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Speaker 1: With me right now? Is Jamie McKay, host of the Country. Hey, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: good I eva, what are we picking for the GDT

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Speaker 1: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've gone to my go to guy, Mike McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Jard another two to three percent. This is a really

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Speaker 2: good result to hew with Trump's tariffs, it doesn't seem

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Speaker 2: to be stopping the rampant dairy market. Admittedly, we're very

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Speaker 2: near the end of our season. This is the penultimate

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Speaker 2: GDT auction. The season will end, of course on May

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Speaker 2: thirty one. So he's picking two to three percent. That

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Speaker 2: follows two rises in April after we drop or a

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Speaker 2: bit of a slump, slight slump in March. The interesting

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Speaker 2: thing is if the spot rate was set on today's price,

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Speaker 2: is we'd they getting eleven dollars per kilogram of milk

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Speaker 2: solids And that's with a apparently with a dollar which

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Speaker 2: is just nudging sixty US cents. So that's great. Of course,

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Speaker 2: it won't be that because it evens out over the

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Speaker 2: whole season. But happy days, as I say, for the

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Speaker 2: dairy industry.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that twenty one percent drop in the number of

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Speaker 1: sheep over the last ten years, is that worry you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Because you need critical mass in the industry, and

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Speaker 2: the sheep meat industry walls. Look, and I get a

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Speaker 2: bit of stick on my show for being pessimistic about wall,

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Speaker 2: but I am really worried about the prospects for strong

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Speaker 2: cross bred wall. But the prospects for lamb especially are

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Speaker 2: really good. It's a niche product, it's a really good product.

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Speaker 2: There's a shortage of it. But the trouble is, you know,

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Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties heither we had seventy million sheep.

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Speaker 2: We're down to twenty three million sheep. Now we're just

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Speaker 2: producing less and less, even though the production be head's

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Speaker 2: gone up significantly significantly in those forty odd years. So look,

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Speaker 2: the worry is that we haven't got enough critical mass

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Speaker 2: to keep our processing plants open or certainly open and efficient. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, down down to twenty three point six million sheep.

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Speaker 2: I know these numbers have been bandied about, but they're

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Speaker 2: worth repeating. Dairy cattle so much for the dairy boom.

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Speaker 2: We're down thirteen percent since the dairy boom, nearly a million,

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Speaker 2: down to five point eight million. It'll be interesting to

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Speaker 2: see whether that stays there. The government gets back into

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Speaker 2: or allows dairy conversions. The interesting one is beef cattle

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Speaker 2: have done the best, very good returns for beef at

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Speaker 2: the moment. Those numbers are pretty similar to what they

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Speaker 2: were a decade ago. And if you're a deer farmer,

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Speaker 2: chances are, Heather, you've only got three quarters of the

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Speaker 2: stock you used to have because they're down twenty six percent.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks very much, Jamie, go well at the moment. Mate,

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Speaker 1: that's Jamie McKay, host of the Country.

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