October 7, 2025 • 6 mins
Trade Minister Todd McClay has confirmed trade negotiations with India are progressing - but there's still a ways to go.
New Zealand and Indian trade negotiators met in Queenstown last month for a third round of formal negotiations for a free trade agreement.
The Country's Hamish McKay explained further.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Rural Report on Heather Do for ce Alan.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Drive, Hamous mckaye hosting the Country while Jamie mckaye is
away is with us.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello Hamish, Heather, Hello, and can I start really enjoying
Billian for Jamie you start on holiday for a bit longer.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're doing a fantastic job. So you know he should
come back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, thank you. Well he does say don't do too well.
He's honest, James.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Go well, Hamous, but don't go too well. So thank
you for that. I'll keep I'll keep trying to sort
of raise the bar.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel like we need to find some space for
you on our show on the regular. So just just
we'll just confer. Just you leave there with us and
we find a place in your Hamous.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'll stop talking.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Love it but a dirty talk on the radio. We
are enjoying it very much. Now listen on the onto
the Senior serious stuff. You had the trade minister on
the show today. What are the holdups in the trade
deal with with India?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, yeah, that is the well hopefully the billion dollar
plus question. So he's had the third meeting, right, he
is confident on the radio today on the country, saying
that the fourth round of eatings will be the knockout
punch and that will come. He believes that mister Moody
and everybody that's you know who ultimately will sign office
(01:10):
at the table. We know what a behemoth it is.
We just got to get you know, right now. We're
exporting to them about you know, there's individuals with net
worth much more than we export to India, which is
kind of a you know, a pee in the ocean.
Really we need to be you know, we need to
we need to be in there. They're huge. So hopefully
we can start to you know, next time around. His
(01:30):
promise by I think by February March next year, we
should have free trade Tara free agreement to get our
land into into India, would ye, Yeah, well, I think
that's I'm sort of allowing for the sort of the
sort of sign off period. I mean, I'm just trying
to I'm trying to be super friendly here.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's not bad though, I mean, Hamish we were talking about,
I mean, I think everybody sort of had a bit
of a snigger when they said they'd be able to
do it in their first term. That'd be remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, it would be, it would be. But we
need it, We need it, you know. I just worry
me though what it might do for the local home consumer.
Who know the old day guard of the supermarket is
thirty dollars leg of lamb and whacking it in the
freezer and when the kids are home from unions. I
think that's gone unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But yeah, what are you doing with your phone? Hamish?
Can Hamish? We can't hear you? Can you just pull
your phone away from your face and look if the
mute buttons being pressed by your cheek?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Please? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Did you do that better? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I can hear you. Now that was really well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, I'm just getting carried away.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think I'm going to withdraw my invitation to come
on the show now how much listen talk to me
about Beef and Lamb trying to get the farmers to
use AI. What do they what do they expect the
farmers to use AI for?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So this thing that they've got is called asked Bella.
Bella's obviously you know, she is the thing you need
to get online with Beef and Lambs, the AI assistant.
So you've got you know how when you go in
there and you search up and you get them. You
get all the information, but you don't get the answers. Well,
you know, Bella, Bella, I've got these fly struck lambs.
(03:12):
What should I do? How you should get the shares
out and then apply X Y Z. It'scause you're the answers.
Bello goes for the answers. So it's like having millions
and millions of encyclopedia, you know, all that knowledge that
probably exists in the Lincoln University College Library, but the
answers come to you. So it's just good practical information.
(03:35):
When is the best time to spray my Scott's thistles?
You know, I mean, I'm trying to sound like Bella,
but you know what I mean. It seems like an
incredibly practical tool to me and sensible, you know, you know,
I think it's I think it's a great thing that
Beef and Lamb have come up with here, the old
ask Bella, Yeah, why not hay much?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That they tell me? Actually that you were on the
sports tuddle on Friday when I was away, So you've
already started to the connection between ourselves and news already started.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The infiltration has begun.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Love it, Yeah, Hamish, thanks so much, mate, look after yourself.
Good luck making your phone work for you. That's Hamish
Mackay hosting the Country World. Jamie's away actually on what
Hamish was talking about the next step with AI, because
of course you can ask AI already right with the
large language model programs and stuff. You type all your
questions in a whether it's Bala or olive with Wilworth's
(04:25):
whatever they can. You can interact like that. But the
next step seems to me that we need to be
able to actually talk to AI in the way that
you talk to Siri. Have you have you thought this?
Because look what happened was I was sitting in the
spa last night. What a way to start a story.
I was sitting in the spa last night, and I
don't have my phone in the spa because I think
it's very healthy to have time away from your phone.
(04:47):
And so I thought to myself, I thought, oh, Jason's
coming to see us this weekend. I know the kids
will want to get in the spa. I wonder what
the weather's going to be like. And I thought, at
that point, wouldn't it be nice to just be able
to say to AI, Hey, whatever you've called your AI.
In my case, obviously it would be Barry. So hey Barry,
what's the weather forecast for Saturday? And then the AI
(05:09):
can just tell you and then you can put that
one to bed and never mind, and that that's it
done right. You don't carry the mental load of having
to remember, Oh, when I get out of the spar
I've got to go find my phone? Got it? Because
I forgot by the way. So now I've got a
back in my brain. I've got to do the thing anyway.
That is where AI has got to go. But the question,
of course, is then how do you get AI to have,
like how do you integrate it in your life so
that it's there prepared to answer your questions? Now, I
(05:30):
know that Jason Paris from One New Zealand, who was
like nutty about AI, does drive with some sort of
like hands free thing where he talks to his AI.
Most of us can't, though, So what do you do
do you? Is it a pin that sits on your
lapel and you press the pin and you go a AI?
The question or is it those stupid glasses that Zuckerberg
(05:50):
was trying the other day, where you know, you talk
to your glasses while it's looking at the menu for you.
That is the next place this has got to go,
because this is the limitation of AI, isn't it that
it's really cool, but you've got to sit there typing
into your keyboard and somehow you have to make it
integrated in our lives, so it really just does all
the cool stuff for us. Anyway, that's the thing to
think about. If you'll sit in there going, I'm very
(06:11):
good at computers, Well, then can you solve this problem
for us? Please?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
The Rural Report on Heather Do for ce Alan.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Drive, Hamous mckaye hosting the Country while Jamie mckaye is
away is with us.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello Hamish, Heather, Hello, and can I start really enjoying
Billian for Jamie you start on holiday for a bit longer.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're doing a fantastic job. So you know he should
come back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, thank you. Well he does say don't do too well.
He's honest, James.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Go well, Hamous, but don't go too well. So thank
you for that. I'll keep I'll keep trying to sort
of raise the bar.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel like we need to find some space for
you on our show on the regular. So just just
we'll just confer. Just you leave there with us and
we find a place in your Hamous.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'll stop talking.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Love it but a dirty talk on the radio. We
are enjoying it very much. Now listen on the onto
the Senior serious stuff. You had the trade minister on
the show today. What are the holdups in the trade
deal with with India?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, yeah, that is the well hopefully the billion dollar
plus question. So he's had the third meeting, right, he
is confident on the radio today on the country, saying
that the fourth round of eatings will be the knockout
punch and that will come. He believes that mister Moody
and everybody that's you know who ultimately will sign office
(01:10):
at the table. We know what a behemoth it is.
We just got to get you know, right now. We're
exporting to them about you know, there's individuals with net
worth much more than we export to India, which is
kind of a you know, a pee in the ocean.
Really we need to be you know, we need to
we need to be in there. They're huge. So hopefully
we can start to you know, next time around. His
(01:30):
promise by I think by February March next year, we
should have free trade Tara free agreement to get our
land into into India, would ye, Yeah, well, I think
that's I'm sort of allowing for the sort of the
sort of sign off period. I mean, I'm just trying
to I'm trying to be super friendly here.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's not bad though, I mean, Hamish we were talking about,
I mean, I think everybody sort of had a bit
of a snigger when they said they'd be able to
do it in their first term. That'd be remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, it would be, it would be. But we
need it, We need it, you know. I just worry
me though what it might do for the local home consumer.
Who know the old day guard of the supermarket is
thirty dollars leg of lamb and whacking it in the
freezer and when the kids are home from unions. I
think that's gone unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But yeah, what are you doing with your phone? Hamish?
Can Hamish? We can't hear you? Can you just pull
your phone away from your face and look if the
mute buttons being pressed by your cheek?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Please? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Did you do that better? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I can hear you. Now that was really well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, I'm just getting carried away.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think I'm going to withdraw my invitation to come
on the show now how much listen talk to me
about Beef and Lamb trying to get the farmers to
use AI. What do they what do they expect the
farmers to use AI for?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So this thing that they've got is called asked Bella.
Bella's obviously you know, she is the thing you need
to get online with Beef and Lambs, the AI assistant.
So you've got you know how when you go in
there and you search up and you get them. You
get all the information, but you don't get the answers. Well,
you know, Bella, Bella, I've got these fly struck lambs.
(03:12):
What should I do? How you should get the shares
out and then apply X Y Z. It'scause you're the answers.
Bello goes for the answers. So it's like having millions
and millions of encyclopedia, you know, all that knowledge that
probably exists in the Lincoln University College Library, but the
answers come to you. So it's just good practical information.
(03:35):
When is the best time to spray my Scott's thistles?
You know, I mean, I'm trying to sound like Bella,
but you know what I mean. It seems like an
incredibly practical tool to me and sensible, you know, you know,
I think it's I think it's a great thing that
Beef and Lamb have come up with here, the old
ask Bella, Yeah, why not hay much?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That they tell me? Actually that you were on the
sports tuddle on Friday when I was away, So you've
already started to the connection between ourselves and news already started.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The infiltration has begun.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Love it, Yeah, Hamish, thanks so much, mate, look after yourself.
Good luck making your phone work for you. That's Hamish
Mackay hosting the Country World. Jamie's away actually on what
Hamish was talking about the next step with AI, because
of course you can ask AI already right with the
large language model programs and stuff. You type all your
questions in a whether it's Bala or olive with Wilworth's
(04:25):
whatever they can. You can interact like that. But the
next step seems to me that we need to be
able to actually talk to AI in the way that
you talk to Siri. Have you have you thought this?
Because look what happened was I was sitting in the
spa last night. What a way to start a story.
I was sitting in the spa last night, and I
don't have my phone in the spa because I think
it's very healthy to have time away from your phone.
(04:47):
And so I thought to myself, I thought, oh, Jason's
coming to see us this weekend. I know the kids
will want to get in the spa. I wonder what
the weather's going to be like. And I thought, at
that point, wouldn't it be nice to just be able
to say to AI, Hey, whatever you've called your AI.
In my case, obviously it would be Barry. So hey Barry,
what's the weather forecast for Saturday? And then the AI
(05:09):
can just tell you and then you can put that
one to bed and never mind, and that that's it
done right. You don't carry the mental load of having
to remember, Oh, when I get out of the spar
I've got to go find my phone? Got it? Because
I forgot by the way. So now I've got a
back in my brain. I've got to do the thing anyway.
That is where AI has got to go. But the question,
of course, is then how do you get AI to have,
like how do you integrate it in your life so
that it's there prepared to answer your questions? Now, I
(05:30):
know that Jason Paris from One New Zealand, who was
like nutty about AI, does drive with some sort of
like hands free thing where he talks to his AI.
Most of us can't, though, So what do you do
do you? Is it a pin that sits on your
lapel and you press the pin and you go a AI?
The question or is it those stupid glasses that Zuckerberg
(05:50):
was trying the other day, where you know, you talk
to your glasses while it's looking at the menu for you.
That is the next place this has got to go,
because this is the limitation of AI, isn't it that
it's really cool, but you've got to sit there typing
into your keyboard and somehow you have to make it
integrated in our lives, so it really just does all
the cool stuff for us. Anyway, that's the thing to
think about. If you'll sit in there going, I'm very
(06:11):
good at computers, Well, then can you solve this problem
for us? Please?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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