June 9, 2025 • 6 mins
Our Australian correspondent says Trump’s tariffs are making absolutely no difference to record exports of Aussie beef to the US. Plus, we ask, “Who’s got the biggest” when it comes to Agricultural Field Days?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Field Days this week gets under way tomorrow, finishing on
Saturday at Mystery Creeke. It is literally the biggest act
in town in the country this week. But how does
it compare to Agricultural field Days across the Tasman Our
Ossie correspondent Chris Russell has done some homework on that.
Good afternoon mate.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, heying Jamie. Well, they be around a bit longer
than you having radio. I think I should start by saying, mate,
you need to get a bigger pull room after getting
your award at the New Zealand Radio Awards for longevity,
so they'll be calling you emeritus shortly. But congratulations, well
deserved made. It's been experience for me working with you
(00:40):
for the last thirty odd years and you're doing an
amazing job, so well deserved. And yeah, the poor room
war must be getting pretty full now.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I say the award has an agricultural connection because
it's the one you get just before they put you
out to pasture. There's a year or two left in
me yet, Chris. I'm still I'm still a wee bit
bitter about missing out on our ANZAC show from Gallipoli.
You were in Gallipoli, I was in Gore way back
in two thousand and three, but we talked about that
one last week. Look, talk to me about your field days.
(01:09):
Have you got anything that compares to Mystery Creek.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Look, we haven't got anything. I think you're bigger because
it's such a concentrated field day. Hamilton field days has
always been very concentrated. A lot of people that's their
big thing. We do have a much more diverse spread
of field days, but our biggest field day here is
a quip which is at Gunnadha up on the northern
tablelands where University of New England and all that country
(01:34):
is up in Armadale, Gunnada, Gunnaghanoo, Armadale, Tamworth. They're all
places which are highland wall country. It's also the show
where you still see huge range of farm machinery, whereas
a lot of the other field days have become what
I call spanner and screwdriver shows. They've got lots of
little sail selling leather pouches and spanners and screwdrivers and
(01:55):
nuts and bolts. And Orange would be number two. That's
the oldest in Australia. It's been going to signing fifty
three and they have about one about seventy thousand through
the gate. Add Queer about one hundred thousand go through
that gate each year, so a little bit smaller than yours,
but still very popular. And Jill and I if we're
traveling around our caravan and we see those field days
(02:15):
on we're always without foul pop in on Sago Day
and have a bit of a look around. They're always fascinating.
You always made a lot of carriages there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Jamie, Chris Russell. We are exporting in dollar terms anyhow,
record amounts to the US despite Donald Trump's tariffs. Likewise,
across the tessment, it's making no difference at all because
the Yanks, for want of a better word, just can't
get enough of our grinding beef for their hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, well that's it, and that was very predictable. I
mean it's been two months now since so called Liberation Day,
which put a ten percent tariff on our beef, but
their demand for beef is way outweighed the tariff. Effectively,
the tariffs has just become an extra ten percent GST
on all the beef that the US people buy, and
(03:02):
it's certainly propped up the US government's coffers a little bit,
but it hasn't made the slightest difference our years to
date beef exports up over thirty percent, and if we
go if we carry out this pace, we'll go very
close to being at our limit of quota, which we
haven't never achieved to the US around four hundred and
fifty thousand tons for the year so far, we've shipped
(03:26):
about one hundred and sixty seven thousand tons of beef
to the US, up thirty two percent. As alongside that,
of course, we've also shipped more to China, one hundred
and seventeen thousand tons to China, also thirty percent up,
and that is also a result of the tariffs which
are even greater on anything coming from there. So you know,
(03:47):
the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, and of course it's
an honor thing for Trump. You know, Trump says we're
the only country which won't allow US beef into Australia,
which this and true. Actually, since twenty nineteen, US bread
and grown beef has been allowed into Australia, but we
(04:08):
won't allow beef that's been bread and grown and fattened
in Mexico and Canada and then slaughtered in the us
to come in and two problems. One is they want
to bring it in as a matter of honor. They'd say, well,
who are you to tell us? And secondly, you know
they've also got the problem they don't have any traceability
on beef, so they don't actually know which or can't
(04:30):
prove which animals were bred in the US and which weren't.
Now the Prime Minister, who's going over to the G
seven conference in the next week, has said he won't
give way on that. Even if he did, to be honest,
it wouldn't make the slightest difference because who the hell
is going to buy us beef in Australia at double
the price?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Jamie, Absolutely, it's a no brainer. Trump's just using that
as an excuse. Just to finish on Clarkson. Sparmer has
taken the world by storm. Pat Cummons Australian cricketer and captain,
we would love him on our team. He's visited Clarkson's
Didley Squat farm recently and this is off the back
of him buying a farm just south of Sydney.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, that's right. He's over in the UK for this
week's World Test Championship game against South Africa and he
went out to Diddley Squad. I love the show. I
think it's absolutely hilarious. I love the farmers that the
local farmers that are on it, and he just has
done so much for British agriculture as well as point
out how hard it is to make money, and Pat
(05:34):
Cummins has actually sympathized with him on that. He's bought
a farm about one hundred and twenty odd kilometers south
of Sydney in the Southern Highlands and he's having just
about the same sort of problems down there. He's also
had Oscar Pistarry, the f one current leader of the
World Championship in the f Ones out there, so he
seems to be getting a lot of Australians out. I
(05:56):
think the only UK sports celebrity he's had on his
farm is David Beckham, but they sympathize with each other.
There's a new series coming out, can't wait to see
it and Pat Cummens obviously had a great time out there.
A very stute man Jeremy Clarkson and.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Pat Cummins is a very astute cricketer. Wish we had
him on our side. I'll catch you back next Thursday
and we'll be able to talk about State of Origin two,
which is happening next Wednesday night and Perth really looking
forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, no, we look forward to that. Have a great
field day, Jamie,
Field Days this week gets under way tomorrow, finishing on
Saturday at Mystery Creeke. It is literally the biggest act
in town in the country this week. But how does
it compare to Agricultural field Days across the Tasman Our
Ossie correspondent Chris Russell has done some homework on that.
Good afternoon mate.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, heying Jamie. Well, they be around a bit longer
than you having radio. I think I should start by saying, mate,
you need to get a bigger pull room after getting
your award at the New Zealand Radio Awards for longevity,
so they'll be calling you emeritus shortly. But congratulations, well
deserved made. It's been experience for me working with you
(00:40):
for the last thirty odd years and you're doing an
amazing job, so well deserved. And yeah, the poor room
war must be getting pretty full now.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I say the award has an agricultural connection because
it's the one you get just before they put you
out to pasture. There's a year or two left in
me yet, Chris. I'm still I'm still a wee bit
bitter about missing out on our ANZAC show from Gallipoli.
You were in Gallipoli, I was in Gore way back
in two thousand and three, but we talked about that
one last week. Look, talk to me about your field days.
(01:09):
Have you got anything that compares to Mystery Creek.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Look, we haven't got anything. I think you're bigger because
it's such a concentrated field day. Hamilton field days has
always been very concentrated. A lot of people that's their
big thing. We do have a much more diverse spread
of field days, but our biggest field day here is
a quip which is at Gunnadha up on the northern
tablelands where University of New England and all that country
(01:34):
is up in Armadale, Gunnada, Gunnaghanoo, Armadale, Tamworth. They're all
places which are highland wall country. It's also the show
where you still see huge range of farm machinery, whereas
a lot of the other field days have become what
I call spanner and screwdriver shows. They've got lots of
little sail selling leather pouches and spanners and screwdrivers and
(01:55):
nuts and bolts. And Orange would be number two. That's
the oldest in Australia. It's been going to signing fifty
three and they have about one about seventy thousand through
the gate. Add Queer about one hundred thousand go through
that gate each year, so a little bit smaller than yours,
but still very popular. And Jill and I if we're
traveling around our caravan and we see those field days
(02:15):
on we're always without foul pop in on Sago Day
and have a bit of a look around. They're always fascinating.
You always made a lot of carriages there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Jamie, Chris Russell. We are exporting in dollar terms anyhow,
record amounts to the US despite Donald Trump's tariffs. Likewise,
across the tessment, it's making no difference at all because
the Yanks, for want of a better word, just can't
get enough of our grinding beef for their hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, well that's it, and that was very predictable. I
mean it's been two months now since so called Liberation Day,
which put a ten percent tariff on our beef, but
their demand for beef is way outweighed the tariff. Effectively,
the tariffs has just become an extra ten percent GST
on all the beef that the US people buy, and
(03:02):
it's certainly propped up the US government's coffers a little bit,
but it hasn't made the slightest difference our years to
date beef exports up over thirty percent, and if we
go if we carry out this pace, we'll go very
close to being at our limit of quota, which we
haven't never achieved to the US around four hundred and
fifty thousand tons for the year so far, we've shipped
(03:26):
about one hundred and sixty seven thousand tons of beef
to the US, up thirty two percent. As alongside that,
of course, we've also shipped more to China, one hundred
and seventeen thousand tons to China, also thirty percent up,
and that is also a result of the tariffs which
are even greater on anything coming from there. So you know,
(03:47):
the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, and of course it's
an honor thing for Trump. You know, Trump says we're
the only country which won't allow US beef into Australia,
which this and true. Actually, since twenty nineteen, US bread
and grown beef has been allowed into Australia, but we
(04:08):
won't allow beef that's been bread and grown and fattened
in Mexico and Canada and then slaughtered in the us
to come in and two problems. One is they want
to bring it in as a matter of honor. They'd say, well,
who are you to tell us? And secondly, you know
they've also got the problem they don't have any traceability
on beef, so they don't actually know which or can't
(04:30):
prove which animals were bred in the US and which weren't.
Now the Prime Minister, who's going over to the G
seven conference in the next week, has said he won't
give way on that. Even if he did, to be honest,
it wouldn't make the slightest difference because who the hell
is going to buy us beef in Australia at double
the price?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Jamie, Absolutely, it's a no brainer. Trump's just using that
as an excuse. Just to finish on Clarkson. Sparmer has
taken the world by storm. Pat Cummons Australian cricketer and captain,
we would love him on our team. He's visited Clarkson's
Didley Squat farm recently and this is off the back
of him buying a farm just south of Sydney.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, that's right. He's over in the UK for this
week's World Test Championship game against South Africa and he
went out to Diddley Squad. I love the show. I
think it's absolutely hilarious. I love the farmers that the
local farmers that are on it, and he just has
done so much for British agriculture as well as point
out how hard it is to make money, and Pat
(05:34):
Cummins has actually sympathized with him on that. He's bought
a farm about one hundred and twenty odd kilometers south
of Sydney in the Southern Highlands and he's having just
about the same sort of problems down there. He's also
had Oscar Pistarry, the f one current leader of the
World Championship in the f Ones out there, so he
seems to be getting a lot of Australians out. I
(05:56):
think the only UK sports celebrity he's had on his
farm is David Beckham, but they sympathize with each other.
There's a new series coming out, can't wait to see
it and Pat Cummens obviously had a great time out there.
A very stute man Jeremy Clarkson and.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Pat Cummins is a very astute cricketer. Wish we had
him on our side. I'll catch you back next Thursday
and we'll be able to talk about State of Origin two,
which is happening next Wednesday night and Perth really looking
forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, no, we look forward to that. Have a great
field day, Jamie,
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