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Speaker 1: Our dines with col Groves. Morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Luke.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before we get into full farm stuff, I spotted

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Speaker 1: your comments in the paper last week. Is Hinz school

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Speaker 1: got those new classrooms and yet.

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Speaker 2: Ah they got craned on Monday.

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Speaker 1: That would have been fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the kids were waiting all day. They shifted

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Speaker 2: them once and then I think they might have had

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Speaker 2: a few issues, and then about four thirty they shifted them.

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Speaker 2: And also because the whole field was closed for the day,

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Speaker 2: so the kids are a bit annoyed.

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Speaker 1: I can understand that.

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Speaker 2: I just came home pretty annoyed.

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Speaker 1: Oh great to see them though. It means that we

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Speaker 1: can move the kidlets out of the makeshift classroom that

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Speaker 1: was the library, so reclaimed the library. Great to see

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Speaker 1: that so many new families are moving into the district.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just I'm not not worried. But obviously

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Speaker 2: there's quite a few conversions going on mid Kennery at

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Speaker 2: the moment, so I think the Royal schools will have

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Speaker 2: a bit of a not flush, but hopefully it should

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Speaker 2: be some more families, which keeps the royal communities pumping Oregon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah big time. Hey, So the first big Ribble story

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Speaker 1: of the week. Miles Hurrell's departure is Fonterra boss. You

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Speaker 1: reckon he's done a good job.

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Speaker 2: Oh outstanding, yep, I've nine Miles a wee while now

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Speaker 2: real personal guy. And you like he's been twenty five

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Speaker 2: years at Fontier so that's probably half his work life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think he's done a great job. And he took

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Speaker 2: on I wouldn't say poison chealis when he took on

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Speaker 2: a CEO role, but very tough decisions to be made

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Speaker 2: and he's him on the board. Have done a great job,

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Speaker 2: do you think? Believing? But I think you've you know,

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Speaker 2: like as a CEO eight years a long time in

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Speaker 2: that role.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, big time. I can only imagine the stress in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand could probably do with him. To be fair,

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Speaker 1: it's a few companies you're not skeptical like Winston Peters

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Speaker 1: over the timing now that he's done that lack de

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Speaker 1: lease deal, that he's just going to pocket his bonus

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Speaker 1: and run off into the sunset.

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Speaker 2: Na, No, I don't think there's any bonus. Yeah no,

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Like a CEO, Like it's a

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Speaker 2: whole new face for Fontier once this has gone through

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Speaker 2: and he's probably thinking, well, how much drive have I

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Speaker 2: got an energy? And I think you know he's going

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Speaker 2: to I think he's got a ten or twelve year

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Speaker 2: old son that you know, he's probably way for nine

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Speaker 2: a year. So I think each is Scott. Actually I've

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Speaker 2: done my job in time to take a bit of

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Speaker 2: a break.

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Speaker 1: Certainly hope that the co op remains in good steed

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Speaker 1: and we see these continued strong farm gate prices because goodness,

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Speaker 1: the cost of everything else just continues to skyrocket. The

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Speaker 1: latest example gas given the conflict in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: I think diesel's gone up over a dollar a liter

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Speaker 1: in the space of a fortnight. Is that a concern

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Speaker 1: on farm? How do you manage that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not very nice filling up your tractor, It

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be. I was talking to a few friends other

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Speaker 2: day and I think it's the only industry is in

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Speaker 2: the you know, gas and petrol and diesel that they

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Speaker 2: just pass on the cost straight away. Yeah versus gas can't.

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Speaker 2: We can't pass our costs on unless you're selling direct

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Speaker 2: to somebody. But you know, they go it goes up

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Speaker 2: straight away, and you're just, yeah, you can't even think

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Speaker 2: about it. And I just hope that when it does relax,

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Speaker 2: it comes back the other way real quick. But you know,

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Speaker 2: dollar lead and if you're putting eighty to ninety leaders

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Speaker 2: into a track, that, let's another hundred dollars a day.

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Speaker 2: You know, all the transport trucks going down the road

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Speaker 2: and had to think what their bills are?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, big time. Is there anything you can do about it?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: The media talk for the town is anyway how you

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Speaker 1: can remove your roof racks and pump up your tires

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Speaker 1: to increase fuel efficiency? Like can you make any cutbacks

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Speaker 1: on farm or is it really what it is?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Probably only doing the bier new necessities if you

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Speaker 2: have to. But you know, if you go to spread fertilizer,

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Speaker 2: you need to run the track there. If you've got

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Speaker 2: a map at it, you've got to cultivate, you can

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Speaker 2: get around it. I think, yeah, it's just one of

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Speaker 2: those things that we can't escape it. Like a camera

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Speaker 2: Begrica the other day that if usually runs out of diesel,

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Speaker 2: the economy stops. You know, twenty four million leads a

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Speaker 2: day a fuel tens ten millions diesel, ten millions picture

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Speaker 2: and four millions aviation. So we rely on Diesel for

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of keeping this economy going.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we do. So aside from that, everything else on

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Speaker 1: Farmers tickety boo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. We've had you know, last week we

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Speaker 2: has been really nice. We've had sunshine. Yeah, our cares

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Speaker 2: are going really well, probably countdown to the end of

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Speaker 2: May already, so it's going good actually,