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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back. This is the muster.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Alum McCleary out of sheer Weere, New Zealand joins us
before we wrap up for the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good afternoon, Alla McCleary. Where about Saya today?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
There you go and Andy you all good?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Can't complain, sir? Where are you today?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm up, I'm up Middle March today. I'm up here.
There's the snows. There's still a weaver on the hill.
But you know, I'm up here calling in at farmers,
delivering a few tags and during the fat with with
the cockies. So it's good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
How's the vibe up there?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know, nobody.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
He's pretty happy. That's they've had a bit of moisture
up here, so that you know that, you know, they're
pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Good color in the peddix the middle March.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
There you answer that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, there is a different shades of brown different.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
No, there is a weabit of green out there all
right now. It is. It's good. The rocks are still
there though they haven't washed away.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So yeah, the rocks just never changed, do they. But
sheerwell Zilla, last time we spoke to you, you're over
in Canada. So it was a good jaunt over there.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It was yes, yeah, it was pretty hot. Well it's
hot enough. Yeah, they got all those big fires there
as well, which we weren't very close to. But there
was plenty of smoke. But the o the farmers over
there seemed to be pretty happy. Donald Trump seems to
be the main and only topic when you talk to anybody.
But yeah, but no, those things looking pretty good over there.
(01:31):
They are, they are hot and dry. But where I
was in Ontario is mainly it's mainly corn. It's just
of thousands of acres of corn.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now from Sheerwell HQ.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We were fortunate enough to have Julie Edwards come up
and visit us here with you the other day. I
actually thought you might have bought some smoko with you,
as you normally do.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What happened there, you drop the ball made.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I was so nervous. I had Julie the big boss.
They had Emily, my Aussie boss that I have to
answer to, and I just I forgot all about that, mate.
I didn't apologize.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, no, great to catch up with Julie. It sounds
as though shear Wheal's going gangbusters in the UK. But
like you say, over and assy things are already going
one way too.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, they are ossis because they've gone mandatory in Australia
with the sheep EIDs there. Yeah, it's been a real
it's been a real race because everybody's trying to trying
to clamber in. But I don't know how many million
sheep are in Australia, but I think Sheerwell have done
about twenty million tags last year, so it's a year.
It's a lot. So I don't think they've really got
(02:34):
a good hold over there and once again doing really good,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, the good news is you got Julie safely back
to the airport she so she can go back to
shear LHQ and spread the word of Alan McCleary.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, I don't know if that's a good idea or not.
I didn't see what her note said. I forgot the smoke.
Oh so I'm already on the on the down side,
an't I.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I didn't see any rear crosses beside your name in
Julie's book or anything, so you must be going all.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Right, Well, I haven't had the don't come oneday, so
I suppose that's up, you know, that's looking up in
it now?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The heat Wave special. We talked about this a wee
while ago. What's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, look, it went really well, so we we've actually
decided to extend it the wee Bit and the main
reason for that is the hobbit scanning's done really well,
so there's quite a few farmers out there inquiring about it.
You know, Hobbits are twins and triplets, so they're just
sort of safeguarding themselves with that, so we decided to
(03:30):
extend it for them. And yeah, I know it is.
There's been a lot go out the door, and once again,
it's just a simple, basic unit that works really well
and people just love it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What do people really enjoy about it?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just the fact that it makes feeding animals simplistic.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, well, it's it's at the moment it's mainly mainly
sheep farmers for the lambs. So you know, you go
around that paddock and you've got a wee land that's
not a hunt sense, you think I should take it home,
but Mum's already got ten and she's going to hit
me over the head with it, So that seems to
you know, they bring them home, they put them on
the heat wave and that's the end of it. And
(04:09):
they're because they're ablid feeding. You know, you're not out
with bottles and that. And the lambs do a lot better.
They don't get that glut feeding and that blow and
those we popped bellies full of the shitty aarses. You know,
they do do really well on them, so and there's
not much to go wrong with them. They're pretty simple,
so it's they're a real winner.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Really what as simple as the design of the sheerwhee tag,
it's so simplastic, get it works so well. But Alan,
you're telling me there's a new range of colors coming
out neon colors and facts that are reminiscent of your
raving days from the early to mid nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
All right, mate, I wasn't next year that in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But there we go, there you go. The brighter the color,
the better it sticks out on the proverbial.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
No, look we are Our colors have always been pretty
what we called flat. The brighter you make the color,
they're easy, they fade. But we've been listening to the
farmers and saying, because Kiwis use the color tag a
lot more than they do around the world, everybody else
is using ei ds, and it's really only their mandatory
where we're doing age groups and be mobs and everything else.
(05:15):
So we do spend a bit of time on the
on the drafting gate doing colors. So they've been they've
been asking us to do brighter colors. So the boss
has listened. We've brought out a brighter green that looks
really good, and they're working on about four or five
other different colors will make them brighter and make them
still UV safe so they're not going to fade or
go brittle or that. So it is a bit of
(05:36):
a science. But we are listening and we and they
are taking action.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So it's brilliant yep, but it won't be glowing the
dark at least get that click.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, we've better shut that conversation down pretty quick, mate.
Where you go with that?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm just saying, look a glowing the dark sheep tag
just running around, Look at the esthetics.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
What do you want to see a sheep in the
dark for it?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You don't? They're glowing the glowing the dark sheep tag. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They come out with everything these days, talking about AO
before going to AI and ask about a glowing, glowing
the duck sheep tag all.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But nonetheless, look, it's quite a bit going on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're coming down southward and over the next couple of
days you're just helping out with a few clients.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I am. I've got a guy there where I'm going
down to try a new speedy tagger. I'm going to
show them that and and mock and readers. So I've
got a I've got a thousand odd to tag tomorrow morning,
so or Friday, No Friday.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Morning, So tomorrow's Friday, is it right?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So it's Friday done tomorrow on Friday? Then? Oh, I know, mate,
it's been so busy. You know, I've had those big
bosses over here.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
All the stress of the big boss being here. Eh,
he's taking his toll on you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Look what isn't taking its toll though, is the quality
of the shar where tag Alan McCleary.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
If somebody wants to get in touch, how do they
do it?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right? Yeah, give me a tingle on two seven two
three two double four double eight, and if you really
want to, you can ring ray on eight hundred and
seven triple nine eight nine. But mate, he's he's under
the pump poking tags out at the moment. So Mike
Peter annoying me and leave Ray alone.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Good Onia, Allen. Since you're on the line, we'll let
you listen to this.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by
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Speaker 2 (07:19):
Sperm downer, a carpenter, and Julius Caesar walking to a room.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He came, he saw, he conquered.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Some things in life a better left misunderstood. Alan McCleary,
always appreciate your time on the muster. So great to
have Sheewell involved. David ten again.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh thanks Mandy, catch it mate.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He just called me Medy. You'll get on with him.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Away with Alan McCleary from Sheerwell, New Zealand seeing us
out for a Thursday afternoon. I'm Andy mure this has
been the muster on Hock and now he thinks the
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