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Speaker 1: So yet another product that New Zealand thk is doing

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Speaker 1: well and after what seems like a summer from heaven.

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Speaker 1: Basically the personal sector has seen a twenty percent rise

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Speaker 1: in exports over the past year. Demand has never been

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Speaker 1: higher from Australia, Southeast Asia, even Canada. A person industry

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Speaker 1: council manager Ian Turks with us on this Ian morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: How big is the industry?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a small industry. We've got about twenty eight

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Speaker 2: growers and we export about ten million dollars worth of

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Speaker 2: wor of fruit pertament. Industry councils focused on export. We

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Speaker 2: really deal with our export growers, but there's a few

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Speaker 2: more growers have been supplying domestic only, so it's very small.

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Speaker 1: How much acreage and is it growing?

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Speaker 2: I think about just over one hundred sectiers across all

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Speaker 2: the grass. And yes, we know there's some new there

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Speaker 2: are some new plantings in already and you know it's

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Speaker 2: just febri at another orchard that's looking and in some

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Speaker 2: decent heath groups. So yes, there's interesting and ability for

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Speaker 2: the industry to grow.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like everyone grew something brilliant this past summer.

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Speaker 1: It's been a fantastic time and you guys are no different.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we've had some rough years, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: over the last five years. And you think about COVID.

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Speaker 2: You know, the lockdown came on just as the season

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Speaker 2: was starting in twenty twenty. We've had Gabriel and rain

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Speaker 2: last year. Most of our persons come out of Grisbon's

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Speaker 2: and North up North which has very really been hit

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Speaker 2: by the weather events. So yes, we've got a good

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Speaker 2: season this year. Our growers are happy, they're looking forward

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Speaker 2: to it. And the twenty percent increase that you're talking

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Speaker 2: about sort of brings us back up to good average levels.

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Speaker 2: So it sounds good, but it's back to where we

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Speaker 2: should be.

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Speaker 1: What do people do with them?

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Speaker 2: Well, I eat them fresh. I just absolutely love them fresh.

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Speaker 2: Though we don't get a chance at the household to

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Speaker 2: do much more with them. But there's a whole that

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Speaker 2: there's tons that you can do with them. And I

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Speaker 2: really recommend if anyone's looking for ideas, hop on the

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Speaker 2: five plus a day to look at their recipes. They've

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Speaker 2: got some fantastic ideas. There lots of lots of salads.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think putting a personmon into a salad

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Speaker 2: is really licensed to add whatever you like in the

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Speaker 2: and these recipes here with beakroot and ponme granas and

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Speaker 2: you know, all sorts of exciting recipes just what you

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Speaker 2: need at this time of year to brighten up your meals.

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Speaker 1: Well, said Ian, I'm glad you're doing well too, Ian Turk,

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Speaker 1: who's the person in industry council manager? So I don't

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Speaker 1: know what else we haven't done. We've done cherries, done

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Speaker 1: KeyWe fruit apples, pears, person's wine. My tree did well

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Speaker 1: this year. I've had actually funny enough. I was sympathizing

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Speaker 1: with thee and when he said it's been a bit

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Speaker 1: of a rough couple of seasons, I agree. I've got

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Speaker 1: a person in tree. I didn't realize it was a

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Speaker 1: person in true when we bought the property. I thought,

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Speaker 1: what earth are those turned out to be?

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Speaker 3: I can even quite remember what person's look like.

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Speaker 1: They look like a light, very pale yellow apple roughly

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Speaker 1: sort of.

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Speaker 3: And are they like a pomegranate where they've got lots

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Speaker 3: of seeds inside and completely different to a pomegranate.

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Speaker 1: You could mistake one and don't text me and say

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Speaker 1: I'm an idiot and wrong you could mistake one if

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Speaker 1: you were looking a bit piste wandering down through the paddock.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't speak from experience, and you might

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Speaker 1: mistake them for a Nashie. So it could be a Nashie,

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Speaker 1: could be a person. You know what I'm saying. There's

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Speaker 1: like there's a slightly different shape, but the eating fresh thing,

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Speaker 1: I thought you only use them sort of for jam.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting what he's saying about the salads, because they're

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Speaker 3: getting into that dangerous area people some thinly people don't

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Speaker 3: like to mix fruit with their main meal, do they?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too, But there's certainly people in my

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Speaker 3: house who are against it. Thinsides slicing slicing green grapes

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Speaker 3: into salad very nice?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah there was.

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Speaker 3: I was hashly criticized.

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Speaker 1: Jeez so hard, wrote a ho is Nick glean Ay?

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Speaker 1: All you can do is you be smape. I get it.

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