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Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you, David Ecklund. Year you enjoy

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Speaker 1: a bit of a break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, he she. We got seven days seven

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Speaker 2: days sort of of complete downtime, which was awesome with

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Speaker 2: the kids.

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Speaker 1: I hope you managed to catch a little break in

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Speaker 1: the weather from this past day and a bit. How

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Speaker 1: much has fallen in your rain gage?

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Speaker 2: I think we're heading towards the twenty eight miles, but

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Speaker 2: it's small. We've this morning now, so yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: Then maybe easing this afternoon and then returning again tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: By the look of things, chrikey, we found ourselves in

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Speaker 1: a familiar pattern, dry into Christmas and then wet for

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Speaker 1: the new year. How much of a headache is this

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Speaker 1: for our arable farmers?

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Speaker 2: Oh? A completely headache for that. Yeah, really really difficult,

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Speaker 2: and you know with the different hair storms and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that before the new year. Yeah, particularly time for

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Speaker 2: some of the arable farmers out there. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: just it's tough even with big combines now and you

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Speaker 2: dry and techno knowledge to try and go start a

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Speaker 2: bit earlier and with high moistures and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: But it's really really difficult.

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Speaker 1: Is the rain all bad? Like, for instance, if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to grow grass and animals. Is it welcomed by

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Speaker 1: those guys?

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Speaker 2: No, I have passed for me. For us at the foothills,

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Speaker 2: we were looking for a bit of rain coming out

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Speaker 2: to Christmas and we've definitely got it now because yeah,

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Speaker 2: that build up through spring and up to Christmas was

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Speaker 2: but short on growth with all that wind and that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. So yeah, I'm hep to mad I'm

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Speaker 2: welcoming it, although it could turn off now and warm

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Speaker 2: up again, so we have a bit of a sunny February.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it is tough on the arable thing.

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Speaker 1: Just give us the balance. Well for some I remember

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Speaker 1: having this conversation with Cole Groves last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: a big drawer on costs this time of the year

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Speaker 1: across Mckennerbury can be irrigation. Yeah, it takes a lot

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Speaker 1: of energy to run those pivots. What you don't need

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Speaker 1: to do as much when conditions like this, So saving

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Speaker 1: a bit of.

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Speaker 2: Money will be for those Yeah, exactly that. Although all

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Speaker 2: of us have pe the solar is, we're not generating

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Speaker 2: much of that. So hey.

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Speaker 1: The other big topic of the morning, the election date

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Speaker 1: has been set by the Prime Minister the seventh of November,

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Speaker 1: which doesn't really come as a surprise, do you reckon

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Speaker 1: this is one of the latest we've had.

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Speaker 2: I was reading something yesterday one of the politicians, but

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Speaker 2: I think there's being three in November, three and October

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Speaker 2: and three in September election cycles, So yeah, it's probably

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Speaker 2: one of the later ones. But it is what it is,

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Speaker 2: and we'll kick on through. What won't we be interesting

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Speaker 2: to see what happens?

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping to see?

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Speaker 2: I'm just hoping to see that everyone developed some good

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Speaker 2: policy and prots out the argument, and that's a positive debate.

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Speaker 2: We just don't want the US style politics still. We

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Speaker 2: want good debate the issues we will faith and how

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Speaker 2: the community wants to come together and solve some of

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Speaker 2: those problems. So it would be my hope that the

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Speaker 2: debate is positive and not focused on on individuals or

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Speaker 2: anything like that, and it's around good, positive policy.

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Speaker 1: Chris Lackson, stressing about these green shoots, he reckons that

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Speaker 1: we're on track that twenty twenty six is is going

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Speaker 1: to be the year of bounce back. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: the same, Have you got a spring in your step?

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Speaker 2: I think that MC Cannery's definitely got a spring out step.

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Speaker 2: We've seen great turnaround and the commodity prices and that

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Speaker 2: sorte of things. You can probably see it with an

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Speaker 2: ash bird. And now they spending people are starting to

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Speaker 2: you know, spend money. I'm building an infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: And that side of things of immustion for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you know, we are starting to see

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Speaker 2: the mccannery and we just need to start seeing it

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Speaker 2: pumped through into the rest of the company, which you know,

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Speaker 2: according to different reports it's you're starting to see it

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Speaker 2: in Aucklander weave and that sort of thing. So so

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Speaker 2: we still start to see it being being driven, but

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Speaker 2: it's it's a pretty crazy world out there at the

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Speaker 2: moment with reading different news news feats from open seats