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Speaker 1: Rowena Duncan of the country over the country is with

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Speaker 1: us A row Hey you that? Oh sorry, Roe, I

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Speaker 1: halfway stopped through my sentence because I thought there's something

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Speaker 1: wrong with every with everything because of my headphone. We're

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Speaker 1: working properly anyway. Listen you, everything's working for you quite well.

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Speaker 1: You had a chat to Todd McLay today. He's in Brazil.

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Speaker 1: What's he doing there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's very ahead of their G twenty summit,

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Speaker 2: but he's gone earlier. I had a few bilateral trade

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Speaker 2: meetings as well, led a business delegation to Salparlo, where

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Speaker 2: there's actually about forty Kiwi businesses operating. Look, I didn't

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Speaker 2: actually realize Brazil is such a huge country two hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty million people. But we've actually got a lot

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Speaker 2: in common when it comes to agriculture. So Todd McClay

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Speaker 2: was telling me this afternoon that like us, their government

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Speaker 2: wants to help farmers meet their obligations around climate change,

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Speaker 2: around the environment, but without putting people out of business,

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Speaker 2: so leaning into technology and things like that. He says

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Speaker 2: they've agreed that the two institutions should actually work together

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Speaker 2: to find ways to achieve that without reducing production, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't actually anticipate that they would align quite so

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Speaker 2: strongly on those points.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the Hawks Bay amp show started today, was it right?

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Speaker 2: It's doing okay? Yeah, it's actually doing really well. And

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Speaker 2: I mean, like Hawks Bay do it well, don't they?

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow's the anniversary day, so they turn it into a

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Speaker 2: four day weekend. Like why can't we all be like

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Speaker 2: Hawks Bay? But anyway, I'm getting thin king isn't it

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Speaker 2: very jealous? But look, today was kind of like the

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Speaker 2: Farmer's Day, So the farmers kind of go on the Thursday.

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Speaker 2: The rest of everyone goes on on the Friday when

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Speaker 2: they've got the day off and stuff. I was chatting

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Speaker 2: to some of my mates who were there. They said

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Speaker 2: it was a beautiful day, but like there's the equestrian today.

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Speaker 2: There was all the shows and stuff. The trades were

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Speaker 2: all busy, and he said there was just a good

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Speaker 2: group of people catching up. So in hawks Bay they're

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Speaker 2: starting to kind of drift into that dry end of

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Speaker 2: the spectrum. They had a good early spring. Things were

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Speaker 2: moving in the right direction, good lambing, good carving. But

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Speaker 2: you know there's a question mark now on how soon

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Speaker 2: it's going to get a bit dry heading towards summer.

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Speaker 2: Today there was the kids sharing, so tomorrow it's the

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Speaker 2: great Ray as she is. Today they had secondary school

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Speaker 2: kids in their School Challenge round twenty five of them

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Speaker 2: or something. I think it was George from Natbeer Boys

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Speaker 2: who took it out. Sure three sheep in the final.

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Speaker 2: There were kids from as far away as Wide or so. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Just I think a really good time for that region

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Speaker 2: to get a bit of a boost. And gosh, you've

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Speaker 2: got a love Amp show season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah and Hawks Bay so what a great combo. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you for that Row, look after yourself. That's Row

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Speaker 1: in a duncan of the country.

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