of our forage
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rye that's gone in the ground already. A lot of
our cover crops are in. We've put in a little
bit of winter balley, and we've done a field of
winter week, just the cleanest field that we can get
in early, but most of it it'll be a month
before we're really planting.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
With abandon here in the UK, arable farmers are doing
at tough here in New Zealand, can we say the
same in the UK?
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Almost an understatement. It's, you know, we've got all the
all the regular stuff going on to an extreme. So
we've got you know, the driest the dry summer period
we've had. We've got prices absolutely all over the place,
and I don't mean high. We've you know, we're struggling
a number of ways. And then you overlay that with
the inheritance tax things from the government. You know, we're
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still hearing of farmers who are refusing cancer treatment, farmers
who are who don't want to be alive this time
next year because it'll.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Be you know, it'll cost their families too much money.
Isn't that a terrible scenario to find yourself.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
It's absolutely disgraceful, to be honest. It's it's you know,
sometimes you think we're you know, we re having a
tough time, but this is, this is absolutely beyond all
of that. It's yeah, it's an absolute chack. I don't
really have words for it. It just it just feels
utterly overwhelming. There are so many things going on and
as I say, as farmers, we're used to dealing with uncertainty,
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you know, whether it's the weather, or world markets, or
pest disease conditions, whatever it might be. We're just not
used to all of this all at the same time.
And then and then all the political challenges, and of
course we've got a government who've turned a twenty two
billion dollar black hole, twenty two billion pound black hole
into a forty to fifty pound black hole. So we
are bracing ourselves for more bad news this autumn. And
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I just don't think there'll be a lot of farms
we won't be able to take it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I don't want to compare on your misery, farmer Tom Martin,
But the Women's Rugby World Cups on, I reckon by
the time we nick speak, and we must have a
yarn about the same time as that Rugby World Cup
final is on. Hopefully it's us against you. You are
the hot favorites, but we've got a girl by the
name of Georgia Miller who is the world's or the
women's world's best rugby player anyhow, and I think we're
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a bit of a shot.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I always love a bit of Keywi confidence and it
makes for it, it'll make for a great final. If
it's if it's the Ferns against the Raisers, won't it
that'd be great. It's been, it's been, it's been a
it's been a great World Cup. Actually, it's almost a
shame that there there's such a disparity in the ability.
So there there are a lot of crashings going on,
but also you know, tremendous displays of talent and sportsmanship.
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And I managed to get to see a couple of
games just last Sunday in live, saw them live at
our local stadium and it's been absolutely fantastic. Great to
see these fantastic realm models. So yeah, but long mate
last and hey, if we get a New Zealand England final,
let's let's have a yarn. I'm feeling pretty confident about
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this one. I don't normally feel confident when when we
meet you guys in the rugby.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Bring it on.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Hi, farmer Tom Martin, thanks for your time today, Good
luck with the beck British Farming Day Wednesday, your time,
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I'm a Tom Martin from.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
The u K.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Good luck to those farmers. They're certainly having a tough
over there. Tomorrow talking about arable farming, we'll be talking
to special egg tried in voy Heimschma. He's an arable farm,
challenging times for the industry here in New Zealand. Up next,
we've got Michelle with Rural News. The book winner is
from yesterday Nadia's Farm Kitchen, and our celebrity sports newsreader.
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Before the end of the hour farmer panel Stu Duncan,
Stu Low what are they going to do with all
their money this season? And Phil Duncan on the weather,
a little bit of smoke Barer and a Shivy out
of Grave all rolling to respire everybody knows and marlshling, Oh,
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you've got to love country on the Country on a Tuesday,
it's normally a Friday. We can blame this person for that.
Michelle Watt, producer of the show. Hey Michelle, just before
we get onto your Rural News and as celebrity sports newsreader,
who's in the show. Who won Nadia's Farm Kitchen? We
had two books to give away we did.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
So the first winner is Eeryl Harvey from Fielding and
then our second winner Sarah Wiley from Ashbury.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, good on you Eryl and Sarah.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Eryl and Sarah.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
As soon as the books come to us we'll send
them zero that hasn't been released yet, so it might
be a week or two. Be patient.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Here's Michelle with the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The country's rural news with Cold Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower brand, visit steel for dot cot
on insip for your local stockist.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
And it's only been two months since Hugh Jackson was
announced as the winner of the FMG Young Farmer Awards,
but preparations around the regions for next year's competition have
already started. Registrations are now open for season fifty eight
of Young Farmer of the Year, with district competitions taking
place over October and November. Seven districts across the country
will be running their own competitions, kicking off on October
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eighteenth in the North Coast and Attigo Southard and finishing
on November twenty ninth in the Upper Northern Region. The
top competitors from each district advanced to the regional finals,
which are held in feb till April next year. And
that's rural news.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And we'll whre's the grand final next year?
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Do we know Taranaki?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Well, our next guest or No.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Here she is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Sports with AFCO. Visit them online at a FCO dot
co dot nzed.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
And there are celebrity sports newsreaders, none other than former
producer Rowena Duncan who now works for FMG, who sponsor
the Young Farmer Grand Final. Is it true that your
job now involves you traveling around the country corporate hugging people.
Speaker 12 (26:21):
That is a myth.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Jamie looked like this morning when we went for coffee. Oh, Michelle,
she was running across the street to hug strangers anyhow.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
Not strangers.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That was my friend Julia, right, hello Julia. Now the
Zander McDonald Award, of course you can enter af your
age twenty one to thirty five? Has that ship sailed, Rowena, Yes,
it has its sailed for Michelle, so both of you
can no longer enter the Zando McDonald Award. On tomorrow's show,
I'm going to be speaking to Blake Holgate from Rabobank.
(26:51):
They've just come out with their food waste survey and
guess what, the boomers are leading the charge on not
wasting food. What are you guys? Millennial sort Jen Wire.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
We're definitely millennials, and I don't waste food, and neither
does Michelle Jamie. In fact, we process three deer over
the weekend up in the Maneo Toto, very good hunting
weekend and utilized everything right down to our offcuts from
even the mints. Someone picked them up and used them
for pet food, so we're very wasteless.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I love that as a charity, going out and shooting deer,
and well done you for doing that and then giving
it to food charities is fantastic, isn't it.
Speaker 12 (27:25):
Absolutely? And it's good to see so many popping up
and utilizing different types of meat as well because you
have venison was something that hunters couldn't utilize, you know,
outside of their own circles before, and now you can.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Let's see what's happening in sport?
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Have I played the sport line?
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I played the liner? Yes, okay, so.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Welcome back to the country. Sorry about that, Operator Era
on my behalf must be nervous pushing buttons in front
of Rowena. The sports news is coming, in fact, it's
coming very shortly. This is good Times and Tan Lines
by Zack Topp. It sounds like Chattahoochee to me anyhow,
second time lucky. Let's have a crack at sport with Rowena.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Sport with Avco Kiwi to the bone since nineteen oh four.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
Yeah, I give you a solid six out of ten
on the buttons there, Jamie. But Nottingham Forest manager Nuno
Espirito Santo has been sacked with immediate effect. The Premier
League Football club have confirmed reports. Despite him signing a
three year extension two months ago, his relationship with club
owner Evangelos Maarnikus has allegedly soured. Oblex midfielder Quintepia has
(28:38):
re signed with New Zealand Rugby and the Chiefs until
the end of twenty twenty seven. The twenty six year
old second five has racked up eighteen tests since his
debut against Tonga in twenty twenty one, and Grinella half
back Nico Heinz claims common sense has prevailed, with the
Nral judiciary downgrading a potential band to a fine, allowing
him to play Saturday's elimination final against the Roosters. Sadly,
(29:01):
though common sense was missing when they she dulled the
Wars game at the same time as the All Blacks.
Itios I'll still sell it out idiots though, Yeah, sportsman suffer.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, Now, when you were up shooting deer in the Manyatoto,
did you wander along to the Wedderburn Pub and catch
the unofficial mayor of Wedderburn Hadley?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
I missed Jewey this time.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Right, you can keep your headphones on and listen to
him because we've got him right now. He's a part
of our farmer panel. Stew Duncan and ste Rowena is
up your way shooting there. She said, it was snowing.
How's the season treating you?
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yeah, well I saw a picture of one of the
deers she sawly just hoped didn't have one of my
Nate eggs in it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It'll taste it'll taste good.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Stew.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
So it's been pretty cold actually where I've just been
to Crommelin back today and I got down to six
degrees and Howling Norwester through Chatta Creek and those places.
It it was only about eight to nine degrees now,
so there's not a lot of growth. But we don't
use to get much about the twenty September, so we're
there are a couple of weeks away from lambing. Some
guys are just starting to land, but there's definitely no
(30:08):
serpus feed of it's cold.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Well you've just about to start lambing. Of course. We
head to North Canterbury. We find Stu Low, the other
member of the Stew panel, Stue, you'll be just about
tailing docking as the North Islanders say, are you docking?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah? Tailing?
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Yeah, you know it shall be.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Sh'll be doing it later this week for the whether
holds up and years strong Lord West here today it's
not much fun for burning up newler hems and news,
so more lamb brakes and here seems to get a
bit frayed.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
What are you going to do with all your money
this season?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Stew.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
We've heard from Kate Ackland beef and lamb in z
cheer season average lamb price one hundred and eighty dollars
and this one amazed me. Season average beef price and
I took a double take on this one two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, only brigear replaced, I think, and get repaid just
just I think that's a conservative way of doing it.
But you know it'll be. It'll be good to have
a good year. I mean the store stock price at
the moment it's all very well selling that stuff, but
you're going to go and replace it. And yeah, the
(31:18):
store market through strong too, which which is which is
good because as long as imagins are there, we all
even get to buy to the cherry.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well, you don't necessarily have to replace it. You can
breed them at home.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Stew Yeah, if you if you don't want to go
down they having cows or anything like their cows, which
I'd add it's some really care country because some are dry.
You need lots of water and sometimes the summer year
we don't have lots of water.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So yeah, so Stu, I mean, we're abysmal profitability. Stew
duncan on sheep and beef farms in the twenty three
twenty four season forty of them, I think off the
top of my head. Kate said, we're running at a loss,
so this is a whole lot better. But I did
point out to her, you know, like one hundred and
thirty nine thousand profits this year expected to go to
(32:04):
one hundred and sixty six and a half in the
coming season, which is fantastic, But you know, I don't
know if you've got five million dollars, maybe not five
million dollars two or three million dollars tied up in
your sheep and beef farm. You know, it's still and
I guess not not a brilliant return on investment or
are you happy with that.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
It's got a long way to go yet to catch
up with types of farming. But I guess one thing
we're going to look at is a future generation want
to get involved in an agriculture and that's.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
Always a bad thing.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
It's all very well us old guy has been hanging around,
but if we want to courage others, it's got to
be a sentinal that it is worthwhile doing. But there's
a lot of balance sheet. You know, it's been a
tough probably five or six years. We've had a couple
of government changes, and our farm under labor was pretty
tight with regulatory walls. So there's a lot of money
that's been wasted on stuff that didn't need to be
that wasn't added value to the bottom end of farming.
(32:59):
So there's a lot of balance sheet's going to come
right yet, and then there's it going to be the
natural flow on of that of a positive years of
text year. So I think I'm just noticing around lately
there's a lot of people just trying to keep bit
of that money in their own bank account for a week.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Bit longer before they did it all back up.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
So that's positive and you know it's got to stay
that way. Or as I've just been in a look
at a new museum in Cromwell today and we totally
joked about sheep and unless you're starting to get one
hundred and eightywo hundred dollars for labs, there'll be sheeting
museums a low New Zealand. So you know we run
a bit of pressure to make sure that these values
stay there.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It's too low. Final word from you, perhaps you've been
very disciplined today as per instruction, you haven't mentioned the
rand Filly shield once.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Now there's mistake. Didn't really rar on the weekend of day. See,
I think it's seen the Texas about getting they might
have got velveted, so yeah, the velvet might be worth
a bit so. But no, that's good to see the
shield again back in the back.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
In the price yawn yawn, yawn. You guys, it's just
ho hum for you having the shield. It doesn't mean
that much. You've spent most of.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Your life with it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
No, a group of players that hadn't hadn't challenged for it,
and you can go, you go back in time, and
when you get a challenge, you've got to make the
most of it because the next team is not far away.
And I suppose even on North of the require River
was pretty pleased if it changed hands, because then get
a cracker at this weekend and even though they lost Auckland,
(34:27):
it's a one off game and anything's possible. But hopefully
our boys can hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Okay, there we go. Stue low Is Stu Duncan the
Farmer panel for today, Rowena, thanks for popping in, Thanks
for dropping off the venice and you can call in
any time you want. Up next, we're going to wrap
the show today with our weather man, Monday weather Man
on a Tuesday, Bill Duncan.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Good time in ten line, Tell me where are you?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Okay? Wrapping the country for a Tuesday will be in
christ Church tomorrow. More about that tomorrow from christ Church.
Phil Duncan, Monday's resident weather They're expert on a Tuesday.
I'm all over the shop today. I felt she's a
bit chilly out there, but September is you know, typically
a bit of an unsettled month.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
It is the biggest complaint I get in spring from
these landers is saying so much for spring as if
like once September arrives, it's summer. So you know, winter
is slowly fading away, hints of summer slowly coming in,
and that's giving us some real variety in the weather,
not only at the moment, but in the week or
two ahead.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
What can we expect in the week or two ahead, Phil,
Because it's a very important time of the year obviously
for sheep farmers with lambing, but the arable farmers will
be talking to Hamishma tomorrow. They're trying to get the
soil conditions right to get the crops into the ground.
And of course the dairy farmers they're getting through carving,
but they start to look at mating, getting the KALs
on goodnick for that.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
That's right, Multiple things going on. September October very critical
months in the horticulture agriculture sector. So we're monitoring a
few things. The most of the energy at the moment
in our weather is coming out of Australia. They're having
a thunderstorm outbreak that goes from Darwin to Sydney at
the moment. I mean, that's put a few New Zealands
in there that is.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Coming our way.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
So we've got a lot of energy out of the
Tasman Sea with thunderstorms coming through over the next couple
of days, mostly westerly driven and surges of gale force winds,
and on top of all of that, frosty weather in
the mix as well. The good news about the frosts
is they are where they should be. They're in the
South Island, mostly through the interior and the mountains, not
so much going into the lower down coastal areas in
(36:45):
the top of the South Island and also around the
North Island.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
So there's some good news.
Speaker 9 (36:50):
But the ups and downs and temperatures, we've got a
lot more of that coming up over the next couple
of weeks as we deal with these Ossie thunderstorms plus
some really large high pressure zone. So it's not all
bad news.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Well, there is talk from some farmers on the east
coast of both islands that it's not unusual either at
the stime of the year. They're starting to look for
a look over their shoulder for a better rain.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
I was talking to Malcrowe this morning. She lives in
Hawks Bay. She works for Farmers Weekly and the conversation
we had this morning was exactly about what you just raised.
A Hawk's Bay, particularly between Nelson and going inland towards
Munuwa Tu. Those areas have been in a rain shadow
pretty much all year and they're going into spring drive
and average so these westerlies are not favorable for that area.
(37:33):
It may dry out more before we get some kind
of rain relief, but I do think that's one area
to highlight going into the next few months to keep
very close eye on due to the rain shadow that
I've been in in the South Island not as bad.
Canterbury had a lot of rain in the start of
winter and during winter, so balancing act going on for
Canterbury more so than maybe it is for Hawk's Bay.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Well, Duncan, thanks for your time mate there. He is
wrapping the Country for today. As I said, We're off
to christ tomorrow client function to attend. Nikola. Willis sitting
in for the PM tomorrow. Will catch you them.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
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Speaker 1 (38:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
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To see you have your mercede.
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Would you want to car? Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome
to the Country. The show is brought to you by Brent.
This is number one on iHeart Country Radio. Darlin by
Chase Matthews. So there you go, right the darling of
the well. You know she won't like me calling her that.
The chair the chair of Beef and Lamb New Zealand
is Kate Eckland. Now, Beef and Lamb New Zealand have
(00:47):
just come out with their new season Outlock, good news
from a profitability point of view, and we're going to
tell you some really interesting numbers on what you can
expect for your average Lamb price for the twenty five
twenty sixth season, the one just heading into Ditto for Beef.
The Zander McDonald panel today, Megan Blohm and Doug Avery,
(01:07):
The Resilient Farmer Earlier this morning, I caught up with
Farmer Tom Martin, our UK farming correspondent. They've got back
British Farming Day. It's a celebration of farming in the UK,
of such a thing as possible under the Labor government
over there. At the moment we'll talk to Farmer Tom
about that. We've got a Sheep and Beef panel Farmer
panel today, stew Duncan and Stelo what are they going
(01:28):
to do with all their money? And if I can
track them down before the end of the hour. It
is Phil Duncan, Monday's weather man on a Tuesday. It's
all on the country today. Plus we've got a special
celebrity sports newsreader. It's going to join us at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You say, we have a baby.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
What you want to car him?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Was he car you don Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let's kick off today's show with today's big news story
Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Their new season outlook is
out and it highlights highes for sheep and beef, but
risk of headwinds on the horizon. To tell us more
and to tell us about the vastly improved profits for
sheep and beef farmers as Beef and Land New Zealand
(02:12):
board chair Kate Ackland. Kate, I want to start if
I can with the profit. Last season was one of
the worst for farmers since the GFC farm profit before
tax nineteen thousand dollars. Forty percent of farms, sheep and
beef farms running at a loss, terrible numbers. They're in
for a much better season this season.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, look, hi, Jamie, I mean I think a lot
of us have forgotten just how bad that was, and
it was particularly bad for those those farmers that are
very heavy on sheep. To remember that the sheep prices
were I would probably not too much for the streets
to say catastrophic. So really break to becoming art with
the good news that the current season we're forecasting a
(02:52):
rise of one point four billion dollars of exportings despite
having lower export volumes, and then the twenty five to
twenty sixth season forecasters for that to remain steady.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Now in the twenty four to twenty five season, the
one we're in currently, profitability has or well rebound to
one hundred and thirty nine thousand, or just one hundred
and thirty nine thousand for the coming season. That goes
up to one hundred and sixty six and a half thousand,
and while that sounds good when you think of all
the money you've got invested in a sheep and beef farm,
(03:25):
your return on investment still isn't that great.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, look, that's an all seasons average, and that is
actually relative to recent years. It's actually a really good number.
So that takes in all different sizes of farm. I
think the numbers to look at actually is what we're
forecasting for the average stock prices. So the all season
average land price we're looking at one hundred and eighty
dollars for the coming year, and steers and heses and
(03:50):
bulls are over two thousand dollars, so you know, really
good solid returns for the seat. I think the other
one that we're really trying to highlight is that, as
we know, some has spend money in their local communities.
So seven point two billion dollars of farm gate returns
fifteen point five million dollars is bent by farmers every
day in their local communities, so it doesn't just stop
(04:12):
at the farm gate. This is good news for all
of rural New Zealand and those small towns.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Let's look at some of the risk of headwinds on
the horizon. So far, touch Wood, Trump's tariffs haven't rarely
been a killer for red meat. Will that remain so.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Look, we're forecasting the tariffs could take five hundred million
dollars out of red meat returns. So it is absolutely
a risk. And I think we've talked about this before
the fact that New Zealand is on fifteen percent and
a lot of our competitors are on the ten percent,
that remains a really significant risk and that could take
some of the some of the shine out of the returns.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We're certainly getting good returns. Let's put the US to
one side, But the EU and the UK, off the
back of free trade agreements, we're getting much better deals
in there.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They absolutely are. They're becoming some of our highest value markets.
And since the tariff announcements in April, we've seen a
big push of more product into those markets and a
reduction of what we're sending to the US. So I
think it just speaks to the value of having those
really good diversified training options for US as a country.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
A couple of other risks of headwinds, A stronger forecast
for the New Zealand dollar. Well that's in the lap
of the gods a wee, but that one, but this
one maybe we can do something about or can we
loss of productive New Zealand farmland to carbon forestry. You
guys are saying if we didn't have carbon forestry, we'd
be exporting two billion dollars more in red meat exports.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well that's what we're forecasting that the sector has lost
in the last five years just from the reduction in
stock numbers through a forestation and predicting that out by
twenty fifty the country could forego nearly thirty six billion
dollars in red meat export yesterday. Forestation trend continues, so
you know, we need to think as we continue to
(06:07):
plant these trees, we need to think about the broader
on tax to New Zealand as a whole, because the
redmick sceptor will continue to return year after year profits
that are spent in local communities.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Food producing land should produce food, not pine trees. Right tree,
right place, Kate Eckland. While I've got your house the
season going in mid Canterbury.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well we've had a great start to spring. But as
the windy old Northwest day today, so be quite good
to get some of the rain that's forecast tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Okay, we'll send some up from the Deep South. Thanks
for some of your time today. A really positive new
season outlook from Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Thanks Anny
Burdeen after twelve, Thank you Kate. On yesterday's show, Excuse Me,
we spoke to Nadia Limb about her new TV program
which starts tomorrow night. The book's coming out shortly as well,
(06:58):
Nardia's Farm Kitchen. I think Michelle's picked a couple of winners.
We'll let you know who they are or who you
are before the end of the hour. But up next,
why you should enter the Xander McDonald Awards. If you're
between the ages of twenty one to thirty five and
you're working an egg, what's in it for you? We're
going to talk to our current holder New Zealand holder
(07:20):
Megan Blom and Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer. What's the
connection between those two Well, Marlborough for starters. They're up
next on the country, have a baby? What you want
to Carlin?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Who was it? Car you done?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The kids? You count and as around it then and
now it's.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Always enjoy this panel on the country the Xander McDonald
Award panel and they normally throw up past winners, although
to be fair, one of the panelists today is a
bit long and the tooth to be a past winner?
Am I being a bit unkind to you? Dug Avery
that a resilient farmer. Great to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Ah, No, great to be back. No, you're right on
the number there mate. You know, like pretty much hiding
under a rock these days, which is a good place
to be. But love to be involved with the Xander Reward.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And that's because Xander McDonald, who tragically died I think
in about twenty fourteen, fell off a windmill, suffered fatal
injuries on his outback farm in Australia. He was a
great made of yours.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Oh yeah, I went to several conferences with him and
we were organizing the conference at Brisbane when this terrible
accident happened only a few weeks before, and he literally
died a week or so before the conference and we'd
all been working together to get it going. So it
was a bit of a show stunner really, and this
award was born from that time. There was a small
(08:44):
panel of was going led by Sean Mcmanorway, David Foot
and others, and it's turned us something absolutely special. As
I've often described it, it's an incubator of success.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's an Australasian award. We have an Australian winner. This
year's Australian winner was Jack O'Connor, and we have a
New Zealand winner. And this year's New Zealand winner was
Megan Blom and Megan from Southland dairy farming background. But yeah,
these days based in Marlborough, so this is not only
a Xander MacDonald Award panel, it's a Marlborough panel. And
(09:17):
you and Doug know each other quite well.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Yeah, we sure do. And I think Doug's pretty proud
to have a mulberry and on the list.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Jamie Obins stopped smiling since she told me she had
eaten Matt Hooded. Myself encouraged her to eat her and
we thought that she might wait a few years and
just sort of get ready. But a typical blonde, they
are bred to win and to get into it, and
she was just straight over the edge and then she
rings up to that I've eaten Megan.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I was hoping that you might claim Southland glory.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I mean, I've got my heart in two places. I
love south Wind, but I'm pretty happy up here in
Marlborough too. I've got my muscles up here. So then, yeah,
that's what's keeping me busy.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Let's talk about your background, because you've talked about the
imposter syndrome, and as Doug said, you're only twenty four.
So the age qualification period if you want, is twenty
one to thirty five years of age. By the time
you've been an agriculture till you're thirty five, you've got
a few runs on the board, not so many when
you were twenty four. This was a gutsy effort to
(10:21):
make the call.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
It definitely felt bullzy, like I was quite nervous to enter.
But then my sister she sort of pushed me the
she kind of nudged me over the edge. So she
was saying, because Doug was encouraging me, met hood and
I had a whole lot of other people encouraging me,
like why don't you just give it a go? And
I was like, oh, nah, I don't know if I'm ready.
(10:43):
I don't really know if aquaculture, you know, fits into
the award. And my sister was like, if all of
these people were encouraging you, you probably match what the
award's looking for, so you should definitely just give it
a go. And I was like, honestly, what have I
got to lose? So I put my occasion and it
was a bit scary, and I was like, oh, wonder.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
How this is going to go.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
But yeah, no, really really glad that I just took
the punt and jumped in and gave it a go,
and yeah, look what's happened.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You're the operations manager at the family business, Mills Bay Muscles,
but you have got a good dairy farming background from
your Southland days.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You're pretty adamant that on the south Wind Behaves grew
up on a dairy farm in Southland. And my family
is still down there, my sister, her partner, my brother
and his wife, and my parents and the whole team
down there, proud South with Southland dairy farmers down there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Dog, What did you see in Megan to encourage her?
And you are obviously very encouraging for her to enter, Like.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I first met the family, I guess, And when I
met the family, I met Megan eventually not thry to
the art and Helen are amazing parents. They're amazing human beings,
and they liked he realized that the whole family was amazing.
And you know, when I the pretout few times I
met Megan, I realized that she was a way way
ahead of her years and maturity in the things that
(12:10):
she was looking for. So she was always going to
be a contender for this level of the process. And
when I look at the other's famous best was on
Country Keller, the Conscious Valley Meets and Sarah Howe land Afire,
She's steep competition. I've always been pleased to haven't been
a judge because I'd find it so hard to split it.
(12:33):
But I knew when I met Maigan that she was
a winner because she's been bred to win.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think the year before last, this is how difficult
it is to win. Did we not have Tim Danjin
the Young Farmer of the Year, to enter and he
couldn't when I think he got pipped at the post
by Nancy Crawlshaw.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Well, one of the things I'd say, I've just been
to the conference over on the Gold Coast, and if
you get into the last six or eight or whatever
it is, you're already a winner and it's very, very
hard to pull it to the end. But as I
said before, this is an opportunity to incubate success in
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agriculture on both sides of the Tasman and Megan is
going to be an amazing ambatador for the muscle industry
but also agriculture in general, as is the rest of
Earth family, as are the others finelists.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Oh, jump on the back of what you're saying there, like,
you can't really lose if you apply. What you're doing
is you're sitting down to really think about what you're doing,
what you're proud of, what you're doing in your industry,
and then you submit your application and even that thought
process in itself is valuable. And then you get shortlisted,
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and then there's the shortlist interviews and you really really
have to nail down what are you doing, what are
you passionate about, what are you proud of? And then
you present yourself to the judging panel, and that in
itself is an experience. And they're meeting the other shortlisted
candidates and then making it to the finalist. No matter
how far you get in the process, you're winning.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well, Megan, that was my question why should people enter.
You've answered that already the networking opportunities alone just before
I let you go, Doug Overy tomorrow Wednesday, I think
you're jumping on a plane to head to the University
of Oregon for some speaking gigs. I thought you said
you were hiding under a stone and retired in Marlborough.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Well I pretty much was, but I made the mistake
of doing a pre the zoom call to them back
in twenty twenty one, and the head of agronomy at
the university decided that i'b's next keynote speaker when he
put on a big pasture conference. So that's what I am,
and I'm taking a long way to get to Oregon.
I'm starting off in Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Phoenix, Arizona. You need to go to the Big Apple
while you're there and you'll no doubt finish up and
knock them dead at the University of Oregon. If you
want to enter the Xander McDonald Awards for twenty twenty six,
you need to go to the website Xander McDonald Award
all one word McDonald without an a dot com. You
need to be between twenty one to thirty five years
of age. A Megan Blomb Always good to catch up
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with you. I still call you a Southlander and Doug,
you can take the boy out of Marlborough, but you'll
never take the Marlborough out of a boy.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I'm not shift the south And anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, but wait for you down there. See you later,
See you, Megan. Yes, Xander McDonald award you enter if
you're between twenty one and thirty five. I wonder if
our celebrity sports news reader is between twenty one and
thirty five. I think that ship has sailed for her,
but she'll be in here shortly with Michelle. Michelle's also
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got the winners from yesterday's Yarn with Nadia Liim the
who won the Nadia's Farm Kitchen cookbooks. But up next.
Earlier this morning I caught up with that UK farming correspondent,
farmer Tom Martin, social media influencer. Wednesday, UK time is
back British Farming Day. We'll talk Tom about that arable farming.
(16:03):
And he's been watching the rugby Women's or the Rugby
World Cup for women. He's been to a couple of games.
We'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You can't find this fun open the battle.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
With you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He's our guy in the UK, farmer Tom Martin, social
media influencer Tom, Will you be influencing other farmers on
Wednesday your time for the Back British Farming Day?
Speaker 10 (16:34):
I hope so, I hope I'll be influencing them to
really get behind it, because this is about basically getting
some public support and some political support. This is a
time when we need a huge amount of both, and
we've certainly struggled for political support, but it's a good
time to remind the politicians that I think behind probably
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our doctors and nurses. As farmers, we are very highly
thought of. Its great to exhibit some of the great
stuff we do here in the UK to produce food,
look after the environment.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Does your average urban nite in the UK value farmers?
I know you're saying they do, but you're a knit
and porter of food, do.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
You know they in a kind of similar way. They
do lots of surveys in supermarkets and they say, you know,
are you looking for high welfare food? Nearly everyone says yes,
and they go in and buy a five pound chicken
five dollar chicken. You know, people would say they value farmers,
but actually are they walking the walk up possibly, possibly not,
and probably when it comes down to two, you know
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they probably put other things higher up in their in
their priorities.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Sir care starmer and has labor government certainly not making
life easy for farmers in the UK. And we know
that the inheritance tax has gone down like a cup
of cold sick. Could he be a one term prime minister?
And I say that because what the Deputy Prime Minister's
just said the heave ho.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
Well, I think he's limped in to the end of
his first year. Could you know? Could could he be?
Could he be a less than one term prime minister?
I mean, I think in the UK, unless you're a
train driver or an asylum seeker, it's it's very difficult
to see anyone who's doing better than better than they were.
And you know the Donald Trump Trump question he always
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asked when he was campaigning, you know, do you feel
wealthier than than than last year? I can't think of
many people who who will be able to say yes
to that.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You mentioned an influence What are you doing to influence
other people? As an influenza as opposed to influenza.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
Just I had a bit of influencer last week. Actually
I can't recommend it retweeting a few things I've got
there as a radio interview got tomorrow and and it's
just about you know, encouraging each other and everybody doing
their bit, whether that's a conversation a pub come station
with a New Zealand radio station conversation or a kind
of letter to the to the local MP. It's something
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that we all need to get behind and it's going
to take all of us.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Are you and your dad still suing the British government
and that's part one of the question. Part two us
Do you need a character reference from SID New Zealand
radio station.
Speaker 10 (19:19):
Yeah, I think I think that that could just tip it. Yes,
absolutely we are. We're still in progress. We're waiting for
the government to respond at the moment we are hearing
that completely unrelatedly, the government is now issuing new guidelines
to say that they don't need to really consult when
they bring some of these some of these new policies in,
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which is pretty disgusting to be honest. But yes, we're
absolutely still in progress. There is a they call it
a crowd justice campaign going on, so if people want
to contribute to that supporting British farmers. That would be
a great thing to do with about British farming day
this week when.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You're not influencing what's happening on farm, are your heading
into your autumn as we hid into air spring in
the southern hemisphere, no doubt. Are all your springstone crops
harvested and are your autumn zone crops getting in the ground.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Yeah, I've got a little bit of buckwheat to harvest,
but everything else is harvested and that'd be the same
across the UK passably, a little bit of grain maize
and some harvests possibly in the North and in Scotland
where they're often you know, several weeks behind. It's been
pretty dry. We've had a lot of people have had
an inch of rain, but not much more. The ground
still pretty dry. We've put in some of our forage
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rye that's gone in the ground already. A lot of
our cover crops are in. We've put in a little
bit of winter balley, and we've done a field of
winter week, just the cleanest field that we can get
in early, but most of it it'll be a month
before we're really planting.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
With abandon here in the UK, arable farmers are doing
at tough here in New Zealand, can we say the
same in the UK?
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Almost an understatement. It's, you know, we've got all the
all the regular stuff going on to an extreme. So
we've got you know, the driest the dry summer period
we've had. We've got prices absolutely all over the place,
and I don't mean high. We've you know, we're struggling
a number of ways. And then you overlay that with
the inheritance tax things from the government. You know, we're
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still hearing of farmers who are refusing cancer treatment, farmers
who are who don't want to be alive this time
next year because it'll.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Be you know, it'll cost their families too much money.
Isn't that a terrible scenario to find yourself.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
It's absolutely disgraceful, to be honest. It's it's you know,
sometimes you think we're you know, we re having a
tough time, but this is, this is absolutely beyond all
of that. It's yeah, it's an absolute chack. I don't
really have words for it. It just it just feels
utterly overwhelming. There are so many things going on and
as I say, as farmers, we're used to dealing with uncertainty,
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you know, whether it's the weather, or world markets, or
pest disease conditions, whatever it might be. We're just not
used to all of this all at the same time.
And then and then all the political challenges, and of
course we've got a government who've turned a twenty two
billion dollar black hole, twenty two billion pound black hole
into a forty to fifty pound black hole. So we
are bracing ourselves for more bad news this autumn. And
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I just don't think there'll be a lot of farms
we won't be able to take it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I don't want to compare on your misery, farmer Tom Martin,
But the Women's Rugby World Cups on, I reckon by
the time we nick speak, and we must have a
yarn about the same time as that Rugby World Cup
final is on. Hopefully it's us against you. You are
the hot favorites, but we've got a girl by the
name of Georgia Miller who is the world's or the
women's world's best rugby player anyhow, and I think we're
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a bit of a shot.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I always love a bit of Keywi confidence and it
makes for it, it'll make for a great final. If
it's if it's the Ferns against the Raisers, won't it
that'd be great. It's been, it's been, it's been a
it's been a great World Cup. Actually, it's almost a
shame that there there's such a disparity in the ability.
So there there are a lot of crashings going on,
but also you know, tremendous displays of talent and sportsmanship.
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And I managed to get to see a couple of
games just last Sunday in live, saw them live at
our local stadium and it's been absolutely fantastic. Great to
see these fantastic realm models. So yeah, but long mate
last and hey, if we get a New Zealand England final,
let's let's have a yarn. I'm feeling pretty confident about
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this one. I don't normally feel confident when when we
meet you guys in the rugby.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Bring it on.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Hi, farmer Tom Martin, thanks for your time today, Good
luck with the beck British Farming Day Wednesday, your time,
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I'm a Tom Martin from.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
The u K.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Good luck to those farmers. They're certainly having a tough
over there. Tomorrow talking about arable farming, we'll be talking
to special egg tried in voy Heimschma. He's an arable farm,
challenging times for the industry here in New Zealand. Up next,
we've got Michelle with Rural News. The book winner is
from yesterday Nadia's Farm Kitchen, and our celebrity sports newsreader.
(24:12):
Before the end of the hour farmer panel Stu Duncan,
Stu Low what are they going to do with all
their money this season? And Phil Duncan on the weather,
a little bit of smoke Barer and a Shivy out
of Grave all rolling to respire everybody knows and marlshling, Oh,
(24:34):
you've got to love country on the Country on a Tuesday,
it's normally a Friday. We can blame this person for that.
Michelle Watt, producer of the show. Hey Michelle, just before
we get onto your Rural News and as celebrity sports newsreader,
who's in the show. Who won Nadia's Farm Kitchen? We
had two books to give away we did.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
So the first winner is Eeryl Harvey from Fielding and
then our second winner Sarah Wiley from Ashbury.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, good on you Eryl and Sarah.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Eryl and Sarah.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
As soon as the books come to us we'll send
them zero that hasn't been released yet, so it might
be a week or two. Be patient.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Here's Michelle with the latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The country's rural news with Cold Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower brand, visit steel for dot cot
on insip for your local stockist.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
And it's only been two months since Hugh Jackson was
announced as the winner of the FMG Young Farmer Awards,
but preparations around the regions for next year's competition have
already started. Registrations are now open for season fifty eight
of Young Farmer of the Year, with district competitions taking
place over October and November. Seven districts across the country
will be running their own competitions, kicking off on October
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eighteenth in the North Coast and Attigo Southard and finishing
on November twenty ninth in the Upper Northern Region. The
top competitors from each district advanced to the regional finals,
which are held in feb till April next year. And
that's rural news.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And we'll whre's the grand final next year?
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Do we know Taranaki?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Well, our next guest or No.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Here she is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Sports with AFCO. Visit them online at a FCO dot
co dot nzed.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
And there are celebrity sports newsreaders, none other than former
producer Rowena Duncan who now works for FMG, who sponsor
the Young Farmer Grand Final. Is it true that your
job now involves you traveling around the country corporate hugging people.
Speaker 12 (26:21):
That is a myth.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Jamie looked like this morning when we went for coffee. Oh, Michelle,
she was running across the street to hug strangers anyhow.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
Not strangers.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That was my friend Julia, right, hello Julia. Now the
Zander McDonald Award, of course you can enter af your
age twenty one to thirty five? Has that ship sailed, Rowena, Yes,
it has its sailed for Michelle, so both of you
can no longer enter the Zando McDonald Award. On tomorrow's show,
I'm going to be speaking to Blake Holgate from Rabobank.
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They've just come out with their food waste survey and
guess what, the boomers are leading the charge on not
wasting food. What are you guys? Millennial sort Jen Wire.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
We're definitely millennials, and I don't waste food, and neither
does Michelle Jamie. In fact, we process three deer over
the weekend up in the Maneo Toto, very good hunting
weekend and utilized everything right down to our offcuts from
even the mints. Someone picked them up and used them
for pet food, so we're very wasteless.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I love that as a charity, going out and shooting deer,
and well done you for doing that and then giving
it to food charities is fantastic, isn't it.
Speaker 12 (27:25):
Absolutely? And it's good to see so many popping up
and utilizing different types of meat as well because you
have venison was something that hunters couldn't utilize, you know,
outside of their own circles before, and now you can.
It's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Let's see what's happening in sport?
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Have I played the sport line?
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I played the liner? Yes, okay, so.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Welcome back to the country. Sorry about that, Operator Era
on my behalf must be nervous pushing buttons in front
of Rowena. The sports news is coming, in fact, it's
coming very shortly. This is good Times and Tan Lines
by Zack Topp. It sounds like Chattahoochee to me anyhow,
second time lucky. Let's have a crack at sport with Rowena.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Sport with Avco Kiwi to the bone since nineteen oh four.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
Yeah, I give you a solid six out of ten
on the buttons there, Jamie. But Nottingham Forest manager Nuno
Espirito Santo has been sacked with immediate effect. The Premier
League Football club have confirmed reports. Despite him signing a
three year extension two months ago, his relationship with club
owner Evangelos Maarnikus has allegedly soured. Oblex midfielder Quintepia has
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re signed with New Zealand Rugby and the Chiefs until
the end of twenty twenty seven. The twenty six year
old second five has racked up eighteen tests since his
debut against Tonga in twenty twenty one, and Grinella half
back Nico Heinz claims common sense has prevailed, with the
Nral judiciary downgrading a potential band to a fine, allowing
him to play Saturday's elimination final against the Roosters. Sadly,
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though common sense was missing when they she dulled the
Wars game at the same time as the All Blacks.
Itios I'll still sell it out idiots though, Yeah, sportsman suffer.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, Now, when you were up shooting deer in the Manyatoto,
did you wander along to the Wedderburn Pub and catch
the unofficial mayor of Wedderburn Hadley?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
I missed Jewey this time.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Right, you can keep your headphones on and listen to
him because we've got him right now. He's a part
of our farmer panel. Stew Duncan and ste Rowena is
up your way shooting there. She said, it was snowing.
How's the season treating you?
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yeah, well I saw a picture of one of the
deers she sawly just hoped didn't have one of my
Nate eggs in it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It'll taste it'll taste good.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Stew.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
So it's been pretty cold actually where I've just been
to Crommelin back today and I got down to six
degrees and Howling Norwester through Chatta Creek and those places.
It it was only about eight to nine degrees now,
so there's not a lot of growth. But we don't
use to get much about the twenty September, so we're
there are a couple of weeks away from lambing. Some
guys are just starting to land, but there's definitely no
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serpus feed of it's cold.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Well you've just about to start lambing. Of course. We
head to North Canterbury. We find Stu Low, the other
member of the Stew panel, Stue, you'll be just about
tailing docking as the North Islanders say, are you docking?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah? Tailing?
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Yeah, you know it shall be.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Sh'll be doing it later this week for the whether
holds up and years strong Lord West here today it's
not much fun for burning up newler hems and news,
so more lamb brakes and here seems to get a
bit frayed.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
What are you going to do with all your money
this season?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Stew.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
We've heard from Kate Ackland beef and lamb in z
cheer season average lamb price one hundred and eighty dollars
and this one amazed me. Season average beef price and
I took a double take on this one two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, only brigear replaced, I think, and get repaid just
just I think that's a conservative way of doing it.
But you know it'll be. It'll be good to have
a good year. I mean the store stock price at
the moment it's all very well selling that stuff, but
you're going to go and replace it. And yeah, the
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store market through strong too, which which is which is
good because as long as imagins are there, we all
even get to buy to the cherry.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well, you don't necessarily have to replace it. You can
breed them at home.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Stew Yeah, if you if you don't want to go
down they having cows or anything like their cows, which
I'd add it's some really care country because some are dry.
You need lots of water and sometimes the summer year
we don't have lots of water.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So yeah, so Stu, I mean, we're abysmal profitability. Stew
duncan on sheep and beef farms in the twenty three
twenty four season forty of them, I think off the
top of my head. Kate said, we're running at a loss,
so this is a whole lot better. But I did
point out to her, you know, like one hundred and
thirty nine thousand profits this year expected to go to
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one hundred and sixty six and a half in the
coming season, which is fantastic, But you know, I don't
know if you've got five million dollars, maybe not five
million dollars two or three million dollars tied up in
your sheep and beef farm. You know, it's still and
I guess not not a brilliant return on investment or
are you happy with that.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
It's got a long way to go yet to catch
up with types of farming. But I guess one thing
we're going to look at is a future generation want
to get involved in an agriculture and that's.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
Always a bad thing.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
It's all very well us old guy has been hanging around,
but if we want to courage others, it's got to
be a sentinal that it is worthwhile doing. But there's
a lot of balance sheet. You know, it's been a
tough probably five or six years. We've had a couple
of government changes, and our farm under labor was pretty
tight with regulatory walls. So there's a lot of money
that's been wasted on stuff that didn't need to be
that wasn't added value to the bottom end of farming.
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So there's a lot of balance sheet's going to come
right yet, and then there's it going to be the
natural flow on of that of a positive years of
text year. So I think I'm just noticing around lately
there's a lot of people just trying to keep bit
of that money in their own bank account for a week.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Bit longer before they did it all back up.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
So that's positive and you know it's got to stay
that way. Or as I've just been in a look
at a new museum in Cromwell today and we totally
joked about sheep and unless you're starting to get one
hundred and eightywo hundred dollars for labs, there'll be sheeting
museums a low New Zealand. So you know we run
a bit of pressure to make sure that these values
stay there.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It's too low. Final word from you, perhaps you've been
very disciplined today as per instruction, you haven't mentioned the
rand Filly shield once.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Now there's mistake. Didn't really rar on the weekend of day. See,
I think it's seen the Texas about getting they might
have got velveted, so yeah, the velvet might be worth
a bit so. But no, that's good to see the
shield again back in the back.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
In the price yawn yawn, yawn. You guys, it's just
ho hum for you having the shield. It doesn't mean
that much. You've spent most of.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Your life with it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
No, a group of players that hadn't hadn't challenged for it,
and you can go, you go back in time, and
when you get a challenge, you've got to make the
most of it because the next team is not far away.
And I suppose even on North of the require River
was pretty pleased if it changed hands, because then get
a cracker at this weekend and even though they lost Auckland,
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it's a one off game and anything's possible. But hopefully
our boys can hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Okay, there we go. Stue low Is Stu Duncan the
Farmer panel for today, Rowena, thanks for popping in, Thanks
for dropping off the venice and you can call in
any time you want. Up next, we're going to wrap
the show today with our weather man, Monday weather Man
on a Tuesday, Bill Duncan.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Good time in ten line, Tell me where are you?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Okay? Wrapping the country for a Tuesday will be in
christ Church tomorrow. More about that tomorrow from christ Church.
Phil Duncan, Monday's resident weather They're expert on a Tuesday.
I'm all over the shop today. I felt she's a
bit chilly out there, but September is you know, typically
a bit of an unsettled month.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
It is the biggest complaint I get in spring from
these landers is saying so much for spring as if
like once September arrives, it's summer. So you know, winter
is slowly fading away, hints of summer slowly coming in,
and that's giving us some real variety in the weather,
not only at the moment, but in the week or
two ahead.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
What can we expect in the week or two ahead, Phil,
Because it's a very important time of the year obviously
for sheep farmers with lambing, but the arable farmers will
be talking to Hamishma tomorrow. They're trying to get the
soil conditions right to get the crops into the ground.
And of course the dairy farmers they're getting through carving,
but they start to look at mating, getting the KALs
on goodnick for that.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
That's right, Multiple things going on. September October very critical
months in the horticulture agriculture sector. So we're monitoring a
few things. The most of the energy at the moment
in our weather is coming out of Australia. They're having
a thunderstorm outbreak that goes from Darwin to Sydney at
the moment. I mean, that's put a few New Zealands
in there that is.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Coming our way.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
So we've got a lot of energy out of the
Tasman Sea with thunderstorms coming through over the next couple
of days, mostly westerly driven and surges of gale force winds,
and on top of all of that, frosty weather in
the mix as well. The good news about the frosts
is they are where they should be. They're in the
South Island, mostly through the interior and the mountains, not
so much going into the lower down coastal areas in
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the top of the South Island and also around the
North Island.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
So there's some good news.
Speaker 9 (36:50):
But the ups and downs and temperatures, we've got a
lot more of that coming up over the next couple
of weeks as we deal with these Ossie thunderstorms plus
some really large high pressure zone. So it's not all
bad news.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Well, there is talk from some farmers on the east
coast of both islands that it's not unusual either at
the stime of the year. They're starting to look for
a look over their shoulder for a better rain.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
I was talking to Malcrowe this morning. She lives in
Hawks Bay. She works for Farmers Weekly and the conversation
we had this morning was exactly about what you just raised.
A Hawk's Bay, particularly between Nelson and going inland towards
Munuwa Tu. Those areas have been in a rain shadow
pretty much all year and they're going into spring drive
and average so these westerlies are not favorable for that area.
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It may dry out more before we get some kind
of rain relief, but I do think that's one area
to highlight going into the next few months to keep
very close eye on due to the rain shadow that
I've been in in the South Island not as bad.
Canterbury had a lot of rain in the start of
winter and during winter, so balancing act going on for
Canterbury more so than maybe it is for Hawk's Bay.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Well, Duncan, thanks for your time mate there. He is
wrapping the Country for today. As I said, We're off
to christ tomorrow client function to attend. Nikola. Willis sitting
in for the PM tomorrow. Will catch you them.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
All the martc most then you kiss me like that.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
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