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Speaker 1: Field Days that gets under way today. Fifty six the year,

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Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand roll into the Mighty Way

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Speaker 1: Kata this week. The Field Day Society Chief executive Peter

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Speaker 1: Nations with us. Peter, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning, Mike. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well. Indeed, what's the vibe?

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Speaker 2: Vibees feeling really good. So we've about us five. The

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Speaker 2: exhibitors start arriving. They've been here seven weeks building the

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Speaker 2: mini city, and there's a lot of people staying to

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Speaker 2: come and we're watching the traffic coming down the motorway

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Speaker 2: and it's the usual queue, so we're quite excited.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic weather and track a little bit of a problem

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Speaker 1: where it doesn't worry a farmer.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we only had a sprinkling of rain last night.

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Speaker 2: It's fine today, fine tomorrow. There is rain coming Friday,

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Speaker 2: but who knows it will be raining, but who knows

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Speaker 2: when and how much? And Saturday's looking fine as well.

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Speaker 1: So and I'm hearing in the news this morning the

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Speaker 1: international contingent looks good. Are they coming back in and drives?

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Speaker 2: Yes they are. Mike. I've been doing this job for

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Speaker 2: eight years and been involved and Field goes for twenty

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Speaker 2: five and it would be one of the biggest international

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Speaker 2: contingents I've seen. And you know, this government is saying

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Speaker 2: New Zone's open for business, and I guess that's a

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Speaker 2: reflection good stuff.

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Speaker 1: And we're still seeing all the stuff we normally see,

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Speaker 1: like the innovation, the brains are at play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are in the innovations area, our biggest number

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Speaker 2: of entries in ten years, and I think that's quite

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Speaker 2: exciting when people are putting their minds to renovation and

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Speaker 2: ideas to help the sect around those challenges like you know,

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Speaker 2: climate change and water quality and those things. So that's

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Speaker 2: that's looking really good. And I've got to say the

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Speaker 2: exhibitors have really fronted up again this year, Mike. Can

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Speaker 2: you know there are head wines out there exactly and

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Speaker 2: we're only one percent empty, so we're notine in nine

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Speaker 2: percent four which is great effort by.

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Speaker 1: The m I was going to say, what is that mood?

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Speaker 1: If you're dealing with on farm inflation, that's a killer

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Speaker 1: and everybody knows it, or those I know it's dissipated

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Speaker 1: a bit of late. But then again, you've got the

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Speaker 1: announcement yesterday. How can you got a government that's on

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Speaker 1: your side broadly speaking, how do you balance all that up?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I think you know. I've been around the farming

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Speaker 2: industry my whole life as well, and you know, farmers

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Speaker 2: they have these challenges come at them. They just seem

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Speaker 2: to be a lot more at the moment. But you know,

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Speaker 2: they'll navigate their way through it. But it is hard

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Speaker 2: on the farm. You know, you've got you look at

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Speaker 2: land prices are half what they were a year ago,

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Speaker 2: interest rates of sort of double CPI, inflation, fuel, you know, legislation,

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Speaker 2: all those things are challenges. But an event like ours,

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Speaker 2: I guess, presents those challenges but also tries to present

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Speaker 2: some solutions. This year ten o'clock, we're opening the Advocacy Hub,

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Speaker 2: which is a joint initiative with Farrated Farmers and that's

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Speaker 2: our first initial steath into bringing a lot of organizations

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Speaker 2: together for farmers and growers to come and have those

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Speaker 2: conversations and debates and get some information direct from the

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Speaker 2: horse's mouth, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Go well, mate, Peter Nation, who's the chief executive

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Speaker 1: at Field Days for another year. For more from the

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