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Jamie Mackay: The Country host hints towards his ag person of the year for 2024 · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Time to wrap the year in Rural New Zealand with
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  Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, host of the Country. Good evening, Jamie, Good day, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: good to have you back on. Who is your will
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  Speaker 2: start with the person of the year, your ag person
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  Speaker 2: of the Year for twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm keeping my powder dry soil tomorrow my last
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  Speaker 3: show of the year, Ryan, and I will name mine then.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not giving you, I'm not letting you still
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  Speaker 3: on the thunder there, but I'll tell you who I've
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  Speaker 3: been asking all my regulars and the sinks to the
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  Speaker 3: field seems to be narrowed down for three Miles hurral Fontira,
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  Speaker 3: Chief Executive of the Year, Fonterra Company of the Year,
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  Speaker 3: Todd McLay, Trade and agg Minister. I've been everywhere man,
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  Speaker 3: and he really has. He's got off his backside and
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  Speaker 3: he has traveled the world in search of trade opportunities
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  Speaker 3: and the other one and he's become a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a regular over the past year or two. Is Wayne Langford,
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  Speaker 3: the President of the Federated Farmers So he's had this
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  Speaker 3: restoring confidence tour with the PM. Federated Farmers had eleven
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  Speaker 3: out of twelve of their policy priorities achieved. That's a
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  Speaker 3: big tick in anyone's book. They're onto the banking inquiry.
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  Speaker 3: They've even ranked the banks this year, Ravo Banks the
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  Speaker 3: best and being z is the worst. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting because you took a bit of a credibility hit
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  Speaker 2: in the eyes of some farmers, didn't it. So he's
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  Speaker 2: obviously I'm doing some way to repair that. What about
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  Speaker 2: the Are you going to let us in on you
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  Speaker 2: which sectors in particular you're going to rank and how
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  Speaker 2: they've done for the year.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, No, this is no secret, Ryan, I've prepared this.
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  Speaker 3: This is something I've prepared especially for you. So I've
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  Speaker 3: given them. I've done the hosking. You see, I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to be more like Mike. I've marked the week, so
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  Speaker 3: I've marked the year. So here you go out of
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  Speaker 3: ten derry nine out of ten ten dollars. Here here
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  Speaker 3: we come. Horticulture a seven with a week caveat that.
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  Speaker 3: Kiwi fruits probably an eight? Is that are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Is they to be there? Are you adding to the occasion?
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  Speaker 2: I think and is adding some bells and to your account.
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  Speaker 3: Bugger off, it's really annoying me. Okay, so peace beef.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give an eight. We've got record prices for beef,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the US, the lamb and mutton. The old
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  Speaker 3: sheep meat has been a bit more problematical. Albeit it's
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  Speaker 3: on an upward plane, but it's been reasonably depressed. I'm
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  Speaker 3: only giving it a four and a four maybe a
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  Speaker 3: four in a but forestry also only gets a four.
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  Speaker 3: That we've had depressed log prices. We've obviously had the
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  Speaker 3: bad slash publicity around cyclone Gabrielle. But the good news
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  Speaker 3: for forestry is it is on the improve and it
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  Speaker 3: can clip the ticket on carbon credits. One of the
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  Speaker 3: exciting one. Not newcomers, but certainly it's doing very well
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  Speaker 3: at the moment. Of seafood and aquaculture. I've given that
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  Speaker 3: a good solid eight. Robust demand, tights, a global supply
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  Speaker 3: helping their wall is the problem child really of the
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  Speaker 3: primary sector Ryan across the board. I've given them the three,
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  Speaker 3: and that's only because fine walls dragging it up. Strong wall,
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  Speaker 3: which is most of our wall st Cross squad wall
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  Speaker 3: gets a one. Really, it might get a one and
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  Speaker 3: a half. It still costs many farmers more to share
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  Speaker 3: their sheep than they get for the wall. That is
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  Speaker 3: not a sustainable proposition. So there you go. That's me
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  Speaker 3: marking the year for farming.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant and no sound effects required for Jamie McKay, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much, Jamie, Host of the Country here on
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