1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: The Rural Report on Hither Duper see Alan Drive. 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: Alternative explanation is the tickets were too expensive. Jamie mckaye, 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: host of the Countries with us Alo Jamie good A Heather, Right, 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: So the government's putting money into what to do what 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: with agricultural emissions? 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Well, it's the proverbial will the shite hit the fan? 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: Here because Nicola Willis I chatted to it today in 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: a North Canterbury dairy paddock or dairy farm paddock. And 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: they've got this thing called Agri Zero n Z. It's 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: a joint venture between the government and leading agri businesses, 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: you know, Fonterra, silver, fern farms, all these sorts of people. 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: They're jointly funding it with the government and it's ways 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Now, there's all sorts 14 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: of good ideas out there that like some methane vaccine, vaccines, inhibitors, 15 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: probiotics and even pasture species that when consumed by the 16 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: animals will make them amit less methane. But here's a 17 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: really good one, and this one they've been pondering on 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: for ages. Now, this is a wearable device. Heather sometimes 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: cows wear collars like they do for Halter, and they 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: can have virtual fencing. This is a wearable device at 21 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: the other end of the cow, at the back end 22 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: of the cow. Yeah. Yeah, So the idea is that 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: this wearable device, which they're sort of under avail of 24 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: secrecy because they're still going through the IP and patent process. 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: So what it does, because cows are a big problem. 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: They drink a lot of water, they create a lot 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: of milk. They also pee a lot of urine, very 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: high concentrations. Basically they stand still and plunk it in 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: one place. Not good. Now, these people have quite rightly thought, 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: if we can somehow tweak mother nature and get that 31 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: high nitrogen urine spread around the pasture or the paddock evenly, 32 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: problem solved. So how do you do that? You put 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: a wearable device on the back of the cow. Well 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: that when she peas, somehow it spreads the urine like 35 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: we fertilize a spreader. But if you think about it, Caather, 36 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: and I'm sure you lay awake at night thinking about this, 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: and you think of the geometry or the geography of 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: a cow. Just above where the pea comes out, something 39 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: else comes out, and that's where I think I'm just 40 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: not quite sure how this is going to work. I 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: think the shit could really hit the fan. But it's 42 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: a unique idea and if it works, it could be 43 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: a real game breaker, So good luck to them. This 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: is a startup Canterbury Country. North Canterbury farmer called Moa. 45 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: Nicola was down there along with Shane Retty, the Minister 46 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: of Science, Innovation and Technology. They're very well. Nichola was 47 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: very excited about it. So watch this space. 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: That was interesting, Jamie, thanks very much down there. 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: I may have been clumsy in my explanation you got 50 00:02:58,600 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: I got there in the end, but you just need 51 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: to go home and look at a picture of a 52 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: cow to I would I figure out how this could 53 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: go badly wrong. 54 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: What was more interesting was how awkward you were as 55 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 2: a farmer talking about cowpo But anyway, listen beef and 56 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 2: lamb right. It's the latest of a whole bunch of 57 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: global organizations now that want a new approach re methane. 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: Are they going to be able to put enough pressure 59 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 2: on the government to come around to this, Well. 60 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,839 Speaker 1: They've you know how we had just Cindus christ Church call. 61 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: This is sort of Kate Ackland's split Gas call to 62 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: other countries Beef and Lamb New Zealand, and it started 63 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: with the conversation that Kate Ackland had a number of 64 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: years ago, apparently in the UK with the Irish or 65 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: someone like that. So what they've got is they've got 66 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: thirty organizations again across fourteen countries, and they're going to 67 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: petition the UN and petition their own governments to take 68 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: a split gas approach to measuring greenhouse gas submissions i e. 69 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: Carbon dioxide on one side and methane on the other 70 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: and treat them differently and measure them differently. They've got, 71 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: as I said, fourteen countries have signed up. When I 72 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: look through the signatories of the joint statement, it was 73 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: interesting that the United States was in there, and with 74 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: everything Trump's saying at the moment, it's rather interesting that 75 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: they're signing up for this one. But I guess they 76 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: want to protect their farmers as well. And just before 77 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: you cut me off, either because I know you're going 78 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: to keep an eye out for the Global Dairy Trade 79 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: auction tonight. We haven't had a positive auction for three months, 80 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: not since August. The fifth futures market picking two to 81 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: three percent drop. Here's my question for you, other than 82 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: look at the geometry of the cow or the geography 83 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: of the cow, there's nine dollars fifty on the cards. 84 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: Do you think about that. 85 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 2: Ether Jamie, thank you. I appreciate it. Jamie McKay, host 86 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: of the Country. I didn't want to say it the 87 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 2: entire time, but it's the biology of the cow, isn't it. 88 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: When you're talking about where things are, it's what's the 89 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 2: geography of the cow. 90 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 91 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: News Talks itt B from four p m. 92 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 2: Weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.