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Rowena Duncum: The Country host celebrates the International Day of Rural Women · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: Rural Report on Heather du for see Alan Drive and.
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  Speaker 2: Filling in hosting The Country While Jamie is on holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Rowe, Hello, how did you celebrate the International Day
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  Speaker 2: of Rural Women?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I had some pretty kick ass women on the
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  Speaker 3: show today, which was awesome. No Jamie Mackay, of course,
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  Speaker 3: he's in New York, living it up, seeing the New
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  Speaker 3: York next going to the top of the Freedom Power,
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  Speaker 3: so it was a man free zone. But now I
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  Speaker 3: was chatting to Emma Poul and Katie Melner. Katie was
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  Speaker 3: the first female president of Federated Farmers. Emma was the
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  Speaker 3: first female New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year. And
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  Speaker 3: Emma had found this amazing quote and I thought you
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  Speaker 3: would quite like this. It was a super old magazine
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  Speaker 3: and it said women that can cut the throat of
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  Speaker 3: sheep and lift heavy loads will not make good future
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  Speaker 3: mothers of the children of our nation. And she said,
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  Speaker 3: you know that's what women were up a camps back
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  Speaker 3: in the day. You know, they couldn't be farmers. There
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  Speaker 3: was no place for them. On farm, their places at
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  Speaker 3: home raising the children and says, look here I am.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Katie many many years later, cutting throats, lifting heavy
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  Speaker 3: loads and giving motherhood a damn good crack. And I
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  Speaker 3: just think they are amazing role models for anyone wanting
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  Speaker 3: to get involved in agriculture.
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  Speaker 2: We are very very cool. Speaking of doing things with sheep,
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  Speaker 2: we got we've got some awesome sharers in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Where they headed off to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're off to Australia the fiftieth anniversary Trans
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  Speaker 3: Tasman Sharing and Wool Handling Series. We found the final
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  Speaker 3: members of the team to head to Australia. They're hitting
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  Speaker 3: there this week. The big competition is in Western Australia
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  Speaker 3: over labor weekends. But we did have the first Trans
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  Speaker 3: Tasman events just on the weekend, just been in Saturday
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  Speaker 3: at Wymatty and it was the blade sharing you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ones with the shears, not the handpieces, doing it
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  Speaker 3: old school and luck first blood to the kiwi solet
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  Speaker 3: type that continues in Western Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Yay ro thank you very much. Roe Duncan filling in
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  Speaker 2: on the country for Jamie MacKaye while he's on holiday.
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