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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the bird flu case that was discovered in Otago · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And the Country. Host Jamie McKay is with us this evening. Hi, Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: Godo Jack, any update for us on the blue bird
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  Speaker 2: flu case in Otago? Is it spreading? If they found
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  Speaker 2: it anywhere else?
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  Speaker 3: No, nowhere else at that stage. I spoke to Raysmith,
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  Speaker 3: the Director General of MPI at lunchtime on my show off.
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  Speaker 3: Just watch the network news feed on it off begetting
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  Speaker 3: press releases from MPI. So as it stands at the moment, Jack,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking eighty thousand birds that are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be eradicated out of one hundred and sixty thousand
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  Speaker 3: on that farm, that mainland poultry farm at Moraki. But
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  Speaker 3: if you're worried about a lack of eggs on the
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  Speaker 3: market because of this, just call your jets a weep.
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  Speaker 3: But at the moment, because we've got like four million
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  Speaker 3: layer hens in this country, so that's only two percent. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if that number grows, it will be concerned. I just
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  Speaker 3: wonder whether there might even be more concerned Jack, if
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  Speaker 3: it gets into the chicken meat industry. Raysmith told me today,
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  Speaker 3: and I think I picked this up correctly. We have
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  Speaker 3: one hundred million chickens for meat production, which sounds a
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  Speaker 3: hell of a lot. That's like twenty chickens for each
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  Speaker 3: of us to eat here in New Zealand. But if
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  Speaker 3: it gets in there, it could have sub ramifications. But look, MPI,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair to them, I've got a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: track record in recent times with m bovus and even
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  Speaker 3: with COVID tracing and all that sort of stuff, I
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  Speaker 3: guess for shutting these things down. So hopefully they can
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  Speaker 3: shut this one down. And it's just just that farm affected.
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  Speaker 2: The government's third and final Farmer Friendly Restoring Farmer Confidence
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  Speaker 2: Tour meeting is taking place tomorrow in y Mumu. So
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  Speaker 2: what are they hoping to achieve?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's a good question, jack I said to Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister Christopher Luxen on the show last week. Are you
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  Speaker 3: effectively preaching to the choir? Because I know he's going
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  Speaker 3: to get one hundred percent support of these meetings. Bearing
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  Speaker 3: in mind, as she said, third and final, They've done
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  Speaker 3: Mystery Creek last Tuesday, I think it was ash Burton Friday,
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  Speaker 3: and then this one at the way Mumu Field days
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  Speaker 3: sight just outside of Gore and Southland heartland kind of
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  Speaker 3: national or coalition government country. Look, I think the idea
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  Speaker 3: is to get amongst the farmers, share the love, get
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  Speaker 3: them off farm Some of them have had a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a tough time weatherwise. Give them a barbie and
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  Speaker 3: it's a chance for the farmers to rub shoulders not
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  Speaker 3: only with the Prime Minister but with the Minister of
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  Speaker 3: Agriculture and Trade Todd maclay and also the President of
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  Speaker 3: Federated Farmers Wayne Langford. So I suspect, being a Southland
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  Speaker 3: and the South Jacket, there'll be a pretty good turnout
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  Speaker 3: there and they'll get plenty of support. But they're not
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  Speaker 3: getting it in other places, but they're certainly getting it
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  Speaker 3: from the farmers.
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  Speaker 2: Global Darry Trade auction tonight. What are you expecting, Jamie.
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  Speaker 3: Well, greater minds than mine have thought about this. Jack
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  Speaker 3: the guy I uses Mike McIntyre at Chardon. I've got
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  Speaker 3: to give him a shameless plug. He's as regular as clockwork.
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  Speaker 3: He texts me every Tuesday before a GDT auction. Look,
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  Speaker 3: he's picking one to two percent rise across the board,
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  Speaker 3: led by the powder's whole milk powder skim milk powder.
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  Speaker 3: They could be a bit stronger to drag the average
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  Speaker 3: index up. The futures for the twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 3: five season jack currently sit at ten dollars and ten
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  Speaker 3: cents and that is good, good money in anyone's in
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  Speaker 3: anyone's box.
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  Speaker 2: And Jamie Beef and Lame New Zealand are calling for
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  Speaker 2: changes to New Zealand's climate change policies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're saying that we're out of step internationally with
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  Speaker 3: other key areas. And this is a report that they've
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  Speaker 3: had commissioned with sixteen other or sixteen jurisdictions, that's effectively
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  Speaker 3: fifteen countries port plus the EU. They're saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the same sort of stuff we've heard for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: that that our beef and lamb from farm to plates
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  Speaker 3: amongst the lowest in the world in terms of absolute emissions.
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  Speaker 3: The other interesting fact is that sheep and beef farms
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  Speaker 3: have produced their emissions and this is by attrition by
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  Speaker 3: thirty five percent since nineteen ninety when we first put
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  Speaker 3: a peg in the sand around climate change. Kate Ackland says,
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  Speaker 3: we're not being let off the hook. That's the narrative
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  Speaker 3: that's out there she's saying, no other country apart from Denmark,
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  Speaker 3: is currently intending to put a price on agricultural emissions.
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  Speaker 3: We will by the year twenty thirty under current policy,
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  Speaker 3: and in the likes of Denmark, those farmers are going
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  Speaker 3: to be have their their emissions pricing offset big time
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  Speaker 3: by billions of dollars of subsidies to farmers. Interestingly, Jack,
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  Speaker 3: of all those sixteen jurisdictions, only New Zealand doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a limit on the amount of forestry offsets available to
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  Speaker 3: fossil fuel emitters, and many have policies aimed at limiting
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  Speaker 3: the conversion of productive farms into carbon forestry. Expect some
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  Speaker 3: announcement from the government tomorrow may be Chris by, Christopher
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  Speaker 3: Lunxen and Todd McClay at Way MUMU on the changes
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  Speaker 3: to those offsetting rules.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks your time, Jamie, appreciate it as ever. Mate. That
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  Speaker 2: is Host of the Country, Jamie mackay.
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