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Speaker 1: With us right now at twenty five pass six as

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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host to the Country. Hey Jamie, can I Eather, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: you've launched yips, haven't you what? You've launched chips like

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Speaker 1: Crispies like crisps.

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Speaker 2: Yes, farmers cut potato chips with heartland and we have

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Speaker 2: our own bear with Emersons to go with it. And

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Speaker 2: if you weren't heavily pregnant, Heather, you would have been

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Speaker 2: with us on Tuesday evening at the morning ride to

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Speaker 2: have them. But but you're You're forgiven. You're forgiven.

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Speaker 1: I did notice that my husband's not pregnant and he

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Speaker 1: wasn't invited.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, he was invited. I don't know where he went. Look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about him and Barry just at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I'm worried about Catherine Vague as the new green MP. Look,

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Speaker 2: I don't know about I'm against the banks being the

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Speaker 2: carbon police big time, and I'm on the receiving end

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Speaker 2: of it too, as a guy who was someone who's

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Speaker 2: invested in a dairy farm. Look, and she was talking

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Speaker 2: about the eighty percent of the markets looking for these

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Speaker 2: lower mission foods, and I don't doubt that they are

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Speaker 2: looking for them. Are they paying for them? No? Good Catherine,

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Speaker 2: who doesn't give many interviews, Thank goodness, name the markets China.

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Speaker 2: She didn't mention China at all. What's going to happen

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Speaker 2: with the States under Donald Trump? And as for her

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Speaker 2: subsidized loans, look, cash strap farmers. I can tell you

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Speaker 2: this for sure, Heather, that they're over a barrel. They're

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Speaker 2: going to take one of these subsidized loans. They're going

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Speaker 2: to try and meet the conditions. They may or may

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Speaker 2: not meet them, and some of them will take the

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Speaker 2: subsidized loan and worry about it later. China. You know

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Speaker 2: what's their main concern? I don't think it's lower missions. Food.

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Speaker 2: Food security and safety is number one for them. India,

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Speaker 2: we're looking for an FTA with them. I mean, they're

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Speaker 2: hardly paragons of lower missions production in their country. So look,

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Speaker 2: I say to the banks, but out of it farmers.

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Speaker 2: If you want them to change their practices, do it

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Speaker 2: at a process A level or a government level process

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Speaker 2: A level. Preferably pay them a premium for lower missions food.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, there is no premium, yep.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. Speaking of which, though Denmark

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Speaker 1: has decided to go down the path of the old

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Speaker 1: fart tax, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it has I mean Jacinda and co. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's probably disappointed Damien David Parker, but they couldn't do

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Speaker 2: this in their second term. So Denmark is going to

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Speaker 2: implement the world's first tax on agricultural emissions on they're

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Speaker 2: saying flatulumps and farthing, but it's not. It's burping from livestock.

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Speaker 2: So from twenty thirty farmers will have to pay a

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Speaker 2: levy of three hundred krona. I think that's about fifty

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Speaker 2: US dollars or something per ton of methane. It's going

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Speaker 2: to raise to seven hundred and fifty krona in twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty five, so it's quite significant. According to the Danish

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Speaker 2: daily newspaper The Copenhagen Post, two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: hecbares of forestry will be planted, and one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty thousand hectares of peatlands that are currently being cultivated

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Speaker 2: will be restored to their natural habitats so they can

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Speaker 2: be a carbon store. Interestingly, Denmark, at sixty percent of

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Speaker 2: its total land cultivated, as first equal in the world

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Speaker 2: with Bangladesh when it comes to percentage of cultivated land,

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Speaker 2: very intensive agriculture there, and as Party spokesman for the

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Speaker 2: new coalition said, Danish nature will change in a way

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Speaker 2: we have not seen since the wetlands were drained in

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Speaker 2: eighteen sixty four. So I'm sure Catherine can go over

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Speaker 2: and give some of the lower mission loans over there,

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Speaker 2: they'll go down.

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Speaker 1: I'd go down a treat, Jamie, thanks very much, appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: Jamie mguy, host of the Country. For more from Heather

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