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Speaker 1: The rural report on hither duper see allan drive.

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Speaker 2: Might not work in the country, mind you. Jamie McKay's

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Speaker 2: with us now, hey, Jamie Goda, Ryan, how's the storm

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Speaker 2: will start there affecting rural New Zealand because it's been

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Speaker 2: very widespread.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's affecting all of well, it's going to say

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Speaker 1: certainly northern and eastern New Zealand. It's a shakra And

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Speaker 1: those scenes that are Mount Monganui, and I know you've

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Speaker 1: been talking about them, are truly truly horrific. Thoughts goes

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Speaker 1: out to the families and people are tied up in

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Speaker 1: that one. It is just goddamn awful. Look at the

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Speaker 1: storm update from a rural point of view. It's caused

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Speaker 1: heaps of damage, obviously rural and urban. In terms of livestock.

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Speaker 1: For instance, this forecast rain event, as big as it was,

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Speaker 1: was well forecast, so not much by why I have

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Speaker 1: livestock loss. They've all been able to move livestock to

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Speaker 1: higher ground. The real issue is obviously landslips. That's stating

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Speaker 1: the obvious flooding selting on low, low, low lying should

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Speaker 1: I say, an often very good horticulture land. Then there's

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Speaker 1: the infrastructure and roading damage and the real challenge of

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Speaker 1: getting fresh produce out of the likes of the Gisban region,

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Speaker 1: that is the vegetable and salad bowl of this country.

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Speaker 1: State Highway too from a Potoquy through to Gisbon is

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Speaker 1: out for months rather than weeks, we're told and at

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Speaker 1: the stage State Highway thirty five going around the top

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Speaker 1: round the East Cape is also out. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to get produce out of Gisbon at the moment

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Speaker 1: by road, you're going to have to go through the

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Speaker 1: middle of the North Island. And I know the keyw

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Speaker 1: fruit industry is very worried about this because they truck

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of keiwi fruit from the

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Speaker 1: Gisbone orchards to the Bay of Plenty pack houses and

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Speaker 1: obviously onto Port Taronga. So look, horrific damage, horrific rainfall

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Speaker 1: numbers in Northland seven hundred mills on. One farmer told

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Speaker 1: me since Sunday, that's like twice the annual rainfall of Alexandra.

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Speaker 1: Twice the annual rainfall of Alexandra in three or four days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of rain now at long last,

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Speaker 2: cheap farmers making money from their wool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, while it's all relative, yes, for many years, well

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Speaker 1: not for many years, certainly since COVID onward. It's cost

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Speaker 1: farmers to share their sheep they put. By the time

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Speaker 1: they pay the sharers and truck their wall off to

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Speaker 1: market or to the auction are they end up losing

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Speaker 1: money from their wall receipts. So prices have risen, and

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Speaker 1: we're talking mainly strong crossbead prices because they've been the

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Speaker 1: issue rather than the fine wall ones. They've risen thirty

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Speaker 1: percent in the past year. Full length flee selling at

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Speaker 1: five dollars thirty clean exporters can't get enough of it,

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Speaker 1: they're short. So it looks like the market will continue up.

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Speaker 1: The last time it was at this level was August

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, so that's ten years ago before sliding to

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Speaker 1: a real low five years ago and COVID in January

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one of one sixty two cents clean, so

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Speaker 1: effectively we've seen a threefold increase in prices in the

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Speaker 1: last five years. That's good, Ryan, But if you go

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Speaker 1: back a bit further in time to the nineteen eighties,

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Speaker 1: when I was a very young farmer, we were getting

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Speaker 1: an excess of six dollars per kilogram clean compared to

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Speaker 1: five dollars of kilogram clean. Now, that was forty years ago,

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Speaker 1: so we've still got a wee bit of catching up

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Speaker 1: to do. Look, normally, when the prices get too high,

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Speaker 1: the Chinese pull the pin stop buying. But they can't

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Speaker 1: now because there's too much demand from Europe and India,

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Speaker 1: and the free trade agreement or free trade agreement with

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Speaker 1: India is only going to help things. Sheep numbers are

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Speaker 1: declining right around the world. In Australia and Britain. Analysts

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Speaker 1: analysis shows that since twenty fifteen, our wall clip has

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Speaker 1: fallen four percent a year. At that rate, our wall

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Speaker 1: clip will have hard From twenty fifteen to twenty thirty.

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Speaker 1: We did have an oversupply all out of the system now,

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Speaker 1: so onwards and upwards for the strong wall price not

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Speaker 1: before time. And the government did their bit back in

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Speaker 1: April of last year when they announced government buildings will

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Speaker 1: prefer the use of wool, which is positive for ongoing

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Speaker 1: domestic for the ongoing domestic market, which further supports the market,

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Speaker 1: which is good. So you know they're doing well. They're

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Speaker 1: still making a hell of a lot more money out

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Speaker 1: of lamb and mutton than they are at a wall.

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Speaker 1: But at least it's cash flow positive now right.

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Speaker 2: I've got a Marino jumper and there's holes in the

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Speaker 2: front of it. And my parents in law, who are farmers, said,

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Speaker 2: with wool, well, marino wall, did you get short wool

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Speaker 2: and long wall depending on where it comes from on

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Speaker 2: the sheep, which I had no idea about, and so

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Speaker 2: some of it is more prone to boosting open getting

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Speaker 2: holes in than others. True.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know, like a hard up broadcast

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Speaker 1: a former farmer like me, Roy and I can't afford Marino.

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Speaker 1: I remember my mother when I was a kid growing

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Speaker 1: up on the farm, knitting new jerseys to wear to

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Speaker 1: skull out of strong crossbed wall. And I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't wear those next to your skin. They were

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Speaker 1: as itchy as hell. But yeah, they took a bit

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Speaker 1: of wearing out and those were the days. You tell

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Speaker 1: the young people of today that and they won't believe

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Speaker 1: you're Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Jamie good talk as always. Jamie mckaye hosted The Country

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