March 8, 2026 • 8 mins
The voice behind the FMG Young Farmer contest reviews the Taranaki/Manawatū regional final held on Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next guest is a rural icon. He's taken a
break from his farm. He's been lugging tantalized posts over
his shoulder, sort of a west Auckland version of Pine
Tree Meads. But has this rural icon son of a
whitecatto dairy farmer gone soft? Has he sold his soul
(00:21):
to the woman's magazines. I was making my way home
from the Golden Shares yesterday in the airport lounge and
there it was the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Desperate Fergie's
next Move. This is Sarah Ferguson. She's very dangerous. Engelbert
Humpadink I feel as young as ever. Just a couple
of the stories that grabbed my attention. He's had a
lot of work done on his face, that old guy.
(00:42):
But Teraeder Andrew Lumston, what's the story of a bloke
like you being in the women's magazines?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Look to be honest, I haven't read the story. Actually,
we were doing some promo obviously for the book that
came out last year, and we've got various book festivals
that have been attending over the last little while. It's
got rural Keevi country, rural New Zealand and a hundred objects,
and so, you know, you like to get the word
out there that amongst all the different audiences that the
(01:09):
book is out or the show is out. In fact,
I just did the world premiere of the live version
of it last week at the Hamilton Arts Festival, so
we'll we'll be trucking that around. So any anywhere you
can get a little bit of a mention about about
the book and about things. Reminds people that you're not dead, Jimmy,
you know, and I'm clearly in good company. There's another
(01:29):
another great redhead and there Bergie. I've had less work
done than than Engel Bird, but I've got a good
moisturizing regim. I put my tumb block on this morning
because we're we're having an unprecedented last bit of late
summer up here in Auckland. It's dry drying the white Caddo.
It was pretty dried out in Tadannaki, Manawa two as well,
you know, not something we'll had for the last couple
(01:50):
of months.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I was a wire rapper for the weekend and
we've talked about this already, but my goodness, they're having
a royaler of the season and you should have seen
radar the size of the sheep they had to share
in the Golden Shar's finals. They have had a very
good summer. Indeed, Radio, let's go across to the other
side of the Lower North Island the Taranaki man Or
(02:12):
two regional final. What happened over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Look, Charlie, what's going to happen? A new power couple
emerged in the farming sector in the Taranaki man Or
two region. I've done this for a while. I've probably
done more than fifty or sixty regional finals. I've never
seen an engaged couple when all four of those of
your of your your sectional prizes. So Sarah Lockhart engaged
(02:35):
two David Reesby who took out the title. And Sarah,
she was stoked. She took out a couple of the
practical things. Let me just have a look. She took
a resports and I have never seen someone so happy
to win her own power tools. Agrisports Milwaukee sponsors that
they give you a nice voucher. So Sarah took out
the Agrisports, David took out the agre Knowledge Prize. He's
(02:58):
a smart guy. Sarah. Also, I'm just flicking through the
the category. Sarah also took out the Agri Business Award
and David took out the Agris Skills Like what a
spread for a young couple and very happy I suspect
for their relations who went with that narrows down the
wedding The wedding presents were going to have to get
but no, David reeveesbeat former Grand finalists back I think
season fifty six and that wet, wet weekend up in
(03:21):
fun at eight. He is back and you can really see,
you know, you see people win this, particularly in those
regionals and they head through to the Grand Final and
the raw emotion from the young guy he worked so
jolly hard to get back to it, pushed all the
way to the end by you know, by his fellow competitors.
And it was a pretty strong field too. There were
plenty of people who had competed before. So a great
(03:44):
win for David Reesby.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, surely the first couple of young farmers is the
brother and sister Tim and Emma.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look, Tim dang Pol you've got you've got Tim Pole
and sorry Tim Dangen and Emma Pool, but you've also
got Chris Paul husband of Emma poul Look, he was
a he was a pretty good Grand finalist as well.
I think did he come second to Tim maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, I think he did. Yeah, they kept it in
the family for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
There they really, they really really did. Don't know, all
the very best to them. Where what are we now?
Over halfway through? We've got four of the seven done,
so we've got a great lineup of young Grand finalists
and we've got three more to go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're off to the East Coast this weekend, then you
get a break for a fortnight why Kattobay have plenty,
then you get a break I think for Easter Northern
Regional Final. It's all building towards that big Grand Final.
The Shear in New Plymouth, New Plums.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I believe the practical day is in gorgeous Stratford,
so I look forward to that and then I think
the first week of July we're down there as well.
So it's going to be interesting. You've you've got a
lot of tough and very smart Grand finalists so far
from around the regions, and I suspect you've probably spoken
to some where young Jack Taggart, he was actually there.
He won Old Angie a few weeks back. We've got
(04:57):
Thomas Lee from Otago, Southland and Bryce wind look Out Pairsman.
So there's the four of them so far and there's
another what twenty twenty four competitors now sitting around thinking
is it going to be me to make up those
final three?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And Thomas Slee of course, son of Richard Slee, who's
a former New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year. They're
keeping it in the family as well. Maybe they're the
first family of young farmers.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
They are. And actually we had your old mate Andrew
Hoggart was there to present some prizes on Saturday as well.
He's a former Young Farmer of the Year two thousand
and three. I think he won. And we both stood
there and went, you know, some of these people probably
weren't even born in two thousand and three, And sure
enough one of the young organizers from the Young Farmer's
Club went, yeah, I wasn't born until two thousand and nine.
(05:43):
I was, oh, great, wow, Now I think my.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Old mate Andrew Hoggard right. No one likes the corrector,
but sometimes people need to be corrected. I don't think
he won the Grand Final. I think he was in
the Grand final because my records I'm just looking and
speaking off Mike here would suggest that Robert Hemp form
another good Southland to one in two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh well, maybe maybe he didn't. I thought it, well
might maybe one, maybe won the tarra Man region. Not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, I think I think he was a Grand finalist,
so he obviously one. He obviously won a region. All right, Well,
it's nice to know that you're not dead. Well not well,
not if you're in the woman's magazines.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know what I feel like. I have to put
a little bit of extra petrol in the Auga today
because I'm a bit concerned that the clay at the
top of the hills is going to be a bit
firm as I start to dig these posts and later on.
So if you never hear from me again, Jamie, I'm
still trying to get a post on the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now are you really carrying the tantalized posts on your
shoulder like the great.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I've used my my little mower tractor and my mower
trailer which is as sophisticated as I get to load
the post up and I've dropped them off, and I
waiting for the neighbor and the ghost mentioned to come
around and open the gate, and I'm going to lug
them up to the top of the hill and then
I will be carrying them up and down. But I
have I'm going to strategically choose the lighter ones to
carry the greater distance.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You truly are living on a life sentence block rater.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's the kind of renovation that you have to do
on one of these properties. That is it a new
kitchen or a new barthroom or a deck. But it
does make it worthwhile when you can see a nice
new fence in there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Plus it gives you rural cred even if you are
in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. I enjoyed the story
by the way. You're punching above your weight there with
your partner Ruth, I might add too as well.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, yes, and also great. She did a lot of
research and wrote a lot of the book as well,
and has helped out a lot on the on the
show of the book. So actually, next time I think
we're down in Wanka in a couple of weeks, I
do the White Kado Bay of plenty one, and then
I've got to get all the way from the Bay
of Plenty straight down to Wannaka for an evening discussion
on the book. So if anyone's down there part of
(07:46):
the aspiring conversations, we'll encourage We'll bring something along as well.
If you've got a rural object that you think should
be part of it, bring it along because one of
the great things about the book you can discuss all
the many, many, many other objects that could have made it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It is a great read. I can tell you that
because I've read it. Rader, thanks for your time. We'll
catch you again and we'll have a look at the
East coast. Final let's do that alright, got on your radar.
Our next guest is a rural icon. He's taken a
break from his farm. He's been lugging tantalized posts over
his shoulder, sort of a west Auckland version of Pine
Tree Meads. But has this rural icon son of a
whitecatto dairy farmer gone soft? Has he sold his soul
(00:21):
to the woman's magazines. I was making my way home
from the Golden Shares yesterday in the airport lounge and
there it was the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Desperate Fergie's
next Move. This is Sarah Ferguson. She's very dangerous. Engelbert
Humpadink I feel as young as ever. Just a couple
of the stories that grabbed my attention. He's had a
lot of work done on his face, that old guy.
(00:42):
But Teraeder Andrew Lumston, what's the story of a bloke
like you being in the women's magazines?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Look to be honest, I haven't read the story. Actually,
we were doing some promo obviously for the book that
came out last year, and we've got various book festivals
that have been attending over the last little while. It's
got rural Keevi country, rural New Zealand and a hundred objects,
and so, you know, you like to get the word
out there that amongst all the different audiences that the
(01:09):
book is out or the show is out. In fact,
I just did the world premiere of the live version
of it last week at the Hamilton Arts Festival, so
we'll we'll be trucking that around. So any anywhere you
can get a little bit of a mention about about
the book and about things. Reminds people that you're not dead, Jimmy,
you know, and I'm clearly in good company. There's another
(01:29):
another great redhead and there Bergie. I've had less work
done than than Engel Bird, but I've got a good
moisturizing regim. I put my tumb block on this morning
because we're we're having an unprecedented last bit of late
summer up here in Auckland. It's dry drying the white Caddo.
It was pretty dried out in Tadannaki, Manawa two as well,
you know, not something we'll had for the last couple
(01:50):
of months.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I was a wire rapper for the weekend and
we've talked about this already, but my goodness, they're having
a royaler of the season and you should have seen
radar the size of the sheep they had to share
in the Golden Shar's finals. They have had a very
good summer. Indeed, Radio, let's go across to the other
side of the Lower North Island the Taranaki man Or
(02:12):
two regional final. What happened over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Look, Charlie, what's going to happen? A new power couple
emerged in the farming sector in the Taranaki man Or
two region. I've done this for a while. I've probably
done more than fifty or sixty regional finals. I've never
seen an engaged couple when all four of those of
your of your your sectional prizes. So Sarah Lockhart engaged
(02:35):
two David Reesby who took out the title. And Sarah,
she was stoked. She took out a couple of the
practical things. Let me just have a look. She took
a resports and I have never seen someone so happy
to win her own power tools. Agrisports Milwaukee sponsors that
they give you a nice voucher. So Sarah took out
the Agrisports, David took out the agre Knowledge Prize. He's
(02:58):
a smart guy. Sarah. Also, I'm just flicking through the
the category. Sarah also took out the Agri Business Award
and David took out the Agris Skills Like what a
spread for a young couple and very happy I suspect
for their relations who went with that narrows down the
wedding The wedding presents were going to have to get
but no, David reeveesbeat former Grand finalists back I think
season fifty six and that wet, wet weekend up in
(03:21):
fun at eight. He is back and you can really see,
you know, you see people win this, particularly in those
regionals and they head through to the Grand Final and
the raw emotion from the young guy he worked so
jolly hard to get back to it, pushed all the
way to the end by you know, by his fellow competitors.
And it was a pretty strong field too. There were
plenty of people who had competed before. So a great
(03:44):
win for David Reesby.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, surely the first couple of young farmers is the
brother and sister Tim and Emma.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look, Tim dang Pol you've got you've got Tim Pole
and sorry Tim Dangen and Emma Pool, but you've also
got Chris Paul husband of Emma poul Look, he was
a he was a pretty good Grand finalist as well.
I think did he come second to Tim maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, I think he did. Yeah, they kept it in
the family for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
There they really, they really really did. Don't know, all
the very best to them. Where what are we now?
Over halfway through? We've got four of the seven done,
so we've got a great lineup of young Grand finalists
and we've got three more to go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're off to the East Coast this weekend, then you
get a break for a fortnight why Kattobay have plenty,
then you get a break I think for Easter Northern
Regional Final. It's all building towards that big Grand Final.
The Shear in New Plymouth, New Plums.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I believe the practical day is in gorgeous Stratford,
so I look forward to that and then I think
the first week of July we're down there as well.
So it's going to be interesting. You've you've got a
lot of tough and very smart Grand finalists so far
from around the regions, and I suspect you've probably spoken
to some where young Jack Taggart, he was actually there.
He won Old Angie a few weeks back. We've got
(04:57):
Thomas Lee from Otago, Southland and Bryce wind look Out Pairsman.
So there's the four of them so far and there's
another what twenty twenty four competitors now sitting around thinking
is it going to be me to make up those
final three?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And Thomas Slee of course, son of Richard Slee, who's
a former New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year. They're
keeping it in the family as well. Maybe they're the
first family of young farmers.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
They are. And actually we had your old mate Andrew
Hoggart was there to present some prizes on Saturday as well.
He's a former Young Farmer of the Year two thousand
and three. I think he won. And we both stood
there and went, you know, some of these people probably
weren't even born in two thousand and three, And sure
enough one of the young organizers from the Young Farmer's
Club went, yeah, I wasn't born until two thousand and nine.
(05:43):
I was, oh, great, wow, Now I think my.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Old mate Andrew Hoggard right. No one likes the corrector,
but sometimes people need to be corrected. I don't think
he won the Grand Final. I think he was in
the Grand final because my records I'm just looking and
speaking off Mike here would suggest that Robert Hemp form
another good Southland to one in two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh well, maybe maybe he didn't. I thought it, well
might maybe one, maybe won the tarra Man region. Not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, I think I think he was a Grand finalist,
so he obviously one. He obviously won a region. All right, Well,
it's nice to know that you're not dead. Well not well,
not if you're in the woman's magazines.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know what I feel like. I have to put
a little bit of extra petrol in the Auga today
because I'm a bit concerned that the clay at the
top of the hills is going to be a bit
firm as I start to dig these posts and later on.
So if you never hear from me again, Jamie, I'm
still trying to get a post on the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now are you really carrying the tantalized posts on your
shoulder like the great.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I've used my my little mower tractor and my mower
trailer which is as sophisticated as I get to load
the post up and I've dropped them off, and I
waiting for the neighbor and the ghost mentioned to come
around and open the gate, and I'm going to lug
them up to the top of the hill and then
I will be carrying them up and down. But I
have I'm going to strategically choose the lighter ones to
carry the greater distance.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You truly are living on a life sentence block rater.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's the kind of renovation that you have to do
on one of these properties. That is it a new
kitchen or a new barthroom or a deck. But it
does make it worthwhile when you can see a nice
new fence in there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Plus it gives you rural cred even if you are
in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. I enjoyed the story
by the way. You're punching above your weight there with
your partner Ruth, I might add too as well.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, yes, and also great. She did a lot of
research and wrote a lot of the book as well,
and has helped out a lot on the on the
show of the book. So actually, next time I think
we're down in Wanka in a couple of weeks, I
do the White Kado Bay of plenty one, and then
I've got to get all the way from the Bay
of Plenty straight down to Wannaka for an evening discussion
on the book. So if anyone's down there part of
(07:46):
the aspiring conversations, we'll encourage We'll bring something along as well.
If you've got a rural object that you think should
be part of it, bring it along because one of
the great things about the book you can discuss all
the many, many, many other objects that could have made it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It is a great read. I can tell you that
because I've read it. Rader, thanks for your time. We'll
catch you again and we'll have a look at the
East coast. Final let's do that alright, got on your radar.
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