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Speaker 1: The Rural Report on Heather Do see Alan Drive Hi

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Speaker 1: host of the Country with me. Now, Hey, Jomie get

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Speaker 1: I here. Okay, what are you hearing about the GDT

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Speaker 1: auction tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well, the guy I go to is Mike McIntyre at Jardin.

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Speaker 2: I give him a shameless plug every two weeks on

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Speaker 2: the show. I should be sending him an invoice, but

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Speaker 2: he's pretty much on the money. The futures market is

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Speaker 2: suggesting a two percent drop. It's going to be interesting here,

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Speaker 2: and I say that because we're getting We're starting to

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Speaker 2: ramp up volumes in our production season as the North

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Speaker 2: Island especially gets well through carving and starts smoking all

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Speaker 2: the cows. South Island, especially Lower South Island where I'm based,

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Speaker 2: just getting started now. So Mike's saying down two percent. Interestingly,

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Speaker 2: you know this is following I think in the last

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Speaker 2: six actions four drops followed by two lifts, which is good.

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Speaker 2: Our futures market is sitting at still over ten dollars

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Speaker 2: ten dollar ten, so that's where they're picking. It's at

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Speaker 2: nine dollars sixty two for the next season, which is

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Speaker 2: a long long way off. So look, it's obviously we

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Speaker 2: live in uncertain times. Donald might help all that by

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Speaker 2: broker in peace all around the world. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: as long as it starts with a ten, I think

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Speaker 2: dairy farmers are going to be pretty happy. We'll keep

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Speaker 2: an eye on that one tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, what's going on with the live animal exports?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing. And you might remember that this was a

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Speaker 2: condition of the coalition agreement. National and Act campaign during

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Speaker 2: the last election to bring back the trade. And this

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Speaker 2: is a very contentious and well put it this way.

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Speaker 2: I think the farming community even here there is split

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Speaker 2: down the middle on this one. And you might remember

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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty, during that typhoon, we had the

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Speaker 2: Golf Livestock one ship en route to China death. Two

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Speaker 2: New Zealand crew members died. Along with the crew members,

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Speaker 2: five thousand, eight hundred cattle were also lost on that

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Speaker 2: ship and that was the catalyst for saying to the

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Speaker 2: war for the labor government anyhow to ban this cattle trade.

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Speaker 2: So National and Act want to give it bring it back.

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Speaker 2: But the Parliamentary Council Office the PCO is drafting the

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Speaker 2: Animal Welfare Act, but they seem to be taking their

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Speaker 2: time on it and we are stuck in no man's land.

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Speaker 2: Now there's two sides to the story. The likes of

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Speaker 2: Labour's Rachel Boyak, who's their animal welfare spokesperson, is saying

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Speaker 2: no good how regardless of how good the welfare is

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Speaker 2: on that ships or on those ships, it's not going

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Speaker 2: to be gold standard, she says, ban it. There'd be

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Speaker 2: no surprise that Steve Abel from the Greens is saying

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Speaker 2: the same thing. So maybe the government might have a

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Speaker 2: wee bit of hard work on this one getting it

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Speaker 2: past the goalie. They've got to get the legislation draft first.

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Speaker 2: But remember Australia is also under elbow planning to phase

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Speaker 2: out live exports of cheap by sea because that's a

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Speaker 2: huge trade for those guys out of Perth up into

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. They're going to end that by twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight. I do need to emphasize that our live

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Speaker 2: animal export would only be for cattle.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, Jamie, thanks very much, appreciate it. That's Jamie MacKaye,

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