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Speaker 1: And the Country host Jamie McKay is with us this evening. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Jamie Goda, Jack, any update for us on the blue

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Speaker 1: bird flu case in Otago? Is it spreading? If they

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Speaker 1: found it anywhere else?

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Speaker 2: No, nowhere else at that stage. I spoke to Raysmith,

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Speaker 2: the director general of MPI at lunchtime on my show.

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Speaker 2: I've just watched the network news feed on it of

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Speaker 2: begetting press releases from MPI. So as it stands at

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Speaker 2: the moment, Jack, we're talking eighty thousand birds that are

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Speaker 2: going to have to be eradicated out of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty thousand on that farm, that mainland poultry farm

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Speaker 2: at Moraki. But if you're worried about a lack of

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Speaker 2: eggs on the market because of this, just call your

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Speaker 2: jets a weee. But at the moment, because we've got

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Speaker 2: like four million layer hens in this country, so that's

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Speaker 2: only two percent. Obviously, if that number grows, it will

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Speaker 2: be concerned. I just wonder whether there might even be

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Speaker 2: more concerned Jack, if it gets into the chicken meat industry.

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Speaker 2: Raysmith told me today, and I think I picked this

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Speaker 2: up correctly. We have one hundred million chickens for meat production,

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Speaker 2: which sounds a hell of a lot. That's like twenty

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Speaker 2: chickens for each of us to eat here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: But if it gets in there, it could have sub ramifications.

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Speaker 2: But look, MPI, to be fair to them, I've got

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Speaker 2: a pretty good track record in recent times with m

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Speaker 2: bovus and even with COVID tracing and all that sort

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Speaker 2: of stuff, I guess for shutting these things down. So

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Speaker 2: hopefully they can shut this one down. And it's just

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Speaker 2: just that farm affected.

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Speaker 1: The government's third and final Farmer Friendly Restoring Farmer Confidence

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Speaker 1: Tour meeting is taking place tomorrow in y Mumu. So

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Speaker 1: what are they hoping to achieve?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question, Jack I said to Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister Christopher Luxen on the show last week. Are you

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Speaker 2: effectively preaching to the choir because you know he's going

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Speaker 2: to get one hundred percent support of these meetings? Bearing

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Speaker 2: in mind is said third and final. They've done Mystery

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Speaker 2: Creek Glass Tuesday. I think it was ash Burton Friday,

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Speaker 2: and then this one at the way Mumu Field days

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Speaker 2: sight just outside of Gore and Southland heartland kind of

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Speaker 2: national or coalition government country. Look, I think the idea

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Speaker 2: is to get amongst the farmers, share the love, get

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Speaker 2: them off farm. Some of them have had a bit

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Speaker 2: of a tough time weatherwise. Give him a barbie and

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Speaker 2: it's a chance for the farmers to rub shoulders not

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Speaker 2: only with the Prime Minister but with the Minister of

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Speaker 2: Agriculture and Trade Todd McLay and also the President of

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Speaker 2: Federated Farmers Wayne Langford. So I suspect, being a Southland

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Speaker 2: and the South Jacket, there'll be a pretty good turn

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Speaker 2: out there and they'll get plenty of support. But they're

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Speaker 2: not getting it in other places, but they're certainly getting

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Speaker 2: it from the farmers.

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Speaker 1: Global Dairy Trade Auction tonight. What are you expecting, Jamie.

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Speaker 2: Well, greater minds than mine have thought about this. Jack

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Speaker 2: the guy I uses Mike McIntyre at Chardon. I've got

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Speaker 2: to give him a shameless plug. He's as regular as clockwork.

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Speaker 2: He texts me every Tuesday before GDT auctions. Look, he's

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Speaker 2: picking one to two percent rise across the board, led

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Speaker 2: by the powder's whole milk powder, skim milk powder. They

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Speaker 2: could be a bit stronger to drag the average index up.

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Speaker 2: The futures for the twenty four to twenty five season

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Speaker 2: jack currently sit at ten dollars and ten cents and

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Speaker 2: that is good, good money in anyone's in anyone's box.

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Speaker 1: And Jamie Beef and Lamed New Zealand are calling for

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Speaker 1: changes to New Zealand's climate change policies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, they're saying that we're out of step internationally

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Speaker 2: with other key areas. And this is a report that

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Speaker 2: they've had commissioned with sixteen other or sixteen jurisdictions, that's

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Speaker 2: effectively fifteen countries port plus the EU. They're saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: the same sort of stuff we've heard for a long time,

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Speaker 2: that that our beef and lamb from farm to plate

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Speaker 2: is amongst the lowest in the world in terms of

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Speaker 2: absolute emissions. The other interesting fact is that sheep and

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Speaker 2: beef farms have produced their emission and this is by

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Speaker 2: attrition by thirty five percent since nineteen ninety when we

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Speaker 2: first put a peg in the sand around climate change.

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Speaker 2: Kate Ackland says, we're not being let off the hook.

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Speaker 2: That's the narrative that's out there. She's saying, no other

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Speaker 2: country apart from Denmark, is currently intending to put a

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Speaker 2: price on agricultural emissions. We will by the year twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty under current policy, and in the likes of Denmark,

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Speaker 2: those farmers are going to be have their their emissions

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Speaker 2: pricing offset big time by billions of dollars of subsidies

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Speaker 2: to farmers. Interestingly, Jack, of all those sixteen jurisdictions, only

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Speaker 2: New Zealand doesn't have a limit on the amount of

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Speaker 2: forestry offsets available to fossil fuel emitters, and many have

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Speaker 2: policies aimed at limiting the conversion of productive farms into

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Speaker 2: carbon forestry. Expect some announcement from the government tomorrow, maybe

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Speaker 2: Chris By, Christopher Luxeon and Todd McClay at ye murmur

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Speaker 2: on the changes to those sitting rules.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time, Jamie, appreciate it as ever, mate.

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Speaker 1: That is host of the Country, Jamie mackay.

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