September 18, 2025 • 8 mins
Alan McLeary of Shearwell NZ catches up for our regular chat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Conversation action before we wrap up for the week.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here on the Master, Allan McCleary how to sheer wear
and New Zealand joins us. Good afternoon, Ellen. You're not
a fan of paink so you wanted some Elvis. So
it's a little of this conversation, but it's a remix
from the year two thousand and two, Elvis versus Jay excels.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And good?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not too bad. We've got a little bit of blue
sky around today.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hello, Loujah, it's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And how's it been lately anyway, mate.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's been good. I sort of stayed pretty close to
home at this time. Everybody's busy lemming and they don't
want me coming up conversation and no actions, but yeah,
Ray still he's still really busy. There's plenty of tags
going out the door. But yeah, I just you know,
farmers are preoccupied with the lemming and they haven't got
time to be pucking around having a yarn. So I
(00:55):
stay away for a month so something that everything's everything's
gone pretty good, heat wave special, It's it's been going.
They've been gone really well. We've sold We've sold an
awful lot and as I said last time, that was
I think mainly due to the Hoggit scanning being so good.
There's going to be a lot of twins and triplets
with the Hoggits. So that ends at the end of September,
So don't be late. If you're thinking about getting one,
(01:17):
hop in and grab it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Just go over the brilliance that is the heat wave
for those who are unaware.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's just the simplicity of it. Yes, you know you
did it last time. You did a lot better job
describe it than I did, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, I have no idea as time moves faster this
time and age in the media out.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But anyway, now look the bridege of it. It is
so simple and it's there's no motors, just need a
bit of electricity to warm the warm the water in
it and at the two line feed so you can
have different age groups or class of stock. You can
have a few carves on one side and a few
lambs on the other. So it's yeah, there's not and
(01:56):
it's cheap, there's no question about that. At the moment
you're just under forteen hundred dollar, you can do you
can do fifty lambs comfortably or thirty calves. It's yeah,
so it's look, it's a it's a brilliant, brilliant piece
of I was going to say machinery.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, it doesn't a way because he's about to move
on it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, yeah, there is, but it's look at just what
I find is the farmers are those lambs that you
sort of might have ignored in the past. You'll because
you know you're bringing home and mum has to feed
them with the bottle because it always lambs with London.
So they get a bit a bit annoyed about the
feeding lambs three times a day, whereas that can to
bring them home and and that's sort of the end
(02:33):
of it. It's it is quite good. And the way
things are heading with likes of Pink and all them,
the days are just going past the lamb are we
but probably pasted it, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You're gonna get rid of pinky your tags or they stay.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah. I actually hadn't gone that farm made. I hadn't
actually thought that deeply in the tiger haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You always selling tags?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But look you talked about this last time, the fluoride
tags that are coming out, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yes, Yeah, we're Yeah, we've got some brighter colored ones
that the recipe is. It's been causing a bit of
a headache for the for the boffins over there, but
they're getting there. So the green's worked out well. I
think blues nearly there. Yes, and there's a few others
that got but it's it is. It's good that our
colors were a bit flat, but they weren't fading. So yeah,
(03:20):
the new ones, they're working on it really well. So
it'll be a big, a big push for us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So when are you expecting things to pick up again?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
As I say, there's plenty of tags go out in September,
but it really cranks up again in November again, it'll
really hum along and then quiets down for Christmas. But yes,
and I know it never really in the Boss tags.
They'll be coming on mainstream down here in November December.
People start doing the lamp, the lamp, the calf cuttings.
(03:51):
You know, it's not going to slow down much this
year at all.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I think, do you do a lamb me bait or
anything like it? You south or do you give that
up a while ago?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I gave that up a I think I caused more
trouble than I and I sort of creating you know. Yeah,
same old.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Story in it. Like I say, there's big burly forearms.
You can carry you two tooth under each arm, couldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, I got parents. I had chiviots for a long type,
so yeah, I didn't pay to They wouldn't pay to
go anywhere near them. They just bulk. So yeah, but no, no,
we'll we get a good lemming percentage out of the
week block got.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There, So yeah, tell us, tell us about them. McCleary block.
What are you? What's your stock unit numbers?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, well, I've leased my farm out, So what we were
running here on the home block was about we did
a lot of grazing. So we grazed about three thousand
hoggits for the spring and summer, and and did dairy
calves and a few store lambs and a few service balls.
So we were certain times in the year's the fences
were sort of fear bulging. But I've only got I've
got three week blocks, so I've got only got about
(04:52):
four or five hundred years that I play with them
on the weekend just to just to keep me out
of trouble, so.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That I suppose you share the more yourself too. Is
that it'll be cheap Hampis.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh no, I pay himself pretty well.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's only your morning's work for you though.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, yes, yes, I forgot
to mention that now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well sorry, no, you go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Gonna say we've got we've still got a few trees
and that that we're doing. And that's that's just on
that too. Like I've lost a few clients this month
to carbon farming in the area just the south of
Targo alone. It's it's creeping itself everywhere now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That wind we had last Saturday? You talk about trees
in South Otago and bout clues. We've just been to
the pool driving down to the caf there was a
branch full off a tree and just waked the side
of the truck and lift a hell of a thud too. Man,
that wind was something else last weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, there's been. That's actually nice today, isn't it. But
they must be getting held in winds up in Canterbury
at the moment two sucking the moisture out, so they're
getting a bit nervous up there, but we're still wet
down here. It's just that, Yeah, we've had You're right,
has it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Canterbury been like twenty five degrees of these howling winds
or something silly it's.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Been around there, you know. I've spoke to a few
on it. It's a topic I try and stay away
from if I care, but it's very hard as a
farmer not to talk about the weather in it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, it's a farmer's prerogative. Alan McCleary.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now, what's the best way to get in touch with
the team at Shearwour, New Zealand. It's a busy time
of year, but tagging isn't too far away. How do
we get in touch?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, at the moment, you better ring me instead of rape,
So you ring me on two seven two three two
four double eight, or give a ray a ring if
you really don't want to talk to me At eight
hundred and seven triple nine eight nine.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Everybody, everybody always has time to talk to you, Alan
McCleary of Shearwour, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We always appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You enjoy the weekend and guess what you get to
listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This, oh the whole song. Top job know this well, ife.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Out loud with ag proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by Sheerwell
Data working to help the livestock farmer. A guy in
a cologist got feed up with malpractice, insurance paperwork, and
burn out, so he decided the swap swap careers and
become a mechanic. He signed up for classes, studied hard,
and when the big exam came, he took apart the
(07:12):
engine perfectly. It was fifty percent, put it back together
perfectly another fifty percent. When the results came back, he
was shocked to see he's scored one hundred and fifty percent.
Thinking it was a mistake, he asked the instructor about it,
and the instructor goes where you were in fifty percent
for taking it apart, fifty percent for putting it back together,
and the extra fifty percent because you did it all
with your sleeve rolled up and with one hand through
(07:33):
the exhaust pipe.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's something I've never even seen before in my career.
Good on you all on there's your Friday shackle. Good
to have you guys on board and enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
H right, mate, you too, Thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Al I mclario's shrewoured New Zealand seeing us out for
the afternoon, remembering the best of the muster.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Five am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
My name's Andy Muller, that says been the muster, of course,
thaying so, Peter gen Ennix, enjoy the afternoon, gave the stags,
and then at that that
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That the come
Conversation action before we wrap up for the week.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here on the Master, Allan McCleary how to sheer wear
and New Zealand joins us. Good afternoon, Ellen. You're not
a fan of paink so you wanted some Elvis. So
it's a little of this conversation, but it's a remix
from the year two thousand and two, Elvis versus Jay excels.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And good?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not too bad. We've got a little bit of blue
sky around today.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hello, Loujah, it's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And how's it been lately anyway, mate.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's been good. I sort of stayed pretty close to
home at this time. Everybody's busy lemming and they don't
want me coming up conversation and no actions, but yeah,
Ray still he's still really busy. There's plenty of tags
going out the door. But yeah, I just you know,
farmers are preoccupied with the lemming and they haven't got
time to be pucking around having a yarn. So I
(00:55):
stay away for a month so something that everything's everything's
gone pretty good, heat wave special, It's it's been going.
They've been gone really well. We've sold We've sold an
awful lot and as I said last time, that was
I think mainly due to the Hoggit scanning being so good.
There's going to be a lot of twins and triplets
with the Hoggits. So that ends at the end of September,
So don't be late. If you're thinking about getting one,
(01:17):
hop in and grab it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Just go over the brilliance that is the heat wave
for those who are unaware.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's just the simplicity of it. Yes, you know you
did it last time. You did a lot better job
describe it than I did, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, I have no idea as time moves faster this
time and age in the media out.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But anyway, now look the bridege of it. It is
so simple and it's there's no motors, just need a
bit of electricity to warm the warm the water in
it and at the two line feed so you can
have different age groups or class of stock. You can
have a few carves on one side and a few
lambs on the other. So it's yeah, there's not and
(01:56):
it's cheap, there's no question about that. At the moment
you're just under forteen hundred dollar, you can do you
can do fifty lambs comfortably or thirty calves. It's yeah,
so it's look, it's a it's a brilliant, brilliant piece
of I was going to say machinery.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, it doesn't a way because he's about to move
on it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, yeah, there is, but it's look at just what
I find is the farmers are those lambs that you
sort of might have ignored in the past. You'll because
you know you're bringing home and mum has to feed
them with the bottle because it always lambs with London.
So they get a bit a bit annoyed about the
feeding lambs three times a day, whereas that can to
bring them home and and that's sort of the end
(02:33):
of it. It's it is quite good. And the way
things are heading with likes of Pink and all them,
the days are just going past the lamb are we
but probably pasted it, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You're gonna get rid of pinky your tags or they stay.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah. I actually hadn't gone that farm made. I hadn't
actually thought that deeply in the tiger haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You always selling tags?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But look you talked about this last time, the fluoride
tags that are coming out, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yes, Yeah, we're Yeah, we've got some brighter colored ones
that the recipe is. It's been causing a bit of
a headache for the for the boffins over there, but
they're getting there. So the green's worked out well. I
think blues nearly there. Yes, and there's a few others
that got but it's it is. It's good that our
colors were a bit flat, but they weren't fading. So yeah,
(03:20):
the new ones, they're working on it really well. So
it'll be a big, a big push for us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So when are you expecting things to pick up again?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
As I say, there's plenty of tags go out in September,
but it really cranks up again in November again, it'll
really hum along and then quiets down for Christmas. But yes,
and I know it never really in the Boss tags.
They'll be coming on mainstream down here in November December.
People start doing the lamp, the lamp, the calf cuttings.
(03:51):
You know, it's not going to slow down much this
year at all.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I think, do you do a lamb me bait or
anything like it? You south or do you give that
up a while ago?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I gave that up a I think I caused more
trouble than I and I sort of creating you know. Yeah,
same old.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Story in it. Like I say, there's big burly forearms.
You can carry you two tooth under each arm, couldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, I got parents. I had chiviots for a long type,
so yeah, I didn't pay to They wouldn't pay to
go anywhere near them. They just bulk. So yeah, but no, no,
we'll we get a good lemming percentage out of the
week block got.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There, So yeah, tell us, tell us about them. McCleary block.
What are you? What's your stock unit numbers?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, well, I've leased my farm out, So what we were
running here on the home block was about we did
a lot of grazing. So we grazed about three thousand
hoggits for the spring and summer, and and did dairy
calves and a few store lambs and a few service balls.
So we were certain times in the year's the fences
were sort of fear bulging. But I've only got I've
got three week blocks, so I've got only got about
(04:52):
four or five hundred years that I play with them
on the weekend just to just to keep me out
of trouble, so.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That I suppose you share the more yourself too. Is
that it'll be cheap Hampis.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh no, I pay himself pretty well.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's only your morning's work for you though.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, yes, yes, I forgot
to mention that now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well sorry, no, you go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Gonna say we've got we've still got a few trees
and that that we're doing. And that's that's just on
that too. Like I've lost a few clients this month
to carbon farming in the area just the south of
Targo alone. It's it's creeping itself everywhere now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That wind we had last Saturday? You talk about trees
in South Otago and bout clues. We've just been to
the pool driving down to the caf there was a
branch full off a tree and just waked the side
of the truck and lift a hell of a thud too. Man,
that wind was something else last weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, there's been. That's actually nice today, isn't it. But
they must be getting held in winds up in Canterbury
at the moment two sucking the moisture out, so they're
getting a bit nervous up there, but we're still wet
down here. It's just that, Yeah, we've had You're right,
has it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Canterbury been like twenty five degrees of these howling winds
or something silly it's.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Been around there, you know. I've spoke to a few
on it. It's a topic I try and stay away
from if I care, but it's very hard as a
farmer not to talk about the weather in it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, it's a farmer's prerogative. Alan McCleary.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now, what's the best way to get in touch with
the team at Shearwour, New Zealand. It's a busy time
of year, but tagging isn't too far away. How do
we get in touch?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, at the moment, you better ring me instead of rape,
So you ring me on two seven two three two
four double eight, or give a ray a ring if
you really don't want to talk to me At eight
hundred and seven triple nine eight nine.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Everybody, everybody always has time to talk to you, Alan
McCleary of Shearwour, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We always appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You enjoy the weekend and guess what you get to
listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This, oh the whole song. Top job know this well, ife.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Out loud with ag proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by Sheerwell
Data working to help the livestock farmer. A guy in
a cologist got feed up with malpractice, insurance paperwork, and
burn out, so he decided the swap swap careers and
become a mechanic. He signed up for classes, studied hard,
and when the big exam came, he took apart the
(07:12):
engine perfectly. It was fifty percent, put it back together
perfectly another fifty percent. When the results came back, he
was shocked to see he's scored one hundred and fifty percent.
Thinking it was a mistake, he asked the instructor about it,
and the instructor goes where you were in fifty percent
for taking it apart, fifty percent for putting it back together,
and the extra fifty percent because you did it all
with your sleeve rolled up and with one hand through
(07:33):
the exhaust pipe.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's something I've never even seen before in my career.
Good on you all on there's your Friday shackle. Good
to have you guys on board and enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
H right, mate, you too, Thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Al I mclario's shrewoured New Zealand seeing us out for
the afternoon, remembering the best of the muster.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Five am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
My name's Andy Muller, that says been the muster, of course,
thaying so, Peter gen Ennix, enjoy the afternoon, gave the stags,
and then at that that
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That the come
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