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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye Hosts of the Countries with us Ay Jamie

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Speaker 1: get A Heather. I'm coming to you from a top

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Speaker 1: of the Bombay Hills, just flowing into Auckland. Were making

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Speaker 1: our way down to Hamilton for day one of field

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Speaker 1: Days tomorrow. I know you've got Wayne Langford coming up

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Speaker 1: very shortly on Hewoker Echinoa being kicked for touch. I say,

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Speaker 1: not before time, so I don't really want to steal

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Speaker 1: his thunder on the subject, But feel free to ask

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Speaker 1: me any questions. What do you reckon? The vibe is

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Speaker 1: going to be at field Days. Look, it'll be subdued,

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Speaker 1: I think, especially for people with big ticket items, and

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Speaker 1: I'm talking the tractors, the utes, that sort of thing. Look,

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Speaker 1: there's no spare there's no spare cash and farming and

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Speaker 1: any of the farming systems at the moment, and especially

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Speaker 1: when I look at sheep and beef, especially sheep, but

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Speaker 1: they're in the doldrums. It's as bad as it's been

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Speaker 1: since the nineteen eighties. However, we have had a positive

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Speaker 1: a few positive GDT auctions heading into this. Kiwi Fruit's

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Speaker 1: going really well and I think the main purpose of

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Speaker 1: field Days, and I'm sure that the people selling scaler

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Speaker 1: up red bands and Swan drives will do just fine,

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Speaker 1: and the food people will do just fine. But I

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Speaker 1: just think that the main thing about field Days is

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Speaker 1: to get off arm, go and have a look, even

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Speaker 1: if you're only tire kicking and a bit of networking.

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Speaker 1: Good for the soul heather. And do you think it

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Speaker 1: will buck their their spirits a little bit up to

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Speaker 1: hear that they're out of the ets. Yeah? Absolutely, Look

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Speaker 1: I know, well I'm quoting Wayne Langford here, even though

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Speaker 1: he's coming on. He said the previous government were too

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Speaker 1: focused on pricing farmers. This is for their emissions obviously

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Speaker 1: driving and this is a good quote, driving blindly towards

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Speaker 1: unachievable political, unscientific methane reduction targets. And when they were

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Speaker 1: talking about up to forty seven percent, that was the

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Speaker 1: end of livestock farming as we know it in this country.

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Speaker 1: We were at the bleeding edge heather rather than the

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Speaker 1: lead edge. And I'm a big fan of the market.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to sound like Roger Douglas or David Seymour here,

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Speaker 1: but the best way to get farmers to reduce the

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Speaker 1: missions And I had this argument with Damian O'Connor on

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Speaker 1: My show today, actually produced by Andy Duff, who's done

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Speaker 1: doing the hard yards, doing yours. I had the argument

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Speaker 1: with them that, honestly, if you want farmers to change

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Speaker 1: their behavior, reduce their emissions, give them a premium. It's

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Speaker 1: just like when organics came in. If there's a premium,

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Speaker 1: farmers will do it. That'll be fine at the moment

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Speaker 1: as it stands right at the moment, despite what the

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Speaker 1: likes of Damien says, there isn't a premium, so it

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Speaker 1: will happen. It's like Rachel Hunter's here, but it won't

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Speaker 1: happen overnight. Jamie, good on. You go and enjoy yourself,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Jamie McKay, host of the Country. For more

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