November 9, 2025 • 44 mins
Andy Muir talks to Jamie King, Penny Simmonds, Dean Rabbidge, Gill Naylor and Andrew Welsh.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokanui. My
name is Andy Muller. I'm here until two o'clock of course,
thanks to Peter Genenix. Welcome along. After a busy sporting weekend,
especially in the rugby sense the All Blacks. They got
the win just over Scotland and England awaits at twicken
the next weekend. It doesn't get any bigger for the Abs,
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but South Africa. The way they dealt with France over
in Paris yesterday morning, that was impressive and Cia Kalisi
one of the most inspiring individuals to have grace a
sporting field. You just watched the guy go about his
business and there was a standout for me over the weekend,
amongst a plethora of sport music for the Savo too.
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Brian Adams five Day four casts brought to you by
twin Farm tefrom and suff text. The proof is in
the progeny teff rom dot co dot MZ. This afternoon,
thunderstorms developing with reason or easterlies and I high of
twenty Tuesday partly cloudy, the breezy south westerly six and
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fifteen Wednesday cloudy with breezy north easters seven to twenty
two Thursday partly cloudy, were light south easterly six and eighteen.
In Friday rain with breezing or westerleyes four and fourteen
saw temperatures to hand Clinton thirteen point nine, Northern Southland
twelve point eight, Riverton thirteen point two, ton Ow thirteen
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point three, Winton twelve point eight and Woodland's twelve point three.
Jamie King of Lake Eroco starts us off in the
Sagean Dam farming round up, followed up by in Vacago
MP Penny Simmons. We talk about the allocation of money
based on what these figures Winston Peters produced that New
Zealand gives to the Cook Islands as well. We asked
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a question should charity begin at home? Dean Ravage of
Glennam joins us in his self Nural Support Trust, talking
about farming mindset in the face of adversity. Of course
thanks to community trusts South Jill Naylor of Rural Women
New Zealand. We have a regular catch up and then
following up to wrap up the hours, Andrew Walsh at
a twin farm Genetics the home of Tip from So
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without further ado, we start the yowl with Jamie King.
This is a muster until two o'clock. Thanks to Peter's genetics.
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Jamie King of Lake Heroko starts us off in the
Sergeant Dan Farming round Up, thanks of course the Susian
Dan stock foods here in Gore. Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Good mate, here were going today?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah? Going pretty well? Thanks? But how's everything over around
Lake Heroco Way? How have you been over the past
couple of weeks with all this one that's been about.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now we've survived the wind we got off redly scott free, Indie.
I think we've got the big buff record for Ordlands,
so I think it's sort of went over us and
around us. No, to be fair, the weak prior that
we got more damaged from the wind end.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So no, it's scot free on that one, mate.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, and we're only a couple of days without pairs,
so very very lucky. I have no idea how they
got pair to us, because we're still a long way
from any weird it. Yeah, No, I can't complain, to
be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So do you not have anybody over over your way
without power? Still?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, not that I'm aware of, Andy. I think most
of western South and is all all back on and
the biggest spugby of the local to a temper there.
It got sort of shut right down out of it
for a couple of days and didn't have no calms
and know nothing. So and that was a bit of
a bit of an interest on a few elderly in that.
But no, I scores out and the weren't too bad.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you say the wind was worse three weeks ago,
What was it exactly that you had?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was this norweest as why we had four five
trees come down one took a pair out, was yeah,
and then that the gus that up to the rest
of the south and didn't really do anything. I was
anticipating a lot more.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You do hear a be area is being shouted like
you are there? Obviously you talk about the buffer cord
for Orland, but just the way that it's come in
certain places and just gone whish there are another areas. Yeah,
more or less left it alone and slightly done something wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, absolutely mate.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And it was th real it actually on the Thursday
when it did blow, I was actually an in the
cargo for it. And when it blew and we make
you get a bit older, and nothing bothers you much,
but I was to be fair skinned in it was
I didn't want to be in Vcago. There was things
flying through the air and trees coming down, and it
was I could have thought of a million other places
I'll turn to have been and floating around town. So
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we sort of just packed up and waited it out
for a couple of years. And the gusts of the settle,
but it was still blue blue all afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Talking about sheets of iron flying around. What was the situation?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yep, yet no, we're part of one seat lights and
a sheet of wine came tearing around the corner and
walked into side the truck and went under, and there
was branches, and then there was some people that hopefully
going to breed mate outstand under the trees, taking obviously
videos or what have you. And we're sort of men,
my good lady. We're having a bit of a wager
on it, but we won't.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Talk about that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's all about those legs.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well apparently so apparently so, but we leave it with them.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Of those so as far as groundwork and the likes, tailing,
tailing's on the rearview mirror now, ah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
No, just sort of getting into it, and I think
scoops and cat they got one day under their belts
and containing Connery is a bit far behind, just with
the weet like we've been precddly weird. I think we
tipped two hundred and eighty five milli out for October, mate,
and ground work you're just starting to chap away now
it's just coming right, but we're.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Definitely not too soon. It's still pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Gluggy some places, but here, like last week there was
just a boomer of a week. You know, we needed it.
I'm not sure what mother nature was up to. It
feels like we said of had on there. I'm looking
towards to the other day. Six months of autumn, two
months of winter and now we're into summer. So yeah,
but the grass is grad eddie, which is really nice.
(06:19):
We're any bit of heat and I've got happy animals again,
nothing sort of you know. Hearing's just laying down and cruising.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So that's easy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So just yeah, it's going to the motions, mate.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So you're running fall, Telly's compared to other seasons, where
do you think you're at?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, we've had nearly what are we for? They said?
To eighty. This is terrible to a mess on this
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Forgive you?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, we're about about five eighty miler. I think we
had for September Rocktomer, mate, But of course we had
nothing over the winter, so I think we're well, we'll
probably wind up on par. But it just doesn't help
that it all comes at once, endy.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Are you trying to get the velveting and everything else
done at the moment? To talk to Warren and us
the other day, and there seemed to be a bit
of an elephant at the room in the room unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Ah yeah, it's a bit of a tour at the moment. Mate.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Look, just you know, Tongue in Cheeks are just sent
sixteen with dray heaps that works this morning the old
boy took over. And to be fair, those sixteen heaps
are probably going to be more than what my entire
Velbert Chick's going to be. Not that I'm gonna in
a big way of the velot there's one hundred and
twenty y or so, but ah yeah, it's a real
cheery one and I'm yeah, I'm feeling a bit for
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these ls, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But it's all out of the control. There's a bit
of few interesting things going on that scene.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But hopefully probably what we've just been through the red
mix sect and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hopefully it gets a self alleviated.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
One thing with a deer industry, Andy and the Venice
and it can be arguably volatile, but it just fast
as it goes bad, it seems to come right again.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So I'm just fingers crossed on that one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, Venison Shed goes looking pretty good. Contracts and the.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Likes yeah, mate, and it's nice too. And the contracts
are out for twelve months me, Andy, so you know
you can budget to that, you know, floating around that
late no to teen and the early teen some gos
you know, for twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Fluctuates a bit within that, but it's eating budget to that, Andy,
and it's more you know it. So it's great for
twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Eat. It's really easy numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Imagine being able to do that with your lamb check.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ah, it'd be too easy, mate, wouldn't that wouldn't that?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, Well nothing's easy, Jamie, but it might give you
a little bit more certainty as far as the numbers
that are coming in.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You just mis everything.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Hey, it'd be sort of supposed, but the dairy farming model,
wouldn't it, you know, just month by month into the
autute forecast and where you go, just worry about ground grass.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Last time we spoke, and this hasn't been spoken about
for a few weeks and understandably so. But the Alliance
Group and Dawn Meats, or the restructure of the Alliance
Group as such with Dawn Meats buying in is complete.
Now you're a bit cynical of this beforehand, but you've
changed your thinking a little bit now after a conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, mate, So we're sort.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Of lucky enough to meet the Noile the other day
after and they have a bit of a catch up
and it was quite good. So I come out of
it feeling yeah, probably a lot better than what we
had done for six months leaning into it. You know,
on the upside, we can sit here and pointed everything that's.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wrong with it, Andy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And on that note, you remember they've just tipped two
hundred and seventy million into it, so they want to
return out of their money. Quite a stute businessman, which
is going to be good prott a little bit more
fat taking out of the system. So yeah, look, the
long and short of handy turning seventy million dollars worth.
They want animals, they want meat. So I think for
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definitely the short term anyway, it'll be really, really, probably
quite strong for a.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Couple of years anyway. And there's some many gritty on
the ground stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We spoke about what comparison to these systems and our
systems and what we do well versus what they're doing well.
And some of it was quite lightning, mate, through just
water usage.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And processing capability.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And so arguably it's a yes, it's not the way
we wanted it to go, but I mean, such a
life I'm believe in not looking back, mate, So it'll
be interesting. And like I said, and the alliance door
meat JV. It's not the elephant in the room anymore
because it's still be put to bed. But we'll not
put to bed, but just open another door and will
(10:17):
you shall wait and see.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You going forward.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, arguably, if the Alliance was nothing but a light
blanket in the middle of winter, dawn, meats has come
through the heavy douvey on top of the bed.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Without a doubt, Mate, without a doubt. And you know
we will know how we got here and this was
probably basically the only option out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The way in the current climate, so I don't you know,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But on that note, mate, we've lost you know, we
haven't got a whole leave solely red meat own cooperative,
which I don't know, perhaps might be a good thing
any gain forward, you know. Sorry, well have anyone having
an opinion, but sometimes too many opinions aren't aren't ideal.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Good only Jamie always appreciate your time, Hey spot on,
Thanks for much mate, Jamie King of Lake Roko and
the Sergeant Dan Farming Farming round up of course sings
the sergeants and stop foods here and Gore. Penny Simmons,
MP for and the Cargo and Minister of the Environment
is up next, Megan. This is the muster on Hockno
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that song They're All for Love, featuring Brian Adams, Rod
Stewart and Sting. That's right, it was Sting involved, coming
from the Three Musketeers soundtrack of the movie of the
same title from nineteen ninety four Good Year nineteen ninety
four twenty. Penny Simmons joins us next, not that this
has got anything to do with the price of solo
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supposed Penny, But how was your weekend?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It was good, thank you, It was good. I was
trying to think what I was doing in nineteen ninety four.
It's probably not worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So what were you doing, because Jerry McKay was starting
a radio station in Goore, what were you up to?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, I'd been married for ten years, so I had
twins about not I had four year old twins. So
I was probably running the Gore campus of the Polytech
at that time, I'd say ninety four, so yeah, it's
probably in gare as well. How was my weekend anyway? Look,
it was good. Devali Southland, the Indian community of Southland
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put on Devali celebrations for celebration of light, good over evil,
and it was a great celebration that the stadium went
on all day, started at eleven o'clock, went on into
the evening and just lovely to see our Indian community
out and as they reared out the things that the
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people on the executive of the Indian community were involved,
and I thought, gosh, they are well qualified and they
are well integrated with our community. You know, they were accountants,
they were in health, they were in business. It was
amazing they were well integrated in real estate, so you know,
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they've really made a big difference to our community, a
little bit like the Filipino community in Southland. What a
big difference the Filipino community and the Indian the particularly
the Indian subcontinent, you know, India and Sri Lanka. What
a difference it's made to our community having those people
here working, bringing their skills, bringing their talents to Southland.
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So it was lovely to celebrate that. It really was
really good and look nice to get weather a little
bit better, warming up and feeling like summers on its way,
and I know that'll be helping a bit for the farmers,
although I was talking to a dairy farmer the other day,
and of course just being able to get the debris
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off their paddocks to be able to cut a grass,
the silage and bailage, you know, trying to get trees
and debris off the paddocks. To be able to do
that is a mission in itself, and we forget how
tiring things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Like that are.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You get over the main event and then you've got
all these things that keep impacting on you. And also
on air saw mills, just as saw mills being able
to cope with the volume and particularly the Markra Carper.
I'm thinking about how specialized being able to use that is.
So we're sort of talking about ways in which we
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might be able to support with that because yep, the
events are been and gone, but the legacy of it
lingers on for quite some time now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
South and District Mayor Rob Scott made a really interesting
observation last week Penny's saying that Southend's only two percent
of the population, yet it contributes around fifteen percent of
our GDP. Now, Winston Peter's coming out of these figures
regarding the islands and what is it, thirty million dollars
plus even over two years, and yet there's only one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars that has been allocated to
the mere relief funds down South. This seems a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, look, yeah, it is around fifteen sixteen percent of
New Zealand's GDP. We punch well above our weight in
terms of what we produce for the country. The Cook
Islands have been an issue for us of recent years
in terms of their relationships that they are building, particularly
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with China. Look, it's a difficult one for us because
they are around country, so they have certain legal obligations
and also writes with us. But also they have to
keep their end of the bag. And so that is
why you'll have seen in the media recently that quite
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a large chunk of the funding isn't going to at
the moment because they haven't kept their side of the
bargain in terms of transparency. Look, one of our issues,
of course is how strong China is in the cook
in the Pacific Islands. It's an issue for us and
for Australia particularly, and so we can't have it both ways.
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We can't not support the Pacific Islands but then complain
when others do. And it is a geopolitical risk to
us to have China in there, really strong in the
Pacific Islands. So there's arguments both ways. I've heard a
lot of people saying, oh, we shouldn't be giving them anything.
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If we don't, we can be sure that there will
be others in there which may not be what we
want to see advancing in the Pacific Islands.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You can understand the frustration of one hundred and fifty
k saves a pittance in the scheme of things.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah, Look, there's been a little more. I think we've
put another seventy k in was announced. There's some discussions
that we had last week. In the finish. It is
support for things like the Meyoral Fund and the Rural
Support Trust. It isn't cover areas where insurance hasn't covered
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farmers and business people and homeowners, and that I know
is harsh for a lot of people, but it's the
same across the country. Our funding needs to be for
for infrastructure and for support to the people, but not
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covering where insurance isn't covering.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, I understand that, but just give support to the
groups that need the money as well.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, well certainly the Rural Support Trust is getting
that additional funding, the extra seventy k. So trying to
put some additional bought in there because they're doing some
great work going around the communities. As people are getting
fatigued and you know, people are starting to get really
sick of it, they're just putting in more support around
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the communities.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Tom mcclay's coming down to the south and they're not
too discent future but as well, just a bit of
remembrance over his father, politician Roger McLeay who passed away recently.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yes, Yes, he passed away on Friday night. Todd is
coming down on Tuesday, the twenty fifth of November. We're
going to have him out at a towtow in the
evening I think, starting at six with some finger food
and then seven o'clock meeting with Todd. I think it'll
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be a good opportunity for the rural community to be
able to ask him about particularly the trade agreements that
he has negotiated in those that he is still progressing,
and also a little bit more about some of their
policies and legislation changes that we've made recently around agriculture
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and forestry. So yeah, it'll be a really good opportunity
at Chautow Tuesday the twenty fifth, six o'clock for the
meeting starting at seven out at the Connections, the auditorium
there the church auditorium out in the Tautow.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do you think we're getting closer to a free trade
agreement with India?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Look, I know Todd was working on it last week.
He had a key Indian politicians and officials over last week.
I know he's working very hard on it. It's a
personal ambition for him, so I'm sure that we'll see
some movement next year there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Penny Simmons MP from the Cargo as well as being
Minister for the Environment and a lot of other portfolios
as well. You're very busy individual, but we always appreciate
your time on the master.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Nice to talk and.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Penny Simmons MP from the Cargill. This is the muster
up next Dean Rabbage in our South and Rural Support
series along with Community Trust South, we catch up with
Dean who's farming at Glenarm talk about mindset after adversity.
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Welcome back to the muster on Hakanui. Now thanks to
the South and Rural Support Trust, we're talking to various
farmers and people involved with the farming industry from around
the South after the weather events of or just about
two and a half weeks ago now I suppose with
those wins and what people are doing to change their
mindset and just to get through the tough times. This
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afternoon we're speaking with Dean Rabbage farming at Glenham and
just going to be to Deno about what he does
as well, just when he looks at the workload, putting
things in perspective and telling us about how he faces time,
how he faces situations when times are trying. Of course,
this is all thanks to the Community Trusts South as
well for their support. Dean, good afternoon once again, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Good afternoon Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Firstly, over at Glenn and where you were based, how
did you fear a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Ah, Well, to be honest, we were everybody here was
off farm. So we come home to a few things
to tidy up like everybody else. But yeah, trees and
rooms and a few lending motels. Like there's just the
same as everybody else. Really, we're just probably weird but
fortunate and hasn't damaged any or block any excess or
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major infrastructure of things like that apart from wall shed
roof is gone. But yeah, it's just stuff that's going
to take a long time to tidy up. And we're
just going to wait for a digger in the queue
because it's just the scale or the size of the
trees that are down and probably but don't do for
me to tackle with the tractor in my chainsaw, So
we'll just wait and get it done properly and do
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it once and do it right.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
You say you're off farm when the wind events occurred.
Were you nervous as to what you were coming home to?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
H No, I've had a few reports.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
There's people come and checked up on things and send
me some photos and yeah, so it wasn't too surprised
about what we're coming home to. But yeah, it got
actually got stuck on the west coast because half past
was closed due to another weather event. So come home
for Canterbury in the end and picked up a generator
and timurrow and plugged all in and had it going
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for twenty minutes and come back on. So yeah, murthy, Yeah,
we knew what we were sort of expected when we
got hamnuts. For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There's never a great timing for a situation like this.
And Andrew Kchrman of Venous Feats, made that it made
the observation if it had happened now in a dairy
farming sense of AI and full swing would have been
an absolute nightmare. But a the same token too, that
had happened during the middle of September during lambing, that
would have an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Yeah, would have been. I suppose, like you said, there's
no never a good time for such a massive, large
scale weather event like that. But I suppose with the
sheep and beef had on. Yes, it was not a
bad time. Lambing was all but finishing. People may have
had a few hobbits holding on to your end, But
apart from that, everybody sort of all the lambs and
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news are in a position they could handle an event
such as that. It just may have held up a
bit of tailing for another couple of days, and it's
caused a bit of fencing damage where the bigger trees
have lifted up fences and so they have had a
couple of mobs boxed up a little bit. But at
the end of the day it's everyone was still safe
and alive in that respects So I don't think we've
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got too much to complain about really.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So where you were based at Glennam that you took
a bit of time just to go around and evaluate
the situation before you made a plan.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Was at that stage, Ah, Yeah, we suppose we did
and figured out what was the priority. Yeah, that which
when I said we didn't have any excess spot there's
a couple of trees down across gateways. But yeah, I've
been remembering quite quickly and then getting trees off the
workground pedicts. We were trying to get cropping young grass
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into as the next priority, I guess, so yeah, sort
of we did sort of triarche things as we drove
around Havelock and yeah, and in that respect.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, triarche just the worred you associate with health and
hospital more than farming, but pretty much is what the
situation dictated, right.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, exactly, And talking to bigger contractors and some other
contractors around the country, they've sort of been talking to
all their clients and sort of prioritizing over that around that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Sort of stuff too.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
So there's obviously people that needed tree shift for power restoration,
getting water schemes back on for stock and so forth.
So yeah, like I think everybody's been across the problems
has been very understanding in that respect, and you can
see that if their situation isn't production limiting and an effect,
that they might just have to wait away bit longer.
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So yeah, but I believe that most people have got
pair back on now Andy, So yeah, it's just just
the cleanup to go really. So yeah, I guess the
first week everybody's sort of ran on the dingline a
little bit. But now the severity of some people's tidy
up and restorations coming to the fore. Yeah, the significance
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of it could start to take us told, yes, so
you reckon.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
This is the time that people need to understand that
they're going to be concerns. I need to help. I
had to got to reach out and actually talk to people.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Just just encourage people to keep keep in touch with
their neighbors and touch base and if you're seeing the
event happening, just you take the ten minutes to get
off farm. Like so I know that Glenham here we
have a coffee card at the hall every Friday ten thirty,
so you always make a point of getting down there
and catching up with the locals. So I'm sure, I'm
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not sure. I know there are lots of events like
that going on around south of at the moment too.
So yeah, just encourage you by just to take tea
in and go and have a coffee and hewn and
catch your breath a bit before getting back and getting
into it. But at the end of the day we
will get through the tidy up. It's going to take
a while, but I'm sure there's going to be some
positives come out of it. I can take the opportunity
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to fix a few fences or reline a few things
and stock up the woodshed for winter.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
So, yeah, we'll get there. It'll take a bit of time,
but we will get there.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And that's the thing, And that's the one real silver
lining out of this is ironic, I g as it sounds,
is that what supply for next season, people will get
ahead of the eight ball.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I don't think it will just be next season. I
think be for you to come as well.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, chainsaws as well. Is one thing getting on the
chainsaw and cutting just a couple of logs up, but
it's another thing going in there with days of work
ahead of you. But fortunately there are chainsaw safety workshops occurring,
for example. But tag of real support for us. They've
got stuff happening, They've got events happening, sorry Lawrence Tapanoi,
(27:14):
Clinton and Oweck over the next couple of weeks. So yeah,
I urage people to go along to these as well,
and just make sure you've got an understanding because these
things can be lethal.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, especially with all the root structures still attached these trees,
like effectively they're still fully loaded lining down, if that
makes sense. So Yeah, a serfain doubt to stay away
from it, because I know it's quite easy to get
a bit complacent but out of confidence, and I know
that I've probably been guilty of that at times the South.
So yeah, But touching on those community events, if anybody's
(27:49):
wanted to know when they're happening or anything like that,
just there a Facebook Stork of the South and real support. Trusting.
I know that Katrina's bloody awesome keeping all those events
up to date and sort of yeah, promoting them, so
you'll soon find find something that's close to you and
get involved.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, Coatrina's doing a sterling dive truck keeping everybody in
the loopers to what's going on, because, like you say,
this won't be a five minute fact, and that's the
big thing to keep on the back of your mind.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, exactly. Like I can't see us getting tied it
up until well until next year now, especially with the
workload that's coming on now getting one to crop so
young grass. I mean, gee, heavensbread, we're not far away
from well, I know some people already are drenching lambs
at first and then before we not we're talking about winning.
So yeah, the calendar is getting pretty full quickly. So
(28:41):
unless yeah, we're just taking attitude. Unless it's going to
be a real production limiting.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Clean up. Yes, we've done.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
We're just going to park it until we find the
time to get it done properly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Just finally, Dean, how's your grass situation looking there?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I think it's grin more in the last four days.
Here's in the last four months, to be honest, amazing
what but a hate does the farms change color? And
sort of driving around the pedix now sort of again
being able to breathe a bit and seat of juggling
ten years from here to there to try and make
things look a bit better. So yeah, it's definitely definitely
(29:19):
on the training in the right direction now, Andy, that's
for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Good on your Dean Rabbage. Always appreciate your time on
the muster.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Nowhere's any Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Dane Rabbage of Glennam. Thanks for self and rural support trust,
remembering if you need to reach out for a bit
of a yarn I eight hundred seven eight seven two
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of course this is brought to you by the Community
Trust South. Jill Naylor of Real Woman, New Zealand's up
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next in Andrew Welsh twin f Greenetics. Brian Adams is
the music. This is the Muster on hok and NOUI
Will Will nailor Troy. Jill Naylor apologies. Jill out of
Ural Women, New Zealand joins us next. Having a bit
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of a mere today with names. So, good afternoon. How
are you. I'm great, And it's been a hectic couple
of weeks down here in the South. Firstly, you're based
up there around Alexandra. Did the wind affect you guys
up there at all?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
No, not not really. I mean we were sitting the
embraced for it, but it never really arrived. No, but
we were kind of waiting for it. Yep, as usual,
the weather just went right around us.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
What's your season like out there? Coincidentally, are you having
a decent spring?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Well, it's been really wondy actually, and her things are
just just starting to dry a little. But it's just
been exceptionally windy. Strong ones too, and that's that's quite
funny considering we missed the strongest one.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, that's the irony it's the tale of it takes
for the season.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Right yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, that that's probably the
biggest comment on it's been. Yeah, some decent rains, but yeah, no,
they don't take long to disappear when you're getting northwesters.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So we look at the weather situation down here from
a couple of weeks ago now nearly two and a
half weeks. Goodness me, time moves on. But the damage
that the wind cause was it was far and wide,
to be perfectly frank, oh it was.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
It's been huge. Yeah, just that the widespread nature of
it all and the number of people who have been affected,
it's massive. Were actually we were on the road around
northern Southland Fiordland into in Macago and then back up
the Cup through go over the last couple of weeks
and yeah, it's horrific and I think we've probably skirted
(31:52):
a lot of the worst of it. I think, yeah, No,
it's been horrendous and it's going to be such a long,
a long recovery period. For recovery period, just just the
length of at time it's taken to get the power
back on to everybody has has had a massive effect.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So what does ural Robin, New Zealand do in a
situation like this, Jill.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, we have our Adverse Events Relief Fund, which is
that's thousand dollar grabs for people who are in really
deep personal hardship due to an adverse event, an adverse
weather event. Those applications are there. Just check out our
website for details on that. But we also we're part
of the We're part of the emergency calls that go
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on that we're going on daily for that first couple
of weeks along with all of the rural service industries
or all Support Trust MPI, Ministry of Social Development, Forestry,
everyone was on those calls and everybody has pulled together
really really well.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Our role is.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
We step in wherever we can. We had a team
in Belt Closer who we're pecking gudiebags to go out
care packages to go out to people affected all around
South Chicago. That was a massive effort. The support real
support industries put together a huge number of care packages
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for about everybody in south and south and west of
Tigo I think, and got them all delivered. That was
a massive effort. But we're well aware that this will
be a long ongoing thing. We can do some catering,
drops and things like that for people who need it.
I've been far more in touch with the Icago end
than the Southland end, but our Southland people have ever
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been very much on the ground there. But we're also
very aware that a lot of our members down there
have been affected themselves. So we've actually got a regional
meeting on Wednesday and we'll be looking at what we
can as a whole region there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Of course southwest of Tago heavily affected by the weather,
the wind on as well. And let you say, this
is going to be a marathon not a sprint. Now
the inspiring way he no conference that occurred a few
weeks ago down here in the south. How did that
all go? It sounds that was a really great event.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Ah, it was incredible. It really was so many high
caliber presenters in Gorwa for two days. It was a
real treat to have Tory Peters there, a local good
girl and New Zealand javelin champion. She did a couple
of coaching sessions with the high school kids and she
(34:41):
spoke at our open event that evening and it was
really great. We had breakfast with Nadia Liam and we
had some Julia Jones came down and did a presentation.
Hamie Scott did her Dots Communication Effective Communication presentation. There
were so many and so many workshops. Honestly, it was massive.
(35:05):
There was something there for everybody. There was it was connection, learning,
health and well being, business advocacy, you name it. It
was pretty much there. The program was incredible. We was
about one hundred old old there for the two or
three days and yeah, everybody was buzzing afterwards. Yeah, and
(35:28):
a great showcase for Gore as well. I did come
home with a bottle of Hocanoi moonshine beer, honey liqueur
and also some of the beautiful truffles that they have
on sale. Oh my goodness, they're so good.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Tory Moreby, of course Local Olympian doing great things. Now.
The AGM for Rural Woman's coming up, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's on the twentieth of November. We're hoping to get
a really good good number of members up there in
Wellington at Parliament. We're going to be hosted at Parliament,
which will be really especially seeing it's given it to
our centennial Agm. We also just a note here for
any Rural Woman New Zealand members who are listening today
(36:10):
and I'm sure there'll be a few, quite a few.
Please do remember to If you're not attending in person,
please do remember to vote. The AGM papers have all
been posted out and we need a really good response
in the postal voting where oh it's we've got to
renew our constitution as per the Charities Act and everything
(36:32):
that's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yes, incorporated societies, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's the one. Yeah, and we really need to get
our constitution through and voted on at this AGM. So yeah,
please any members out there remember to vote.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Hey Joe Naylor, real Woman, New Zealand, always appreciate your
time on the Master.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Lovely thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
John Naylor of Rural Women Zalen. This is the Master
on Hockey nowI before we wrap up, Andrew Welsh and
Twin Fan Genetics, thanks for joining us. You're listening to
(37:25):
the Master on Hockey now he Andrew Welsh and a
twin Farm genetics. So how much TI from joins us
this afternoon? Good afternoon. That sounds like you're trenching and
playing in the mad.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Yep, yeah, I love a bit of playing on the
mad here twin Farm, so just getting on and there's
a few broken talls and that that we should have
gone on too earlier that we was sort of put
off doing. And yeah, today's the day we get on
again fixed.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
How's ground conditions looking there?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
All things considered, it's actually drawn up really good to
be fear. Yeah, it's quite surprising how quickly has changed.
You've got to be really onto it with your tracking work,
not letting the grand draw out on top too much
because we're sort of you get the odd place, so
you've got the complaint where it's getting marbles on top
because they're too hard, and then underneath you've got the
odd dent piece as well. It's not breaking down as good.
So nothing like a farmer will not be happy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well that's about it really. It's either too dried, too windy,
or something else or some one or the other. But
it's a farming prerogative. Hey, who's driving the diggers today?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
As you did in the dog today? Just got to
we we tend to digg going and just they're fixing
up a few tolls that are broken, so nothing too
major and we've got plenty of fard to work with having.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
A weed digg it is a big enough ten tanna
you living. It's got enough on to move some branches
if need be.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Yeah, absolutely, yep. Now it's good to tick around and
get a few jobs done, and that's that'll be the
next job, which you've got a proper tree trim or
coming or arborous they call themselves. And yeah, because some
of those trees, those wind blown ones, you never know
how they're quite going to go. So we went around
and had them come and cut all the main stumps
off fences and that and flip the stumps back up
so at least we can get some fences back up,
(38:58):
and then we'll go around later on when we get
a tie and have a few fire palls and say
what logs we came for?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Forward, Now you're down the wide mere valley there, you're
not far from Mandible. How did you guys hit end
up with those ones?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
But look everyone, it was quite extreme, just whip along
the front of the hill here where you were velving
some staggs at the time in the yard. So we're
just shot put them in and saw them up and
shot back for lunch and I'll hopped out of the
truck and to check the freezer and everything was all
go and could hardly get back on the truck door
to be fair. So it's yeah, pretty extreme at times.
(39:31):
But yeah, a few trees around and a few shed
roofs and missing in places, but all in all, it
could have been worse, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, that's pretty much about it. And let you talk
about just before we hit a yarn, it'd wait for
twenty minutes or so, if I wait for another twenty
twenty five minutes, you'd hate to think whether what the
results could have.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Been, right, Yeah, good, right, Yeah it did come through
short and sharp, and yeah about that fifteen twenty minutes,
that was the brunt of it gone. But yeah they'd
gone on for a couple of hours. Yeah, there'll be
in a lot more trouble then.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So as far as you're tailing and treak to work,
how's it all going you up to date?
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Yeah, tailing's all done. We at chip around and did
it all our salves this year except the Hoggits. We've
got the local country club coming and do half day
there tailing them. Good fundraiser and good crew on the
in the pen. So yeah, it just took along pretty good.
The hill did not too bad up there one four
to three. The flats are still going to do the
fine word up for the lakes, but yeah, it's going
to be yeah, I don't want to guess where it's
(40:24):
at yet, but it's not going to be a super year,
but it won't be that bad either.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So you've got a bit of clover starting to grow it.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Is yet you can see the grass to changing color
and finally getting away now. So we're actually this week
we'll start into a bit of lamb drenching as well
and just go around and give them a bit of
a tidy up about that month out from wedding now,
so we try to have them in the yards the
least amount of time possible, so by holding off and
sort of drenching them about now than time for weaning
time again.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
So you're drenching routine. It's no different to other years.
You minaged to stick to trae to your dates. So far.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
Yeah, pretty pretty good so far. There was a couple
of mobs that were looking quite bad that were real
tight through spring, so we brought them and then we
did a couple last week and then the rest will
hold off till end of this coming week and get
in and blow the bulk of them out.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
So velveteen. I've speaking to a couple of people about
that recently. How how's it going for you guys?
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Pretty good.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
All the meat staggs, I think I've got three meat
staggs left to go, so they've cut really good this year.
And the velveting, I've got some young velveting ones there
that they're probably about two or three weeks away from
getting going with them. But all in all, that's looking
pretty good. I haven't heard any prices yet. It's the
only downside I think, for the sound of it, might
be velvet. It's the only sort of commodity that's looking
(41:40):
down a wee bit this season.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
It sounds as though wolves pecked or it has wolves
picked up over what it's been for the last couple
of years or decades. Just be honest. It's had a
nice weee rise over the last couple of six weeks
eight weeks or so, so that's something to look forward to.
Speaker 7 (41:54):
I did get an email out from our local contractor
and your rakes have gone up again this year, so
that'll be typical.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Will be back.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
Hopefully wall prices gone that can cover the shearing expenses.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Again.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Surprices have gone up for sharing, Yes, yep.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
They have for air contractor anyway that's gone up when
you go up three percent or three and a half
percent or something.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
So I would have cost you to share a sheets.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
So we'll be getting what will we now? I think
full contract will be near enough to about five eighty.
I think, now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
This is they're in their money too. If you're on
a hand face it's hard.
Speaker 7 (42:31):
Yeah, yes, a fear players, Oh absolutely no. They deserve
every dollar they get for doing that job. It's it's
one of those skills that it looks easy when you've
got the professionals doing it, but you spend ten minutes
on yourself and it's one of those only jobs that
you can You can do one or two sheep and
you're in a full sweat the truth.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
But we look at the remat sector for the season
and I think, well, it's topping up pretty good. Like
Charlton Yards the other day, top lambs three hundred and
fifty dollars for goodness sake and use it two hundred fifty.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
I said, there, and so were cal ram lambs. I
went through and pulp paid and check them all over. Yeah,
last week and sent them down and that we got
three fifty for the tops of those through there. So
I was very impressed with that coming back and very surprised.
But let's hopefully it continues because I know all our
expenses that have gone up. I actually saw a thing
on Facebook a couple of weeks ago with even just
(43:25):
your can of coke and petrol and what that's gone up,
And it's huge compared to what their price of lamb
and beef's gone up as nothing compared to those So
how heavy were these prices are there to stay?
Speaker 1 (43:36):
How heavy were those lambs then?
Speaker 7 (43:38):
I never actually weighed them, but I'd say the tops
of them would have been pushing on eighty kilos zer
All yep, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Willn't you go back to playing in the mud because
that's what you love doing, right Tim Farm to Neddix,
a home of tier from We appreciate you, Cather and
Russell ongoing support for Hakai as well as the muster
of the five day forecast. You enjoy the afternoon, all right?
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Good as golden near. Stay safely out there for cutting
any of those trees.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
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name is Andy Muller. I'm here until two o'clock of course,
thanks to Peter Genenix. Welcome along. After a busy sporting weekend,
especially in the rugby sense the All Blacks. They got
the win just over Scotland and England awaits at twicken
the next weekend. It doesn't get any bigger for the Abs,
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but South Africa. The way they dealt with France over
in Paris yesterday morning, that was impressive and Cia Kalisi
one of the most inspiring individuals to have grace a
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Jamie King of Lake Eroco starts us off in the
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MP Penny Simmons. We talk about the allocation of money
based on what these figures Winston Peters produced that New
Zealand gives to the Cook Islands as well. We asked
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Glennam joins us in his self Nural Support Trust, talking
about farming mindset in the face of adversity. Of course
thanks to community trusts South Jill Naylor of Rural Women
New Zealand. We have a regular catch up and then
following up to wrap up the hours, Andrew Walsh at
a twin farm Genetics the home of Tip from So
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without further ado, we start the yowl with Jamie King.
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Jamie King of Lake Heroko starts us off in the
Sergeant Dan Farming round Up, thanks of course the Susian
Dan stock foods here in Gore. Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Good mate, here were going today?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah? Going pretty well? Thanks? But how's everything over around
Lake Heroco Way? How have you been over the past
couple of weeks with all this one that's been about.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now we've survived the wind we got off redly scott free, Indie.
I think we've got the big buff record for Ordlands,
so I think it's sort of went over us and
around us. No, to be fair, the weak prior that
we got more damaged from the wind end.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So no, it's scot free on that one, mate.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, and we're only a couple of days without pairs,
so very very lucky. I have no idea how they
got pair to us, because we're still a long way
from any weird it. Yeah, No, I can't complain, to
be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So do you not have anybody over over your way
without power? Still?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, not that I'm aware of, Andy. I think most
of western South and is all all back on and
the biggest spugby of the local to a temper there.
It got sort of shut right down out of it
for a couple of days and didn't have no calms
and know nothing. So and that was a bit of
a bit of an interest on a few elderly in that.
But no, I scores out and the weren't too bad.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you say the wind was worse three weeks ago,
What was it exactly that you had?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was this norweest as why we had four five
trees come down one took a pair out, was yeah,
and then that the gus that up to the rest
of the south and didn't really do anything. I was
anticipating a lot more.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You do hear a be area is being shouted like
you are there? Obviously you talk about the buffer cord
for Orland, but just the way that it's come in
certain places and just gone whish there are another areas. Yeah,
more or less left it alone and slightly done something wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, absolutely mate.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And it was th real it actually on the Thursday
when it did blow, I was actually an in the
cargo for it. And when it blew and we make
you get a bit older, and nothing bothers you much,
but I was to be fair skinned in it was
I didn't want to be in Vcago. There was things
flying through the air and trees coming down, and it
was I could have thought of a million other places
I'll turn to have been and floating around town. So
(04:53):
we sort of just packed up and waited it out
for a couple of years. And the gusts of the settle,
but it was still blue blue all afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Talking about sheets of iron flying around. What was the situation?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yep, yet no, we're part of one seat lights and
a sheet of wine came tearing around the corner and
walked into side the truck and went under, and there
was branches, and then there was some people that hopefully
going to breed mate outstand under the trees, taking obviously
videos or what have you. And we're sort of men,
my good lady. We're having a bit of a wager
on it, but we won't.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Talk about that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's all about those legs.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well apparently so apparently so, but we leave it with them.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Of those so as far as groundwork and the likes, tailing,
tailing's on the rearview mirror now, ah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
No, just sort of getting into it, and I think
scoops and cat they got one day under their belts
and containing Connery is a bit far behind, just with
the weet like we've been precddly weird. I think we
tipped two hundred and eighty five milli out for October, mate,
and ground work you're just starting to chap away now
it's just coming right, but we're.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Definitely not too soon. It's still pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Gluggy some places, but here, like last week there was
just a boomer of a week. You know, we needed it.
I'm not sure what mother nature was up to. It
feels like we said of had on there. I'm looking
towards to the other day. Six months of autumn, two
months of winter and now we're into summer. So yeah,
but the grass is grad eddie, which is really nice.
(06:19):
We're any bit of heat and I've got happy animals again,
nothing sort of you know. Hearing's just laying down and cruising.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So that's easy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So just yeah, it's going to the motions, mate.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So you're running fall, Telly's compared to other seasons, where
do you think you're at?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, we've had nearly what are we for? They said?
To eighty. This is terrible to a mess on this
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Forgive you?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, we're about about five eighty miler. I think we
had for September Rocktomer, mate, But of course we had
nothing over the winter, so I think we're well, we'll
probably wind up on par. But it just doesn't help
that it all comes at once, endy.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Are you trying to get the velveting and everything else
done at the moment? To talk to Warren and us
the other day, and there seemed to be a bit
of an elephant at the room in the room unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Ah yeah, it's a bit of a tour at the moment. Mate.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Look, just you know, Tongue in Cheeks are just sent
sixteen with dray heaps that works this morning the old
boy took over. And to be fair, those sixteen heaps
are probably going to be more than what my entire
Velbert Chick's going to be. Not that I'm gonna in
a big way of the velot there's one hundred and
twenty y or so, but ah yeah, it's a real
cheery one and I'm yeah, I'm feeling a bit for
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these ls, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But it's all out of the control. There's a bit
of few interesting things going on that scene.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But hopefully probably what we've just been through the red
mix sect and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hopefully it gets a self alleviated.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
One thing with a deer industry, Andy and the Venice
and it can be arguably volatile, but it just fast
as it goes bad, it seems to come right again.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So I'm just fingers crossed on that one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, Venison Shed goes looking pretty good. Contracts and the.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Likes yeah, mate, and it's nice too. And the contracts
are out for twelve months me, Andy, so you know
you can budget to that, you know, floating around that
late no to teen and the early teen some gos
you know, for twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Fluctuates a bit within that, but it's eating budget to that, Andy,
and it's more you know it. So it's great for
twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Eat. It's really easy numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Imagine being able to do that with your lamb check.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ah, it'd be too easy, mate, wouldn't that wouldn't that?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, Well nothing's easy, Jamie, but it might give you
a little bit more certainty as far as the numbers
that are coming in.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You just mis everything.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Hey, it'd be sort of supposed, but the dairy farming model,
wouldn't it, you know, just month by month into the
autute forecast and where you go, just worry about ground grass.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Last time we spoke, and this hasn't been spoken about
for a few weeks and understandably so. But the Alliance
Group and Dawn Meats, or the restructure of the Alliance
Group as such with Dawn Meats buying in is complete.
Now you're a bit cynical of this beforehand, but you've
changed your thinking a little bit now after a conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, mate, So we're sort.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Of lucky enough to meet the Noile the other day
after and they have a bit of a catch up
and it was quite good. So I come out of
it feeling yeah, probably a lot better than what we
had done for six months leaning into it. You know,
on the upside, we can sit here and pointed everything that's.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wrong with it, Andy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And on that note, you remember they've just tipped two
hundred and seventy million into it, so they want to
return out of their money. Quite a stute businessman, which
is going to be good prott a little bit more
fat taking out of the system. So yeah, look, the
long and short of handy turning seventy million dollars worth.
They want animals, they want meat. So I think for
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definitely the short term anyway, it'll be really, really, probably
quite strong for a.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Couple of years anyway. And there's some many gritty on
the ground stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We spoke about what comparison to these systems and our
systems and what we do well versus what they're doing well.
And some of it was quite lightning, mate, through just
water usage.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And processing capability.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And so arguably it's a yes, it's not the way
we wanted it to go, but I mean, such a
life I'm believe in not looking back, mate, So it'll
be interesting. And like I said, and the alliance door
meat JV. It's not the elephant in the room anymore
because it's still be put to bed. But we'll not
put to bed, but just open another door and will
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you shall wait and see.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You going forward.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, arguably, if the Alliance was nothing but a light
blanket in the middle of winter, dawn, meats has come
through the heavy douvey on top of the bed.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Without a doubt, Mate, without a doubt. And you know
we will know how we got here and this was
probably basically the only option out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The way in the current climate, so I don't you know,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But on that note, mate, we've lost you know, we
haven't got a whole leave solely red meat own cooperative,
which I don't know, perhaps might be a good thing
any gain forward, you know. Sorry, well have anyone having
an opinion, but sometimes too many opinions aren't aren't ideal.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Good only Jamie always appreciate your time, Hey spot on,
Thanks for much mate, Jamie King of Lake Roko and
the Sergeant Dan Farming Farming round up of course sings
the sergeants and stop foods here and Gore. Penny Simmons,
MP for and the Cargo and Minister of the Environment
is up next, Megan. This is the muster on Hockno
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that song They're All for Love, featuring Brian Adams, Rod
Stewart and Sting. That's right, it was Sting involved, coming
from the Three Musketeers soundtrack of the movie of the
same title from nineteen ninety four Good Year nineteen ninety
four twenty. Penny Simmons joins us next, not that this
has got anything to do with the price of solo
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supposed Penny, But how was your weekend?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It was good, thank you, It was good. I was
trying to think what I was doing in nineteen ninety four.
It's probably not worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So what were you doing, because Jerry McKay was starting
a radio station in Goore, what were you up to?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, I'd been married for ten years, so I had
twins about not I had four year old twins. So
I was probably running the Gore campus of the Polytech
at that time, I'd say ninety four, so yeah, it's
probably in gare as well. How was my weekend anyway? Look,
it was good. Devali Southland, the Indian community of Southland
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put on Devali celebrations for celebration of light, good over evil,
and it was a great celebration that the stadium went
on all day, started at eleven o'clock, went on into
the evening and just lovely to see our Indian community
out and as they reared out the things that the
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people on the executive of the Indian community were involved,
and I thought, gosh, they are well qualified and they
are well integrated with our community. You know, they were accountants,
they were in health, they were in business. It was
amazing they were well integrated in real estate, so you know,
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they've really made a big difference to our community, a
little bit like the Filipino community in Southland. What a
big difference the Filipino community and the Indian the particularly
the Indian subcontinent, you know, India and Sri Lanka. What
a difference it's made to our community having those people
here working, bringing their skills, bringing their talents to Southland.
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So it was lovely to celebrate that. It really was
really good and look nice to get weather a little
bit better, warming up and feeling like summers on its way,
and I know that'll be helping a bit for the farmers,
although I was talking to a dairy farmer the other day,
and of course just being able to get the debris
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off their paddocks to be able to cut a grass,
the silage and bailage, you know, trying to get trees
and debris off the paddocks. To be able to do
that is a mission in itself, and we forget how
tiring things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Like that are.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You get over the main event and then you've got
all these things that keep impacting on you. And also
on air saw mills, just as saw mills being able
to cope with the volume and particularly the Markra Carper.
I'm thinking about how specialized being able to use that is.
So we're sort of talking about ways in which we
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might be able to support with that because yep, the
events are been and gone, but the legacy of it
lingers on for quite some time now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
South and District Mayor Rob Scott made a really interesting
observation last week Penny's saying that Southend's only two percent
of the population, yet it contributes around fifteen percent of
our GDP. Now, Winston Peter's coming out of these figures
regarding the islands and what is it, thirty million dollars
plus even over two years, and yet there's only one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars that has been allocated to
the mere relief funds down South. This seems a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, look, yeah, it is around fifteen sixteen percent of
New Zealand's GDP. We punch well above our weight in
terms of what we produce for the country. The Cook
Islands have been an issue for us of recent years
in terms of their relationships that they are building, particularly
(15:35):
with China. Look, it's a difficult one for us because
they are around country, so they have certain legal obligations
and also writes with us. But also they have to
keep their end of the bag. And so that is
why you'll have seen in the media recently that quite
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a large chunk of the funding isn't going to at
the moment because they haven't kept their side of the
bargain in terms of transparency. Look, one of our issues,
of course is how strong China is in the cook
in the Pacific Islands. It's an issue for us and
for Australia particularly, and so we can't have it both ways.
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We can't not support the Pacific Islands but then complain
when others do. And it is a geopolitical risk to
us to have China in there, really strong in the
Pacific Islands. So there's arguments both ways. I've heard a
lot of people saying, oh, we shouldn't be giving them anything.
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If we don't, we can be sure that there will
be others in there which may not be what we
want to see advancing in the Pacific Islands.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You can understand the frustration of one hundred and fifty
k saves a pittance in the scheme of things.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah, Look, there's been a little more. I think we've
put another seventy k in was announced. There's some discussions
that we had last week. In the finish. It is
support for things like the Meyoral Fund and the Rural
Support Trust. It isn't cover areas where insurance hasn't covered
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farmers and business people and homeowners, and that I know
is harsh for a lot of people, but it's the
same across the country. Our funding needs to be for
for infrastructure and for support to the people, but not
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covering where insurance isn't covering.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, I understand that, but just give support to the
groups that need the money as well.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, well certainly the Rural Support Trust is getting
that additional funding, the extra seventy k. So trying to
put some additional bought in there because they're doing some
great work going around the communities. As people are getting
fatigued and you know, people are starting to get really
sick of it, they're just putting in more support around
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the communities.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Tom mcclay's coming down to the south and they're not
too discent future but as well, just a bit of
remembrance over his father, politician Roger McLeay who passed away recently.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yes, Yes, he passed away on Friday night. Todd is
coming down on Tuesday, the twenty fifth of November. We're
going to have him out at a towtow in the
evening I think, starting at six with some finger food
and then seven o'clock meeting with Todd. I think it'll
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be a good opportunity for the rural community to be
able to ask him about particularly the trade agreements that
he has negotiated in those that he is still progressing,
and also a little bit more about some of their
policies and legislation changes that we've made recently around agriculture
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and forestry. So yeah, it'll be a really good opportunity
at Chautow Tuesday the twenty fifth, six o'clock for the
meeting starting at seven out at the Connections, the auditorium
there the church auditorium out in the Tautow.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do you think we're getting closer to a free trade
agreement with India?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Look, I know Todd was working on it last week.
He had a key Indian politicians and officials over last week.
I know he's working very hard on it. It's a
personal ambition for him, so I'm sure that we'll see
some movement next year there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Penny Simmons MP from the Cargo as well as being
Minister for the Environment and a lot of other portfolios
as well. You're very busy individual, but we always appreciate
your time on the master.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Nice to talk and.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Penny Simmons MP from the Cargill. This is the muster
up next Dean Rabbage in our South and Rural Support
series along with Community Trust South, we catch up with
Dean who's farming at Glenarm talk about mindset after adversity.
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Welcome back to the muster on Hakanui. Now thanks to
the South and Rural Support Trust, we're talking to various
farmers and people involved with the farming industry from around
the South after the weather events of or just about
two and a half weeks ago now I suppose with
those wins and what people are doing to change their
mindset and just to get through the tough times. This
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afternoon we're speaking with Dean Rabbage farming at Glenham and
just going to be to Deno about what he does
as well, just when he looks at the workload, putting
things in perspective and telling us about how he faces time,
how he faces situations when times are trying. Of course,
this is all thanks to the Community Trusts South as
well for their support. Dean, good afternoon once again, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Good afternoon Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Firstly, over at Glenn and where you were based, how
did you fear a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Ah, Well, to be honest, we were everybody here was
off farm. So we come home to a few things
to tidy up like everybody else. But yeah, trees and
rooms and a few lending motels. Like there's just the
same as everybody else. Really, we're just probably weird but
fortunate and hasn't damaged any or block any excess or
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major infrastructure of things like that apart from wall shed
roof is gone. But yeah, it's just stuff that's going
to take a long time to tidy up. And we're
just going to wait for a digger in the queue
because it's just the scale or the size of the
trees that are down and probably but don't do for
me to tackle with the tractor in my chainsaw, So
we'll just wait and get it done properly and do
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it once and do it right.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
You say you're off farm when the wind events occurred.
Were you nervous as to what you were coming home to?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
H No, I've had a few reports.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
There's people come and checked up on things and send
me some photos and yeah, so it wasn't too surprised
about what we're coming home to. But yeah, it got
actually got stuck on the west coast because half past
was closed due to another weather event. So come home
for Canterbury in the end and picked up a generator
and timurrow and plugged all in and had it going
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for twenty minutes and come back on. So yeah, murthy, Yeah,
we knew what we were sort of expected when we
got hamnuts. For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There's never a great timing for a situation like this.
And Andrew Kchrman of Venous Feats, made that it made
the observation if it had happened now in a dairy
farming sense of AI and full swing would have been
an absolute nightmare. But a the same token too, that
had happened during the middle of September during lambing, that
would have an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Yeah, would have been. I suppose, like you said, there's
no never a good time for such a massive, large
scale weather event like that. But I suppose with the
sheep and beef had on. Yes, it was not a
bad time. Lambing was all but finishing. People may have
had a few hobbits holding on to your end, But
apart from that, everybody sort of all the lambs and
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news are in a position they could handle an event
such as that. It just may have held up a
bit of tailing for another couple of days, and it's
caused a bit of fencing damage where the bigger trees
have lifted up fences and so they have had a
couple of mobs boxed up a little bit. But at
the end of the day it's everyone was still safe
and alive in that respects So I don't think we've
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got too much to complain about really.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So where you were based at Glennam that you took
a bit of time just to go around and evaluate
the situation before you made a plan.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Was at that stage, Ah, Yeah, we suppose we did
and figured out what was the priority. Yeah, that which
when I said we didn't have any excess spot there's
a couple of trees down across gateways. But yeah, I've
been remembering quite quickly and then getting trees off the
workground pedicts. We were trying to get cropping young grass
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into as the next priority, I guess, so yeah, sort
of we did sort of triarche things as we drove
around Havelock and yeah, and in that respect.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, triarche just the worred you associate with health and
hospital more than farming, but pretty much is what the
situation dictated, right.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, exactly, And talking to bigger contractors and some other
contractors around the country, they've sort of been talking to
all their clients and sort of prioritizing over that around that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Sort of stuff too.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
So there's obviously people that needed tree shift for power restoration,
getting water schemes back on for stock and so forth.
So yeah, like I think everybody's been across the problems
has been very understanding in that respect, and you can
see that if their situation isn't production limiting and an effect,
that they might just have to wait away bit longer.
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So yeah, but I believe that most people have got
pair back on now Andy, So yeah, it's just just
the cleanup to go really. So yeah, I guess the
first week everybody's sort of ran on the dingline a
little bit. But now the severity of some people's tidy
up and restorations coming to the fore. Yeah, the significance
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of it could start to take us told, yes, so
you reckon.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
This is the time that people need to understand that
they're going to be concerns. I need to help. I
had to got to reach out and actually talk to people.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Just just encourage people to keep keep in touch with
their neighbors and touch base and if you're seeing the
event happening, just you take the ten minutes to get
off farm. Like so I know that Glenham here we
have a coffee card at the hall every Friday ten thirty,
so you always make a point of getting down there
and catching up with the locals. So I'm sure, I'm
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not sure. I know there are lots of events like
that going on around south of at the moment too.
So yeah, just encourage you by just to take tea
in and go and have a coffee and hewn and
catch your breath a bit before getting back and getting
into it. But at the end of the day we
will get through the tidy up. It's going to take
a while, but I'm sure there's going to be some
positives come out of it. I can take the opportunity
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to fix a few fences or reline a few things
and stock up the woodshed for winter.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
So, yeah, we'll get there. It'll take a bit of time,
but we will get there.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And that's the thing, And that's the one real silver
lining out of this is ironic, I g as it sounds,
is that what supply for next season, people will get
ahead of the eight ball.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I don't think it will just be next season. I
think be for you to come as well.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, chainsaws as well. Is one thing getting on the
chainsaw and cutting just a couple of logs up, but
it's another thing going in there with days of work
ahead of you. But fortunately there are chainsaw safety workshops occurring,
for example. But tag of real support for us. They've
got stuff happening, They've got events happening, sorry Lawrence Tapanoi,
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Clinton and Oweck over the next couple of weeks. So yeah,
I urage people to go along to these as well,
and just make sure you've got an understanding because these
things can be lethal.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, especially with all the root structures still attached these trees,
like effectively they're still fully loaded lining down, if that
makes sense. So Yeah, a serfain doubt to stay away
from it, because I know it's quite easy to get
a bit complacent but out of confidence, and I know
that I've probably been guilty of that at times the South.
So yeah, But touching on those community events, if anybody's
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wanted to know when they're happening or anything like that,
just there a Facebook Stork of the South and real support. Trusting.
I know that Katrina's bloody awesome keeping all those events
up to date and sort of yeah, promoting them, so
you'll soon find find something that's close to you and
get involved.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, Coatrina's doing a sterling dive truck keeping everybody in
the loopers to what's going on, because, like you say,
this won't be a five minute fact, and that's the
big thing to keep on the back of your mind.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, exactly. Like I can't see us getting tied it
up until well until next year now, especially with the
workload that's coming on now getting one to crop so
young grass. I mean, gee, heavensbread, we're not far away
from well, I know some people already are drenching lambs
at first and then before we not we're talking about winning.
So yeah, the calendar is getting pretty full quickly. So
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unless yeah, we're just taking attitude. Unless it's going to
be a real production limiting.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Clean up. Yes, we've done.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
We're just going to park it until we find the
time to get it done properly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Just finally, Dean, how's your grass situation looking there?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I think it's grin more in the last four days.
Here's in the last four months, to be honest, amazing
what but a hate does the farms change color? And
sort of driving around the pedix now sort of again
being able to breathe a bit and seat of juggling
ten years from here to there to try and make
things look a bit better. So yeah, it's definitely definitely
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on the training in the right direction now, Andy, that's
for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Good on your Dean Rabbage. Always appreciate your time on
the muster.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Nowhere's any Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Dane Rabbage of Glennam. Thanks for self and rural support trust,
remembering if you need to reach out for a bit
of a yarn I eight hundred seven eight seven two
five four for a confidential chit chat, self and ural
support trust, remembering problem shared is a problem halved. And
of course this is brought to you by the Community
Trust South. Jill Naylor of Real Woman, New Zealand's up
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next in Andrew Welsh twin f Greenetics. Brian Adams is
the music. This is the Muster on hok and NOUI
Will Will nailor Troy. Jill Naylor apologies. Jill out of
Ural Women, New Zealand joins us next. Having a bit
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of a mere today with names. So, good afternoon. How
are you. I'm great, And it's been a hectic couple
of weeks down here in the South. Firstly, you're based
up there around Alexandra. Did the wind affect you guys
up there at all?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
No, not not really. I mean we were sitting the
embraced for it, but it never really arrived. No, but
we were kind of waiting for it. Yep, as usual,
the weather just went right around us.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
What's your season like out there? Coincidentally, are you having
a decent spring?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Well, it's been really wondy actually, and her things are
just just starting to dry a little. But it's just
been exceptionally windy. Strong ones too, and that's that's quite
funny considering we missed the strongest one.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, that's the irony it's the tale of it takes
for the season.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Right yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, that that's probably the
biggest comment on it's been. Yeah, some decent rains, but yeah, no,
they don't take long to disappear when you're getting northwesters.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So we look at the weather situation down here from
a couple of weeks ago now nearly two and a
half weeks. Goodness me, time moves on. But the damage
that the wind cause was it was far and wide,
to be perfectly frank, oh it was.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
It's been huge. Yeah, just that the widespread nature of
it all and the number of people who have been affected,
it's massive. Were actually we were on the road around
northern Southland Fiordland into in Macago and then back up
the Cup through go over the last couple of weeks
and yeah, it's horrific and I think we've probably skirted
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a lot of the worst of it. I think, yeah, No,
it's been horrendous and it's going to be such a long,
a long recovery period. For recovery period, just just the
length of at time it's taken to get the power
back on to everybody has has had a massive effect.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So what does ural Robin, New Zealand do in a
situation like this, Jill.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, we have our Adverse Events Relief Fund, which is
that's thousand dollar grabs for people who are in really
deep personal hardship due to an adverse event, an adverse
weather event. Those applications are there. Just check out our
website for details on that. But we also we're part
of the We're part of the emergency calls that go
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on that we're going on daily for that first couple
of weeks along with all of the rural service industries
or all Support Trust MPI, Ministry of Social Development, Forestry,
everyone was on those calls and everybody has pulled together
really really well.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Our role is.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
We step in wherever we can. We had a team
in Belt Closer who we're pecking gudiebags to go out
care packages to go out to people affected all around
South Chicago. That was a massive effort. The support real
support industries put together a huge number of care packages
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for about everybody in south and south and west of
Tigo I think, and got them all delivered. That was
a massive effort. But we're well aware that this will
be a long ongoing thing. We can do some catering,
drops and things like that for people who need it.
I've been far more in touch with the Icago end
than the Southland end, but our Southland people have ever
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been very much on the ground there. But we're also
very aware that a lot of our members down there
have been affected themselves. So we've actually got a regional
meeting on Wednesday and we'll be looking at what we
can as a whole region there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Of course southwest of Tago heavily affected by the weather,
the wind on as well. And let you say, this
is going to be a marathon not a sprint. Now
the inspiring way he no conference that occurred a few
weeks ago down here in the south. How did that
all go? It sounds that was a really great event.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Ah, it was incredible. It really was so many high
caliber presenters in Gorwa for two days. It was a
real treat to have Tory Peters there, a local good
girl and New Zealand javelin champion. She did a couple
of coaching sessions with the high school kids and she
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spoke at our open event that evening and it was
really great. We had breakfast with Nadia Liam and we
had some Julia Jones came down and did a presentation.
Hamie Scott did her Dots Communication Effective Communication presentation. There
were so many and so many workshops. Honestly, it was massive.
(35:05):
There was something there for everybody. There was it was connection, learning,
health and well being, business advocacy, you name it. It
was pretty much there. The program was incredible. We was
about one hundred old old there for the two or
three days and yeah, everybody was buzzing afterwards. Yeah, and
(35:28):
a great showcase for Gore as well. I did come
home with a bottle of Hocanoi moonshine beer, honey liqueur
and also some of the beautiful truffles that they have
on sale. Oh my goodness, they're so good.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Tory Moreby, of course Local Olympian doing great things. Now.
The AGM for Rural Woman's coming up, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's on the twentieth of November. We're hoping to get
a really good good number of members up there in
Wellington at Parliament. We're going to be hosted at Parliament,
which will be really especially seeing it's given it to
our centennial Agm. We also just a note here for
any Rural Woman New Zealand members who are listening today
(36:10):
and I'm sure there'll be a few, quite a few.
Please do remember to If you're not attending in person,
please do remember to vote. The AGM papers have all
been posted out and we need a really good response
in the postal voting where oh it's we've got to
renew our constitution as per the Charities Act and everything
(36:32):
that's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yes, incorporated societies, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's the one. Yeah, and we really need to get
our constitution through and voted on at this AGM. So yeah,
please any members out there remember to vote.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Hey Joe Naylor, real Woman, New Zealand, always appreciate your
time on the Master.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Lovely thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
John Naylor of Rural Women Zalen. This is the Master
on Hockey nowI before we wrap up, Andrew Welsh and
Twin Fan Genetics, thanks for joining us. You're listening to
(37:25):
the Master on Hockey now he Andrew Welsh and a
twin Farm genetics. So how much TI from joins us
this afternoon? Good afternoon. That sounds like you're trenching and
playing in the mad.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Yep, yeah, I love a bit of playing on the
mad here twin Farm, so just getting on and there's
a few broken talls and that that we should have
gone on too earlier that we was sort of put
off doing. And yeah, today's the day we get on
again fixed.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
How's ground conditions looking there?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
All things considered, it's actually drawn up really good to
be fear. Yeah, it's quite surprising how quickly has changed.
You've got to be really onto it with your tracking work,
not letting the grand draw out on top too much
because we're sort of you get the odd place, so
you've got the complaint where it's getting marbles on top
because they're too hard, and then underneath you've got the
odd dent piece as well. It's not breaking down as good.
So nothing like a farmer will not be happy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well that's about it really. It's either too dried, too windy,
or something else or some one or the other. But
it's a farming prerogative. Hey, who's driving the diggers today?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
As you did in the dog today? Just got to
we we tend to digg going and just they're fixing
up a few tolls that are broken, so nothing too
major and we've got plenty of fard to work with having.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
A weed digg it is a big enough ten tanna
you living. It's got enough on to move some branches
if need be.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Yeah, absolutely, yep. Now it's good to tick around and
get a few jobs done, and that's that'll be the
next job, which you've got a proper tree trim or
coming or arborous they call themselves. And yeah, because some
of those trees, those wind blown ones, you never know
how they're quite going to go. So we went around
and had them come and cut all the main stumps
off fences and that and flip the stumps back up
so at least we can get some fences back up,
(38:58):
and then we'll go around later on when we get
a tie and have a few fire palls and say
what logs we came for?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Forward, Now you're down the wide mere valley there, you're
not far from Mandible. How did you guys hit end
up with those ones?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
But look everyone, it was quite extreme, just whip along
the front of the hill here where you were velving
some staggs at the time in the yard. So we're
just shot put them in and saw them up and
shot back for lunch and I'll hopped out of the
truck and to check the freezer and everything was all
go and could hardly get back on the truck door
to be fair. So it's yeah, pretty extreme at times.
(39:31):
But yeah, a few trees around and a few shed
roofs and missing in places, but all in all, it
could have been worse, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, that's pretty much about it. And let you talk
about just before we hit a yarn, it'd wait for
twenty minutes or so, if I wait for another twenty
twenty five minutes, you'd hate to think whether what the
results could have.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Been, right, Yeah, good, right, Yeah it did come through
short and sharp, and yeah about that fifteen twenty minutes,
that was the brunt of it gone. But yeah they'd
gone on for a couple of hours. Yeah, there'll be
in a lot more trouble then.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So as far as you're tailing and treak to work,
how's it all going you up to date?
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Yeah, tailing's all done. We at chip around and did
it all our salves this year except the Hoggits. We've
got the local country club coming and do half day
there tailing them. Good fundraiser and good crew on the
in the pen. So yeah, it just took along pretty good.
The hill did not too bad up there one four
to three. The flats are still going to do the
fine word up for the lakes, but yeah, it's going
to be yeah, I don't want to guess where it's
(40:24):
at yet, but it's not going to be a super year,
but it won't be that bad either.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So you've got a bit of clover starting to grow it.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Is yet you can see the grass to changing color
and finally getting away now. So we're actually this week
we'll start into a bit of lamb drenching as well
and just go around and give them a bit of
a tidy up about that month out from wedding now,
so we try to have them in the yards the
least amount of time possible, so by holding off and
sort of drenching them about now than time for weaning
time again.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
So you're drenching routine. It's no different to other years.
You minaged to stick to trae to your dates. So far.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
Yeah, pretty pretty good so far. There was a couple
of mobs that were looking quite bad that were real
tight through spring, so we brought them and then we
did a couple last week and then the rest will
hold off till end of this coming week and get
in and blow the bulk of them out.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
So velveteen. I've speaking to a couple of people about
that recently. How how's it going for you guys?
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Pretty good.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
All the meat staggs, I think I've got three meat
staggs left to go, so they've cut really good this year.
And the velveting, I've got some young velveting ones there
that they're probably about two or three weeks away from
getting going with them. But all in all, that's looking
pretty good. I haven't heard any prices yet. It's the
only downside I think, for the sound of it, might
be velvet. It's the only sort of commodity that's looking
(41:40):
down a wee bit this season.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
It sounds as though wolves pecked or it has wolves
picked up over what it's been for the last couple
of years or decades. Just be honest. It's had a
nice weee rise over the last couple of six weeks
eight weeks or so, so that's something to look forward to.
Speaker 7 (41:54):
I did get an email out from our local contractor
and your rakes have gone up again this year, so
that'll be typical.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Will be back.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
Hopefully wall prices gone that can cover the shearing expenses.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Again.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Surprices have gone up for sharing, Yes, yep.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
They have for air contractor anyway that's gone up when
you go up three percent or three and a half
percent or something.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
So I would have cost you to share a sheets.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
So we'll be getting what will we now? I think
full contract will be near enough to about five eighty.
I think, now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
This is they're in their money too. If you're on
a hand face it's hard.
Speaker 7 (42:31):
Yeah, yes, a fear players, Oh absolutely no. They deserve
every dollar they get for doing that job. It's it's
one of those skills that it looks easy when you've
got the professionals doing it, but you spend ten minutes
on yourself and it's one of those only jobs that
you can You can do one or two sheep and
you're in a full sweat the truth.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
But we look at the remat sector for the season
and I think, well, it's topping up pretty good. Like
Charlton Yards the other day, top lambs three hundred and
fifty dollars for goodness sake and use it two hundred fifty.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
I said, there, and so were cal ram lambs. I
went through and pulp paid and check them all over. Yeah,
last week and sent them down and that we got
three fifty for the tops of those through there. So
I was very impressed with that coming back and very surprised.
But let's hopefully it continues because I know all our
expenses that have gone up. I actually saw a thing
on Facebook a couple of weeks ago with even just
(43:25):
your can of coke and petrol and what that's gone up,
And it's huge compared to what their price of lamb
and beef's gone up as nothing compared to those So
how heavy were these prices are there to stay?
Speaker 1 (43:36):
How heavy were those lambs then?
Speaker 7 (43:38):
I never actually weighed them, but I'd say the tops
of them would have been pushing on eighty kilos zer
All yep, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Willn't you go back to playing in the mud because
that's what you love doing, right Tim Farm to Neddix,
a home of tier from We appreciate you, Cather and
Russell ongoing support for Hakai as well as the muster
of the five day forecast. You enjoy the afternoon, all right?
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Good as golden near. Stay safely out there for cutting
any of those trees.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter brought to us by
sheer Well data working to help the livestock farmer. My
wife asked if she could have some peace and quiet
while she cooked dinner. So I took the batteries out
of a smoke alarm and that's how it all started. Okay,
(44:31):
that's us for the afternoon. The podcast The Muster on
Hakanui is going up shortly thanks to Iheartrad. Yeah, my
name is Andy Muhey. You've been listening to The Muster
on Hakanui of course thanks to Peter's genetics. Enjoy the
afternoon stays south out there, said Tomorrow.
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