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Wayne Langford: former Federated Farmers president on Colin Hurst taking over his role · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Federated Farmers have ounced their president at the group's AGM today.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Langford was not allowed to put his hat in
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  Speaker 2: the ring for a fourth year in the job. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: his vice president, Colin Hurst, secured the votes for the
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  Speaker 2: top job, and Wayne Langford, the outgoing president, is with
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  Speaker 2: us A Wayne it, I mean, I'm slightly shocked by this,
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  Speaker 2: are you.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit?
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  Speaker 3: But I also know how our national National Council operate
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  Speaker 3: as well. We've been we've been kind of in our
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  Speaker 3: national structure for about thirty years now and it hasn't
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  Speaker 3: hasn't ever happened, And so we were, you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: getting a few wins at the moment. We're going along
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  Speaker 3: pretty well. And I thought, well, I'll check my name
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  Speaker 3: in the hat to see if I can get to
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  Speaker 3: get an extension for an extra year on my time,
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  Speaker 3: and unfortunately I didn't get it. Over the line, have.
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  Speaker 2: You done something wrong?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, absolutely not no. No, they're just saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: they want to keep the new people coming through, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what FITS has always done. And so that's where
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  Speaker 3: they've gone about it. But you know, to be interesting,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we've had some had some good times.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we've got some pretty good relationships at
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  Speaker 3: the moment, and we're getting a fear few wins for
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  Speaker 3: our farmers and so hopefully they can keep that going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so were you you weren't obviously allowed to
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  Speaker 2: vote for yourself, but were you allowed to vote for
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  Speaker 2: your successor?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was, Yeah, Yeah did you pick?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: Did you pick Mark Hooper?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Now Colin. Colin will be a great successor act he said,
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  Speaker 3: under me his vice president for a number of years,
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  Speaker 3: and so so he'll go well and and he'll bring
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  Speaker 3: a different style to me. But that's tend to be
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  Speaker 3: tends to be what you find. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 3: look at Andrew Hogart, who was before me, quite different
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  Speaker 3: to me as well. So yeah, you never know what
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get with the Fitz president now.
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  Speaker 2: I I I had wondered if maybe you had been
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  Speaker 2: punished for being quite magnanimous. I think you've always you
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  Speaker 2: haven't been a prickly character who's gone hard at the
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  Speaker 2: labor party. Has that in the end countered against you?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, definitely not I think of anything that that's
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  Speaker 3: been appreciated, and that that's why we had the vote
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  Speaker 3: today that that I could potentially do a fourth year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because they were saying, actually, this this new strategy that
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  Speaker 3: you've got, it's working. Can we keep you on, to
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  Speaker 3: keep you on, to keep it going? But unfortunately not
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  Speaker 3: the case. So so I'll be heading back to the
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  Speaker 3: farm to milk a few chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Okay, what do you reckon? Seeing as
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  Speaker 2: you're like deeply entrenched and have got probably one of
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  Speaker 2: the best overviews at the minute, what are the problems
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  Speaker 2: that are facing farmers in the next I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: one to three years.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's well, we're working through two big topics,
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  Speaker 3: local government and the RMA changes. And well, while the
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  Speaker 3: government will move as fast as they can on the RMA,
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  Speaker 3: it's still going to take time to get in place.
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  Speaker 3: And so we're working with the government currently at the
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  Speaker 3: moment to say, how can we speed that up? What
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  Speaker 3: does that look like? Let's get some permitted activities going
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  Speaker 3: and let's just get farmers getting on with it really
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  Speaker 3: so that they can you know, keep the country guard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, see here this is the text. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: text for you, Wayne. Hither asked Wayne if he's going
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  Speaker 2: to run for labor in the general election, because that's
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  Speaker 2: his problem from Bernie.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, as there now, there's always there's always a few
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  Speaker 3: good rumors around about that. And I did get a
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  Speaker 3: few requests from all the all the political parties to
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  Speaker 3: be fit.
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  Speaker 2: But surely not from the Green. Did you get one
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  Speaker 2: from the Green?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 3: Not not from the Greens? No, no, no, I'm still
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  Speaker 3: waiting from my call from Chloe, but maybe it might
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  Speaker 3: come one day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now that you're available, now it frees you up
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  Speaker 2: for it. Listen, Wayne, thank you very much and beast
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  Speaker 2: of luck with everything. And by the way, great conference
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  Speaker 2: and great event the other night, Swayne Langford outgoing Federated
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  Speaker 2: Farmers Prison.
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