December 18, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The farmer panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, we love the Isuzu Dmax here on the country.
Can I can I, honestly, in all honesty, portray these
two as a farmer panel. I don't know. Jeremy Rooks
is in Canterbury. He's a hobby farmer. Steve Wan Harris
is a Globe trotter, former farmer. I'll start with you, Steve,
apparently running around on the dry hills of Central Hawks
(00:29):
Bay trying to find a water leg. Can I describe
you as a farmer these days?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ah, I'm seeing me retired. I do twenty twenty five
hours a week, so probably a bit twenty years more
than Rooks does.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, well that's probably a fair criticism. I'm sure he'll
bite back in a minute with only doing twenty or
twenty five hours, because I know back in the day
you were a bit of a worker. Steve. Surely your
golf's your golf handicaps really improve with all that spare
time on your hands.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We're not talking about golf. Can we move on?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, we'll move on from that. Jeremy, how did Jeremy
Rook's hobby farmer, former farmer in Central Hawk's Bay. There, Steve,
how do you fill your days in Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I've usually been pretty busy the last three weeks helping
mate Sween and working for stock agents helping them out.
So now I've had a lot of early starts.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, good on you, so I'll stay with you. Jeremy.
I'm looking at the well. I keep saying what Earth
Sciences end zed drought index mapp and you know there's
a bit of yellow turning up in the Canterbury region.
How are you faring well?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We got twenty eight mills on when was that two
days ago, which was awesome. But it's incredibly dry here,
like it's I mean, this road will do a little
bit for crops, but unless we get some follow up
that'll just do a hell of a lot. Really it's dry.
It's as dry as it gets to North Kenemy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, really dry, Steve. We know that Central Hawk's Bay
in particular, are the lower half of Hawks Bay is
very very dry. You've been farming for what forty years?
Put this into some sort of historic perspective for us.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I think it's probably one of the lowest rainfall
figures that any of us have recorded, and forty or
fifty years we've gone over five hundred mills. Now normally
our average rainfalls around the eight hundred nine hundred mills,
so just a bit more than half. Spirit has thought
for packy Pak, I've had four hundred mills for the year.
But I think part of the problem is that I
(02:24):
had a look for us in the last twelve coming
up twelve months, there's only been three events that have
had three days that they've had more than twenty mills,
So been very little runn off for nets, causing water
issues for the guys who the people, particularly along the
coast who lie on dams, been very little run aal
so water's becoming an issue as well as just being
very dry and lack of feed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I guess, sorry, sorry, guys, I guess if there is
a positive out of this, at least the store market
for farmers having to quit stock, Jeremy's pretty strong and
I know you do, in all seriousness keep a pretty
close eye on that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, no, there's been more store lambs go out
of North Canterbury than any of the droughts ten years ago.
So yeah, everyone's made good decisions early. The money has
been good, so whilst everyone's a been annoyed, they haven't
had the fat lambs, but at least the stores have
weighed well and they're all they've all headed down the
Southland pretty much.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Steve Wan Harris out of Central Hawk's Bay, who is
your twenty twenty five AGG person of the year?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You two are going to hate me for this because
I'm going to do more than one person. And an
easy thing would be to say for all the farmers
in the country, you know, working away, but we choose
this lifestyle and we take the risks and we profit
from it when it's good. So I'm going to do
a shout out for all the shepherds and the milkers
and the tractor drivers, the people who are out there
(03:42):
doing the hard yards at this time of the year
and other times the year. So they're my people of
the year, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now that is slightly disappointing. That was a bit of
a damp squib, to be perfectly honest, Steve, if you
don't mind me saying so, I'm loath to criticize you,
as you well know, but this is like, this is
not primary school netball. We're not. You know this is
not counting the school. We need a winner.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But Jamie, all week, you know the weare the nominations.
You've been getting paid decent money to do a job.
It's part of their job, and when they do it well,
good good for them. But no spear thought for the
people who are all sort of fifty sixty thousand dollars
a year in your salary. We can hard.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I feel their pain with my salary here as a pension.
It's a battle. Okay, Jeremy Rock's with you. Well, I
know you're going to pick a single winner for me.
You're not going to disappoint me.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, But I do want to do a special mention
to David Clark, who is just an exceptional armor with
a who's just exposed the outright grift and ideology of
e CAN and brought it to the nation's attention. So,
David Clark, You're an exceptional man. But I'm sort of
like Steve in a funny way here, I'm going to
the cold face Jamie, and I think sometimes we underappreciate
(04:56):
how much work these guys do and the commitment.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Wallace in particular, I've dealt with him for thirty years
as a friend and the stock agent, and I've been
working with him a lot in the last month or
so and he's always been an exceptionally tidy, diligent He
cares about what he does. He gets everything organized and
I think sometimes stock agents get a bit of a
hard rap, but boy, when the heat's on, they work
their bloody asses off. So my person of the Year
(05:22):
is Travis Delzel from Has It Were All? Because that
guy is just an exceptional human being and a brilliant agent.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So he obviously does some backhands for you on the
hobby farm does he stays.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All water little community as well. He's a mass of
glenmark Man. He does a lot of grugby coaching and
I just think sometimes these guys don't get you the
cutos that they deserve, the good ones. There are a
lot of ship stock agents out there, Jamie, but this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And with a name like Dalzel, he'll be from a
great rugby pedigree as well.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's only five three and looks like a Junorana Tunga,
but he's but he worked hard, quiet and I think
he's well deserving of that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
All right, Very very Christmas, lads, thanks for being the
Farmer of Sorts panel and we'll catch you back next year.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Thanks for beer.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So there we go, Steve One, Harris, Jeremy Rocks,
The farmer panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, we love the Isuzu Dmax here on the country.
Can I can I, honestly, in all honesty, portray these
two as a farmer panel. I don't know. Jeremy Rooks
is in Canterbury. He's a hobby farmer. Steve Wan Harris
is a Globe trotter, former farmer. I'll start with you, Steve,
apparently running around on the dry hills of Central Hawks
(00:29):
Bay trying to find a water leg. Can I describe
you as a farmer these days?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ah, I'm seeing me retired. I do twenty twenty five
hours a week, so probably a bit twenty years more
than Rooks does.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, well that's probably a fair criticism. I'm sure he'll
bite back in a minute with only doing twenty or
twenty five hours, because I know back in the day
you were a bit of a worker. Steve. Surely your
golf's your golf handicaps really improve with all that spare
time on your hands.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We're not talking about golf. Can we move on?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, we'll move on from that. Jeremy, how did Jeremy
Rook's hobby farmer, former farmer in Central Hawk's Bay. There, Steve,
how do you fill your days in Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I've usually been pretty busy the last three weeks helping
mate Sween and working for stock agents helping them out.
So now I've had a lot of early starts.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, good on you, so I'll stay with you. Jeremy.
I'm looking at the well. I keep saying what Earth
Sciences end zed drought index mapp and you know there's
a bit of yellow turning up in the Canterbury region.
How are you faring well?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We got twenty eight mills on when was that two
days ago, which was awesome. But it's incredibly dry here,
like it's I mean, this road will do a little
bit for crops, but unless we get some follow up
that'll just do a hell of a lot. Really it's dry.
It's as dry as it gets to North Kenemy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, really dry, Steve. We know that Central Hawk's Bay
in particular, are the lower half of Hawks Bay is
very very dry. You've been farming for what forty years?
Put this into some sort of historic perspective for us.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I think it's probably one of the lowest rainfall
figures that any of us have recorded, and forty or
fifty years we've gone over five hundred mills. Now normally
our average rainfalls around the eight hundred nine hundred mills,
so just a bit more than half. Spirit has thought
for packy Pak, I've had four hundred mills for the year.
But I think part of the problem is that I
(02:24):
had a look for us in the last twelve coming
up twelve months, there's only been three events that have
had three days that they've had more than twenty mills,
So been very little runn off for nets, causing water
issues for the guys who the people, particularly along the
coast who lie on dams, been very little run aal
so water's becoming an issue as well as just being
very dry and lack of feed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I guess, sorry, sorry, guys, I guess if there is
a positive out of this, at least the store market
for farmers having to quit stock, Jeremy's pretty strong and
I know you do, in all seriousness keep a pretty
close eye on that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, no, there's been more store lambs go out
of North Canterbury than any of the droughts ten years ago.
So yeah, everyone's made good decisions early. The money has
been good, so whilst everyone's a been annoyed, they haven't
had the fat lambs, but at least the stores have
weighed well and they're all they've all headed down the
Southland pretty much.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Steve Wan Harris out of Central Hawk's Bay, who is
your twenty twenty five AGG person of the year?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You two are going to hate me for this because
I'm going to do more than one person. And an
easy thing would be to say for all the farmers
in the country, you know, working away, but we choose
this lifestyle and we take the risks and we profit
from it when it's good. So I'm going to do
a shout out for all the shepherds and the milkers
and the tractor drivers, the people who are out there
(03:42):
doing the hard yards at this time of the year
and other times the year. So they're my people of
the year, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now that is slightly disappointing. That was a bit of
a damp squib, to be perfectly honest, Steve, if you
don't mind me saying so, I'm loath to criticize you,
as you well know, but this is like, this is
not primary school netball. We're not. You know this is
not counting the school. We need a winner.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But Jamie, all week, you know the weare the nominations.
You've been getting paid decent money to do a job.
It's part of their job, and when they do it well,
good good for them. But no spear thought for the
people who are all sort of fifty sixty thousand dollars
a year in your salary. We can hard.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I feel their pain with my salary here as a pension.
It's a battle. Okay, Jeremy Rock's with you. Well, I
know you're going to pick a single winner for me.
You're not going to disappoint me.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, But I do want to do a special mention
to David Clark, who is just an exceptional armor with
a who's just exposed the outright grift and ideology of
e CAN and brought it to the nation's attention. So,
David Clark, You're an exceptional man. But I'm sort of
like Steve in a funny way here, I'm going to
the cold face Jamie, and I think sometimes we underappreciate
(04:56):
how much work these guys do and the commitment.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Wallace in particular, I've dealt with him for thirty years
as a friend and the stock agent, and I've been
working with him a lot in the last month or
so and he's always been an exceptionally tidy, diligent He
cares about what he does. He gets everything organized and
I think sometimes stock agents get a bit of a
hard rap, but boy, when the heat's on, they work
their bloody asses off. So my person of the Year
(05:22):
is Travis Delzel from Has It Were All? Because that
guy is just an exceptional human being and a brilliant agent.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So he obviously does some backhands for you on the
hobby farm does he stays.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All water little community as well. He's a mass of
glenmark Man. He does a lot of grugby coaching and
I just think sometimes these guys don't get you the
cutos that they deserve, the good ones. There are a
lot of ship stock agents out there, Jamie, but this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And with a name like Dalzel, he'll be from a
great rugby pedigree as well.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's only five three and looks like a Junorana Tunga,
but he's but he worked hard, quiet and I think
he's well deserving of that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
All right, Very very Christmas, lads, thanks for being the
Farmer of Sorts panel and we'll catch you back next year.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Thanks for beer.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So there we go, Steve One, Harris, Jeremy Rocks,
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