1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, Host of the Countries with Us. Hello Jamie. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: I'd like to say good evening, Heather, but it hasn't 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: been for a lot of people. What's it like, how's 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: it with you guys? Well, I'm based in Dunedan. There's 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: a few trees over here. It got rather blustery just 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: after midday or one or two o'clock. Is the weather 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: changed in Picrgo got hammered. We know all parts of 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: the country have been hammered, but I think if you're 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: looking for the worst affected from what I can see anyhow, 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: it would probably be Canterbury, especially North Canterbury. Got a 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: message from a farmer who said he's been in the 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 1: Muri basin today. That's covid and Era area in North Canterbury. 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: His words, effing carnage. Fifty pivots. These are the big 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: pivot arrogators. Blown over trees and sheds gone everywhere. So 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot of repairing. And you 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: might remember a few years ago when they had a 17 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: big wind in Canterbury. Those pivot irrigators, which cost hundreds 18 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: of thousands, sometimes millions of dollars. They try and park 19 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: them up into the wind when it's really strong. But 20 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: it looks like that wasn't enough. A number of those 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: have been damaged. And the irony of all the situation 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: is they're going to need those pivot irrigators very shortly 23 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: because this wind has not only been wickedly destructive, it's 24 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: raally starting to dry out the east coast of both islands. 25 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: On the Synergizer has Rabobank said they quite like the 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: look of it. What's a synergizer? The synergizer is the 27 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: name of the cow, Jamie, Oh, is it? Well, I'm 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: learning from you. You should just do the rural spot yourself. 29 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: I assume we're talking about the same Rabobank reports strategic 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: moment for dairy beef in New Zealand is that I 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: love the Synergizer. Well, look, we've got a big issue 32 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: in this country in the dairy industry, and that is 33 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: what to do with the bobby calfs. So what happens 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: to the carves for people who are unaware that for 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: a cow to produce milk, it has to get pregnant, 36 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: it has to have a calf. The calfs are taken 37 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: off the dairy cows at three to four days of 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: age and then the cows and milk. Now what happens 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: to those calves, Well, about a quarter of them are 40 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: retained as replacement dairy eiffers. The females about another quarter 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: raised as dairy beef and they will be processed. I'm 42 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,239 Speaker 1: worried to use the word killed heather in these enlightened times, 43 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: but they will be killed as beef animals in two 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to three years time. But that leaves the other half 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: and they haven't got a very good future at all. 46 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: Basically they go to the meat works as bobby calves 47 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: at four to five days old. That's feel And if 48 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: that sounds barbaric, it's not as barbaric as they used 49 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: to be because they used to just be disposed on farms. 50 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: So look, I think if where or the dairy industry 51 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: should I say, has so license to operate, and especially 52 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: with the animal welfare cruelty side of all this, it 53 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: will become important that every calf born is raised and 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: serves a useful purpose. So I think that's where having 55 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: more dairy beef pride of progeny from these dairy cows 56 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: will be the answer. Because Rabobank had come out and 57 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: said at current market average prices for this season. Rearing 58 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: an additional six hundred thousand calves could unlock one point 59 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: two billion dollars in value. And imagine if we had that, Heather, 60 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: we could pay the teachers more to learn about Palestine, 61 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: and we could play the pay the hard working doctors 62 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: and nurses a bit more. Goodness knows they deserve it. 63 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: God on you. Jamie has always really loved talking to you. 64 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: That's Jamie Mackay, who's the host of the Country. 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