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Speaker 1: Farmer confidence. Here we goes turned around in a way

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Speaker 1: that makes you ask what happened there? Latest Fed Farmers

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Speaker 1: survey has seen it go from minus sixty six to

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Speaker 1: positive too. They been doing the number since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine. This is the largest one off improvement they

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Speaker 1: have ever seen. Now the Fed Farmer's President Wayne Langford

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Speaker 1: as well as Wayne morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, morning Mike. A really positive result, isn't it good?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it all the dairy and the milk

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Speaker 1: and everyone's what's happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a number of factors. Obviously, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: one side of our business, the income, and that's definitely

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Speaker 2: gone up. That's a positive result. But there's the other

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Speaker 2: side of the business, our expenses, and that's that's where

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Speaker 2: we have really gone to work saying, hey, how can

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Speaker 2: we get our farmers that confident in what's going on,

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Speaker 2: how can we get inflash and under control, and how

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Speaker 2: can we make sure that farmings as easy as possible

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Speaker 2: so that we can drive our businesses going forward.

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Speaker 1: And that's working clearly.

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Speaker 2: Well it is. It's I think the results are showing

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Speaker 2: it that the work that the government's put in last year,

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Speaker 2: you know, making some of the announcements they have around

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Speaker 2: the missions, pricing on farm plans, getting all the time

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Speaker 2: inflation under control, which was a bee at a starting

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Speaker 2: to see, you know, comes through in terms of farmer

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Speaker 2: confidence brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Are the banks playing ball?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got we've got a QUIRE hearing this morning,

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Speaker 2: so so we'll see about their one. But then put

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Speaker 2: the pressure on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ye, what would you do to the banks if

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Speaker 1: you're in charge of.

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Speaker 2: Them, I'd look after my farmer's first. Farmers are where

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Speaker 2: they're you know, the backbone's economy that's usually look after first,

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Speaker 2: and now the rest will come from there.

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Speaker 1: Is this sustainable? I mean, is this just a moment

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Speaker 1: in time? The sun has been shining. It's been pretty

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Speaker 1: good summer over much of the country as well, which

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Speaker 1: kind of harmed it is this? Are we on the

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Speaker 1: right track here permanently? You reckon?

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Speaker 2: I think if we keep going the way we are

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Speaker 2: trying to remove the red tapers we've been saying for

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Speaker 2: quite some time. You know, we're sending our farming businesses

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Speaker 2: up to be profitable to run the systems that they

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Speaker 2: need to run, which is which is a low cost

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Speaker 2: We've got to low input systems in new Zealand. That's

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Speaker 2: what we're renowned for, and you've got to get regulation

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Speaker 2: out of the way of that. So that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: What we'll see after that as a massively on effect

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Speaker 2: to the rest of our communities. And you've got to remember,

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Speaker 2: the royal community is the second biggest outside of Auckland.

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Speaker 2: So if we get the royal communities cranking, we get

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Speaker 2: the country cranking. And that's the way to go.

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Speaker 1: You're preaching to the converted way and appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Waye Lang of the fed Farmer's Prison. I wonder when

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Speaker 1: Chris Hopkins listens to that weather he thinks, gee, actually,

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Speaker 1: is that how you do it? Because when he was

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Speaker 1: running the place, the farmers weren't that happy, and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he just needed a few tweaks

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Speaker 1: to some regulation. You need to get the inflation under control,

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Speaker 1: and these people start to run. You know, this is

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Speaker 1: billions and billions and billions of dollars into New Zealand.

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