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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on
Gold Sport.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Trying to catch up Jim Finlay now Weekly Farming Economic Report,
paid a visit to the field Days last Wednesday. It's
pretty good, wasn't it, Jim.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It was an amazing site there, Brian hears in good morning, and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I would imagine, hopefully we're going to catch up with
mister field Days himself Peter Nation after eight. But I'd
say people were the farmers were spending, people were carrying
things around.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
There was a lot of people carrying things around, but
I didn't see anyone was the tractor under their arm?
Will mind you some of the sizes and Brian, you
wouldn't even get into you here getting them onto a farm.
I don't think these days are just so huge, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh they are. We're actually as our broadcast studio was
on the brand stand and they've the John Dee attractors there.
They actually sold a couple of huge machines actually, so
you know that had been happy with it, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm sure they would have been. And yeah, it looked
an amazing stand. As I walked by, I didn't see
you there, but I think you'll probably off having a
coffee or something, but yeah, it was. It was an
incredible sight out there, and it's so professional. Everything is
just so well done there these days, you know, I wrote,
go back to the days when we used to just
have a caravan with an awning, or when the tent
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next door would have brown over in the first rate.
It was. It's just grown up so much.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And of course the politicians all show up there and
they all have major policy announcements. I guess the big
one out of last week was waka acinor and so on,
and even talking about looking at helping the farmers with
interest in the rural bank area.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's right. There's the two of the major things that
have come out this last week for the farmers. Of
the dropping of the farm the rural thing out of
the ETS, which was their emissions trading scheme and that
immediately gets rid of their waka heck andoa. And then
including the rural sector into that banking review of the
Commerce Commission, a couple of major things actually for the
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farming sector. And I was talking with Ryan Hamilton out
there as well, and he was he's going to be
on that select committee for the banking review which is
very very good because he's our local MP, so I'm
hopefully going to have a good bit of an opportunity
to have some good talks with him about it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Absolutely. All right, let's look at the markets from last week.
How did everything fair?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Right? Everything's very steady at the present time. And it
sort of gets a bit like that as the dollar
firms a wee bit and the dollar has been sort
of sitting it just over that sixty one cents against
the US dollar for the last couple of weeks, and
it makes it a little bit difficult for them to
really sort of up the schedules and everything at that stage.
And also it's the middle of winter and people aren't
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too sure what the grass growths are going to be like,
so if we've quickly run through them. Our eight en
kg Yxlam is steady in both islands at six dollars
twelve in the north and six dollars in the south.
Our twenty one kg Mx Mountain is steady in the
north at two dollars fifty and two dollars sixty a
kg in the south. Our P two stair the two
seventy to two ninety five kg stare the steady in
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the North of five dollars fifty and then the South
at five dollars thirty a kg. Our boner cow, the
one sixty to one ninety five kgm cow is three
sixty in the north and three sixty in the south.
And our ball, our two seventy to two ninety five
kg ball is five fifty five in the northern, five
dollars twenty in the south, and our venison of course
is steady at sixty kg stag at eight sixty five
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in the northern, eight seventy five in the south.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Brand and the Dairy the Global Dairy Trade Action, I
think we've got one coming up this week, haven't we.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We will have one coming up this week. And you know,
one of the things that we've said a couple of
times is that, you know, the farmers would have liked
to have seen Fonterra sort of start with an eighth
in front of their payout for the coming season. But
most of the banks are The B and z's come
out at the lowest at eight dollars twenty for their
prediction for the season, the A and Z's eight to fifty,
and the other banks are sort of around that eight
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dollars forty. So you know we're looking okay, I think,
and there's a reasonable amount of confidence out there in
the dairy industry at the present time with your.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Egg Safe New Zealand hat on the first AID training
courses in the South Island last month they were successful.
You got a second series pan but the North Island
is next. You've got courses up this way, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's right And yeah, I've been talking with them and
they said it's a great turnout and they worked out
really well. And it's so important that there is people
thirst DAID trained on the farms out there in the
first course here as at tarhoona tavern north of Minville,
that's next week on the twenty fifth of June, and
they can get hold of it or get involved with
it by contacting the Dairy Woman's Network all practical training
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solutions for their registration and details. Probably through the Dairy
Women's Network is probably the quickest and easiest because most
of the farmers are fairly familiar with that and it's
not just limited to women either, it's or both men
and women out there on the farms and just to
have someone trained is extremely important and we see that
with the accidents that happen. When people know what to do,
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they can get in and get it done.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Absolutely, Jim. Always good to catch up mate. We'll do
it again next week.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
We will. Thank you, Brian, and goodbye to the listeners.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Jim. This Weekly Economical