The Country 02/04/26: Jeremy Rookes talks to Jamie Mackay

Our resident lifestyle/hobby farming correspondent has his say on Marsden Point, a glorious autumn, rugby and the perils of golf.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, wrapping the country with our resident lifestyle slash hobby
farming correspondent Jeremy Rooks and Canterbury Jeers. You are having
a roiler of an autumn and Canterbury just a shame
that the poor old arable farmers are having such a
tough time.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, we'll a fuel crisis is just sort of compounds
the issues they've been having with getting them know that
their crops harvested and for years they've been getting screwed
anyway by by the ape. Well I don't know whoever
buys their seed, so no, I wouldn't want to be
one of them at the moment.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, okay, the arable farmers though, we're having a good
time of it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You mean the sheep farmers fair Oh no.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Sorry, sheep and bee farmers. Sorry, I'm trying to multitask,
not doing a very good job at pastoral farmers. There
we go, there you go.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, no, no, it's funnily enough. I've just been looking
at bit before I came on as a sale going
on at Canterbury Park and the prices are just through
the bloody seeding again, so you know they're paying sort
of seven forty probably average today for steer cars and
heifers are sort of pushing up in the mid six
dollars a kilo store, so unbelievable money.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
You bring a lot to the show as a lifestyle
hobby farming correspondent With numbers like that, What do you
think about Marsden points and Capouni.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, I think that I think Dern and Hipkins and
Robertson should be in prisons. Are deliberately sabotaging our funeral finery,
but pouring concrete down all the pipes so they can't
be reinstated as a deliberate act of trees and the sabotages.
It's quite extraordinary the craziness of these wope lefties. They're

(01:32):
just nuts. So you know, we're just making us more
energy in the secure, which is the last thing we need.
Is this war's proven, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
No energy insecure and fertilizer insecure. Yeah, Caponi is a
jewel in our crown. We need to get it up
and running and get it going full bore. Rugby, your
crusaders are playing the drill? Or is that tonight tomorrow night?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is it? I'm not actually sure, Jamie, you haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Will will you be going along to the cold old
adding it won't be cold in Canterbury at the moment.
But are you excited about one New Zealand to Carha.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I've already been in there for a lot past year
and it's incredible. But I stupidly forgot to buy about
the the pre Failly and the general public sail of
the test mats missed out. Unless unless i'd buy or
less a way for exitent performs me dou can get
a wheel chairs seat.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Or or I don't know, a big media company that
you're a wonderful contributor to invites you along to their
corporate box.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well that won't be you, gorse pockets.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, I won't. I have even gotten I haven't even
gotten invite myself.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Also, I can sympathize with you, Jesse, your perils of
playing golf. I'm in a form slump myself, but trust me, Jess,
one day you will come right. Okay, you have a
good weekend, All right?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Facts, there we go.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Jeremy Rocks