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Speaker 1: Time to wrap the year in rural New Zealand with

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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, Host of the Country. Good evening, Jamie, good day, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: good to have you back on. Who is your will

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Speaker 1: start with the person of the Year, your ag Person

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Speaker 1: of the Year for twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm keeping my powder dry till tomorrow my last

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Speaker 2: show of the year, Ryan, and I will name my man.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not giving you, I'm not letting you steal

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Speaker 2: the thunder there, but I'll tell you who I've been

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Speaker 2: asking all my regulars and the sins to the field

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Speaker 2: seems to be narrowed down for three miles hurral Onon

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Speaker 2: TIRA Chief Executive of the Year, Fonterra Company of the Year,

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Speaker 2: Todd McLay Trade and AG Minister. I've been everywhere man,

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Speaker 2: and he really has. He's got off his backside and

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Speaker 2: he has traveled the world in search of trade opportunities

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Speaker 2: and the other one and he's become a bit of

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Speaker 2: a regular over the past year or two. Is Wayne Langford,

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Speaker 2: the president of the Federated Farmers. So he's had his

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Speaker 2: restoring confidence tour with the PM. Federated Farmers had eleven

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Speaker 2: out of twelve of their policy priorities achieved. That's a

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Speaker 2: big tick in anyone's book. They're onto the banking inquiry.

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Speaker 2: They've even ranked the banks this year, Ravo banks the

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Speaker 2: best and being z it is the worst. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Interesting because you took a bit of a credibility hitting

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Speaker 1: the eyes of some farmers, didn't it, say? He's obviously

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Speaker 1: I'm doing some way to repair that. What about the

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Speaker 1: are you going to let us in on? You know

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Speaker 1: which sectors in particular you're going to rank and how

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Speaker 1: they've done for the year.

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Speaker 2: You know this is no secret, Ryan, I've prepared this.

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Speaker 2: This is something I've prepared especially for you. So I've

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Speaker 2: given them. I've done the hosking. You see, I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to be more like Mike. I've marked the week, so

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Speaker 2: I've marked the year. So here you go out of

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Speaker 2: ten derry nine out of ten ten dollars. Here here

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Speaker 2: we come. Horticulture a seven with a week caveat that

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Speaker 2: Kiwi fruits probably an eight? Is that are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Is they to be there? Are you adding to the occasion?

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Speaker 1: I think? And is adding some bells and whistles to

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Speaker 1: your account?

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Speaker 2: Bigger off? It's really annoying me. Okay, so beef beef,

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Speaker 2: I'll give an eight. We've got record prices for beef,

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Speaker 2: especially in the US, the lamb and mutton. The ol

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Speaker 2: sheep meet's been a bit more problematical allbit. It's on

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Speaker 2: an upward plane, but it's been reasonably depressed. I'm only

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Speaker 2: giving it a four and a four or maybe a

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Speaker 2: four in a but forestry also only gets a four.

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Speaker 2: That we've had depressed log prices. We've obviously had the

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Speaker 2: bad slash publicity around cyclone Gabrielle. But the good news

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Speaker 2: for forestry is it is on the improve and it

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Speaker 2: can clip the ticket on carbon credits. One of the

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Speaker 2: exciting or not newcomers, but certainly it's doing very well

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Speaker 2: at the moment of seafood and aquaculture. I've given that

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Speaker 2: a good solid eight. Robust demand, tights, a global supply

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Speaker 2: helping their wall is the problem child really of the

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Speaker 2: primary sector rhyme across the board. I've given it the three,

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Speaker 2: and that's only because fine walls dragging it up. Strong wall,

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Speaker 2: which is most of our wall, strong crossbred wall gets

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Speaker 2: a one. Really, it might get a one and a half.

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Speaker 2: It still costs many farmers more to share their sheep

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Speaker 2: than they get for the wall. That is not a

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Speaker 2: sustainable proposition. So there you go. That's me marking the

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Speaker 2: year for farming.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant and no sound effects required. For Jamie MacKaye, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Jamie hosted the Country Here on News

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