1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Six twenty four, Rowena Duncan of the countries with me 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:03,119 Speaker 1: right now, Hey. 3 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 2: Ro hey, Heather. 4 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:06,479 Speaker 1: Now what's the problem with the local cheesemakers? 5 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So basically there's some of the supermarket 6 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: private land label so their own brand cheeses are maybe 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: increasing the competition for some of our small producers. So 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: we're talking to brands like Pam's Value Will we're signed 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: in Macro competing on price. But they're also coming up 10 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: with gourmet style options too, so things like why Mutter 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: Cheeses they're out of Gisbon. They've cut back on production 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: of Bri and Cammbi are just saying, hey, we're having 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 2: too much competition in this space, so they're focusing now 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 2: on the likes of their Halloumi, which has still got 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: quite a bit of demand, white Stone cheese out of 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 2: omerou they're shifting more towards food service, so that's your 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: restaurants and bowl quarters, just to reduce their reliance on 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 2: the supermarkets, because it's not just the supermarkets. Of course, 19 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: we've got that new Zealand EU Free trade agreement, so 20 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: cheap European specialty cheeses that are like highly automated the subsidized, 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: which our farmers are not, and they're really low cost 22 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: and they're flooding the supermarket. So I'd seen, you know, 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: one of my favorite cheeses from when I farmed over 24 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: seas in Wales on the supermarket shelves here in New Zealand. 25 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: I thought, delightful. I love that cheese. Now I'm actually 26 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 2: seeing it from a different perspective and saying, hey, if 27 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 2: it's having this bigger impact, probably not a good thing. 28 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: It's interesting. Yeah, a little bit of a heads up to 29 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: buy local if you care. Now what's going on with 30 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: the ballot blocks and ANZAC Day. 31 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, so one of the main things for rural New Zealand, 32 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: and we're looking at Anzac Day and the impact of 33 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: the war obviously had a huge impact in rural New Zealand, 34 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 2: as it did right around the country. But we lost 35 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: a lot of our farmers going overseas and that's when 36 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 2: the women came through like you and I Hea. This 37 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: saved the day, started working the land. But when our 38 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: soldiers came back from New Zealand, those who maybe didn't 39 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: have farms to go back to, we had a balance system. 40 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: So it was part of the discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 41 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety five, and what it did was try 42 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: and reintegrate returning soldiers into civilian life. So it had 43 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: like a lottery style ballot if you want a parcel 44 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 2: of land that was carved off some of these big stations. 45 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: Some of it was mardy land that was kind of 46 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: taken a bit under force as well. They actually handed 47 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: out land. The issue was not everyone was a farmer. 48 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: They didn't always know what to do with the land. 49 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: And one of the most infamous ballot blocks is from 50 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: the Mungapurua Valley up the Wanganui River. They basically looked 51 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: at a map, drew some lines without having seen the land, 52 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 2: said good luck to you, and that's how the bridge 53 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: to know where came about. There was a swing bridge. 54 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: They decided to build a concrete bridge and that was 55 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: in about nineteen thirty six. But by the end the 56 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: valley soil was really less fertile and the last settlers 57 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 2: walked off their farms in nineteen forty two recognizing it 58 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: was not farmable land. It was much better in Native 59 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 2: bosh Row. 60 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate something to think about tomorrow. It's 61 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: Roe Duncan who's filling in on the country for Jamie McKay. 62 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, Listen live to 63 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 2: News Talk sa'd Be from four pm weekdays, FOLLO the 64 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: podcast on iHeartRadio.