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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay hosted the Countries with us a Jamie good I, Heather,

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Speaker 1: you're in a car. Are you in a car on

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Speaker 1: the way to Field Days?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am in a car. I'm sorry if there's

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Speaker 2: a bit of road noise, but we can't afford to

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Speaker 2: stop because it's taken us about an hour from the

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Speaker 2: airport to get to tack In Inny, and then we're

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Speaker 2: heading down to the tron. We've got a bit of

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Speaker 2: a dinner date down there tonight ahead of three days

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Speaker 2: of broadcasting at Field Days.

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Speaker 1: Are you expecting, I mean, I expect that Field Days

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Speaker 1: is going to be reasonably upbeat, isn't it With all

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Speaker 1: of the prices that are being paid at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I think it might even be better than that, To

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Speaker 2: be perfectly honest, Heather, I think this has been a

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Speaker 2: good year for nearly all, well most farming classes put

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Speaker 2: it that way. But I think the icing on the

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Speaker 2: cake was the budget announcement. I think we talked about

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Speaker 2: this one last week of the investment tax boost. So basically,

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Speaker 2: if you're buying a big ticket item, you get another

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Speaker 2: twenty percent or effectively can claim another twenty percent of

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Speaker 2: depreciation in year one, it saves you a heck of

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. So look, I think for the

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Speaker 2: big ticket items it's going to be all on. There

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Speaker 2: could be cues at the track to stands.

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Speaker 1: Who knows even know Aucklanders are coming down?

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Speaker 2: Do me?

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Speaker 1: Do very many people come down who are outside of

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Speaker 1: the rural world.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. Like if you compare this to say,

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Speaker 2: the Southern Field Days at Waimurmu, just outside of Gore,

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Speaker 2: it's nearly all farmers and rural folk. No. Look there,

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Speaker 2: there's lots of craft these sort of things there and

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Speaker 2: for people who aren't even interested in farming, twelve hundred

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Speaker 2: exhibitors either. It takes you know, it takes you two

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Speaker 2: or three days to get around the whole lot if

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Speaker 2: you were keen enough to do that. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I always love getting into for instance, the innovation. Well

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Speaker 2: it was not a stand, it's a building now and

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Speaker 2: you can go in there and look what farmers or

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Speaker 2: people who have rural clients have invented in the past

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Speaker 2: twelve months. And some of these go on to be

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Speaker 2: patented and become huge commercial successes. So that's always one

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Speaker 2: to look out for. And of course you've got the big,

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Speaker 2: big players there, the fonte errors and cos, the fertilizer companies,

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Speaker 2: the meat companies, and they're they're entertaining their clients, giving

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Speaker 2: them a bit of a free feed at Field Days.

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Speaker 2: It's very much about networking to be perfectly honest.

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Speaker 1: Oh brilliant. Well listen, go and enjoy your dinner and

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Speaker 1: enjoy Field Days and we'll have a chat to you

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Speaker 1: again on Thursday and see how things are going. That's

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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host of the Country.

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