November 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Andy Muir talks to Sean Molloy, Grant McMaster, Howard Clarke, Simon Stokes, Lachie Dudin and Sam Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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So this afternoon brings showers of breezing nor westerlies in
twenty Wednesdays sunny We're like northwesterlies eight and twenty three
Thursday sunny we're breezing northwesterlyies eleven and twenty four. Friday
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a book cooler. Raymigh likesal westerly six and fourteen and
on Saturday sunny with breezy westerly six and eighty. So
were temperatures to hand Northern South And thirteen point three,
Raveton thirteen point five, tire Now twelve point eight, titaor
Row thirteen point five, Winton twelve point eight at Woodlands
at twelve. Sean Malloy, our Peak Farming correspondent from Sheffield
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and Canterbury, starts off for Muster this afternoon, followed up
by Grant Disaster mcmass out of closeper In Station talking
about a collaboration that's happening that he thinks is a
good thing for rural especially from a sheep farmer's perspective.
How At Clark from Advance Agricultures on the show and
the South and Rural Support Trust segment today thanks to
(01:54):
Community Trusts South, we're talking about mindset after an event
and today how is going to talk about it from
an agronomoust viewpoint. Lachland Dunham from Thornbury Young Farmers is
on the program in Simon Stokes from Environment Southland is
on as well with Sam Rowley from PGG Writes and
giving an update from the sale to a credit this
(02:14):
morning at the Louisville sale Yards. Then we'll start the
hour with Sean Malloy. This is the Muster until two
o'clock thanks to Peters Genetics. Sean Malloy is a peak
farmer based up at Sheffield and Canterbury and joins us
(02:36):
this afternoon on the Muster. He is our peak Farming
corresponded Sean, good afternoon and welcome to the muster once again.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Good Eddie, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, firstly, congratulations as well. You've just been elected to
the New Zealand Port Board.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
To put my name forward for that and hopefully as
some barely to the industry.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, what was the driver for doing that? To decide
this is my time?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I've been involved with the politics of the industry for
quite a long time there and I just got right
to step up with who was the fellow that was
stepping away? And yeah, it felt like I was finally
ready to take that step up. I do try to
enjoy trying to take on the government and get good
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rules for farmers so that we can or farm under
a presonable set of rules and see what we do
and show everybody how well we do.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now we've spoken to you over the past couple of
years short and the struggles of naywork and the likes
being involved with the industry. Now up in the top
tier as such, are you having for a bit more
leeway and net respect?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I don't know whether that just being up there
will we'll open up so many more doors than what
we've already got. Yeah, it will certainly mean that you're
involved in those compensations, which will be nice. But yeah,
it depends on the government of the time and how
much excess and how much time they want to give you.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So the government at the moment, we've talked about this previously,
and ironically last time we spoke, I think the next
day the recommendations around seal creates came out.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, you think that means I've got a bit of
that for it, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It makes you wonder that just going to dearly, what
are you doing in the background. You're changing the bearing
or something?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh yeah, madam, just doing a little bit of matenance,
just changing a shed ground. Sorrow, I didn't realize it
was backing up on the microphone.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh that's brilliant. It's cool multitasking. A lot of people
wricking males can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I struggle.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So the situation up there in Sheffield, how's it been
for the season?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Windy?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It would be one way to describe it so far. Yeah,
really really windy. So it had a few crops being
burned off a little bit due to the high winds.
We didn't get hammered like Southend or North Canterbury, thankfully,
so we escaped pretty easy. It's a little bit of
ten off and stuff like that. In the end, there
was a bit of hail came through just over the weekend,
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so we escaped it up here touchwood this time. So
hopefully we don't get that. But I'm not going to
talked to many yet to see what it means to them.
But I imagine a few crops are taken, a bit of
a hammering, just a bit of a bugger.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Now, we had these catastrophic winds down here almost a
month ago. Have you experienced anything like that or it's
just Northwest is doing their thing over the season.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We are here at the farm, it's a real windy
spot anywhere in the throw to the waymaker Arri River,
so just where the farmers we capt quite high wind.
So it's I guess it's what you call a typical year.
Except normally a typical year maybe two three weeks match
of quite strong winds in the change of season. It's
just gone on and on. So yeah, it's been a
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bit of an extra windy season really.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And of course your farm there shore and you've got
four hundred breeding cells. You also grow your own barley
as feed for the pigs, and the affluent coming from
the farm using that as fertilizer on the irrigated land
as well, so you're feeling you're filling quite a few
of the boxes of text there.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Mate, it's great to have our own land to make
use of that, because when you use as a pig farmer,
if you're not putting on your own land, you don't
get any value for it. So it's really nice to
do that. And with the influence you just get all
those out of nutrients that you don't keep with synthetic fertilizer.
So yeah, there's nothing nothing makes a crop look better
than some peggy affluent on there.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So really nice to have that circle go round.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And I dare say there'll be plenty of that flowing
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There's a fear bort of a constant supply, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, that's for sure. Now as far as the season,
they're like, what would your rainfall tell you be per year?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There would you say, ah, somewhere between seven eight hundred
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's not too be for Canary your things taken into
account of what A.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Thought, Yeah, I know, we're pretty good a so we're
up close to the mountain, so we get a bit
and always spiller over often to that's a wee bit
of a a wee bit of a boost. And it's
a little green button that we get to fort too
when it does get a bit too dry. So we're
pretty lucky than we are.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now we're speaking just before you were saying there's only
sixty five serious peak farms as such at New Zealand.
Now everybody has a couple of pigs on the side.
I remember back in the day when I left school,
we had a peak there we were fattening up. Had
to go and give us swedes every day. Plus the
scraps from their house. But generally it just shows how
it's not a big farming system here in New Zealand.
(07:43):
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
No, but the guys that are here we do. We
do work out quite a few pigs, so I guess
numbers wise, yeah, if you look at the amount of
meat that we put out, we are quite as quite large.
And saying that also, we don't have a huge year
in the market. Were down to about thirty five percent
of the market. So yeah, I guess the industry just
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reflects that, and it sort of tends to be. It's
just larger, more serious players remaining in the industry.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And we've talked about this before as well. The threat
that imports pose with animal welfare codes well blow our own.
But to pick farmers in New Zealand, do they have
issues getting rid of their stock?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The last couple of years, it's been being pretty good.
It genuinely tends to be tends to be seasonal, so
normally end of January, if it's going to get pretty
tight and pretty tough, it's normally there for about sort
of four or five months. It's normally when our price
will drop.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I was ready, sorry, Sean, I was reading something the
other day talking about the Resource Management Act and its
effect on the pork industry, saying that it's just like anything,
it's making anything and everything harder. You just want to
get out there and do the farming. Are you striking
any issues off the arem.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, it's just a real pain in the backside. And
being a smaller industry and not many of us, it's
not well understood what we do, and the council send
out of these revolving door of people, so you're constantly
re educating them on what you do. So it's quite frustrating.
And of course for indoor producers particularly, you know, or
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even outdoor guys, you've still got to put barns and
structures up, so you've got to deal with your environmental
guys and then your local council as well, so you're
dealing with two lots there, and yeah, it's just just
a complicated nightmare. It just costs so much money when
you want to do something there.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So you've pretty much got e can on speed dial.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I wish. Yeah, you need to keep close to them.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But in general, though, how would you rent the pork
industry in New Zealand? Out of ten for our MASA,
just for performance in general, just the vibe of the
industry as such.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Look, we're rocking along pretty good. I guess they're probably
I would say an, I can't speak for everybody, but yeah,
things are things are going along. Prices are good. Yeah,
just some of that regulary stuff was was better and
easier and less expensive than would be really good.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Getting young people into the industry is that an issue?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Definitely? Yeah, yep. Because we're small. People don't know what
it's about. I never bring a person and a person
never visits the farm and then comes away and says,
you know, they're always like wow, that was not what
I thought. That was just amazing, and they're just blown
away by the technology using I mean a lot of
people's perception of pigs, like you said, one or two
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in a backyard and a bit of a MACKEYPN and
we traveled to scraps over the not all the ventilation
systems and automate of feeding systems, bested floorings and pumps
and you know, there's just so much to it. It's
really complex. That's not what people think. So it is
(11:12):
really nice when you show people around and then they
just come away with well, you know there's a lot
more going on here. Well, looks at you guys that
you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Certainly one of those things, but look anyway, Sean will
leave it there. It sounds as though the New Zealand
Pork Industries and good hands and once again gratulations on
going on to the New Zealand Pork Board and is
here is hoping your boy Raiser gets things right against
Wales on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hey yeah, made he needs of bloody step it up,
doesn't he.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And that's coming from a died in the wall cantempory.
And we'll leave it there. Shant will always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Go on, Eddie. Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Sean malloy, pe Peak farmer based at Sheffield up in Kennery.
You're listening to the muster next from Close Brands Station.
Grant dis Asketer McMaster thanks to Arbi Rural We cat
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shut with Grant Disaster McMaster farming at klosper And station
on the edges of Lake Walk at Tippoo. Grant. Good afternoon,
house things in the basin.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon everybody. Well, started off a
little bit of drizzle this morning and sort of warm.
But now it's raining again, which the forecast said it
was going to. It's meant to clear about this afternoon
and rain tomorrow and then clear for Thursday, so and
better for the end of the week. So yeah, it's
it's not it's not cold, but yeah, just a bit
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more bloody moisture.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So in general though, it's you're starting to dry out
to what you were.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, drying out to what we were. But there's
certainly you know, there's still penny of water around. But
you just told where we are here, where the houses
are on this on this property, there's horse paddocks and
you know a bit of common land that we bring
one hundred years over to Lamb each year. So just
and they're in paddocks about seems like one hundred different paddocks,
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but it's probably only about five or six. But they're
tricky little buggers to get cheap in and out off.
And so just cruising along the road. A couple of
high school kids that come every year, and we just
mucked around there this morning, got those done. So that's good.
Drive out of the way. Lambs look all right, and
you know, as I say, it cleared up long enough
for us to tell them. But now it's it's raining again,
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So just just that sort of spring weather.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
When's maintailing occurry, when's Tabee and the team turning out.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Tubby and the experts arrive the next weekend, the last
weekend of November, not this coming weekend down to way
Cack of this coming weekend, they've got the whitekk of
golf cover of their fiftieth ju believe. So I'm going
down to get going down to that to catch up
with a few. Not the way to play golf there,
but I'm going to go down there in mc thing
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for the all those guys and girls down near. They
are good country folks. So looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Absolutely. Congratulations to I kack A Golf Club. You need
to celebrate these milestones.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Right absolutely, and you know it's you know, great little
course at at at way Kaka and Dave Vainly he
was the he was instictd behind that and he actually
I've just found out that that they he designed the
course and with a bit of help, I guess, and
you know, volunteers, and fifty years later it's you know,
(14:29):
a great course of only to play golf on at
once and that's not saying much. But you know the
women's team there they hold the the Rose Bowl, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was just about to say, what's your golfing prow whist?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Like, uh, well, probably play it like Stephen Hawkins could
be fair.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well what does that even mean? Dear? I ask?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, very good at having it?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, next question, will leave the golf to the side.
All the missed the way kicker this weekend. Yeah, you
got to be throwing the big grand was really expected
then as that. Look you want to talk today about
Wolves New Zealand and PGG rights Son. This is a
good news story of collaboration.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Yeah it is. I think it's really a big because
those two companies, like two of New Zealand's leading wall companies,
Wolves of New Zealand PG items exploring ways to consolidate
the aspects of the wall logistics operation and then basically
the moves and response to the arly capacity across the
New Zealand's wall logistics infrastructure, and that, as we know,
is following the long term decline and wall volumes which
(15:34):
has driven up operating costs. So it's good to see,
you know, to two companies getting together and they're trying
to you know, they're basically both the companies will continue
to independently operate, but they're going to share the buildings
that they have. So basically they're sharing the aspects of
the wall logistics. They're going to they're getting together and
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they're taking the lead to to you know, to deliver
the structure change that the industry needs. So you know,
they go on to say that, you know, farmers are
facing rising costs, and well, we all find farming, we're
all facing rising costs. And so the industry and the companies,
you know, they basically got a lot of underutilized infrastructure
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that is unsustainable and lots of big buildings that they
either own or have to lease. So they've put their
heads together and they're they're fine tuning that and they're
going to share those those structures and basically just refine
what the spending. And you know, I think that's a
(16:43):
I think that's a great a great move, and you know,
you could say it's it's a lot of other industries
could do the same. Look at the meat industry. So again,
you know, declining numbers of sheep, obviously declining numbers of
well sheep industry know the infrastructure there and all the buildings,
the plants, and it's sort of it's not sort of
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reinventing the wheel, isn't it. You get back to the
old days and you could we could discuss this and
know there'd be rights and wrongs. But when we had
you know, the wall industry is there one cellar and
you just wonder if that had to carry on, where
would end up. But I think it's a step in
the right direction. Andy, And as I said, you know,
like you and I spoke before that that you know,
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people get the egos aside and for the well event
well and good of the industry. There's a lot to
be gained.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
From well, particularly like how you said share their share
the infrastructure, no pun and tender. But look, you've been
in the game of wild disaster. You've seen the highs
and the lows of the wall industry. Are you positive
about it about the five year out look? I mean,
we've seen some games for the sector recently, but is
it going to be a silver bullet somewhere?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Look, you know, you try to be optimistic, and I
still love wall. I love the product. You know, when
I would buy a RAMS walls a big thing and
I still enjoy the sharers coming and what have you,
and and seeing that product because it's such a natural
you know, it's a beautifully, beautifully natural product. But you know,
my heart of hearts, I you know, I just yes,
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I was a gambling man. I centaly wouldn't put my dollar,
my bottom dollar on the wal getting back to being
you know, half our income. I just you know, there's
lots of there's lots of people out there with lots
of passion doing lots of things. And I guess all
those little things that people do, whether it be cardigans
or matts or various things. For the medical industry, it
all adds up. But you know it would need to,
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because it's it's a pretty pretty difficult industry to be in.
And you know, and I remember from the good old
days when war was worth it, and you know it
was you know, it was half it was half your income.
Well that hasn't. Are we going to see those that again?
I don't think I'll said in my time, but I hope,
you know, I hope I'm wrong on that, but you know,
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they it's it's just one of those things that I
cannot understand how people don't well was not is not
appreciate more than it is and you know, because this
is the natural value off of But we hear it all.
We've heard it all before. We have people meet like
me talking and people are a lot more with a
lot more you know, skin in the game. But it's
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just a hard one to get across the line. And
I hope, you know, a lot of people are doing
a lot of work, but I hope the hell it
comes about. But yeah, I'm I'm not over confident.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Gram mc master. We always appreciate your time on the
Muster and good luck trying to have a golf ball
this weekend. Sounds like you need it, dear, I ask, no.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I'll be I'll make sure. I'll make sure the goal's
over before I arrive. So yeah, people can rest easy there.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Grants as McMaster. Thanks to r V Rural trying to
hold it together. Their apologies there. How A Clark is
up next, Welcome back to the Muster. Thanks for South
and Rural Support Trust in conjunction with Community Trusts South.
(20:10):
We're talking to various people in the rural sector regarding
mindset after a weather event this afternoon. We're talking from
an agronomist's viewpoint, how a clerk of advanced agricultures on
the line to give a bit of perspective on the
season that we've seen and what to expect heading through
into the silly season as such, which is decender. How
a good afternoon, always good to chat.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good afternoon, Andy, Right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So I suppose we look back on the last month
down here in the Deep South, and ye, spraying's been
behind schedules, spreading in the likes. It's just been one
of those city scenarios we've been lumped.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
With, right it is. The spring's been slow and frustrating
getting things done. In the early part of the spring,
groundwork was wet and also in the arable space or
spraying off paddocks, just the wind has made it very
difficult to keep up to date. And then of course
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we've had the event which with the trees and the
infrastructure damaged, really really hard to fathom how it had
just how many trees are down and how much damage
was done in a very short time. But to be fair,
I think things of the urgent stuff has been cleared
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and farms about just operating it. But it will take
a very long time to clean up the mess. But
as far as actual operations of the farms going, most
of it that most of it's back up and running,
and as far as crops and that sort of thing
going there, trying to get what's needed done. And again
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with the wind, it's a matter of the timings and
adjusting the timings if you get behind. Just to keep
things right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, that's a big thing. I suppose getting your spraying
dates to line up so you're getting the chemical on
the paddic when you need to have. You found there's
been quite a few issues trying to make things working
due to the weather or we're just fortunate that it
was the middle of October and now when we've got
the crops going in the ground as such.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Like to the beach, we were having some people looking
at chopping and changing because they thought they were getting late.
But the weather's sort of settled down now and it's
people are getting things done and it's about just doing
things properly, even if you are a little bit behind,
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rather than trying to take shortcuts and you always pay
for them in the end.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
When you say shortcuts as such, just what do you
mean by that? Exactly? How it?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Sometimes you cut out a spray here, or you'd cut
out a pass the air of cultivation, or you might
be going to cultivate and then you say, we'll just
direct drill it now and try and catch up some time.
But for direct drilling to work properly, there's a you've
got to do everything right to achieve a good result.
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So it's it's about doing things right to get the results.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And time management as well, especially with spray. Like you're
hearing stories of people doing the doing the spray on
the pad acts at like three am in the morning
because that's when it's the calmness. But for a situation,
they'll for a set time frame. Anyway, it's about just
having to do what you need to to get it
done right.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It is it is, and but it's just we just
got to deal with what's in front of you really
and try and do the best you can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now. As far as the crops in general, though, how
are they looking from your perspective just around the province, well, in.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The arable space, the winter crops looking very good. There's
been a week bit more suptoria disease in it with
the wet weather, but we're in programs so that's under
control as long as we don't get too far behind
with the actual spray timings. But the yeah, the arable
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crops are looking good. In the spring sown ones, we're
held up a bit with sial conditions and wetness in
various places, but they're coming through now good. And I
think most of the spring crop of spring arable crops
will have been sown by now, and it's people are
getting into the well they been sowing beat for a
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while and there and now into the bresacres for winter
feet crops.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
As far as putting bressacres in the ground, we'll touch
on this. Does it matter if it's not in by
a set date, because once upon a time the rule
of thumb was the Gorse show you had to have
them on the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But I think if you lived in Central South and
it was the in Vcago.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Show or the in Vcago show with here you go,
you had seven or eight days grace. But I mean
what we've seen over the past couple of seasons is
crops going in the ground as late as January and
still getting good yields.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yes, you have. It's often about getting the right varieties
and cultivars and crop type all the time and certainly
some soon some species soon in January will perform very well.
Maybe not as bit earliers sowing, but certainly will perform well.
(25:22):
And yeah, it's but again it's still making sure you
do your cultivation and your inputs correctly to get the
best out of them.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Are you hearing of many people looking at doing grass
wintering this upcoming season?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I think I think there seems to be a trend
for more of that every year. This is significant areas
out there being done this way. Now that said, we've
still got significant areas of beat gone in the ground
and Bressica is starting to go or going in the
ground now.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So they came messaging us apart how it is, just
do your due diligence if you've got any concerns.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Pretty much, so we'll leave it there, Howard, thanks very
much for your time as always you're up there and
can I read this afternoon? Lastly, ground conditions and cannerary,
how are they looking? Is at Northwest is a waver
the show.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's blowing and it's going to get rough for the
flight home. But that's the way it is. Their crops
are progressing well. They had a slow start to the
season two, but yeah, their crops are progressing well now
and looking good.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Good on you, How, it'd always appreciate your time on
the Muster.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Safe travels, no problem, thanks, Andy how.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
A clerk of Advanced Agriculture of course, what's the South
and Real Support Trust in conjunction with Community Trust South
talking about farming mindset tomorrow on the program Minister Mark
Patterson on the show. Simon Stakes is up next from
Environment Southland and before the end of the yur lucky dudden, John,
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Welcome back to the Muster from Environment Southland. We're catching
up with Simon Stokes. Of course, the segment paid for
by Environment Southland. He is land sustainability manager for the organization. Simon,
good afternoon. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I'm very good, saying Sandy and yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, not bad, but a sunshine over more than thirty
six hours will be quite cool. As silly as that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Sounds, yeah know, I enjoyed Sunday immensely. It was like
a welcome relief to I've had since I've been moved
down here, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, you must be wondering what the hell you've done
moving down here and seeing a Southland spring.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Ah, well, look you but you know that the weather's
the weather. There's always another day exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's a great way to look at SIBON. Now we're
looking talking land sustainability ability officers right now, So i'd
say the primary focus of your team be the events
from a month ago.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Here there's a primary focus and we've been attached to
the recovery and what we're what we're well, what we're
really looking for at the moment is for farmers to
get in touch with us while while we've got funding
available in particular, and we have a couple of grand
schemes that we have where we have funding available for
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farmers to use for uh planting by perian areas or
constructing wetlands and planting by native trees in general and
doing those sorts of things, and you can get in
touch with us with regards to obtaining some of that funding.
And given the given the storm and maybe how farmers
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are thinking about what to do next, it's a good
time to get these professionals out there to give give
them a hand, perhaps particularly with three species selection, that
would be a good thing. We also have bi diversity
team as well in that max that I've got, and
they've got some funding available for community groups at the
moment too, so that funding closes off around the end
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of November. So any of those community groups out there
that particularly have got involved with specialty sites or reserve
sites with native bush and that they can get in
touch with us and maybe try and obtain some funding.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, that's always a positive. And there's a bit of
money allocated which environments south and doesnt regular basis for
this kind of activity, especially regarding shout about some of
the likes.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, you know, and as well as we must know,
there's been a few sheltered belts affected, and so the
guy's spent a bit of time thinking about what alternative
species they could be used in different locations. And really
it's just a case of the farmers getting us out
there and getting us on farm to help provide that advice.
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We're also.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Keen to.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We've got a lot of expert teas here too, Andy
with regards to helping farmers prepare for this coming I
suppose summer autumn winter with regards to cultivation and getting
their crops in and then looking ahead to next year's
winter grazing as well. I kind of summarize it up
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as just good good farm planning, and there's nothing better
than getting the team out in the field on the
hills actually helping you figure out just what are the
rules or what can we do to actually really hold
that soil in place.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
We're talking about the rules now following the winds last month.
What do people need to think about before conducting outdoor burning?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Ah, yes, yeah, that's something that's quite tricky. Actually, you're
not really allowed to actually burn things that are green.
It creates quite a bit of smoke and air pollution,
and in fact, we actually had some issues at Edendale
recently where Fonterra was struggling with the amount of a
small and that can that did cause them a few problems.
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What it does is it can actually taint their product
and three good senses which can shut down parts of
the plant. So yeah, I think farmers just need to
just you know, tidy their shelter belts, put it in
a pile and let it dry. But I'd also advise
to any that get that location pretty well sorted with
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regards to where you might burn when it's dry in
the future, because sometimes you can leave it a bit
too close to other places which you don't want sparks
to jump. And speaking of jumping, we're all pretty jumpy
about fires these days, and so you just you've got
to be cautious all the way around. Don't burn it
while it's green, and be very careful when you're burning
it when it's dry.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Get on your simon. Always appreciate your time on the muster,
enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
All right mate, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Silent Steaks, land sustainability manager at Environments South And this
is the muster before you wrap up. Out of Thorny,
Young Farmers, Lachlan Dudden, this's here about the centenary or
the nineties. Sorry, that occurred at the weekend. Thanks for
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joining us. You're listening to the muster on hock Andie
Lucky Dudden out of Thornbury, Young Farmers joins us in
this week's Young Farmers Chat Locky, Good afternoon. How's everything
over in West and Southland today?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Oh it's a pretty good things and yeah, just oh
plenty happening, but we're getting through it.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Your feed covers are they starting to look a bit
better for the end of November or the mid November?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Getting up there now? We've got Oh, I've got a
heap of Baylor shut up. Hope to get into that
next week. But yeah, just getting crops met him. But yeah,
young grass crops, I mean Baylor joff next week hopefully.
Was sitting quite tired at the moment.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, So everybody's all things considered. With the way the
weather's been over the past four weeks, they're starting to
look at things a bit more certainty.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
We just oh, I'd say so. I think everyone's starting
to get through the work now. It's been a couple
of big weeks to get it in, but yeah, starting
to look quite good now.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The Thorber Young Farmers, you had your ninetieth celebrations at
the weekend and looked like a real hood.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Yeah, it was a good time. I started off at
the down at the Vantage Machinery Club and had a
look around that and then had the Thornbry volunteer for
Abrigaders down there, had a bit of a competition and
a race with the four hoses, so it was a
good bit of fun. And then I moved down to
the hall where we had the formal celebration and few speakers,
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had Hugh Jackson down who's got to listen to Haven't
speak and catch up with him about his journey and
what he's been up to. And then he had a
band a bit of a dance sort of finish the night.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, of course, Hugh Jackson, he is the reigning Young
Farmer of the Year champion. You'll know this as much
as anybody. You're back in the regionals again this year.
We'll talk about that shortly. But as far as the celebrations,
the Thornberry Vintage Club, it's pretty synonymous over in your
neck of the woods.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, it's a yeah, good club. It's actually the first
time thaing for a look to it. But yeah, some
nice old bits of cut but I don't think too
many of them would make it out on a farm today.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So as far as your club, everything's been focused on
the weekend. That's beeen i'd imagine lately.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, it's been a big focus for us.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Oh, it's a big part of the year for us
and a bit of a fundraiser for the club. But
now that's we've got a few other things to look
forward to. But yeah, it good to get out of
the way, good to celebrate it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Really, Absolutely, you've got to celebrate these milestones. So you're
talking about fundraising and the likes. What do you guys
do you have to raise a bit of coin?
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Oh, we just finished up our tailing fundraisers. That's that'll
be our main main fundraisers for the year. And then
every now and then we pick up the odd job
of people are available.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But now usually just the tailing obviously keeps you a
flat financially for the next twelve months.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Right, yeah, I trying to make it work between that
and oh the other few you pick up get in
what you put out, So what you get out what
you put out, I should say, so absolutely turn up
to the tailing. You usually get some discounts along the
way and you.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Get when you get enough of your turn up there,
yarns and shans are just flowing and just makes for
an enjoyable afternoon. It's just part and parcel, right.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Oh, you got to have some fun while you do.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It, of course you do. There's got to be someone
who's made a scapegoat. We'll talk about the Young Farmer
of the Year competition. The districts have been and gone
once again. You've made the top eight two years and
are congreds on that by the way, luckie. Now the
competition to Kurr and Clinton a couple of weekends ago,
how did you find it, say, compared to last year?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
It was a bit different to last year, but most
most of the modules are relatively what you'd expect. A
few different ones that you hat your by surprise and
show what you don't know, but it's part of the
learning experience of it all. But now, it was a
really good day put on by Clinton, and yeah, look
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forward to the next one.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
So what were the modules they put in there that
you weren't expecting to go? A bit of a local
throw up as such.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Oh, the old first aid one wouldn't rely on me
to save you.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Too.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Surely we got there in the end. It's a fazing
now most of the other ones, we're really well set
up and got through them without too much trouble.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
As far as Storberry Club, many of you guys put
your names forward to compete on the day.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
I think there were five or six of us that
went over, and then there's three of us that have
made it through to the regional, so you're quite happy
with that.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It's just und to fifty percent of everybody who's got through,
so you'd be commended for that.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yeah, as you get a couple end up making it
through the regionals.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
But yeah, yeah, three in this year is quite doing
quite well, I think absolutely. So what's on the table
for the rest of the year for you guys, Oh,
it's pretty cruzy.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
For the rest of this month. We've got Christmas at
the races coming up middle of December alongside nightcaps, and
then we've got a float going in the Revedent Christmas Parade,
I'm pretty sure, So that's on Christmas Eve, so we'll
try and get a few members along to that, and
then not much until January, where I think we've got
a couple of trips penciled in. But yeah, not a
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heat going on, so.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Just that time of year you can the workloads there,
but everybody's taking the chance to go to the meetings
and catch up as such, which is always.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
A good thing, right, Yeah, trying to get loong to
the meetings down at Drummond. I've got Drummond Touch on Monday,
so it's good to get a loong to that touch. Yeah,
Drumm and Touch. When you're not working, get along and
have a run around there.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
To touch is still pretty popular over that way then.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Oh, I think there's probably twelve or fifteen teams in
the comp that's good going. It's always good to turn
up and have a run around.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Of course it is now Young Farmers Club at Thornbury, Lucky.
What are the details people need to know around meeting
dates etc.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Our meeting is the first Monday of every month and
recently we've been meeting at the Drummond Pub first Monday.
But get in contact us through the Facebook or the
Instagram pages and get most of the details are on there.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Have you got a TikTok account? Dare I ask?
Speaker 6 (38:39):
I don't do the social media. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's a good way to be mate. Don't change on
that front. Hey, Lucky Dad and out of Thornbury Young Farmers,
thanks for your chat on the muster of us afternoon
and like we saying congrats on making the regional finals
for the Young Farmer of the Air competition. We'll see
you in Gore in February.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
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Speaker 2 (40:20):
Gooday? Andy Hegan on match Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Yeah, no, everything's very strong there today, very small outing
of store kettle, but we'll make up for that on
Thursday when there's a bit of thousand yelling kettle and
for a kettle sale on Thursday. But we'll kick it
off with the lambs today. The prime lambs pretty similar
to last week. Two seventy to three thirty on the bestialows,
two thirty to sixty five on the mediums and one
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hundred and seventy one twenty on the lighter end lambs.
End of the years are use selling very well. Two
two hundred and fifty dollars on the heavies, one hundred
and fifty to one hundred and eighty on the lot
and the mediums, and one hundred to one hundred and
forty on the lighter end years rams. The best of
the rams one hundred dollars and the medium sixty to eighty,
so everything's selling very well.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
There.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
We did have the first of the spring lambs, and
today there was approximately eight hundred eight hundred lambs that
were waning this morning, selling very well, one hundred and
sixty five to one hundred and seventy two on the
tops of those, one hundred and fifty two hundred and
sixty on the mediums and the smaller store lambs of
one hundred and twenty dollars, and a couple of pens
of New Year's lambs all counted two. She used one
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hundred and forty eight dollars there under the prime kettle,
just a small yarding selling on a strong market. There
steers nine hundred and thirty kilo steer he sold for
four dollars twelve, which wasn't quite four thousand dollars, but
just under it, which is extraordinary money. Five hundred and
thirty five kgs four dollars eighty two. Gary here was
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at four ninety five to five forty kilos. They were
four dollars seventy four to four dollars ninety and the
cow spoored droning eighty kg plus three dollars twenty to
three dollars thirty, so they're standing money in some of
those areas into the store cattle. It was only one
pen of uh schools and today and seeing some winter cowbs.
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So some one freezing balls at one hundred and ninety
kg's eight hundred dollars and the Wiener freezings balls at
six hundred and fifty. Here up across balls at seven
point sixty and here up across heapers at six fifty.
So yeah, small yarding but selling reasonably well.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
There.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
That wraps up Launville mate, And as I said before
Thursday eighteen thirty, we do you have the second long
bull spring CATSTL. There will be approximately a thousand beef
cross these heapers, and I think there's probably about one
hundred balls in there as well. If you can't make
it down on Thursday to that sale, it is on
bid hour as well, so we'll lead you the grass
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flating around. If you're looking for something data come down
on Thursday now
Speaker 5 (42:57):
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a book cooler. Raymigh likesal westerly six and fourteen and
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Row thirteen point five, Winton twelve point eight at Woodlands
at twelve. Sean Malloy, our Peak Farming correspondent from Sheffield
(01:34):
and Canterbury, starts off for Muster this afternoon, followed up
by Grant Disaster mcmass out of closeper In Station talking
about a collaboration that's happening that he thinks is a
good thing for rural especially from a sheep farmer's perspective.
How At Clark from Advance Agricultures on the show and
the South and Rural Support Trust segment today thanks to
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Community Trusts South, we're talking about mindset after an event
and today how is going to talk about it from
an agronomoust viewpoint. Lachland Dunham from Thornbury Young Farmers is
on the program in Simon Stokes from Environment Southland is
on as well with Sam Rowley from PGG Writes and
giving an update from the sale to a credit this
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morning at the Louisville sale Yards. Then we'll start the
hour with Sean Malloy. This is the Muster until two
o'clock thanks to Peters Genetics. Sean Malloy is a peak
farmer based up at Sheffield and Canterbury and joins us
(02:36):
this afternoon on the Muster. He is our peak Farming
corresponded Sean, good afternoon and welcome to the muster once again.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Good Eddie, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, firstly, congratulations as well. You've just been elected to
the New Zealand Port Board.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
To put my name forward for that and hopefully as
some barely to the industry.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, what was the driver for doing that? To decide
this is my time?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I've been involved with the politics of the industry for
quite a long time there and I just got right
to step up with who was the fellow that was
stepping away? And yeah, it felt like I was finally
ready to take that step up. I do try to
enjoy trying to take on the government and get good
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rules for farmers so that we can or farm under
a presonable set of rules and see what we do
and show everybody how well we do.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now we've spoken to you over the past couple of
years short and the struggles of naywork and the likes
being involved with the industry. Now up in the top
tier as such, are you having for a bit more
leeway and net respect?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I don't know whether that just being up there
will we'll open up so many more doors than what
we've already got. Yeah, it will certainly mean that you're
involved in those compensations, which will be nice. But yeah,
it depends on the government of the time and how
much excess and how much time they want to give you.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So the government at the moment, we've talked about this previously,
and ironically last time we spoke, I think the next
day the recommendations around seal creates came out.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, you think that means I've got a bit of
that for it, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It makes you wonder that just going to dearly, what
are you doing in the background. You're changing the bearing
or something?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh yeah, madam, just doing a little bit of matenance,
just changing a shed ground. Sorrow, I didn't realize it
was backing up on the microphone.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh that's brilliant. It's cool multitasking. A lot of people
wricking males can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I struggle.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So the situation up there in Sheffield, how's it been
for the season?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Windy?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It would be one way to describe it so far. Yeah,
really really windy. So it had a few crops being
burned off a little bit due to the high winds.
We didn't get hammered like Southend or North Canterbury, thankfully,
so we escaped pretty easy. It's a little bit of
ten off and stuff like that. In the end, there
was a bit of hail came through just over the weekend,
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so we escaped it up here touchwood this time. So
hopefully we don't get that. But I'm not going to
talked to many yet to see what it means to them.
But I imagine a few crops are taken, a bit of
a hammering, just a bit of a bugger.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Now, we had these catastrophic winds down here almost a
month ago. Have you experienced anything like that or it's
just Northwest is doing their thing over the season.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We are here at the farm, it's a real windy
spot anywhere in the throw to the waymaker Arri River,
so just where the farmers we capt quite high wind.
So it's I guess it's what you call a typical year.
Except normally a typical year maybe two three weeks match
of quite strong winds in the change of season. It's
just gone on and on. So yeah, it's been a
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bit of an extra windy season really.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And of course your farm there shore and you've got
four hundred breeding cells. You also grow your own barley
as feed for the pigs, and the affluent coming from
the farm using that as fertilizer on the irrigated land
as well, so you're feeling you're filling quite a few
of the boxes of text there.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Mate, it's great to have our own land to make
use of that, because when you use as a pig farmer,
if you're not putting on your own land, you don't
get any value for it. So it's really nice to
do that. And with the influence you just get all
those out of nutrients that you don't keep with synthetic fertilizer.
So yeah, there's nothing nothing makes a crop look better
than some peggy affluent on there.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So really nice to have that circle go round.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And I dare say there'll be plenty of that flowing
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There's a fear bort of a constant supply, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, that's for sure. Now as far as the season,
they're like, what would your rainfall tell you be per year?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There would you say, ah, somewhere between seven eight hundred
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's not too be for Canary your things taken into
account of what A.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Thought, Yeah, I know, we're pretty good a so we're
up close to the mountain, so we get a bit
and always spiller over often to that's a wee bit
of a a wee bit of a boost. And it's
a little green button that we get to fort too
when it does get a bit too dry. So we're
pretty lucky than we are.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now we're speaking just before you were saying there's only
sixty five serious peak farms as such at New Zealand.
Now everybody has a couple of pigs on the side.
I remember back in the day when I left school,
we had a peak there we were fattening up. Had
to go and give us swedes every day. Plus the
scraps from their house. But generally it just shows how
it's not a big farming system here in New Zealand.
(07:43):
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
No, but the guys that are here we do. We
do work out quite a few pigs, so I guess
numbers wise, yeah, if you look at the amount of
meat that we put out, we are quite as quite large.
And saying that also, we don't have a huge year
in the market. Were down to about thirty five percent
of the market. So yeah, I guess the industry just
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reflects that, and it sort of tends to be. It's
just larger, more serious players remaining in the industry.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And we've talked about this before as well. The threat
that imports pose with animal welfare codes well blow our own.
But to pick farmers in New Zealand, do they have
issues getting rid of their stock?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The last couple of years, it's been being pretty good.
It genuinely tends to be tends to be seasonal, so
normally end of January, if it's going to get pretty
tight and pretty tough, it's normally there for about sort
of four or five months. It's normally when our price
will drop.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I was ready, sorry, Sean, I was reading something the
other day talking about the Resource Management Act and its
effect on the pork industry, saying that it's just like anything,
it's making anything and everything harder. You just want to
get out there and do the farming. Are you striking
any issues off the arem.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, it's just a real pain in the backside. And
being a smaller industry and not many of us, it's
not well understood what we do, and the council send
out of these revolving door of people, so you're constantly
re educating them on what you do. So it's quite frustrating.
And of course for indoor producers particularly, you know, or
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even outdoor guys, you've still got to put barns and
structures up, so you've got to deal with your environmental
guys and then your local council as well, so you're
dealing with two lots there, and yeah, it's just just
a complicated nightmare. It just costs so much money when
you want to do something there.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So you've pretty much got e can on speed dial.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I wish. Yeah, you need to keep close to them.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But in general, though, how would you rent the pork
industry in New Zealand? Out of ten for our MASA,
just for performance in general, just the vibe of the
industry as such.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Look, we're rocking along pretty good. I guess they're probably
I would say an, I can't speak for everybody, but yeah,
things are things are going along. Prices are good. Yeah,
just some of that regulary stuff was was better and
easier and less expensive than would be really good.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Getting young people into the industry is that an issue?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Definitely? Yeah, yep. Because we're small. People don't know what
it's about. I never bring a person and a person
never visits the farm and then comes away and says,
you know, they're always like wow, that was not what
I thought. That was just amazing, and they're just blown
away by the technology using I mean a lot of
people's perception of pigs, like you said, one or two
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in a backyard and a bit of a MACKEYPN and
we traveled to scraps over the not all the ventilation
systems and automate of feeding systems, bested floorings and pumps
and you know, there's just so much to it. It's
really complex. That's not what people think. So it is
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really nice when you show people around and then they
just come away with well, you know there's a lot
more going on here. Well, looks at you guys that
you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Certainly one of those things, but look anyway, Sean will
leave it there. It sounds as though the New Zealand
Pork Industries and good hands and once again gratulations on
going on to the New Zealand Pork Board and is
here is hoping your boy Raiser gets things right against
Wales on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hey yeah, made he needs of bloody step it up,
doesn't he.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And that's coming from a died in the wall cantempory.
And we'll leave it there. Shant will always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Go on, Eddie. Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Sean malloy, pe Peak farmer based at Sheffield up in Kennery.
You're listening to the muster next from Close Brands Station.
Grant dis Asketer McMaster thanks to Arbi Rural We cat
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shut with Grant Disaster McMaster farming at klosper And station
on the edges of Lake Walk at Tippoo. Grant. Good afternoon,
house things in the basin.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon everybody. Well, started off a
little bit of drizzle this morning and sort of warm.
But now it's raining again, which the forecast said it
was going to. It's meant to clear about this afternoon
and rain tomorrow and then clear for Thursday, so and
better for the end of the week. So yeah, it's
it's not it's not cold, but yeah, just a bit
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more bloody moisture.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So in general though, it's you're starting to dry out
to what you were.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, drying out to what we were. But there's
certainly you know, there's still penny of water around. But
you just told where we are here, where the houses
are on this on this property, there's horse paddocks and
you know a bit of common land that we bring
one hundred years over to Lamb each year. So just
and they're in paddocks about seems like one hundred different paddocks,
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but it's probably only about five or six. But they're
tricky little buggers to get cheap in and out off.
And so just cruising along the road. A couple of
high school kids that come every year, and we just
mucked around there this morning, got those done. So that's good.
Drive out of the way. Lambs look all right, and
you know, as I say, it cleared up long enough
for us to tell them. But now it's it's raining again,
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So just just that sort of spring weather.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
When's maintailing occurry, when's Tabee and the team turning out.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Tubby and the experts arrive the next weekend, the last
weekend of November, not this coming weekend down to way
Cack of this coming weekend, they've got the whitekk of
golf cover of their fiftieth ju believe. So I'm going
down to get going down to that to catch up
with a few. Not the way to play golf there,
but I'm going to go down there in mc thing
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for the all those guys and girls down near. They
are good country folks. So looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Absolutely. Congratulations to I kack A Golf Club. You need
to celebrate these milestones.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Right absolutely, and you know it's you know, great little
course at at at way Kaka and Dave Vainly he
was the he was instictd behind that and he actually
I've just found out that that they he designed the
course and with a bit of help, I guess, and
you know, volunteers, and fifty years later it's you know,
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a great course of only to play golf on at
once and that's not saying much. But you know the
women's team there they hold the the Rose Bowl, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was just about to say, what's your golfing prow whist?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Like, uh, well, probably play it like Stephen Hawkins could
be fair.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well what does that even mean? Dear? I ask?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, very good at having it?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, next question, will leave the golf to the side.
All the missed the way kicker this weekend. Yeah, you
got to be throwing the big grand was really expected
then as that. Look you want to talk today about
Wolves New Zealand and PGG rights Son. This is a
good news story of collaboration.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Yeah it is. I think it's really a big because
those two companies, like two of New Zealand's leading wall companies,
Wolves of New Zealand PG items exploring ways to consolidate
the aspects of the wall logistics operation and then basically
the moves and response to the arly capacity across the
New Zealand's wall logistics infrastructure, and that, as we know,
is following the long term decline and wall volumes which
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has driven up operating costs. So it's good to see,
you know, to two companies getting together and they're trying
to you know, they're basically both the companies will continue
to independently operate, but they're going to share the buildings
that they have. So basically they're sharing the aspects of
the wall logistics. They're going to they're getting together and
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they're taking the lead to to you know, to deliver
the structure change that the industry needs. So you know,
they go on to say that, you know, farmers are
facing rising costs, and well, we all find farming, we're
all facing rising costs. And so the industry and the companies,
you know, they basically got a lot of underutilized infrastructure
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that is unsustainable and lots of big buildings that they
either own or have to lease. So they've put their
heads together and they're they're fine tuning that and they're
going to share those those structures and basically just refine
what the spending. And you know, I think that's a
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I think that's a great a great move, and you know,
you could say it's it's a lot of other industries
could do the same. Look at the meat industry. So again,
you know, declining numbers of sheep, obviously declining numbers of
well sheep industry know the infrastructure there and all the buildings,
the plants, and it's sort of it's not sort of
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reinventing the wheel, isn't it. You get back to the
old days and you could we could discuss this and
know there'd be rights and wrongs. But when we had
you know, the wall industry is there one cellar and
you just wonder if that had to carry on, where
would end up. But I think it's a step in
the right direction. Andy, And as I said, you know,
like you and I spoke before that that you know,
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people get the egos aside and for the well event
well and good of the industry. There's a lot to
be gained.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
From well, particularly like how you said share their share
the infrastructure, no pun and tender. But look, you've been
in the game of wild disaster. You've seen the highs
and the lows of the wall industry. Are you positive
about it about the five year out look? I mean,
we've seen some games for the sector recently, but is
it going to be a silver bullet somewhere?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Look, you know, you try to be optimistic, and I
still love wall. I love the product. You know, when
I would buy a RAMS walls a big thing and
I still enjoy the sharers coming and what have you,
and and seeing that product because it's such a natural
you know, it's a beautifully, beautifully natural product. But you know,
my heart of hearts, I you know, I just yes,
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I was a gambling man. I centaly wouldn't put my dollar,
my bottom dollar on the wal getting back to being
you know, half our income. I just you know, there's
lots of there's lots of people out there with lots
of passion doing lots of things. And I guess all
those little things that people do, whether it be cardigans
or matts or various things. For the medical industry, it
all adds up. But you know it would need to,
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because it's it's a pretty pretty difficult industry to be in.
And you know, and I remember from the good old
days when war was worth it, and you know it
was you know, it was half it was half your income.
Well that hasn't. Are we going to see those that again?
I don't think I'll said in my time, but I hope,
you know, I hope I'm wrong on that, but you know,
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they it's it's just one of those things that I
cannot understand how people don't well was not is not
appreciate more than it is and you know, because this
is the natural value off of But we hear it all.
We've heard it all before. We have people meet like
me talking and people are a lot more with a
lot more you know, skin in the game. But it's
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just a hard one to get across the line. And
I hope, you know, a lot of people are doing
a lot of work, but I hope the hell it
comes about. But yeah, I'm I'm not over confident.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Gram mc master. We always appreciate your time on the
Muster and good luck trying to have a golf ball
this weekend. Sounds like you need it, dear, I ask, no.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I'll be I'll make sure. I'll make sure the goal's
over before I arrive. So yeah, people can rest easy there.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Grants as McMaster. Thanks to r V Rural trying to
hold it together. Their apologies there. How A Clark is
up next, Welcome back to the Muster. Thanks for South
and Rural Support Trust in conjunction with Community Trusts South.
(20:10):
We're talking to various people in the rural sector regarding
mindset after a weather event this afternoon. We're talking from
an agronomist's viewpoint, how a clerk of advanced agricultures on
the line to give a bit of perspective on the
season that we've seen and what to expect heading through
into the silly season as such, which is decender. How
a good afternoon, always good to chat.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good afternoon, Andy, Right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So I suppose we look back on the last month
down here in the Deep South, and ye, spraying's been
behind schedules, spreading in the likes. It's just been one
of those city scenarios we've been lumped.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
With, right it is. The spring's been slow and frustrating
getting things done. In the early part of the spring,
groundwork was wet and also in the arable space or
spraying off paddocks, just the wind has made it very
difficult to keep up to date. And then of course
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we've had the event which with the trees and the
infrastructure damaged, really really hard to fathom how it had
just how many trees are down and how much damage
was done in a very short time. But to be fair,
I think things of the urgent stuff has been cleared
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and farms about just operating it. But it will take
a very long time to clean up the mess. But
as far as actual operations of the farms going, most
of it that most of it's back up and running,
and as far as crops and that sort of thing
going there, trying to get what's needed done. And again
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with the wind, it's a matter of the timings and
adjusting the timings if you get behind. Just to keep
things right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, that's a big thing. I suppose getting your spraying
dates to line up so you're getting the chemical on
the paddic when you need to have. You found there's
been quite a few issues trying to make things working
due to the weather or we're just fortunate that it
was the middle of October and now when we've got
the crops going in the ground as such.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Like to the beach, we were having some people looking
at chopping and changing because they thought they were getting late.
But the weather's sort of settled down now and it's
people are getting things done and it's about just doing
things properly, even if you are a little bit behind,
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rather than trying to take shortcuts and you always pay
for them in the end.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
When you say shortcuts as such, just what do you
mean by that? Exactly? How it?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Sometimes you cut out a spray here, or you'd cut
out a pass the air of cultivation, or you might
be going to cultivate and then you say, we'll just
direct drill it now and try and catch up some time.
But for direct drilling to work properly, there's a you've
got to do everything right to achieve a good result.
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So it's it's about doing things right to get the results.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And time management as well, especially with spray. Like you're
hearing stories of people doing the doing the spray on
the pad acts at like three am in the morning
because that's when it's the calmness. But for a situation,
they'll for a set time frame. Anyway, it's about just
having to do what you need to to get it
done right.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It is it is, and but it's just we just
got to deal with what's in front of you really
and try and do the best you can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now. As far as the crops in general, though, how
are they looking from your perspective just around the province, well, in.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The arable space, the winter crops looking very good. There's
been a week bit more suptoria disease in it with
the wet weather, but we're in programs so that's under
control as long as we don't get too far behind
with the actual spray timings. But the yeah, the arable
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crops are looking good. In the spring sown ones, we're
held up a bit with sial conditions and wetness in
various places, but they're coming through now good. And I
think most of the spring crop of spring arable crops
will have been sown by now, and it's people are
getting into the well they been sowing beat for a
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while and there and now into the bresacres for winter
feet crops.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
As far as putting bressacres in the ground, we'll touch
on this. Does it matter if it's not in by
a set date, because once upon a time the rule
of thumb was the Gorse show you had to have
them on the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But I think if you lived in Central South and
it was the in Vcago.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Show or the in Vcago show with here you go,
you had seven or eight days grace. But I mean
what we've seen over the past couple of seasons is
crops going in the ground as late as January and
still getting good yields.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yes, you have. It's often about getting the right varieties
and cultivars and crop type all the time and certainly
some soon some species soon in January will perform very well.
Maybe not as bit earliers sowing, but certainly will perform well.
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And yeah, it's but again it's still making sure you
do your cultivation and your inputs correctly to get the
best out of them.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Are you hearing of many people looking at doing grass
wintering this upcoming season?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I think I think there seems to be a trend
for more of that every year. This is significant areas
out there being done this way. Now that said, we've
still got significant areas of beat gone in the ground
and Bressica is starting to go or going in the
ground now.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So they came messaging us apart how it is, just
do your due diligence if you've got any concerns.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Pretty much, so we'll leave it there, Howard, thanks very
much for your time as always you're up there and
can I read this afternoon? Lastly, ground conditions and cannerary,
how are they looking? Is at Northwest is a waver
the show.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's blowing and it's going to get rough for the
flight home. But that's the way it is. Their crops
are progressing well. They had a slow start to the
season two, but yeah, their crops are progressing well now
and looking good.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Good on you, How, it'd always appreciate your time on
the Muster.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Safe travels, no problem, thanks, Andy how.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
A clerk of Advanced Agriculture of course, what's the South
and Real Support Trust in conjunction with Community Trust South
talking about farming mindset tomorrow on the program Minister Mark
Patterson on the show. Simon Stakes is up next from
Environment Southland and before the end of the yur lucky dudden, John,
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Welcome back to the Muster from Environment Southland. We're catching
up with Simon Stokes. Of course, the segment paid for
by Environment Southland. He is land sustainability manager for the organization. Simon,
good afternoon. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I'm very good, saying Sandy and yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, not bad, but a sunshine over more than thirty
six hours will be quite cool. As silly as that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Sounds, yeah know, I enjoyed Sunday immensely. It was like
a welcome relief to I've had since I've been moved
down here, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, you must be wondering what the hell you've done
moving down here and seeing a Southland spring.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Ah, well, look you but you know that the weather's
the weather. There's always another day exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's a great way to look at SIBON. Now we're
looking talking land sustainability ability officers right now, So i'd
say the primary focus of your team be the events
from a month ago.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Here there's a primary focus and we've been attached to
the recovery and what we're what we're well, what we're
really looking for at the moment is for farmers to
get in touch with us while while we've got funding
available in particular, and we have a couple of grand
schemes that we have where we have funding available for
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farmers to use for uh planting by perian areas or
constructing wetlands and planting by native trees in general and
doing those sorts of things, and you can get in
touch with us with regards to obtaining some of that funding.
And given the given the storm and maybe how farmers
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are thinking about what to do next, it's a good
time to get these professionals out there to give give
them a hand, perhaps particularly with three species selection, that
would be a good thing. We also have bi diversity
team as well in that max that I've got, and
they've got some funding available for community groups at the
moment too, so that funding closes off around the end
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of November. So any of those community groups out there
that particularly have got involved with specialty sites or reserve
sites with native bush and that they can get in
touch with us and maybe try and obtain some funding.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, that's always a positive. And there's a bit of
money allocated which environments south and doesnt regular basis for
this kind of activity, especially regarding shout about some of
the likes.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, you know, and as well as we must know,
there's been a few sheltered belts affected, and so the
guy's spent a bit of time thinking about what alternative
species they could be used in different locations. And really
it's just a case of the farmers getting us out
there and getting us on farm to help provide that advice.
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We're also.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Keen to.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We've got a lot of expert teas here too, Andy
with regards to helping farmers prepare for this coming I
suppose summer autumn winter with regards to cultivation and getting
their crops in and then looking ahead to next year's
winter grazing as well. I kind of summarize it up
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as just good good farm planning, and there's nothing better
than getting the team out in the field on the
hills actually helping you figure out just what are the
rules or what can we do to actually really hold
that soil in place.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
We're talking about the rules now following the winds last month.
What do people need to think about before conducting outdoor burning?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Ah, yes, yeah, that's something that's quite tricky. Actually, you're
not really allowed to actually burn things that are green.
It creates quite a bit of smoke and air pollution,
and in fact, we actually had some issues at Edendale
recently where Fonterra was struggling with the amount of a
small and that can that did cause them a few problems.
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What it does is it can actually taint their product
and three good senses which can shut down parts of
the plant. So yeah, I think farmers just need to
just you know, tidy their shelter belts, put it in
a pile and let it dry. But I'd also advise
to any that get that location pretty well sorted with
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regards to where you might burn when it's dry in
the future, because sometimes you can leave it a bit
too close to other places which you don't want sparks
to jump. And speaking of jumping, we're all pretty jumpy
about fires these days, and so you just you've got
to be cautious all the way around. Don't burn it
while it's green, and be very careful when you're burning
it when it's dry.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Get on your simon. Always appreciate your time on the muster,
enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
All right mate, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Silent Steaks, land sustainability manager at Environments South And this
is the muster before you wrap up. Out of Thorny,
Young Farmers, Lachlan Dudden, this's here about the centenary or
the nineties. Sorry, that occurred at the weekend. Thanks for
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joining us. You're listening to the muster on hock Andie
Lucky Dudden out of Thornbury, Young Farmers joins us in
this week's Young Farmers Chat Locky, Good afternoon. How's everything
over in West and Southland today?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Oh it's a pretty good things and yeah, just oh
plenty happening, but we're getting through it.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Your feed covers are they starting to look a bit
better for the end of November or the mid November?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Getting up there now? We've got Oh, I've got a
heap of Baylor shut up. Hope to get into that
next week. But yeah, just getting crops met him. But yeah,
young grass crops, I mean Baylor joff next week hopefully.
Was sitting quite tired at the moment.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, So everybody's all things considered. With the way the
weather's been over the past four weeks, they're starting to
look at things a bit more certainty.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
We just oh, I'd say so. I think everyone's starting
to get through the work now. It's been a couple
of big weeks to get it in, but yeah, starting
to look quite good now.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The Thorber Young Farmers, you had your ninetieth celebrations at
the weekend and looked like a real hood.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Yeah, it was a good time. I started off at
the down at the Vantage Machinery Club and had a
look around that and then had the Thornbry volunteer for
Abrigaders down there, had a bit of a competition and
a race with the four hoses, so it was a
good bit of fun. And then I moved down to
the hall where we had the formal celebration and few speakers,
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had Hugh Jackson down who's got to listen to Haven't
speak and catch up with him about his journey and
what he's been up to. And then he had a
band a bit of a dance sort of finish the night.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, of course, Hugh Jackson, he is the reigning Young
Farmer of the Year champion. You'll know this as much
as anybody. You're back in the regionals again this year.
We'll talk about that shortly. But as far as the celebrations,
the Thornberry Vintage Club, it's pretty synonymous over in your
neck of the woods.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, it's a yeah, good club. It's actually the first
time thaing for a look to it. But yeah, some
nice old bits of cut but I don't think too
many of them would make it out on a farm today.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So as far as your club, everything's been focused on
the weekend. That's beeen i'd imagine lately.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, it's been a big focus for us.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Oh, it's a big part of the year for us
and a bit of a fundraiser for the club. But
now that's we've got a few other things to look
forward to. But yeah, it good to get out of
the way, good to celebrate it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Really, Absolutely, you've got to celebrate these milestones. So you're
talking about fundraising and the likes. What do you guys
do you have to raise a bit of coin?
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Oh, we just finished up our tailing fundraisers. That's that'll
be our main main fundraisers for the year. And then
every now and then we pick up the odd job
of people are available.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But now usually just the tailing obviously keeps you a
flat financially for the next twelve months.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Right, yeah, I trying to make it work between that
and oh the other few you pick up get in
what you put out, So what you get out what
you put out, I should say, so absolutely turn up
to the tailing. You usually get some discounts along the
way and you.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Get when you get enough of your turn up there,
yarns and shans are just flowing and just makes for
an enjoyable afternoon. It's just part and parcel, right.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Oh, you got to have some fun while you do.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It, of course you do. There's got to be someone
who's made a scapegoat. We'll talk about the Young Farmer
of the Year competition. The districts have been and gone
once again. You've made the top eight two years and
are congreds on that by the way, luckie. Now the
competition to Kurr and Clinton a couple of weekends ago,
how did you find it, say, compared to last year?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
It was a bit different to last year, but most
most of the modules are relatively what you'd expect. A
few different ones that you hat your by surprise and
show what you don't know, but it's part of the
learning experience of it all. But now, it was a
really good day put on by Clinton, and yeah, look
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forward to the next one.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
So what were the modules they put in there that
you weren't expecting to go? A bit of a local
throw up as such.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Oh, the old first aid one wouldn't rely on me
to save you.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Too.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Surely we got there in the end. It's a fazing
now most of the other ones, we're really well set
up and got through them without too much trouble.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
As far as Storberry Club, many of you guys put
your names forward to compete on the day.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
I think there were five or six of us that
went over, and then there's three of us that have
made it through to the regional, so you're quite happy
with that.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It's just und to fifty percent of everybody who's got through,
so you'd be commended for that.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yeah, as you get a couple end up making it
through the regionals.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
But yeah, yeah, three in this year is quite doing
quite well, I think absolutely. So what's on the table
for the rest of the year for you guys, Oh,
it's pretty cruzy.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
For the rest of this month. We've got Christmas at
the races coming up middle of December alongside nightcaps, and
then we've got a float going in the Revedent Christmas Parade,
I'm pretty sure, So that's on Christmas Eve, so we'll
try and get a few members along to that, and
then not much until January, where I think we've got
a couple of trips penciled in. But yeah, not a
(37:34):
heat going on, so.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Just that time of year you can the workloads there,
but everybody's taking the chance to go to the meetings
and catch up as such, which is always.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
A good thing, right, Yeah, trying to get loong to
the meetings down at Drummond. I've got Drummond Touch on Monday,
so it's good to get a loong to that touch. Yeah,
Drumm and Touch. When you're not working, get along and
have a run around there.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
To touch is still pretty popular over that way then.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Oh, I think there's probably twelve or fifteen teams in
the comp that's good going. It's always good to turn
up and have a run around.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Of course it is now Young Farmers Club at Thornbury, Lucky.
What are the details people need to know around meeting
dates etc.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Our meeting is the first Monday of every month and
recently we've been meeting at the Drummond Pub first Monday.
But get in contact us through the Facebook or the
Instagram pages and get most of the details are on there.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Have you got a TikTok account? Dare I ask?
Speaker 6 (38:39):
I don't do the social media. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's a good way to be mate. Don't change on
that front. Hey, Lucky Dad and out of Thornbury Young Farmers,
thanks for your chat on the muster of us afternoon
and like we saying congrats on making the regional finals
for the Young Farmer of the Air competition. We'll see
you in Gore in February.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
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Speaker 1 (40:09):
PGG writ some presents stock selling action that occurred at
the Lawnville sale. Yeah, this morning once again Sam Riley's
on the line to fill us in on the details
and these fantastic prices. Good afternoon, Sam, How did we go?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Gooday? Andy Hegan on match Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Yeah, no, everything's very strong there today, very small outing
of store kettle, but we'll make up for that on
Thursday when there's a bit of thousand yelling kettle and
for a kettle sale on Thursday. But we'll kick it
off with the lambs today. The prime lambs pretty similar
to last week. Two seventy to three thirty on the bestialows,
two thirty to sixty five on the mediums and one
(40:44):
hundred and seventy one twenty on the lighter end lambs.
End of the years are use selling very well. Two
two hundred and fifty dollars on the heavies, one hundred
and fifty to one hundred and eighty on the lot
and the mediums, and one hundred to one hundred and
forty on the lighter end years rams. The best of
the rams one hundred dollars and the medium sixty to eighty,
so everything's selling very well.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
There.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
We did have the first of the spring lambs, and
today there was approximately eight hundred eight hundred lambs that
were waning this morning, selling very well, one hundred and
sixty five to one hundred and seventy two on the
tops of those, one hundred and fifty two hundred and
sixty on the mediums and the smaller store lambs of
one hundred and twenty dollars, and a couple of pens
of New Year's lambs all counted two. She used one
(41:29):
hundred and forty eight dollars there under the prime kettle,
just a small yarding selling on a strong market. There
steers nine hundred and thirty kilo steer he sold for
four dollars twelve, which wasn't quite four thousand dollars, but
just under it, which is extraordinary money. Five hundred and
thirty five kgs four dollars eighty two. Gary here was
(41:52):
at four ninety five to five forty kilos. They were
four dollars seventy four to four dollars ninety and the
cow spoored droning eighty kg plus three dollars twenty to
three dollars thirty, so they're standing money in some of
those areas into the store cattle. It was only one
pen of uh schools and today and seeing some winter cowbs.
(42:13):
So some one freezing balls at one hundred and ninety
kg's eight hundred dollars and the Wiener freezings balls at
six hundred and fifty. Here up across balls at seven
point sixty and here up across heapers at six fifty.
So yeah, small yarding but selling reasonably well.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
There.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
That wraps up Launville mate, And as I said before
Thursday eighteen thirty, we do you have the second long
bull spring CATSTL. There will be approximately a thousand beef
cross these heapers, and I think there's probably about one
hundred balls in there as well. If you can't make
it down on Thursday to that sale, it is on
bid hour as well, so we'll lead you the grass
(42:49):
flating around. If you're looking for something data come down
on Thursday now
Speaker 5 (42:57):
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