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Speaker 1: Hey, well, Jamie McKay, obviously as the host of the country.

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Speaker 2: Hey Jamie, Hello, woke cousin, Heather. I was listening to

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Speaker 2: you between four and five. I didn't realize you were

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Speaker 2: woke congratulating.

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Speaker 1: No, nor did I, nor did many of us. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're going to take that one. We're going to roll

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Speaker 1: with it because that's something to show off, isn't it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: And wonder you can be too, Jamie. The milk price

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Speaker 1: is looking a little better, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. We may not have enough natural gas

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Speaker 2: and electricity to run our dairy factories, Heather. But look,

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Speaker 2: the milk futures price is looking pretty good for the

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Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty five season, the one we've just

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Speaker 2: started on. It's currently sitting at eight dollars sixty one.

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Speaker 2: After that good GDT auction Wednesday morning, our time. The

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Speaker 2: volumes are up big time for whole milk powder up

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Speaker 2: sixty percent, so we got rid of those. There's going

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Speaker 2: to be increased volumes in September. China came in and

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Speaker 2: played a more dominant role. If they continue that and

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Speaker 2: we can get through this peak production hump, things are

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Speaker 2: looking pretty positive for twenty four to twenty five. So

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Speaker 2: this season, the one we've just finished twenty three twenty

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Speaker 2: four looks pretty much locked and loaded for Fonterra at

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Speaker 2: about seven dollars eighty The futures market's it's got it

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Speaker 2: at seven eighty seven. Interestingly, twenty five twenty six, Yes,

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Speaker 2: they do go out a year and a bit is

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Speaker 2: sitting at eight fifty five. It's also worth looking back

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Speaker 2: twelve months to mid August twenty twenty three, whole milk

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Speaker 2: crashed eleven percent, and at that stage we were looking

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Speaker 2: at a six dollars seventy five milk price, Sojeries certainly

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Speaker 2: turned a corner.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank goodness. Now have we had our own record,

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Speaker 1: like the world record and sharing set by New Zealander

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Speaker 1: smashed by a.

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Speaker 2: Scott Yeah, yeah, And this is a great story. A

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Speaker 2: veteran Scottish shearer who's incidentally the only woman who's qualified

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Speaker 2: in the top thirty at the Golden Shares in Masterton.

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Speaker 2: She shattered a world record set by one of our guns,

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Speaker 2: because we've got a couple of guns here in this country.

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Speaker 2: Sasha Bond held the nine hour record, Meghan Whitehead the

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Speaker 2: eight hour one. So this woman by the name of

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Speaker 2: Una Cameron. I hope I've got a name right, fifty

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Speaker 2: one year old Heather. That's older than you. That's way

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Speaker 2: older than you. So she smashed the existing nine hour

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Speaker 2: strong WALLU record of four hundred and fifty eight. She

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Speaker 2: sure five hundred and seventeen sheep and nine hours. And

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Speaker 2: I know you go to the gym, Heather, and I

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Speaker 2: know you fit. But there's no way you could drag

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Speaker 2: out five hundred and seventeen sheep and nine hours, let

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Speaker 2: alone share them. Geez.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, Jamie, the difference between like, let's say,

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Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty and five hundred and twenty is massive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. And that's where it becomes a wee

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Speaker 2: tricky because all these records are now or it looks

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Speaker 2: like they're almost all being set in the UK. The

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Speaker 2: sheep are easier sharing over there. They do have to

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Speaker 2: have a minimum wall requirement for the U sharing record

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Speaker 2: of three kilograms per sheep, but they're just easier sharing. Incidentally,

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Speaker 2: there's sort of a very collegial attitude to sharing because

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Speaker 2: in her corner was a former world record holder from

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Speaker 2: New Zealand here by the name of Amy Silcock, who

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Speaker 2: was helping out the back of the pens. The sheep

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Speaker 2: were shorn at a property run by a guy by

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Speaker 2: the name of Matt Smith. He's also a world record

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Speaker 2: holder and he's the brother, wait for it, of our

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Speaker 2: world championsharer Roland Smith. So yep world record to a

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Speaker 2: fifty one year old. I might even have a crareck myself, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Jamie Mackay, host to the Country.

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