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Hamish McKay: The Country spokesperson on the latest Farmer Confidence survey · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And Running the Country dot co. Dot M said this
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  Speaker 2: week versus Hamish Mackay, who joins us now not need
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you again, Hamish, and can I say
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  Speaker 2: you're looking good?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I think fifty five kilos off does help the
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  Speaker 3: old get the old carcass around, if you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, you guys have been talking about a rural
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  Speaker 2: rural divide. We've heard about the rural urban divide, but
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  Speaker 2: this is a rural rural divide. Are you trying to
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  Speaker 2: suggest that farmers are not of one mind?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know the egg Proud organization came out quite
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  Speaker 3: a a year or two ago and said, look, there
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  Speaker 3: is no one way, but we have to be one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if we want to if farmers want to
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  Speaker 3: make some real progress here. And there's nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 3: farm gate prices at the moment, but they'd never be
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  Speaker 3: agreeing enough so to speak, to put together something like
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  Speaker 3: the Dutch with as a farmer's party that actually gets
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  Speaker 3: into parliament. It's a little bit of call poppy. There
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  Speaker 3: was too great, a great example was Jeff Ross's and
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  Speaker 3: Jeff and Justine Ross's Lake harwe A station where they
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  Speaker 3: had the they had the mattresses at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the shearing porthole and the sheep went down, and rural
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand just went into this, you know, off the
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  Speaker 3: wall kind of attack on what they were. Who really cares?
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  Speaker 3: And then a week later the beautiful Ruinui station, which
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  Speaker 3: has run just north of tire, happy old school traditional farm,
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  Speaker 3: well it turns out that the Lake Harwere and ruin
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  Speaker 3: It couldn't be more different in some people's eyes, but
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  Speaker 3: in fact that they share so many of the same
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  Speaker 3: sort of ideas and principles, and so you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it is not to be fair. It is not a
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  Speaker 3: united front out there in the rural space, and it
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  Speaker 3: probably needs to be.
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  Speaker 2: And to be fair, Jeff Ross had the last laugh
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  Speaker 2: about how we are stationed as well, because only weeks
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  Speaker 2: after that, Conde Nas came out and gave them a
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  Speaker 2: fair star rating for their accommodation facilities and basically they're
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  Speaker 2: they're turning a profit where many New Zealand farms aren't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so hello and I did rather like the
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  Speaker 2: white shade that they painted the shearing shed so you
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  Speaker 2: can see the blood spatters.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, look look you know, I mean how
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  Speaker 3: could you you know? I just I love what they
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  Speaker 3: do there. It's different, but it's still great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've got a farmer confidence survey out this week
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  Speaker 2: and farmers, yeah, farmers are pretty happy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, very farmers. A huge lift in their confidence
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  Speaker 3: and they are at that plus ten dollars per kilogram
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  Speaker 3: of milk solids, which can represent a pretty good year
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  Speaker 3: for those who produce at a good level sheep and
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  Speaker 3: beef and lamb. Lamb's being very strong, beef, very very strong.
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  Speaker 3: So though the confidence across those sectors is definitely out,
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  Speaker 3: not so much for the grain and the seed and
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  Speaker 3: the arable guys that they are struggling a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and their confidence is down just there the volatility of
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  Speaker 3: the global market for them. And also there's you know,
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  Speaker 3: things like you know, having to deal with pests and
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  Speaker 3: disease and then yet we get an outfit like Bayer
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  Speaker 3: having to shut down their New Zealand research development arm
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  Speaker 3: and so you know, a fear few challenges for our
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  Speaker 3: arable farmers. But you'd have to say, across the board
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  Speaker 3: farmer confidence definitely up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a good thing because it all flows through.
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  Speaker 2: And I thank you very much. Hemus Rakai from the Country,
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  Speaker 2: The Country, dot co, dot MZ.
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