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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Kāinga Ora reversing its decision on wool carpets · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Who's Got a Jamie mckaye hosted The Country Jamie. Good Evening.
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  Speaker 2: Good Ryan, are you turned? This is good news? A
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  Speaker 2: U turn from caying of order on the question of
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  Speaker 2: wool carpets and state houses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they previously didn't give the wall carpet a chance
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  Speaker 3: when it came to the tenders, but a bit of pressure,
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  Speaker 3: of a bit of political repressure from a number of
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  Speaker 3: groups Federated Farmers, Campaign for Wall, etc. Has made them
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  Speaker 3: reconsider their tender process and they're going to let wall
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  Speaker 3: carpets enter the tender process. And Toby Williams, who's the
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  Speaker 3: meeting Wall chair for Federated Farmers, said great news. And
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  Speaker 3: it's up to the wall carpet providers to make sure
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  Speaker 3: their proposals are competitive. He just highlighted some of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons why wolve's better than synthetics, insulation and warmth. It's
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  Speaker 3: moisture working, it's a natural fire tard that's hyper allergenic
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  Speaker 3: and better for those with asthma. And this is a
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  Speaker 3: considerable tender process. I guess Coanga or is looking at
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  Speaker 3: supplying full floor coverings for twenty six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: new homes in three thousand renovations. So good news there.
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  Speaker 3: Wall gets to go and Walls on a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a move at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan, Yes, the price for strong wool is up again,
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  Speaker 2: on the up again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it is, although one of the I think the
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  Speaker 3: North Island sale might have dipped a wi but today
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  Speaker 3: but basically crossbred fleece prices are at an eight year high.
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  Speaker 3: That you need to put this into perspective. Like in
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen eighties, Wall was getting five bucks a kilo.
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  Speaker 3: These days it might be three or four bucks a kilo.
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  Speaker 3: I think Walls of New Zealand actually came out with
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  Speaker 3: the contract for growers at five, which is pretty competitive.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not enough Ryan to stop a lot of
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  Speaker 3: farmers getting into these new breeds of sheep. Either the
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  Speaker 3: self shedding sheep I they just shared their own wall.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to share them. Sheep that don't have
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  Speaker 3: any wool at all. In fact, they've got fine hair
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  Speaker 3: like a goat. And it's interesting that some of the
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  Speaker 3: country's leading sheep breeders And I'll throw one at you now.
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  Speaker 3: Derek Daniel, who's I guess got one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: sheep breeding operations in New Zealand based out of the
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  Speaker 3: wire wrapper he's been selling his sheep. He calls them
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  Speaker 3: moodies and as I said, they grow here like a
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  Speaker 3: deer or a horse rather than a sheep. And he
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  Speaker 3: quite rightly says that yes, the price of strong wool
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  Speaker 3: is going up, but effectively it needs to be at
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  Speaker 3: about ten dollars per kilogram so that farmers can make
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  Speaker 3: reasonable money out of it, because until recently Ryan farmers
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  Speaker 3: the cost of sharing outweighed what they got for their fleece.
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  Speaker 3: He's an example of how much enthusiasm there is for
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  Speaker 3: the self shedding or sheep with no wool at all.
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  Speaker 3: Recent sale in Southland, twenty four and a half grand
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  Speaker 3: was paid for an ex Lana Wiltshire cross. Second highest
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  Speaker 3: price was seven and a half thousand dollars. And here's
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  Speaker 3: the kicker. It was paid for by an old maid
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  Speaker 3: of miner used to be a gun sharer. He's sure
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  Speaker 3: his way shared his way into a farm. He says
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  Speaker 3: he's too old to share his own sheep now and
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  Speaker 3: his daughter, who's the world record holder Megan White ed.
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  Speaker 3: He said she's too busy sharing other people's sheep to
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  Speaker 3: share his, so that's why he's going into them.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's becoming a nudist when it comes to sheep. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for that, Jamie. Lovely to have
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  Speaker 2: you on as always Jamie McKay, Host of the Country
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