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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host to the Country with Us from Field Days.

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Speaker 1: Hey Jamie, Hello Heather, how much fun are you having.

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Speaker 2: A lot of fun? I'm about to go out for

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Speaker 2: a night on the tron with the Country team. Are

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Speaker 2: all in the background?

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Speaker 1: Is that them laughing?

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Speaker 2: Smoothing away? Now they're laughing at me for talking about

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Speaker 2: a night on the tron. But look, honestly, Thursday night

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Speaker 2: in Hamilton at field Days is as big as it gets.

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Speaker 2: If you're from if you were Right and Gore or

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Speaker 2: Riverstar like.

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Speaker 1: Me, Yeah, this is a big lights. Where do you

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Speaker 1: got to go with?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Where do you go when you go out in Hamilton?

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Speaker 2: Where are we going to? Ben Smith and McKenzie shameless

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Speaker 2: plug for that restaurant? But after that here the but wait,

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Speaker 2: there's more. We go to the spates Alehouse and Hamilton,

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Speaker 2: run by former All Black Aaron Penny, and we have

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Speaker 2: and we have the unofficial you know how we had

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Speaker 2: the Radio Awards last week and you're the Broadcaster of

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Speaker 2: the year decade century, I don't know, but we go

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Speaker 2: out and have like the rural Broadcaster of the Year.

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Speaker 2: But it's just an absolute roast between ourselves media works

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Speaker 2: and what are that other out for co Sport Nation. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so that's just a few bears spats good.

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Speaker 1: And so tomorrow is it a complete right off? Like

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Speaker 1: are you going to be chugging back the ginger beers

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Speaker 1: and eating the McDonald's to try and make it through?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all, Heather. A drink like

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Speaker 2: a man, worked like a man the next day, and no, look,

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Speaker 2: I'll be home tucked up in good time. Nothing good

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Speaker 2: happens after midnight. Back in the early days thirty years ago,

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Speaker 2: I would burn the candle at both ends. But not now,

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Speaker 2: because Heather, I've got to do serious rural reports like

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Speaker 2: the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries reports, which was

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Speaker 2: released today, and I know you're dying to find out

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Speaker 2: all well and then right, so, our primary sector exports

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Speaker 2: are worth nearly sixty billion fifty nine point nine billion, okay,

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Speaker 2: and Ray Smith, the Director General of MPI, said he

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Speaker 2: wanted to tweak the accounting department just to get it

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Speaker 2: past sixty billion. They died hole just shure sixty billion.

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Speaker 2: But here's the kicker. They want a primary sector to

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Speaker 2: reached sixty five point seven billion by twenty twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: which is in four years Remember they set the target

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Speaker 2: last year twenty four primary sector exports in the next

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Speaker 2: decade where they're going to have to go a long

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Speaker 2: way because they need to get from fifty nine to

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Speaker 2: about just over one hundred billion to double exports. So

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Speaker 2: someone's going to have to do the heavy lifting. As

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Speaker 2: it stands at the moment, the dairy export industry up

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Speaker 2: sixteen percent for the year ended thirtieth June, twenty seven

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Speaker 2: billion dollars out of the sixty that's nearly half meat

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Speaker 2: and waller good solid twelve billion horticulture bit of a

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Speaker 2: star of the stable. Perhaps that's what will save our

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Speaker 2: bacon in the end up nineteen percent to eight point

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Speaker 2: five billion, Forestry slightly stagnant at six point three billion,

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Speaker 2: and Shane Jones's seafood export revenue has lifted two percent

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Speaker 2: to two point two billion.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. Hey, go and enjoy yourselves. You'll deserve it

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Speaker 1: and spend up large and help them out. That's Jamie Mackay,

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Speaker 1: Hosts of the Country. Where did he say smith in

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Speaker 1: something or other? Do you want to see him? Go there?

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