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Speaker 1: The rural rewort with MSD Animal Health, home of Maltine

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Speaker 1: End's head's leading fave in one vaccine quarter past six.

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Speaker 1: On news talks, he'd be Jamie McKay with me tonight

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Speaker 1: hosted the Country. Hi Jamie, good evening, Ryan. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you here as always. Now, Jim Ward, the manager

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Speaker 1: of Molesworth Station, the biggest farm in the country, has

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Speaker 1: resigned from his post. This after twenty four years of

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Speaker 1: service to the operation. What's going on here, Well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I've got a call into him. I'm

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Speaker 2: very disappointed about this from a purely selfish point of view, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: Jim and I went to secondary school together, played a

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Speaker 2: lot of footy together, and I caught up with him,

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Speaker 2: renewed our acquaintance at the Primary Industry Awards just last

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Speaker 2: month and he said, I'll take you for a tour

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Speaker 2: through Molesworth Station this summer. And that's not going to

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Speaker 2: happen because he's left or resigned with immediate effect. He's

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Speaker 2: alleged to have resigned because of growing frustration with the

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Speaker 2: wilding pines on the station and the uncertainty of the

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Speaker 2: station's future. The wilding pines are estimated to will cover

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Speaker 2: sixty percent of the station in the next twenty years

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Speaker 2: unless something's done to halt their progress or lack of

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Speaker 2: progress in their case. So you know, as you pointed out, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: it is the country's biggest farm. One hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: thousand hectares. What's that just off the top of my head,

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Speaker 2: about four hundred and fifty thousand acres or something like that.

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Speaker 2: One of one hundred and twelve farms that PAMU own

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Speaker 2: or manage. This one's owned by the Crown, lest by PAMU,

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Speaker 2: managed by Doc. There is a lot of criticism that

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Speaker 2: they're not doing a very good job. It is a

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Speaker 2: magnificent property. It's a real jewel. Also in the tourism.

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Speaker 2: Crown running six thousand Angus and Angus hereford cross cattle.

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Speaker 2: And I think we're going to talk about the price

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Speaker 2: of meat very shortly. Literally, those Angus cattle are black gold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Dan Bolton certainly thinks so. Silver Fan's farm

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Speaker 1: chief executive talking about demand and the fact that it's

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Speaker 1: getting out ahead of supply and we'll stay that.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it. And it's a bit like the dairy prices

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Speaker 2: at the moment. It's little consolation to people heading to

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Speaker 2: the supermarket. But the dairy prices and the meat prices

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Speaker 2: are really good, at record highs in many cases. So

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Speaker 2: not good if you're a shopper and you've got four

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Speaker 2: point six percent less for your dollar than you've got

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Speaker 2: this time a year ago. But meat, fish and poultry

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Speaker 2: drove up those food prices by six point four percent.

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Speaker 2: Your steak's gone up by twenty two percent, your mints

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Speaker 2: by fifteen percent. God knows what your butter and cheese

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Speaker 2: have done. But Silverfern Farms yet Dan Bolton, they recently

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Speaker 2: had their farmer conference, I think it was in Hamilton,

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Speaker 2: and he's just saying, look, demand is exceeding supply, and

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Speaker 2: that's right across the world. That the US is still

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Speaker 2: in a drought situation. It's going to take them several

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Speaker 2: years to rebuild their herd. Very favorable for the farmers,

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Speaker 2: those farmers that are left with land use change. Just

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Speaker 2: to give you an idea, the numbers ryan in May alone,

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Speaker 2: red meat ex boats were worth one point one five billion,

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Speaker 2: up six percent. The US our biggest market. Despite the

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Speaker 2: ten percent tariff, they're chewing through three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: seven million dollars worth of meat, nearly all grinding beef

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Speaker 2: in one month. Britain's up forty four percent to ninety

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Speaker 2: million off the back of the free trade agreement. The

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Speaker 2: problem is we're running out of land to raise these

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Speaker 2: cattle and lambs land use change, carbon farming. The lamb

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Speaker 2: kills ten percent behind where it was this time a

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Speaker 2: year ago. Beef kills down six percent to just over

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Speaker 2: two million. Those prices though, have gone up. It's eye

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Speaker 2: watering for lamb. Now you're getting nine dollars sixty this

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Speaker 2: time a year ago six dollars fifty. That's what the

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Speaker 2: farmers are getting paid. Prime beef is about eight to

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Speaker 2: eight dollars fifty. So when you go and look at

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Speaker 2: your piece of steak in the supermarket and you know

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Speaker 2: the farmers getting eight bucks a kilo, it's not all

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Speaker 2: their fault. Ask us the super markets why you're paying

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Speaker 2: forty five bucks a kilo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the problem. People are just looking at

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Speaker 1: the stacks. Some can't afford to actually go and buy them. Hey, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: great to have you on the program. As always, Jamie McKay,

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Speaker 1: host of the Country with our Rural Report.

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