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Philip

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1311 total appearances

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

And how long would that 10,000 litres last you?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

How much would your fuel bill have been in 2025?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Yeah, that you're now going to get support from?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

And this year you think it'll be what?

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Hybrid and electric tractors from China

All right.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Okay, that's a jump and a half.

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Hybrid and electric tractors from China

Rob McNaughton from Zoomline, thank you very much.

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Hybrid and electric tractors from China

Pure electric 400-horsepower tractor, still a good deal away, but there is an awful lot of options that do actually exist.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

How many tractors have you had today?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

How much difference is the support that the government has offered going to make?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

And the people that you're out there talking to, the clients that you're meeting day to day, what's the mood like?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Problems rarely come in ones, and this fuel crisis lands on top of an income crisis.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Tillage farmers walking away, dairy farmers milking for less than the milk costs.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

One dairyman told me this week his farm loses โ‚ฌ200 every time he sets foot inside the parlour, which is twice a day.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

That makes it very difficult for contractors like Irvine to add to those farmers' woes.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Given that you know that your clients are price takers, they don't have control, they can't ask for more money.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

How do you feel about having to impose or ask them for the President Trump surcharge?

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

That's a big behemoth of a machine.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

Oh, look, sorry, 7,180 on the side of it.

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Impact of government's relief package on contractors

I should have read it, shouldn't I?