The CountryJamie Mackay talks to Te Radar, David Seymour, Greg Coppell, Jamie Strang, and Phil Duncan.
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Get in New Zealand and welcome to the Country. It's brought to you by Brant. What a great excuse to play some early dudes. They're reforming for one show at the power station, going to kick off. Gonna kick off the show with a bit of a dude. Really, I reckon he would have been a Dudes fan back in the day. Maybe he's just a wee but too young. Andrew Lumston, Terada, the voice behind the FMG Young Farmer Grand Final gets underway in Hamilton on Thursday, culminating, of course, with that big Grand Final. I guess quiz panel session on Saturday night, We're going to talk to David Seymour, Act Party leader. I read a bit of a sad story, heartwarming story, but sad about Mark Cameron, the ACT Party or the Northland Farmer Act Party, our guys coming back to Parliament. Mark tragically lost his son Brodie to a suspected suicide. Mark's had mental health issues himself and I didn't realize he's also got a serious kidney complaints. So we're going to talk to David about that. The world elections. What a fascinating world we live in, dangerous but fascinating and survive till twenty five. Greg Copple, this is a great story, continuing our theme from last week's show where we were chatting to finalists and winners from the Primary Industry Awards. His company, Reposts got beaten by Graham Murray, his company that you heard from on Was it Thursday or Friday? I was that excited about the test here in Dunedin. I've forgotten Jamie Strang. Now this is a good story. Why a wrapper farmer balance Farm Environment Awards Judge. He's on the wrong side of seventy and tomorrow weather permitting, he's going to row a boat across Cook Strait to raise money for farm Strong. Phil Duncan on the weather a dirty. When I say dirty, A wonderfully big high has plunked itself over the country. We're going to get a great week of winter weather. Okay, let's welcome on to the country. Andrew Lumsdon Raider, were you a dude's fan back in the day?
Look, I was late to the dudes and that there was just a little bit before my time. But what a time the eighties was for great music. I've been listening to a lot of it recently, and I actually got an advert for the Dude's concert. I think it's at the power station a couple of days ago. I need to check my calendar to see if I'm free because it's Look, it's one of those things you don't want to miss.
Absolutely no, no Dave Dobbyin, but Peter Hurlitz is still fronting, and I think everyone else is basically there. There's one there's one of those Morris ones. Is it Ricky or the other one?
Excuse me?
What?
Yep?
One of them's passed away.
There's En and Ricky. I'm not quite sure which one. Anyhow, I'll do some homework.
On that one.
But I actually, to be honest, I reckon when you were at university? Did you go to Waikato University?
Did you?
I reckon you would have been hanging on the extremes musically in all senses, because you're about out there or you weren't you were in.
The day, Yes, I was. I saw a lot of bands down there at the time, and it was a great time to go and see music. You could see. I think there was some weeks you might have seen ten or twelve bands a week, plus all theater and everything else that was going on. We're it's time to be alive.
Well, it was interesting. I had a whole host of people staying with us this weekend for the test, a lot of them former university students here Radar back in the day, and we were all I had my twentieth when I was a student here in Dunedin at the Guardies, and of course we had the Cook, the Bowler, the Oriente. It was it's and all those pubs, and the university, blessed them, has gone and bought out all those pubs. There's no student drinking haunts. All they do now is get completely loaded up on cheap booze in their flats and then wander down to the octing and at midnight and sit on a drink for three hours.
It's all that kind of preloading. And you know, I don't know, I'll tell you what though, there won't be any pre loading over the weekend or this week for seven of our top young farmers. Did you like get Jamie?
Yeah, that was you just just very quietly getting me back on track, and sometimes I do get off off topic. So thank you very much. So seven. And as I understand it, Radar, I've got the list in front of me here if I just grabbed this clipboard.
They're all first timers.
Yeah, and some of them knocked out, some you know, some seasoned competitors for whom it was it was the last chance, so there was a lot of you know, it gets pretty emotional when you've got these people that have come through and this is their final go at it and then they get knocked out. But that's the competition nature of these things. And there's seven. You know this year, all young bloke's going to turn up there and I'll say to them when I see them later in the week. You know, you can still be a winner without winning. In this particular competition, winning is super important. But you know there's going to be a lot of people looking at them during the course of this week and how they behave and not how you know, how they deal with this and what they have to say to themselves. So the future is bright for each and every one of them.
And I guess the beauty for all of them being first tim is if they don't get the big w radar. They can come back again and have another crack.
Look, actually they surely can. But for one of them, well for all of them, particularly for one of them, life is going to change this week, probably at about oh that's nine or ten o'clock on Sunday night, when someone gets to read the name of the winner out after we've had the evening show and the quiz. But it's a big week for them, and there's a lot of this competition that.
People won't see.
You know, you can come along and be expectator. You can see on Friday at Claudland's at the Oval. There you can see the kind of the practical day. But the day before that they've had the technical day. They've they've had to put together business plans, they've had sessions, they'll have an HR test. I'm still haunted by. There was a sensational woman last year who played Helga who just did not want to be at her job. And I got to sit through some of the sessions where they had to have these HR sessions with the traumatizing Helga, amongst many other things. So there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. I think there's some leadership stuff. They've got their speeches as well, because actually, you know, Jamie taking the title out. You know what farming something is that you've got to be an all rounder. You've got to be able to present things. You've got to have a business you know, a bit of business acumen. You've got to be able to do the practical stuff as well as then handle the pressure of the quiz. I've seen the questions on the quiz this year and I'll tell you what, wah boy, I hope I've been studying.
Hey talking about quiz as I was at a quiz last night with the Dark Destroyer from the channel I.
Saw on the Old Socials. Actually, how was that?
Look?
It was wonderful questions.
Well, I won't go through the whole quiz. But the interesting thing about him is he's in New Zealand at the moment. He's a huge I will get back on track once again, Rader, take me back on track after I finished the story. He's a he's a huge All Blacks fan, and he was in Dunedin and he's going to be in Auckland next week for the second English Test. And he goes around and you know, the believer it or not, quiz guys who do.
A wonderful job.
I've hosted a number of.
Fantastic well that they're they're bringing him around. He's basically doing all these quiz funder erases. I think there's one coming up in Taranaki this week. I'll find out that one as well. But he's doing them all for charity. He's not He's paid his own way to come over here. He's just a great guy.
So I'll tell you what. Probably I suspect they get slightly higher salaries on their television over there that we that we do here. So but you know, people are very generous. Jennifer of Spirit, you were talking about Mark Cameron's interview before. What a what a what a heart moving piece of journalism that was, you know, talking about reaching across the aisle to the likes of you know, Greens and various others. When when he came back and I thought it was a terrible tragic story, but also what a thoughtful and considered piece of writing that was.
Yeahs, I recommend everyone read that one in the Herald. So so Thursday's opening ceremony Friday Friday, practical day, Friday night, they do the speeches, and I think we've got the junior awards on Saturday. That did they largely get to rest until the evening function.
Yeah, there's a community event and I know very happy about this one. And I remember the gully at Helmilty Boys High School. They must be doing a bit of a gully planting winder. We had a little building called the Printing Club and I can tell you what it was only for a few selick members of the of the boarding school and boy occasionally we'd do a bit of printing, but a lot of a lot of activities happening in that tiny building. I might just pop along and see that building is still there. So yes, they've got a bit of community outreach. And then they've got the Saturday night for the quiz. But as I say, if anyone wants to pop along the the best days on that Thursday, not Thursday. On the Friday to see the practical day, you'll see the agricids. God, they're a highlight of the competition. Then you'll see all the junior teams as well, and they'll have their awards on the Friday night. And if anyone wants to see the speeches on Friday night, that's there as well. It's all all available on the Young Farmers dot co dot m Z website so they can check it all out.
And no doubt big participants over the three days of the Young Farmer FMG Young Farmer Grand Final will be Emma Paul twenty twenty three title holder. I know she's in the White Catto and a brother, Tim Dangeen. So hopefully to get those guys on the show on Friday, but they're going to have a big role to play. And of course Emma who broke the grass ceiling last year, we'll hand over the cloak of knowledge.
Oh yes, you know. And what great, what great ambassadors for the competition they've been as well. So it'll be the end of the of the Dungeon slash Paul family dynasty for this point in time. And someone else there's going to be a new new champion come Saturday night.
Yes, Gareth mckerchch names.
What was this the fifty sixth? I think, you know, it is incredible how many of these names continue to pop up. I think we've got Tim vander Mollen he's going to be judging on saiday. I think he took the competition out at one stage. I don't know whether Andrew Hoggart will be there. He got through the Grand Final as well, so you know people people turn up.
Yeah, okay, I'll just run through the finalist Scareth Mckirtchhear from Arangi, George Dodson Tasman Zach tom Otago, Southland, Dennis Smain. I'm sure as parents Andrew and Sue will be there proudly representing a witcat O Bay of plentyes, Zane Jones from Taranaki, manowoth To Archie Woodhouse, East Coast and Caleb Edie from Northern Radar. Where will catch you? I'll try and catch you on Friday show as well. Thank you very much. You're a great man. You do a great job. There we go. Here is the voice of the FMG Young Farmer Grand Final coming up Claudland's Hamilton. What a great venue that is. We're going to take a break on the country. You heard Radar refer to the Mark Cameron story. Have a read of it. A We're going to discuss that with David Seymour Up next. Greg Copple, one of the finalists at the Primary Industry Awards in Wellington last Tuesday, evening, What a great night that was and the Food, Beverage and Fiber Award. Their business is called Repost. This is a great story what they're doing. Jamie Strang talking about great stories. Seventy years of age. You decide to raise some money for Farmstrong.
What do you do?
You row across the cook straight as one does. Phil Duncan on the Weather David Seymours, the Act Party leader.
David.
I read a really interesting and heartwarming story on the Herald this morning about Mark Cameron returning to Parliament after his son Brodie's suspected suicide. And Mark's a guy who's had a lot to deal with in his own lifetime. And I didn't realize your ag guy was suffering from serious kidney disease.
Yeah, that's Mark. What you see is what you get with Mark. He's got to be one of the greatest characters that I've met. I'll tell you real quick story he wants when he's a new everyone's at the paranoid about what you get in trouble of scandals or whatever. But I've got to tell you I caught a great white shark and I said, isn't that protected? He's like, yeah, I said, that's a bit of a problem. And he said when he said, oh, about twenty years ago, I said, was it protected back then? He said no, I think you're off And I said, just curiosity where Copra Harber's okay? Were you in a boat obviously or and he said, well, kind of both. How could you possibly be both? He said, well it was in the shallows and I had to get out and wrestle them. So when it says marked to a T, he's done everything at one hundred percent. He can actually speak Portuguese, which is another unexpected feature that most of all, he's a very, very passionate advocate of rule in his zeland eate. I think he literally believed that his biologically related to every farmer in the country, and you know, he came to Parliament to make a difference. I think he's made a huge difference. I don't think that you would see the level of change for rural New Zealand from this government if Mark Han created the conditions. He put the other parties in a position where they either needed to change or keep his vote to act. So he's single handedly, I think, responsible for a lot of the changes around fresh water in years from so on. So yeah, look, he's a tremendous guy, but yes, he's faced some challenges both with his kidneys, with his mental health, and obviously everyone's heart goes out to him after the loss of the sun recently.
Yeah, very sad.
Indeed, we wish Mark Cameron all the best. I want to look a look at these elections around the world. At the moment, I mean, France was going to go right, then it's gone left. The US has got the UK s I say, has gone left, sir Ka Starmer. The US looks like it's going to go right, although goodness knows what's going to happen there.
And then in.
Iran we've got a former heart surgeon running the country. Now hopefully he's got a heart when it comes to not blowing up.
The re the world.
But let's just talk about France. That's really interesting. It's such a convoluted electoral system it makes ours look simple.
Yeah. I certainly don't claim to understand the French electoral system, but they sort of have two goes at voting, which I can't. I guess it's nice to just to have a look at what it might be like then have another go, you know. What I would say is, you know, around the world and what's missing is something that Margaret, that you used to talk about. That's freedom under the law. You know, people talk about left, people talk about right, but overwhelmingly, you know, it's anti trade. A lot of movements that are based on identity politics, both from the left and the right, you know, singling out groups of people ganging up on me. I would argue that that's what happened to rural New Zealand under the Arduran regime. And what we really need is a recognition that we're all human beings, that we all have hopes and dreams, and that what we want is an environment where we all get treated with the same dignity and opportunity to flourish on our own terms. That's what's missing. I don't think we've seeing that positive vision, just a lot of division and a lot of loss of confidence and some pretty you know, some political leaders that you think, why did they retire a long time ago?
Yes, well I can think of one in the US, but we'll move on from that one. Look a common cry these days. David Seymour has survive till twenty five, and I think Adrian or is this is just my opinion, is like almost holding the country to ransom. Increasingly economic commentators and banks are saying he's got a cut by the end of the year, where we might get some commentary from him on Wednesday, but gee, the cure is worse than the disease. And I know that you can't probably say much, but surely someone's got to give him a kick in the button. Say, unless he drops interest rates before the end of the year, we mars will turn off the lights. The economy is going to be totally screwed.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of one of those things where you know, despite what you might think, you've got to respect the underlying convention. So I respect the independence of the Reserve Bank. It's a little bit like I'd rather lose a fair election than when an unfair one, And I'd rather have a reserve bank doing something I disagree with it's independent, and have a reserve bank that becomes a political, you know, weapon in the future. So we've got to respect their independence. And there's one thing government can do, which is pullback, is steaming. We are doing that. We're reducing spending by about thirteen billion over the four year period Act campaigned on reducing it by more like thirty six billion. It's like a lot of those things. The government's not doing as much as X would do, but I can also assure you they're doing more than they would have done had they not had Act in there. So you know, that's the basic view is when the government spends too much, it's competing for loanable funds, that's pushing inflation and it's raising Morgod traits higher than otherwiseb government's pulling back on an inflation in the context of an independent reserve on spending sorry, and the context of an independent reserve being because is the only real approach there.
David Seymour, thanks as always for your time on the Country, appreciator.
Thank you.
Is twenty eight away.
No, let's try that again twenty eight stop laughing, Michelle, twenty eight after twelve here on the Country. Some brilliant stories out of last week's Primary Industry Awards. Here's a company called Repost. So they get broken posts from Marlborough vineyards and they make them into sheep, beef and dairy posts at a fraction of the cost of a new one. Recycling at its very very best. Greg Copple up next from Repost Jamie Strang, the Wira Rapper Farmer Balance Farm Environment Awards judge wrong side of seventy.
I hope I'm not doing him a disservice. There is a fiddle.
He's going to row across Cook Strait to raise money for Farmstrong and Phil Duncan on the Weather. Last week, of course, we were at the Primary Industry Summit and awards evening and we're catching up with some of the finalists. We've spoken to Julian Rain, we talked to Graham Murray, whose company Southern Pastures and Lewis Road Creamery took out the Food Beverage and Fiber Producer Award category. Will Another finalist in that category is the team from Reposter. This is a really interesting story. This is all about using broken off vineyard fences and recycling them fence post should I say recycling them and using them on sheep and beef country. The bloke behind it is Greg Coppley's Farming. It's an there in the Nelson Lakes region and Greg, you've built a big business out of nothing.
Tell me how this came about?
Well, half non, Jamie, I sort of came I brought her I was building, and I bought her five hundred heptiere. She'd be probably at Saint Arden and she was pretty average in the fencing department and pasture. So that's the best thing to do was to get fencing. And with Marlborough being on our doorstet Or, we knew that there was a heap of broken vineyard posts there and that's what we did.
We got down there and got into that and yeah, and then realized.
That there was such a good quartery and volume of posts down there that we've probably turned it into a commercial business.
So these posts have effectively never been in the ground because I'm assuming they've snapped off at ground level or whatever. Are they quarters or rounds or are they halves? What sort of posts are we looking at? I don't know much about vineyard fencing. Fill me in on the dimensions.
Yeah, hearts and quarters are the bulk and the best quality strength streets.
Wife.
So yeah, that's pretty much.
How long is your standard sheep post, so.
Eighteen hundred as you stand in ins immediate posts for sheton beef fencing and Darius, but you know, I don't We also sell one point sixes as well, but it's just because I don't think we need to be building fences so high. But yeah, that's there at a cheap cheaper price as well.
Well, hang on a minute, haven't you aren't you running perindales on your shet and beef property and Sonana there they could just about high jump one point six, couldn't they?
Bit of education around electric over the electrics, that's slide them up.
But what is the shelf life of these posts? Because I think a tantalized post. If you buy one from the timber yard or whatever, they guarantee them for fifty years. These have been in the ground or above ground for quite a while. How do you know how old they are?
It's sort of visually grading. But we also get them tested by hills and to make sure they're up to a brand new injury standard. So you know, you get the sayings, do it, do it, do it once, do it right. And but there's there's exactly lightfu light for a new post with these these a minimum fifty years, which exactly something you get from a new posts. Some of them are between one and one in ten or fifteen years old. But you know, visually great and you get a fair idea about how good the post is. And you know we have such a huge volume to work through that we don't have to sell average product. So yeah, so you know there's they break about a million in them, and there's another about another million coming out of redevelopment. So there's there's two hundred olde million. There's there's two million posts coming out as available to us in Marlborough every year.
So this might be a commercially sensitive question, Greg, but do you get them for nothing? And that's part one of the question. Part two is how much cheaper are they than brand new post?
So the wine set to pay their way, so we are pretty we are in one aspect for a waste company, so they have to they pay about seventy percent of landfill costs for us to take them, and that means we can keep our price low so we can we can move volume yere. So you need to be the price point needs to be right to be able to sell the end product. And that's yes, we're about we started about three dollars for one point sixes and four dollars per post for one point eight Well.
That's certainly considerably cheaper than a new post. It's a wonderful idea recycling tannalized post. Greg Copple with us from Reposts just before we go, Greg, how's the farming season been in Sonana? Because I know the Nelson region and obviously North Canterbury, it's been very very drier, you guys as equally dry.
Yeah, we're pinned actually, like normally we go good in the dry, but it just stayed dry and then cold. So yeah, I hope it seemed like that we started feeding out.
Very early and and yeah we've had no you know, we just had had no growth since.
Since probably March probably, so we just had no autumn and and and limited water supply on our on our hell blocks. So yeah, it's been a pretty tough tough season so fas so with and special with price has been the way they are. So yeah, we're in survival mate alone. But we'll we'll come out the other side pretty good, I think.
I hope, Well, I hope mother nature comes up with a kind spring for you. If people want to find out more about Reposts and get a hand or get a hold of some of these cheap or cheaper recycled tantalized posts, Well, what's your website?
Were repost dot co dot nz and you'll probably see us. You've probably seen us everywhere anyway, but I hope so. But this very book and Instagram things like that as well.
But yeah, well, god on your Greg Copple, I think you're doing. It's a wonderful initiative. And good luck with your new business venture.
Thanks Jamie. Good men.
It is twenty three away from one here with the Country, brought to you by Brent. Great to catch up with Tim and Anna and the Brent team down here in Dunedin. Great weekend here in the Needing with the test on.
If you want to go and have a.
Look at those recycled posts, they're as good as new, I'm told go to repost dot co dot Nz. Up next Michelle's Watson here for rural news. We'll have a look at sports news before the end of the hour. Jamie strang Row a boat across the cook Straight when you're seventy to raise money for Farmstrong and still Duncan on the weather. Welcome back to the country. The dudes together for one last show apparently at the power station on Auckland. No Dave Dobbin, what a great band. Here's Michelle what would turn the dudes down a fraction. Here's Michelle What with the latest and rural news The.
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People can add more veggies on their grocery lists as prices continue to be cheap. The latest Grocery Supply Cost Index shows an average two point seven percent increase in June compared with last year. Vegetable's New Zealand chair John Murphy says the price of produce is the least impacted by the price hikes this time round. He says this it's good news for vegetable producers and it shows people can buy one more vegetable a little easier than other items. Helping to nourish their local community by donating milk from the paddock to the tables of those who need it most just makes sense for one more Kay Dairy farming family Annabel and Dean Donovan have so far donated two four hundred serves of dairy or around six hundred liters of milk through Meet the Need and Feed Out to help families and those in need. Annabel says it would be tough enough to be in a situation where you need a food bank, let alone turn up and not have the essentials. Just one letter of milk can provide four serves of dairy to someone in need. Meet the Need and feed Out general manager as Alara Holden says to donate to feed Out, farmers just need to fill out a form online at feedout dot org or to find out more about Meat the Need head to Meetthkneed dot org.
And that's for all news.
Jamie and Shavorn O'Malley along with Wayne Yolo Langford with the founders of Meat the Need and she's she's an inspirational a woman there on the West Coast. And I think in a week or two are we're doing a bit of a promotion for Meat the Need, just to encourage farmers to give because it's just such a great story.
We have something in the pipeline, I think, Jay.
Oh, I'm looking forward to that one. I'll have to make sure our farm gives something to meet the need. Of course, I'm also on the back. I've got my hand out. I've also got a we promo this week for the IHD car f and rural skin. There's such good courses right now, there's Michelle with rural news.
He's sport sport.
Where the math go Kiwi to the bone since nineteen oh.
Four, and this is one of my favorite stories. At the moment, Wimbledon quarter finalist to Lulu Soon is being praised for her fearlessness. The Wimbledon qualifier will face Donna Viks for a spot in the last eight after dispatching British hope Emma Radicanu Belinda Corwell, the last key we to make a Grand Slam semifinal way back in nineteen eighty nine, says Soon's attacking play and eagerness to move to the net is a breath of fresh air that reminds me of my tennis days. Eagerness to move to the net.
Yeah, I wasn't very good at tennis. My mom was bad.
I wasn't, but I always had better double partners than they used to me. You go up and stand up at the net and I'll handle the rest. I took it as a compliment, but I don't think it was. And also and I think it was. I think it was his dad, Simon we spoke to in Hawk's Bay. This guy, keep an eye on him. In Paris, Keiwi athlete Jeordi Beamish is improving out of sight. In the lead up to the Paris Olympics. He shattered his national record in the three thousand meters steeplechase by three point sixty two seconds and you're a run of Michelle. That is a huge improvement over three thousand meters at a Diamond League event in Paris, on the same track as the upcoming Olympics. So Jordy Beamish would have to be in with the real sniff, I would think.
I hope so Jamie. It's really exciting for athletics because I think he is the first steeplechase in New Zealand has and has had at the Olympics in over forty years. I'm not sure who the one was forty years ago. I couldn't find that information. But really it's going to be very exciting to watch. And you set three second improvement over steeplechase. I don't know if anyone out there's ever watched steeplechase, but doing that you have to be basically made of nails. It is a very very tough event. I can speak from personal experience.
Yes, well you are the best runner in the studio only because I've got a knee insurance.
Now you are a good runner. I think it might it might have been.
Ewan Robertson, the late Ewan Robertson. Am I doing you in a disservice to call him the late? So so many of those brilliant athletes from the sixties and seventies are no longer with us. I'll do some homework on that one and update that one. Up next, talking about brilliant athletes rolling across the Cookstrait as a seventy year old Jamie Strang up next, Well, we've had some great stories on the show today, but this one takes a bit of beating, I said, I said to Michelle, I hope I'm not doing Jamie straying a disservice by saying he's on the wrong side of seventy.
He is seventy six years of age.
Whira app a farmer judge of the Balance Farmer Awards alongside my mate Warwick Kado and Jamie. Tomorrow, you're going to row across Cook straight to raise money for Farmstrong. I'll give you a hundred bucks if you don't drown.
That'd be great.
I'm just talking to the skipper at the moment, and there's one aim is to make me say, Jamie, so I won't drown. So I think you must be up for Andrew back.
I will be.
You deserve it even if you don't get across there. Look, I know you're incredibly fit. You do a lot of training, but still look at your age. I mean, can you imagine Joe Biden and you were younger than him. But Joe can't even walk across the stage, let alone row across the strait.
Oh, he's probably had a more stressful life than the me. James, I suppose, I don't know.
Well that makes you tough. Tell me about your athletic background, because I know, I know you're supremely fit. You have to be to take on a challenge like this. Have you got a long history in rowing, because I know you've done quite a bit of cycling as well.
No, only started rowing two years ago, and it's there's been a real challenge for a brain to get around there. Jamie's been good for my brain exit because it's rowing's not easy. But I but I barely worked over my period of time that as we get older, we're going to hit bad things as we get past seventy, and we want to be in the best condition we can be when we get there. And that's part of the thinking of I'm not super fitter anything, but I just like to try and keep in good condition.
Well, no doubt, you've got you've got a rowing urg at home. How long do you sit on that one and training?
Well I did that for a while, but that's boring as can be, so I preferred to be on the water. I've ended the boat about two years, brought it two years ago, and I've been training on it ever since then. It's much more interesting, you know. It's like on a stationary bike, Jamie is boring. Get out on the road with the wind in your face. It's much more interesting that. So I go rowing rather than you.
Well, I've got a stationary bike in my gym at home, and I've got a rowing machine. But it's too hard. So what's the least favored piece of our paratus? So I sit on the I'm quite happy to sit on the bike for an hour and just watch the news or watch some Telly or something like that. But anyhow, so weather permitting because we know well I flew over the cook Straight last week and the seas were terrible. Obviously, we've got a real high coming over the country, so your timing is going to be pretty right. When do you make your mind up or when does the skipper of your support boat maker's mind up whether it's safe to do this?
Well, I think about six or seven o'clock tonight, and everything's looking closer we get to it. The predictions are more accurate as we get closer, so it looks like six or seven tonight, and he's suggesting a leisurely stat which was interesting. I was thinking of going at daybreak, but he's thinking about ten o'clock tomorrow. With the subtlely just disappeared a bit and we hopefully that's the way it'll work out.
Jamie, how long do you.
Think it might take you to get across cook Straight all things going well?
I mean, I don't know about the tides and things are going to have an effect on us, but somewhere between four and a half and five hours, I hope, I hope.
Well, Look, I just tip macapped you. This is wonderful.
Seriously, in for a hundred bucks, whether you make it or not, it's just gutsy even starting. If people want to donate to this wonderful fundraising course for farm Strong, Jamie, how do they do it?
Well?
I no, no, Jamie, I don't know how how we do that?
Oh well, oh you haven't figured that out yet.
No, I haven't figured that out yet.
Oh well, I'll look you.
I'll talk to you after one and I'll get you in touch with the Farm Strong people and we'll set up something and we'll make sure we promote it vigorously on tomorrow's show, because it's a wonderful course. So i'll talk to you after one o'clock and hopefully I might talk to you on Wednesday if you've made it.
Yeah, we either you talk to me or you'll save under a back.
No.
I don't want you to drown. You're doing too good a job. You're doing much too good a job with Warwick as the judges for the Balance Farm Environment Awards. So Jamie Strang, look, I'm out of time. Rest well tonight, my friend, and we're going to we're going to cover Michelle there, you go right that she's writing it down. We're going to cover your rowing trip tomorrow. We're going to keep eyes on the show tomorrow.
I'll give you the skipper's number and you can talk to him.
Okay, well we'll discuss that after one o'clock when we get off here. Jamie Strang, what a fantastic effort that is rowing across the Cook Strait at seventy six years of age, Well brilliant. Up next, we're going to talk about that weather and how calm Cookstrait's going to be with Phil Duncan.
But then one day, all.
Right, welcome back to the country, brought to you by Brandt Counting it down with Big Phil Duncan from weather Watch. I love this text and they reckon that Jamie Strang's got more chance of crossing the Strait than the fairies. Well done text, right, Phil Duncan from weather Watch, to wrap the country, Phil, there's a big high over the country. So hopefully Jane, he's going to get pretty calm seas on cock straight.
Yeah, maybe a bit of a southerly still coming through, southerly swells still coming through of up to a meter, but it does get flatter as you get further towards the South Island. So yeah, hopefully wishing him the.
Best, Yeah, well, he's going to leave at ten o'clock. He's leaving it a week bit later, so that southerly dies down. The weather forecasts short and was short and simple this week.
Fella.
There's a great high. This is perfect winter weather. I love a frost and then a fine, calm, sunny day. So where have we got that all week?
Basically? Yeah, basically it's it's an enormous high pressures only. The central air pressure is about ten forty to ten forty two Hector bascals. It is challenging records in Australia or just dead. It broke a few as far as the high air pressure is concerned. Moves in towards US over the next few days and really sticks with us until the weekend. It's going to track over the South Island, so that it actually means the frosty weather is mostly in the South Island and maybe central parts and lower parts of the North Island, but it probably won't be quite as cold for the top of New Zealand because the high is so far south. There's going to be a bit of an easterly kicking into the north of New Zealand. So most places this week are actually going to be a little bit warmer than average except for some of those higher up parts along the eastern side of New Zealand. So if you're in like the Hawk's Day Rangers or around the Gisbane area, maybe even parts of the South Island, but if you're on the western side, it's going to be several degrees warmer than average across this week.
Sounds perfect weather for the Riversdale Farmers Golf Tournament on Thursday. Michelle, I'll have to hold the ford in my absence. Okay, Phil, thanks very much for your time. Really appreciate it, my pleasure.
Thank you.
There we go.
Phil Duncan from weather Watch. We're going to follow Jamie Strang's progress on tomorrow's show. Karen Williams from FMG, she's going to do some work for me. Thank you for texting and Karen, we're going to get it in behind Farmstrong and the seventy six year old farmer who's going to row across cook straight tomorrow. What a great story. Will catch you back tomorrow.
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