CSB - Jim Findlay - WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the cricket field to the cow shed. It's the
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport twenty
two away from eight o'clock. There's been a lot of
water under the bridge and man, you were out the
farm gate since we last spoke to Jim Finlay with
this farming economic report.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Morning Gym and good morning Brian.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
And not a great result for Waikato on the weekend,
thrashed by the Bay of Plenty steamers.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Come on just our first first game.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'll come back, I'm sure they will, but we were
certainly impressed by them. So while we've been away and
taking live coverage of the Olympic Games, and I know
you've been engrossed in that as well. I mean, we've
had what a global dairy trade auction last week.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
We certainly did, and that moved up just nicely at
one point five percent, which was really sort of what
was predicted around But of course nobody knew what was
going to happen last week when the sort of that
big international collapse happened on the Monday. But by the
end of the week and it all sort of sort
of say out and don't worry about that.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's great, and the other schedules across the course
of the week. We haven't spoken for a couple of weeks.
What's been going on with lamb and mutton and steers.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, most of them are moving upwards a little bit
at the moment, which is good. Part of that is
that there's a bit of a shortage of good red
meat around in the marketplace. Some grass growing conditions have
been good and farmers have been keeping a hold of
their stock to sort of finish them off a little
bit more. But we'll just quickly run through them for you, Brian.
They're the eighteen kg yxlam The North Island schedule is

(01:33):
up to six dollars eighty a kg, and the South
Island has moved up to six dollars ninety a kilogram.
Our twenty one KGMX mutton, if we look at is
steady at about three dollars a kg in the North
and two eighty in the South. The P two steer
the two seventy to two ninety five kg steers up
to six seventy in the North and six twenty in
the South. The old Bona cow, the one sixty to

(01:53):
one ninety five kg is four forty five in the
North and steady again in the South at four forty five.
The ball, the two seventy to two ninety five kg
ball is up to six fifty in the North and
up to five dollars eighty in the South Island. So
there's been a little bit of movement in all of
those over the last couple of weeks. But our Venice
and our sixty kg stag is still steady. It's eight

(02:14):
dollars sixty five in the North and eight dollars seventy
five in the South.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Brian and as you mentioned, you know, a little bit
of negative economic news out of out of world markets
in the last week or two, hasn't there?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Was?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It sort of started off with the suggestion that the
US was going to go into recession and the whole
world markets sort of placed collapse. New Zealand didn't fear
too badly in it. Some of them have the lowest
sort of you know dow markets and things that has
been for years, and the collapse was huge. But again

(02:47):
by the end of the week it has somehow lifted
itself out and sort of so let's not worry about it,
just just carry on as it was. Before, and it's
been sort of quite interesting seeing what can happen over
a week, particularly when there's a lot of distraction out
there with the likes of the Olympic Games.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Were you well, absolutely, and they're wrapping up at the moment,
In fact, you weekly rant this week. It kind of
you look at the Olympic Games and all the things
that went on behind the scenes there as well, don't you.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I certainly did. Yeah, there's always some things that sort
of concern us a bit about it. You know, you
wonder why we get things like sort of rock climbing
and even synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics and things in there.
I find them a little bit difficult to watch. But
the real thing that did come out, I think was
this agenda issue with the guys boxing and the woman's

(03:34):
boxing thing. It's not to me, it's not right. And
there's a person I know they died at the beginning
of this year very well, who had transitioned from a
guy into a gowl and she told me. I asked
her one day protectly what it was about, and she said, well,
she lost about a third of a strength, but she
could still beat up most other women. And that was

(03:57):
from a sample of one. And she was also adamant
that there was no way that any of these transition
to people should be in any female sports at all.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ryan, Yeah, interesting one, good read. And for you, Jim,
did you have a personal highlight from the games as
far as well any event is concerned. I mean you
sort of talked about synchronized swimming and things like that.
Maybe you should put sheeps hearing in there, but you know,
the highlight for you.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think seeing Lisa Carrington and that sort of come
through again and do what she's done. It's absolutely amazing.
And of course Lydia Coe and Guy care with the
high jump. I just couldn't believe that how he got
down to a jump off and it was it was
absolutely amazing what he did.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Absolutely all right, mate, good to catch up again Jim
Finlay with his farming economic report. Have a great week, Jim,
we will.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Brian, thank you, and goodbye to the listeners.