February 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Paul Allison, Damien O'Connor, Shane McManaway, Nancy Crawshaw, Jamie Cunninghame, and Chris Russell.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Listener, gooday, news Ellen, Good afternoon. Welcome to the Country,
brought to you by Brent. I'm Jamie McKay. I got
a special guest in the studio today, Paul Allison, formerly
the voice of Terra's Brook these days the voice of
Forsyth Bar well known of course to news Talk zed
B listeners because of its extensive sporting knowledge and history,
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and he's in the studio today in his capacity as
the convener of the judging panel for the Rural Sports
Awards which are coming up in Palmi North in early March.
Of course, we've also got the Rural Games. We're going
to announce the finalists for the Rural Sports Awards, some
big names there as well. Also on the show today,
Damian O'Connor. It's interesting the government's having a swing and
(01:24):
about time too at the banks and the supermarkets. We'll
talk about that one. Today's Xander McDonald panel, Shane mcmanaway,
the founder, Nancy Crawlshaw twenty twenty four winner Jamie Cunningham
out of PGG Rights and Livestock based on the farming
capital of the country just up the road from Parmi
north Fielding and our Rossie correspondent as Chris Russell. Paul
(01:46):
Good afternoon. Great to have you in the studio. I
know you spend a lot of time on the end
of a microphone at Forsyth bar Stadium before we talk
about the rural games. Super Rugby starts this weekend, in
fact tomorrow not the Highlanders have got a home game
next weekend, so you'll be keeping your vocal cords well
oiled for that one. Going to put it straight on you.
(02:09):
Who's your winning team? Because I think you and I
might agree on this one.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, Well, it's whoever's left standing at the end of
the competition.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Really.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You look at the teams now and so many of
them have actually got key injuries already. You look at
the poor old Crusaders Cody Taylor and George Bell Braden
then or Quentin Strange, you know the long long list
for those guys already. The Heartlanders have been like that
in the past, and it's the depth of squad. I
just look at that chief side though, that they're going
to put out this weekend and they've got six all
blacks on their bench, which just shows some degree of
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depth of squad, but also the fact that maybe they're
just easing some of these international players back in to
the competition. The Blues will start his favorites start the
defending champions, and they've got the rock Stars and that
pivotal position of number ten and Piafetta and Plumber and Barrett.
They've got options there. But I just like the Chiefs
for some reason against the Crew. Say it as possibly
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and the Blues will be. We shouldn't forget about the
Australian teams, Jamie, I know you wanted a one who
would answer.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You don't normally get one four Australian teams, not five.
So they've concentrated their talent across just four teams. They're
going to be more competitive. Put my neck on the line. Yeah,
I'm going to go the Chiefs, but they're gonna need
a lot of luck. I think once you get into
that top six, it's a change this year. It's not
the top eight top six, anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, well, I think I'm going to go at this
early stage with the Chiefs. I'd love to say the Highlanders,
but I don't think they've got the depth and their squad.
You mentioned the key position and it is on all
rugby teams, it's the number ten. So I see it
as kind of Damien Mackenzie the Boden Barrett right, yeah,
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in Blues versus Chiefs. Because you mentioned Harry Plumber, I
thought he's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He's playing in this competition, I think before he heads off.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh is he? Okay? Yeah, it's my understanding.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And so Boden Barrett is a fullback in this weekends games.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, I don't know. I'd like to see him back
in ten. But anyhow, okay, Paul, So what we've got
because they're going to go to Damien Okonna shortly, we've
got the Rural Sports Awards. Will announce the finalists a
wee bit later. But gee, old, I shouldn't say old
Steve Hollander.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
He'll kill me for that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Steve Holland and the founder and trustee does a great job.
They have it at the Aarwa Perni Function Center. It's magnificent.
I keep forgetting the name of the catering company, but
the best food. Seriously and already. How about this for
a speaking lineup? I think it's all sold out bar
two tables.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, there's two tables still left.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I think Erica Dawson, Tim Solvey, the dairy farmer who's
played a wee bit of cricket, and Wayne Smith.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
How good's that?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Steve Ten's to keep on leaning on people, making sure.
I don't know whether you wears them down. With Steve Hollander,
it's just easier to say yes, I found Yeah. No,
it's not a word in his vocabulary, but it's a
fantastic of it. I was there last year and there's
a great show, not only at showcases the sporting talent
around the rural areas, but it's a great way to
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set the games off on that Friday evening.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Okay you stay, can you hang in for the hour?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Good on you, Good on you. I might even shout
your lunch after that. I want to talk to you
also about your first Jamie Well.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I want to talk. I didn't I give you a
box of m calle as I've made on you.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I want to talk because you're a former New Zealand
marathon champion as well. About this young guy, Sam Ruth
and I know you've done a lot of homework on
this pedigree, but this is so exciting.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
We've got a fifteen year old kid.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I know this is a rural program, but he's sort
of from rural. Yeah, a great breeding. There's there's a
farming comparison. But you know, this guy could be the
next John Walker, the next Peter Snoll.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
He's got talent that we haven't seen in a fifteen
year old in New Zealand across any code or any
particular discipline.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Fifteen years of age. Just think about this, Jamie. He
went out and he ran seven minutes fifty five or
fifty six for a three thousand. He won the New
Zealand Championships. This is against the seniors. He beat the
best in the country at fifteen years of age, youngest
person ever won a New Zealand total across any disciplines.
He ran the equivalent of a sub formanut mile last week.
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Remember it's a long time ago when New Zealand had
their first sub Formanut Miler and Murray Halber. But by
g it's still a really difficult task to do. He's
done it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
At fifteen Music Today courtesy of Paul Allison as well
The Traveling Wilberries, Great band, great band. Okay up next
to Damien O'Connor, not if I'll get the gloves. I
was watching Damien in the house the other day. He
looked bored, senseless when I was watching him. We'll ask
him if he was Shane mcmanaway, Nancy Crawshaw, Jamie Cunningham
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and Chris Russell.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Before the end of the.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Beg be up and batten around, sen fell up, be
shut down. You're the best scene that have.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And welcome back to the country. The Traveling Wilbury Wilbury's
courtesy of Paul Allison. Damian O'Connor is Labour's trades spokesperson,
former Minister of Agriculture Damien. I was in Wellington on
Tuesday for the National Lamb Day barbecue. Didn't get a
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chance to chat to you on air, talk to Joe Luxton.
It was a good turnout from politicians, although I noticed
Damien the Nats were their act were their labor.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Was there New Zealand first?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Were there no sign of Chloe and the Greens no,
I think.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
There was a green MP or two. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I think I think was their one. I noticed so,
but I didn't see quothing. You know that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, it's a good promotion, Damie and O'Connor. We just
need the supermarkets to play ball and special And I'm
going to get Michelle. I think she's gone to the
websites this morning to see if they are doing any
deals on LAMB for National LAMB Day on Saturday. But
they need to. And I say good on this government
Damien for having a crack at the supermarkets.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
But absolutely should have a go tricity companies, the banks,
the whole lot.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Good.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
We do need to break up those duopoly all those big,
big companies that are squeezing our economy. Come back to LAMB. Actually,
you know, a barbecue where we're talking to one another
preaching to the converted is not going to cut it
or go far when indeed, we need to tell the
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story out to the wider world. And if you look
at what a study is doing, it's committing real money
to some smart advertising and campaigning to get out and
sell the value of LAMB.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, but hang on, Damien, most of that most of
that will no, no, no, Most of that campaigning and advertising
in Australia is for their domestic market. They increase land
consumption by something like four hundred percent for that week.
And all I'm saying is the powers that be here
in New Zealand, we need to do likewise and make
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it agree, make it, make it affordable and market and
increase our domestic consumption.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
And who do you think should do that, Jamie, who.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Do you think should do it?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Well, it's time for.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
The industry has to step up.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
And you know, a lot of the offshore is offshore
marketing has been subsidized by taxpayers as well. The industry
hasn't been very good at committing money to marketing and
storytelling and that's been a failing and I think we
need to do that.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Taste Pure Nature, you know, is a good campaign.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
It's been around for about ten years in terms of
its inception and it needs to be revamped as.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
In China market.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
But you know, when that money runs out, will the
industry be committed to continue that? And it's a it's
a question that Alan Barber raised and Farmers Weekly, and
I think it's a fair one. There has to be
ongoing sustainable funding for marketing storytelling and because we have
wonderful meat with wonderful attributes, it should be marketed to
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the world, but we just kind of sell it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hey, storytelling seems to be the new buzzword, the new
management speak.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Yeah, well, I guess, as you know someone who sits
behind a microphone, that that should be right up your ally.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
There is something happening with India today. My sources are
telling me that something's happening in Wellington.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I think it was an indication of maybe some progress
in terms of our relationship there.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I haven't heard directly of that, but highly likely.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
I mean, you know, we do have to build the
relationship over time. We've always believed that going to a
free trade deal within three years, as Chrys Luxen promised,
it was completely realistic, like many of the other promises
that they made. But building a relationship a valuable one
over time is something that I think a number of
governments will have to do to hopefully get to an
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FDA sometime in the future.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But even if we can get a deal on say LAMB,
that would be a huge start for us, wouldn't it.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Of course, anything be as part and I guess the
issue is whether you sit down and do a bit
by bit or whether you end up with a comprehensive
trade agreement that opens the door to opportunities that you
might not realize because it is in the area of
also the services of technology and other areas, not just
about meat, not just about dairy, but actually the whole
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range of things that we export is a nation.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All the talk in Wellington on Tuesday was about David
Seymour's stunt on Monday. I think it was in the
land Drover. You can't get much more rural than a
Series one land Rover, the twentieth one ever made. We're
going to chat to the guy who owns it, hopefully
Professor Julian patten On or Peyton on tomorrow's show. But
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what did you make of it? I mean he's just
repeating history. They did that in nineteen forty eight, didn't
They drove it up the steps? Of course we had
Shane Adurn did the same thing.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
No, in fact, there's no actual evidence that anything was
driven up. It might be a tall tale or true.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Who knows.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
It's just stupidity and David Seemore wanting some publicity at
the expense of rules and so you know, he's always
telling people that they should have buy by the rules.
Three strikes and you're out. He's not prepared to hit
to the same standards himself. It's absolute hypocrisy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, I see that, Shane Ardurn who did it in
two thousand and three and you were in Parliament then
the fart tacks protests were going on. He actually got
charged with something.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I think the police didn't and well.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They charged them with something and then let him go
put it that way.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Yes, I'm not sure the details. I wasn't going to
get distracted by them. Again, it was a stunt.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Then.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Probably in hindsight there'll be many farmersists who probably think
that actually we should have progressed with that proposal around
some minimum carbon tax that would have allowed us to
invest back in to technology. But anyway, that's spilt milkmow.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, good luck with that one.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Damien in the house and we were sitting for about
an hour there during question time. Very interesting. Chloe was
grand standing on the school lunches. But I was watching you, Damien,
and you look like you were asleep.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
It's hard to be inspired by the government that we're
facing at the moment the Coalition government and all the
things they are doing to either not deliver on their
promises or to wreck some of the good things that
have been happening across the economy. And I haven't had
one of the school lunches. They look pretty horrible to me.
And a deal done with a big multinational company instead
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of supporting local people to produce local lunches for local.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Here's a novel idea for you, Damien. Why don't we
get the parents to provide a school lunch?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Greaty, Jamie.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
And actually, you know, with all the tax cuts that
you'll got and money, you know, you should be able
to afford that. But there are many, many families who
are struggling to pay the power bills because power has
gone up part privatized system that John Key gave us
all the cost you know, the cost of living that
the national doesn't seem to be talking about. Now that
pressure is on and for many it's a real struggle
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to provide the good food that we were able to
through school lunches. And you know that kids who have
something decent to eat are going.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
To I absolutely agree with you, and I've got teachers
coming out the wazoo and my family, so I get
it in the air all the time. But I just
wonder whether we should be more targeted on that dropping
lunch as Willynilly. I'll get Paul Allison's thoughts on this later.
Into schools. I bet your half or three quarters of
the kids don't need them. Maybe we need to be
more targeted.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
You know what it is if you said to any
multinational would you like to get access to all the
school kids across New Zealand to trials some of your products,
and then doud say, hell, yes, let's give us a chance.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
We had the.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Opportunity to trial some of the really good food that
we produce in our country, not the fast food and
some of the crap that does get eaten. This was
an opportunity to introduce our kids and it happened to
good quality food to give them a good quality life.
And it's been throwing out for some kind of you know,
fast food basis that's run by a big multinational and
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is of lower quality. I think it's a terrible backwards st.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, all right for us, got a sort of half
pie agreeing with you. There there is an opportunity I
suppos s. Fonterra did the same thing with milk and
schools just really quickly. The patsy questions reminded me again
what a waste of everyone's time that is in Parliament.
You've been there for a long long time, you've been
on the front bench, you've had important jobs in government,
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but it must be so destroying for a back bench
MP to ask these appalling patsy questions. I know it's
based on the Westminster but it is a complete waste
of time, full stop.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Well, you know it is part of the I guess
it's on the basis that you have a balanced parliament
relative to the votes that you get, sort of a
number of questions that goes out there is relative to
the vote that you've got at the election. So it's
an opportunity to either ask yourself questions. But any question
that goes into the House, even if it is a patsy,
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does open up the opportunity for the opposition to query
the governor as well. So sometimes the patsy's backfire if
the opposition's got a difficult enough question to ask the
Minister of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, Damien O'Connor, thank you very much. For your time,
Damien oh Connor got to take a break on the
other side of it to these Zenda or today Zander
McDonald panel, Shane mcmanaway and Nancy Crawlshaw. Before the end
of the air, Jamie Cunningham and Chris Russell Paul Allison
will have sports news and we'll announce the finalists for
the Rural Sports Awards coming up in Palming North and
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early March. Well, we're counting the sleeps until the summit
which is happening in the Gold Coast on March nineteen eleven.
Of course, this is the brainchild of the founder of
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the Xander McDonald Awards. Of course his name is Shane mcmanaway,
Wire Rapper Farmer. We're also going to talk to one
of last year's winners, Nancy Crawlshaw, who has a bit
of a duel life on either side of the tasma.
And we'll come back to Nancy because she's from a
great farming family as well. Shane, I want to start
with you and the wire rapp Are you're faring better
than people on the other side of the island by
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the sounds of things.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jamie. Yeah, we're going pretty good here.
Obviously January was a very unusual month. We had really
quite cold conditions for the first three weeks of January,
with a lot of sort of suddenly sow easterly weather.
But it's certainly picked up now and our place is
looking at picture to be quon whole Warrappers and grass
everywhere and crops are all looking supreme. So we just
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hopefully we get a bit of warm, hot, dry weather
now so that when we do start taking some crops
off we are troubled by some of that easterly weather
that's been sort of poking around.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, we know that the farmers down in Canterbury are
having some issues with that too, so yeah, good for
the pastoral farmer's not so good for the crop. And guys,
we're going up the road away but to Danoverk. There
we find Nancy Crawl show. Nancy, you've got kind of
a trans Tasman role at Angus Australia. You're living the dream.
A month in New Zealand a month in ours.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Yes, it does keep me on my toes, but it's
good to get across the both sides of the Tasmu
especially you get to catch up with farms and see
what's going on on both sides of the ditch, because
if it's happening one way, it's probably happening the other
way shortly after. So just seeing what's happening and how
that sort of affecting everyone, what we can do to
improve on what they're doing currently really well.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I think you've picked a good time to be in
New Zealand, very hot on Australia at the moment, Nancy,
I think.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
I'm very glad I'm in New Zealand right now. We're
even enjoying some good weather, but not as hot as Australia,
so I'm definitely not going to complain about that.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Your brother is Patrick crawl Shaw and he's married to Iz.
He and I ran into those two dynamic young farming
couple at the Hawks Boy Show a couple of years ago.
They were badly hit by cyclone Gabrielle. In fact, Patrick
had to chopp her out to enter.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
The Young Farmer of the Year. How are they getting on?
Speaker 11 (19:26):
They're getting on really well. Like I think it has
been an interesting process obviously going through the recovery, but
how the systems are coming back and what everyone's learned
from the cyclone. I think has put them in a
really good stead and it's still a few things that
they've got to trip away at. But I think that's
like many people in the area and in the district now.
Now it's just you've got to keep moving forward because
it's a lot of brights on the other side of it.
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And how the farming systems have adapted to the challenges
throwing a people from the cyclone, I think that's pretty
incredible in itself.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Nancy how has been or how has been a winner
of the Zander McDonald Award opened up doors for you.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
It's been incredible. Like you've gone in the New Zealand trip,
we caught up with Gilbert and Oka, who was a
mental skills coach of the All Blacks for twenty three
years I think it was. And then you go to
the Prime Minister as well as a number of other
very influential farmers throughout the country, and then you can
jump across the Tasman and you just get to meet
these incredible people that have gone from starting off with
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pretty much no money in the bank to now millionaires,
billionaires in their industries. But it's just the connections you
get out of that program and in my role. I'm
actually quite lucky as I do if they're bit of traveling,
So it's when I'm on the road and I'm passing
through areas that's actually when you get to reach out
to other members of that network and go and see them.
And the amount of time people are willing to give
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up to help young people on agriculture to answer the questions,
all the easy ones as well as a tough one
to help you get ahead and understand things, to put
you into good stairs being amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Really.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We've got three finalists Shane Mcmanulife from New Zealand, three
from Australia. Will pick a winner from each country. Megan
Blom she's from good South and farming Stock, Sarah Howe
and Hamish Best.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I ran into Hamish at the National LAMB Day barbecue
in Parliament on Tuesday. He's an impressive young man.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Yeah, he certainly is. They're all impressive, Jamie. They're all
of and coming leaders in our industry doing some great,
great things and so it'll be really interesting at our
conference when we announce the winners from both countries. But boy,
there's not much between any of them, to be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Now, The Australian finalists are Will Creek, Jack O'Connor, and
Felicity Taylor Shane. I don't know how much you know
about him, but what about you, Nancy? Have you cross
paths with any of those guys?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
But I think the biggest thing with those finalists are
actually one of my quotes I got out of the
Xander trip, and I think it applies really well to
the finalists is what happens in life is ten percent.
What happens to you are ninety percent what you do
about it. And I think that's a perfect one finalists
and just what happens at the summit, because really they've
done the ten percenters, I've been.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Able to get there.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
They are finalist now, it's that ninety percent. What they
get out of it is completely up to them and
who they meet and how they sort of keep in
touch with the connections they make.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Nancy crawl Shaw, just in your role with Angus Australia,
the beefs on are real high at the moment. Record
prices both countries, as you're well know, are sending a
lot of beef into the United States. What are you
hearing about Trump and his tariffs.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
There's been some very interesting conversations around Trump and his
tariffs and New Zealand. We are for the New Zealand side,
Like the amount of beef we produce on a global
scale isn't actually the largest number out there, so it
actually puts us in a good seat, and we are
we're positioning ourselves in the market.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Gives us a really.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Good opportunity to take hold of it.
Speaker 11 (22:48):
But I think we need to look at what Trump's
doing in the tariff and all of that space, and
we need to look at it from a beef perspective.
How do we turn this into an opportunity because that's
going to affect the number of different countries and different
beef marks its globally. So how can we turn those
that are challenges, those changes into opportunities to take advantage
of them going forward.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, Sean mcmonay, just wrapping with you, you're one of the
most optimistic and motivated people. I know you're always looking
on the bright side of things. You've been in farming
a long long time now, very experienced campaigner. The planets
are aligning for farming.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Yeah, they are, Jamie, and I still think we've got
a lot more work to do. We're in a really
good space. I think we've got a lot more work
to do around promoting New Zealand as a place where
we grow some incredibly good food. I think we need
to sell our story harder and stronger out there. I
think we need to be on every soap box we
can globally. I'm really pleased that the current government are
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doing that, but I think that us as farmers have
a duty to help and assist there. So we've got
some visitors coming onto our farms quite regularly from around
the world. In a couple of next month, we've got
some high ranking officials from China coming to visit our
farm to have a look what we do. These are
the opportunities for us to really showcase what we are
doing here in New Zealand. I don't think we can
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sit back and let other people do it. We've got
to get out there and beat the drummer ourselves. So
you know there's something that I try and do every
day here.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, you certainly are a great advocate for New Zealand agriculture.
Nancy Crawshaw, Shane mcmanaway, thanks for your time. Good luck
at the summit coming up on the Gold Coast in March.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Great, thanks Jamie.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Thanks guys, it is twenty four away from one. You're
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In fact, the Sports News is the finalist and the
Rural Sports Awards. And Michelle will be in here with
the latest and rural news. And I hope have you
done your homework just not Yes, she has done a
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homework on the price of lamb and the supermarkets. We'll
have a look at that story for you as well. Well.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
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Speaker 3 (25:05):
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Speaker 6 (26:20):
It is twenty away from one.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Michelle has wandered in here with the latest and rural news.
I asked her to do some homework on the price
of lamb. Let's see what she's done. Ahead of National Lambdaid.
Remember if you want to win some go to the
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We've got five boxes of two hundred bucks worth of
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Speaker 12 (26:54):
Doggist And I always get excited about doing a bit
of research, Jamie. You know me big nerds, so on
the Internet looked up some of these lamb prices. So
I'm not going to go into great detail at the
names of these supermarkets. But let's say we've got two
big players in New Zealand, right food Stuffs and Warlworts Group.
Now between them, food Stuffs League rose to seventeen ninety
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nine per kg, Loin Chops twenty three ninety nine per kg.
And when you're looking at a comparison, which is your
war Whets Group fourteen ninety for a frozen lamb leg
or not frozen fifteen ninety, I'm not sure why that is.
I guess because of storage and loin shops are twenty
nine to forty five per kg, So I mean it's
not too bad. And when you look at in UK,
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which this place will also remain nameless, it's one of
UK's biggest supermarkets. In comparison in New Zealand, League of
Lamb there is nine pounds fifty two per kg so
in New Zealand that works out to about twenty one
dollars per kg with the current exchange rate.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yes, so it's almost as cheap on the other side
of the world as it is here.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yeah, okay, Well, I know.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
That they did special lamb at like nine and ten
dollars a kilo, and that's when lamb price will lower.
To be fair, it's costing a lot more for the
raw product now, but I'd like to see them come
to the party a bit more for National Lamb Day.
Remember you know, give the one fingered salute to the supermarkets.
Go to National Lambday dot co dot nz and you
could win one. He's Paul Allison with the finalists in
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the Rural Sports Awards.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Sports with Avco keiw to the Bone since nineteen oh four.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Thanks Jamie. Well, the finalists have finally been named. They've
come in thick and fast in terms of the nominations.
This year there's a jud judging panel which you and
I are both part of, a judging panel of eight
this year a little bit different. We're actually asking for
people to send their votes in once the finalists have
been known. But we've got the finalists there are three categories.
It's the New Zealand Rural Sportsman of the Year, the
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New Zealand Rural Sportswoman of the Year and the Young
New Zealand Rural sports Person of the all part of
the Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards which prelude the game.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
So here they are.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
The rural sportsman Jack Jordan Well, he seems to be
there every year. From wood chopping he won his third
consecutive still World Championship trophy and setting a world record.
Tim Garrick from fencing he's a multiple national and regional
title winner this year. And Blair Orange, New Zealand's leading
harness racing driver, his seventh consecutive driver's premiership. So three
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outstanding finalists for the Sportsman. Quality doesn't get any less
in the sportswoman either. It's Death Drive Out who is
the international tree climbing champion. She beat the sixth time
world champion this year. Quite outstanding. Catherine Molliley from sheep
sharing Well, she's set a new world record for the
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eight hour strong we'll use sharing record four hundred and
sixty five US that's fifty eight per hour and she
broke the record by seventy nine sheep. She's up against
Sam Oddley Samantha Ottley, who is our top female harness
racing driver in New Zealand. She's setting all sorts of
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records now, is the first female driver to reach a
eight hundred wins and in the Young New Zealand Rural
Sports Person of the Year Award, well three highly promising candidates.
The Riley Ward from Central Hawk's Bay in Rodeo. He
won the New Zealand Open ball Riding Championship just twenty
years of age. Carter dal Geeddy from West Melton. He
is the fastest ever harness racing driver to record one
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hundred career wins and caa Ititiana Horn sixteen years of age.
You'll hear this name many times in the future. I'm
sure she is the New Zealand Open Women's Motocross Champion
and also has won the New Zealand Junior and Australia
Australasian Title. Some outstanding candidates for the Ford New Zealand
Rural Sports Awards. Well know the winners. On the seventh
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of March.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, and it's all going to happen at the Awapuni
Function Center. Brilliant, brilliant function center. I'm starting to sound
like Trump.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Beautiful. It's a beautiful day.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It's going to be beautiful for all those cars since
when they get relocated to Jordan, and goodness knows where
else is going to locate him, but it's going to beautiful.
It's going to be wonderful here, beautiful, beautiful, Up next
the beautiful Jamie Cunningham. I don't even know what the
bloke looks like, but he's the national dairy specialist for
PGG Rights and we're heading to Fielding.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Now, that is a beautiful town.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It's got a clock tower and some sale yards right
in the middle of it. Monthly here on the country
we catch up with the team from PGG Rights and
to have a look at the livestock market today up
to the batter's box. It's national dairy specialist based in
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the farming capital of the country as I sometimes.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Call it, Fielding.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Jamie Cunningham, Jamie, just before we talk about a good
payout and good demand for in calf cows. Are you
guys getting a bit dry there? I know further up
the North Island it is getting dry.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Good afternoon, Jamie yester Year we're starting to dry out.
But here now you know, it is febris and we
had a very good jenery, but the dry starting the
starting to kick, you know, for it through our region,
but also you know large parts of the Northwold and
particularly you know as we move up the country it's
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starting to joy at and yeah, a little a little concerned,
but it is debris.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, exactly drice month of the year to get the
autumn rains. Hopefully you'll be okay. Right, let's have a
look firstly at the payout. I think it was Westpac,
wasn't it that came out earlier in the week or
late last week. I've been in transit, so I haven't
been doing as much reading as I should have. Like
ten thirty for this season, ten dollars for the next season.
That those are Those are very positive numbers.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah, it's really positive and positive to see and that
you know, it's seen good signals out there to the
farmers and the mood. The mood's pretty good out there
with farmers and yeah, really pleasing to see and looking
positive for next season two, which is great.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Is it being reflected and what you've got to pay
to get a cow?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, we've seen the cow, the cow in quiry, our cow,
and hiperinquire. It has been very strong and it's it's
been strong for the last for the last you know,
a couple of months, but it's starting to build a
bit of momentum now. So that year is definitely having
a having an effect on that which has impact on
that price, which is which is good for the sellers,
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not so.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Good for the buyers. What do you have to pay?
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I guess those good quality cows you know, are making
around the early two thousands, you know, depending on depending
on where they are located, et cetera. But yeah, round
around the you know too. I guess between two and
two to two is is we're sort of just starting
to see those prices rise a little now, and it's yeah,
that's probably where we're sitting at the moment.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
See, I can remember ten or fifteen years ago having
to pay two and a half grand to get a
decent cow.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Yeah. The cow past is interesting. That hasn't really fluctuated drastically,
you know, a couple of hundred dollars either side of
the eighteen probably over the last seven or eight years,
you know, who haven't seen drastic movement. Really it has
been relatively stable.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Do you think we're going to see more demand than
there is supply?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
That's the that's the signals we're seeing at the moment.
You know, we're the good hurts that are coming on
the market aren't hanging around long. You know. Obviously we're
full contracting these herds now for May delivery. And yeah,
look that that would be. That would be one thing
that's starting to highlight herself a little bit.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Is ye, just supply and demand.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I think the demand's going to outweigh the supply a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Okay, Jamie Cunning, I'm out of Fielding a national dairy
specialist at PGG Wrights And thanks for your tom Will
you be going to the sale?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Isn't it Friday? As you go?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Everyone everyone turns up and field and goes to the
sale and has a cup of tea right in the
middle of the town.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yep, big big sale day tomorrow Fridays and Fielding at
the reasonable size sale too. So it's yeah, definitely. The
Fielding town seems to come to light on on a Friday,
which is which is great. It's good good for the town.
And yeah, evening happens on a fridayfielding.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
I think you're in a wonderful town.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Not only have you got a clocktail are the only
town that I know of, a major sort of size
town that has the sale yards of smack in the
middle of town. I think it's wonderful, all right, Jamie Cunningham,
thanks for your time.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Is our Ossie correspondent.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Chris Russell, based out of Sydney, always comes up with
some interesting facts and figures.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Let's start with one of those.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Australian wall production, Chris is forecast to drop to its
lowest level since the nineteen twenty twenty one season, more
than a century ago.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
It's a staggering really, and of course when our population
was about twenty percent of what it is now, I
guess so you know it's it is a big story here. Australia,
of course, has always been said to have ridden on
the sheep's back, and a lot of that relates back
to the nineteen fifties after the Korean War, when war
was bringing in the old money a pound a pound.
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And I've still got mates who inherited two or three
rolls royces from their grandfathers who brought them up when
they were making a fortune out of wool in the fifties,
but such is not the case since and it continues
to decline. I was in a meeting with the head
of Awi and we were talking about the future of
the industry. He's still very optimistic that it has a
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great future as a fiver. But when you talk about
us dropping another twelve percent in twenty twenty four to
twenty five, so it's going to be less than two
hundred and eighty million kilograms, that hasn't been that law,
as you say, since nineteen twenty twenty one. Now there
are a lot of young people who still really believe
in the industry. I still really believe in the product.
I think, you know, there are a few when would
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a plastic coat ever be as good as a woolen one. Never,
But it's all about costs. It's all about size. The
spinners all want something they can manufacture on mass, and
they're just not getting the demand for that more expensive product.
So let's hope it survives. It's not being helped over
by the current government's declaration that by twenty twenty eight
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they're going to cut out live sheep exports out of
Wa because the exporters or the live sheep growers over
there are saying that's where most of their cast rage
use and weathers go and they won't have anywhere to
get rid of them. It's too far to transport them
all the way across the east inside. So not a
lot playing in their favor, but there's still the shreds
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of optimism amount amount to some of the young growers,
which is encouraging them.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Good on you Chris Russell rapping other country. Thank you Brent.
Now the Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards are on
and Palming North Ala Perny Functions Center on March the seventh.
I think there's a couple of tables left. Just google
Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards and you might be
able to join those wonderful speakers, including Wayne Smith and
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of course Tim Salvey, the dairy farmer who plays cricket.
Catch you back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well it's all right right around in freeze. Well it's
ut please well listener, who in the pass you can well?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Listener, gooday, news Ellen, Good afternoon. Welcome to the Country,
brought to you by Brent. I'm Jamie McKay. I got
a special guest in the studio today, Paul Allison, formerly
the voice of Terra's Brook these days the voice of
Forsyth Bar well known of course to news Talk zed
B listeners because of its extensive sporting knowledge and history,
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and he's in the studio today in his capacity as
the convener of the judging panel for the Rural Sports
Awards which are coming up in Palmi North in early March.
Of course, we've also got the Rural Games. We're going
to announce the finalists for the Rural Sports Awards, some
big names there as well. Also on the show today,
Damian O'Connor. It's interesting the government's having a swing and
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about time too at the banks and the supermarkets. We'll
talk about that one. Today's Xander McDonald panel, Shane mcmanaway,
the founder, Nancy Crawlshaw twenty twenty four winner Jamie Cunningham
out of PGG Rights and Livestock based on the farming
capital of the country just up the road from Parmi
north Fielding and our Rossie correspondent as Chris Russell. Paul
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Good afternoon. Great to have you in the studio. I
know you spend a lot of time on the end
of a microphone at Forsyth bar Stadium before we talk
about the rural games. Super Rugby starts this weekend, in
fact tomorrow not the Highlanders have got a home game
next weekend, so you'll be keeping your vocal cords well
oiled for that one. Going to put it straight on you.
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Who's your winning team? Because I think you and I
might agree on this one.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, Well, it's whoever's left standing at the end of
the competition.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Really.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You look at the teams now and so many of
them have actually got key injuries already. You look at
the poor old Crusaders Cody Taylor and George Bell Braden
then or Quentin Strange, you know the long long list
for those guys already. The Heartlanders have been like that
in the past, and it's the depth of squad. I
just look at that chief side though, that they're going
to put out this weekend and they've got six all
blacks on their bench, which just shows some degree of
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depth of squad, but also the fact that maybe they're
just easing some of these international players back in to
the competition. The Blues will start his favorites start the
defending champions, and they've got the rock Stars and that
pivotal position of number ten and Piafetta and Plumber and Barrett.
They've got options there. But I just like the Chiefs
for some reason against the Crew. Say it as possibly
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and the Blues will be. We shouldn't forget about the
Australian teams, Jamie, I know you wanted a one who
would answer.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You don't normally get one four Australian teams, not five.
So they've concentrated their talent across just four teams. They're
going to be more competitive. Put my neck on the line. Yeah,
I'm going to go the Chiefs, but they're gonna need
a lot of luck. I think once you get into
that top six, it's a change this year. It's not
the top eight top six, anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, well, I think I'm going to go at this
early stage with the Chiefs. I'd love to say the Highlanders,
but I don't think they've got the depth and their squad.
You mentioned the key position and it is on all
rugby teams, it's the number ten. So I see it
as kind of Damien Mackenzie the Boden Barrett right, yeah,
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in Blues versus Chiefs. Because you mentioned Harry Plumber, I
thought he's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He's playing in this competition, I think before he heads off.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh is he? Okay? Yeah, it's my understanding.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And so Boden Barrett is a fullback in this weekends games.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, I don't know. I'd like to see him back
in ten. But anyhow, okay, Paul, So what we've got
because they're going to go to Damien Okonna shortly, we've
got the Rural Sports Awards. Will announce the finalists a
wee bit later. But gee, old, I shouldn't say old
Steve Hollander.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
He'll kill me for that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Steve Holland and the founder and trustee does a great job.
They have it at the Aarwa Perni Function Center. It's magnificent.
I keep forgetting the name of the catering company, but
the best food. Seriously and already. How about this for
a speaking lineup? I think it's all sold out bar
two tables.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, there's two tables still left.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I think Erica Dawson, Tim Solvey, the dairy farmer who's
played a wee bit of cricket, and Wayne Smith.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
How good's that?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Steve Ten's to keep on leaning on people, making sure.
I don't know whether you wears them down. With Steve Hollander,
it's just easier to say yes, I found Yeah. No,
it's not a word in his vocabulary, but it's a
fantastic of it. I was there last year and there's
a great show, not only at showcases the sporting talent
around the rural areas, but it's a great way to
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set the games off on that Friday evening.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Okay you stay, can you hang in for the hour?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Good on you, Good on you. I might even shout
your lunch after that. I want to talk to you
also about your first Jamie Well.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I want to talk. I didn't I give you a
box of m calle as I've made on you.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I want to talk because you're a former New Zealand
marathon champion as well. About this young guy, Sam Ruth
and I know you've done a lot of homework on
this pedigree, but this is so exciting.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
We've got a fifteen year old kid.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I know this is a rural program, but he's sort
of from rural. Yeah, a great breeding. There's there's a
farming comparison. But you know, this guy could be the
next John Walker, the next Peter Snoll.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
He's got talent that we haven't seen in a fifteen
year old in New Zealand across any code or any
particular discipline.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Fifteen years of age. Just think about this, Jamie. He
went out and he ran seven minutes fifty five or
fifty six for a three thousand. He won the New
Zealand Championships. This is against the seniors. He beat the
best in the country at fifteen years of age, youngest
person ever won a New Zealand total across any disciplines.
He ran the equivalent of a sub formanut mile last week.
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Remember it's a long time ago when New Zealand had
their first sub Formanut Miler and Murray Halber. But by
g it's still a really difficult task to do. He's
done it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
At fifteen Music Today courtesy of Paul Allison as well
The Traveling Wilberries, Great band, great band. Okay up next
to Damien O'Connor, not if I'll get the gloves. I
was watching Damien in the house the other day. He
looked bored, senseless when I was watching him. We'll ask
him if he was Shane mcmanaway, Nancy Crawshaw, Jamie Cunningham
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and Chris Russell.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Before the end of the.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Beg be up and batten around, sen fell up, be
shut down. You're the best scene that have.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And welcome back to the country. The Traveling Wilbury Wilbury's
courtesy of Paul Allison. Damian O'Connor is Labour's trades spokesperson,
former Minister of Agriculture Damien. I was in Wellington on
Tuesday for the National Lamb Day barbecue. Didn't get a
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chance to chat to you on air, talk to Joe Luxton.
It was a good turnout from politicians, although I noticed
Damien the Nats were their act were their labor.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Was there New Zealand first?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Were there no sign of Chloe and the Greens no,
I think.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
There was a green MP or two. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I think I think was their one. I noticed so,
but I didn't see quothing. You know that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, it's a good promotion, Damie and O'Connor. We just
need the supermarkets to play ball and special And I'm
going to get Michelle. I think she's gone to the
websites this morning to see if they are doing any
deals on LAMB for National LAMB Day on Saturday. But
they need to. And I say good on this government
Damien for having a crack at the supermarkets.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
But absolutely should have a go tricity companies, the banks,
the whole lot.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Good.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
We do need to break up those duopoly all those big,
big companies that are squeezing our economy. Come back to LAMB. Actually,
you know, a barbecue where we're talking to one another
preaching to the converted is not going to cut it
or go far when indeed, we need to tell the
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story out to the wider world. And if you look
at what a study is doing, it's committing real money
to some smart advertising and campaigning to get out and
sell the value of LAMB.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, but hang on, Damien, most of that most of
that will no, no, no, Most of that campaigning and advertising
in Australia is for their domestic market. They increase land
consumption by something like four hundred percent for that week.
And all I'm saying is the powers that be here
in New Zealand, we need to do likewise and make
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it agree, make it, make it affordable and market and
increase our domestic consumption.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
And who do you think should do that, Jamie, who.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Do you think should do it?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Well, it's time for.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
The industry has to step up.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
And you know, a lot of the offshore is offshore
marketing has been subsidized by taxpayers as well. The industry
hasn't been very good at committing money to marketing and
storytelling and that's been a failing and I think we
need to do that.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Taste Pure Nature, you know, is a good campaign.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
It's been around for about ten years in terms of
its inception and it needs to be revamped as.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
In China market.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
But you know, when that money runs out, will the
industry be committed to continue that? And it's a it's
a question that Alan Barber raised and Farmers Weekly, and
I think it's a fair one. There has to be
ongoing sustainable funding for marketing storytelling and because we have
wonderful meat with wonderful attributes, it should be marketed to
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the world, but we just kind of sell it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hey, storytelling seems to be the new buzzword, the new
management speak.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Yeah, well, I guess, as you know someone who sits
behind a microphone, that that should be right up your ally.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
There is something happening with India today. My sources are
telling me that something's happening in Wellington.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I think it was an indication of maybe some progress
in terms of our relationship there.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I haven't heard directly of that, but highly likely.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
I mean, you know, we do have to build the
relationship over time. We've always believed that going to a
free trade deal within three years, as Chrys Luxen promised,
it was completely realistic, like many of the other promises
that they made. But building a relationship a valuable one
over time is something that I think a number of
governments will have to do to hopefully get to an
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FDA sometime in the future.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But even if we can get a deal on say LAMB,
that would be a huge start for us, wouldn't it.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Of course, anything be as part and I guess the
issue is whether you sit down and do a bit
by bit or whether you end up with a comprehensive
trade agreement that opens the door to opportunities that you
might not realize because it is in the area of
also the services of technology and other areas, not just
about meat, not just about dairy, but actually the whole
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range of things that we export is a nation.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All the talk in Wellington on Tuesday was about David
Seymour's stunt on Monday. I think it was in the
land Drover. You can't get much more rural than a
Series one land Rover, the twentieth one ever made. We're
going to chat to the guy who owns it, hopefully
Professor Julian patten On or Peyton on tomorrow's show. But
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what did you make of it? I mean he's just
repeating history. They did that in nineteen forty eight, didn't
They drove it up the steps? Of course we had
Shane Adurn did the same thing.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
No, in fact, there's no actual evidence that anything was
driven up. It might be a tall tale or true.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Who knows.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
It's just stupidity and David Seemore wanting some publicity at
the expense of rules and so you know, he's always
telling people that they should have buy by the rules.
Three strikes and you're out. He's not prepared to hit
to the same standards himself. It's absolute hypocrisy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, I see that, Shane Ardurn who did it in
two thousand and three and you were in Parliament then
the fart tacks protests were going on. He actually got
charged with something.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I think the police didn't and well.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They charged them with something and then let him go
put it that way.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Yes, I'm not sure the details. I wasn't going to
get distracted by them. Again, it was a stunt.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Then.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Probably in hindsight there'll be many farmersists who probably think
that actually we should have progressed with that proposal around
some minimum carbon tax that would have allowed us to
invest back in to technology. But anyway, that's spilt milkmow.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, good luck with that one.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Damien in the house and we were sitting for about
an hour there during question time. Very interesting. Chloe was
grand standing on the school lunches. But I was watching you, Damien,
and you look like you were asleep.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
It's hard to be inspired by the government that we're
facing at the moment the Coalition government and all the
things they are doing to either not deliver on their
promises or to wreck some of the good things that
have been happening across the economy. And I haven't had
one of the school lunches. They look pretty horrible to me.
And a deal done with a big multinational company instead
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of supporting local people to produce local lunches for local.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Here's a novel idea for you, Damien. Why don't we
get the parents to provide a school lunch?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Greaty, Jamie.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
And actually, you know, with all the tax cuts that
you'll got and money, you know, you should be able
to afford that. But there are many, many families who
are struggling to pay the power bills because power has
gone up part privatized system that John Key gave us
all the cost you know, the cost of living that
the national doesn't seem to be talking about. Now that
pressure is on and for many it's a real struggle
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to provide the good food that we were able to
through school lunches. And you know that kids who have
something decent to eat are going.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
To I absolutely agree with you, and I've got teachers
coming out the wazoo and my family, so I get
it in the air all the time. But I just
wonder whether we should be more targeted on that dropping
lunch as Willynilly. I'll get Paul Allison's thoughts on this later.
Into schools. I bet your half or three quarters of
the kids don't need them. Maybe we need to be
more targeted.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
You know what it is if you said to any
multinational would you like to get access to all the
school kids across New Zealand to trials some of your products,
and then doud say, hell, yes, let's give us a chance.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
We had the.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Opportunity to trial some of the really good food that
we produce in our country, not the fast food and
some of the crap that does get eaten. This was
an opportunity to introduce our kids and it happened to
good quality food to give them a good quality life.
And it's been throwing out for some kind of you know,
fast food basis that's run by a big multinational and
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is of lower quality. I think it's a terrible backwards st.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, all right for us, got a sort of half
pie agreeing with you. There there is an opportunity I
suppos s. Fonterra did the same thing with milk and
schools just really quickly. The patsy questions reminded me again
what a waste of everyone's time that is in Parliament.
You've been there for a long long time, you've been
on the front bench, you've had important jobs in government,
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but it must be so destroying for a back bench
MP to ask these appalling patsy questions. I know it's
based on the Westminster but it is a complete waste
of time, full stop.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Well, you know it is part of the I guess
it's on the basis that you have a balanced parliament
relative to the votes that you get, sort of a
number of questions that goes out there is relative to
the vote that you've got at the election. So it's
an opportunity to either ask yourself questions. But any question
that goes into the House, even if it is a patsy,
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does open up the opportunity for the opposition to query
the governor as well. So sometimes the patsy's backfire if
the opposition's got a difficult enough question to ask the
Minister of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, Damien O'Connor, thank you very much. For your time,
Damien oh Connor got to take a break on the
other side of it to these Zenda or today Zander
McDonald panel, Shane mcmanaway and Nancy Crawlshaw. Before the end
of the air, Jamie Cunningham and Chris Russell Paul Allison
will have sports news and we'll announce the finalists for
the Rural Sports Awards coming up in Palming North and
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early March. Well, we're counting the sleeps until the summit
which is happening in the Gold Coast on March nineteen eleven.
Of course, this is the brainchild of the founder of
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the Xander McDonald Awards. Of course his name is Shane mcmanaway,
Wire Rapper Farmer. We're also going to talk to one
of last year's winners, Nancy Crawlshaw, who has a bit
of a duel life on either side of the tasma.
And we'll come back to Nancy because she's from a
great farming family as well. Shane, I want to start
with you and the wire rapp Are you're faring better
than people on the other side of the island by
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the sounds of things.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jamie. Yeah, we're going pretty good here.
Obviously January was a very unusual month. We had really
quite cold conditions for the first three weeks of January,
with a lot of sort of suddenly sow easterly weather.
But it's certainly picked up now and our place is
looking at picture to be quon whole Warrappers and grass
everywhere and crops are all looking supreme. So we just
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hopefully we get a bit of warm, hot, dry weather
now so that when we do start taking some crops
off we are troubled by some of that easterly weather
that's been sort of poking around.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, we know that the farmers down in Canterbury are
having some issues with that too, so yeah, good for
the pastoral farmer's not so good for the crop. And guys,
we're going up the road away but to Danoverk. There
we find Nancy Crawl show. Nancy, you've got kind of
a trans Tasman role at Angus Australia. You're living the dream.
A month in New Zealand a month in ours.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Yes, it does keep me on my toes, but it's
good to get across the both sides of the Tasmu
especially you get to catch up with farms and see
what's going on on both sides of the ditch, because
if it's happening one way, it's probably happening the other
way shortly after. So just seeing what's happening and how
that sort of affecting everyone, what we can do to
improve on what they're doing currently really well.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I think you've picked a good time to be in
New Zealand, very hot on Australia at the moment, Nancy,
I think.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
I'm very glad I'm in New Zealand right now. We're
even enjoying some good weather, but not as hot as Australia,
so I'm definitely not going to complain about that.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Your brother is Patrick crawl Shaw and he's married to Iz.
He and I ran into those two dynamic young farming
couple at the Hawks Boy Show a couple of years ago.
They were badly hit by cyclone Gabrielle. In fact, Patrick
had to chopp her out to enter.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
The Young Farmer of the Year. How are they getting on?
Speaker 11 (19:26):
They're getting on really well. Like I think it has
been an interesting process obviously going through the recovery, but
how the systems are coming back and what everyone's learned
from the cyclone. I think has put them in a
really good stead and it's still a few things that
they've got to trip away at. But I think that's
like many people in the area and in the district now.
Now it's just you've got to keep moving forward because
it's a lot of brights on the other side of it.
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And how the farming systems have adapted to the challenges
throwing a people from the cyclone, I think that's pretty
incredible in itself.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Nancy how has been or how has been a winner
of the Zander McDonald Award opened up doors for you.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
It's been incredible. Like you've gone in the New Zealand trip,
we caught up with Gilbert and Oka, who was a
mental skills coach of the All Blacks for twenty three
years I think it was. And then you go to
the Prime Minister as well as a number of other
very influential farmers throughout the country, and then you can
jump across the Tasman and you just get to meet
these incredible people that have gone from starting off with
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pretty much no money in the bank to now millionaires,
billionaires in their industries. But it's just the connections you
get out of that program and in my role. I'm
actually quite lucky as I do if they're bit of traveling,
So it's when I'm on the road and I'm passing
through areas that's actually when you get to reach out
to other members of that network and go and see them.
And the amount of time people are willing to give
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up to help young people on agriculture to answer the questions,
all the easy ones as well as a tough one
to help you get ahead and understand things, to put
you into good stairs being amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Really.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We've got three finalists Shane Mcmanulife from New Zealand, three
from Australia. Will pick a winner from each country. Megan
Blom she's from good South and farming Stock, Sarah Howe
and Hamish Best.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I ran into Hamish at the National LAMB Day barbecue
in Parliament on Tuesday. He's an impressive young man.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Yeah, he certainly is. They're all impressive, Jamie. They're all
of and coming leaders in our industry doing some great,
great things and so it'll be really interesting at our
conference when we announce the winners from both countries. But boy,
there's not much between any of them, to be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Now, The Australian finalists are Will Creek, Jack O'Connor, and
Felicity Taylor Shane. I don't know how much you know
about him, but what about you, Nancy? Have you cross
paths with any of those guys?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
But I think the biggest thing with those finalists are
actually one of my quotes I got out of the
Xander trip, and I think it applies really well to
the finalists is what happens in life is ten percent.
What happens to you are ninety percent what you do
about it. And I think that's a perfect one finalists
and just what happens at the summit, because really they've
done the ten percenters, I've been.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Able to get there.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
They are finalist now, it's that ninety percent. What they
get out of it is completely up to them and
who they meet and how they sort of keep in
touch with the connections they make.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Nancy crawl Shaw, just in your role with Angus Australia,
the beefs on are real high at the moment. Record
prices both countries, as you're well know, are sending a
lot of beef into the United States. What are you
hearing about Trump and his tariffs.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
There's been some very interesting conversations around Trump and his
tariffs and New Zealand. We are for the New Zealand side,
Like the amount of beef we produce on a global
scale isn't actually the largest number out there, so it
actually puts us in a good seat, and we are
we're positioning ourselves in the market.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Gives us a really.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Good opportunity to take hold of it.
Speaker 11 (22:48):
But I think we need to look at what Trump's
doing in the tariff and all of that space, and
we need to look at it from a beef perspective.
How do we turn this into an opportunity because that's
going to affect the number of different countries and different
beef marks its globally. So how can we turn those
that are challenges, those changes into opportunities to take advantage
of them going forward.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, Sean mcmonay, just wrapping with you, you're one of the
most optimistic and motivated people. I know you're always looking
on the bright side of things. You've been in farming
a long long time now, very experienced campaigner. The planets
are aligning for farming.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Yeah, they are, Jamie, and I still think we've got
a lot more work to do. We're in a really
good space. I think we've got a lot more work
to do around promoting New Zealand as a place where
we grow some incredibly good food. I think we need
to sell our story harder and stronger out there. I
think we need to be on every soap box we
can globally. I'm really pleased that the current government are
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doing that, but I think that us as farmers have
a duty to help and assist there. So we've got
some visitors coming onto our farms quite regularly from around
the world. In a couple of next month, we've got
some high ranking officials from China coming to visit our
farm to have a look what we do. These are
the opportunities for us to really showcase what we are
doing here in New Zealand. I don't think we can
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sit back and let other people do it. We've got
to get out there and beat the drummer ourselves. So
you know there's something that I try and do every
day here.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, you certainly are a great advocate for New Zealand agriculture.
Nancy Crawshaw, Shane mcmanaway, thanks for your time. Good luck
at the summit coming up on the Gold Coast in March.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Great, thanks Jamie.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Thanks guys, it is twenty four away from one. You're
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In fact, the Sports News is the finalist and the
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done your homework just not Yes, she has done a
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Michelle has wandered in here with the latest and rural news.
I asked her to do some homework on the price
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Doggist And I always get excited about doing a bit
of research, Jamie. You know me big nerds, so on
the Internet looked up some of these lamb prices. So
I'm not going to go into great detail at the
names of these supermarkets. But let's say we've got two
big players in New Zealand, right food Stuffs and Warlworts Group.
Now between them, food Stuffs League rose to seventeen ninety
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nine per kg, Loin Chops twenty three ninety nine per kg.
And when you're looking at a comparison, which is your
war Whets Group fourteen ninety for a frozen lamb leg
or not frozen fifteen ninety, I'm not sure why that is.
I guess because of storage and loin shops are twenty
nine to forty five per kg, So I mean it's
not too bad. And when you look at in UK,
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which this place will also remain nameless, it's one of
UK's biggest supermarkets. In comparison in New Zealand, League of
Lamb there is nine pounds fifty two per kg so
in New Zealand that works out to about twenty one
dollars per kg with the current exchange rate.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yes, so it's almost as cheap on the other side
of the world as it is here.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yeah, okay, Well, I know.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
That they did special lamb at like nine and ten
dollars a kilo, and that's when lamb price will lower.
To be fair, it's costing a lot more for the
raw product now, but I'd like to see them come
to the party a bit more for National Lamb Day.
Remember you know, give the one fingered salute to the supermarkets.
Go to National Lambday dot co dot nz and you
could win one. He's Paul Allison with the finalists in
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the Rural Sports Awards.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Sports with Avco keiw to the Bone since nineteen oh four.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Thanks Jamie. Well, the finalists have finally been named. They've
come in thick and fast in terms of the nominations.
This year there's a jud judging panel which you and
I are both part of, a judging panel of eight
this year a little bit different. We're actually asking for
people to send their votes in once the finalists have
been known. But we've got the finalists there are three categories.
It's the New Zealand Rural Sportsman of the Year, the
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New Zealand Rural Sportswoman of the Year and the Young
New Zealand Rural sports Person of the all part of
the Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards which prelude the game.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
So here they are.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
The rural sportsman Jack Jordan Well, he seems to be
there every year. From wood chopping he won his third
consecutive still World Championship trophy and setting a world record.
Tim Garrick from fencing he's a multiple national and regional
title winner this year. And Blair Orange, New Zealand's leading
harness racing driver, his seventh consecutive driver's premiership. So three
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outstanding finalists for the Sportsman. Quality doesn't get any less
in the sportswoman either. It's Death Drive Out who is
the international tree climbing champion. She beat the sixth time
world champion this year. Quite outstanding. Catherine Molliley from sheep
sharing Well, she's set a new world record for the
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eight hour strong we'll use sharing record four hundred and
sixty five US that's fifty eight per hour and she
broke the record by seventy nine sheep. She's up against
Sam Oddley Samantha Ottley, who is our top female harness
racing driver in New Zealand. She's setting all sorts of
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records now, is the first female driver to reach a
eight hundred wins and in the Young New Zealand Rural
Sports Person of the Year Award, well three highly promising candidates.
The Riley Ward from Central Hawk's Bay in Rodeo. He
won the New Zealand Open ball Riding Championship just twenty
years of age. Carter dal Geeddy from West Melton. He
is the fastest ever harness racing driver to record one
(30:19):
hundred career wins and caa Ititiana Horn sixteen years of age.
You'll hear this name many times in the future. I'm
sure she is the New Zealand Open Women's Motocross Champion
and also has won the New Zealand Junior and Australia
Australasian Title. Some outstanding candidates for the Ford New Zealand
Rural Sports Awards. Well know the winners. On the seventh
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of March.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, and it's all going to happen at the Awapuni
Function Center. Brilliant, brilliant function center. I'm starting to sound
like Trump.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Beautiful. It's a beautiful day.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It's going to be beautiful for all those cars since
when they get relocated to Jordan, and goodness knows where
else is going to locate him, but it's going to beautiful.
It's going to be wonderful here, beautiful, beautiful, Up next
the beautiful Jamie Cunningham. I don't even know what the
bloke looks like, but he's the national dairy specialist for
PGG Rights and we're heading to Fielding.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Now, that is a beautiful town.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It's got a clock tower and some sale yards right
in the middle of it. Monthly here on the country
we catch up with the team from PGG Rights and
to have a look at the livestock market today up
to the batter's box. It's national dairy specialist based in
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the farming capital of the country as I sometimes.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Call it, Fielding.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Jamie Cunningham, Jamie, just before we talk about a good
payout and good demand for in calf cows. Are you
guys getting a bit dry there? I know further up
the North Island it is getting dry.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Good afternoon, Jamie yester Year we're starting to dry out.
But here now you know, it is febris and we
had a very good jenery, but the dry starting the
starting to kick, you know, for it through our region,
but also you know large parts of the Northwold and
particularly you know as we move up the country it's
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starting to joy at and yeah, a little a little concerned,
but it is debris.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, exactly drice month of the year to get the
autumn rains. Hopefully you'll be okay. Right, let's have a
look firstly at the payout. I think it was Westpac,
wasn't it that came out earlier in the week or
late last week. I've been in transit, so I haven't
been doing as much reading as I should have. Like
ten thirty for this season, ten dollars for the next season.
That those are Those are very positive numbers.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah, it's really positive and positive to see and that
you know, it's seen good signals out there to the
farmers and the mood. The mood's pretty good out there
with farmers and yeah, really pleasing to see and looking
positive for next season two, which is great.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Is it being reflected and what you've got to pay
to get a cow?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, we've seen the cow, the cow in quiry, our cow,
and hiperinquire. It has been very strong and it's it's
been strong for the last for the last you know,
a couple of months, but it's starting to build a
bit of momentum now. So that year is definitely having
a having an effect on that which has impact on
that price, which is which is good for the sellers,
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not so.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Good for the buyers. What do you have to pay?
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I guess those good quality cows you know, are making
around the early two thousands, you know, depending on depending
on where they are located, et cetera. But yeah, round
around the you know too. I guess between two and
two to two is is we're sort of just starting
to see those prices rise a little now, and it's yeah,
that's probably where we're sitting at the moment.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
See, I can remember ten or fifteen years ago having
to pay two and a half grand to get a
decent cow.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Yeah. The cow past is interesting. That hasn't really fluctuated drastically,
you know, a couple of hundred dollars either side of
the eighteen probably over the last seven or eight years,
you know, who haven't seen drastic movement. Really it has
been relatively stable.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Do you think we're going to see more demand than
there is supply?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
That's the that's the signals we're seeing at the moment.
You know, we're the good hurts that are coming on
the market aren't hanging around long. You know. Obviously we're
full contracting these herds now for May delivery. And yeah,
look that that would be. That would be one thing
that's starting to highlight herself a little bit.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Is ye, just supply and demand.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I think the demand's going to outweigh the supply a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Okay, Jamie Cunning, I'm out of Fielding a national dairy
specialist at PGG Wrights And thanks for your tom Will
you be going to the sale?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Isn't it Friday? As you go?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Everyone everyone turns up and field and goes to the
sale and has a cup of tea right in the
middle of the town.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yep, big big sale day tomorrow Fridays and Fielding at
the reasonable size sale too. So it's yeah, definitely. The
Fielding town seems to come to light on on a Friday,
which is which is great. It's good good for the town.
And yeah, evening happens on a fridayfielding.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
I think you're in a wonderful town.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Not only have you got a clocktail are the only
town that I know of, a major sort of size
town that has the sale yards of smack in the
middle of town. I think it's wonderful, all right, Jamie Cunningham,
thanks for your time.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Is our Ossie correspondent.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Chris Russell, based out of Sydney, always comes up with
some interesting facts and figures.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Let's start with one of those.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Australian wall production, Chris is forecast to drop to its
lowest level since the nineteen twenty twenty one season, more
than a century ago.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
It's a staggering really, and of course when our population
was about twenty percent of what it is now, I
guess so you know it's it is a big story here. Australia,
of course, has always been said to have ridden on
the sheep's back, and a lot of that relates back
to the nineteen fifties after the Korean War, when war
was bringing in the old money a pound a pound.
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And I've still got mates who inherited two or three
rolls royces from their grandfathers who brought them up when
they were making a fortune out of wool in the fifties,
but such is not the case since and it continues
to decline. I was in a meeting with the head
of Awi and we were talking about the future of
the industry. He's still very optimistic that it has a
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great future as a fiver. But when you talk about
us dropping another twelve percent in twenty twenty four to
twenty five, so it's going to be less than two
hundred and eighty million kilograms, that hasn't been that law,
as you say, since nineteen twenty twenty one. Now there
are a lot of young people who still really believe
in the industry. I still really believe in the product.
I think, you know, there are a few when would
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a plastic coat ever be as good as a woolen one. Never,
But it's all about costs. It's all about size. The
spinners all want something they can manufacture on mass, and
they're just not getting the demand for that more expensive product.
So let's hope it survives. It's not being helped over
by the current government's declaration that by twenty twenty eight
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they're going to cut out live sheep exports out of
Wa because the exporters or the live sheep growers over
there are saying that's where most of their cast rage
use and weathers go and they won't have anywhere to
get rid of them. It's too far to transport them
all the way across the east inside. So not a
lot playing in their favor, but there's still the shreds
(37:34):
of optimism amount amount to some of the young growers,
which is encouraging them.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Good on you Chris Russell rapping other country. Thank you Brent.
Now the Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards are on
and Palming North Ala Perny Functions Center on March the seventh.
I think there's a couple of tables left. Just google
Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards and you might be
able to join those wonderful speakers, including Wayne Smith and
(38:00):
of course Tim Salvey, the dairy farmer who plays cricket.
Catch you back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
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