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Speaker 1: Later stays it agri Insights. It tells us the cost

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Speaker 1: of running farm twenty five percent higher than post COVID.

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Speaker 1: These costs not inflationary, this structural. More interesting for me

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Speaker 1: was the bit that tells us productivity. The productivity gap

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Speaker 1: is large. Now, Doctor Jaquelin Roweth Edjunct Professer of course

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Speaker 1: at Agrascience in Aggrascience at Lincoln University is back Well's Jacquelin,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Make the twenty five percent? Is that just a reflection

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Speaker 1: of life. I mean, whether it's a farm or a house,

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Speaker 1: stuff goes up and stays up, and that's the way

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Speaker 1: the economy works.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and houses has actually gone a lot more, but

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Speaker 2: at the same time wages go up, and so overall

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Speaker 2: it is the farmer who buys retail and sells wholefale

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Speaker 2: that is feed feeling the pinch. And that's what these

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Speaker 2: data show.

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Speaker 1: Does the cost vary from sector to sector in this report?

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Speaker 2: Yes, And we look at poor old pitfruit. During the

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Speaker 2: time since COVID until twenty twenty four, pitfruits costs went

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Speaker 2: up eleven percent, but here we fruit forty nine percent.

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Speaker 2: And therey of course are staple thirty one. So we

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Speaker 2: are always under pressure and that's why productivity is so

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Speaker 2: important exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'll come back to that in the moment, and can

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Speaker 1: we how much is it counteracted by returns? So in

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Speaker 1: other words, yes, it's up twenty five percent, But there

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Speaker 1: are certain people in certain sectors who are who are laughing,

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Speaker 1: aren't they?

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Speaker 2: I don't think laughing would be quite the word. But

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Speaker 2: certainly some sectors on their land which might well have

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Speaker 2: cost more in the beginning than some other land, they

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Speaker 2: are getting better returns per hectare. And yes, the gap

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Speaker 2: between the pop farmers and the average farmers has increased.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So is that no one within farming accepted within farming?

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Speaker 1: And does anybody do anything about it? Or you can't?

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Speaker 2: Yes, now we can, and that's the role of the

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Speaker 2: levee bodies like Beef and Lamb Dairy ENZ Foundation for

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Speaker 2: Arable Research. We collect a levee from every kilo or

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Speaker 2: product really and invest it back in terms of science

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Speaker 2: for the farmers and often work with MPI on that

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Speaker 2: and be aside the new science organizations to try and

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Speaker 2: increase productivity for the farmers and run a lot of

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Speaker 2: discussion groups for instance, which say this person is achieving

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Speaker 2: this much or this productivity, how is he doing it?

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Speaker 2: Or she doing it? And then the explanations start and

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Speaker 2: farmers will go back to their own place and think

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Speaker 2: what that would work online? And you've got to.

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Speaker 1: Want to do it though, don't you. Isn't that the

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Speaker 1: same as it's like, you know, people who get out

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Speaker 1: there in a job and a productive and into life,

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Speaker 1: as as the person who can't be bothered happy on

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Speaker 1: the benefit. Is it like that in farming?

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Speaker 2: No, I have over four I've been here fifty years,

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Speaker 2: and I have the number of farmers that I've met

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Speaker 2: that are not interested in productivity gains, doing ever better

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Speaker 2: is fingers of one hand. Most of them are highly competitive.

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Speaker 2: That's why they're looking over the neighbor's fence all the

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Speaker 2: time and they wonder, how did she do that? I

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Speaker 2: wanted to look and have my padducts and my orchards

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Speaker 2: look as good as that. What do I need to

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Speaker 2: do to increase my farm or my orchard or whatever?

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Speaker 2: How can I do it? And they are this is

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Speaker 2: why we're in New Zealand. We're all innovatives, entrepreneurs and

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Speaker 2: trying to do better for our.

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Speaker 1: Families, fantastic, Jacquelin Good Inside as always, doctor Jacqueblin Row

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Speaker 1: at the Edge and Professor Negro Science at Lincoln University.

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