This man is usually known as a North Canterbury livestock agent for PGG Wrightson; however, today Jamie wants to speak to him in his capacity as the president of the Boar Breeders Association.
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Episode Transcript
This is the man I've been waiting to talk to.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Tom Dodson, PGG Rights and Livestock Agent and North Canterbury.
But for the purposes of today's chat, Tom, you are
the president of the Boar Breeders Association.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is just a giant booze up and.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A party's I wouldn't quite go that far, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's from what I saw this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I thought it was glorious, very very social occasion. We
will go that far and people do have a lot
of fun, but that's what we're all about.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So what's the connection with the pigs.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Wow, it's just it's just an excuse to have a
bit of fun. Really, it's just something that's come about.
We had our tenth anniversary last year and this eleventh
year obviously, and here people, a group of people that
have now moved on started the occasion and said want
to get a group of people together and breed some
pigs and make a show out of it, because at
(00:52):
that stage there was no pig section of the show
and now there is and it's it's continued on. It's
gone bigger and bigger every year.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So they they say, where it's young people like yourself
go along to find a husband and or a wife
or goodness knows what these days for non binaries. I'm
not quite sure on that one, but it's all about
high lux and hector. So you all get dressed up
and you have a best dress competition and I'm assuming
you know a lot of them have probably got a
background at Lincoln or Massy or something like that. But
(01:21):
they're people from the land or are they townies.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's a bit of mix of both. I think in
the last probably five years, that's atually progressed a wee bit.
And there's been a few more people that are working
probably in the rural sector but working in town and
have always been in town that have started to come
along and be a part of it. But the bulk
of the people there here, I mean there's a lot
of people up there today from North Canterbury in that
sort of Yeah. That the driver behind it really is
(01:47):
those rural people coming into town having a bit of
fun and it's perfect that the races.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, and don't you have like the pig Breeders ball tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yes, that's right, we've got the ball tonight, yeah, which
will be a bit of fun. So that that starts
at seven o'clock and an I at Churchill's teven and
sid in there. So that's every year we've had had
the ball and it's it's a great occasion and subsidized
drinks and a bit of free food to save everyone
up for a week while and then we get into it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So where you go again, it's like painting the London
brudshet finishing. It's time to go back to the start.
Just before I let you go, just wearing your PGG
rights and had you're a live stock agent in North Canterbury.
We know there's a lot of damage in the colvit
and area in that basin in there. How is the
rest of the area fairing?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, COVID and that's is we've all pready probably heard
it that the pivots over there, but that the trees
as well. I mean you're just sort of talking to
guys there now that are just done to put a
dent in it. And there's still a long way to
go in especially in the middle of lambing or tailing.
Not having stockproof fences makes a bit of a difference
that makes it challenging for people. So it's getting better.
(02:49):
But yeah, we didn't have the damage and hard or
anything like that lot they saw in Coved and Well.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Tom Dodson, President of the Ball Breeders Association, I wish
I could turn back time tonineteen eighty two, and I
actually this bloke I'm going to talk to next was
that Lincoln in the seventies, but in nineteen eighty two
I would have been in boots on all for that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I think you guys are I think a great time.
So well done, that's great, Thanks for coming aroun. You've
got to try Makaysa. There we go, There we go,
Tom Doddson,
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