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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the mood of Fieldays 2025 · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Jamie mckaye hosts of the Country with Us from Field Days.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Jamie, Hello Heather?
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  Speaker 2: How much fun? Are you having.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of fun? I'm about to go out for
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  Speaker 3: a night on the tron with the Country team. Are
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  Speaker 3: all in the background?
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  Speaker 2: Is that them laughing?
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  Speaker 3: Smoothing away? Now they're laughing at me for talking about
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  Speaker 3: a night on the tron. But look, honestly, Thursday night
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  Speaker 3: in Hamilton at field Days is as big as it gets.
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  Speaker 3: If you're from if you were Right and Gore or
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  Speaker 3: Riverstar like me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a big lights.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you got to go with lots? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go when you go out in Hamilton?
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  Speaker 3: Where are we going to? Ben Smith and McKenzie's shameless
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  Speaker 3: plug for that restaurant? But after that here, but wait,
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  Speaker 3: there's more. We go to the spates Alehouse and Hamilton,
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  Speaker 3: run by former All Black Aaron Penny, and we have
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  Speaker 3: and we have the unofficial you know how we had
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  Speaker 3: the Radio Award. It's last week and you're the Broadcaster
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  Speaker 3: of the Year decade century. I don't know but we
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  Speaker 3: go out and have like the rural Broadcaster of the Year,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just an absolute roast between ourselves media works
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  Speaker 3: and what are that other outfit co Sport Nation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so that's just a few bearst of spas.
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  Speaker 2: Good And so tomorrow is it a complete right off?
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  Speaker 2: Like are you going to be chugging back the ginger
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  Speaker 2: beers and eating the McDonald's to try and make it through?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, not at all, Heather. A drink like
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  Speaker 3: a man, work like a man the next day. Now, look,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be home tucked up in good time. Nothing good
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  Speaker 3: happens after midnight. Back in the early days thirty years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I would burn the candle at both ends. But not now,
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  Speaker 3: because Heather, I've got to do serious rural reports like
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  Speaker 3: the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries reports which was
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  Speaker 3: released today and I know you're dying to find out.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So our primary sector exports are worth nearly
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  Speaker 3: sixty billion fifty nine point nine okay, And Raysmith, the
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  Speaker 3: Director General of MPI, said he wanted to tweak the
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  Speaker 3: accounting department just to get it past sixty billion.
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  Speaker 1: They died in the hole just shut sixty billion.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the kicker. They want a primary sect direct
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  Speaker 3: who reached sixty five point seven billion by twenty twenty nine,
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  Speaker 3: which is in four years. Remember they set the target
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  Speaker 3: last year twenty four primary sector exports in the next
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  Speaker 3: decade where they're going to have to go a long
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  Speaker 3: way because they need to get from fifty nine to
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  Speaker 3: about just over one hundred billion to double exports. So
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  Speaker 3: someone's going to have to do the heavy lifting. As
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  Speaker 3: it stands at the moment, the dairy export industry up
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  Speaker 3: sixteen percent for the year ended thirtieth June, twenty seven
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars out of the sixty that's nearly half meat
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  Speaker 3: and waller good solid twelve billion horticulture bit of a
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  Speaker 3: star of the stable. Perhaps that's what will save our
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  Speaker 3: bacon in the end up nineteen percent to eight point
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  Speaker 3: five billion, Forestry slightly staged at six point three billion,
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  Speaker 3: and Shane Jones's seafood export revenue has lifted two percent
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  Speaker 3: to two point two billion.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant stuff. Hey, go and enjoy yourselves, you'll deserve it,
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  Speaker 2: and spend up large and help them out. That Jamie
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  Speaker 2: Mackay Host of the Country, where did he saym Smith
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  Speaker 2: and something or other? Do you want to see him,
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  Speaker 2: go there.
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