1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Here that you should sign Eggy up as a relief teacher. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: I mean you might help with that English and maths curriculum. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: Actually six twenty six with us. Now is Jamie mckaye, 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: Host of the Country. 5 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 2: Hi, Jamie, can I hear that? 6 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Hey? So the farmers are feeling a bit better, are they? 7 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 2: Well, they're feeling more positive economically than poor old Tory 8 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: is the poor thing. Look, the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence 9 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: survey has come out and farmers are now at net 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: positive levels and confidence for the first time since quarter 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: four of twenty twenty one. And the things they're positive 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: about higher commodity prices that's making forty percent of them happy. 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: Falling interest rates is making thirty one percent of them happy. 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: What they can't do much about, unfortunately, like a lot 15 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: of people in business and just people running a household, 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: is rising input costs. Forty eight percent of them remained 17 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: concerned at those so unsurprisingly, also here, the dairy farmers 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: are now the most optimistic of all the farming green 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: in New Zealand. Not a surprise really when you consider 20 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: the futures market is sitting at nine dollars. They are 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: the experts mainly my man at Jordan, Mike McIntyre, I'll 22 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 2: give them a shout outs, predicting a two to three 23 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,639 Speaker 2: percent lift of tonight's GDT auction. Dairy en Z also 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: came out with their in house tall the e Coon Tracker. 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 2: They're saying that the forecasts payouts eight dollars eighty four, 26 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 2: but interestingly break even is sitting at over eight dollars 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 2: at eight oh nine. So literally, even with these potentially 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: really good dairy prices heither, we're still barely going to 29 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 2: make a buck figuratively, of course, I mean, yeah. 30 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: True right, Jammie, listen, I'm federat to farmers. Big day tomorrow? 31 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: Is it tomorrow? 32 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? Blowing out one hundred and twenty five candles eighteenth 33 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: of September eighteen ninety nine. It's a great story. A 34 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: Northland dairy farmer by the name of Thomas Smith recognized 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 2: the need for a single unified voice to strength and 36 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: farmers position to create leverage when engaging with the government. 37 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: This is back in eighteen ninety nine, so fast forward 38 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 2: a decade to nineteen ten and a guy by the 39 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: name of Henry Ackland who ran Mount Peel Station. Interestingly, 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: the current chair of beef and lamb New Zealand. Kate 41 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: Ackland is married to a descendant, David So. In nineteen ten, 42 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: Henry decided that they needed to do likewise in the 43 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: South Island to promote the interests of sheep farmers and 44 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: address issues like fluctuating wall prices, disease outbreaks and the 45 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: need for improved farming practices and infrastructure. Interestingly, also he 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 2: stayed in that position, so he started in nineteen ten. 47 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: He held that position until his death in nineteen forty two. 48 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: And then just after World War II, they've combined the 49 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: New Zealand Farmers Union and the sheep owners combined they 50 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: into one organization and that's the organization we know. It's 51 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 2: Federated Farmers Now. 52 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: Amazing stuff. I'm looking forward to celebrating it with them. Jammy, 53 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: thanks very much, Jammie mckaie, Host of the Country. Hey, 54 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: by the way, news just end the All Blacks have 55 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: sold out sky Stadium. Remember they didn't sell out sky Stadium. 56 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: They didn't sell it out for the Ages game, but 57 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: they've sold it out for the Wallabes game, which is 58 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: not this weekend but next weekend. Here that my boy 59 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: could have a golf ball seventy meters at three heither. 60 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: We used to send out three year old and new 61 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: quad bike to the back of the fund to get 62 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: the cows in while I had afternoon to choose. That's fun, 63 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: A like they think it's fun, You're just making them work. 64 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: They don't realize Headline's next and then the Kiwi Company 65 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: riding the Ozempic wave. 66 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, Listen live to 67 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 68 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.