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Speaker 1: Thirty, the Rural Report on Hither Duer see Allen Drive.

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Speaker 2: Now the milk powder price something we watched closely. There's

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Speaker 2: a dairy auction tonight and we know the last nine

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Speaker 2: auctions of twenty twenty five they went backwards. We've had

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Speaker 2: one increase since then, will we get another. Jamie mckaye

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Speaker 2: hosted the Country with us tonight, Jamie good evening.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan, Hey, just before we get onto that, a

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Speaker 1: bit of a shout out to the farmers, especially in Northland.

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Speaker 1: I've been hammered and they're going to get hammered again

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and some of that rain's going to spread to

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Speaker 1: eastern parts of the of the rest of the North Island.

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Speaker 1: So our thoughts are with you, okay. So interestingly, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like nine in a row and then we had this

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Speaker 1: massive bounce back six point three percent in the index

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Speaker 1: seven point two percent for whole milk powder. Is it

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Speaker 1: a dead cat bounce or is it a correction? I

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Speaker 1: guess tonight will tell. Now. The futures market earlier this

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Speaker 1: afternoon was expecting a small rise about one and a

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Speaker 1: half percent for whole milk powder and two point three

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Speaker 1: percent for skim milk powder. I don't know how they

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Speaker 1: figure all that out, Ryan, but those were the numbers

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Speaker 1: given to me. However, at five o'clock this afternoon, we

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Speaker 1: got the milk production numbers in for December. They're up

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Speaker 1: three point one percent. Farmers are growing lots of grass

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Speaker 1: around the country, no real droughts on at the moment

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Speaker 1: with this sort of weather. And also they've been encouraged

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Speaker 1: to add supplements into the diet produce a bit more milk,

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Speaker 1: So that might send a signal to the buyers that

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Speaker 1: there's plenty of milk coming out of New Zealand. We

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Speaker 1: will wait and see on that one, but I put

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Speaker 1: it to you that even as steady as she goes

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Speaker 1: result tonight would be a good one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. The last thing we want is

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Speaker 2: more more collapse. Now, do you want to have a

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Speaker 2: look at the into the crystal ball for us, for

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Speaker 2: the rural sector more generally.

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Speaker 1: Well, why not, Ryan, you're reading my mind talking about

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Speaker 1: crystal balls. Okay, we'll start with dairy. That's the biggest

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Speaker 1: act in town. On I don't have a doubt that

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Speaker 1: it's got a great future. Although it is, it's not surprising,

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Speaker 1: but the ease at which other countries were able to

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Speaker 1: turn on the tap in response to these high global

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Speaker 1: prices we've had in the past. Season has yet another

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Speaker 1: salient reminder of the cyclical nature of commodity. So dairy yep,

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Speaker 1: it's calling its jets awee. But at the moment, but

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Speaker 1: good future. It's not so easy for competing nations to

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Speaker 1: turn on the tap when it comes to beef and

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Speaker 1: sheep meat production. You know, we've had drought in the

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Speaker 1: US and Australia. The resultant rebuilding of the herds and

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Speaker 1: the flocks has limited the number available for slaughter. We've

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Speaker 1: had disease outbreaks in South America. So I say good

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Speaker 1: on the sheep and beef farmers Ryan. For too long

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Speaker 1: they've been the poor relation of the dairy farmers. And

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Speaker 1: I hope, and I'm hoping like hell, the renaissance of

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Speaker 1: pastoral farming for red meat production will halt the ecological

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Speaker 1: disare that has been the planting of monoculture pines on

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Speaker 1: highly productive pastoral land and shock horor in some cases

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Speaker 1: arable land. Now I'll move to forestry, our fourth biggest

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Speaker 1: export earner. I reckon the world's a washed with trees,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a wee bit worried about the future for forestry,

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Speaker 1: and especially the future for sending unprocessed logs on a

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Speaker 1: slow boat to China. Will the cost out weigh the benefit.

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Speaker 1: This is high volume, lower value. We're sending them over

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Speaker 1: there to be boxing for building sites as surely a

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Speaker 1: rich irony in the fact that we're planting pine trees

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Speaker 1: for sequestration carbon farming. If you want, when we have

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Speaker 1: such a high carbon footprint, if we chop them down

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Speaker 1: and export them. But Ryan, I'll finish on this very

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Speaker 1: positive note. If I gaze into my crystal wall for

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Speaker 1: twenty to fifty, a quarter of a century from here,

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Speaker 1: I think the star of the stable will be horticulture,

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Speaker 1: more particularly kei we fruit. It's a nutritional super fur food.

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Speaker 1: It's ready packed for export. You don't have to wrap

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Speaker 1: anything around it. It's got a skin, and in a

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Speaker 1: world wanting to eat healthy, burgeoning middle class and the

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Speaker 1: likes of India where we've got a free trade deal,

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Speaker 1: kiwi fruit is ideally poised. And the other thing to

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Speaker 1: think of when you think of kiwi fruits, no animal

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Speaker 1: must make the ultimate sacrifice when you eat kiwi fruit.

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Speaker 1: There's my thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Ryan do you are you skin on or skin off?

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Speaker 2: Because someone told me that you should with kiwi fruit

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Speaker 2: always eat the skin, that's where most of the nutrient, says.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true or not.

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Speaker 1: I'm skin off on that one. Although I used to

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Speaker 1: love kiwi fruit green, now I've progressed to kiwi fruit

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Speaker 1: gold and I can't go back to green. But apparently,

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Speaker 1: and the host tells me this, and he is the

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Speaker 1: drawing and of all health matters, that green kiwi fruit's

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Speaker 1: better for you than gold. The gold tastes better and

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Speaker 1: the Asians love the red. And as long as we

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Speaker 1: don't get these terrible, terrible weather events, fingers crossed for

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Speaker 1: the North Island in the next couple of days. Look,

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Speaker 1: I reckon kiwifru. It's a super food that's got a

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Speaker 1: super future.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, you're right here. If there was anyone was

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Speaker 2: going to know which of them you should eat for

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Speaker 2: health benefits, it would be it would be husking. Appreciate that,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. That is Jamie mckaye, host of

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Speaker 2: the Country.

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