October 12, 2025 • 9 mins
Dean Rabbidge says proposed changes to on-farm Methane Emissions are a step in the right direction.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the master on hockin Neuis Dean Rabbage Farms
at Glenham and joins us once again. Good afternoon. It's
been an iffy week or two of weather dinos since
we last caught up. Are you seeing a little bit
more blue sky or is it just a case of
a continuation of the last week?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good afternoon, Andy. Look now things have improved a lot,
haven't they. Really. Days are getting longer and a few
more sunshine airs, so yeah, but more heat going around,
especially every weekend. It was nice and it doesn't take
long for panis to green up a little bit and
little Liams and news to sit down and enjoy it. Really,
SU's you know, taken and it's Queenjuble.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So you've had a bit of a tinge grow up
come out through the ground.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we have, yes, shad green now, which is needed
because believers start and obviously get the passion to their diets.
So yes, of just juggling pedics around making sure they're
a doctor accordingly. And yeah, things are going reasonably okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
To the middle of October there you kind of expect
the grass to be growing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right, Yeah, well I shouldn't. We shouldn't it. Yeah, yeah,
tailing we were all right, went well, we've only done
the one day and the terminal the bus, so yeah,
there seems to be enough of the always a pedicure
for some reason, aren't we But yeah, early early figures
(01:31):
on the cat we should be on pass not a
wee bit better than than last year, and last year
was one of their best ones. So you'll just see
what happens. And another sort of fortnight when we when
we tail everything else right up.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Now, you've got to change that terminology for the years.
I've told you this before, that A and the B
mods you can't use it in this day and age.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
D oh yeah, So we've got the capitalists and socialist.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Remember, just some of your best work. I'll give you
that one. Hey, look, it's been another teresting weekend as well.
Of course, as methane target, the government's come out saying, look,
we need to recorrect this, going from a target to
twenty fifty have been twenty four to forty seven percent
reduction to a more realistic target of fourteen to twenty
four percent. But on top of that as well, Nestley
(02:16):
pulling use as a dairy Methane Action Alliance whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, it's been quite a productive weekend as far as
that sort of announcement goes for the real sector. Obviously,
as zero percent target would be the ulpha going, I
think it'd be everybody's preferred position. But we've got what
we've got. But when you look at it in a
bit more context, I think twenty seventeen, which they're using,
(02:41):
is the base you we've already seen a ten percent reduction,
and from what I understand the figures that I've been shown,
that only leaves us for another four percent to reduce
them the next twenty five years. So I could be
corrected on that, but if you look at a lot
of that, I think we'll get there quite easily with
(03:02):
a bit of natural attrition unfortunately, and with some landings changed.
So it's pretty good as as good as a zero
target really if you want to look at all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But it's certainly a change from twenty twenty two from
the during government. Just looking at a piece of paper
this morning from back then talking about a five year
pricing pathway which is to be established from this year
twenty twenty five going out to twenty thirty. Certainly a
change what the government wants to achieve.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, Like, it just shows you how God we gre
with my words here here how much of a waste
of time and effort and money both taxpayer and industry
money was spent on Hwoker can are chasing this mythical target. Yeah,
so hopefully we can see the end of egrazero as well,
(03:53):
which is also spending a lot of industry money and
producer money that could be used with some really tangible
environmental enhancements on farm rather than these biological methane inhibitors
which is just going to crate another cost and a
lot of unproven science there as well. So hopefully this
(04:13):
reduction targets and nests they doing what they've done or see. Well,
I've obviously seen the end of Hewoker canal, which is fantastic,
and hopefully this personally we see the end of EGO
zero as well.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now, Tesco, which is the biggest buyer of New Zealand
products in Britain, they wanted all their products to be
environmentally accredited and reaching the zero across their entire supply
chain by twenty fifty. I await to see what Tesco
comes out with as a result of this. In due course, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think once they realized that the consumers are going
to have to start paying a lot more for their
product if they want to reach these targets, the sort
of loft the ambitions might be redressed as well, hopefully.
I know you've I've heard it on your show. And
before that, everybody sort of starts buying their food within
the environment lists head on, but as soon as they
(05:01):
get the checkout, they become an economist. So I think, yeah,
the cost of all this is actually going to start
to really have an impact on things.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, it's the cost of living crisis, and it is
that when you go to the supermarke and do the
weekly shop. Geez, what as the comparison the other day
on a brand of biscuit twelve months ago, probably two
dollars two dollars twenty at most now up to about
three dollars thirty three dollars forty. That's just one item,
And so your shop's gone that by an average I
don't know, seven or eight percent over the last eighty months.
And that's just at a guess, and I'm probably too low.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, as you get a fight when you go to
the checkouts. Now, like a lot of people, well most
people that probably listening the royal sector. We're very fortunate
that we're probably able to supply a lot of their
own meat that we can grow on farm. I really yeah,
we're very fortunate that position. But I wouldn't like to
have to be back paying for it at the checkout
(05:56):
along with everything else that seems to have gone up.
If it's not only the price has gone up, but
I think the packet sizes have also got a lot
smaller as well. Yeah, double yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh, it's ridiculous. You go and buy products and everything's
just seemed to have shrunk, and they've changed the packaging
and they just try and justify the rest now behind
the changes. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
If only we could get paid more for smaller lambs
would be in the winner, wouldn't we.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That'd be great, just getting paid all over the board.
But this is a positive, This is a great positive.
Will continues to go under a week in one direction,
and it's not the band either. It's talking about going upwards.
I mean at the Canverary sale, the christ Churts sale
last week, going up a potential of thirty two cents
once again.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, and I even say that we'll spiked in the
UK as well, which is up over a pound twenty
a kado as well. So yeah, like that's really exciting
for strong Wall seat there. It's obviously been the leg
out of all their basket of goods that we supply
probably bi last thirty years. Really though, hasn't it, to
(06:58):
be honest, yet to be more than covering production cost
of harvesting and production costs. Now it's putting it in
a really good position again, So it's good to see
and hopefully it's for all the right right reasons. It's
for it's extributes rather than just to diminishing supply.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, it's like Jamie McKay mentioned a wee while ago,
ten dollars for meat, ten dollars for wall, ten dollars
for milk. That'll be a good help.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Come. Oh yeah, take that any day of the week, all.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right, a little bit of sport because we can MPC
a Tago by a plenty cam Miller gore aboard and
rebel claim him out there doing the demags for a
Targo over Wayhaddow just on the verge of extra time
and Kenbury playing Hawk's Bay in the other game at
Tago by a plenty. Whoever wins this game, I hope
they win the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Cong Yeah, well hopefully it's Tigo really, don't we Yeah,
I'm being high in as partner like that, but gee,
it's disappointed not to see Counties get overline against Kenworth.
Think everybody in the country would have been happy about
that one. Yeah, it's an exciting fuddy for semi final stuff.
It's been thrown around lot and even the Tarney Hawk's
Bay game. I thought trying he had done by Timo
(08:04):
disloing well, I thought it was a reasonably obvious try
in the last sort of ten minutes that would have
brought them back with them seven. It would have made
it quite a green stand finished as well. So yes,
the semi finals can live up to the quarterfinals. Went
for a good weekend, Ropey next weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Too, and bethurs yesterday you took a keen interest in.
I mean, how could you not watch that theater play out,
especially over the last forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh yeah, don't Australia do sport well?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Just the they do it so bloody well commentary and
everything that resonates with the less than the watcher.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No, it was It was fantastic. Yeah. It was put
on the TV here and well all day yesterday and
you sort of pop way it a few jobs and
come back and see what was going on. And then
when the rain started, I thank everybody was they had
a dry seat. Was pretty heavy to watch to see
that happen and those jobs are they scale forward? Yeah,
it was quite exciting. Finishing a key with to get
(09:00):
over the line is even better.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Absolutely good on your Dan, Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Dean Ravage of Glennam. You're listening to the muster up
next Murray Cobra and from Mainlair Minerals and before the
end of the year m Vicargo mp A Minister for
the Environment Penny Simmons
This is the master on hockin Neuis Dean Rabbage Farms
at Glenham and joins us once again. Good afternoon. It's
been an iffy week or two of weather dinos since
we last caught up. Are you seeing a little bit
more blue sky or is it just a case of
a continuation of the last week?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good afternoon, Andy. Look now things have improved a lot,
haven't they. Really. Days are getting longer and a few
more sunshine airs, so yeah, but more heat going around,
especially every weekend. It was nice and it doesn't take
long for panis to green up a little bit and
little Liams and news to sit down and enjoy it. Really,
SU's you know, taken and it's Queenjuble.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So you've had a bit of a tinge grow up
come out through the ground.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we have, yes, shad green now, which is needed
because believers start and obviously get the passion to their diets.
So yes, of just juggling pedics around making sure they're
a doctor accordingly. And yeah, things are going reasonably okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
To the middle of October there you kind of expect
the grass to be growing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right, Yeah, well I shouldn't. We shouldn't it. Yeah, yeah,
tailing we were all right, went well, we've only done
the one day and the terminal the bus, so yeah,
there seems to be enough of the always a pedicure
for some reason, aren't we But yeah, early early figures
(01:31):
on the cat we should be on pass not a
wee bit better than than last year, and last year
was one of their best ones. So you'll just see
what happens. And another sort of fortnight when we when
we tail everything else right up.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Now, you've got to change that terminology for the years.
I've told you this before, that A and the B
mods you can't use it in this day and age.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
D oh yeah, So we've got the capitalists and socialist.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Remember, just some of your best work. I'll give you
that one. Hey, look, it's been another teresting weekend as well.
Of course, as methane target, the government's come out saying, look,
we need to recorrect this, going from a target to
twenty fifty have been twenty four to forty seven percent
reduction to a more realistic target of fourteen to twenty
four percent. But on top of that as well, Nestley
(02:16):
pulling use as a dairy Methane Action Alliance whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, it's been quite a productive weekend as far as
that sort of announcement goes for the real sector. Obviously,
as zero percent target would be the ulpha going, I
think it'd be everybody's preferred position. But we've got what
we've got. But when you look at it in a
bit more context, I think twenty seventeen, which they're using,
(02:41):
is the base you we've already seen a ten percent reduction,
and from what I understand the figures that I've been shown,
that only leaves us for another four percent to reduce
them the next twenty five years. So I could be
corrected on that, but if you look at a lot
of that, I think we'll get there quite easily with
(03:02):
a bit of natural attrition unfortunately, and with some landings changed.
So it's pretty good as as good as a zero
target really if you want to look at all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But it's certainly a change from twenty twenty two from
the during government. Just looking at a piece of paper
this morning from back then talking about a five year
pricing pathway which is to be established from this year
twenty twenty five going out to twenty thirty. Certainly a
change what the government wants to achieve.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, Like, it just shows you how God we gre
with my words here here how much of a waste
of time and effort and money both taxpayer and industry
money was spent on Hwoker can are chasing this mythical target. Yeah,
so hopefully we can see the end of egrazero as well,
(03:53):
which is also spending a lot of industry money and
producer money that could be used with some really tangible
environmental enhancements on farm rather than these biological methane inhibitors
which is just going to crate another cost and a
lot of unproven science there as well. So hopefully this
(04:13):
reduction targets and nests they doing what they've done or see. Well,
I've obviously seen the end of Hewoker canal, which is fantastic,
and hopefully this personally we see the end of EGO
zero as well.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now, Tesco, which is the biggest buyer of New Zealand
products in Britain, they wanted all their products to be
environmentally accredited and reaching the zero across their entire supply
chain by twenty fifty. I await to see what Tesco
comes out with as a result of this. In due course, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think once they realized that the consumers are going
to have to start paying a lot more for their
product if they want to reach these targets, the sort
of loft the ambitions might be redressed as well, hopefully.
I know you've I've heard it on your show. And
before that, everybody sort of starts buying their food within
the environment lists head on, but as soon as they
(05:01):
get the checkout, they become an economist. So I think, yeah,
the cost of all this is actually going to start
to really have an impact on things.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, it's the cost of living crisis, and it is
that when you go to the supermarke and do the
weekly shop. Geez, what as the comparison the other day
on a brand of biscuit twelve months ago, probably two
dollars two dollars twenty at most now up to about
three dollars thirty three dollars forty. That's just one item,
And so your shop's gone that by an average I
don't know, seven or eight percent over the last eighty months.
And that's just at a guess, and I'm probably too low.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, as you get a fight when you go to
the checkouts. Now, like a lot of people, well most
people that probably listening the royal sector. We're very fortunate
that we're probably able to supply a lot of their
own meat that we can grow on farm. I really yeah,
we're very fortunate that position. But I wouldn't like to
have to be back paying for it at the checkout
(05:56):
along with everything else that seems to have gone up.
If it's not only the price has gone up, but
I think the packet sizes have also got a lot
smaller as well. Yeah, double yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh, it's ridiculous. You go and buy products and everything's
just seemed to have shrunk, and they've changed the packaging
and they just try and justify the rest now behind
the changes. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
If only we could get paid more for smaller lambs
would be in the winner, wouldn't we.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That'd be great, just getting paid all over the board.
But this is a positive, This is a great positive.
Will continues to go under a week in one direction,
and it's not the band either. It's talking about going upwards.
I mean at the Canverary sale, the christ Churts sale
last week, going up a potential of thirty two cents
once again.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, and I even say that we'll spiked in the
UK as well, which is up over a pound twenty
a kado as well. So yeah, like that's really exciting
for strong Wall seat there. It's obviously been the leg
out of all their basket of goods that we supply
probably bi last thirty years. Really though, hasn't it, to
(06:58):
be honest, yet to be more than covering production cost
of harvesting and production costs. Now it's putting it in
a really good position again, So it's good to see
and hopefully it's for all the right right reasons. It's
for it's extributes rather than just to diminishing supply.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, it's like Jamie McKay mentioned a wee while ago,
ten dollars for meat, ten dollars for wall, ten dollars
for milk. That'll be a good help.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Come. Oh yeah, take that any day of the week, all.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right, a little bit of sport because we can MPC
a Tago by a plenty cam Miller gore aboard and
rebel claim him out there doing the demags for a
Targo over Wayhaddow just on the verge of extra time
and Kenbury playing Hawk's Bay in the other game at
Tago by a plenty. Whoever wins this game, I hope
they win the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Cong Yeah, well hopefully it's Tigo really, don't we Yeah,
I'm being high in as partner like that, but gee,
it's disappointed not to see Counties get overline against Kenworth.
Think everybody in the country would have been happy about
that one. Yeah, it's an exciting fuddy for semi final stuff.
It's been thrown around lot and even the Tarney Hawk's
Bay game. I thought trying he had done by Timo
(08:04):
disloing well, I thought it was a reasonably obvious try
in the last sort of ten minutes that would have
brought them back with them seven. It would have made
it quite a green stand finished as well. So yes,
the semi finals can live up to the quarterfinals. Went
for a good weekend, Ropey next weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Too, and bethurs yesterday you took a keen interest in.
I mean, how could you not watch that theater play out,
especially over the last forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh yeah, don't Australia do sport well?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Just the they do it so bloody well commentary and
everything that resonates with the less than the watcher.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No, it was It was fantastic. Yeah. It was put
on the TV here and well all day yesterday and
you sort of pop way it a few jobs and
come back and see what was going on. And then
when the rain started, I thank everybody was they had
a dry seat. Was pretty heavy to watch to see
that happen and those jobs are they scale forward? Yeah,
it was quite exciting. Finishing a key with to get
(09:00):
over the line is even better.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Absolutely good on your Dan, Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Dean Ravage of Glennam. You're listening to the muster up
next Murray Cobra and from Mainlair Minerals and before the
end of the year m Vicargo mp A Minister for
the Environment Penny Simmons
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