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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay Hosts of the Countries with us. Now, hey, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: that's how you get six hundred grandly watched the pennies

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Speaker 1: and the pounds look after themselves? Who right, and then

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Speaker 1: you can make it a lot more than that. Jamie.

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Speaker 1: That's very good advice. Thank you for that. Listen. I

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Speaker 1: hear that there's some talk of us getting into who

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Speaker 1: who grubbed farming? Is this going to take off? Well?

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Speaker 1: I don't know who knew it was a thing I

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Speaker 1: picked up on a story online. And the good news

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Speaker 1: about who who grub farming, Heather is it could solve

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Speaker 1: a very troubling forestry slash problem. So who who grubs

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Speaker 1: have been a valuable and sustainable food sauce here in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. Maori had long held that who who grubs

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Speaker 1: and nutritious and safe for human consumption, and the environmental

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Speaker 1: benefit is that basically you feed him up on the

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Speaker 1: forestry slash. And I didn't realize this either, but some

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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Patrick Clements as far back

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Speaker 1: as the early nineteen eighties was writing in the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Farmer suggesting that we should be farming who who grubb?

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Speaker 1: And he makes where he made an important for converting

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Speaker 1: wood to edible proteins because grubs are rich in proteins,

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Speaker 1: minerals and fats. In fact, who who grubs heather who

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Speaker 1: knew this have high proteins or proteins as high as

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Speaker 1: thirty percent. That's higher than beef, lamb chicken, and chickpeas.

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Speaker 1: They're also rich in amino acids, and insects around the

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Speaker 1: world have been domesticated. I guess you have to tame

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Speaker 1: who who grubs before you eat them, and they're being

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Speaker 1: farmed sustainably. But in all seriousness, I think letting the

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Speaker 1: who who grubs domestically farming them and letting them loose

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Speaker 1: on the forestry slash is a great way to convert

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Speaker 1: wasted wood into proteins. Sounds smart. Have you ever tried one? No,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to. Well, there's your problem, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: is that it's going to the mindset shift that you

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Speaker 1: have to take to eat one of these things that

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Speaker 1: does not look like something you would normally. Putting him

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Speaker 1: out is quite a lot. Yeah, but we might be

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Speaker 1: able to export Whoho grub to other places around world

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Speaker 1: where people don't give a tough about gecking grubs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like that. Hays Ban Aaron who who grubs farming?

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Speaker 1: Jeez Jamie, when you put your money there, I will

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Speaker 1: put it in my mouth. And let's just say it

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Speaker 1: like that. Okay. If I see you backing this as

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Speaker 1: an export idea, I'm going to eat one for you.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the live exports. The demand is waiting for this, apparently,

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Speaker 1: is it. Yeah, Well, you might remember that the Labor

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Speaker 1: government put a ban on live animal exports by sea

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Speaker 1: in April of last year. The current government's talking about

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Speaker 1: reopening this and this is and you and I have

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Speaker 1: discussed this before. It's been very divisive in the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand farming community. It's almost fifty to fifty split down

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Speaker 1: the middle. Look, it was worth potentially five hundred million

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Speaker 1: to US half a billion a year. But what a

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Speaker 1: latest story just released report from Ravo Bank is saying

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Speaker 1: is that the demand has slowed to a trickle in

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Speaker 1: China for our dairy heifers. Because that's basically what we

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Speaker 1: were sending over there. So even if we do re

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Speaker 1: state this previously lucrative a live dairy trade the heifers

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Speaker 1: to China, we may not get much demand because look

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Speaker 1: back and back in twenty twenty two it peaked it

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Speaker 1: this is out of Australasia, US and the ossis two

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand head. We've sent eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dairy heifers from Australia and New Zealand and

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Speaker 1: the five years up to twenty twenty three. However, as

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Speaker 1: I said, it's just it's trickled to a holt now

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Speaker 1: annual decline of eighty three percent. These cows, all these

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Speaker 1: dairy heifers were worth US three thousand dollars, that's like

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Speaker 1: over five grand and our money. But now they've last

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Speaker 1: year they fell to fifteen hundred. So even if we

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Speaker 1: were reinstate this we may not have a market. Jamie,

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Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate it. Jamie McKay, Host to the Country.

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