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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on farmer confidence remaining at a near-record high · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks B Follow
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  Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, host of the Country.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Jamie, Well, the Israeli Rahan conflict's not the big
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  Speaker 3: story of the day. It's my after shape giving you migraines.
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  Speaker 3: I've been getting texts from strange women and high places
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  Speaker 3: in agriculture wondering about my art because.
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  Speaker 2: Because I said, I need to know what, Because what
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  Speaker 2: I need to do is I'm getting get migraines from perfume.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. I know I got it from yours,
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  Speaker 2: and I know I got it from mine. So what
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  Speaker 2: I need to put in is my ingredients. Listened to
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  Speaker 2: chat GPT and yours into chat GPT and see what
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  Speaker 2: the same same things are that cause the migraine. But
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  Speaker 2: you can't remember what the perfume was.
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  Speaker 3: You know? Good, well, no, when you texted me last night.
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  Speaker 3: This has got nothing to do with farming. But it's
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  Speaker 3: obviously one of the great mysteries of the world. I
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  Speaker 3: thought i'd toss that up, but I found it at
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  Speaker 3: work in my office. Obviously it was bad. What was
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  Speaker 3: it that was in the B team? It was Marny.
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  Speaker 3: I remember going through trying to get my normal hugo.
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  Speaker 3: Boss man works to treat that one either, I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you, and they didn't have any, so I bought
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  Speaker 3: in the marney and then of course you shamed me
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  Speaker 3: and throwing it away.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you didn't even manage to follow through on that.
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  Speaker 2: What a money was it? Because you know they do
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  Speaker 2: more than one A.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will. I will search at my office tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: and send you a picture of it.
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  Speaker 2: You're one, Thank you, Jamie Jesus. This is such a
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  Speaker 2: long drawn out process that's been witnessed by so many people.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the bottom of it now. Farmers obviously
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  Speaker 2: feeling completely upbeat, aren't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Rabobank Farmer Confidence Survey, the Q two one came
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  Speaker 3: out today and it was good news, although just a
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  Speaker 3: word of warning. We've got a GDT auction tonight, second
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  Speaker 3: of the new farming season futures market picking down four
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  Speaker 3: percent for the powders fatter weeed un less. My guy
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  Speaker 3: says maybe down two or three, so just some downside
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  Speaker 3: risk with that dairy payal. But this survey is obviously retrospective,
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  Speaker 3: so it's found that farmer confidence in the broader agri
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  Speaker 3: economy was unchanged at a net positive reading of plus
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  Speaker 3: forty four along with the last quarterly report, the first
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  Speaker 3: one this year. That's the highest or the second highest
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  Speaker 3: equal net reading across the past decade, only surpassed by
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  Speaker 3: quarter two of twenty seventeen. And if you want trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out what happened in quarter three and four
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  Speaker 3: of twenty seventeen, you might remember Winston chose to sin
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  Speaker 3: to Just thought i'd throw that in there. So the
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  Speaker 3: first survey found forty eight percent of farmers were expecting
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  Speaker 3: the agri economy to improve. Among farmers with a positive outlook, unsurprisingly,
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  Speaker 3: commodity prices with the absolute main reason driving optimism sixty
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  Speaker 3: two percent. Improved marketing sixteen that's the likes of Fonterra
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  Speaker 3: and Zespriy doing good work, and of course overseas markets
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  Speaker 3: and economies at fourteen percent, that number might be drifting
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  Speaker 3: off for WEBIT. Just finally, growers were markedly this is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the fruit growers and the grain growers were
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  Speaker 3: markedly more positive about their prospects than they were in
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  Speaker 3: the last quarter. Because the sheep and beef and dairy
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  Speaker 3: farmers have been pretty positive this year. The growers that
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  Speaker 3: had a tough time, but obviously we're coming off the
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  Speaker 3: back of really good Kiwi fruit and pretty good apple prices.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go. That is everything you ever wanted
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  Speaker 3: to know about after shave apples and Kiwi fruit and
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  Speaker 3: dairy beef and lamb in one go. Look, you're not
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  Speaker 3: paying me enough.
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to your text with the picture tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jamie. As always Jamie McKay, Host of the Country.
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