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Speaker 1: More good news for New Zealand Inc. Is the latest

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Speaker 1: data around our red meat reminds us yet again what

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Speaker 1: a debt of gratitude we owe to the farmers. Red

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Speaker 1: meat exports yet another record one point twenty six billion,

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Speaker 1: that's March one point twenty six billion in March values

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Speaker 1: up thirty four percent on last year. The US, the

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Speaker 1: biggest buyer, is still at four hundred millionish, followed by

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Speaker 1: China at about two hundred and eighty million. Wayne Langford, as

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Speaker 1: the Federated Farmer's President, of course, is back with us. Wayne,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning Marte.

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Speaker 1: You've got any feel yet for the teriff impact of

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Speaker 1: there is any on the meat going into America?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a quietly interesting space. Right. We

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Speaker 2: expected some troubles and we haven't quite seen that yet.

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Speaker 2: So well, we're actually seeing it's quite the opposite, where

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Speaker 2: we're seeing prices rise heading into our winter, which is

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Speaker 2: something that that's not very common and we haven't seen.

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Speaker 1: It of us for yet, so that's exciting. My great

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Speaker 1: hope was at the top end of the market we

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Speaker 1: can sell through tariffs. Do you reckon that's possible?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that is that is a good direction

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Speaker 2: of trailll to go in, right, will we produce a

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Speaker 2: product that not many other countries in the world produced.

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Speaker 2: It's different to the red meat around the world. And

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Speaker 2: as you can imagine, every country probably says we've got

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Speaker 2: the best red meat in the world. We've not only

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Speaker 2: got the We've not only got the best red meat,

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Speaker 2: We've got the red meat that's a little bit different.

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Speaker 2: It's grass feed, you know, it's raised differently, and it's

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Speaker 2: very lean, and it's something that complements the American market

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Speaker 2: very well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And do explain that because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people text me and go, oh, that's a lie. The

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Speaker 1: crap it just goes into burgers. Americans take burgers seriously

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Speaker 1: and they chase quality meat. Am I correct in saying that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even I love gun for American hate their burgers.

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Speaker 2: I mean the happy ethic burgers. But what they need

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Speaker 2: is the New Zealand lean meat to maxim was their

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Speaker 2: meat that's over there. And so right now they are

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Speaker 2: currently currently buying in that and they're buying strong because

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Speaker 2: that they need to ensure that they've got the burger

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Speaker 2: market covered good.

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Speaker 1: China, is that a comeback story yet or we still

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think we've still got some work to do there.

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Speaker 2: And it's great to have options, right, and that's what

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Speaker 2: we need to concentrate on. That's what we expect of

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Speaker 2: our marketing and our trade teams to go out there

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Speaker 2: and do it. We'll keep producing the beef down here

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Speaker 2: on farm and they can go out and do their

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Speaker 2: job and can get it done for us oervices.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this on the program yesterday. The stocking

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Speaker 1: issue cows and sheep and that we don't have as many.

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Speaker 1: Is de stocking and planting pine trees an issue?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's very much an issue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're looking what the reason I'm asking Obviously

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Speaker 1: you're selling more than you ever have. Do you need

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Speaker 1: more land in cows and less land and trees? Oh?

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Speaker 2: This is critical and it's critical fear listeners to understand.

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Speaker 2: What they're doing is they're planting the areas they breed

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Speaker 2: our sheep. So where for example, our sheep go out

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Speaker 2: on this extensive hill country and that's the country that

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Speaker 2: produces all the lambs now on the flat land, that's

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Speaker 2: that's where the lambs get fat and then they grow

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Speaker 2: out and they eventually get sold. But we need that

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Speaker 2: hill country to do our breeding to bitter cows out

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Speaker 2: on over the winter in different periods, and so when

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Speaker 2: that gets covered in pine trees, then those animals have

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Speaker 2: to move down onto the flats which was our land

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Speaker 2: to finish them on. I mean it's I don't mean

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Speaker 2: to get technical a better it is very technical because

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Speaker 2: because this is why we need to tidy it out.

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Speaker 2: We've got to look after our breeding country so that

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Speaker 2: we can have a fetling country to.

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Speaker 1: Do what we do very well. So'd appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Wine Langford, president of Federated Farmers. For more from the

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