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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay from the Country dot co dot ms in,

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Speaker 1: Hey Jamie.

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Speaker 2: How are you good day, Andrew? How are you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm good Sad news the death of a great agrig

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Speaker 1: business journalist David Anderson young too, just fifty seven. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about his work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he was obviously a longtime member of the

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Speaker 2: rural media, had a real spark in his eye. I

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Speaker 2: would call him the Felicity fair At Andrew of rural

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Speaker 2: media because he used to run a column and it's

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Speaker 2: still going since his passing, called the Hound and Rural News,

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Speaker 2: where he would have a swipe at anyone deemed woke.

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Speaker 2: PC and or labor politicians, especially poor old Damien O'Connor

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Speaker 2: and David Parker seem to be in the sites of

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Speaker 2: the Hound. But look, he's a good bloke. Grew up

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Speaker 2: on a sheep and bee farm, went to Lincoln, studied

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Speaker 2: farm management, took finish that he went sharing working at

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Speaker 2: the freezing works. He's incidentally the brother of Waytaki MP

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Speaker 2: Miles Anders and the older brother and he managed Miles's

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Speaker 2: election campaign last year. He spent time at Fonterra Deer

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Speaker 2: Industry in zed a couple of years or eighteen months

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Speaker 2: as Press secretary for Bill English even managed to squeeze

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Speaker 2: in a Callog's scholarship as well. So look, his wit

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Speaker 2: and his glint and his eye will be missed from

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Speaker 2: all of us in the rural media. This funeral will

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Speaker 2: be held at Timaru's Sacred Heart, Basilica tomorrow. Rest in peace,

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Speaker 2: David Anderson beautiful Church too.

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Speaker 1: Now to other topics, and of course the big hope

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand farmers in terms of emission reduction is

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Speaker 1: reducing the methane in the farts and the boops. And

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Speaker 1: now a new compound. Poor New Zealand farmers are a

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Speaker 1: step closer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I just picked up on this one today.

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Speaker 2: I think I saw it and Farmers Weekly. I better

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Speaker 2: give him a bit of a credits for that one.

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Speaker 2: So because the government Andrew has talked about having tools

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Speaker 2: because they're not going to charge for emissions till twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty now, and they're talking about having tools of available

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Speaker 2: for farmers as soon as twenty twenty seven. Well, a

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Speaker 2: company called a Room in eight good name actually with

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Speaker 2: the numeric eight on the end, registered its feed additives

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Speaker 2: with the agricultural compounds and veterinary Medicines Board in Australia

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Speaker 2: and New Zealand. I've got an organic compound. They claim

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Speaker 2: it to be the most effective of all actives tested

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Speaker 2: from methane reduction and livestock. They're conducting as we speak trials.

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Speaker 2: They're doing one trial in the Wyekaddo measuring the methane

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Speaker 2: output from lactating dairy cow cows being offered the supplement

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Speaker 2: three times a day over forty five days. Now it's

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Speaker 2: easy opt to offer dairy cows who are coming in

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Speaker 2: and out of milking sheds supplements. They're much easier to

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Speaker 2: treat than say, beef cattle out on an extensive grazing regime.

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Speaker 2: So they've also got a beef trial being conducted at

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Speaker 2: AG Research in Palmerston North. The company, interestingly, Andrew, is

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Speaker 2: backed by Bell Gates, so they're not going to be

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Speaker 2: sure of money. I've already claimed an eighty percent reduction

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Speaker 2: in methane output was its product when dosing live stock

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Speaker 2: through water troughs. So as I've always said it to Andrew,

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Speaker 2: science will be the winner.

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Speaker 1: Science is always the winner, Jamie. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay from the Country dot co dot MZ for

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