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Speaker 1: We've got the fruit bowl of New Zealand ripe and

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Speaker 1: ready for the picking harvest time in the bay. What

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Speaker 1: are we talking about? Apples? Of course, and when I

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Speaker 1: say the Bay Hawks Bay Groves reporting the earliest crop

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Speaker 1: they've seen in decades, it's important because nearly two thirds

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Speaker 1: of our apples come from the Bay Hawk's Bay Fruit

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Speaker 1: Grows Association President Brighton this but with us Brighton, very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. You had a perfect storm

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Speaker 1: and no pun intended there. Obviously it's all come together

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Speaker 1: we otherwise I take it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, it's looking incredibly good this year. We had a

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Speaker 2: fantastic winter which set up good winter chilling units and

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Speaker 2: set up the bud an extremely early spring. In a

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Speaker 2: fine spring, we didn't get a lot of rain, so

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Speaker 2: everything's set for a fantastic harvest volume.

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Speaker 1: The quality have you got both?

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Speaker 2: We've got both. There's a huge volume out there. The

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Speaker 2: quality is good at the apples are sizing up. The

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Speaker 2: color is fantastic. Of course, we need cooler knights to

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Speaker 2: bring up the color and we've had a lot of

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Speaker 2: cool nights and at the moment we're kind of sitting

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Speaker 2: in the mid twenties through the day and dropping down

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Speaker 2: to teach in eleven at night. So it's just it's

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Speaker 2: a perfect breed for a.

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Speaker 1: Great absolutely perfect labor.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Baby's good. No, we have a support

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Speaker 2: of government. Labor doesn't seem to be too much of

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Speaker 2: a problem anymore. We have backpackers back in town. We

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Speaker 2: have rscs here are valued workers from the Pacific who

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Speaker 2: are just fantastic. We couldn't do what we do without them.

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Speaker 2: And of course we've got kiwis around about as well.

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Speaker 1: What about the size of the industry posts the storms?

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Speaker 1: Is it smaller than what it was?

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit smaller. You'll be surprised, actually. So

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Speaker 2: we had about eighty growers about four thousand hectares affected

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Speaker 2: from the floods, and out of four thousand hectares, we

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Speaker 2: had six hundred and ten that were completely wiped out

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Speaker 2: that some will never be planted again, some wall but

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Speaker 2: pre twenty twenty three floods we're only in a deficit

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Speaker 2: of about one hundred and one hundred and ten hectares.

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Speaker 2: I think that's not plant Do you know anything more?

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Speaker 1: This gotcha? Do you know anything about grapes?

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Speaker 2: Not really.

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Speaker 1: It's just so maybe I just followed the grapes and

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Speaker 1: they'll be picking very shortly. Would would would though it

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Speaker 1: should be good for the grapes as well, shouldn't it.

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Speaker 2: I think it'll be good for the grapes. It's definitely

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Speaker 2: good for the for vegetables. The onion harvest. The good

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Speaker 2: squash out there is just doing fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Love it, go well with it, enjoy it. Brighton this

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Speaker 1: but hawks by Fruit Gross Association tell you what I'm

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Speaker 1: excited about about in my place. I've got apples, a

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Speaker 1: lot of apples. He's right about. I mean, I'm north

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Speaker 1: of him, obviously, but the apples are good now. Our

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Speaker 1: apples are crap though they're old fashioned apples. No one

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Speaker 1: wants our apples unless you're going to do something like

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Speaker 1: stew them. So we don't pears. We'll get a lot

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Speaker 1: of pears. But the figs fig season, which I reckon

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Speaker 1: it might be more. I'm thinking maybe a month to go.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely Gangbusters had them netted up the other day, ready

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