Cole Groves - Farm Chat

Hinds Dairy Farmer Cole Groves was on to talk Coast to Coast, and lay of the land

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Those who tackled the Summer challenge out at the lakes
the weekend just being will be glad it was then
and not now. We're going to celebrate that with I
was breaking before eight but out to Hines with coal
groves and before we tackle some farm chat. I guess
on that with all of the sporty stuff that's going on,
see that Coast to coast is back from tomorrow. You

(00:20):
having another crack at this.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
No. I did two years in a row and then
I thought, have this year off and have a summer
with the kids. And what's happened. We haven't had a
summer at all.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
So you're the problem.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, but I had mess And I was coming through
St Foot and yesterday on the way home at four
o'clock and there's kayaks and cars with kayaks and bikes
and I just had messive fomo but probably not the
foma of training. But yeah, I might consider re entering
next week when the ballots open again.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
On that point, it's one I tried to make with
Duncan Barr of the Rescue Warriors who are cycling the
lengths of the country at the moment. The sacrifice that's
required for training for an event like this, so you
give up a lot to make it happen. A yeah,
you do.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I think you know you're training if you wanted to
give it a decent nudge and not blow up like
I didn't wanted to blow up weaver. But you're still
twelve to fifteen hours a week of training one day
and two day if you want to really give it
a good shot. So if you try and at a
full time job, kids, wife, in the farming, it's not
easy to try and fit it all in. And that's
probably I burnt myself out last year a week but

(01:25):
doing it, so I thought I have this year off.
So yeah, it is. You know those guys that are
at least they're doing twenty five to ten hours a
week and that's their job is to try and win that.
There's not much prize money in it, but it's quite
a cool thing to take off anyway. No matter what
stage in life, will fitness you.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Are sweeting just thinking about it. Well, good luck to
all our locals heaven a crowd. Hey on Van, So
your dairy prices are up? Grass is green? Have you
ever had it so good?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh? Yeah, that's pretty good. I think we forget the
COVID years a week it and low interest rates made
a mess of difference. Now infrastrates on a lot higher
or they come instead of coming up and down. But
those COVID times we still had decent payouts and low
in straights and they are probably the best money making
years with her. Yeah, right, costs are still quite high,

(02:12):
like fertilizer's still really high. And I know that the
arable sector is really struggling lot without a good summer
in the hail, in prices of and eventhing like that,
they are really struggling and that's the probably the hard
part for the industry at the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
You well, one concern is that they could be a
shortage of stop feed into winter because of that. Is
that something you're having to manage.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Unlucky, I leased the farm down on Bocano, so I'm
fully self contained and so if you attacking on graziers
down there, but it is a big concern and I'll
just chuck my other head on them. Near to you
of mckennary real support trust. So if people fishing the cropping,
if they have arable seat, they have got concerns of
going forward and they please get hold of us so
we can just get a Chaley because the problem with

(02:57):
that hailstorm was hailstorm sorry, was though isolated, so one
you know, like a k down the road got handed
and the k up the road didn't get touched. And
so we just need to figure out exactly who's in
a bit of pain and we can help them out
and put them in the right direction. But yeah, I
think you know, I've heard of people losing one hundred
eath he's a barley straight, and that's half a million

(03:18):
dollars with of income. And you've already spent all the cots.
So we spent all that money to grow the grain. Sorry,
and it's done. And it's actually in five or six
months when you'll be selling the grain back into the
dairy sector that you're not getting that income. Yeah, and
it's a it's real hard mentally too. And you've done
that work and ten minutes of hail destroys you half

(03:39):
a million dollars with income.