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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the Government's plan to bring back live animal exports · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Drive Hi, host of the Country with Me. Now, Hey, Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: get I here. Okay, what are you hearing about the
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  Speaker 2: GDT auction tonight? Well, the guy I go to is
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  Speaker 2: Mike McIntyre at Jardin. I give him a shame. We'll
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  Speaker 2: plug every two weeks on the show. I should be
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  Speaker 2: sending him an invoice, but he's pretty much on the money.
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  Speaker 2: The futures market is suggesting a two percent drop. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be interesting here, and I say that because
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  Speaker 2: we're getting we're starting to ramp up volumes in our
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  Speaker 2: production season as the North Island especially gets well through
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  Speaker 2: carving and starts smoking all the cows. South Island, especially
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  Speaker 2: Lower South Island where I'm based, just getting started now.
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  Speaker 2: So Mike's saying down two percent. Interestingly, you know this
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  Speaker 2: is following I think in the last six octions for
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  Speaker 2: drops followed by two lifts, which is good. Our futures
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  Speaker 2: market is sitting at still over ten dollars ten dollars ten,
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  Speaker 2: so that's where they're picking it's at nine dollars sixty
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  Speaker 2: two for the next season, which is a long long
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  Speaker 2: way off. So look, it's obviously we live in uncertain times.
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  Speaker 2: Donald might help all that by broker in peace all
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  Speaker 2: around the world. But in the meantime, as long as
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  Speaker 2: it starts with a ten, I think dairy farmers are
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  Speaker 2: going to be pretty happy. We'll keep an eye on
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  Speaker 2: that one tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, what's going on with the live animal exports?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing. And you might remember that this was a
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  Speaker 2: condition of the coalition agreement. National and ACT campaign during
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  Speaker 2: the last election to bring back the trade. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a very contentious and well put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: I think the farming community even here there is split
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  Speaker 2: down the middle on this one. And you might remember
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  Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty, during that typhoon, we had the
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  Speaker 2: Golf Live Stock one ship en route to China Death
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  Speaker 2: to New Zealand. Crew members died along with other crew members.
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  Speaker 2: Five thousand, eight hundred cattle were also lost on that ship,
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  Speaker 2: and that was the catalyst for saying to the war
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  Speaker 2: for the labor government anyhow to ban this cattle trade.
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  Speaker 2: So National and Act want to give it, bring it back,
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  Speaker 2: but the Parliamentary Council Office, the PCO was drafting the
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  Speaker 2: Animal Welfare Act, but they seem to be taking their
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  Speaker 2: time on it and we are stuck in no man's land. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's two sides to the story. The likes of Labour's
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Boyak, who's their animal welfare spokesperson, is saying no
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  Speaker 2: good how regardless of how good the welfare is on
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  Speaker 2: that ships or on those ships, it's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be gold standard, she says, ban it. There'd be no
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  Speaker 2: surprise that Steve Abel from the Greens is saying the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. So maybe the government might have a wee
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  Speaker 2: bit of hard work on this one getting it past
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  Speaker 2: the goalie. They've got to get the legislation draft first.
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  Speaker 2: But remember Australia is also under elbow planning to phase
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  Speaker 2: out live exports of sheep by sea, because that's a
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  Speaker 2: huge trade for those guys out of Perth up into
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. They're going to end that by twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight. I do need to emphasize that our live
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  Speaker 2: animal export would only be for cattle.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, Jamie, thanks very much, appreciate it. That's Jamie MacKaye,
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  Speaker 1: host of the Country. For more from News Talks EDB
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