The Muster Full Show: 14/10/25

Andy Muir talks to Rob Scott, Don Morrison, Phil Duncan, Michelle Watt and Andrew Anderson.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday afternoon, so once again we catch up with Dathan
Abernethy at a regional Ford gidday Nates Andy.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good to see the sun shining out there again.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Nice days.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Son is coming into the front of the showroom here
and we've got the team on deck and things are
busy for another Friday. I guess it's not a bad
time of the year to sort of remind people perhaps early,
just in regards to workshop and checking over those boats
and caravans and bits and pieces that we've always sort
of hook on in December or late December and try
to get away sometimes only to find that the things

(00:29):
that just might.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Upset the holiday.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
So it's not a bad idea to think about it
early and get it in. The guys are quite happy
to take care of all your are inner fitnesses or
any repairs and such like out there look as well
as that Andy. Look, there's just some amazing deals on
for the rest of the month. We're going into meetings
on Monday before just with some of the deals that
are coming on through until the end of December. So

(00:51):
believe me, there is some good deals happening and we've
got good stock on hand as far as new vehicles
in Ranger and of course Ford Everest. We've just had
new trends that custom come in and there's some really
some really neat new trends at vans coming through for
a lot of the people out there that rely on
vans and stuff for their trade. So come in and

(01:13):
see us. We've got a few in stock as well
as that.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Use vehicles plenty there, plenty of commercials, plenty of SUVs,
all family, you know, lots of family vehicles there again
ready for the summer, because so let's face it, summer
and holidays and Christmas and New Year is not far away.
So but give it the thought if you're in town
and drop by. If you are thinking you're used cars,
do stop buying. We can show you what we've got,

(01:36):
don't forget gr open in the morning from half past
nine through or twelve, available all weekend if you need it.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Enjoy your weekend, Good on your note, enjoy the weekend yourself.
Thank you Andy, Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster
on Hock and Neuie.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
My name is I'm here until two o'clock thanks to
Peter's genetics. Welcome to Fryay Blue Sky. All around us
a little bit of cloud pretty good. Pig Duggan of
Weather Watches on the show to give us a rundown
on the weather for the next seven days straight into
it Today though Gerosmith Friday Vibes.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
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Speaker 1 (02:29):
This afternoon brings shellers later of a brisk northwesterlies and
a high twenty one. Saturday shells of brisk westerlies one
and twelve. Sunday partly cloudy, are like nor easterlies five
and eighteen, Monday cloudy with breezing nor easters fourteen and
twenty one, and Tuesday afternoon shellers of breezy northerlies ten
twenty two sold temperatures northern south and twelve point three

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Riverton thirteen point five, tn Our thirteen point three did
I to to rowa win in twelve point six and
Woodland's twelve point three southern District Mayor Rob Scott joins
us this afternoon to give us a bit of a
look into how things are from his perspective. Three weeks
after the wind events that happened down here in the
South of course, thanks of South and Rural Support Trust

(03:11):
in conjunction with Community Community Trust Southland regetting these interviews.
Phil Duncan of weather Watch gives us a rundown on
the weather like I say for the next seven days.
Don Morrison, Willowbank farmer and Alliance board director joins us.
Michelle Watt and the Country Crossover out of Dunedin talks
about a bit of tea twenty cracket that's happened recently.
Andrew Olderson as well out of News Talk z B

(03:34):
raps the week here on the muster. So without further
ado to start the yel with Rob Scott. Thanks to

(03:58):
the South and Rural Support Trust. We're catching up with
people involved in the rural industries down here in the
South of course. This is an association with Community Trusts South.
This afternoon it is South and District May arrived Scott
as we look at the past three weeks from our
council perspective and trying to plan ahead and what we
can learn from the past three weeks. Rob, good afternoon,

(04:20):
thanks for joining us once again.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Good afternoony, there you go, Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Look it's three weeks sign over, three weeks now from
the big event, And it's not a word that you'd
like to use, but learnings could have been the key
for a lot of things, I suppose.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
Yeah, well it's a bit of a phrase. I don't
if I like it either, but never never waste a
good crisis, and I think we do need to have
a look at the learnings that we can get out
of this and what we can put in place now,
especially while it's still fresh in mind, on how they
can sort of change the way that we do business
so we're better prepared next time.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
First things first, is anybody still without power? Do you know?
Or is everything back up and running as well?

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Was?

Speaker 6 (05:01):
I think there's still a very small handful of people
without power. But I guess the message from PowerNet is
if you are without power, make sure you reach out
to them and get in touch, because they're pretty confident
they've got a handle of everyone and they've been reaching
out and talking to people. But yeah, if you are
without then definitely get in touch with them and let
them know. But I know they were planning on having

(05:23):
everyone sort of back on board and connected sort of
on the end of this week. You get into every
next week, So it might just be one or two
of the more sort of complicated ones to get back online.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Because you're hearing of the time frame for people to
get their farms up and running against Sarah Swimble and
Farming at Lawrence telling me yesterday she's thinking may perhaps
a year before they can get infrastructure back up and
running as they had it. That's a hell of a
thing to have to try and comprehend.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Yeah, it is. And I mean you've got your whole
sort of plan feature mapped out and your farm plans
and everything, and you're tracking down a certain road and
then all of a sudden it gets kind of tipped
upside down, and I think it's important to kind of
just take a step back and have a look at
adjusting those plans going forward, and even talking to you
your farm advising, in your banks and all of those
sorts of people, just to make sure that we're getting

(06:13):
ourselves set up as best as possible for what there's
going to be a bit of a different pathway for
some people in terms of that future.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
From your perspective there being the mad Rob, do you
think people have coached pretty well all things considered.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Oh, people have been awesome. Every time I talk to
people can get more and more of the stories of
the community wrapping around each other. And I was at
a bit of a conference yesterday and one of the
speakers was saying about the type scrum gives you a
successful rugby game, and I think in South And We've
got a very tight scrum in terms of all other

(06:49):
communities and that sort of helps us sort of push
through and get through. But I think as we start
to get longer and longer into this event, the adrenaline
kind of runs off and the anxiety kind of comes
in and people start to feel it. So the rural
support trusts have been awesome in this And yeah, I
just encourage anyone to reach out to that eight hundred

(07:11):
number at seven eight seven for that confidential support because
people are going to need it. It's there's quite a
long tail to this, and yes that people need to
reach out if they are feeling the strain of it all.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Rob you've been openly critical regarding the government and the
funding allocation to the South. Why is this?

Speaker 6 (07:35):
I think it's I mean, we've going to reflect that
there's no such thing as government money. Is all taxpayer
money but it's when we look at the South's contribution
to the country, we need to make sure that when
times are tough down here that we can get some
of that back. And the government have said that that's
not all the amount that they're going to be giving us.

(07:56):
That Merial Relief Fund didn't get a huge contribution to
the government and that kind of helps with the running
of some of the stuff. But I think it'll be
quite good to get the data around what the total
cost of this whole sort of clean up in response
operation is going to be, and also the cost to
the economy, Like talking to darien Z and looking at

(08:18):
I mean, we're getting into the sort of around twenty
million dollars worth of lost production, so it's not in
significant numbers, and I think we just need to make
sure that we're not asking the government for a handout,
and no one wants that, but just that we can
get a bit of a hand up to make sure
that we can get back on track as soon as possible.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
And that's probably the concern. I suppose when you look
forward into the future, the self gets lost and the
transitioning of the of the media cycle and the likes
and everything else goes on, but all of a sudden
down here, we're still lamp with the situation.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, and it's I mean, you look
at something and the big city that makes you up
and well into at the moment if you had that
kind of an impact up here and businesses had been
sort of hat to be hearing about it for weeks
and we kind of our own kind of I guess
the South and way of just getting on with it
can be able to accurse at times because we don't
mean it kind of loses the overside of what's happening.

(09:12):
But I think that the fact that we're going to
have a long clean up for some of our farms
in terms of cleaning up all the trees and everything,
shouldn't be forgotten about and should be kind of recognized.
But it's also I mean, there is insurance, and there's
that kind of that self responsibility and there as well
that comes in. So there's a bit of a balance
between expecting government to hand out and help everyone out

(09:35):
every time there's a disaster, because this seems to be
more and more of these as well, and we can't
just keep relying on the government to bow everyone out
as well, but there's a yeah, there's a there's a
fine balance there.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think no, But the argument is there the charity
begins at home, given that we give the Cook Islands
millions and millions of dollars when we need to look
after our own backyard first.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Totally agree. And that's the messaging I've been passing on
as well. So, yeah, we do to get that right.
Because it's easy to sign a check for one or
two million overseas and then you're getting one hundred and
fifty grand down south. Doesn't really compare us.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
It Well, speaking to other people up there, likes of
your fellow meres and the likes, do they agree?

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, no they do, And yeah, we're having a
conversation last night around that the quantum of Yeah, like
you say, looking after our own we do need to
make sure we do that just as well as we
look after our neighbors.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
The massive issue of rural connectivity. We've talked about this
a lot and we just can't reiterate it enough. Was
pretty much three G that got us through that weather event,
and that was like one bar of texting if you
were fortunate enough there. But the situation being with three
G is that it finishes and not too just in future.
Are you rallying to keep the service up and running
due to what we've seen, Yeah, I think.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
We need to have a good conversation with the talcos
and kind of work out what the resilience of their
networks is going to be going forward and what plans
they're putting in place. I mean, it's all good where
we put in plans for our businesses and we do
our own stuff, but there's a reliance on those networks
now as well, particularly given the copper networks now gone,
so you can't just pick up the old hand phone

(11:16):
anymore and use that, so there's a I guess there's
a reliance on those networks. And I know that one
New Zealand are working with that satellite kind of link,
but I have heard that that that didn't work as
well for some people, And I think there was supposed
to be always the ability to text if you had
a line of slight to the sky, but a couple
of weren't able to text on that network as well.

(11:39):
So having a chat with those talcos I think forms
a bigger part of this kind of future planning going forwards.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, arguably sales service in South and has got worse
over the past six months or so.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Yeah, and it's something that we need to the productivity
of us all in the modern age today where we're
using our phones a lot. Yeah, if you can get
good coverage around the whole South And on a normal day,
it certainly helps with people's productivity. And yeah, when times
are tough in the state of emergency, were definitely need
to make sure that we've got good coverage and resilience

(12:15):
in that network.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Rap Scott's South and District Mayor always appreciate your time
on the muster. You enjoy the weekend and safe travels.
Thanks rap Scott's South and District Mayor. Thanks for South
and Rural support trust and conjunction with Community Trusts South.
Don Morrison is a Volleybank farmer as well as being
an Alliance Sport Director. We catch up next.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
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Speaker 1 (12:55):
Don Morrison farms at Willowbank as well. He is an
Alliance Bord director and we haven't talked the helly for
a few weeks. Been quite a bit going on, Howie,
good afternoon. Sounds like you're on a sling.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Though, Oh cured, Andy. He had action for for well,
supposedly for six weeks with the sling. Just had a
bit of shoulder surgery done. So yeah, but feeling pretty
good and plenty to administer and give some plans out
on the farm at the moment.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
So how did you guys fear in those winds? A
few weeks back?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
We had a lot well, we've got a lot of
shelter here, Andy, and a lot of it was big
mature gums. So look, I think we had about one
hundred big trees down and we could have had another
couple of hundred smaller trees snapped off. So it's it
was a bit daunting at the time, but we've been
pragmatic about it. We've we've cleaned up the half two ones,
which are the ones in lane ways and blocking gateways,

(13:47):
and just said, hey, we've got to be a bit
resilient here, get on with the rest of the work,
make sure the fences are stockproof, and then clean up
might take the next six months, I think.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
So this is pretty much stock standard over around will
I Bank.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
There was there was a lot of Hey, I got
I got mates on around me here that had a
lot more damage than me with with sheds, with sheds
lost and and you know, vehicles lost and things. So
you look, hey, it's it's farming. You know, you've always
got a Yeah, it's it's tricky. You've got to have
that plan. You've got to be as up to date
as you can. But you've just got to be resilient

(14:23):
when stuff like this gets thrown at you and you
know it. And it normally is weather events, whether it's
a sort of an insidious little drought that sneaks up
on you, or whether it's those those rain events and
the floods or now we've got the wind. So it's
it seems it's just it's just farming andy, and you
you don't let it get you down. You just you
just get on and do what you can.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
So how are things looking on the farm where there
are sight?

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Ah, yeah, look it's we're yeah, we're really under control.
Lambing was great, Hoggitt mating just got one bet one
hundred lambs still to do, but but great results on
I'm both the US and the hog its cereal and
grass and red clover, and half of the fodder beat
will end by next week and just probably about three
or four more paddocks to to work on. So Locke

(15:10):
and George are both both keeping the wheels turning on
two tractors at the moment. So yeah, pretty up to date.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well that's a good way to be, all things considered,
especially with the way the weather's kind of been tempering
expectations for the season.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, we'll look part of that planning to andy. You
know that the test has probably been the low grass
grass growth with this, you know, a colder season. So
this week we've drenched all the lambs on our the
one year used as such, and all the single lambs
mouths those ewes and show them as they're in so
they're back out now, which which will set us up

(15:46):
for probably a slightly earlier weaning maybe the end of
November to get those lamb to get those early lambs
away and actually have those ewes off the place, which
will probably be half the ewes that will be coming
for the season. So you know, having that plan and
being prepared to react as you know, hopefully going to
alleviate that feed demanded weave.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
It putting on your alliance group hat. Coming up to
the kill season, how things looking.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Well? Look from a from a farmer supplier, I don't
think we've ever had, you know, stronger prices regardless of
who you're who you're supplying, So you know, really strong
prices both in the and the lamb and the ewes,
the certainly the bovine space really strong. So I guess
it's a matter of, you know, how how realistic are
these prices going to be going into the season. You know,

(16:35):
we always know that prices fall down once we hit
will certainly end of December January, but it looks like
pretty strong price and going forward Andy.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Starting with the nine at the peak of the season.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Look you'd be I wouldn't want to make any predictions,
but you know it's looking in that direction. So you know,
and certainly you've got the you've got your lift and market,
you've got strong markets and once again you've got that
process a competent for animals, both playing in the same space.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
So the price is looking good. Therefore, overseas consumers are
still keen to get involved with New Zealand land.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Would you say got some really got some really strong
markets Andy, and you know, actually shortening some of those
markets where where certainly over these last six months coming
into the next season, haven't been able to meet the
demand for all markets. So that's certainly put that upward
pressure on price. And I guess they're always the scary

(17:29):
thing in as a processor or certainly as farmers is
when you know, product prices get too high that consumers
want to want to substitute out of red meat into
something a bit cheaper. So that's I think that's the
space to watch.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Because somebody used the comparison the other day mince is
the new butter when it comes to price.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Well yeah, and hey we know what, we know what
a pound a butter cost to Andy, So yeah, look
it's it's it's a tough one for consumers in New
Zealand because whether it's butter, whether it's your whether it's
red meat, you know, they have to pay the price
that or so we sell to those suppliers for the
price that we get in the international market, which is

(18:09):
what we have to do for the best return to
your suppliers. Slight element of you know, we can talk
about supermarket markup and I think that's that's quite a
valid debate. But you know, we can only sell into
the domestic market what we can get for our product internationally.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
So Dawn meets they've now got a capital investment with Alliance.
What happens there coming into the start of a season.
From an Alliance provider's viewpoint.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
It is andy, It's one hundred percent business as usual.
So Alliance Group is still Alliance Group. You've got exactly
the same drafter, we've got exactly the same team, and
you've just got a different governance, ownership and governance structure
going forward. So that's likely to change in December. There'll

(18:55):
there'll be a handover, but it's the it's business as
usual an effect, but with a whole lot new opportunity.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, how is that time of the week we get
to talk to you about the Yule Blacks And you're
still not a fan of the Barons. Surprise, surprise.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
I'm just not a fan of the wrong people in
the wrong position, and that.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Is so diplomatic.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Well, lock, hey, you've got a second five and you've
got a center, and now that a're playing second five
and center, and you know, for so long we haven't
had that combination I think I think you've got some
pretty exciting players there, the chance to work up some
combinations and you know d Mac. You know, the question
always comes up around Dmac. Someone said, do you like
him as an impact player? Well, I think it's a

(19:38):
bit like having Joan Alomu would have been a great
impact player. But aren't you better to have him on
for eighty minutes rather than twenty minutes? So that's that's
where I go to on that whole debate too. Andy.
You yeah, you know, look, I don't think Voden Barrett
actually the test you've played this year, I haven't seen
him particularly said anything on fire in the back line.

(19:59):
Tendency to still run across against hard opposition and look,
whether it's you know, we've got to have a better
kicking game, we're really we're really inferior to most of
our opposition and that kicking game with the high ball.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Rugby is going to be the winner. Don Morrison always
appreciate your time on the Muster.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Rest up, Yeah, very good, Andy, look forward to next time.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Don Morrison farming at will they be as well as
being an Alliance Sport director, you're listening to the Muster
next We're going to get a gauge on the weather
for the next seven days down here with whether watch
is Phil Duncan.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
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Speaker 1 (20:39):
It's time to catch up with Phil Duncan from We're.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
The Watch.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
That song there You Want to Know by Alana Smyra
sat Off the Jagged Little Pearl CD that came out
from around nineteen ninety four to ninety five. Available on
Cassett as well. Phil Dunkin, Good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Goodt Good to be back with you.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, you too. How's the week been?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Been pretty good? Been pretty good? Yeah, we've since we
had a bit of weather moving around the country again,
but it's been sort of unsettled with rain up where
I've been. But it's been good for the garden. It's
drying out of it very quickly after the warmer window
weather we had last month.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, it's ironic how it can just change overnight. Literally,
I mean down here in the Deep South, we've had
a couple of days of nice weather. We'd like about
ten days of nice weather with just a little drizzle
of rain at night to keep things ticking over. Please.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, I mean we've actually got a bit of a
little bit of wet weather on the way for you.
But probably the main thing actually at the moment is
really the cult chase. It's about to come through tonight,
the polar boundary returning. It's barely been around this night
after being almost solidly over you for the past, your
previous few months, now you've had this lift in temperatures,
and today's an example of that. But yeah, tonight the

(22:09):
temperature really does drop, and so we're going for high
today parts of southmand into the low or early twenties today.
Tonight the overnight low is four and tomorrow the high
in some areas just around eleven or twelve degrees, and
tomorrow night's overnight low is down to one, which means
the old frost forecast through is back. Could be a frost,

(22:29):
likely frost actually over Saturday and on Sunday morning. But
the good news there's Sunday warms up. So yeah, frost
in the morning, then nearly twenty degrees by the afternoon,
and then next week you're back into the twenties again,
twenty one, twenty two, twenty threes right through till the
end of next week, with of course the usual Friday
cold front and next weekend temperatures dropping for the weekend.

(22:51):
Isn't it like put the frost sheets out on Saturday night,
because yeah, I mean overnight lower won so he probably
will be a frost if that stays the way it
is in that forecast. There are a few showers on Saturday,
most of that would be in the morning and then
the afternoon going towards the evening. That's when the sky
is clear out, and that frost risk is probably more
so on Sunday morning than it is on Saturday night.

(23:13):
But then, like I said, the day warms up again,
so it's not too bad. The wind isn't too bad either,
except for a little bit windy today and tomorrow in
some areas with that westerly blowing through, and you just
might notice a little bit of a breeze in the
afternoons next week. But really, wind isn't really much of
an issue coming up, which is good news.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
What about why Kooey cooey tomorrow, little Township about twenty
five minutes out of Gore Cracket's happening there, Clayton Peters,
for every singer ready smokes today, he's going to get
a run, So I reckon about twenty five runs coming
Puff's way. What are we going to see weather wise
boy Killey Keey tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, pretty similar Wendy tomorrow. That Westerly could get a
little bit gusty late morning or early afternoons at around lunchtime,
and again showers in the morning for the most part.
There might be a couple of showers that could linger
after midday, but really it looks like it dries out,
so it could be a few shours in the morning
and I high of about twelve.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Degrees, just gonna have to wear a thermals, right, Yeah,
that's right. It doesn't seem right for cracket wearing thermals somehow.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
It doesn't really know, You've got quite right on that one.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
So the rest of the outlook for November and to December,
Landinia is it on the cad still.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, we're actually seeing a real tug of war over
the atmosphere and New Zealand's in the middle of it.
So if you imagine people playing tug of war, right,
and you've got the rope in the middle's got a
knot in it, so you know where the halfway mark is.
That's kind of New Zealand and on either side we've
got Landini. You're pulling us one way, and we've got
the Southern Ocean spring whether if you like, pulling us

(24:40):
the other way. So for the next week we're sort
of in between those two worlds, but I think both
of them are kind of going to affect our weather.
I don't think one will just sort of overtake and dominate.
So that basically means as we go into December, we
may well see more normally winds, more humidity, although usually
in south that's not too bad as it is at

(25:01):
the top of the country, but it's still possible. Subtropical
airflows are in the mix, and the Southern Ocean is
still stormy, which means if you have these kind of
longer stretches of dry or longer stretches of warm followed
by a shot of winter for a day or two,
and that's precisely what we're getting this week. You know,
you had some warm days, get a shot of cold

(25:21):
air tonight, tomorrow, Saturday night, Sunday morning, and then it's
gone in and you're back to the warm and weather.
So I do think we've got variety coming up. But
the two areas of interest are certainly La Nina, which
is showing signs of building now we're seeing a lot
more low pressure northern New Zealand Fiji Baanahwahtu. Those areas
low pressure thunderstorms and showers and that airflow being sort

(25:43):
of pushed into New Zealand. But we're still seeing these
polar outbreaks hitting Australia every week. I mean Tasmania and
Victoria are getting at least two a week, where Southland
has not had that in the last couple of weeks.
So that's you know, Southland's further south than Victoria and
Tasmania are, but they're getting the cold air flows. So
we've been on a warmer side of things this month.

(26:04):
But the sudden stratispheric warming that went over went on
over Antarctica over winter, that's just made the jet stream
southern New Zealand messia, which means it's more unpredictable. And
to keep that simple, what that means is if you're
in Southland, there is a higher chance than usual of
a cold snap going into summer this year. So while

(26:25):
you might have the long stretches of warm and dry,
don't be surprised if all of a sudden, even in
the middle of January. I don't think it's I wouldn't
want to be ruling out the chance of these polar
snaps coming through and calling a snap because it doesn't
last very long. But they are possible this year because
the southern Ocean, where the pattern is very stormy. Larnina's

(26:46):
measured it the equator a long way away from New Zealand,
so the storms that are over the southern Ocean are
technically much closer to Southland than Larninia conditions are. So
that's why even if Larninia forms, it doesn't necessarily change
your way the pattern. But what we are seeing over
the next week or two more northeralies more easterly is
at the top of the country. Perhaps a bit of
a sign of the London your condition for the.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Building so well, and know we still have a little
bit of a deck of picker makes as we go
into December. That's the one good on your fell Duncan
a weather Watch. We always appreciate your time on the
muster and you enjoy the weekend. WI should chat next week.
Thanks buddy, you too, Phil Duncan of weather Watch always

(27:29):
appreciate us time on the muster. The country Crossover is
next with Michelle. What it has time for the Country Crossover.
Michelle What, executive producer of the Country, joins us out

(27:52):
of Dunedin. Good afternoon, Michelle, afternoon.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
And it feels like it's been a long time since
we've had a chat on the show. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I've had a couple of fridays off. You spoke to
Chuckle Wilson a couple of weeks ago, and yeah, just
taking up a bit of lever, suppose over the past
couple of weeks as you do.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
Yeah, and Jamie took my spot last week, didn't he?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
He did? Of course he's up at the AMP Show,
the Agricultural and Pastoral Show, the Royal Show, if you will.
That honor was given upon the Cannerbury Show this year.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
It was reinstated after more than ten years. I think
as that, which is fantastic. Of course, yesterday's whether not
to flash up there. It was pretty rainy. I blame
the I was listening to an article about the races
and stuff and they said it never rains, It never
rains on race day, it never rains on the trot's day,
and that's exactly what it did. So I think they
kind of jinxed it a little bit. Maybe saying that

(28:43):
it never rains on race day, but hopefully it's nicer
up there today. It does look like it's going to be,
so if you're heading along to the show, hopefully you're
enjoying the day.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
And of course the launch of Makaiser twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
Yes, which I have not tasted a drop off yet
because I am of course not in Christch. I've been
down and dernedin for the last two days, so I
haven't even got to try it yet.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
Andy.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
We talk about this so the season of the AMP Show,
and it's a massive thing as part of the Southern calendar.
It's all kicking off in the next week or so
down here in the Deep South. But it's something that everybody,
especially if you're older than thirty, you can understand what
the AMP Show was like.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Oh I don't know about you, Andy, but back when
I was younger, the South of Tigo Amp Show was
our local show in Balclusa and it was a big event.
You would go along, you'd get dressed up, you'd enjoy
the events, go and watch everything there was, you know,
pet competitions, there was sand source of competitions, I think
cooking competitions. There was all sorts of stuff going on,

(29:41):
and it was just a really great day out and
kind of a nice precursor to Christmas. It always sort
of signified that Christmas sort of time, I think going
to the show and yeah, just really time to enjoy it.
Although COVID kind of killed it a little bit for
a lot of areas around New Zealand, I think with
the AMP shows, but they're slowly coming back, and it's
you know, a city comes to the country, country comes

(30:03):
to town. Country gets to show the city and the
townfolk exactly what they do, what their animals arelight, what
goes on, and it's just a fantastic.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Day and you had the esteemed honor of being what
were you mis Friendship South of Tago? What year was that?

Speaker 8 (30:17):
Oh, I knew you were going to ask me that.
I think it might have been two thousand and one
or two thousand and two. I think it was two
thousand and two actually, because I was one of the
youngest show queens there and I think they still do
show Queen. It's a great event. You learn a lot,
you get to put it on your CV. I think
it's still on my CV that I was voted Miss friendship.
I don't know if that means. Andy think maybe I
should start wearing the sashes to work. Andy.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
So what happened for the afternoon? Did you sit on
the back of a land cruiser and a couple of
little idiot breck bales and just cruise round waving or
what did you do?

Speaker 8 (30:46):
I can't actually remember. I know they put us up
on a big truck and we had to do speeches
and then they announced who was the winner, and then
I think, yeah, maybe we would have been in the
Grand Parade. Of parading around the Grand parade' always a
good watch, isn't it. Absolutely going around the animals, the horses.
Some horses don't cope with it too well, it's always
reasonably entertaining.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
And you won the sheep riding competition as well. That's fantastic,
well done.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Oh yeah that was back and I was very young
when that happened. But I don't think they do things
like that now.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
I think they still do. Absolutely, mean, what's wrong of
riding on the back of a sheep? I mean radios
are still legal.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
Yeah, it was an interesting event, but I rode. I
used to ride horses as well, and I had a
lot of very tough, unrideable horses growing up Andy, and
I think that probably popped me in good stead.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
What you're saying is you made your appearents slug around
the province with a horse float on their weekends.

Speaker 8 (31:39):
I did, indeed, Yes, I absolutely did, and I didn't
do very well because my horses were, let's just say,
not very obedient.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Jacob Duffy as well, let's talk about a T twenty
crack at the Black Cats doing the business against the
West Indies, who were arguably underdone coming into this series,
although they did do pretty well in a few of
those games. But Jacob Duffy is a story that just
seems to keep on resonating with a lot of people.
And the great thing is he's from Lumston.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
Originally and he's had a great series so far, hasn't he.
I mean, yesterday's game in deed absolutely fantastic. Obviously, West
Indies I think maybe they struggle with a cold a bit.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
It was very.

Speaker 8 (32:14):
Cold down here, although I did hear there was an
amazing six hit by one of the West Indies that
we're way way over the top of the building, which
if you've ever been to university over it does feel
like it's quite a small boundary. It's not really, but
you don't see that many balls hit way over the
building that often, even in T twenty down there. So
that was pretty exciting stuff. Apparently I'm sad that I

(32:34):
missed it, but live I'd had to watch it here
at work on my computer. But you know, it is
what it is.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Not that you're bitter and twister about it. But then
you go to Eden Park and the slips of slip
cording's pretty much two thirds of the way back to
the boundary. Eden Park is a stadium not designed for
international cricket.

Speaker 8 (32:53):
No, and I do have a bit of a I
guess it's like a bucket list of cricket grounds that
I do want to visit to Andy and some of them.
Obviously the Bay Oval I definitely want to go there.
I want to go to the one in New Plymouth
as well, and now since Saxon Oval looks absolutely amazing
as well, so I'd love to get out to some
of those career grounds. And of course Hagley Park. You
can't beat Hagley.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Park or the Basin Reserve.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I've got to get to them all,
don't I maybe I should make that my mission this summer.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
You could go to sky Stadium and dress up as
a yellow seat like everybody else. You think, well, no
one goes there for the game, zough. And the true
heart of cricket and Wellington is the Basin Reserve because
I actually went to a Test match there a few
years ago and it was a hell of an occasion.
What was it there for three days? It was great fun.
So what's up for the weekend? Are you biking out

(33:39):
to Coupral or Queenstown or something as you're prone to
do for a bit of a jout.

Speaker 8 (33:45):
I do have a big bike ride playing because I'm
training for a challenge wonnicer at the moment, so doing
a fair bit of exercise around the place. But we'll
see what the weather does. Because the weather has not
been great, has it, Andy? I hear it's been reasonably
cold and not that great down south? What's the grass
grow looking like?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Down grass growth isn't too so All temagures are all
double digits now and it's just a matter of having
a few hot days. The feed is coming on. It's
just been slower obviously due to three weeks ago. So
it's a correction in the growing season, but generally covers
seem to be improving as you'd expect to suppose.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
And speaking of this time of year, I know that
a lot of farmers and relating back to exercise and
getting off farm, a lot of farmers are out there
in tracts twelve hours a day, you know, especially when
the sun shining, making bailage and milkings full on at
the moment, people are doing you know, AI mating, all
that sort of stuff, and it's pretty full on time
on the farm at the moment. Just remember if you
can get time to step off and do something for yourself,

(34:38):
just take a breather. If you like riding bikes, if
you like going for a walk, make sure you do
those kind of things. But it is good to give
yourself that little sort of mental break.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
One hundred percent. It's all about looking after the top
three inches. Michell what always appreciate your time. We'll chat again, Thanks.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Andy, Michelle.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
What in the country crossover? Next? Andrew Waters and before
we wrap up on a Friday afternoon, we're catching up
with Andrew Ordison out of news Talk zibby orders. Good afternoon. Firstly,

(35:17):
you are a South Auckland farming correspondent. How's it looking
on the ranch?

Speaker 9 (35:22):
It was graff everywhere. We're struggling to keep under control.
So I think we were probably gonna get the haymaker
in a bit earlier this year, maybe nearly decend for
something like that, and you can go for me, just
to keep things years under yeah, a bit more control,
I suppose you'd say. But you're not too many stock
on a place at the moment though, so and you know,
I guess you sell high, but you're so buy high

(35:43):
at the moment. So we're keeping an eye on that.
And I think missus Alison is going to be heading
to the sale yards before long, so we could pick up.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, you are the hey baron of Poka Coe Knowles
say you not.

Speaker 9 (35:56):
Well, yeah, you know, just that's not to not to
you know, by the point on I suppose yeah, well,
you know, nice little secondary income.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Absolutely, Ellen Bunting no longer involved with the black Ferns,
I spreak this morning.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Yes, yes, so I.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
Think this is inevitable and enough for a third place
an exit at the semi final stage from the World Cup,
having defended or having won the World Cup. The previous
time with Wayne Smith in command. So yeah, he said
three seasons in the job, Alan Bunting. But I mean
the talk from new General Rugby as they've got the
culture right, but they just need to work on the

(36:33):
performance and they're actually giving the results. So that all
there is that they'll have someone else in place by
Christmas in that role for the black Ferns heading into
the next campaign. But yes, Ellen Bunting deciding that that
is enough in the Generalobian is heading off. So that's
the news out of in our headquarters this morning. And yes,

(36:57):
and probably not totally unexpected.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
I would have thought now Daniel Hillier he's chasing his
PGA tour card. Is that correct?

Speaker 6 (37:05):
He is?

Speaker 9 (37:06):
And I mean this is the hot light of the
morning for me, and you could be perfectly honest. I mean,
I think this is outstanding from Daniel Hillier. He's had
a pretty consistent year on that European tour, but he
has started to really make it count in these latter
stages and as of today, I mean they've played the
first round of this race to Dubai or with the rankings,

(37:26):
et cetera, he has shot a five hundred pass sixty
seventies thing tired to sixth. He's three shots off the league.
But more importantly so he's right. He's two places high
this morning. On basis of today's round, he moved to
fifteenth on the season rankings and as it stands, he'd
get the nod over others. There's ten USPGA Tour cards

(37:48):
on offer. You have to be in the top ten,
but there's exemptions there, so that's that. Rory McKell always
this world.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
The Tommy Fleetwoods who.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
Are ahead of Hillier, so I think there's five of them,
so he's fifteenth to that means as long as he
holds where he is, he would actually be going to
the US next year. So joining Ryan Fox et cetera.
I mean, I think it's a tremendous performance from here
up to just a few seasons on the European Tour,
and yeah, he just seems to be really maturing into
that into that mold is a professional goal for him.

(38:18):
It's such an ambitious undertaking. I suppose for a young
guy when they first go on that tour, you make
it to the European Tour, weak their way out through
the Challenge Challenge Tour, et cetera. But he's on the
custom of doing it and being able to reach that
top level, so good luck to him in these next
three rounds in Dubai.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
So what would this made for New Zealand golf if
feels able to achieve, if we were able to.

Speaker 9 (38:40):
Achieve us well, I think it's just a great advertisement,
isn't it. That you know in New Zealand are those
top ranks alongside the likes of Ryan Box Dame lydia
Co being able to contest week to week once you've
got that tour card and you get that decent run
at it over the course of a season, and then
you know, if you're like Ryan Fox, you guarantee it
for longer if you can put those victories in place.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
So it's just you.

Speaker 9 (39:03):
Know, it's just livelihood, isn't it. And then that I
think that reflects well as a whole on the governing body,
and I guess the development and the structure of the
game in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
The Ashes gets underway next week in Perth. Are England
going to be underdone heading into this series? It sounds
like it.

Speaker 9 (39:22):
It's a risk, isn't it. I mean, you go in
the general I guess school of thought is that you
want warm up games and you want plenty of them
if you can, especially in Australia where I mean having
to excuse me with the Black Caps and seeing what's
on off of there and just the I guess the

(39:43):
sheer intimidation or the intensity of the environment, and it
goes through the team, that goes through media, goes through supporters.
It can be a fairly I guess daunting place to play.
I mean, some lot of these guys have been there before,
but of any of them in that.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
Team, maybe there's one.

Speaker 9 (40:02):
I'm trying to think we're around in twenty eleven. The
last time England won in Australia, I think it was
under Andrew Strauss was it back in the day. So
they need to try and get that right and just
playing essentially like an emerging players or development team from
their own That is a risk and of course a
form of captains and in the and a star in

(40:27):
the form of Surian both of them also Michael Vaughan
coming out and not so impressed with this, but Ben
Stokes is holding their line as it's Brendan McCallum and
I guess it comes when it comes down and it's
just going to be that first day in which is
a week today. We'll see it on the hard and
fast and uncompromising environment that the Australia can present. I'm

(40:52):
just absolutely fascinated as to how that goes because it
is a different approach to what would normally There's been
a lot of time on the golf course, et cetera.
And whether that is a winning approach we had to
wait and see. But you're just just fascinated to see
how that might unfold. I mean into whether these teams
have you know, has Australia age too much and they're
going to be weaker without the leadership of Cummings there.

(41:13):
I mean, they've got a bit of experience to back
it up still, but in the same price to England
I suppose and has been Stokes fit. There's just so
many angles to this ASHES series and it's a fairly
intense rivalry, especially after the last one we saw in England.
So yeah, as a as a neutral observer, that's especially
with our times though for it's.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Perfect, but the way they just sit there and go
at each other in the media orders, it's fascinating. Australia
sees englic congratulations Johnny Bearsto, you won the Spirit of
Cricket Award for infinity. But they're just looking at Australia
and they just can't help themselves. It's almost childlike.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
Oh yeah, there's plenty of puriality. I suppose you would
you would say about the whole scenario, and you know
they never missed opportunity to take a pot shot, that's
for sure. But I think, yeah, it's it'll just be
a lot of it right even on the first day,
first few over. It's just that just getting it out

(42:13):
there actually on the field, just to set the tone
is as fascinating for me as anything in the first
hour even so, Yeah, I mean it's in purpose time
for the first match at Office there, which is a
bit of a cauldron like ground.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
We're going to need to.

Speaker 9 (42:29):
Cover up when he's even played there on their last
two of Australia. But it probably hasn't. It lacks the
character that say the Whacker has, But no doubt there
will still be plenty on offer for fans of the
game to be able to soak up.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Now these changes of the Olympic Games in LA this
is really intriguing twenty eight.

Speaker 9 (42:49):
So what we've got is the scenario where normally you
have the swimming program goes first ahead of the athletics,
but this time they've switched it around. They've got quite
a logical reason for that, and that the Sofi Stadium
that is going to be hosting the opening ceremony is
also going to be hosting the swimming.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
So what they'll do is.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
They've got the pools I think will be in the
base and then they'll put a big cover over that
for the eflecs coming into the stadium, et cetera. But
like Rod Laver Arena or any of these main stadiums
in the world where you can put a pool in
them or take it out, everything is pretty mobile, but
it's going to take them away while to do that properly.
So therefore they'll start with the athletics and then they'll

(43:32):
move on to the swimming in the second week. So
that's just a turnaround in events, I think, and you know,
we'll have the women's hundred meters will be decided on
the first start, I think, the men's hundred meters on
the second day, and then it'll work its way back
from there into the swiming events in the second half
of this edition of the of the Olympics. But yeah,

(43:54):
just that's that's really I guess one of the big
changes women's traffle on the first day as well. Women's
Stevens is underway too, So pinning on offer, I guess
we're a New Zealand perspective. Also just a little bit
of a concern I think, and perhaps a reflection on
Trump's America. But Nicky Nichols saying that, you know, they
want New Zealand, New Zealand athletes to speak their minds,

(44:16):
et cetera, but to exercise caution, which is a bit
of a you know, a contradiction of urns I think.
Just but I guess the monitoring of these things in
America these days so just sort of far eviitable warning
shot there ahead of well, I guess we're saw a
long way out, almost three years out of the fact,

(44:36):
but the planning underway. Even in that respect.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Andrew ordostly had a new stog ZB. We always appreciate
your time on the muster. You enjoy the weekend. Good
luck with that grass harvesting.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
Ah, that's right, and good luck with your cricket.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
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