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Federated farmers president on tour with Luxon; Global Dairy Trade auction · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: To Rural News. We're Federated Farmers President. Wayne Langford has
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  Speaker 1: been on tour with the Prime Minister this week. Wayne
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  Speaker 1: joins us. Now, Hey Wayne, morning, right, thanks, good, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So what have you been doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well. We've been getting out and about amongst the provinces
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  Speaker 2: with the Prime Minister. As you can imagine, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: hard for him to get his message out to the
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  Speaker 2: farmers around what he's thinking and what he's doing. So
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  Speaker 2: we've been down to Central Otago, We've been up to
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  Speaker 2: the Hawks Bay as well, and today I'm here at
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  Speaker 2: our Mystery Creek obviously where the field days are normally
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  Speaker 2: held in Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: And what about the We've talked a lot about climate
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  Speaker 1: change this morning, and you know we've heard from what's
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  Speaker 1: basically we're not going to meet the targets, the at
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  Speaker 1: least the interim targets for Paris. Where does Federated Farmers
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  Speaker 1: sit on Paris because there's a free trade agreement complications
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  Speaker 1: here too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean from what we say is that Paris
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  Speaker 2: isn't really the issue for us. It's the settings that
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  Speaker 2: our government have within that that will influence what farmers
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  Speaker 2: can do. And so while there is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talk of do we stay in Paris do we not? Really,
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  Speaker 2: the government have got a chance to influence what we
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  Speaker 2: do from a farming point of view with their own
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  Speaker 2: policies that we have here on the ground, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why we went for the likes of the review of
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  Speaker 2: the methane targets and that sort of thing, because that's
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  Speaker 2: actually things that we can change within the system to
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  Speaker 2: help us as we try and trade globally with our
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  Speaker 2: partners overseas.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Global Dairy Trade Auction, we saw the eighth consecutive
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  Speaker 1: fall this week in the auction on Wednesday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we've seen the price obviously the forecast come
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  Speaker 1: back from Fonterra and others. How worrying is this or
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  Speaker 1: is this just sort of a coming off the high?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a bit of a coming up the high,
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  Speaker 2: of course, eight in a rows. There is a little
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  Speaker 2: nerve wrecking, particularly being a dairy farmer myself and wondering
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  Speaker 2: where that's going to go. We typically see that at
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  Speaker 2: this time of year too, when the northern hemisphere really
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  Speaker 2: get into their milk flush and everyone starts to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all this extra milk coming from different places,
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  Speaker 2: so it's early on in the season and we've got
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  Speaker 2: a long way to go. My grandfather always told me
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  Speaker 2: not to spend the milk check until I've got it
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  Speaker 2: in the bank, and so it's a bit like that.
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  Speaker 2: We wait and seeing what we're getting, and hopefully it
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  Speaker 2: stays pretty good because come June, everyone will be here
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  Speaker 2: at mister Creek and we're hoping that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be spending a bit of money to get the economy cranking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't pay down debt, just go out and spend it.
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  Speaker 1: Buy a new tractor.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, actually I was with a few national ministers last
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  Speaker 2: night and they were saying exactly that, can you get
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  Speaker 2: your farmers to spend some money because we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get this economy cranking.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what they said? God begging people to buy tractors.
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  Speaker 1: It's all getting a bit desperate.
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  Speaker 2: Way. Well, I actually, good good news is Ryan the
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  Speaker 2: tractor sales out. We've had a sixteen percent increase in
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  Speaker 2: tractor registration, so it is slowly coming. And I say this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when farmers have got the money in the
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  Speaker 2: pocket for those that support the farming sector and ultimately
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  Speaker 2: those feather down in the system, Yeah, work out ways
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  Speaker 2: to get money out of the agricultural sector because it
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  Speaker 2: does have mon at the moment, and so I don't
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  Speaker 2: want you to be handing farmers, but I do want
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  Speaker 2: you to be trying to get them to spend their
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  Speaker 2: money because that will get the economy economy cranking.
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  Speaker 1: Get on your win