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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on meat processors struggling to get stock onto lines · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And Jamie McKay, host of the Countries with Us.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Jamie, Hello Heather. When you've got yolo Wayne Langford on,
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  Speaker 3: ask him if he's going to stand for labor in
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  Speaker 3: the current election in the West Coast Tasman seat.
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  Speaker 2: West Coast Tasman Seat. Labor done, Consider it done. But
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  Speaker 2: now you've given him a warning because he will be
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  Speaker 2: listening to you right now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, no, I mean it was all the talk
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  Speaker 3: at the National LAMB Day barbecue. Look, I think he's
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  Speaker 3: been to be honest, very capable bloke, smart guy. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's been courted by several parties. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I call it what is at at the moment, the sleepover,
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  Speaker 3: the pajama party, the love and with Federated Farmers and Labor.
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  Speaker 3: This has been going for two or three years, and
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  Speaker 3: to be fair to Joe Luxton, who's their agg spokesperson,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's positive that they're making overtures towards the
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  Speaker 3: farming community. And I'll be into rested to see what
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  Speaker 3: comes out of the wash from the pajama.
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  Speaker 2: Party in the pajama buddy, Lord of have we got
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  Speaker 2: too much grass in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Ah Well, there's an old saying here. There're a farmer
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  Speaker 3: with grass and his paddock and a dollar in his
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  Speaker 3: pocket can be a dangerous beast. And it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: what's happening in the meat industry at the moment. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's all well, it's nearly all good news
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  Speaker 3: unless you're a meat process. So they're steal it, squealing
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  Speaker 3: like a stock peg at the moment because they reckon
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  Speaker 3: that with the current prices is unsustainable. But because especially
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  Speaker 3: in the North Island where you were getting dry before Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: we've had rain, far too much rain in some areas,
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  Speaker 3: But basically the whole country is good in terms of grass.
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  Speaker 3: So farmers, what they're doing here there is they're hanging
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  Speaker 3: on to stock longer. Why wouldn't you, at eleven dollars
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  Speaker 3: a kilo for lamb, put another couple of kilos on
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  Speaker 3: your lamb. It goes on to your bottom line, so
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  Speaker 3: that the meat companies are having a real battle. They're
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  Speaker 3: having to work short weeks. There is procurement pressure on
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  Speaker 3: to get the stock that's available just to give you
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  Speaker 3: the numbers up till the end of January, we'd only
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  Speaker 3: killed six and a quarter million lambs of a total
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  Speaker 3: of seventeen million that's available, so we've obviously had nearly
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  Speaker 3: a month's killing since then or processing. I better b
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  Speaker 3: TC on that one. So we're not even halfway through
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  Speaker 3: the season yet. Look, the forecast is good. They dropped
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  Speaker 3: the schedule a wee bit last week by ten cents
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  Speaker 3: of kilo, the first decline since Christmas. They don't normally,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they normally do this. Once we get past Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: the lamb schedule drops. But forecasting is it for to
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  Speaker 3: maybe call its heels a webit go down a weebit.
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  Speaker 3: But then we get near at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 3: that pressure comes on again for our stock procurement and
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  Speaker 3: we have a good old fashioned procurement war amongst the
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  Speaker 3: meat companies.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds great. I love it. Thank you very much, Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: look up yourself, Jammie McKay, Host of the Country.
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