The Country 12/06/25: Mike Green and Hugh Jackson talk to Jamie Mackay

We catch up with the man behind the Rural Support Trust's dinner, which raised over $300,000 last night. Plus, an FMG Young Farmer grand finalist who wants to plug tomorrow night's "Party in the Tron".

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, I want to get this guy up on stage,
Mike Green, the man behind the Rural Support Trust, in
a last night that raised an excess of three hundred
thousand dollars. They said it couldn't be done, Mike. They said,
you'll never get a crowd and your case, five hundred
and forty three people at Claudland's Events Center last night.
You packed the place. Someone played paid eighty five grand

(00:21):
for a magnificent piece of art. You must have woken
up this morning and thought, oh, I'm glad that's over,
but what a great effort.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, you're pretty happy about the whole thing. Jamie kicked
it off back in December. Yeah, you're right. There are
a lot of doubters amongst it.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Including Peter Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yep, he told me it was about exactly mate. He
is but against this trying to hijack the field days.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Or he's not going to host it out here. He's
kind of got a full house out here exactly.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
So no, Look, it's it's been really great with the
industry getting behind it and right across the industry. That's
what we wanted to do. It's an industry issue. It's
not just a few companies involved. It's across you.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
It was a roaring success last night. Is it going
to be an annual event?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, it's certainly being annual with I think I've already
got six sponsors confirmed on board for three year contracts.
Verbally no one said no yet, so by tom to
leave here will have it all tucked up with them and.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I've got like thirty seconds. Give a shout out to
that young guy, that young farmer who donated the piece
that raised all that.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Money, Jamie Thomas from JT Sculptures. He had two sculptures
up Rock in a Hard Place which got eighty five thousand,
as you said, and the other one was mercurou Wood
Pidgeon that raised fifteen hundred k. He gave donated a
thirty year old young fella who's just a great supporter
of the cause and been through a few issues himself

(01:46):
and family members.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Had wonderful well done. Pleasure to meet you last night, Mike,
you a game job. I just want to get this
young man on a young Farmer. He's the finalist in
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final, which
will be on Down and Cargo early next month. His
name is Hugh Jackson. He's going to be on the
muster if you listen on iHeartRadio to Hokanui just after one.

(02:08):
But I said i'd give you a shout out today, Hugh,
because you've got a big party in the tron tomorrow
night for young farmers.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Thank you, Jamie. Here we sure do Hamilton City Young
Farmers Club. We're having a fundraiser at the Biddy Mulligan's
Bar Irish Bar there in Hamilton Town, so it'll be
awesome to see you guys. Come along celebrate what's been
a good field days. We're kicking off at seven pm.
Everyone's welcome. We've got a mechanical ball there and we're
gonna have prizes for the longest ride and the best

(02:36):
dress up as well, so cowboy cow girl theme, ten
dollar entry and five dollars to ride the ball as
many times as you like. So look forward to seeing
you all there.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, I hope you don't ride the ball because you
can't afford to injure yourself ahead of the Grand Final
and in the cargol and don't drink too much you're
in training young man.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, thanks Jamie, and now will have a go, and
there's a nice soft padding around the ball, so it'll
be good to see all there.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, there we go. Hugh Jackson, one of the seven
finalists and FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final,
which is happening in in Icago in early July.