December 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Don Carson, Steve Wyn-Harris, Jeremy Rookes, Nathan Guy, Rowena Duncum, Craig Wiggins, Chris Brandolino, and Hamish McKay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
I feeling love fingers, I feeling in my shoes, Christmases
all around episode of Baling Growth.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good afternoon and Gooday, New Zealand. I'm Jamie McKay. It's
Billy Mac from Love actually one of my favorite Christmas songs.
This is the Country brought to you by Brent. Thank
you for your support throughout twenty twenty five. Brent great
Sponsors Radio. We've got lots of people to chat to,
so no time to waste. We've got a special guest
to kick off the show, and then we've got a
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few panels and basically we are going to announce our
ag person of the Year. Well, Michelle's got hers, I've
got mine, and I'll ask my remaining guests today who
their ad person of the Year is. That a bit
later in the hour, but a special guest to kick
off the Country.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There's no Happy Soul Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Challenge, so I've decided to kick off the Country today
with not only Billy Mack Love the song, Love the movie,
but with this man who is a long standing correspondent,
although a bit more irregular these days. In fact, he
makes one appearance a year and that's at Christmas time.
He's a bit like Santa Claus John Carson. And for
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people who aren't aware of your fame or infamity, you
used to host midday and Rural report on National radio
these days known as Red Radio, and you did an
excellent job. In the eighties, you went on to work
for the Wall Board. That's when we first became mate's colleagues.
You've worked with Federated Farmers all in the PR departments, Seaford,
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New Zealand Forest Owners Association. But I remember back to
the glorious days of the Wallboard down in the nineteen
nineties and you were throwing cash around like it was
nobody's business.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, it was one of those institutions. You're making me
feel a bitter and feel like Bill Mahedier, Jamie, But yeah,
the war Board was one of those great dinosaurs when
farming was king and the entire cabinet was made up
of farmers and parliaments worked around the haymaking season. So
those were different days, and certainly the will Board was
one of those last dinosaurs where there was no problem
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that throwing a lot of money at it wouldn't resolve.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We won't go there since the I reckon about the
late nineteen nineties. Every year you've named your ag person
of the year, and it may be someone who has
had more influence on farming. They may not necessarily be
someone here in New Zealand. I remember the year you
named the protest in Tieneman Square. Now I'm naming my
egg person of the year a wee bit later in
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the show down, and I've got fingers and toes cross
that you're not going to steal the thunder here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, Well I'll start up, Jamie by doing something that
I have never in all of the years of naming
the egg Person of the year done, And that is
a collective and this is your bulk standard New Zealand farmer,
be it dairy or sheep and beef over the past year.
And I say that because we've got the takeover there
of the Alliance Group and we have from TIRA is
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selling its branding and both are things that the farmers
stakeholders and both of those parts of the New Zealand
economy could have done something about. You take Frontier example,
sold off its brand, use the four point two billion
to develop its ingredients thing. Now that's a sensible move.
They'll make money out of that. They've done their homework.
But on the other hand, there is a certain sentiment
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about having New Zealand products, dairy products labeled with the
New Zealand brand canker those days ago one. The other one,
of course, the more famous one and the more deep
seated one, is Alliance selling out to the Irish dawn meets.
You know, for the four k plus stakeholders in the
Alliance Group, if they had each dipped into their pockets
to the tune of mid range SUV, they could have
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paid off that two hundred million debt and kept their
industry in their hands. So it's the New Zealand farmer
inability to pay for their own processing industry when they
would rather put more into the farm and over.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, Donnell, disagree with you. You don't throw good money
after bad in the case of the Alliance Group. Anyhow,
we'll agree to disagree. Come on, get to the point.
Who's your ag person of the Year for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The next one is and remember the rules, and that
has had the most effect within the year that we
are talking about, and the Associate Agriculture Minister, Andrew Hoggart
comes to mind for two reasons. One is the animal
welfare thing, which is always backwards as far as the
farmers are concerned, and always a progress as far as
animal rights concerned, and he managed to stem the abolition
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eventually of self farming pharaoh crates and the mating crates
for a much reduced period, so the animal welfare has
been enhanced, but they won't have to get rid of
them until twenty thirty five, so he's won that one.
And the other one, which didn't get so many headlines,
was the announcement that there would be no agg pricing
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for emissions and the methane would be disconnected from the
carbon dioxide and it's counting towards the targets of twenty fifty.
So as far as I'm concerned, former president of Federated
Farmers and you're quite well when I worked in Federated
Farmers he was president. There is now the Associate agg Minister,
and looking around the ag scene, I think I won't
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change my rules. I won't use a collective for the
New Zealand Farmer, but I go for the Associate Agriculture
Minister Andrew Hoggart as my AG Person of the effort.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Don Carson, it's a long standing tradition. We'll catch you
back in twenty twenty six for your AG Person of
the ear. You have a good break mate, see you.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Later, Okay, very good and I hope you don't come
up with the same name.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I hope by darn't either, Dom and I haven't thank
Goodness for that, although I thought he was going to
steal my thunder anyhow, my agg Person of the Year
and Michelle's awee. But later up next the first of
a couple of panels today stevewin Harrison, Hawks Bay and
Jeremy Rooks. They used to be paneless, I think back
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in the day. We're going to get their AG person
of the Year and weather and track conditions, Jeremy's hobby
farmer and Canterbury. Steve is of course in Central Hawk's Bay.
Nathan Guy who was yesterday announced our special Agricultural Trade Envoy.
Another panel, Rowena Duncan and Craig Wiggy Wiggins their AG
Person of the Year. Chris Brandolino from NIWA with the
Christmas forecast and rain for some of you farmers and
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Hamish MacKaye raps it. It's Mackay on sport. Who's this
ag person of the year. We've got all that do
before the end of the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So Christmas, you.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Welcome back to the country. This is one of them
greatest Christmas songs of all time. The pogues just hold
fire one second.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The farmer panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built off with truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
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 Rox
is in Canterbury. He's a hobby farmer. Steve Wan Harris
is a Globe. I a former farmer. I'll start with you, Steve,
apparently running around on the dry hills of Central Hawks
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Bay trying to find a water leg. Can I describe
you as a farmer these days?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
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 3 (08:16):
Yeah, well that's probably a fair criticism. I'm sure he'll
buy it 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
golf's your golf handicaps really improve with all that spare
time on your hands.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We're not talking about golf, j We move.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
On, Okay, we'll move on from that. Jeremy. How did
Jeremy Rook's hobby farmer? Former farmer and Central Hawks bay there? Steve?
How do you fill your days in Jeremy.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I've used to being pretty busy in the last three
weeks helping mate Sween and working for stock agents helping
them out. So now a lot of early starts.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, good on you, so I'll stay with you, Jeremy.
I'm looking at the well. It keeps saying what Earth
Sciences end Z Drought Index map, and you know there's
there's a bit of yellow turning up in the Canterbury region.
How are you faring well?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We got twenty eight mills on when was at two
days ago, which was awesome, but it's incredibly dry here
like it's I mean, this rain will do a little
bit for crops, but unless we get some follow up,
it'll just won't do a hell of a lot. Really,
it's as dry. It's as dry as it gets to
North Keenemy.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, really dry, Steve. We know that central Hawk's Bay,
in particular, 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 5 (09:39):
Yeah, I think it's probably one of the lowest rainfall
figures that any of us have recorded, and it's forty
or fifty years. We've gone over five hundred mills. Then
normally everage rainfalls around the eight hundred nine hundred mills,
so just a bit more than half spirits thought for
Pucky Pack that've had four hundred mills for the year.
But I think part of the problem that I had
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a look for us in the last two coming up
twelve months, there's only been three of bits that've had
three days that they've had more than twenty miles, So
very little runnal for nets, causing water issues for the
guys who the people, particularly along the coast to who
lie on dams, been very little runnal, so water's becoming
an issue as well as just been very dry and
lack of feed.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
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 4 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Yeah, no, there's been more store lambs going 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 have been annoyed that haven't
had the fat lambs, but at least the stores weighed
well and they're all they've all headed down the Southland
pretty much.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Steve Wan Harris out of Central Hawks Bay, who is
your twenty twenty five egg person of the Year.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
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 you know, 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, you know, doing the hard yards at this
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time of the year and other times of the year.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So they're my people of the years.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Jamie, 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 5 (11:38):
But Jamie, all week, you know the we're 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.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Good good for them.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
But no, you know, spirit thought for the people who
are all sort of fifty sixty thousand dollars a year
in your salary.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We can hard m I feel their pain with my salary.
Here as a pinch and it's a battle. Okay. Jeremy
Rook's with you. Well, I know you're going to pick
a single winner for me. You're not going to disappointment.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
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
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how much work these guys do and the commitment. Willis
Fell in particular. I've dealt with him.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
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 wrap, but boy, when the heat's on, they
work their bloody arses off. So my person of the
Year is Travis Delzel from that were All because that
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guy is just an exceptional human being and a brilliant agent.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So he obviously does some backhanders for you on the
hobby farm. Does he stay Jeremy.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Water little community as well? With the mess of Glenn
mark Man. He does a lot of rugby coaching, and
I just think sometimes these guys don't get the you know,
the cutos that they deserve the good ones. There are
a lot of ship stock agents out there, Jamie. But
this guy, hey, and with.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
A name like Dalzel, he'll be from a great rugby
pedigree as well.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
He's only five three and looks like a Junorena Tunga,
but he's but he works hard for his client and
I think he's well deserving of that.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
All right, Very Christmas lads, thanks for being the Farmer
of Sorts panel and we'll catch you back next year.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Thanks for the beer.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So there we go. Steve Wan Harris, Jeremy Rook's twenty
four after twelve ourrag person, Michelle's she's been anguishing. I
think she had. She told me she had three finalists
yes to so she's anguishing on hers. I'll keep my
powder drive for a wee bit longer. Up next, Nathan Guy,
former Minister of Agricultural in his case Minister for Primary Industries,
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was yesterday named as our new Special Agricultural Trade Endvoy.
So he's up next. On the Country.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Of Gold for the.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Windows right for you, it's our base for.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The old Boston.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
This was yesterday's big news story on the agg front.
The Minister of Agriculture and Trade. Todd McLay has announced
the appointment of Nathan Guy, former Minister for Primary Industries,
as New Zealand's Special Agricultural Trade Endvoy. Hey Nathan, great
to have you on the show. I really appreciate your time.
You're going to be great in this job because you've
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got not only a national profile, but an international profile.
And this job surely is all about networking.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Yes, it'll be a big part of it. Jamie, thanks
your kind words. I'm very pumped about the opportunity. Briefings
have already started with catching up with MZTE in the
new year. There's a real focus on India and the
Golf States and making sure that I'm waving the flag
for our farmers and exporters.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Todd mcclay's doing great work trying to get this FDA
across the line with India. Have you been on board
while that's been happening, wearing any of your other hats.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
I keep in close contact with the minister. I've been
well appraised of how the negotiations are going. It sounds
and feels like they're progressing very well. We just wait
and see from the Indian side when they are ready
to announce that might be the early part of next year.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
We're just waiting to see. Will be significant for our
primary sector in particular, I think it'd be great for
our lamb sheep farmers and exporters.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Very big market, very.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
Big opportunity of the Then if I put my state
role on it, it'll be significant I think for Kiwu
fruit apples and in particular also honey.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
So exciting opportunities ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
How are you going to fit all this in? Because
you're not only a dairy farmer and Haafanua, you're the
chairman of the Meat Industry Association, Independent Chair of Apriculture
New Zealand and as I understand that you're going to
milk the cows on Christmas morning, Nathan, Well, I'm.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Going to help our guys out, yeah, on Christmas morning.
I've always been pretty good at time management. Being a
minister means you're always time poor. I've got a bit
more time than I once.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Had, but it'll be very strategic.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
And I've sent the impact that I want to be
very constructive and very focused on what I want to
try and achieve for the new Zealand government in the
primary sector. So yeah, wonderful opportunity, Jamie. And it'll be
up to me to manage the expectations back home and
also on the farm and.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Across the other roles that I have. But I reckon
I can do it.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
And I'm looking forward to heading the ground running.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Hey, Nathan guy, before I quickly let you go, how's
horror feno?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Are looking Oh, pretty good, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Nice drop of rain earlier this week, a little bit
full cast for this weekend. We're tracking quite well, a
lot of silence being made, actually feeding a little bit
out at the moment. Went through a dry spell just
covering a couple of little short patches there, So I
think we're in. We're in pretty good heart and the
know we're a bit disappointed about the payout announcement this week,
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but I'm always optimistic that hopefully things will turn next year.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Woll You've got a good off farm and come now
you'll be right, Nathan. Hey, thank you very much for
your time. You'll do a great job. Merry Christmas, Happy
New Year to you and Erica and all the family.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good on you, Jamie, and to you and yours chairs, mate.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Appreciate it, Nathan heading up to twelve thirty, do you
I haven't even updated the cricket for you. Apologies. I
will have a quick look and if New Zealand three
hundred and ninety for two, we'll update the cricket and
of course they're getting underway for what is it day
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three over at the Adelaide over we'll do that shortly
with sports news. Michelle's got rural news. But up next
it's second of two panels today it is Rowena Duncan,
the artist formerly known as the Country's producer, and Craig
Wiggy Wiggins Lean on a gate, talk to a mate, Christmas,
never go.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Christmas and what have you done?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Welcome back to the country. It is twenty seven away
from one for our final show of the year, brought
to you by Brent. Thanks Brent, you've been great guys
to deal with radio updating the cricket for you here
in New Zealand. New Zealand are three undred and ninety
eight for two. Devon Conway is two hundred and eighteen
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not out of three hundred and forty five balls and
what's the time? Yeah, play's just got underway. Michelle's noting yep.
At the Adelaide Oval day three. There the palms are
what was that Tooeen eight two hundred and eighteen for eight?
Thank you. We'll get ourselves organized. Here's the second of
two panels today, Rowena Duncan, the artist formerly known as
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the Country Producer, and Craig Wiggy Wiggins lean on a gate.
Talk to him, mate, Rowena, I want to start with
you. You've got some street cred when it comes to being
a cowcocky, because you were one for a while. But
I did give you a fair bit of grief about
you commentating the wall handling at the Golden Shares because
you wouldn't know a fleece if one hit you in
the face. But you've been practicing, You've been rousing in
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the sheds.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
I have, indeed, Jamie, nice to be back with you.
I thought you'd lost my number, but I've been in
Jenny vere.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We can't afford we can't afford you now that you're
in the corporate world with their FMG.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I've been staying with the Mullin Is this the way
you can have been out with the Piway Mullins gang. Yeah,
and the sheds in the mornings before work, so now
I can actually have some street crew. Jamie. It's don't
you that really gives me greet about it. Everyone's been
so welcoming in this year.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, okay, well look I'm really looking We're going up
for the Golden Shares, so we'll catch up there. That is,
of course the World Championships as well. It's going to
be so good in Masterton and early March, right that's Rowena.
Are you and Hawk's Bay today with Mavis?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, and hey thanks?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Are you doing any work for FMG?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Absolutely, I'm just about to step into a meeting with
New Zealand Apples and Pears.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
All right, okay, Wiggy Craig Wiggins in mid Canterbury. We
heard a mat Rooks up in North Canterbury say it's
getting pretty dry by their standards. What about Mid Canterbury.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Oh we've been pretty lucky actually, Jamie, thank you. It's
we had twenty eight miles just here in Ishburten just
this week and I think we do for some more
this afternoon and maybe tomorrow. So it was very dry,
but some of the clips are certainly doing all right
now for the rain that we've had. Just a little
bit of worry around for the hail and some of
the damage that it can cause.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Rowena Duncan because we've got to move on. We literally
have heaps of people to chat to between now and
the end of the hour. I know you've thought deeply
about this. Who is your twenty twenty five AG Person
of the Year.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
I just wanted to quick shout out to the team
at Farmstrong because they've done amazing work this year, and
also everyone who helped get so many of those irrigators
back up and running in North Canterbury after that windstorm.
That was huge around the clock effort from everyone, So
well done. But my AGG person of the year is
all of the people who answer those fire sirens when
they go off in rural communities. We had one in
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danny Vick this morning. I heard the one Radhi on
Friday afternoon and I just think we have so many
volunteers that time to text their communities. We're heading into
quite a big fire season as well. They attend car
crashes in rural communities and I just think, you know,
when you see a discussion group or a rugby game
the siren goes off, it's the cockies. The dear if armers,
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the shep farmers who get up and it's in those calls,
so I think it's here. It's our volunteer emergency services
for me.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, and the people who put the power back on,
you know after the windstorms, working tirelessly. But you talk
about the Volunteer Fire Brigade and block A Drysdale a
mate of ours, as does it for the Belfer Volunteer
Fire Brigade. But the tough thing about that is you've
got to go out to road accidents and it may
be your kid where your neighbors can never know what,
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you never know what you're going to find. So you
know they're just lay people and they're not trained or
they're sort of trained for that. But absolute admiration. Agree
with you, wiggy, who have you got?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:41):
I bet Rowena up on that four good thing. I
used to do it, but with them, and so that's
great that she's mentioned them. But I've got a couple
just to mention quickly. Sarah Foley Smith in the Primary
Industry Academy down and Geraldine. She takes all those kids
up to the field days and they clean up in
the fencing competitions. But they do a lot of good
work in their community as well, Green Frill the organization
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of that very successful Royal Support Trust event at a
Field Days last year. He gets stuff done. But the
David and Goliath Award for the Year it has to
go to David Clark. Roxy just mentioned what he's done
and everybody knows just how much he's put he can
on the blocks this year. But it's a personal toll
to David. It takes a lot for him to get
that angry, but also to know the behind the scenes.
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I know how upsetting it can be for him and
his family with this sort of stuff. So for me,
he's my agg personal Royal Person of the Year.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'll tell you what you're I'm hearing. I've heard from
someone close to the source that what David Clark did
around the Consenting and ECAM was one of the major
drivers and certainly helped what the government did around RIMA reform.
So he is a.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Hero definitely, And I mean he got into those coalition
partners and got in their air and then national had
to jump on board to and single handedly he is
the David and Gliath story of rural New Zealand this year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, Rowena, Wiggy, We'll catch you over the break. Thanks
for your time, Jamie. Right there we go. That is
the second of our two panels today England, Yes, two
hundred and eighteen for eight we'll update the New Zealand
score in Sports News which I haven't even read yet.
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And busy morning, believe it or not. Michelle Watt from
the Old to the New producer Wise, she's got Rural News.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
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On INZM for your local stockist.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Thanks Jamie. And Farmers are feeling more satisfied with their
bank under less pressure, but the sector remains well short
of confidence level seen in the last decade. Federated Farmer's
latest banking survey is showing and the November survey sixty
one percent of farmers reported being satisfied or very satisfied
with their bank, about steady from May twenty twenty five
when they lasted a survey. That's a good improven from
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fifty one percent satisfaction rate from the survey at this
time last year, but it's a long way off from
the eighty percent record level recorded in twenty seventeen, and
that's from Federated Farmers banking spokes person Mark Hooper. Of
course took over from Richard McIntyre on that banking spokes.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Year, and Richard mcintyrelong with Toby Williams. Give them a
shout out too. They're no longer chairs at feeds, but
both of them did great work in twenty twenty five
sport on.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The country with a FCO business.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are you ready for your ag Person of the year? Shortly?
But the sport, what did we say? Two hundred and
nineteen for eight at the Adelaide Oval, Devin Conways Scott
his second test double century. Let me just check what
he's two hundred and twenty one not out. Caine Williamson
twenty one not out. New Zealand are four hundred and
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seven for two and I think they'll only back once
in this game, he said, trying to multitask and failing miserably. So.
A second high profile chief executive in as many days
has brought an end to their tumultuous era in charge
of a national sports organization. It's New Zealand Cricket boss
Scott Weenick has resigned. Meanwhile, on the good news front,
(26:15):
Whitney Houston, daughter of Steve, has been appointed as the
new coach of the Black Ferns on a two year
deal through to the end of twenty twenty seven. Okay, Michelle,
that's sports news, that's rural news. Have I got a
drum roll? Where did you put the drum roll?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
Just about?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
There it is, it's on button bar two. I think
we can do this. Okay. Sportsperson, not sportsperson of the year.
That's Hamus mackay as ag sports person of their and
as a rural ag person of their. Who's yours?
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Okay. I trouble choosing this, jamiecause there's so many great
people in the sector, but Shane mcmanaway gets mine. And
I think it's just because he is such a great
with agriculture and youth and it's all about bringing the
un through, is all about that. He's a very humble man.
Him and his wife also built a medical center in
the Wilder Rappert, which is as you do, as you do,
you know, And I think his big message. I love
(27:10):
his quote your attitude determines your altitude, and I love that.
I think it's he's just a great guy. I love
talking to him, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He has a great bloke and we'll be catching up
with him in the new year and looking forward to
his company at the Golden Shears. Okay, shall I do
another drum wrong? Where's my drum roll gone?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I've anguished. I've anguished over this, Michelle. I've absolutely anguished
over this. So to be honest that the ag Person
of the Year could have, could have should have probably
been Todd McLay again because he won it last year.
I'm hearing on the grapevine that were very very close
to that FTA with India. If Tid had got it
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across the line before Christmas, he would have been my
AG person. Winston's done great work for us as Foreign Minister.
Miles Hurrell, the usual Suspectsane Smith, She's probably the listener's vote.
Jason to Break's another one at Zesbury. Craig Piggott has
been mentioned in dispatches from Halter David Clark and we've
(28:11):
had a couple of nominations for him. Mark Cameron, the
Gutsy Act MP in Northland, Kalkokey, Sue's Redmain Suess' is
the richest politician in Parliament. You hate me saying that,
but she was also a star at the Rural Support
Trust debate. Nicola Griggs done great work as Horticulture Minister.
Grant McCullum phoned me up this morning, Michelle and nominated himself.
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It's true another man who nominated himself as Andy Thompson.
He's out of his league as well. Do you know?
I was who I was going to go with and
I didn't. In the end was a man who made
had more influence on the fate of New Zealand farmers
than anyone else on earth. Probably this year on Liberation
(28:59):
Day and ope he slapped trade tariffs on the world.
Six months later he took some off New Zealand beef
and Kiwi fruit. What he does in twenty twenty six
will probably have a greater bearing on New Zealand farmers
and free trade. We are a free trading nation than
anyone else. But I couldn't bring myself Michelle to vote
for Donald Trump as the ag Person of the Year.
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So my ag Person of the Year and someone named
him earlier in the week. It might have been Peter
Newbold from pdg Ritson I've gone with Peter McBride, a
man who success literally follows around, whether it's at Zesprey,
Trinity Lands or farms and obviously Fonterra. He was named
the Chairperson of the Year at the twenty twenty five
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Deloitte Top two hundred Awards, recognized for his steady hand
and strategic clarity in leading Fonterra through a period of
significant transformation. When he went in November twenty twenty, Fonterra
probably wasn't in a great space. We won't relet it
eight history. They had some bad appointments in the executive,
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but they've got a good executive now and with everything
that's going on this year, all bet the dairy price
is going down. That's not the making of Fonterra. My
AG Person of the Year and I feel sorry for
Todd McLay because I reckon he deserves it. My AGG
Person of the Year for twenty twenty five. Michelle as
Peter McBride an unsung hero up next to the weather
(30:24):
with Chris Brandolino.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Weather on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer Fridays.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
On the country wouldn't be complete without this man. He
is my favorite weather man on a Friday. Chris Brandolino
from Earth Sciences, New Zealand. Let's look out to Christmas Day,
Chris very quickly, but that some of the country's going
to get wet feet and I'm sure a lot of
the farmers will welcome that. What do you got for me? Shoot?
Speaker 13 (30:57):
Yeah, Look, as we approach the Christmas holiday, let's start
with Chris, miss Eve. I think there will be rain
across the west of the South Island, maybe some showers,
maybe some thundery showers across the far North over towards
a Northland, maybe northern Auckland, but they're going to be spotty,
Jamie in that part of the country. The best chance
for rain as we get into the Christmas holiday itself
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twenty fifth will be again the west of the South
Island could see an afternoon thunderstorm or an afternoon shower
across the upper part of the North Island from the
Cormandel to the Auckland and Northland region. But it won't
define today. What will define to day On Christmas Day,
Jamie is going to be warmth It is going to
(31:38):
be warm, if not hot, on Christmas Day, and Christmas
Eve for that matter, for the eastern part of the
North Island, the Upper North Island, maybe even the northeastern
part of the South Island. I think Hawk's Bay, Jamie,
we could see temperatures on Christmas Day, challenge, if not
thirty celsius.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, they probably want some rain though, Chris.
Speaker 13 (31:57):
Yeah, they're going to get some rain. They're going to
get some rain. That looks like maybe early next week.
So a bit of rain coming early next week. But
look when you look at the forecast rainfall over the
next seven days, basically for the rest of the calendar,
well let's say just before the Boxing day. How about
that over the next six seven days, it's not going
to be a lot. It's probably gonna be in the
order of maybe five to fifteen millimeters. Again, that's over
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about a week. We're hopeful we can get some better
chances of rain. We'll hopp to watch the tropics lay
in the next week. As the last few days of
twenty twenty five, there could be a low dropping from
the north. That seems to be a low chance, but
something worth watching. And I think as we go ahead
into the new year, the impatients are that we are
going to see a nice wow. How about this? For
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those in the South Island, expect a significant cool snap
from Boxing Day through about the twenty seventh, maybe the
twenty eighth of three to cold snap. It's about the
twenty ninth of December, so South Island and even Lower
North Island is going to see a significant cool snap
after Christmas and around Boxing there for a few days,
(33:03):
but we're going to warm up as the new year approaches.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
On New Year's Day, Chris Brandelena, thanks for your contribution
throughout twenty twenty five. You do a sterling job. Keep
up the good work at Earth Sciences, New Zealand. You
enjoy a break and a MacKaye's are on me see
you next year.
Speaker 13 (33:18):
I look forward to thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Likewid Chris Brandolino. And this is Whitney Houston, new coach
of the Black Ferns. I can't multitask, Michelle. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry anyhow I wrongly announced Whitney Houston is the
new coach of the Black Ferns. It is, of course
Whitney Hanson, daughter of Sir Steve Up. Next, we're going
to wrap it with Hamish MacKaye and mckaye on Sport
(33:42):
and Agriculture. I wonder if the fielding stocksail is happening
on the Friday before Christmas. We'll ask them up.
Speaker 12 (33:49):
Next mckiel's Sport with farm Lands, prevent Paris on how
Breaks and score a win.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
This summer And just before we go to Hamish mckaye
our final guest for twenty twenty five and fill a
host here on the Country has done a great job.
Just a big shout out from the farm Strong team
to us, Well, that's nice of them to us here
at the Country team for getting behind farm Strong again
this year. Look, it's a great partnership. It is making
a real difference what Farmstrong do to the well being
(34:27):
of rural communities and farm Strong say thanks to all
the farmers and growers who have tuned in as well.
We hope you have a great Christmas and catch up
with friends and neighbors over summer, Stay connected, stay safe
and of course most importantly, stay farm strong. Okay, Hamosh,
you're wrapping the show for the year with mckaye on Sport.
You may be interested to know that Whitney Houston is
(34:49):
the new coach of the Black Ferns Whitney.
Speaker 14 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, that was yes, yes, yes, Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Think I misspoke Hamish, Yes.
Speaker 14 (35:00):
Yes, yes you did.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
There wouldn't he handsOn?
Speaker 14 (35:02):
You we kind of She was sort of groomed for
the job for a while there and then.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Sort of slipped off the radar a bit. But gets
the job.
Speaker 14 (35:09):
And she looks pretty damn pleased about it too, so
I'm sure she would do a good job too. So
certainly got the it's in the genes one would expect.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, if she's half as good as the old man,
she'll she'll do a good job. You nominated your Egg
sports Person of the Year. But what about that was
last week, wasn't it.
Speaker 14 (35:27):
Yeah, tour Henderson, that's right to Henderson short from Jack Jordan.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, yep, what about your Egg Person of the Year Hamish?
Speaker 14 (35:35):
Well, you know, I love the work, well, I enjoyed.
I think that Tom mcclay's did a great job. But
I'm going to go with the Young Farmer of the
FMG Young Farmer of the Year Hugh Jackson gave me
a bit of a tune up for confusing white Hat
on County's at one stage there, but speaks openly brilliant
young man leader, you know.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
Just the future.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
We're just so well in down with these so.
Speaker 14 (35:57):
Many of the of his caliber. So that's who I'm going.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
And I note that the likes of Hugh and George
Dodson who wanted in twenty twenty four, they've got a
big presence on social media along with Emma and Tim
and all those people, and they just portray farming in
such a positive light.
Speaker 14 (36:16):
That's a Jamie the word positivity. They just give it
that and they just you know, there's always going to
be challenges and tough times that goes hand in hand
with the sector, but there's a house of a lot
of good stuff and they promote it.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
That's what I love about you.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
You're so right.
Speaker 14 (36:33):
Those names are just the other future, are they?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
And what key we sportsperson Hamish Mackay would you most
like to have Christmas Lunch with?
Speaker 14 (36:42):
You know, I look I kind of like you know
that I love you know that I love track and field,
so I'm going to vouch for I'd love to hear
I'd love to have Doey Hobbs at might because I
reckon you'd be a really interesting story.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
You know.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
Cast Aside didn't think that, you know, athletics New Zealand,
nobody's really back to and yet her gradual improvement was
always you know, the potential was always there. She comes
through to be sort of in the top dozen women's
one hundred meter sprinters in the world and does it
with so much poise and so calm. Just yeah, thank
(37:19):
you all.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And our old man's a stock agent as well. Hey, Hamosh,
thank you so much for your contribution filling in for
me throughout twenty twenty five. You'll be back for the
first week of the country from January twelve. I'll look
forward to hearing you. Then I'll be at a wedding
on Wahiki Island. You go, well, my friend, thank you
very much, all the best.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
There we go, And I think Hamish is making us
way too wairah or Gisbon for a wedding. So he's
done a great job reporting from the fielding stock sale
yards on a Friday. That's us done. And Dustin Michelle,
thank you've done a wonderful job throughout the year. I
know you'll be exercising madly over the holidays. You enjoy it.
You're a real graft. They're a great work colleague, that's
(38:01):
us done and dusted. And to you farmers out there,
you are true champions. You're the backbone of this economy
and I know you've got to work through the break,
but we love you. Catch you back next year.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
I feeling love fingers, I feeling in my shoes, Christmases
all around episode of Baling Growth.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good afternoon and Gooday, New Zealand. I'm Jamie McKay. It's
Billy Mac from Love actually one of my favorite Christmas songs.
This is the Country brought to you by Brent. Thank
you for your support throughout twenty twenty five. Brent great
Sponsors Radio. We've got lots of people to chat to,
so no time to waste. We've got a special guest
to kick off the show, and then we've got a
(00:53):
few panels and basically we are going to announce our
ag person of the Year. Well, Michelle's got hers, I've
got mine, and I'll ask my remaining guests today who
their ad person of the Year is. That a bit
later in the hour, but a special guest to kick
off the Country.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There's no Happy Soul Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Challenge, so I've decided to kick off the Country today
with not only Billy Mack Love the song, Love the movie,
but with this man who is a long standing correspondent,
although a bit more irregular these days. In fact, he
makes one appearance a year and that's at Christmas time.
He's a bit like Santa Claus John Carson. And for
(01:45):
people who aren't aware of your fame or infamity, you
used to host midday and Rural report on National radio
these days known as Red Radio, and you did an
excellent job. In the eighties, you went on to work
for the Wall Board. That's when we first became mate's colleagues.
You've worked with Federated Farmers all in the PR departments, Seaford,
(02:05):
New Zealand Forest Owners Association. But I remember back to
the glorious days of the Wallboard down in the nineteen
nineties and you were throwing cash around like it was
nobody's business.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, it was one of those institutions. You're making me
feel a bitter and feel like Bill Mahedier, Jamie, But yeah,
the war Board was one of those great dinosaurs when
farming was king and the entire cabinet was made up
of farmers and parliaments worked around the haymaking season. So
those were different days, and certainly the will Board was
one of those last dinosaurs where there was no problem
(02:38):
that throwing a lot of money at it wouldn't resolve.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We won't go there since the I reckon about the
late nineteen nineties. Every year you've named your ag person
of the year, and it may be someone who has
had more influence on farming. They may not necessarily be
someone here in New Zealand. I remember the year you
named the protest in Tieneman Square. Now I'm naming my
egg person of the year a wee bit later in
(03:03):
the show down, and I've got fingers and toes cross
that you're not going to steal the thunder here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, Well I'll start up, Jamie by doing something that
I have never in all of the years of naming
the egg Person of the year done, And that is
a collective and this is your bulk standard New Zealand farmer,
be it dairy or sheep and beef over the past year.
And I say that because we've got the takeover there
of the Alliance Group and we have from TIRA is
(03:32):
selling its branding and both are things that the farmers
stakeholders and both of those parts of the New Zealand
economy could have done something about. You take Frontier example,
sold off its brand, use the four point two billion
to develop its ingredients thing. Now that's a sensible move.
They'll make money out of that. They've done their homework.
But on the other hand, there is a certain sentiment
(03:55):
about having New Zealand products, dairy products labeled with the
New Zealand brand canker those days ago one. The other one,
of course, the more famous one and the more deep
seated one, is Alliance selling out to the Irish dawn meets.
You know, for the four k plus stakeholders in the
Alliance Group, if they had each dipped into their pockets
to the tune of mid range SUV, they could have
(04:18):
paid off that two hundred million debt and kept their
industry in their hands. So it's the New Zealand farmer
inability to pay for their own processing industry when they
would rather put more into the farm and over.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, Donnell, disagree with you. You don't throw good money
after bad in the case of the Alliance Group. Anyhow,
we'll agree to disagree. Come on, get to the point.
Who's your ag person of the Year for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The next one is and remember the rules, and that
has had the most effect within the year that we
are talking about, and the Associate Agriculture Minister, Andrew Hoggart
comes to mind for two reasons. One is the animal
welfare thing, which is always backwards as far as the
farmers are concerned, and always a progress as far as
animal rights concerned, and he managed to stem the abolition
(05:09):
eventually of self farming pharaoh crates and the mating crates
for a much reduced period, so the animal welfare has
been enhanced, but they won't have to get rid of
them until twenty thirty five, so he's won that one.
And the other one, which didn't get so many headlines,
was the announcement that there would be no agg pricing
(05:30):
for emissions and the methane would be disconnected from the
carbon dioxide and it's counting towards the targets of twenty fifty.
So as far as I'm concerned, former president of Federated
Farmers and you're quite well when I worked in Federated
Farmers he was president. There is now the Associate agg Minister,
and looking around the ag scene, I think I won't
(05:51):
change my rules. I won't use a collective for the
New Zealand Farmer, but I go for the Associate Agriculture
Minister Andrew Hoggart as my AG Person of the effort.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Don Carson, it's a long standing tradition. We'll catch you
back in twenty twenty six for your AG Person of
the ear. You have a good break mate, see you.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Later, Okay, very good and I hope you don't come
up with the same name.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I hope by darn't either, Dom and I haven't thank
Goodness for that, although I thought he was going to
steal my thunder anyhow, my agg Person of the Year
and Michelle's awee. But later up next the first of
a couple of panels today stevewin Harrison, Hawks Bay and
Jeremy Rooks. They used to be paneless, I think back
(06:31):
in the day. We're going to get their AG person
of the Year and weather and track conditions, Jeremy's hobby
farmer and Canterbury. Steve is of course in Central Hawk's Bay.
Nathan Guy who was yesterday announced our special Agricultural Trade Envoy.
Another panel, Rowena Duncan and Craig Wiggy Wiggins their AG
Person of the Year. Chris Brandolino from NIWA with the
Christmas forecast and rain for some of you farmers and
(06:54):
Hamish MacKaye raps it. It's Mackay on sport. Who's this
ag person of the year. We've got all that do
before the end of the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So Christmas, you.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Welcome back to the country. This is one of them
greatest Christmas songs of all time. The pogues just hold
fire one second.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The farmer panel with the Isuzu Dmax, the Kiwi ute
built off with truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
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 Rox
is in Canterbury. He's a hobby farmer. Steve Wan Harris
is a Globe. I a former farmer. I'll start with you, Steve,
apparently running around on the dry hills of Central Hawks
(08:05):
Bay trying to find a water leg. Can I describe
you as a farmer these days?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
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 3 (08:16):
Yeah, well that's probably a fair criticism. I'm sure he'll
buy it 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
golf's your golf handicaps really improve with all that spare
time on your hands.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We're not talking about golf, j We move.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
On, Okay, we'll move on from that. Jeremy. How did
Jeremy Rook's hobby farmer? Former farmer and Central Hawks bay there? Steve?
How do you fill your days in Jeremy.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I've used to being pretty busy in the last three
weeks helping mate Sween and working for stock agents helping
them out. So now a lot of early starts.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, good on you, so I'll stay with you, Jeremy.
I'm looking at the well. It keeps saying what Earth
Sciences end Z Drought Index map, and you know there's
there's a bit of yellow turning up in the Canterbury region.
How are you faring well?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We got twenty eight mills on when was at two
days ago, which was awesome, but it's incredibly dry here
like it's I mean, this rain will do a little
bit for crops, but unless we get some follow up,
it'll just won't do a hell of a lot. Really,
it's as dry. It's as dry as it gets to
North Keenemy.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, really dry, Steve. We know that central Hawk's Bay,
in particular, 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 5 (09:39):
Yeah, I think it's probably one of the lowest rainfall
figures that any of us have recorded, and it's forty
or fifty years. We've gone over five hundred mills. Then
normally everage rainfalls around the eight hundred nine hundred mills,
so just a bit more than half spirits thought for
Pucky Pack that've had four hundred mills for the year.
But I think part of the problem that I had
(10:00):
a look for us in the last two coming up
twelve months, there's only been three of bits that've had
three days that they've had more than twenty miles, So
very little runnal for nets, causing water issues for the
guys who the people, particularly along the coast to who
lie on dams, been very little runnal, so water's becoming
an issue as well as just been very dry and
lack of feed.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
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 4 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Yeah, no, there's been more store lambs going 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 have been annoyed that haven't
had the fat lambs, but at least the stores weighed
well and they're all they've all headed down the Southland
pretty much.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Steve Wan Harris out of Central Hawks Bay, who is
your twenty twenty five egg person of the Year.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
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 you know, 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, you know, doing the hard yards at this
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time of the year and other times of the year.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So they're my people of the years.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Jamie, 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 5 (11:38):
But Jamie, all week, you know the we're 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.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Good good for them.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
But no, you know, spirit thought for the people who
are all sort of fifty sixty thousand dollars a year
in your salary.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We can hard m I feel their pain with my salary.
Here as a pinch and it's a battle. Okay. Jeremy
Rook's with you. Well, I know you're going to pick
a single winner for me. You're not going to disappointment.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
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
(12:32):
how much work these guys do and the commitment. Willis
Fell in particular. I've dealt with him.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
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 wrap, but boy, when the heat's on, they
work their bloody arses off. So my person of the
Year is Travis Delzel from that were All because that
(13:01):
guy is just an exceptional human being and a brilliant agent.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So he obviously does some backhanders for you on the
hobby farm. Does he stay Jeremy.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Water little community as well? With the mess of Glenn
mark Man. He does a lot of rugby coaching, and
I just think sometimes these guys don't get the you know,
the cutos that they deserve the good ones. There are
a lot of ship stock agents out there, Jamie. But
this guy, hey, and with.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
A name like Dalzel, he'll be from a great rugby
pedigree as well.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
He's only five three and looks like a Junorena Tunga,
but he's but he works hard for his client and
I think he's well deserving of that.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
All right, Very Christmas lads, thanks for being the Farmer
of Sorts panel and we'll catch you back next year.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Thanks for the beer.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So there we go. Steve Wan Harris, Jeremy Rook's twenty
four after twelve ourrag person, Michelle's she's been anguishing. I
think she had. She told me she had three finalists
yes to so she's anguishing on hers. I'll keep my
powder drive for a wee bit longer. Up next, Nathan Guy,
former Minister of Agricultural in his case Minister for Primary Industries,
(14:10):
was yesterday named as our new Special Agricultural Trade Endvoy.
So he's up next. On the Country.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Of Gold for the.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Windows right for you, it's our base for.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The old Boston.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
This was yesterday's big news story on the agg front.
The Minister of Agriculture and Trade. Todd McLay has announced
the appointment of Nathan Guy, former Minister for Primary Industries,
as New Zealand's Special Agricultural Trade Endvoy. Hey Nathan, great
to have you on the show. I really appreciate your time.
You're going to be great in this job because you've
(14:50):
got not only a national profile, but an international profile.
And this job surely is all about networking.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Yes, it'll be a big part of it. Jamie, thanks
your kind words. I'm very pumped about the opportunity. Briefings
have already started with catching up with MZTE in the
new year. There's a real focus on India and the
Golf States and making sure that I'm waving the flag
for our farmers and exporters.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Todd mcclay's doing great work trying to get this FDA
across the line with India. Have you been on board
while that's been happening, wearing any of your other hats.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
I keep in close contact with the minister. I've been
well appraised of how the negotiations are going. It sounds
and feels like they're progressing very well. We just wait
and see from the Indian side when they are ready
to announce that might be the early part of next year.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
We're just waiting to see. Will be significant for our
primary sector in particular, I think it'd be great for
our lamb sheep farmers and exporters.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Very big market, very.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
Big opportunity of the Then if I put my state
role on it, it'll be significant I think for Kiwu
fruit apples and in particular also honey.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
So exciting opportunities ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
How are you going to fit all this in? Because
you're not only a dairy farmer and Haafanua, you're the
chairman of the Meat Industry Association, Independent Chair of Apriculture
New Zealand and as I understand that you're going to
milk the cows on Christmas morning, Nathan, Well, I'm.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Going to help our guys out, yeah, on Christmas morning.
I've always been pretty good at time management. Being a
minister means you're always time poor. I've got a bit
more time than I once.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Had, but it'll be very strategic.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
And I've sent the impact that I want to be
very constructive and very focused on what I want to
try and achieve for the new Zealand government in the
primary sector. So yeah, wonderful opportunity, Jamie. And it'll be
up to me to manage the expectations back home and
also on the farm and.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Across the other roles that I have. But I reckon
I can do it.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
And I'm looking forward to heading the ground running.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Hey, Nathan guy, before I quickly let you go, how's
horror feno?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Are looking Oh, pretty good, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Nice drop of rain earlier this week, a little bit
full cast for this weekend. We're tracking quite well, a
lot of silence being made, actually feeding a little bit
out at the moment. Went through a dry spell just
covering a couple of little short patches there, So I
think we're in. We're in pretty good heart and the
know we're a bit disappointed about the payout announcement this week,
(17:29):
but I'm always optimistic that hopefully things will turn next year.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Woll You've got a good off farm and come now
you'll be right, Nathan. Hey, thank you very much for
your time. You'll do a great job. Merry Christmas, Happy
New Year to you and Erica and all the family.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good on you, Jamie, and to you and yours chairs, mate.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Appreciate it, Nathan heading up to twelve thirty, do you
I haven't even updated the cricket for you. Apologies. I
will have a quick look and if New Zealand three
hundred and ninety for two, we'll update the cricket and
of course they're getting underway for what is it day
(18:08):
three over at the Adelaide over we'll do that shortly
with sports news. Michelle's got rural news. But up next
it's second of two panels today it is Rowena Duncan,
the artist formerly known as the Country's producer, and Craig
Wiggy Wiggins Lean on a gate, talk to a mate, Christmas,
never go.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Christmas and what have you done?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Welcome back to the country. It is twenty seven away
from one for our final show of the year, brought
to you by Brent. Thanks Brent, you've been great guys
to deal with radio updating the cricket for you here
in New Zealand. New Zealand are three undred and ninety
eight for two. Devon Conway is two hundred and eighteen
(19:05):
not out of three hundred and forty five balls and
what's the time? Yeah, play's just got underway. Michelle's noting yep.
At the Adelaide Oval day three. There the palms are
what was that Tooeen eight two hundred and eighteen for eight?
Thank you. We'll get ourselves organized. Here's the second of
two panels today, Rowena Duncan, the artist formerly known as
(19:25):
the Country Producer, and Craig Wiggy Wiggins lean on a gate.
Talk to him, mate, Rowena, I want to start with
you. You've got some street cred when it comes to being
a cowcocky, because you were one for a while. But
I did give you a fair bit of grief about
you commentating the wall handling at the Golden Shares because
you wouldn't know a fleece if one hit you in
the face. But you've been practicing, You've been rousing in
(19:46):
the sheds.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
I have, indeed, Jamie, nice to be back with you.
I thought you'd lost my number, but I've been in
Jenny vere.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We can't afford we can't afford you now that you're
in the corporate world with their FMG.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I've been staying with the Mullin Is this the way
you can have been out with the Piway Mullins gang. Yeah,
and the sheds in the mornings before work, so now
I can actually have some street crew. Jamie. It's don't
you that really gives me greet about it. Everyone's been
so welcoming in this year.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, okay, well look I'm really looking We're going up
for the Golden Shares, so we'll catch up there. That is,
of course the World Championships as well. It's going to
be so good in Masterton and early March, right that's Rowena.
Are you and Hawk's Bay today with Mavis?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, and hey thanks?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Are you doing any work for FMG?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Absolutely, I'm just about to step into a meeting with
New Zealand Apples and Pears.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
All right, okay, Wiggy Craig Wiggins in mid Canterbury. We
heard a mat Rooks up in North Canterbury say it's
getting pretty dry by their standards. What about Mid Canterbury.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Oh we've been pretty lucky actually, Jamie, thank you. It's
we had twenty eight miles just here in Ishburten just
this week and I think we do for some more
this afternoon and maybe tomorrow. So it was very dry,
but some of the clips are certainly doing all right
now for the rain that we've had. Just a little
bit of worry around for the hail and some of
the damage that it can cause.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Rowena Duncan because we've got to move on. We literally
have heaps of people to chat to between now and
the end of the hour. I know you've thought deeply
about this. Who is your twenty twenty five AG Person
of the Year.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
I just wanted to quick shout out to the team
at Farmstrong because they've done amazing work this year, and
also everyone who helped get so many of those irrigators
back up and running in North Canterbury after that windstorm.
That was huge around the clock effort from everyone, So
well done. But my AGG person of the year is
all of the people who answer those fire sirens when
they go off in rural communities. We had one in
(21:40):
danny Vick this morning. I heard the one Radhi on
Friday afternoon and I just think we have so many
volunteers that time to text their communities. We're heading into
quite a big fire season as well. They attend car
crashes in rural communities and I just think, you know,
when you see a discussion group or a rugby game
the siren goes off, it's the cockies. The dear if armers,
(22:01):
the shep farmers who get up and it's in those calls,
so I think it's here. It's our volunteer emergency services
for me.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, and the people who put the power back on,
you know after the windstorms, working tirelessly. But you talk
about the Volunteer Fire Brigade and block A Drysdale a
mate of ours, as does it for the Belfer Volunteer
Fire Brigade. But the tough thing about that is you've
got to go out to road accidents and it may
be your kid where your neighbors can never know what,
(22:30):
you never know what you're going to find. So you
know they're just lay people and they're not trained or
they're sort of trained for that. But absolute admiration. Agree
with you, wiggy, who have you got?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:41):
I bet Rowena up on that four good thing. I
used to do it, but with them, and so that's
great that she's mentioned them. But I've got a couple
just to mention quickly. Sarah Foley Smith in the Primary
Industry Academy down and Geraldine. She takes all those kids
up to the field days and they clean up in
the fencing competitions. But they do a lot of good
work in their community as well, Green Frill the organization
(23:01):
of that very successful Royal Support Trust event at a
Field Days last year. He gets stuff done. But the
David and Goliath Award for the Year it has to
go to David Clark. Roxy just mentioned what he's done
and everybody knows just how much he's put he can
on the blocks this year. But it's a personal toll
to David. It takes a lot for him to get
that angry, but also to know the behind the scenes.
(23:24):
I know how upsetting it can be for him and
his family with this sort of stuff. So for me,
he's my agg personal Royal Person of the Year.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'll tell you what you're I'm hearing. I've heard from
someone close to the source that what David Clark did
around the Consenting and ECAM was one of the major
drivers and certainly helped what the government did around RIMA reform.
So he is a.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Hero definitely, And I mean he got into those coalition
partners and got in their air and then national had
to jump on board to and single handedly he is
the David and Gliath story of rural New Zealand this year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, Rowena, Wiggy, We'll catch you over the break. Thanks
for your time, Jamie. Right there we go. That is
the second of our two panels today England, Yes, two
hundred and eighteen for eight we'll update the New Zealand
score in Sports News which I haven't even read yet.
(24:19):
And busy morning, believe it or not. Michelle Watt from
the Old to the New producer Wise, she's got Rural News.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The country's world news with Cob Cadet, New Zealand's leading
right on lawn Bower brand. Visit steel Ford dot cot
On INZM for your local stockist.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Thanks Jamie. And Farmers are feeling more satisfied with their
bank under less pressure, but the sector remains well short
of confidence level seen in the last decade. Federated Farmer's
latest banking survey is showing and the November survey sixty
one percent of farmers reported being satisfied or very satisfied
with their bank, about steady from May twenty twenty five
when they lasted a survey. That's a good improven from
(25:00):
fifty one percent satisfaction rate from the survey at this
time last year, but it's a long way off from
the eighty percent record level recorded in twenty seventeen, and
that's from Federated Farmers banking spokes person Mark Hooper. Of
course took over from Richard McIntyre on that banking spokes.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Year, and Richard mcintyrelong with Toby Williams. Give them a
shout out too. They're no longer chairs at feeds, but
both of them did great work in twenty twenty five
sport on.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The country with a FCO business.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are you ready for your ag Person of the year? Shortly?
But the sport, what did we say? Two hundred and
nineteen for eight at the Adelaide Oval, Devin Conways Scott
his second test double century. Let me just check what
he's two hundred and twenty one not out. Caine Williamson
twenty one not out. New Zealand are four hundred and
(25:52):
seven for two and I think they'll only back once
in this game, he said, trying to multitask and failing miserably. So.
A second high profile chief executive in as many days
has brought an end to their tumultuous era in charge
of a national sports organization. It's New Zealand Cricket boss
Scott Weenick has resigned. Meanwhile, on the good news front,
(26:15):
Whitney Houston, daughter of Steve, has been appointed as the
new coach of the Black Ferns on a two year
deal through to the end of twenty twenty seven. Okay, Michelle,
that's sports news, that's rural news. Have I got a
drum roll? Where did you put the drum roll?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
Just about?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
There it is, it's on button bar two. I think
we can do this. Okay. Sportsperson, not sportsperson of the year.
That's Hamus mackay as ag sports person of their and
as a rural ag person of their. Who's yours?
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Okay. I trouble choosing this, jamiecause there's so many great
people in the sector, but Shane mcmanaway gets mine. And
I think it's just because he is such a great
with agriculture and youth and it's all about bringing the
un through, is all about that. He's a very humble man.
Him and his wife also built a medical center in
the Wilder Rappert, which is as you do, as you do,
you know, And I think his big message. I love
(27:10):
his quote your attitude determines your altitude, and I love that.
I think it's he's just a great guy. I love
talking to him, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He has a great bloke and we'll be catching up
with him in the new year and looking forward to
his company at the Golden Shears. Okay, shall I do
another drum wrong? Where's my drum roll gone?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I've anguished. I've anguished over this, Michelle. I've absolutely anguished
over this. So to be honest that the ag Person
of the Year could have, could have should have probably
been Todd McLay again because he won it last year.
I'm hearing on the grapevine that were very very close
to that FTA with India. If Tid had got it
(27:50):
across the line before Christmas, he would have been my
AG person. Winston's done great work for us as Foreign Minister.
Miles Hurrell, the usual Suspectsane Smith, She's probably the listener's vote.
Jason to Break's another one at Zesbury. Craig Piggott has
been mentioned in dispatches from Halter David Clark and we've
(28:11):
had a couple of nominations for him. Mark Cameron, the
Gutsy Act MP in Northland, Kalkokey, Sue's Redmain Suess' is
the richest politician in Parliament. You hate me saying that,
but she was also a star at the Rural Support
Trust debate. Nicola Griggs done great work as Horticulture Minister.
Grant McCullum phoned me up this morning, Michelle and nominated himself.
(28:36):
It's true another man who nominated himself as Andy Thompson.
He's out of his league as well. Do you know?
I was who I was going to go with and
I didn't. In the end was a man who made
had more influence on the fate of New Zealand farmers
than anyone else on earth. Probably this year on Liberation
(28:59):
Day and ope he slapped trade tariffs on the world.
Six months later he took some off New Zealand beef
and Kiwi fruit. What he does in twenty twenty six
will probably have a greater bearing on New Zealand farmers
and free trade. We are a free trading nation than
anyone else. But I couldn't bring myself Michelle to vote
for Donald Trump as the ag Person of the Year.
(29:22):
So my ag Person of the Year and someone named
him earlier in the week. It might have been Peter
Newbold from pdg Ritson I've gone with Peter McBride, a
man who success literally follows around, whether it's at Zesprey,
Trinity Lands or farms and obviously Fonterra. He was named
the Chairperson of the Year at the twenty twenty five
(29:43):
Deloitte Top two hundred Awards, recognized for his steady hand
and strategic clarity in leading Fonterra through a period of
significant transformation. When he went in November twenty twenty, Fonterra
probably wasn't in a great space. We won't relet it
eight history. They had some bad appointments in the executive,
(30:04):
but they've got a good executive now and with everything
that's going on this year, all bet the dairy price
is going down. That's not the making of Fonterra. My
AG Person of the Year and I feel sorry for
Todd McLay because I reckon he deserves it. My AGG
Person of the Year for twenty twenty five. Michelle as
Peter McBride an unsung hero up next to the weather
(30:24):
with Chris Brandolino.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Weather on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer Fridays.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
On the country wouldn't be complete without this man. He
is my favorite weather man on a Friday. Chris Brandolino
from Earth Sciences, New Zealand. Let's look out to Christmas Day,
Chris very quickly, but that some of the country's going
to get wet feet and I'm sure a lot of
the farmers will welcome that. What do you got for me? Shoot?
Speaker 13 (30:57):
Yeah, Look, as we approach the Christmas holiday, let's start
with Chris, miss Eve. I think there will be rain
across the west of the South Island, maybe some showers,
maybe some thundery showers across the far North over towards
a Northland, maybe northern Auckland, but they're going to be spotty,
Jamie in that part of the country. The best chance
for rain as we get into the Christmas holiday itself
(31:17):
twenty fifth will be again the west of the South
Island could see an afternoon thunderstorm or an afternoon shower
across the upper part of the North Island from the
Cormandel to the Auckland and Northland region. But it won't
define today. What will define to day On Christmas Day,
Jamie is going to be warmth It is going to
(31:38):
be warm, if not hot, on Christmas Day, and Christmas
Eve for that matter, for the eastern part of the
North Island, the Upper North Island, maybe even the northeastern
part of the South Island. I think Hawk's Bay, Jamie,
we could see temperatures on Christmas Day, challenge, if not
thirty celsius.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, they probably want some rain though, Chris.
Speaker 13 (31:57):
Yeah, they're going to get some rain. They're going to
get some rain. That looks like maybe early next week.
So a bit of rain coming early next week. But
look when you look at the forecast rainfall over the
next seven days, basically for the rest of the calendar,
well let's say just before the Boxing day. How about
that over the next six seven days, it's not going
to be a lot. It's probably gonna be in the
order of maybe five to fifteen millimeters. Again, that's over
(32:19):
about a week. We're hopeful we can get some better
chances of rain. We'll hopp to watch the tropics lay
in the next week. As the last few days of
twenty twenty five, there could be a low dropping from
the north. That seems to be a low chance, but
something worth watching. And I think as we go ahead
into the new year, the impatients are that we are
going to see a nice wow. How about this? For
(32:42):
those in the South Island, expect a significant cool snap
from Boxing Day through about the twenty seventh, maybe the
twenty eighth of three to cold snap. It's about the
twenty ninth of December, so South Island and even Lower
North Island is going to see a significant cool snap
after Christmas and around Boxing there for a few days,
(33:03):
but we're going to warm up as the new year approaches.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
On New Year's Day, Chris Brandelena, thanks for your contribution
throughout twenty twenty five. You do a sterling job. Keep
up the good work at Earth Sciences, New Zealand. You
enjoy a break and a MacKaye's are on me see
you next year.
Speaker 13 (33:18):
I look forward to thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Likewid Chris Brandolino. And this is Whitney Houston, new coach
of the Black Ferns. I can't multitask, Michelle. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry anyhow I wrongly announced Whitney Houston is the
new coach of the Black Ferns. It is, of course
Whitney Hanson, daughter of Sir Steve Up. Next, we're going
to wrap it with Hamish MacKaye and mckaye on Sport
(33:42):
and Agriculture. I wonder if the fielding stocksail is happening
on the Friday before Christmas. We'll ask them up.
Speaker 12 (33:49):
Next mckiel's Sport with farm Lands, prevent Paris on how
Breaks and score a win.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
This summer And just before we go to Hamish mckaye
our final guest for twenty twenty five and fill a
host here on the Country has done a great job.
Just a big shout out from the farm Strong team
to us, Well, that's nice of them to us here
at the Country team for getting behind farm Strong again
this year. Look, it's a great partnership. It is making
a real difference what Farmstrong do to the well being
(34:27):
of rural communities and farm Strong say thanks to all
the farmers and growers who have tuned in as well.
We hope you have a great Christmas and catch up
with friends and neighbors over summer, Stay connected, stay safe
and of course most importantly, stay farm strong. Okay, Hamosh,
you're wrapping the show for the year with mckaye on Sport.
You may be interested to know that Whitney Houston is
(34:49):
the new coach of the Black Ferns Whitney.
Speaker 14 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, that was yes, yes, yes, Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Think I misspoke Hamish, Yes.
Speaker 14 (35:00):
Yes, yes you did.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
There wouldn't he handsOn?
Speaker 14 (35:02):
You we kind of She was sort of groomed for
the job for a while there and then.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Sort of slipped off the radar a bit. But gets
the job.
Speaker 14 (35:09):
And she looks pretty damn pleased about it too, so
I'm sure she would do a good job too. So
certainly got the it's in the genes one would expect.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, if she's half as good as the old man,
she'll she'll do a good job. You nominated your Egg
sports Person of the Year. But what about that was
last week, wasn't it.
Speaker 14 (35:27):
Yeah, tour Henderson, that's right to Henderson short from Jack Jordan.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, yep, what about your Egg Person of the Year Hamish?
Speaker 14 (35:35):
Well, you know, I love the work, well, I enjoyed.
I think that Tom mcclay's did a great job. But
I'm going to go with the Young Farmer of the
FMG Young Farmer of the Year Hugh Jackson gave me
a bit of a tune up for confusing white Hat
on County's at one stage there, but speaks openly brilliant
young man leader, you know.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
Just the future.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
We're just so well in down with these so.
Speaker 14 (35:57):
Many of the of his caliber. So that's who I'm going.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
And I note that the likes of Hugh and George
Dodson who wanted in twenty twenty four, they've got a
big presence on social media along with Emma and Tim
and all those people, and they just portray farming in
such a positive light.
Speaker 14 (36:16):
That's a Jamie the word positivity. They just give it
that and they just you know, there's always going to
be challenges and tough times that goes hand in hand
with the sector, but there's a house of a lot
of good stuff and they promote it.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
That's what I love about you.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
You're so right.
Speaker 14 (36:33):
Those names are just the other future, are they?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
And what key we sportsperson Hamish Mackay would you most
like to have Christmas Lunch with?
Speaker 14 (36:42):
You know, I look I kind of like you know
that I love you know that I love track and field,
so I'm going to vouch for I'd love to hear
I'd love to have Doey Hobbs at might because I
reckon you'd be a really interesting story.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
You know.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
Cast Aside didn't think that, you know, athletics New Zealand,
nobody's really back to and yet her gradual improvement was
always you know, the potential was always there. She comes
through to be sort of in the top dozen women's
one hundred meter sprinters in the world and does it
with so much poise and so calm. Just yeah, thank
(37:19):
you all.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And our old man's a stock agent as well. Hey, Hamosh,
thank you so much for your contribution filling in for
me throughout twenty twenty five. You'll be back for the
first week of the country from January twelve. I'll look
forward to hearing you. Then I'll be at a wedding
on Wahiki Island. You go, well, my friend, thank you
very much, all the best.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
There we go, And I think Hamish is making us
way too wairah or Gisbon for a wedding. So he's
done a great job reporting from the fielding stock sale
yards on a Friday. That's us done. And Dustin Michelle,
thank you've done a wonderful job throughout the year. I
know you'll be exercising madly over the holidays. You enjoy it.
You're a real graft. They're a great work colleague, that's
(38:01):
us done and dusted. And to you farmers out there,
you are true champions. You're the backbone of this economy
and I know you've got to work through the break,
but we love you. Catch you back next year.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!