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Karl Dean: Federated Farmers Dairy Chair on the concerns that farmers are running out of fuel · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now, some farmers are warning they are close to running
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  Speaker 2: out of diesel because deliveries have slowed down. Importers switched
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  Speaker 2: from monthly to weekly shipments last month to manage supply,
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  Speaker 2: but now some farmers are running dry and having to
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  Speaker 2: fill their tanks up at the petrol station. Carl Dean
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  Speaker 2: is Federated Farmer's Dairy Chair and with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Carl, oh right, so run me through this. How
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  Speaker 3: bad is this as a situation.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it's terrible. It's more the fact that
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  Speaker 4: we're not hearing it going away. So we're always getting
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  Speaker 4: always seems to be one or two people every day
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  Speaker 4: complaining about the fact that they've been two or three
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  Speaker 4: weeks behind in their fuel delivery.
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  Speaker 3: And what is the explanation for it, because we've got
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  Speaker 3: heaps of diesel in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So most of the explanations that are coming through
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  Speaker 4: are that, you know, because of that change in cycle,
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  Speaker 4: and that was a month ago now, so we have
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  Speaker 4: thought that the distributors should have probably got that sort
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  Speaker 4: of by now. Obviously there was some people who have
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  Speaker 4: stockpiled fueled potentially in the I don't know who, but
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  Speaker 4: certain people would have done so. Again, that should have
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  Speaker 4: now filtered through and done its dash. So hopefully it
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  Speaker 4: will resolve itself shortly, but it does seem to be
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  Speaker 4: you know, even if you look on Facebook, there's always
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  Speaker 4: someone saying, oh til three weeks behind, or just been
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  Speaker 4: told it'll still be another two weeks before I get
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  Speaker 4: my petrol or diesel delivery.
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  Speaker 3: Are any other sectors in the country facing the same problem.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be interesting to know. To be honest, A lot
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  Speaker 4: of other sectors probably just use service stations. There would
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  Speaker 4: probably only be the agricultural, fishing and a few other
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  Speaker 4: sectors that actually have bulk tanks on land.
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  Speaker 3: Which are the other sectors that have bulk tanks?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when you think of fishing, you know, the entire
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  Speaker 4: fishing sector, A lot of them will have many service
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  Speaker 4: stations at the port. I guess yeah. I would think
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  Speaker 4: the army or the defense force would most likely have
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  Speaker 4: their own supply.
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  Speaker 3: Any of them experiencing the same.
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  Speaker 4: I would hope not, because a lot of them will
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  Speaker 4: be probably have large volumes to have this sort of
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  Speaker 4: buffal whereas farmers normally will have enough supply for a
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  Speaker 4: month or six weeks and they're fairly reliant on that
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  Speaker 4: monthly or every couple of weeks delivery, depending on the usage.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Carl, Is the market going to sort this out
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  Speaker 3: by itself or does this need some intervention from a
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  Speaker 3: higher power like the government.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that the market sort itself out. I don't
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  Speaker 4: see there's any reason why it shouldn't sort itself out,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously we're just watching it with an eager eye
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that it does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, here's hoping, Carl. Thanks very much, mate, Good
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  Speaker 3: luck with it. Carl then Federated Farmer's Dairy Chair.
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