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Speaker 1: The Rural Report on the evident duper s Elan Drive

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Speaker 1: with Anne's Kofoods, New Zealand's famous beef and lamb.

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Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, host of the Country's Off the Plane Now O.

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Speaker 3: Jamie, we'll today, Heather. I'm sorry about the background noise

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Speaker 3: and at Wellington Airport on the way to Tauranga. And

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Speaker 3: I know that Wayne Langford, the president of Federated Farmers,

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Speaker 3: filled the gap admirably. He's a man to be admired.

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Speaker 3: It's a very good video on him on the Herald

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Speaker 3: website today on mental health battles and also you know

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Speaker 3: what he's done around that Meet the Need food charity

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Speaker 3: along with Shivorn O'Malley, is absolutely wonderful. He's a good

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Speaker 3: front man for farmers.

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Speaker 2: So how late were you and who were you flying with?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm on time to be perfectly honest, Heather, But

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Speaker 3: I was just running a fine countlet to do this cross.

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Speaker 3: So I'm here and now and I'm raring to go.

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Speaker 2: So we should apologize to Air New Zealand for all

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Speaker 2: of the all of the things that we said about them,

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Speaker 2: and therefore we do apologize to them. What do you

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Speaker 2: make of this thing that they're doing, and I looked

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Speaker 2: at it and I thought, I said this, Dwayne as

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Speaker 2: well looked at it. I though, Okay, it's noble intentions.

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Speaker 2: You want to put the climate tax on. It's never

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Speaker 2: going to happen because it hasn't happened here, hasn't happened

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Speaker 2: anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: What do you think, Well, it's probably easy to put

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Speaker 3: a climate tax on in a place like Denmark than

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Speaker 3: New Zealand, because I don't think there is their major

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Speaker 3: export there, even though they do milk a few cows.

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Speaker 3: They're going to be the first country to propose the

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Speaker 3: introduction of a carbon or methane tax. Whether they do,

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Speaker 3: it's yet another thing. So they're going to tax farmers

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Speaker 3: at seventy dollars per ton by twenty thirty, it goes

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Speaker 3: up to one hundred and seventy by twenty thirty five.

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Speaker 3: I think it's roughly and wayIn would know the numbers

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Speaker 3: better than me. One hundred dollars or one hundred euros

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Speaker 3: per cow. But you know European farmers here that nothing

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Speaker 3: they enjoy more than a good protest. They're unlikely to

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Speaker 3: take this one lying down. And despite despite the cost

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Speaker 3: of this apparently big tax deductions, meaning the real cost

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Speaker 3: will be considerably less for Danish farmers. And you know,

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Speaker 3: but the danger for us here in New Zealand is

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Speaker 3: they are seen to be doing the right thing by

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Speaker 3: the climate and the planet, they're likely to seize the

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Speaker 3: opportunity and make life a bit more difficult for New

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Speaker 3: Zealand agricultural exports into the EU. So watch the space

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Speaker 3: on that one.

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Speaker 2: Do you like the look of the sum panel that's

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Speaker 2: been appointed to do the methane review?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know that many of them to be.

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Speaker 3: Nicola Shadwald is a professor at Massi University. I think

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Speaker 3: she's a FONTIRA or was a FONTIRA director. Professor Dave

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Speaker 3: fram as a well regarded climate science to see, and

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Speaker 3: though he stood me up for an interview either, I

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Speaker 3: won't hold that against Professor Dave. The rest the rest

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Speaker 3: I don't really know. But Wayne Langford's bang on. He said, look,

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Speaker 3: you know, the current methane duck targets are incredibly devised,

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Speaker 3: the highly political, very questionable science underpinning them, and you

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Speaker 3: know those numbers for twenty fifty was going to destroy

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Speaker 3: livestock farming in this country and even ten percent by

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Speaker 3: twenty thirty was going to see sheep and beef production

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Speaker 3: down by twenty percent. So look, I'm glad they're doing

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Speaker 3: something about it. We'll judge them on their merits.

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Speaker 2: When are we actually going to get it? I mean

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Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about what they're going to do

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Speaker 2: with the live exports this government. But when are we

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Speaker 2: actually going to get a decision? Finally?

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Speaker 3: Well, I see that the government and talking about Federated Farmers.

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Speaker 3: Of course, a former Federated Farmer's President these days, act

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Speaker 3: MP and Associate ad Minister Andrew Hoggard is saying the

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Speaker 3: government's progressing its commitment to reinstate live cattle exports by sea.

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Speaker 3: Remember at this stage it's only live cattle, it's certainly

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Speaker 3: not sheep there and consultation is set to start in September.

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Speaker 3: Reinstating the live livestock exports will by sea will require

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Speaker 3: an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act of nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: But remember, Heather, it's tough times. It's five hundred billion

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Speaker 3: dollar industry per annum. That might even buy a few

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Speaker 3: cook straight fairies.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Watson, why are you need it there?

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a long planned trap and it's been

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Speaker 3: bookended by a couple of farming events either side of it.

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Speaker 3: But I didn't realize I was going to, namely the

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Speaker 3: South Island Airy Event and christ Church that I've been

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Speaker 3: at this week and then the Primary Industry Summit and

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Speaker 3: Awards in Wellington on Tuesday. But no got a sun

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Speaker 3: up there with a commercial cleaning business, Heather super Clean,

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Speaker 3: for all your cleaning needs, and I'm going up. I'm

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Speaker 3: coming up to visit them now. Just before I go,

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Speaker 3: one more shameless plug the Rabobank Good Deeds promotion. This

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Speaker 3: is legit because they're a good customer. If you've got

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Speaker 3: a rural community project, you want some support for your

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Speaker 3: local footy club or paint your hall, go to rabobank

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Speaker 3: dot co dot z enter the competition. We've got five

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Speaker 3: grand and a day's labor from the teams at Rabobank

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Speaker 3: and the country, which is just me. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Jamie, Thank you very much. Look after yourself mate. That's

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Speaker 2: Jamie McCain and enjoy your long weekend.

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