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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on former Special Trade Envoy Mike Petersen issuing a warning to Kiwi primary exporters · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Jamie mckaye, host of the Country, is with me tonight. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Koda, Ryan, how are you very well? Thank you
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  Speaker 2: Now be ready to be nimble. That's the message to
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  Speaker 2: the primary exporters from the international trade expert, former Special
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  Speaker 2: Trade Envoy Mike Peterson.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, hawks both farmer as well. And Mike knows
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  Speaker 3: a thing or two about trade, as you said, former
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand Special Agricultural Trade Envoy, former chair of Beef
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  Speaker 3: and Lamb New Zealand, current chair of Scales, one of
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  Speaker 3: our bigger's horticulture companies, And you said, we're basically we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to tread warily between our two biggers
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  Speaker 3: markets now the China or China and the US, and
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  Speaker 3: we need to try and keep a foot in both camps. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 3: in an interview I was reading from Mike, he said,
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  Speaker 3: on the domestic front, while many farmers feel they have
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  Speaker 3: a farmer friendly government and they certainly have Ryan, compared
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  Speaker 3: to what those poor buggers in the UK are facing
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  Speaker 3: under Secre Starmer. He's saying that the government has a
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  Speaker 3: big picture agenda as well. But when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: that big picture agenda, I meeting Paris climate climate accord agreements.
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  Speaker 3: Not everyone in the government, it seems, agrees with that
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  Speaker 3: big picture, especially the likes of Winston and even David
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  Speaker 3: Seymour's the jury's out to web it on that one.
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  Speaker 3: So Mike Petterson saying farmers might like the government, but
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  Speaker 3: they might might not like some of their actions around
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  Speaker 3: climate change targets. But he's saying it's nothing that science
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  Speaker 3: and innovation can't take care of. Many people would argue
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's not the case, but anyhow, someone's and upwards
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  Speaker 3: for the primary sector. And as I said after speaking
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  Speaker 3: to my UK farm and correspondent to Day the UK
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  Speaker 3: Ryme where they had another massive farmer protest, we've got
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  Speaker 3: it good in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly with the government and regulation. As you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Zesprey is claiming a world first. What's this about?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is quite a cool story. We
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  Speaker 3: came or came across today or was it yesterday, The
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  Speaker 3: only fruit company in the world that will shortly have
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  Speaker 3: all its products sewn with home else sold should I
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  Speaker 3: say with Home compostible labels. You know when you're eating
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  Speaker 3: your Kiwi fruit gold and I've got those annoying plastic
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  Speaker 3: little labels. Well they're going to be a thing of
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  Speaker 3: the past. They're going to be all compostible, which will
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  Speaker 3: be great, and it's going to be on all fruit
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  Speaker 3: grown in New Zealand or offshore. Remember that Zesbury's making
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  Speaker 3: a real play for all year round supply by having
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  Speaker 3: growers in the Northern Hemisphere as well. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: these European nations are demanding fully compostible fruit stickers and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a really good thing. So there's a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a challenge with these. There's three parts to them,
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  Speaker 3: the top, the face, top, and the actual label itself.
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  Speaker 3: They've all got to be compostible. They've got about a
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  Speaker 3: stick to a hairy surface, especially when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: green key with fruit. The labels need to cope and
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  Speaker 3: call stores and out on the market floor where it
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  Speaker 3: might be a wee bit warmer, and more importantly, obviously
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  Speaker 3: they need to break down in the compost heap. So
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  Speaker 3: there we go. Well done, Zespree. They're world leaders and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things, and I guess they can add
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  Speaker 3: compostible stickers to that list.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds good, Jamie, good on them. Thank you for that,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, Host of the Country here on News Talk
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