November 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Sir David Carter, Lawrence Meredith, Stu Loe, Nicola Grigg, Greg Menzies, Tom Dodson, and Ross Hyland.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch you're the latest from the land. It's The Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
John Deere construction equipment.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
By Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Goody, and good afternoon, New Zealand. Hopefully we're on across
New Zealand. It's some technical difficulties here on day one
of the Canterbury A and P Show, the Royal Amp Show.
We're going to cast one thousands to talk to between
now and the end of there. Sir David Carter, one
of the people behind the resurgence of this weather's not
(00:58):
flash today, but the farmers are pretty happy with the rain.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's a great rain and the rain at this time
for the livestock guys in Canterbury is just worth millions
of dollars. So the crowd's still here. The farmers don't mind.
They can come off the farm and enjoy it at
the show. What we want is two good days tomorrow
and the next day, and the forecast says we're going
to get them.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I wore my dress William's boots. I actually have
a set especially for field days. They're old ones. I
think I got the wrong ones on today, David.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Well, you should have watched the forecast, chairman, it's your fault. Well,
I've got my R and Williams on and they're holding
up pretty well. It's pretty money out there, honest add.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But yeah, well we're good forecast I think for tomorrow
and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, Friday and Saturday will be good.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And of course there are two public holidays here in Canterbury,
so we're looking forward to a strong show.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, okay, so despite the inclement weather, and as to say,
it is welcomed, it will be welcomed by all the farmers,
and a lot of them are here today. I've run
into so many already. This is a pretty good crowd,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I'm really happy with it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The farmers, as I say, will take the day off.
They don't do much farming today. Come into the Canterbury Show.
Lots of livestock here to see, lots of exhibits, the
trade exhibits numbers are well up. One competition, the wooll Expo.
There's plenty of things for people to do.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Have you been down to the Boar Breeders Association competition
this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I that is.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I haven't got there yet, but it's on my list
to do. There's just so much to see, but I'll
make my way down there.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, it's all fun and games. It's terribly politically incorrect.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, that's what it should be. It should be fun
and games. That's what the Cannibury Show used to be
when I came as a teenager. Probably Jamie was here
at the same time, when he.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Was at Lincoln. Probably some memories you don't want to
recall publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, there was no social media in those days, so it.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Didn't think thank god it is, otherwise you might not
have got the job you're doing today.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, okay, David. So we are broadcasting, of course, from
the Emerson's Tiny Pub that's my second home, this place.
Greg Mensis and the team are here, and we're here
for the launch of the twenty twenty five Mackay's. It's
a very crisp pilsner and we're going to make you
just sample a wheat taste. Greg will just pour you
on because of all. So, I got another special guest
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who needs no invite to have a bear. This is
the EU Ambassador to New Zealand, Lawrence Meritith. Last time
I ran into Lawrence was after the primary Industry Awards
and Lawrence was still looking for a bar halfway through
the middle of the morning. Great man, We're going to
chat to him shortly, David, what do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That's a very enjoyable personer loving it. You might have
to stay for another one.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Jamie, Well, you're most welcome to Are you a craft
beer man?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I don't drink as much bear as I used to
when I was a Lincoln student like you more wine
at the moment, but that's a superbose and I'm loving
it now.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think we chatted to you, what was it last
week or earlier earlier this week, and I was asking
you about how you were getting on on the Banks Peninsula.
You said it's getting a bit dry. I hear this
going to be like twenty five miles of rain out
of this event, so that'll be most welcome.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, and sounds to me like North Canterby's getting it
well too, And they were really dry.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you feel for the guys at.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The stage, their livestock, for owners, they're getting towards their winning.
This rain will just give them that much more comfort.
So it's disrupted the show a little bit, but what
it does for Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
They used to talk about a million dollar rain. This
is a multimillion dollar rain. Go for it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, sir David. I'll let you go
because I know you. Just enjoy the rest of your
person and we'll chuck those cans on the EU Ambassador's head,
Lawrence Meredith, chuck those on. It is eleven after twelve.
We're going to be chatting to all sorts of people,
including Tom Dodson, who is the He's the Bore Breeders
(04:30):
Association President. Gloriously politically incorrect. He's a stock agent with
PGG rights and in North Canterbury. Tom Dodson coming up
on the show Stu Low but a local farming talent
Endahoor Sheer Farmer of the Year, Shrewalker of the Year
and twenty twelve Greg Menzies of course from Emerson's Ross
Highland and of course this man, Lawrence Meredith. Lawrence, you
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love the Emerson's Tiny Pub.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I think it's fantastic. He's got it's captured this authentic
pub look that's so important, and it's got a really
good atmosphere and bring some soul to the heart of
this fantastic royal amp Canterbury Show.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So you already trying to cut a deal with Greek
means he's here from Emerson's to get the tiny pub
up for a EU gathering in Wellington.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Listen here we're here doing cheese diplomacy, but I see
some potential for beer diplomacy. As a good irishman, I
think we've got one of our strong bonds with New
Zealand is rugby. And who wouldn't have a paint when
you're watching a good match?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Were you a wee bit disappointed with your Irish side
in Chicago?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Listen, it's early days. Let's wait for the World Cup.
Never say never, Hope springs eternal, Jamie so and what.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You are the EU ambassador to New Zealand. The Free
Trader Agreement as I see it anyhow, it's been very
good for New.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Zealand, fantastic, very good for Europe too. Looking at from
a New Zealand perspective, we already see two billion dollar
increase in it sports to the European Union. That's simply phenomenal.
I think smashes even the best forecasts and shows how
important it is to do trade with trusted partners. And
we're you know, having taken the tariffs off, you see
a big boost in exports, whether it's Kiwi fruit, whether
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it's a very good bounce on sheep meat and also
on butter.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Talking about trusted trading partners. How are you guys, how's
the How are you guys in Europe getting along with Trump?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, listen, what's more important is that we've reached out
and had the first ever EU New Zealand Business Summit,
opened by the Prime Minister of Good Christ Church Man
Upper a couple of weeks ago, five hundred top EU
business EU and Kiwi business people, and we had our
Trade commission at Mariaschevchivich over. So I think what we're
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seeing is we believe in tariff free trade and SODA's
New Zealand and that's why the visit of Trade Commissioner
Maryashevtvich was so important. And we're working for those who
are strongly committed to rules based international trade.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So how long you're down in Christchurch for, we'll be here.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
I'll be here till Friday evening. So I love this show.
I came here last year for the first time and
we've got a stand in joyance from Europe. So This
is called cheese diplomacy, and we like to introduce people
to our geographical denominations, so you can have cheese from
dem France, Italy. Come on over have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well I will, I will absolutely look at looking forward
to it. So how do you reckon is the world
economy on recovery or are we still kind of dragging
the chain because of a Trump tariff things? Has that
been a bit of a damp squab for our world
economy because I see he's getting a better heat at
home now, Well.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Of course, you know, I think the your opin Union
New Zealand are very clear. We want free trade and
that's why we've done a deal in the last two years.
Our commissioner will be over in Australia for something called
the CPTPP. That's the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpecific Partnership. Bit
of a mouthful, for what it really means is those
countries who believe in free trader getting together. There would
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be a big conversation going on and to give it
a boost because there's no doubt that it's better for farmers.
And when you can when you know they're seeing the
benefits of exporting to the Europe right now.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So when you're having a beer and I know you're
partial to one a bit like me, what what's you're
not allowed to try it? What?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What is your what's your poison of choice?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
What's my poison of choice? I U this this. I
lived twenty seven years in Belsum, the headquarters of the
European Union, and I've got one called the Howden Druk,
the Golden Dragon. Now look that one up. That's a
that gets you off to a flying starts the evening.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We'll have a taste of the Mackays, huh, because I
know you're a connor. Sure, and I'll just it's a
very crisp pelsner.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Very furious, a lot of lemon in that little here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The suns go well with cheese. There you go. So
we need to go over.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
To the Europe. You need to come over and tray
and matching.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well s your some makaisa for some of your cheese.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Got a deal pleasure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Hey, And of course we're right beside the ice cream
bloke here, he's beside us. He's trying to sell ice creams,
which is not an easy job today. I wouldn't think
in this weather. But I'll give him a shout out
and we might even get him on. He's he's a
brit as well or European should I say, Richard Parker,
who's the ice cream man beside us. He came in
here at ten o'clock, Lawrence, and.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
He should give him if you give him a paint
of rebel red if it'll be good for.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Him, we will. Indeed, Hey, it's so good to see
you again. And I'm looking forward to traveling up to
Wellington with the Emerson's Tiny Pub and.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We could get him cheers.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, we could get Winston along as well. He's always
got at those events.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Thanks so much for the Thanks so much for the
pleasure to see you again.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, got on you, Lawrence. Lawrence Meredith there who is
the EU Ambassador to New Zealand. We did really enjoy
his company at the New Zealand Primary Industry Awards in
this fine When was that that was July of this year.
We're going to be chatting to all sorts of people
for the rest of the hour. We've got some local
talent really looking forward to chatting to Tom Dobson, who
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is the president of the Boar Breeders Association. This is
all about high lux and hectares. Apparently, the girls come
along to find a husband, the blokes come along to
find a wife and they have a hell of a
lot of fun doing it. We'll tell you all about that.
We're going to take a break on the other side
of his Big Stelo here or Ross Hiland's here. There's
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a man I haven't seen for a number of years.
It'd be good to catch up with him. We'll talk
to Greg Menzies about the twenty twenty five Machaisa and
a whore Chef Farmer of the Year twenty twelve. And
Nikola Grigg's running around here somewhere as well. We're hoping
to catch up with her as well. It's all on
the country and it's all brought to you from the
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Canterbury Show, the Royal amp Show here in Christchurch. Welcome
back to the country from the Emerson's Tiny Pub at
the Canterbury amp Show, twenty one after twelve. While where
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there's bear, there's farmers, and where there's Farmers there's Big
stew Low. He's in for a second dig today. Ste
Thanks for coming in. I think we're going to get
your other farmer mate Stu Duncan, he's going to be
here tomorrow. But good rain, because I think you're going
to have to work tomorrow, are you? You will be
like a lot of farmers. There's a pretty good crowd here,
I reckon maybe because of this weather.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah, potentially. Yeah, there's not much to do back home
on the farm, so yeah, but a couple of last
panics to drill, so a bit of moisture so we'll
get some seed in the ground tomorrow, which a lot
of North Canbary and Canterbury's Yeah. Up the East coast
is really screaming out for now.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Earlier this morning, you took me along to the ball
Breeders Association event. Is that what you call it an event?
These young people, well young compared to us, breed a pig.
Does it have to be a bore?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think yeah, well I assume it does. But they
might be a sa section. I'm sure there is.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yes, okay, so that they breed a pig, but it's
kind of really just a giant booze up or social event,
to be perfectly honest, because they all get dressed up.
It is politically incorrect. Your daughter was there? Were you
worried about that's due.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That's why I'm not there there. Yeah, so no, no,
I think what happens tonight with the pig Breeders or
big vet ball tonight could be interesting. So we know
we won't won't attend that, but we'll drop her off
and carry on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is a real institution, isn't it. And for some
people would say that the Boar Breeders Association competition or
event is the highlight of the show.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, yeah, that seems that it's the only class or
I think in the in the shed there that's growing
and there's always interested. A couple might have got turned
away by the weather, but none. Someone started and it's
created a lot of interest, which is cool.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And they're in the big covered area there where all
the other the sheep and the cattle are all on display.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
There.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There's lots of animals and I know that livestock and
that's what David, Sir David Carter was really keen about
with the show. He wanted to get back to the
future and back to showing livestock because that's what AMP
shows are all about, exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah. So with the COVID and different things, Yeah, a
lot of shows and battle to weeb it and then yeah,
waiting for a bit of interest. But now if they
can create a bit of something new, something different, keep
the people coming.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I guess how are things are going on the farm,
because like all of Canterbury, you're getting a bit dry.
You might get twenty five mills out of this event,
which should be most welcome. But it's not a drought
or a dry spell breaker, is it?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No? But what happens next, So if we get a
bit of seed in the ground tomorrow, we'll look for
a follow up and sort of week to ten days.
But no, no, We've we had a pretty like everyone,
we had a tough, tough spring September. I think we
had fifteen meals of rain in a lot of cold wind.
So yeah, the clovers and stuff, and so all of
the young lambs that didn't really kick on. And I've
had a cup of drafts but waits it down. But
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the money's up, so you've got to get in. And
this week in my yeah, the Skagel Valley, there's been
store lambs leaving with traditionally fellows who finished them on
rape and stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And so when do you have your first wining draft
or if you had it.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I've had a bit of a skim draft. Skim draft,
so yeah, it'll be next end of the month. It'll
I have a really good peace.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So for your skim draft. And you still leave the
lambs on, mum deer the other the rum rain.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, just take off the big ones and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You take off the big ones. So what sort of
money are we talking?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Just under two hundred dollars, so yeah, it's been been
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, and just over the hill from you, I'll get
my North Canterbury geography correct, is like the Culvernin area
and they and they've been absolutely smashed by the one.
We're hearing stories of some of those pivot irrigators being
out of act until March.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, that's that's correct, because yeah, the your here of
sort of seven farms of seven pivots and five out
of action and things like that, so that they're going
to really struggle to grow some grass. But yeah, this
will this will be a short term fix, I guess,
but yeah, long term they're not going to get these
pivots replaced in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Two more questions for you Rugby and Bear will start
with the rugby. This England test is going to be
really it's obviously going to be the toughest one on
the tour. And you look at that England side and
they have named the side. They've got a bomb squad,
they've got a six to split on the bench and
they've gone with all the kickers. That's going to be
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an aerial assault. Have we got our back three right
or will we get our back three right? We don't
know the all Black team yet.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Hopefully, and I guess I don't like to say it,
but it will depend on who referees it too, I think,
and who officiates because sometimes if they can slow the
game down in the reft. One of the games I
saw in Inger's garden wanted to keep the game going
might have been the French so everygan game and he
wants to keep the game going, which which will help
us if we get a referee that wants to keep
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it moving. Those Northern Hemisphere teams just want to slow
it down and yeah, make it make it.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
A really looking forward to What do you make of
the twenty twenty five macaus. You get a box for
Christmas as well for being a loyal servant and a
loyal correspondent. By the way, I mean you're are you
a craft beer man or are you sort of more
lion brown man?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
No, i'd probably the green I love green bottles. Yeah,
but the you know, that's any beer that's freeze always
good beer. The shear is always like free beer when
you give it away what they've earned it though, exactly. Yeah,
we did a week it yused today and yeah I
did a lot of watching and not much doing.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So good good luck on the farm tomorrow getting some
of that seed into the ground and hopefully you get
some follow up runs. Stu dunk Stu Duncan. Stu Duncan
will be on the show tomorrow. I think his boy
was in the competition as well. Jeez, I hope he's
better behave than the old man. It is twenty seven
after twelve year with the country. I'll tell you what
I might do. I might just have it. We've got
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ross Hireland here and I want to talk to Greg
Mensis as well about what we're going to do with
the EU party in Wellington. Looking forward to that one
with Lawrence Nicola. Grigg's going to turn up Endohrer and
the highlight for me, perhaps maybe Studlow was Tom Dodson
we're going to talk about that Boar Breeders Association competition
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or event. We'll be back after the break. Welcome back
to the country, twenty nine after twelve, coming to you
from the Emerson's Tiny Pub at the Canterby Amp Show. Indeed,
it's a royal show. We've got political royalty here with us.
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Nicola Greg Can I call you that, Nichola?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
No, that's gad to.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
See you again. You're, of course the Minister of Horticulture,
amongst others. I am, what are you doing today?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Well, we've been at the National Party stand all day.
I've actually just come from the Ravens Down to lunch,
which I can recommend to any Ravens Down customers. They
need to get there quite quickly because it's a very
good lamb on today. No, but here at the show
for the next couple of days because it's obviously not
your home patch. It is my home page. One of
the biggest events in Canterbury and it's a really exciting
year to be here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So what is the next couple of days involved for you?
Speaker 7 (18:24):
A lot of political chat?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, but I mean you're walking amongst the converted here.
Let's be honest. This is where the Canterbury blue bloods come,
they'll all be national voters.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
They're not backwards in coming forwards the Canterbury folk. And look,
there's you know, we've done a hell of a lot
of work for agriculture and for rural communities, but you
know that story doesn't always get out there. So actually
our job is to go out there, talk about what
we're doing, what else we need to do, get the
feedback from on the ground, because that is the most
important part of it. We can't shake good policy unless
it's been directly fed into by actual farmers.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, well, not everybody likes this government, let's be honest about it,
especially if we look at the polls now, But farmer
would be moners if they moaned about the Coalition government,
because I don't know if you could be much more
farmer friendly than you have been.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Look I think so, I mean, it's not just about
being political and being farmer friendly quote unquote, but actually
we know that agriculture is the biggest driver of our
economic recovery, and so you know it stands to reason,
where is a government have to do what we can
to enable farming to be as productive and as profitable
as it possibly can be not just for the good
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of those farming businesses in their rural communities, but for
their country.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Didn't I see you on Telly or somewhere on social media?
Weren't you overseas somewhere?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I was in Malaysia with the Prime Minister a week
or so ago.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I saw you nodding in the background. Do you have
to just lux and say to you, you've got to
stand in the background and nod. I mean, I give
you know Grant McCullum, he's a very much a national backbencher,
of course, of not much significance, great friend of mine,
but he just stands in the background of nods.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Well, I know, but we're sort of about I don't know,
thirty five degrees and it felt like ninety nine percent humidity,
so I was trying not to sneeze because they had
sweat rivulets dribbling down my face and into my nose.
So I'm not sure I was nodding in all the
right places, but hopefully I did a good job at nodding.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Good well, I thought you were an excellent nodder. Hey,
what do you make of the like as the Taxpayer's
Union career pole that just came out recently which has
Labor ahead clearly by two or three points ahead of National.
But Labour's got a major, major issue. They're called to
party Mari.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It does, and we're still waiting on Chris Hipkins to
rule them in or rule them out. At the stage
that appears he's ruling them in. And I think that
any sensible New Zealander will be quite frightened by that
prospect because it, to me would look like a coalition
of absolute chaos. Look the poles of the poles they
jump around. We're very cognizant of the fact that that
we've come a long way from where we were when
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we took over government in terms of recovering the economy,
but there's still a long way to go. There's still
a lot of pain out there. There's still a lot
of pressure on families, and that translates into to how
they're feeling about about the government and its direction of travel.
But look, we think we've got a program in place,
we think we're doing all the right things. But as
I said earlier, we've got to make sure that we
are talking to New Zealanders all the time to make
sure we're.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Doing that, which is what you're doing at the show here, Nichola, Greg,
Are you worried about Winston flexing his muscles?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
No, I've got nothing but respect for Winston Peter's No.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That wasn't the question. I mean in terms of, Look,
he's done the eye we thing. He's digging his toes
in on asset sales obviously superannuations another one that he
won't budge on.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Look, there's a coalition deal in place that I think
our Prime Minister did an incredible job at pulling together.
Every party has got a little bit of what they wanted.
Every party knows they're not going to get everything that
they want. And look, those relationships I think are real
testament to the Prime Minister's skill at managing people and
personalities and political parties. And it's a very very strong coalition.
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We always know that they're going to be issues that
we don't necessarily agree on. We knew that going into it,
and I think you know, things are translating into an
incredible effort, incredible work program and end up rechieving a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Can I tempt you to just tap away sip of that?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It's the twenty twenty five mackayser, this is our bear.
We brew it with Emersons for the country. And are
you a person, Nichola, not really.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I mean I can pretend to be, but you can
pretend to be. You've got to I'm allowed to try it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yes, you're allowed to try it and have a we
sip and just say nice things about it, even if
you hate it. It's very crisp, very chris very crisp.
That's nice and cold, crisp and cold. There we go, Hey,
Nicola Grig, Minister of Horticulture and Associate agg thank you
very much for your time for wandering along here. It
is twenty six away from one. Hopefully Michelle and Dunedin
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Studios is ready with rural news and Andy McDonald paneling
the show out of Auckland has got those referee appointments
for the All Blacks game this weekend. So here's the
latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
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Speaker 3 (23:04):
Didn't you dodge that?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah, thanks Jamie for that. Just before I go into
rural news, just a reminder we've got this competition running
on air Facebook page to do with the launch of
the Mackaiser. You can win your sell five hundred dollars cash.
Just go comment on the page. It's on the Facebook
post on air Facebook page on the country and you're
in the draw. We're going to be announcing that winner tomorrow.
And Rural News, severe downpours, thunderstorms and strong wind gafts
(23:30):
up to one hundred kilometers an hour a set to
batter the North Island as an active weather system makes
its way south. The wild weather is set to return
to much of the North Island from this afternoon after
last week's sunshine, and a low pressure system will move
in and continue to cause disruption overnight and even threaten
to close the Auckland Harbor Bridge. But it does look
like Jamie that the weather down there in christ Stretch
(23:51):
is going to be okay tomorrow, am I on air?
You are indeed?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I can't hear myself. Yes, it is a better forecast
for tomorrow. It's people stay tomorrow and obviously a lot
of people turn up on Saturday as well, So thank you, Michelle.
That is Rural News. Let's see who's reffing the All
Blacks with Andy McDonald.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Sport on the country with AFCO one hundred percent QUI owned.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's rare, yes and sport.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Before we get to the refs. Blackcaps bowler Jacob Duffy
says there will be no room for lapses and concentration
in this afternoon's final T twenty against the West Indies
in Tonedan, with the smallest of era set to be
punished on the relatively small University Oval. The Warriors will
meet the defending champion Broncos as part of NRL's Magic
Round and Brisbane next year. The two clubs have been
pitted against each other in the Marquee Sunday fixture on
(24:42):
May seventeenth. Defending champion Yannick Sin has been in Alexander's
Veriev to qualify for the semifinals at Pardon Me at
Tennis's season ending atp Finals and Turin. And those refs.
Andrea Pirati is the referees from Italy. Luke Ramos from
France's AR One and I hope I pronounce this care directly.
Gian Luca Gnichi from Italy is the other ar that's sport, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, thanks Andy. Look, and we've just had Tom Dodson
wandering here from the Pig Breeders Association, looking forward to
this year. But this man's very, very busy. He's going
to get RSI pouring the pints here and the Emerson's
Tiny Pubs, Greg Mensie's marketing manager.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Greg.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
We do these all around the country. There's such a
lot of fun and how exciting would it be to
take this thing to Wellington for an EU function with Lawrence,
our good friend from the EU.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Hey, I do anything for the country if it helps
out with relations, we'll definitely be there.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, good on you. Hey, So who decides, because I've
only had my first taste like ten not ten minutes ago,
just at the top of the hour of this thing,
I wanted to try it fresh, sort of on air?
Who decides how you make it up? Each year we
know it's a pilsner and then you guys just have
a play with it.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Yeah, we just have a player with it. We just
try something new each year. This year we're kind of
going back to a beer that we brewed a couple
of years ago where we used hop oil. This year
we're using a hop called Matchawacre Hop and we add
the oil and right at the end, so you get
a real kind of hoppy flavor. And then this particularly
the case has turned out beautiful.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well it's very crisp and I'm a bit of a
crafty these days. Really boring, isn't it. Yeah, but I
do like the citrusy lemon sort of flavors. Actually, ross
Hireland asked whether you were using hops and you've said
they're from Nelson, but from Garston. The McNamee family down there.
You might remember there was a really good country calendar
program on them, great rugby playing family from the Athel
(26:37):
Garston area. Do you use their hops at all?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We do.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
Over the years, we've used their hops quite regularly. This
year the big beer that we did with them was
our fresh Hot beer. And the flavors of the hops
down there are amazing. They're really good, and obviously coming
from Southland, it's pretty amazing that you can grow hops
down that far and good hops.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So there's no rest at all for the wicked, namely you,
because you're here today with us, which is fantastic. We're
hoping to see plenty of farmers through the door. If
you're coming to the show this afternoon, you will be
here till about five won't we yep, So we want
you to come in and sample this. There's no strings
attached to it at all. But then it's off to
the races quite literally for you.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Yeah, back to the races though. We did Andington Races
on Tuesday, which was heaps of fun obviously at the
show today and then Ricket on Saturday and then take
it home again and then we're off down south in
a couple of weeks, which.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, where can we kind of officially fly this one? Well, well,
you phoned me up a couple of weeks ago and
you said you wanted to do something for the farmers
in the south who have been smacked by the wind.
So we can't.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
We haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We sort of finalized the venue, but we are going
to South Otago and you and your stable mate Spaces
are going to put on an afternoon for the farmers
and the local Lions Club is doing a barbecue. It's
all laid on and it's just a way for Emersons
and Spots to say, look, we're thinking of you.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Yeah, well I think it's a it's a good opportunity
to go and give back. I mean a lot of
these farmers go into pubs around the place and drank
a lot of Emersons and spates, so it's good for
us to give back. And she's a funny story of
the tiny pub that we're in at the moment. We
were smacked around by the wind a little bit as well.
Picked the big gust that came through Dedad and picked
this up and drove it into into a fence.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So yeah, it was the park at the back of
the park.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Out of the back of the brewery.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
So yeah, so we've had a bit of a crisis
as well, but nothing like the farmers have gone through.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And just to put that into context, and zac Av,
which is just next door to where the Emerson's Brewery
is in terned and there were big oak trees I
think they were oak trees that were blown over, and
and zac Av has been there for over one hundred years.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Yeah, it was an incredible gust of wind. I mean
this the pub weighs three and a half time. It
had its brakes on, so there's be another ton of
pressure on that so it just yeah, it dragged it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So I must have some hairy moments driving this around
the country.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I don't drive it, no, someone else says, job.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
All right, Greg, you're a champion bloke. I don't know
how missus Mensies puts up with you because you're never
at home, but we appreciate the association. We're going to
take a break here on the country. It is nineteen
away from one up next to Ross Island and we've
got end of whore No, hang on, no, I've got
to get Tom the pig Man first, so we've got
these three guys to go before the end of the show.
(29:22):
We'll be back after the break, righty, I welcome back
to the country. It is seventeen away from one. This
is the man I've been waiting to talk to. Tom Dodson,
PGG Rights and Livestock Agent and North Canterby. But for
(29:44):
the purposes of today's chat, Tom, you are the president
of the Boar Breeders Association. This is just a giant
booze up and a party.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
I wouldn't quite go that far, Jamie's would.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
From what I saw this morning, I thought it was glorious.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Very social occasion will go that far, and people do
have a lot of fun. But that's what we're all about.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So what's the connection with the pigs?
Speaker 11 (30:09):
Wow, it's just it's just an excuse to have a
bit of fun. Really, it's just something that's come about.
We had our tenth anniversary last year and eleventh year obviously,
and here people, a group of people that have now
moved on started the occasion and said, why don't we
get a group of people together and breed some pigs
and make a show out of it, because at that
(30:30):
stage there's no pig section of the show, and now
there is, and it's continued on. It's gone bigger and
bigger every year.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So they say, where it's young people like yourself go
along to find a husband and or a wife or
goodness knows what these days for non binaries. I'm not
quite sure on that one, but it's all about high
lux and hector. So you all get dressed up and
you have a best dress competition and I'm assuming you know,
a lot of them have probably got a background at
Lincoln or Massy or something like that. But they're people
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from the land, are they town there's.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
A bit of mix of both. I think in the
last probably five years that's actually progressed a wee bit
and there's been a few more people that are working,
probably in the rural sector, but working in town and
have always been in town that have that have started
to come along and be a part of it. But
the bulk of the people there here, I mean there's
a lot of people up there today from North Canterbury
and that sort of Yeah that the driver behind it
(31:23):
really is is those rural people coming into town having
a bit of fun and it's perfect that the races
and don't you have.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Like the Pig Breeders Ball tonight.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Yes, that's right, We've got the ball tonight, yeah, which
will be a bit of fun. So that that starts
at seven o'clock to night at Churchill's teven and sitting
in there. So that's every year we've had had the
ball and it's it's a great occasion and subsidized drinks
and a bit of free food to save everyone up
for a week while and then we get into it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So where you go again, it's like painting the London
Bred finishing. It's time to go back to the start.
Just before I let you go, just wearing your PGG
rights and hat you're a live stock agent in North Canterbury.
We know there's a lot of damage in the in
that basin in there. How is the rest of the
area Fairing.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
Yeah, COVID and that is we're all pretty probably heard
it that the pivots over there, but that the trees
as well. I mean, you're just sort of talking to
guys there now that have just done to put a
dent in it. And there's still a long way to go,
and especially in the middle of lambing or tailing, not
having stockproof fences makes a bit of a difference. That
makes it challenging for people. So it's getting better. But yeah,
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we didn't have the damage and hard or anything like
that they saw in Coved and well.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Tom Dodson, President of the Boar Breeders Association, I wish
I could turn back time to nineteen eighty two when
I actually this bloke I'm going to talk to next.
Was it Lincoln in the seventies, but in nineteen eighty
two I would have been in boots and all for that.
I think you guys are having a great time, so
well done. Yeah, that's great coming. So I've got to
try a Makaysa. There we go, There we go, Tom Doddson,
We're going to take a break on the other side
(32:54):
of I think he was the gold medalist for the
Commerce Class of nineteen seventy helped me out Ross Fort
nineteen seventy four. That's how old he is. He's done
very well in business. He's got a new business he's
launching here at the show. We have Ross Highland next
on the Country, ten away from one coming to you
(33:18):
live from the Canterbury amp Show, Royal Show Ross Highland.
I was saying, I wanted to turn back the clock
to nineteen eighty two and go along and be one
of those young people at the pig Breeders bore Ball
or whatever they call you go back at Lincoln further
than I do. What was it the gold Medalist Top
Commerce Student of the Year of class seventy four. Well,
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that makes you of an age where you should be
retired and just playing golf. Why are you at your
age and stage launching a brand new business.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Well, it's actually taken about four and a half years
to get here, Jamie, So I started.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
When I was a little bit younger. But yeah, I
probably should have retired.
Speaker 12 (33:54):
But I just love what I'm doing and love farmers,
and I think that we've got a product that is
going to really really benefit farming and farmers across the country.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Okay, it's called grow pe. And if you get too
commercial on me being here, Ben Humphrey, who's in charge
talk for us, will probably send you an invoice. Give
me the concise version of what you.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Do first you send the invoice to Renata. But apart
from that, we're a finance and payments app, Jamie. So
we saw a real gap in the market. We think
that the banking system and everybody knows that despite what
you hear, the banks have been creaming it from New
(34:36):
Zealand farmers for decades and still and that will continue,
all right. And so we are effectively brokering finance or
we're referring finance, so we do have a wholesale funding
partnership with different financiers. We also will be brokering payments
and being able to aggregate payments, so we're targeting the
(34:58):
top ten or twenty inputs arms spend their money on,
you know, as well as with master Card, Heartland Banks,
Bears Finance. We've parted with the likes of X and
Mobile and so we'll have our own fuel card. We've
partnered with a on Agri. Numerous other companies are jumping
on board because they see that we're going to drive
(35:20):
a completely disruptive.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
More Well, it's one thing being disruptive, but if you
really want some custom, you need to be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Better, Yeah, and we'll definitely be better. We're all about
better deals for farmers, all right. So that's our mantra,
driving better deals for farmers. Now, whether that's we won't
be able to match the giveaway interest rates that you
often get with tractors or utes and things like that,
but the simple reality is we will put in place
a better deal for the farmer. We'll spread it over
(35:49):
a longer term, you know, useful life of a machine,
not two years at bloody two percent interest rate and
then kill you off because you can't afford the payments.
So it's those sorts of things that we're doing. It's
all about giving farmer's choice. It's not about bundling all
your loans and all your mortgages and all your securities
and one we're about giving farmer's choice.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So you had a soft launch down on Mosborn.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
I did.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
That's my home page or near it, south by Mosburn.
Speaker 12 (36:16):
I think that Mosbn's just it was really just a
test ground for us, Jamie. I just love those Southland farmers.
As you know, Mosburn's very central. We had farmers coming
all the way from Bellcluther to way down the other
side of Blackmount, so you know it was a great
spot really and lots of telling questions. As you know,
farmers are sort of the ultimate cynic. So you get
(36:39):
into a hall of farmers in Mosbourn and you know
you're going to get put through the ringer. And I
think we came out with flying.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
People want to find out more about grow pay. Where
do they go? Is getting close to sending you an
invoice too, By.
Speaker 12 (36:51):
The way, grow pay dot io or www dot grow
Pai dot io, all the informations there.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You're a great man Ross Island to see you enjoy Makaisa.
We're going to We're going to take a break and
come back and wrap it from day one of the
Canterbury Amp Show. Yeah, wrapping the show from day one
of the Canterby Amp Show. It's the blind leading the
blind here, I said to Greg Mensis from Mensies. It's
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the free for all at Addington tomorrow. That's the see.
I don't know the front end of a horse from
the back end. Had a very bad experience with the
horse Racing Syndicate. But that's the Trots, the or the Pacers.
That's tomorrow. And of course you're going to Ricketon, Ricketon
on Saturday, which is the Gallops.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Right it is the Gallops.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
Yeah, yeah, it is the Blindly in the blind like
I go where I'm told to go. So it's Ricketton Saturday.
And yeah, we did the Addington thing. We actually did
a beer. I have to show you this beer that
we did. It's called Being.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
You've got thirty seconds there, Greg.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
All right, we did this beer for Addington. It's called
the Trots.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Hey. Then that reminds me of a classic beer that
came out in the seventh's down on Southland. It was
called Southland Bitter.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think dB might have made it. I'm not pointing fingers,
but it was known by the locals as Southland Skitter
for very very good reasons. We'll catch you back again
from here tomorrow. Take care, catch.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Goody, and good afternoon, New Zealand. Hopefully we're on across
New Zealand. It's some technical difficulties here on day one
of the Canterbury A and P Show, the Royal Amp Show.
We're going to cast one thousands to talk to between
now and the end of there. Sir David Carter, one
of the people behind the resurgence of this weather's not
(00:58):
flash today, but the farmers are pretty happy with the rain.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's a great rain and the rain at this time
for the livestock guys in Canterbury is just worth millions
of dollars. So the crowd's still here. The farmers don't mind.
They can come off the farm and enjoy it at
the show. What we want is two good days tomorrow
and the next day, and the forecast says we're going
to get them.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I wore my dress William's boots. I actually have
a set especially for field days. They're old ones. I
think I got the wrong ones on today, David.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Well, you should have watched the forecast, chairman, it's your fault. Well,
I've got my R and Williams on and they're holding
up pretty well. It's pretty money out there, honest add.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But yeah, well we're good forecast I think for tomorrow
and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, Friday and Saturday will be good.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And of course there are two public holidays here in Canterbury,
so we're looking forward to a strong show.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, okay, so despite the inclement weather, and as to say,
it is welcomed, it will be welcomed by all the farmers,
and a lot of them are here today. I've run
into so many already. This is a pretty good crowd,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I'm really happy with it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The farmers, as I say, will take the day off.
They don't do much farming today. Come into the Canterbury Show.
Lots of livestock here to see, lots of exhibits, the
trade exhibits numbers are well up. One competition, the wooll Expo.
There's plenty of things for people to do.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Have you been down to the Boar Breeders Association competition
this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I that is.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I haven't got there yet, but it's on my list
to do. There's just so much to see, but I'll
make my way down there.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, it's all fun and games. It's terribly politically incorrect.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, that's what it should be. It should be fun
and games. That's what the Cannibury Show used to be
when I came as a teenager. Probably Jamie was here
at the same time, when he.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Was at Lincoln. Probably some memories you don't want to
recall publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, there was no social media in those days, so it.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Didn't think thank god it is, otherwise you might not
have got the job you're doing today.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, okay, David. So we are broadcasting, of course, from
the Emerson's Tiny Pub that's my second home, this place.
Greg Mensis and the team are here, and we're here
for the launch of the twenty twenty five Mackay's. It's
a very crisp pilsner and we're going to make you
just sample a wheat taste. Greg will just pour you
on because of all. So, I got another special guest
(03:01):
who needs no invite to have a bear. This is
the EU Ambassador to New Zealand, Lawrence Meritith. Last time
I ran into Lawrence was after the primary Industry Awards
and Lawrence was still looking for a bar halfway through
the middle of the morning. Great man, We're going to
chat to him shortly, David, what do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That's a very enjoyable personer loving it. You might have
to stay for another one.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Jamie, Well, you're most welcome to Are you a craft
beer man?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I don't drink as much bear as I used to
when I was a Lincoln student like you more wine
at the moment, but that's a superbose and I'm loving
it now.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think we chatted to you, what was it last
week or earlier earlier this week, and I was asking
you about how you were getting on on the Banks Peninsula.
You said it's getting a bit dry. I hear this
going to be like twenty five miles of rain out
of this event, so that'll be most welcome.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, and sounds to me like North Canterby's getting it
well too, And they were really dry.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you feel for the guys at.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The stage, their livestock, for owners, they're getting towards their winning.
This rain will just give them that much more comfort.
So it's disrupted the show a little bit, but what
it does for Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
They used to talk about a million dollar rain. This
is a multimillion dollar rain. Go for it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, sir David. I'll let you go
because I know you. Just enjoy the rest of your
person and we'll chuck those cans on the EU Ambassador's head,
Lawrence Meredith, chuck those on. It is eleven after twelve.
We're going to be chatting to all sorts of people,
including Tom Dodson, who is the He's the Bore Breeders
(04:30):
Association President. Gloriously politically incorrect. He's a stock agent with
PGG rights and in North Canterbury. Tom Dodson coming up
on the show Stu Low but a local farming talent
Endahoor Sheer Farmer of the Year, Shrewalker of the Year
and twenty twelve Greg Menzies of course from Emerson's Ross
Highland and of course this man, Lawrence Meredith. Lawrence, you
(04:54):
love the Emerson's Tiny Pub.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I think it's fantastic. He's got it's captured this authentic
pub look that's so important, and it's got a really
good atmosphere and bring some soul to the heart of
this fantastic royal amp Canterbury Show.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So you already trying to cut a deal with Greek
means he's here from Emerson's to get the tiny pub
up for a EU gathering in Wellington.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Listen here we're here doing cheese diplomacy, but I see
some potential for beer diplomacy. As a good irishman, I
think we've got one of our strong bonds with New
Zealand is rugby. And who wouldn't have a paint when
you're watching a good match?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Were you a wee bit disappointed with your Irish side
in Chicago?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Listen, it's early days. Let's wait for the World Cup.
Never say never, Hope springs eternal, Jamie so and what.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You are the EU ambassador to New Zealand. The Free
Trader Agreement as I see it anyhow, it's been very
good for New.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Zealand, fantastic, very good for Europe too. Looking at from
a New Zealand perspective, we already see two billion dollar
increase in it sports to the European Union. That's simply phenomenal.
I think smashes even the best forecasts and shows how
important it is to do trade with trusted partners. And
we're you know, having taken the tariffs off, you see
a big boost in exports, whether it's Kiwi fruit, whether
(06:16):
it's a very good bounce on sheep meat and also
on butter.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Talking about trusted trading partners. How are you guys, how's
the How are you guys in Europe getting along with Trump?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, listen, what's more important is that we've reached out
and had the first ever EU New Zealand Business Summit,
opened by the Prime Minister of Good Christ Church Man
Upper a couple of weeks ago, five hundred top EU
business EU and Kiwi business people, and we had our
Trade commission at Mariaschevchivich over. So I think what we're
(06:46):
seeing is we believe in tariff free trade and SODA's
New Zealand and that's why the visit of Trade Commissioner
Maryashevtvich was so important. And we're working for those who
are strongly committed to rules based international trade.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So how long you're down in Christchurch for, we'll be here.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
I'll be here till Friday evening. So I love this show.
I came here last year for the first time and
we've got a stand in joyance from Europe. So This
is called cheese diplomacy, and we like to introduce people
to our geographical denominations, so you can have cheese from
dem France, Italy. Come on over have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well I will, I will absolutely look at looking forward
to it. So how do you reckon is the world
economy on recovery or are we still kind of dragging
the chain because of a Trump tariff things? Has that
been a bit of a damp squab for our world
economy because I see he's getting a better heat at
home now, Well.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Of course, you know, I think the your opin Union
New Zealand are very clear. We want free trade and
that's why we've done a deal in the last two years.
Our commissioner will be over in Australia for something called
the CPTPP. That's the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpecific Partnership. Bit
of a mouthful, for what it really means is those
countries who believe in free trader getting together. There would
(08:03):
be a big conversation going on and to give it
a boost because there's no doubt that it's better for farmers.
And when you can when you know they're seeing the
benefits of exporting to the Europe right now.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So when you're having a beer and I know you're
partial to one a bit like me, what what's you're
not allowed to try it? What?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What is your what's your poison of choice?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
What's my poison of choice? I U this this. I
lived twenty seven years in Belsum, the headquarters of the
European Union, and I've got one called the Howden Druk,
the Golden Dragon. Now look that one up. That's a
that gets you off to a flying starts the evening.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We'll have a taste of the Mackays, huh, because I
know you're a connor. Sure, and I'll just it's a
very crisp pelsner.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Very furious, a lot of lemon in that little here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The suns go well with cheese. There you go. So
we need to go over.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
To the Europe. You need to come over and tray
and matching.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well s your some makaisa for some of your cheese.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Got a deal pleasure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Hey, And of course we're right beside the ice cream
bloke here, he's beside us. He's trying to sell ice creams,
which is not an easy job today. I wouldn't think
in this weather. But I'll give him a shout out
and we might even get him on. He's he's a
brit as well or European should I say, Richard Parker,
who's the ice cream man beside us. He came in
here at ten o'clock, Lawrence, and.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
He should give him if you give him a paint
of rebel red if it'll be good for.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Him, we will. Indeed, Hey, it's so good to see
you again. And I'm looking forward to traveling up to
Wellington with the Emerson's Tiny Pub and.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We could get him cheers.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, we could get Winston along as well. He's always
got at those events.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Thanks so much for the Thanks so much for the
pleasure to see you again.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, got on you, Lawrence. Lawrence Meredith there who is
the EU Ambassador to New Zealand. We did really enjoy
his company at the New Zealand Primary Industry Awards in
this fine When was that that was July of this year.
We're going to be chatting to all sorts of people
for the rest of the hour. We've got some local
talent really looking forward to chatting to Tom Dobson, who
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is the president of the Boar Breeders Association. This is
all about high lux and hectares. Apparently, the girls come
along to find a husband, the blokes come along to
find a wife and they have a hell of a
lot of fun doing it. We'll tell you all about that.
We're going to take a break on the other side
of his Big Stelo here or Ross Hiland's here. There's
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a man I haven't seen for a number of years.
It'd be good to catch up with him. We'll talk
to Greg Menzies about the twenty twenty five Machaisa and
a whore Chef Farmer of the Year twenty twelve. And
Nikola Grigg's running around here somewhere as well. We're hoping
to catch up with her as well. It's all on
the country and it's all brought to you from the
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Canterbury Show, the Royal amp Show here in Christchurch. Welcome
back to the country from the Emerson's Tiny Pub at
the Canterbury amp Show, twenty one after twelve. While where
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there's bear, there's farmers, and where there's Farmers there's Big
stew Low. He's in for a second dig today. Ste
Thanks for coming in. I think we're going to get
your other farmer mate Stu Duncan, he's going to be
here tomorrow. But good rain, because I think you're going
to have to work tomorrow, are you? You will be
like a lot of farmers. There's a pretty good crowd here,
I reckon maybe because of this weather.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yeah, potentially. Yeah, there's not much to do back home
on the farm, so yeah, but a couple of last
panics to drill, so a bit of moisture so we'll
get some seed in the ground tomorrow, which a lot
of North Canbary and Canterbury's Yeah. Up the East coast
is really screaming out for now.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Earlier this morning, you took me along to the ball
Breeders Association event. Is that what you call it an event?
These young people, well young compared to us, breed a pig.
Does it have to be a bore?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think yeah, well I assume it does. But they
might be a sa section. I'm sure there is.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yes, okay, so that they breed a pig, but it's
kind of really just a giant booze up or social event,
to be perfectly honest, because they all get dressed up.
It is politically incorrect. Your daughter was there? Were you
worried about that's due.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That's why I'm not there there. Yeah, so no, no,
I think what happens tonight with the pig Breeders or
big vet ball tonight could be interesting. So we know
we won't won't attend that, but we'll drop her off
and carry on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is a real institution, isn't it. And for some
people would say that the Boar Breeders Association competition or
event is the highlight of the show.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, yeah, that seems that it's the only class or
I think in the in the shed there that's growing
and there's always interested. A couple might have got turned
away by the weather, but none. Someone started and it's
created a lot of interest, which is cool.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And they're in the big covered area there where all
the other the sheep and the cattle are all on display.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
There.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There's lots of animals and I know that livestock and
that's what David, Sir David Carter was really keen about
with the show. He wanted to get back to the
future and back to showing livestock because that's what AMP
shows are all about, exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah. So with the COVID and different things, Yeah, a
lot of shows and battle to weeb it and then yeah,
waiting for a bit of interest. But now if they
can create a bit of something new, something different, keep
the people coming.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I guess how are things are going on the farm,
because like all of Canterbury, you're getting a bit dry.
You might get twenty five mills out of this event,
which should be most welcome. But it's not a drought
or a dry spell breaker, is it?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No? But what happens next, So if we get a
bit of seed in the ground tomorrow, we'll look for
a follow up and sort of week to ten days.
But no, no, We've we had a pretty like everyone,
we had a tough, tough spring September. I think we
had fifteen meals of rain in a lot of cold wind.
So yeah, the clovers and stuff, and so all of
the young lambs that didn't really kick on. And I've
had a cup of drafts but waits it down. But
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the money's up, so you've got to get in. And
this week in my yeah, the Skagel Valley, there's been
store lambs leaving with traditionally fellows who finished them on
rape and stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And so when do you have your first wining draft
or if you had it.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I've had a bit of a skim draft. Skim draft,
so yeah, it'll be next end of the month. It'll
I have a really good peace.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So for your skim draft. And you still leave the
lambs on, mum deer the other the rum rain.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, just take off the big ones and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You take off the big ones. So what sort of
money are we talking?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Just under two hundred dollars, so yeah, it's been been
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, and just over the hill from you, I'll get
my North Canterbury geography correct, is like the Culvernin area
and they and they've been absolutely smashed by the one.
We're hearing stories of some of those pivot irrigators being
out of act until March.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, that's that's correct, because yeah, the your here of
sort of seven farms of seven pivots and five out
of action and things like that, so that they're going
to really struggle to grow some grass. But yeah, this
will this will be a short term fix, I guess,
but yeah, long term they're not going to get these
pivots replaced in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Two more questions for you Rugby and Bear will start
with the rugby. This England test is going to be
really it's obviously going to be the toughest one on
the tour. And you look at that England side and
they have named the side. They've got a bomb squad,
they've got a six to split on the bench and
they've gone with all the kickers. That's going to be
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an aerial assault. Have we got our back three right
or will we get our back three right? We don't
know the all Black team yet.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Hopefully, and I guess I don't like to say it,
but it will depend on who referees it too, I think,
and who officiates because sometimes if they can slow the
game down in the reft. One of the games I
saw in Inger's garden wanted to keep the game going
might have been the French so everygan game and he
wants to keep the game going, which which will help
us if we get a referee that wants to keep
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it moving. Those Northern Hemisphere teams just want to slow
it down and yeah, make it make it.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
A really looking forward to What do you make of
the twenty twenty five macaus. You get a box for
Christmas as well for being a loyal servant and a
loyal correspondent. By the way, I mean you're are you
a craft beer man or are you sort of more
lion brown man?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
No, i'd probably the green I love green bottles. Yeah,
but the you know, that's any beer that's freeze always
good beer. The shear is always like free beer when
you give it away what they've earned it though, exactly. Yeah,
we did a week it yused today and yeah I
did a lot of watching and not much doing.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So good good luck on the farm tomorrow getting some
of that seed into the ground and hopefully you get
some follow up runs. Stu dunk Stu Duncan. Stu Duncan
will be on the show tomorrow. I think his boy
was in the competition as well. Jeez, I hope he's
better behave than the old man. It is twenty seven
after twelve year with the country. I'll tell you what
I might do. I might just have it. We've got
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ross Hireland here and I want to talk to Greg
Mensis as well about what we're going to do with
the EU party in Wellington. Looking forward to that one
with Lawrence Nicola. Grigg's going to turn up Endohrer and
the highlight for me, perhaps maybe Studlow was Tom Dodson
we're going to talk about that Boar Breeders Association competition
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or event. We'll be back after the break. Welcome back
to the country, twenty nine after twelve, coming to you
from the Emerson's Tiny Pub at the Canterby Amp Show. Indeed,
it's a royal show. We've got political royalty here with us.
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Nicola Greg Can I call you that, Nichola?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
No, that's gad to.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
See you again. You're, of course the Minister of Horticulture,
amongst others. I am, what are you doing today?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Well, we've been at the National Party stand all day.
I've actually just come from the Ravens Down to lunch,
which I can recommend to any Ravens Down customers. They
need to get there quite quickly because it's a very
good lamb on today. No, but here at the show
for the next couple of days because it's obviously not
your home patch. It is my home page. One of
the biggest events in Canterbury and it's a really exciting
year to be here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So what is the next couple of days involved for you?
Speaker 7 (18:24):
A lot of political chat?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, but I mean you're walking amongst the converted here.
Let's be honest. This is where the Canterbury blue bloods come,
they'll all be national voters.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
They're not backwards in coming forwards the Canterbury folk. And look,
there's you know, we've done a hell of a lot
of work for agriculture and for rural communities, but you
know that story doesn't always get out there. So actually
our job is to go out there, talk about what
we're doing, what else we need to do, get the
feedback from on the ground, because that is the most
important part of it. We can't shake good policy unless
it's been directly fed into by actual farmers.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, well, not everybody likes this government, let's be honest about it,
especially if we look at the polls now, But farmer
would be moners if they moaned about the Coalition government,
because I don't know if you could be much more
farmer friendly than you have been.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Look I think so, I mean, it's not just about
being political and being farmer friendly quote unquote, but actually
we know that agriculture is the biggest driver of our
economic recovery, and so you know it stands to reason,
where is a government have to do what we can
to enable farming to be as productive and as profitable
as it possibly can be not just for the good
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of those farming businesses in their rural communities, but for
their country.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Didn't I see you on Telly or somewhere on social media?
Weren't you overseas somewhere?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I was in Malaysia with the Prime Minister a week
or so ago.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I saw you nodding in the background. Do you have
to just lux and say to you, you've got to
stand in the background and nod. I mean, I give
you know Grant McCullum, he's a very much a national backbencher,
of course, of not much significance, great friend of mine,
but he just stands in the background of nods.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Well, I know, but we're sort of about I don't know,
thirty five degrees and it felt like ninety nine percent humidity,
so I was trying not to sneeze because they had
sweat rivulets dribbling down my face and into my nose.
So I'm not sure I was nodding in all the
right places, but hopefully I did a good job at nodding.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Good well, I thought you were an excellent nodder. Hey,
what do you make of the like as the Taxpayer's
Union career pole that just came out recently which has
Labor ahead clearly by two or three points ahead of National.
But Labour's got a major, major issue. They're called to
party Mari.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It does, and we're still waiting on Chris Hipkins to
rule them in or rule them out. At the stage
that appears he's ruling them in. And I think that
any sensible New Zealander will be quite frightened by that
prospect because it, to me would look like a coalition
of absolute chaos. Look the poles of the poles they
jump around. We're very cognizant of the fact that that
we've come a long way from where we were when
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we took over government in terms of recovering the economy,
but there's still a long way to go. There's still
a lot of pain out there. There's still a lot
of pressure on families, and that translates into to how
they're feeling about about the government and its direction of travel.
But look, we think we've got a program in place,
we think we're doing all the right things. But as
I said earlier, we've got to make sure that we
are talking to New Zealanders all the time to make
sure we're.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Doing that, which is what you're doing at the show here, Nichola, Greg,
Are you worried about Winston flexing his muscles?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
No, I've got nothing but respect for Winston Peter's No.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That wasn't the question. I mean in terms of, Look,
he's done the eye we thing. He's digging his toes
in on asset sales obviously superannuations another one that he
won't budge on.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Look, there's a coalition deal in place that I think
our Prime Minister did an incredible job at pulling together.
Every party has got a little bit of what they wanted.
Every party knows they're not going to get everything that
they want. And look, those relationships I think are real
testament to the Prime Minister's skill at managing people and
personalities and political parties. And it's a very very strong coalition.
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We always know that they're going to be issues that
we don't necessarily agree on. We knew that going into it,
and I think you know, things are translating into an
incredible effort, incredible work program and end up rechieving a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Can I tempt you to just tap away sip of that?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It's the twenty twenty five mackayser, this is our bear.
We brew it with Emersons for the country. And are
you a person, Nichola, not really.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I mean I can pretend to be, but you can
pretend to be. You've got to I'm allowed to try it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yes, you're allowed to try it and have a we
sip and just say nice things about it, even if
you hate it. It's very crisp, very chris very crisp.
That's nice and cold, crisp and cold. There we go, Hey,
Nicola Grig, Minister of Horticulture and Associate agg thank you
very much for your time for wandering along here. It
is twenty six away from one. Hopefully Michelle and Dunedin
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Studios is ready with rural news and Andy McDonald paneling
the show out of Auckland has got those referee appointments
for the All Blacks game this weekend. So here's the
latest and rural news.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The countries, World news with cold get at New Zealand's
leading line on lawn bower bread, visit steel Ford dot
Cot for your local stockers.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Didn't you dodge that?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah, thanks Jamie for that. Just before I go into
rural news, just a reminder we've got this competition running
on air Facebook page to do with the launch of
the Mackaiser. You can win your sell five hundred dollars cash.
Just go comment on the page. It's on the Facebook
post on air Facebook page on the country and you're
in the draw. We're going to be announcing that winner tomorrow.
And Rural News, severe downpours, thunderstorms and strong wind gafts
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up to one hundred kilometers an hour a set to
batter the North Island as an active weather system makes
its way south. The wild weather is set to return
to much of the North Island from this afternoon after
last week's sunshine, and a low pressure system will move
in and continue to cause disruption overnight and even threaten
to close the Auckland Harbor Bridge. But it does look
like Jamie that the weather down there in christ Stretch
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is going to be okay tomorrow, am I on air?
You are indeed?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I can't hear myself. Yes, it is a better forecast
for tomorrow. It's people stay tomorrow and obviously a lot
of people turn up on Saturday as well, So thank you, Michelle.
That is Rural News. Let's see who's reffing the All
Blacks with Andy McDonald.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Sport on the country with AFCO one hundred percent QUI owned.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's rare, yes and sport.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Before we get to the refs. Blackcaps bowler Jacob Duffy
says there will be no room for lapses and concentration
in this afternoon's final T twenty against the West Indies
in Tonedan, with the smallest of era set to be
punished on the relatively small University Oval. The Warriors will
meet the defending champion Broncos as part of NRL's Magic
Round and Brisbane next year. The two clubs have been
pitted against each other in the Marquee Sunday fixture on
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May seventeenth. Defending champion Yannick Sin has been in Alexander's
Veriev to qualify for the semifinals at Pardon Me at
Tennis's season ending atp Finals and Turin. And those refs.
Andrea Pirati is the referees from Italy. Luke Ramos from
France's AR One and I hope I pronounce this care directly.
Gian Luca Gnichi from Italy is the other ar that's sport, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, thanks Andy. Look, and we've just had Tom Dodson
wandering here from the Pig Breeders Association, looking forward to
this year. But this man's very, very busy. He's going
to get RSI pouring the pints here and the Emerson's
Tiny Pubs, Greg Mensie's marketing manager.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Greg.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
We do these all around the country. There's such a
lot of fun and how exciting would it be to
take this thing to Wellington for an EU function with Lawrence,
our good friend from the EU.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Hey, I do anything for the country if it helps
out with relations, we'll definitely be there.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, good on you. Hey, So who decides, because I've
only had my first taste like ten not ten minutes ago,
just at the top of the hour of this thing,
I wanted to try it fresh, sort of on air?
Who decides how you make it up? Each year we
know it's a pilsner and then you guys just have
a play with it.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Yeah, we just have a player with it. We just
try something new each year. This year we're kind of
going back to a beer that we brewed a couple
of years ago where we used hop oil. This year
we're using a hop called Matchawacre Hop and we add
the oil and right at the end, so you get
a real kind of hoppy flavor. And then this particularly
the case has turned out beautiful.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well it's very crisp and I'm a bit of a
crafty these days. Really boring, isn't it. Yeah, but I
do like the citrusy lemon sort of flavors. Actually, ross
Hireland asked whether you were using hops and you've said
they're from Nelson, but from Garston. The McNamee family down there.
You might remember there was a really good country calendar
program on them, great rugby playing family from the Athel
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Garston area. Do you use their hops at all?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We do.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
Over the years, we've used their hops quite regularly. This
year the big beer that we did with them was
our fresh Hot beer. And the flavors of the hops
down there are amazing. They're really good, and obviously coming
from Southland, it's pretty amazing that you can grow hops
down that far and good hops.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So there's no rest at all for the wicked, namely you,
because you're here today with us, which is fantastic. We're
hoping to see plenty of farmers through the door. If
you're coming to the show this afternoon, you will be
here till about five won't we yep, So we want
you to come in and sample this. There's no strings
attached to it at all. But then it's off to
the races quite literally for you.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Yeah, back to the races though. We did Andington Races
on Tuesday, which was heaps of fun obviously at the
show today and then Ricket on Saturday and then take
it home again and then we're off down south in
a couple of weeks, which.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, where can we kind of officially fly this one? Well, well,
you phoned me up a couple of weeks ago and
you said you wanted to do something for the farmers
in the south who have been smacked by the wind.
So we can't.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
We haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We sort of finalized the venue, but we are going
to South Otago and you and your stable mate Spaces
are going to put on an afternoon for the farmers
and the local Lions Club is doing a barbecue. It's
all laid on and it's just a way for Emersons
and Spots to say, look, we're thinking of you.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Yeah, well I think it's a it's a good opportunity
to go and give back. I mean a lot of
these farmers go into pubs around the place and drank
a lot of Emersons and spates, so it's good for
us to give back. And she's a funny story of
the tiny pub that we're in at the moment. We
were smacked around by the wind a little bit as well.
Picked the big gust that came through Dedad and picked
this up and drove it into into a fence.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So yeah, it was the park at the back of
the park.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Out of the back of the brewery.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
So yeah, so we've had a bit of a crisis
as well, but nothing like the farmers have gone through.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And just to put that into context, and zac Av,
which is just next door to where the Emerson's Brewery
is in terned and there were big oak trees I
think they were oak trees that were blown over, and
and zac Av has been there for over one hundred years.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Yeah, it was an incredible gust of wind. I mean
this the pub weighs three and a half time. It
had its brakes on, so there's be another ton of
pressure on that so it just yeah, it dragged it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So I must have some hairy moments driving this around
the country.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I don't drive it, no, someone else says, job.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
All right, Greg, you're a champion bloke. I don't know
how missus Mensies puts up with you because you're never
at home, but we appreciate the association. We're going to
take a break here on the country. It is nineteen
away from one up next to Ross Island and we've
got end of whore No, hang on, no, I've got
to get Tom the pig Man first, so we've got
these three guys to go before the end of the show.
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We'll be back after the break, righty, I welcome back
to the country. It is seventeen away from one. This
is the man I've been waiting to talk to. Tom Dodson,
PGG Rights and Livestock Agent and North Canterby. But for
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the purposes of today's chat, Tom, you are the president
of the Boar Breeders Association. This is just a giant
booze up and a party.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
I wouldn't quite go that far, Jamie's would.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
From what I saw this morning, I thought it was glorious.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Very social occasion will go that far, and people do
have a lot of fun. But that's what we're all about.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So what's the connection with the pigs?
Speaker 11 (30:09):
Wow, it's just it's just an excuse to have a
bit of fun. Really, it's just something that's come about.
We had our tenth anniversary last year and eleventh year obviously,
and here people, a group of people that have now
moved on started the occasion and said, why don't we
get a group of people together and breed some pigs
and make a show out of it, because at that
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stage there's no pig section of the show, and now
there is, and it's continued on. It's gone bigger and
bigger every year.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
So they say, where it's young people like yourself go
along to find a husband and or a wife or
goodness knows what these days for non binaries. I'm not
quite sure on that one, but it's all about high
lux and hector. So you all get dressed up and
you have a best dress competition and I'm assuming you know,
a lot of them have probably got a background at
Lincoln or Massy or something like that. But they're people
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from the land, are they town there's.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
A bit of mix of both. I think in the
last probably five years that's actually progressed a wee bit
and there's been a few more people that are working,
probably in the rural sector, but working in town and
have always been in town that have that have started
to come along and be a part of it. But
the bulk of the people there here, I mean there's
a lot of people up there today from North Canterbury
and that sort of Yeah that the driver behind it
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really is is those rural people coming into town having
a bit of fun and it's perfect that the races
and don't you have.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Like the Pig Breeders Ball tonight.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Yes, that's right, We've got the ball tonight, yeah, which
will be a bit of fun. So that that starts
at seven o'clock to night at Churchill's teven and sitting
in there. So that's every year we've had had the
ball and it's it's a great occasion and subsidized drinks
and a bit of free food to save everyone up
for a week while and then we get into it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So where you go again, it's like painting the London
Bred finishing. It's time to go back to the start.
Just before I let you go, just wearing your PGG
rights and hat you're a live stock agent in North Canterbury.
We know there's a lot of damage in the in
that basin in there. How is the rest of the
area Fairing.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
Yeah, COVID and that is we're all pretty probably heard
it that the pivots over there, but that the trees
as well. I mean, you're just sort of talking to
guys there now that have just done to put a
dent in it. And there's still a long way to go,
and especially in the middle of lambing or tailing, not
having stockproof fences makes a bit of a difference. That
makes it challenging for people. So it's getting better. But yeah,
(32:28):
we didn't have the damage and hard or anything like
that they saw in Coved and well.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Tom Dodson, President of the Boar Breeders Association, I wish
I could turn back time to nineteen eighty two when
I actually this bloke I'm going to talk to next.
Was it Lincoln in the seventies, but in nineteen eighty
two I would have been in boots and all for that.
I think you guys are having a great time, so
well done. Yeah, that's great coming. So I've got to
try a Makaysa. There we go, There we go, Tom Doddson,
We're going to take a break on the other side
(32:54):
of I think he was the gold medalist for the
Commerce Class of nineteen seventy helped me out Ross Fort
nineteen seventy four. That's how old he is. He's done
very well in business. He's got a new business he's
launching here at the show. We have Ross Highland next
on the Country, ten away from one coming to you
(33:18):
live from the Canterbury amp Show, Royal Show Ross Highland.
I was saying, I wanted to turn back the clock
to nineteen eighty two and go along and be one
of those young people at the pig Breeders bore Ball
or whatever they call you go back at Lincoln further
than I do. What was it the gold Medalist Top
Commerce Student of the Year of class seventy four. Well,
(33:39):
that makes you of an age where you should be
retired and just playing golf. Why are you at your
age and stage launching a brand new business.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Well, it's actually taken about four and a half years
to get here, Jamie, So I started.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
When I was a little bit younger. But yeah, I
probably should have retired.
Speaker 12 (33:54):
But I just love what I'm doing and love farmers,
and I think that we've got a product that is
going to really really benefit farming and farmers across the country.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Okay, it's called grow pe. And if you get too
commercial on me being here, Ben Humphrey, who's in charge
talk for us, will probably send you an invoice. Give
me the concise version of what you.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Do first you send the invoice to Renata. But apart
from that, we're a finance and payments app, Jamie. So
we saw a real gap in the market. We think
that the banking system and everybody knows that despite what
you hear, the banks have been creaming it from New
(34:36):
Zealand farmers for decades and still and that will continue,
all right. And so we are effectively brokering finance or
we're referring finance, so we do have a wholesale funding
partnership with different financiers. We also will be brokering payments
and being able to aggregate payments, so we're targeting the
(34:58):
top ten or twenty inputs arms spend their money on,
you know, as well as with master Card, Heartland Banks,
Bears Finance. We've parted with the likes of X and
Mobile and so we'll have our own fuel card. We've
partnered with a on Agri. Numerous other companies are jumping
on board because they see that we're going to drive
(35:20):
a completely disruptive.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
More Well, it's one thing being disruptive, but if you
really want some custom, you need to be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Better, Yeah, and we'll definitely be better. We're all about
better deals for farmers, all right. So that's our mantra,
driving better deals for farmers. Now, whether that's we won't
be able to match the giveaway interest rates that you
often get with tractors or utes and things like that,
but the simple reality is we will put in place
a better deal for the farmer. We'll spread it over
(35:49):
a longer term, you know, useful life of a machine,
not two years at bloody two percent interest rate and
then kill you off because you can't afford the payments.
So it's those sorts of things that we're doing. It's
all about giving farmer's choice. It's not about bundling all
your loans and all your mortgages and all your securities
and one we're about giving farmer's choice.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So you had a soft launch down on Mosborn.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
I did.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
That's my home page or near it, south by Mosburn.
Speaker 12 (36:16):
I think that Mosbn's just it was really just a
test ground for us, Jamie. I just love those Southland farmers.
As you know, Mosburn's very central. We had farmers coming
all the way from Bellcluther to way down the other
side of Blackmount, so you know it was a great
spot really and lots of telling questions. As you know,
farmers are sort of the ultimate cynic. So you get
(36:39):
into a hall of farmers in Mosbourn and you know
you're going to get put through the ringer. And I
think we came out with flying.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
People want to find out more about grow pay. Where
do they go? Is getting close to sending you an
invoice too, By.
Speaker 12 (36:51):
The way, grow pay dot io or www dot grow
Pai dot io, all the informations there.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You're a great man Ross Island to see you enjoy Makaisa.
We're going to We're going to take a break and
come back and wrap it from day one of the
Canterbury Amp Show. Yeah, wrapping the show from day one
of the Canterby Amp Show. It's the blind leading the
blind here, I said to Greg Mensis from Mensies. It's
(37:18):
the free for all at Addington tomorrow. That's the see.
I don't know the front end of a horse from
the back end. Had a very bad experience with the
horse Racing Syndicate. But that's the Trots, the or the Pacers.
That's tomorrow. And of course you're going to Ricketon, Ricketon
on Saturday, which is the Gallops.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Right it is the Gallops.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
Yeah, yeah, it is the Blindly in the blind like
I go where I'm told to go. So it's Ricketton Saturday.
And yeah, we did the Addington thing. We actually did
a beer. I have to show you this beer that
we did. It's called Being.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
You've got thirty seconds there, Greg.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
All right, we did this beer for Addington. It's called
the Trots.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Hey. Then that reminds me of a classic beer that
came out in the seventh's down on Southland. It was
called Southland Bitter.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think dB might have made it. I'm not pointing fingers,
but it was known by the locals as Southland Skitter
for very very good reasons. We'll catch you back again
from here tomorrow. Take care, catch.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
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