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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, Host of the Countries with US l O Jamie,

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Speaker 1: I hear that what's happened to Toby Williams.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's been kicked to touch, he's been gassed, whatever

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Speaker 2: way you want to talk about it. It's farmer politics

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Speaker 2: here that can be a bit of a brutal business.

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Speaker 1: As you know.

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Speaker 2: I've spent the past couple of days or Tuesday and

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Speaker 2: Wednesday at the Primary Industry Summit put on by Federated Farmers.

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Speaker 2: And of course you spoke to me just on the

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Speaker 2: eve of the Primary Industry Awards. We might get to

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Speaker 2: that later, but yeah, Toby Williams, and I know you've

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Speaker 2: spoken to him on your show, Meet and woolchair for

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Speaker 2: Federated Farmers. He's been dumped, no other word for it,

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Speaker 2: outvoted and incomes Marlborough Provincial Vice President Richard Dawkins, a

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Speaker 2: young bloke. I met him yesterday in christ Church. Now,

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Speaker 2: Toby's been chairing the group since I think late just

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Speaker 2: off the top of my head, late November or late

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. They normally get to serve a minimum

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Speaker 2: of three years and the rollers cheer. So he's been challenged.

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Speaker 2: He's gone remembering this is the guy that fronted the

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Speaker 2: Save Our Sheep campaign. He's been right at the forefront

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Speaker 2: of leading the charge against carbon farming and I think

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Speaker 2: he's done a really good job on that front. But

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Speaker 2: someone in Federated Farmers isn't happy with them. Politics rules,

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Speaker 2: he's gone. The other change is the dairy chair. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we had Richard McIntyre stepping aside there. North Canterbury provincial

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Speaker 2: president Carl Dean is the new national Dairy chair after

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Speaker 2: the Waikato The other challenger, Waikato President Phil Sherwood, withdrew

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Speaker 2: his nomination at the last minute. You know, the mind

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Speaker 2: biggles in the entrigue continues here with the Southern sudden

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Speaker 2: Wei should do a soap opera on this, With the

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Speaker 2: sudden resignation the housewives of Federated Farmers, I don't know. Look,

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Speaker 2: the sudden resignation of long serving Farmers Federated Farmer's chief

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Speaker 2: executive Terry Copeland. As we were heading to that conference

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Speaker 2: on Monday, we got word that he's resigned and he's

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Speaker 2: stepping down from his role this Friday, ie tomorrow. Wow,

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Speaker 2: that's not really normal practice. I don't know what the

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Speaker 2: hell's going on there, But we'll give him the benefit

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Speaker 2: of the doubt. He's done some good things at Federated Farmers.

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Speaker 2: He's the guy who came up with the idea of

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Speaker 2: this industry summit and the primary industry awards, the Rural Oscars,

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Speaker 2: if you want. So, he's gone. And in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: in another strange move, if you ask me, FEDS might

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Speaker 2: black blackball me here and maybe not talk to me

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Speaker 2: for speaking out of turn here, but they've chucked in

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Speaker 2: Wayne Langford, the affable president of Federated Farmers, to act

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Speaker 2: as the acting chief executive. So trouble at mill.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like it is this some sort of

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Speaker 1: a clear out going on here or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I honestly don't know. I mean, do we connect

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Speaker 2: some dots. I'm not sure. Maybe we're two and two

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Speaker 2: equals five on this one here. But look, this is

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Speaker 2: not new. Farmer politics has always been a bit of

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Speaker 2: a brutal game. And you know, these guys are giving

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Speaker 2: of their time, guys and girls are giving of their time.

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Speaker 2: And I think, I think, just like politicians, there's some

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Speaker 2: ambitious people in there.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, a farmer's got an idea a

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Speaker 1: And they're pretty used to having an idea and executing it.

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Speaker 1: And so if they see that something's wrong, I imagine

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Speaker 1: they just want to fix it up. Then therefore it

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Speaker 1: moves quickly and I like that. Now, how did you

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Speaker 1: go with those primary industry awards? Did you hand out

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Speaker 1: gongs to everybody and then hit the beers afterwards?

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Speaker 2: Well? I ended up getting stuck in a bar at

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Speaker 2: one am with the EU Ambassador to New Zealand, Lawrence Meredith.

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Speaker 2: What a good blow key is? I hope he's not

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Speaker 2: listening for me outing him, but I was them saying,

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Speaker 2: So I didn't have to be at about eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: You know what it's like, you need to unwind, you

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Speaker 2: can't go straight to bed. So now look, it was

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Speaker 2: a really good evening just running through. Perhaps there was

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Speaker 2: eight awards up. I want to single out four of them.

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Speaker 2: The late Chris Ellen, posthumously named rural hero, killed in

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Speaker 2: a tragic farm accident last year. A very watch will

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Speaker 2: mark this name down. Her name is Bridy for Bickus.

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Speaker 2: She won the Emerging Leader Award. She's being talked about

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Speaker 2: already as a future leader of Federated Farmers, perhaps following

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Speaker 2: in the footsteps of the first President Katie Meln. The

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Speaker 2: Lifetime Achievement Award or Outstanding Contributions should I say award

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Speaker 2: went to an old maide of mine, Eric Roy. I

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Speaker 2: know that Barry in particular will know him very well.

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Speaker 2: Served six terms as an MP. Great bloke, sold of

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Speaker 2: the earth bloke, and I want to mention doctor Robin Dines,

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Speaker 2: another great Southlander. She won the Primary Industries Champion Award.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. I'm pleased you had a great time and I'm

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Speaker 1: pleased you you got a bear at the end of it,

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Speaker 1: Jamie Jamie mckaye, host of the Country.

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