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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the racing industry experts who were given King’s Birthday Honours · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed be
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  Speaker 2: Daie McKay, host of the Country, Good evening to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, Andrew. Nice to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice to see Sir David Allis yesterday
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  Speaker 2: getting a King's Birthday honor. He is now a sir
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  Speaker 2: of course from the Darco stud who else God represented
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  Speaker 2: it from agriculture.
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  Speaker 3: Well and especially like David Allis's backstory. He started out
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  Speaker 3: as a hard up sheep and beef farmer in the
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighties, battled his way through Roger onmics and look
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  Speaker 3: where he is today, well deserved. One of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: stories is Jeff Maber, the guy, well not the guy.
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  Speaker 3: His father Laurie Maber, founded the Power Farming Group and
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  Speaker 3: a small shed in Mourronsville in nineteen forty eight. Jeff
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  Speaker 3: has taken it over and his sons are now taking
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  Speaker 3: over from him. So this is a company that started,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, in a small shed by the former
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  Speaker 3: mayor of Moronsville way back when, and it now employs
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  Speaker 3: six hundred people in Australia, New Zealand obviously North America
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  Speaker 3: turnover six hundred million dollars, and of course the Maybor
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  Speaker 3: family Power Farming is famous for having Mabel the giant cow,
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  Speaker 3: which is I must see when you go to Moronsville.
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  Speaker 3: So he was one. Professor Keith Sorry, do you want
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  Speaker 3: me to continue on here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just laughing at I'm just remembering the cow
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  Speaker 2: which is right beside the Anna streeton thing.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love Mournsville, I love the cow. Carry on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you go back to the nineteen sixties, Interestingly,
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  Speaker 3: the two richest towns per capita in New Zealand were
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  Speaker 3: Mournsville off the back of the dairy cow and Gore.
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  Speaker 3: Believe it, I'm not off the back of the Romney sheep.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go. Professor Keith Woodford a man whose
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  Speaker 3: name is synonymous with agri business, Academia Lincoln University. He
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  Speaker 3: was appointed or awarded an Officer of the New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: Order of Merit. The people who were recognized doctor Ronald
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  Speaker 3: Beats and mochuecre services to horticulture, Russell Lowe to Pookie
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  Speaker 3: services to horticulture, and not surprisingly, the Keywi fruit industry.
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  Speaker 3: An interesting one is a doctor Katrina Roberts matamatter services
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  Speaker 3: to the dairy industry. She was also the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year and Lindsay Wrights
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  Speaker 3: down in Northern Southland for services to rural community and
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  Speaker 3: mental health. And one thing, sorry, Andrew, one thing all
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  Speaker 3: these people have in common is philanthropy being very generous
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  Speaker 3: with it. So if you want to go on, Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: here's the tip, give away some of your hardened drive
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  Speaker 3: show host dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay. Well, Also, I really appreciate Lindsay Wright
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  Speaker 2: obviously all the work he's done for mental health. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember and realize all the things you've done for
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  Speaker 2: mental health and what the country does about mental health.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very important thing for the rural community. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a woman who won the New Zealand dog Trial,
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  Speaker 2: So tell me the story behind Rachel Law.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she's got a great story. Just changing tac from
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  Speaker 3: the King's Birthday Honors list. This was another great story
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend. It evolved on Friday, so she along
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  Speaker 3: with the dog Nala, won the straight hunt. Now there's
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  Speaker 3: four disciplines in dog trialing. This two hunter way events,
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  Speaker 3: two heading dog events. Her and Nala were the last
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  Speaker 3: into i E. The lowest qualifiers for the seven dog
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  Speaker 3: straight hunt runoff on Friday. They turned it around day
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  Speaker 3: one and she's done all this while running herself. She's
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  Speaker 3: the boss of an eleven thousand stock unit. She can
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  Speaker 3: beef farm in Telmai. Plus if that doesn't make her
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  Speaker 3: busy enough, she's got a nine month old baby now
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  Speaker 3: and only three women well, she's only the third woman
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and sixteen year history of the New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: Dog Trilling Champs to lift a national title. Only seven
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  Speaker 3: women have won titles in either the Inter Island or
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  Speaker 3: the New Zealand Champs. And just quickly running through those
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  Speaker 3: results the four disciplines at the New Zealand Dog Trial Champs,
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  Speaker 3: Alan Stewart legendary dog trillis from down South taking the
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  Speaker 3: long head, short head and yard, Ben Miller, zigzag hunt,
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  Speaker 3: Dan jury and the straight hunt. That was none other
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  Speaker 3: than Rachel Law and Nala.
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  Speaker 2: Great event, absolutely and I thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: your time. Jeremy McKay from the country.
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