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Speaker 1: And running the country dot Co dot In said this

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Speaker 1: week for us as Hamish Mackay who joins us now

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Speaker 1: not need to talk to you again, Hamish, and can

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Speaker 1: I say you're looking good?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I think fifty five kilos off does help the old,

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Speaker 2: the old, get the old carcass around, if you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, you guys have been talking about a rural

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Speaker 1: rural divide. We've heard about the rural urban divide, but

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Speaker 1: this is a rural rural divide. Are you trying to

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Speaker 1: suggest that farmers are not of one mind?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Well, you know, the the egg Proud organization came

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Speaker 2: out quite a you know, a year or two ago

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Speaker 2: and said, look, there is no one way, but we

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Speaker 2: have to be one, you know, if we want to

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Speaker 2: if farmers want to make some real progress here. And

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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with farm gate prices at the moment,

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Speaker 2: but they'd never be agreeing enough so to speak, to

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Speaker 2: put together something like the Dutch with as a farmer's

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Speaker 2: party that actually gets into parliament. It's a little bit

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Speaker 2: of tall poppy. There was too great. A great example

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Speaker 2: was Jeff Ross's and Jeff and Justin Ross's Lake Harwi

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Speaker 2: a station where they had the they had the actresses

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the shearing porthole and the sheep

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Speaker 2: went down, and rural New Zealand just went into this,

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Speaker 2: you know, off the war kind of attack on what

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Speaker 2: they were. Who really cares? And then a week later

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Speaker 2: the beautiful Ruinui station which has run just north of Taire,

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Speaker 2: happy old school traditional farm, well it turns out that

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Speaker 2: the lake harwere and ruin It couldn't be more different

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Speaker 2: in some people's eyes, but in fact that they shear

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Speaker 2: so many of the same sort of ideas and principles,

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Speaker 2: and so you know, it's it is not to be fair.

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Speaker 2: It is not a united front out there in the

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Speaker 2: rural space, and it probably needs to be.

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Speaker 1: And to be fair. Jeff Ross had the last laugh

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Speaker 1: about how we are stationed as well, because only weeks

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Speaker 1: after that, Conde Nas came out and gave them a

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Speaker 1: fair star rating for their accommodation facilities and basically they're

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Speaker 1: they're turning a profit where many New Zealand fans aren't.

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Speaker 1: You know, so hello, and I did rather like the

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Speaker 1: white shade that they painted their shearing shed so you

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Speaker 1: can see the blood spatters.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, look, look, you know I mean, how

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Speaker 2: could you, you know, I just I love what they

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Speaker 2: do there. It's different, but it's still great. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got a farmer confidence survey out this week

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Speaker 1: and farmers, yeah, farmers are pretty happy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look very farmers a huge lift in their confidence

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Speaker 2: and they are at that plus ten dollars per kilogram

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Speaker 2: of milk solids, which can represent a pretty good year

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Speaker 2: for those who produce at a good level sheep and

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Speaker 2: beef and lamb. Lamb's being very strong, beef very very strong.

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Speaker 2: So though the confidence across those sectors is definitely out,

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Speaker 2: not so much for the grain and the seed and

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Speaker 2: the arable guys that they are struggling a little bit

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Speaker 2: and their confidence is down just there the volatility of

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Speaker 2: the global market for them, and also there's you know,

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Speaker 2: things like you know, having to deal with pests and

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Speaker 2: disease and then yet we get an outfit like Bayer

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Speaker 2: having to shut down their New Zealand Research Development arm

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Speaker 2: and so you know, a fear few challenges for our

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Speaker 2: arable farmers. But you'd have to say, across the board,

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Speaker 2: farmer confidence definitely up.

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Speaker 1: And that's a good thing because it all flows through

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Speaker 1: and I thank you very much Hemus Rakai from the Country,

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