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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Beef + Lamb New Zealand's latest survey results · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
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  Speaker 1: The Rural Report on hither do for see.
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  Speaker 2: Allan Drive, Jamie mckaye, host of the Countries with Us
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  Speaker 2: A Jamie good I Heather. So, sheep numbers are down
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  Speaker 2: one percent, Beef cattles up nearly well, just over four.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. And on the face of a fall of
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  Speaker 3: one percent for the sheep number doesn't appear to be
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  Speaker 3: too bad. But worryingly, the breeding is the ones that
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  Speaker 3: produced the lambs have fallen by nearly two percent. Here's
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  Speaker 3: the numbers, Heiver, we're now in this country only have
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  Speaker 3: When I say only, we only have twenty three point
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  Speaker 3: three million sheep. It's about exactly one third of what
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  Speaker 3: we had in nineteen eighty two. There's about four sheep
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  Speaker 3: to every one of us. Now. Back in the nineteen sixties,
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Oak years, there was thirty sheep to every.
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  Speaker 1: One of us.
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  Speaker 3: So we've seen a real decline in sheep numbers now.
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  Speaker 3: Beef and Land New Zealand. This is part of their
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  Speaker 3: annual stock number survey. They're estimating that two point six
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  Speaker 3: million stock units have been lost to a forestation since
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  Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, and they're saying that despite the argument from
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  Speaker 3: some in the forestry industry or the carbon farming industry,
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  Speaker 3: a forestation is responsible for seventy eight percent of the
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  Speaker 3: total reduction in sheep and beef stock numbers since twenty seventeen. Heither,
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  Speaker 3: and that leads on to the story about what Federated
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  Speaker 3: farmers are on about at the moment regarding the report
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  Speaker 3: back to Parliament.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they say the government isn't going far enough when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to banning the pines taking over productive farmland.
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  Speaker 2: What do they want the government to do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, go a bit further, be a bit tougher on
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  Speaker 3: the legislation. I don't know whether, and I suggested this
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  Speaker 3: to Wayne Langford, the President today on my show, Whether
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  Speaker 3: the forestry spokesman who's also their new sheep and beef
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  Speaker 3: spokesman he took over from Toby Williams. I know that
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  Speaker 3: you spoke to Toby. He was the guy and behind
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  Speaker 3: to save our sheep care pain Well. Richard Dawkins said
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  Speaker 3: many farmers will be feeling a total sense of betrayal.
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  Speaker 3: That might be over egging at a week, but he
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  Speaker 3: did say, look there's one silver lining. They've tightened the
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  Speaker 3: rules around the silly intent to plant tests. So what
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  Speaker 3: they were saying when they announced these restrictions at the
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  Speaker 3: early December last year was if you had some seedlings
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  Speaker 3: and you could prove that you'd bought them or an invoice,
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  Speaker 3: you could go ahead and plant. They're now saying tough,
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  Speaker 3: if you had the seedlings seedlings with no land to
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  Speaker 3: plant them on, that doesn't count as a clear intent
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  Speaker 3: to plant. I think what our Federated farmers are disappointed
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  Speaker 3: about Heather, in fact, to quote them extremely disappointed, is
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  Speaker 3: that the ban whole farm conversions only applies to land
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  Speaker 3: use capability classes one to five. That's the good land. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so the fads are saying, in reality, that's only about
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  Speaker 3: twelve percent of farm conversions were happening on that land. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 3: Dawkins said two thirds of sheep and beef farms are
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  Speaker 3: on classes six and seven land that legislation doesn't apply
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  Speaker 3: to them. They can go one hundred percent if they
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  Speaker 3: want so. Federated farmers argue that every single farm in
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  Speaker 3: the country should be subject to the same twenty five
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  Speaker 3: percent carbon credit limit, no matter what it's l uc
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  Speaker 3: rating is so there you go. The Feds and the
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  Speaker 3: foresters are fighting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah very much. So Hey, thanks very much, Jamie. Talk
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  Speaker 2: to you again next week. That's Jamie mckaie, host to
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  Speaker 2: the Country.
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