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Speaker 1: The Rural Report on hither due to see.

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Speaker 2: Alan Drive, Jamie mcpie, Host of the Countries with us

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Speaker 2: Alo Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Ever is your flash ponsonbi villa with the swimming

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Speaker 1: pool going to be shaved? Not at all?

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Speaker 2: Not checked it out. I'm on single, single story actually,

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Speaker 2: thanks very much for asking. But it comes to the downside, Tony.

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Speaker 1: I was worried for a moment.

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Speaker 2: It comes to the it's because it's special character. But

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Speaker 2: that means I can't just change the windows or you know,

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Speaker 2: like put up a fence, like I can't do anything,

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Speaker 2: but nobody else can as well, so you know, swings

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Speaker 2: and roundabouts now, Mike Joey, it seems to me Mike

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Speaker 2: Joy did not want to have to say he's sorry,

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Speaker 2: but was forced to say he's sorry by Victoria University

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Speaker 2: of Wellington.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, I think it's what you

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Speaker 1: call a slap over the wrist with a very wet

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Speaker 1: bus ticket from Victoria University. And I see the feeds

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Speaker 1: have just put out a press release demanding a meeting

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Speaker 1: with Vice Chancellor Nick Smith, who also apologized. He said

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Speaker 1: the university had a proud tradition of activism, lawful protest,

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Speaker 1: and freedom of Ressian But Mike Joey went too far,

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Speaker 1: and he did go too far. It was a stupid

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Speaker 1: comment from a bloke who's got a dubious reputation to

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Speaker 1: say the least with the farming communities, suggesting or likening

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Speaker 1: dairy farmers and dairy farm executives to Minnie Dean, who

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Speaker 1: was famous, of course for killing children in the eighteen nineties,

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Speaker 1: and he's claiming that dairy farmers and by association, the

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Speaker 1: chief executives are doing the same. It was a really

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Speaker 1: poor choice of words. He yesterday he said the comments

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Speaker 1: were tongue in cheek and he was happy the way

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Speaker 1: he had phrased it, or comfortable the way he had

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Speaker 1: phrased it. By this morning, he'd taken to LinkedIn to apologize,

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Speaker 1: saying his words weren't wise or whatever. Bit of a

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Speaker 1: hollow apology. If you ask me, what's your thoughts?

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Speaker 2: I mean, should he have to lose his job over this?

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Speaker 1: Oh? No? To be fair, look, professionally, I haven't really

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Speaker 1: got much time for the bloke, but I've met him

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Speaker 1: in a social setting. He's been in my studio in Dunedin,

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Speaker 1: and I don't hold anything against him as a person,

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Speaker 1: But I just think he's he's well, I know he

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Speaker 1: is an activist, that's the word for it. And I

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Speaker 1: think this was extreme activism and just poorly chosen. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he'll lose his I know he won't lose

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Speaker 1: his job over this. Victoria University have only given a

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Speaker 1: half as sort of apology themselves, so I no doubt

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Speaker 1: they'll meet with the Feds and they'll sort something out.

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Speaker 1: But should he lose his job over one comment? No, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got in mind book.

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Speaker 2: Hey listen, is Buttergate going to die in natural death?

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Speaker 1: Well? It might because the Globaldairy Trade auction. I was

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Speaker 1: going to mention this to you on Tuesday. Actually I

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to because the futures market was

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Speaker 1: picking two or three percent drop. In the end, we

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Speaker 1: got four point three across the board. Whole milk powder,

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Speaker 1: of the most important ingredient, was down five point three,

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Speaker 1: skim milk even worse five point eight. So this is

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Speaker 1: quite big drop, not unusual at this time of the

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Speaker 1: year when the volumes start to ramp up. On the

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Speaker 1: Global Dairy Trade auction, butter incidentally found less than whole

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Speaker 1: milk powder and skim milk powder down two point five percent.

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Speaker 1: But I did speak to one dairy farm or your

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Speaker 1: dairy industry executive, one of the ones that Mike Joy

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Speaker 1: wanted to do bad things too, probably, And he did

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Speaker 1: say to me. He said to me a month or

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Speaker 1: so ago, the season's going to start strong, but it

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Speaker 1: could get sticky in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: I hope he's wrong, and I hope the ten bucks

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Speaker 1: or the ten dollars fifteen that Fonterra's currently forecasting can

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Speaker 1: hang in there. But we do live in a trouble world.

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Speaker 1: You only need to look at what's happening or being

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Speaker 1: happening in Beijing in recent days to see that. So

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Speaker 1: he's hoping the dairy price can hang in there. Maybe

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Speaker 1: there could be some relief at the supermarket counter with

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Speaker 1: a drop in the price of butter. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, Jamie, Thanks very much. We'll talk to you again

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Speaker 2: next week. Look After Yourself, Jamie McKay, Host of the Country.

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