October 22, 2025 • 6 mins
Today’s Zanda McDonald Panel updates the weather in Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, plus they encourage young leaders in agriculture to enter the Zanda McDonald Awards (entries close October 31).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've got a farmer panel on now, Shane mcmanaway and
(00:03):
a wire rapper up country, a wee bit shark, Ryan Hart.
We're going to talk about the Zander McDonald Awards. Well
that's what we were going to talk about. Entries close
at the end of the month. We will talk about them,
but let's start with weather and track conditions. Shane, you're
based and the wire a rapper, but I know I
think your son's farming and kai Kura. How bad is
it down there?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jamie. You know, pretty ordinary down there.
They had a hell of a day there on Tuesday
and on Adam's farm down there, they lost about fifty
trees which unfortunately landed on seven heifers and they now
deceased a lot of damage. But in that Tuesday event
there was a lot of fire started and having a
(00:46):
hell of a job getting those out, Jamie. And they're
still going there this morning. I was talking to him
about an hour ago, about one hundred and forty k's
of win thirty two degrees and they flat out got
the irrigators on all around the houses there to try
and stop the possible fire around our house a cow shed,
but we're milking another guy's cows through our cowshed at
the moment because his cow shed burnt down. So they're
(01:06):
and die straits. They are here here a bit in
the wire, app But winds just starting to pick up,
probably about one twenty k coming in gusts, but very
very warm. James, just the temperature shot up, like it's
quite uncanny.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
This is freakish weather. Jacques Reinhardt joins us. He was
the finalist and the Zander McDonald Awards and twenty twenty
three shark you're and why Pokeoh, how's the weather in
Hawk's Bay? Because it's obviously not that flash up the
road at the showgrounds. And am I going to say
Hastings or Nape you help me out here? Hastings. Isn't
(01:38):
it where they hold the where they hold the amp show.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I'll tell you will be checking any marquees up.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But to be honest, in the Hawk's Bay today, single
Hawks Bay anyway? Where not too when he's certainly a
breeze around. But yeah, just going off what see was
saying just then, I lived the Castle Point for six
years on the one of these places in the country,
and she's going pretty hard here on Tuesday and Tuesday night.
It's a fevod of demodrame.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, when you're talking win numbers and Chris Brandolino was
mentioning an excess of two hundred kilometers and now that
is sort of Castle Point wind or Cape Turn? Is
it Cape Turn Again? Just up the road from or
up the coast from there are the windiest place in
the country.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yes, yeah, absolutely saw a few two hundred k
gusts while I was at Castle Point and also worked
at Cap Turn Again as well at Totani there, so yeah,
I can vouch for those coming through there fairly regularly
and it's not pleasant.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, Shane, you've been around a long time. You're a
man with sage advice. What would you I mean? Lindy Nelson,
another Wira rapp A person sent me a text saying
just warning farmers, pleading with farmers not to go out
and put themselves in danger.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh, Jamie, I certainly support Lindy's comments there. There's no
need to be out there. There's not much you can
do at the stage. Best just to hunker down and
write it out. Really, it's just too dangerous. Once she'd
start breaking up with the wind, and corrugated iron starts
flying around. It's a recipe for a real disaster. So
I encourage everybody just to stay inside till the debates.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Jacques, you're on the show today to encourage young entrepreneurs
and leaders in agribusiness and agriculture in this country to
enter the twenty twenty six Xander McDonald Awards. You've got
to be aged between twenty one and thirty five. As
I said, you were a finalist in twenty twenty three.
(03:37):
What would you say to encourage people to enter? Because
I reckon one of the biggest roadblocks to entering is
people thinking they're not good enough.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Ah, one hundred percent right. I got a few pretty
handy nudges from the likes of Shane and Emily Crowfort,
who I was managing Husbling Station four at the time
and sending the My initial reactions was I'm not in
that league and certainly won't be applied for that, but
(04:06):
did in the end, and yeah, absolutely changed my life
really and certainly my outlook on what might be possible
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Shane, I think one of the big advantages of entering
competitions like this, and it's the same with young Farmer
of the Year as the networking opportunities.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, for sure, Jamie. And that's what the Xander Awards
all about, is that network. There's one hundred and fifty
farmers across Australia and New Zealand that come together every
year and the finalists and winners get to mix and
mingle with them. And look though that basically, once you've
entered for this and get yourself in the family, you've
(04:44):
got the keys to the daughter those one hundred and
fifty farmers across Australasia, and that is such a neat thing.
And look all of them are just so keen to
share their advice and help and basically you've effectively just
got yourself one hundred and fifty mentals. So I can't
recommend highly enough to put your name forward to have
a go at this award. It's life changing.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yep. An entry's close end of the month thirty first
of October next Friday. End to play. The website is
Xander McDonald Award All one word dot Com. Let's just
finish with how conditions are and your respective provinces. Shane,
are you getting are you getting dry? And wire wrapper?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Jamie on our side of the valley. We're on the
western hills. We're okay over here, but it's certainly starting
to dry out on the east, which is not uncommon.
And if this wind keeps up and we don't get
some rain, it can go from being pretty good to
pretty bad quite quickly. But that is the pretty much
what we expect in the wire leading up to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Shark Ryan Hart twenty twenty three, finalists for the Zander
McDonald Awards. Hawks Bay traditionally summer dry year in Central
Hawk's Bay. How are you faring.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, it's been hands to mouth. I've been saying, it's
just just enough rain, just in time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
We've had about half.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Of our under half of our annual rainfall here in
Central and it's been yeah, pretty much nice age all
the way from when we got a good rain back
in this last December, but that was the only one,
probably measuring over thirty mil and yeah, going right back
to a year to date, it's yeah, it's been the
(06:20):
same all the way. So right now, wind, not much
rain in the forecast, and yeah, it's certainly starting to
make you think it's.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Not easy out there, so be careful out there. There
we go. Today's Farmer panel, encouraging you to enter the
Sander McDonald Awards. Entries closed next Friday, thirty first of October.
That website again Sandra McDonald Award or one Word dot
Com
We've got a farmer panel on now, Shane mcmanaway and
(00:03):
a wire rapper up country, a wee bit shark, Ryan Hart.
We're going to talk about the Zander McDonald Awards. Well
that's what we were going to talk about. Entries close
at the end of the month. We will talk about them,
but let's start with weather and track conditions. Shane, you're
based and the wire a rapper, but I know I
think your son's farming and kai Kura. How bad is
it down there?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jamie. You know, pretty ordinary down there.
They had a hell of a day there on Tuesday
and on Adam's farm down there, they lost about fifty
trees which unfortunately landed on seven heifers and they now
deceased a lot of damage. But in that Tuesday event
there was a lot of fire started and having a
(00:46):
hell of a job getting those out, Jamie. And they're
still going there this morning. I was talking to him
about an hour ago, about one hundred and forty k's
of win thirty two degrees and they flat out got
the irrigators on all around the houses there to try
and stop the possible fire around our house a cow shed,
but we're milking another guy's cows through our cowshed at
the moment because his cow shed burnt down. So they're
(01:06):
and die straits. They are here here a bit in
the wire, app But winds just starting to pick up,
probably about one twenty k coming in gusts, but very
very warm. James, just the temperature shot up, like it's
quite uncanny.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
This is freakish weather. Jacques Reinhardt joins us. He was
the finalist and the Zander McDonald Awards and twenty twenty
three shark you're and why Pokeoh, how's the weather in
Hawk's Bay? Because it's obviously not that flash up the
road at the showgrounds. And am I going to say
Hastings or Nape you help me out here? Hastings. Isn't
(01:38):
it where they hold the where they hold the amp show.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I'll tell you will be checking any marquees up.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But to be honest, in the Hawk's Bay today, single
Hawks Bay anyway? Where not too when he's certainly a
breeze around. But yeah, just going off what see was
saying just then, I lived the Castle Point for six
years on the one of these places in the country,
and she's going pretty hard here on Tuesday and Tuesday night.
It's a fevod of demodrame.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, when you're talking win numbers and Chris Brandolino was
mentioning an excess of two hundred kilometers and now that
is sort of Castle Point wind or Cape Turn? Is
it Cape Turn Again? Just up the road from or
up the coast from there are the windiest place in
the country.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yes, yeah, absolutely saw a few two hundred k
gusts while I was at Castle Point and also worked
at Cap Turn Again as well at Totani there, so yeah,
I can vouch for those coming through there fairly regularly
and it's not pleasant.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, Shane, you've been around a long time. You're a
man with sage advice. What would you I mean? Lindy Nelson,
another Wira rapp A person sent me a text saying
just warning farmers, pleading with farmers not to go out
and put themselves in danger.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh, Jamie, I certainly support Lindy's comments there. There's no
need to be out there. There's not much you can
do at the stage. Best just to hunker down and
write it out. Really, it's just too dangerous. Once she'd
start breaking up with the wind, and corrugated iron starts
flying around. It's a recipe for a real disaster. So
I encourage everybody just to stay inside till the debates.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Jacques, you're on the show today to encourage young entrepreneurs
and leaders in agribusiness and agriculture in this country to
enter the twenty twenty six Xander McDonald Awards. You've got
to be aged between twenty one and thirty five. As
I said, you were a finalist in twenty twenty three.
(03:37):
What would you say to encourage people to enter? Because
I reckon one of the biggest roadblocks to entering is
people thinking they're not good enough.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Ah, one hundred percent right. I got a few pretty
handy nudges from the likes of Shane and Emily Crowfort,
who I was managing Husbling Station four at the time
and sending the My initial reactions was I'm not in
that league and certainly won't be applied for that, but
(04:06):
did in the end, and yeah, absolutely changed my life
really and certainly my outlook on what might be possible
for me.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Shane, I think one of the big advantages of entering
competitions like this, and it's the same with young Farmer
of the Year as the networking opportunities.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, for sure, Jamie. And that's what the Xander Awards
all about, is that network. There's one hundred and fifty
farmers across Australia and New Zealand that come together every
year and the finalists and winners get to mix and
mingle with them. And look though that basically, once you've
entered for this and get yourself in the family, you've
(04:44):
got the keys to the daughter those one hundred and
fifty farmers across Australasia, and that is such a neat thing.
And look all of them are just so keen to
share their advice and help and basically you've effectively just
got yourself one hundred and fifty mentals. So I can't
recommend highly enough to put your name forward to have
a go at this award. It's life changing.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yep. An entry's close end of the month thirty first
of October next Friday. End to play. The website is
Xander McDonald Award All one word dot Com. Let's just
finish with how conditions are and your respective provinces. Shane,
are you getting are you getting dry? And wire wrapper?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Jamie on our side of the valley. We're on the
western hills. We're okay over here, but it's certainly starting
to dry out on the east, which is not uncommon.
And if this wind keeps up and we don't get
some rain, it can go from being pretty good to
pretty bad quite quickly. But that is the pretty much
what we expect in the wire leading up to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Shark Ryan Hart twenty twenty three, finalists for the Zander
McDonald Awards. Hawks Bay traditionally summer dry year in Central
Hawk's Bay. How are you faring.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, it's been hands to mouth. I've been saying, it's
just just enough rain, just in time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
We've had about half.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Of our under half of our annual rainfall here in
Central and it's been yeah, pretty much nice age all
the way from when we got a good rain back
in this last December, but that was the only one,
probably measuring over thirty mil and yeah, going right back
to a year to date, it's yeah, it's been the
(06:20):
same all the way. So right now, wind, not much
rain in the forecast, and yeah, it's certainly starting to
make you think it's.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Not easy out there, so be careful out there. There
we go. Today's Farmer panel, encouraging you to enter the
Sander McDonald Awards. Entries closed next Friday, thirty first of October.
That website again Sandra McDonald Award or one Word dot
Com
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