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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, Host of the Countries with us right now, Hey, Jamie.

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Speaker 2: Can I hear that?

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Speaker 1: So why does this guy, this is a farmer from

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Speaker 1: Winded Up, why did he row across the cook straight?

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Speaker 2: Well, his name's Jamie Strong. He's a wire at the farmer,

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Speaker 2: current judge of the balanced farm environment towards He said,

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Speaker 2: he's been fit all his life. He's a keen cyclist,

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Speaker 2: took up rowing a couple of years ago to keep

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Speaker 2: him fit. He's seventy six, so today as you do

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Speaker 2: here that he just decided to row across Cock straight

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Speaker 2: to raise some money for Farmstrong And isn't there a

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Speaker 2: deliciously rich irony in the fact that a seventy six

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Speaker 2: year old farmer can get across Cock straight with the

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Speaker 2: fairies car?

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Speaker 1: What was the weather? I mean, like, if anybody said

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Speaker 1: to me, I'm going to row across Crook straight, the

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Speaker 1: first thing I would say to them is, no, you're not,

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Speaker 1: because it's going to kill you. What was the weather like?

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Speaker 2: It was beautiful. There's a big high plumped over New

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Speaker 2: Zealand obviously this week, very low swells, perfect conditions and

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Speaker 2: he did it quite comfortably. Apparently in the end and

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Speaker 2: having flown over cook straight last week, he chose the

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Speaker 2: right week to do it.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, good on him. Okay, so listener, you're

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Speaker 1: going to go to the Young Farmer of the Year

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Speaker 1: Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm going to lick my wounds. I've been on

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Speaker 2: the road far too much. But it's going to be fantastic.

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Speaker 2: It's being held gets Underway and Hamilton on Thursday Claudland's

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Speaker 2: Events Center there in the middle of town. Great venue

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Speaker 2: culminates on Saturday night with the cloak of Knowledge being

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Speaker 2: handed over by the twenty twenty three winner, Emma Paul,

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Speaker 2: first woman to ever win the Young Farmer of the

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Speaker 2: Year Final. And we've got seven first time finalists. Often

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Speaker 2: with the Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final feather

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Speaker 2: sometimes you have to be a repeat offender to win it,

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Speaker 2: just to get that experience. It's quite a few young guys,

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Speaker 2: all blokes this year, no women in the final and

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Speaker 2: they're all first timers. So we will have, as I say,

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Speaker 2: first time, I'm winning the Young Farmer of the Year

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Speaker 2: once again. As a lovely synergy with fat. In nineteen five,

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Speaker 2: Warwick Kato, Jamie Strang's fellow judged for the Balanced Farm

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Speaker 2: Environment Awards. He won the Young Farmer of the Year contest,

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Speaker 2: repeating the effort of from his twin brother who won

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Speaker 2: it nineteen ninety two. And if you think twin brothers

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Speaker 2: winning the Young Farmer of the Year in the nineties,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty cool. Well, Emma Paul's brother and Dan Jin

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Speaker 2: won it in twenty twenty two, better husband was runner up.

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Speaker 1: It's in the family and the family, isn't it, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen with sinlo

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Speaker 1: what's the most likely outcome?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's Hobson's choice, sarahwe but I think

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Speaker 2: they're going to have to vote. So a special shareholders

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Speaker 2: meetings going to be held on Thursday to approve this

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million dollar loan from the biggest shareholder.

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Speaker 2: It seems it's the only only only porter call for them.

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Speaker 2: Sorry to use the cook straight analogy again. So that's

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Speaker 2: Bright Dairy out of China. So siddenly needs the money

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Speaker 2: to repay loans due on the fifteenth feb Very Bright

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Speaker 2: Dairy cannot actually vote, so it's up to the shareholders.

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Speaker 2: Institutional shareholders own about forty one percent of the company. Interestingly,

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Speaker 2: the other twenty two centers owned by A two Milkom's

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Speaker 2: a question over there whether they're keen to support this

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Speaker 2: is just throwing good money after bad so if it

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Speaker 2: doesn't get the vote, they're going to be left with

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Speaker 2: limited options. One of them would obviously be voluntary administration,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure no one it's in they wants to

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Speaker 2: see that. So the deadline proxy for votes I think

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Speaker 2: finished this afternoon. That special shareholders meeting will be held

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Speaker 2: on Thursday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Watch this space, Jamie, good to talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate its Jammie MacKaye, host of the Country.

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