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Speaker 1: Agribusiness had a cracky year in twenty twenty five, but

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Speaker 1: farmers are being worn. Don't pop the champagne just yet.

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Speaker 1: Rabobanks Is twenty twenty six comes with headwinds global politics,

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Speaker 1: industry rules and the weather. Fed farmers are talian Canterbury

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Speaker 1: to stock up now with winter feed pressure looming. Mid

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Speaker 1: Canterbury Fed Farmer's President David Ackland joins me. Now, David,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning Ron. So what yes, last year

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Speaker 1: was great. What are you worried about this year?

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Speaker 2: Well, what we're worried about is just the storms that

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Speaker 2: went through the arable farms. We had a number of

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Speaker 2: hailstorms take out a of feed free Christmas and then

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Speaker 2: they've just had a bit of a tricky harvest coming

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Speaker 2: through this January period. So it's more about making sure

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Speaker 2: farmers are connecting with their supplies, with their growers for

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Speaker 2: winter feed and just just double checking out that all

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Speaker 2: those contracts and that feeder is in place. It's just

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Speaker 2: a sort of more of a heads up rather than

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Speaker 2: getting to May and having a situation where we've got

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Speaker 2: cows with nowhere to go.

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Speaker 1: So it's not panic stations just yet.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not panic stations. It's just hey, guys, make

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Speaker 2: it's time to check in and just secure that feed.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a fat you know, straw and that side

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Speaker 2: of things with the tricky harvest being mulched back into

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Speaker 2: the ground rather than bailed. So it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: there's just a few pressures there and it's a bit

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Speaker 2: of change around with a few Derek convisions happening in

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Speaker 2: that side of thing. So there's a few dynamics happening

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Speaker 2: that we just need to get people to actually make

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Speaker 2: those phone calls early.

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Speaker 1: The wind you mentioned last year, the how and the

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Speaker 1: wind was pretty hectic. A lot of machinery was sort

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Speaker 1: of tipped over because of that wind. How's the repairs going.

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Speaker 2: I think that we've had they've had a pretty good

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Speaker 2: run of it. I know in those early stages there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of but the crews and irrigation companies, you know,

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Speaker 2: hell of a job to get get into the country

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Speaker 2: and also to get things back up right. But there

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Speaker 2: was a really critical of sewing and that side of things,

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Speaker 2: and it was pretty dry. So always what deft crops

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Speaker 2: that would have been affected through that will be back.

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Speaker 2: You know, they only have to be a couple of

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Speaker 2: three tons of feed and it makes actually a big

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Speaker 2: difference across the whole province. So it's just that those

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Speaker 2: little shortages that are just adding up a wee bit

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Was just talking about insurance, David, what's on farm insurance

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Speaker 1: like premium wires at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Ah, We renewed ours the other day and it feels

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Speaker 2: like it's sneaked up again, but it hasn't gone up

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Speaker 2: as readily as it has done and the you know,

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Speaker 2: we had a hellish horizers there but it sort of

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Speaker 2: has just come to a new hire, it feels at

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Speaker 2: the moment.

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Speaker 1: All right, David, Good chat to you as always, David Acklin,

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