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Speaker 1: There's a new cow on the block. PAMU and the

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Speaker 1: Livestock Improvement Corporation have created a new breed of cattle.

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Speaker 1: It can produce both beef and dairy and they're calling

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Speaker 1: it the Synergizer. Mark Leslie is the PARMU CEO and

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Speaker 1: with us home.

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Speaker 2: Mark, Good afternoon, Heather, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. That's a cool name. Who

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Speaker 1: came up with that?

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Speaker 2: It was a plain on where's in terms of that's

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Speaker 2: coming from the word synergy, and it was a synergy

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Speaker 2: about actually bringing together some genetics that include Angus Hereford,

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Speaker 2: Simontel Charlet, So a little bit of a play there,

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Speaker 2: but also around the collaboration between how does the dairy

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Speaker 2: sector and the livestock sector collaborate to come up with

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Speaker 2: these animals that will be used. It will come out

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Speaker 2: of the dairy herds and then go into the livestock

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Speaker 2: here it's and become a beef animal to go right through.

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Speaker 2: So the synergy between the sectors and but no, it's

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Speaker 2: a pretty cool name that sort of brings together the

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Speaker 2: beast of both worlds from different breeds as well as

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Speaker 2: the dairy and the livestop sector.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me something, Mark, Why do you want a

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Speaker 1: counter be able to be both dairy and beef because

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Speaker 1: we don't want to milk it for years and then

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Speaker 1: eat it.

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Speaker 2: Do you Yeah? No, so no it's not going to

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Speaker 2: be milked. So what this is intending to do is

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Speaker 2: this breed here will be used the dairy farmers will

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Speaker 2: continue to use their traditional breeds for their milking animals.

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Speaker 2: These bulls or these will be used to go over

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Speaker 2: maybe some of the cows they don't want to keep

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Speaker 2: the replacements out of, and they'll use these to generate

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Speaker 2: animals that can then go off into the livestock sector

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Speaker 2: and become animals for meat and for process and to

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Speaker 2: that side of it. So no, they won't be getting milked,

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Speaker 2: they'll be coming out of the dairy sector and going

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Speaker 2: off into that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon there's a market for this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. And the work we've done and this has

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Speaker 2: been part of our journey in terms of the dairy

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Speaker 2: beef journey and rearing those extra cars out of our

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Speaker 2: dairy units to go into the livestock units, and these

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Speaker 2: genetics are a key part of that. And you have

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Speaker 2: seen a recent Rubbo report, rubber Bank report where they

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Speaker 2: talk about potential upside of dairy beef to New Zealand

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Speaker 2: of one point two billion, and we've been we've been

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Speaker 2: h's looking at this for the last number of years

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Speaker 2: and these will these will meet the need of the

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Speaker 2: deary farmer that they really good from their deary respective.

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Speaker 3: They really unique.

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Speaker 2: They stand out in terms of their silver color, their

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Speaker 2: their low birth face.

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Speaker 3: And the lights. But then once they're on a livestock farm,

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Speaker 3: they're growing out really well. They've got good live weight

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Speaker 3: down and that's really rhythm quality, so they need to

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Speaker 3: meet the needs of both sides.

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Speaker 1: Great, that's fantastic stuff. Mark, Thanks very much, Mark Leslie

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