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David Acland: Mid Canterbury Federated Famers President on farmers being urged to plan ahead to secure winter feed supplies · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Agribusiness had a cracky year in twenty twenty five, but
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  Speaker 1: farmers are being worn. Don't pop the champagne just yet.
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  Speaker 1: Rabobanks Is twenty twenty six comes with headwinds global politics,
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  Speaker 1: industry rules and the weather. Fed farmers are talian Canterbury
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  Speaker 1: to stock up now with winter feed pressure looming. Mid
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  Speaker 1: Canterbury Fed Farmer's President David Ackland joins me. Now, David,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning Ron. So what yes, last year
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  Speaker 1: was great. What are you worried about this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what we're worried about is just the storms that
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  Speaker 2: went through the arable farms. We had a number of
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  Speaker 2: hailstorms take out a of feed free Christmas and then
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  Speaker 2: they've just had a bit of a tricky harvest coming
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  Speaker 2: through this January period. So it's more about making sure
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  Speaker 2: farmers are connecting with their supplies, with their growers for
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  Speaker 2: winter feed and just just double checking out that all
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  Speaker 2: those contracts and that feeder is in place. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a sort of more of a heads up rather than
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  Speaker 2: getting to May and having a situation where we've got
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  Speaker 2: cows with nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not panic stations just yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not panic stations. It's just hey, guys, make
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  Speaker 2: it's time to check in and just secure that feed.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen a fat you know, straw and that side
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  Speaker 2: of things with the tricky harvest being mulched back into
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  Speaker 2: the ground rather than bailed. So it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's just a few pressures there and it's a bit
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  Speaker 2: of change around with a few Derek convisions happening in
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  Speaker 2: that side of thing. So there's a few dynamics happening
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  Speaker 2: that we just need to get people to actually make
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  Speaker 2: those phone calls early.
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  Speaker 1: The wind you mentioned last year, the how and the
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  Speaker 1: wind was pretty hectic. A lot of machinery was sort
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  Speaker 1: of tipped over because of that wind. How's the repairs going.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we've had they've had a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: run of it. I know in those early stages there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of but the crews and irrigation companies, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hell of a job to get get into the country
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  Speaker 2: and also to get things back up right. But there
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  Speaker 2: was a really critical of sewing and that side of things,
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  Speaker 2: and it was pretty dry. So always what deft crops
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  Speaker 2: that would have been affected through that will be back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they only have to be a couple of
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  Speaker 2: three tons of feed and it makes actually a big
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  Speaker 2: difference across the whole province. So it's just that those
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  Speaker 2: little shortages that are just adding up a wee bit
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  Speaker 2: at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Was just talking about insurance, David, what's on farm insurance
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  Speaker 1: like premium wires at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, We renewed ours the other day and it feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's sneaked up again, but it hasn't gone up
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  Speaker 2: as readily as it has done and the you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had a hellish horizers there but it sort of
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  Speaker 2: has just come to a new hire, it feels at
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  Speaker 2: the moment.
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  Speaker 1: All right, David, Good chat to you as always, David Acklin,
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  Speaker 1: mid Canterbury Fed Farmer's President. For more from Early Edition
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