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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, Host of the Country is with me tonight.

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Speaker 1: Hi Jamie, kid a Ryan, how are very well? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Now be ready to be nimble. That's the message to

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Speaker 1: the primary exporters from the international trade expert. Former Special

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Speaker 1: Trade Envoy Mike Peterson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a hawks both farmer as well. And Mike

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Speaker 2: knows a thing or two about trade, as you said,

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Speaker 2: former New Zealand Special Agricultural Trade Envoy, former Chair of

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Speaker 2: Beef and Lamb New Zealand, current chair of Scales, one

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Speaker 2: of our biggest horticulture companies, and he said, we're basically

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Speaker 2: we're going to have to tread warily between our two

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Speaker 2: biggest markets now the China or China and the US,

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Speaker 2: and we need to try and keep a foot in

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Speaker 2: both camps. Interestingly, in an interview I was reading from Mike,

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Speaker 2: he said, on the domestic front, while many farmers feel

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Speaker 2: they have a farmer friendly government and they certainly have

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Speaker 2: Ryan compared to what those poor buggers in the UK

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Speaker 2: are facing on to secure Starmer. He's saying that the

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Speaker 2: government has a big picture agenda as well. But when

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Speaker 2: it comes to that big picture agenda, I meeting Paris

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Speaker 2: Climate Climate accord agreements. Not everyone in the government, it seems,

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Speaker 2: agrees with that big picture, especially the likes of Winston

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Speaker 2: and even David Seymour's the jury's out to web it

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Speaker 2: on that one. So Mike Petterson saying farmers might like

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Speaker 2: the government, but they might like, might not like some

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Speaker 2: of their actions around climate change targets. But he's saying

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Speaker 2: it's nothing that science and innovation can't take care of.

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Speaker 2: Many people would argue maybe that's not the case. But anyhow,

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Speaker 2: some onwards and upwards for the primary sector. And as

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Speaker 2: I said after speaking to my UK farm and correspondent

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Speaker 2: today in the UK Rhyme where they had another massive

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Speaker 2: farmer protest, we've got it good in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly with the government and regulation. As you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Jamie Zesprey is claiming a world first. What's this about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is quite a cool story. We

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Speaker 2: came or came across today or was it yesterday, The

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Speaker 2: only fruit company in the world that will shortly have

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Speaker 2: all its products sewn with home else sold should I say,

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Speaker 2: with home compostible labels? You know when you're eating your

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Speaker 2: Kiwi fruit gold and I've got those annoying plastic little labels. Well,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be a thing that the past. They're

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Speaker 2: going to be all compostible, which will be great, and

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Speaker 2: it's going to be on all fruit grown in New

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Speaker 2: Zealand or offshore. Remember that Zesbury's making a real play

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Speaker 2: for all year round supply by having growers in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Hemisphere as well. A lot of these European nations

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Speaker 2: are demanding fully compostible fruit stickers and I think it's

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Speaker 2: a really good thing. So there's a bit of a

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Speaker 2: challenge with these. There's three parts to them, the top,

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Speaker 2: the face, top, and the actual label itself. They've all

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Speaker 2: got to be compiled. The I've got about a stick

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Speaker 2: to a hairy surface, especially when it comes to green,

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Speaker 2: kyw fruit. The labels need to cope and cool stores

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Speaker 2: and out on the market floor where it might be

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Speaker 2: a wee bit warmer, and more importantly, obviously they need

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Speaker 2: to break down in the compost heap. So there we go.

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Speaker 2: Well done, Zespree. They're world leaders and a lot of things,

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Speaker 2: and I guess they can add compostible stickers to that list.

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Speaker 1: That sounds good, Jamie, good on them, Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, host of the country here on news Talk

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