November 24, 2025 • 46 mins
Andy Muir talks to Jeff Grant, Grant McMaster, Alan McLeary, Tom O'Brien, Emma Blom and Sam Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the shak.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Be all right, surrounder.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Are your dreams nice?
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Don't controlling?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon and welcome to the Muster on Hokanui. My
name is Andy Muller here until two o'clock thanks of
Peter's Genetics. Thanks for your company. As we look outside
over the main street of Gtown Central, it is overcast.
The sun is trying to peek through. It's not that cool.
Actually we'll talk with its shortly. But before we go
any further, remember this Thursday the Southern Storm Shout happening
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in nigel Woodheads Farm at Levels Flat, halfway between Milton
and Bealcluther from three o'clock onwards on Thursday. The Emerson's
Tiny Pub and Spates Bar are going to be in attendance.
The Milton Lions are mending the barbecue with silverf and
Farms providing the meat. Milton Lions have got a courtesy
coach for people around the South of Targo region, and
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of course Ay and Zen are running a coffee cart
with the ice cream on the side as well, so
that everybody involved with this. Thank you very much and
to everybody who wants to go along to this. I
urge you to go and do it. And you go
and chill out for a couple of hours, have a bevy,
have a bit of have a snag a bit of
a bit of a steak sandwich if you will, and yeah,
just get off farm, take that chance to connect and
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this is going to be awesome at the Woodheads on Thursday.
Thank you very much for hosting. Indeed, Pat Benatar, that's
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afternoon cloudy. We've come variable winds in twenty one Wednesdays sunny,
we're breezing your westerlies. Eleven and twenty three. Thursday rain,
we're breezing your westerlies eleven and twenty one. Friday sunny,
we're breezing nor westers seven and eighteen. On Saturday sunny,
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we're breezing all bastilely seven and twenty sold temperatures ahead
Clinton thirteen point three, northern south from thirteen point two,
Riveton thirteen point one to now thirteen point eight, tidor
row I was twelve point five, Winton twelve point one,
and Wood was dragging the chain at eleven point eight.
Jeff Grant starts us off this afternoon on the Muster.
We're talking red meat prices normally around now they dropped,
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but Jeff's going to tell us how he thinks the
season's going to pen out. Grant McMaster, a close friend station,
talks about bureaucracy, road cones, why we just can't get
on and get things done. Alan McClary from Sheerware, New
Zealand he's popping by the studio for a bit of
a chat time. O'Brien our Garston correspondents as correspondent singular,
(02:44):
we're talking about the Great Crunchy Train robbery and something
that was re enacted along these lines last week at
Garston and Emma Bloom from Balfa Young Farmers as he
am with Sam Riley from PGG Rights and giving an
update from the Low Sale Yards and will start the
yawl with Jeff Grant. You're listening to the Muster until
two o'clock thanks to Peters Genetics names Mystery. Jeff Grant
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is a Northern Southland business owner. He's worn a lot
of hats over the years, but he joins us this
afternoon once again on the muster. Good AJF, how are
you good?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Straight off the cuff.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We've seen a correction and the the GDT over the
past few months. I think it might be like seven
options in our arts drop. We've seen a correction in
the milk payout. Still nine point fifty is a midpoint range,
is pretty darn good. We correlate that to the red
meat sector as well, and I think Boat, it's fair
to say both sides of the coin are looking pretty
sweet at the moment.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, look, I think this is just a continuation post
COVID is. The economies are picking up. They tend to shift,
you know, in their diets from camohydrates to white protein
and then to red protein, and especially in the Asian countries.
So it's still a bit slow out of China, but
without any doubt, you know, the underlying aspects seems to
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be that the total consumption of meats growing by sense
of the dairy products are probably just a bit of
a flip, while there's a bit of a recalculation about
production out in North America and Europe. But long term
you're still looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, just speaking to various people and a lot of
optimism as to where the red beat schedule is going
to be at the peak of the season.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So I think, having said that, it has to be
very careful, you will start We're already starting to see
in terms of the restaurant trade internationally, but also in
New Zealand where taking the topping cuts out of their
restaurant menu because they can't compete with pork and chicken
on a price. So you're starting to see a lower
cut being news which pushes ironically pushes the overall price
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up anyway, and there is a ceiling and the end
of the day where if lamb gets too far above
where the other protein market prices are, it does slow
down the consumption.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, you just got to look in the supermarket. It's
just about seventy five to eighty dollars for a league
of lamb. Now where is a couple of years ago
at this time coming into Christmas, perhaps a last leader,
but twenty three dollars.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, without any doubt it's expensive to bio months or
anything at the moment, but beef is also going to
be likely to show some shortage internationally for at least
the next three years until you see some restocking on
some of the major players in terms of the number
of cattle on feed lots, and that's going to hold
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the price up for some time.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Speaking of red meat, the free trade agreement with Indi,
you that's something we'd love to get under there, but
whether that occurs or not it's another matter.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah, Look, it seems were ever closer after ten years.
These things take a long time. I wasn't convinced the
last round that we're going to get there easily, but
the Promister seems to be much more confident about it.
I always say the devils in the detail, because the
last two we did were UK and Europe, and the
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UK one was really good. In the European one in
terms of the major commodities was nothing really So if
we inch away in the Indian market, both in the
dairy products will be hard. It'll be easier on sheep
and beef, but you know, I think there's an opportunity
in horticulture as well quite significantly.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Then are you pretty positive that will get an FTO
with India that's going to agree with.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
What we sell, as I said, the devils in the detail,
how much we give away and compromising what is the
free trade agreement will decide. If we decide for a
quick one and we give away too much on dairy
and the major commodities like we did in Europe, then
you sort of think, well for a long time before
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we get a real benefit from us. But it is
a big market. It's a market that New Zealand exporders
have been looking at for over the last fifteen years,
you know, as the next big steam outside of China.
So it would be good to see it now.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Artificial meat, we talk about the real thing, and there
used to be an ad for buddy, you can't beat
the real deal, and that's what we're seeing with red
meat use. The prices are high, but artificial meat is
still something that's on the horizon, right.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They've been a range of attempts around the world by
different companies. Probably the ones that are sticking out more
at the moment is Mossle Meat at a hundred meetable,
which is another European company. They've been around since the
early two thousands. My understanding is muscle Meat have now
said that they've got success with the reditary authorities in
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Europe where they can publicly sell artificial meat. But you
gain you go and see their website, classic stuff. It's
all about the warm and fuzzies, you know, how it
helps the environment, how it helps the animals, how it
helps you. But nothing about the ingredients, genetically modification or
anything like that. And so I think, again, it's going
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to struggle. The price is high. I don't think it's
going to be something in the market in the foreseeable future.
You know, these companies will keep attempting, but the reality
is the ingredient is the problem for them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, we think of it beyond mate, we think of
impossible foods and the likes you see them in the
supermarket's okay, Goore's probably not their target audience been more
often than not is reduced. But you look at the
ingredients that goes into them. It's scary, yes.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And that's where I think, you know, long term, in
terms of red protein, they're always going to be able
to have a market edge around a natural product. And
that's something that New Zeal benefits more so than in
many countries because we're grass for you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And just finally, Jeff, you want to give a shout
out to the Young Farmers Clubs.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah. Look, I've just noticed, especially in the last few
years that they've strengthened again in terms of the activities
in the communities. I put it all down to the
female gender that have become active members of Young Farmers
and have changed the way Young Farmers operate. I see
even in our local example, BELFO has got now thirty
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odd members doing some really big fundraisers for the community.
You see, they've got another one this Saturday, which is
the Drag Queen one. I think they raised about eleven
thousand for the Scouts in the community hall at the
last bar Cup, just in a one night event. It's
really good to see. But I just I find it
intriguing as somebody who sponsored some of these programs they
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do that it's always the females that approach us about
what they're doing and what they want to achieve in
terms of sponsorship, etc. And it's really great to seem
great communities, young people out there listening and well worth joining.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Emma Bloom's on the show promoting with Spoufi. You're not
making a special appearance up on stage because I know
you're a thespian at heart.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I think we're sponsoring a Frenchman.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You've been working for it, Hey, just talking you farmer.
You part of that infamous Balford trip to the mid
Dome all those years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
No, I was the only one that I was responsible for.
Was to where things went wrong was the minorkey and
I drove a four wheel are over a three wheel
are over a crust, which I had to report tomorrow. Man.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh well, some things we just got to get over
in life, I suppose Jeff Grant always appreciate your time
on the Buster.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Jes.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Jeff Grant not a fan of three wheelers by the
sounds of it, you like, I say Emma Blom from
Balfa Young Farmers on the show at the getting towards
the end of the hour. But up next though Grant
disaster McMaster. This is the muster grunts as mcmassa we
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catch up once again. He is farming at close Briands
Station on the edges of lake like a tippo when
it comes courtesy of the team at Arby Rural. Good afternoon, Grunt.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Good afternoon, Andy, good afternoon. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You got the tailing now at the weekend.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
No, no, that's just coming week.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh this weekend we hit him myself.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
D Yeah, I was down at Kaki last weekend at
the celebrating at the fiftieth Golf Club. So that was
that was a great night. So we've got we've got
the sort of round the horse paddock's done here last week.
I want to mention that went over the hills yesterday
and one hundred and forty two gs that are there
with the singles we tailed those. Took them longer to
get them in then tell them. But so that's all done,
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and yeah, just start putting a few sheep around on
probably Friday, ready for the kick off six a m.
Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How's the fade looking up your way? Is it starting
to move?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Yeah, it's gone from a feast to a famine. It
all doesn't, don't we forget quickly? But yeah, it's it's
still good here at Clothes Burn, it's good. It's as
I said, it's been green all the way through. But
there's paddocks now that are just just really a few
paddics are starting to someone that's under bolt into it.
And so that that's good. The hell's still and good.
(12:19):
It's still in good settle. Really it hasn't hasn't gone
to seed, so that's that's good and quite quality feed.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
At the moment.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Lambs, you know, lambs driving around. They look to be
enjoying life and cars are doing well. So you know,
we've we've we're looking pretty good. In fact, over at
the Hell's block, there's yeah, it's just about got a
woon being a couple of blocks, so might even might
even lock one paddic up for a bit of bailage
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and then try and contain the rest. So it's it's
a good way to be. But yeah, there's still you know,
there's still water flowing pretty pretty freely around place is
and that you know, it would normally be dried up
by now, so that's you know, that's that's quite that's good.
Oppose we get to Christmas without you know, well, it's
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still got water going, it's good. But all the rain
over the pocket at our town it's and this is
probably due to the development there is we've got a
couple of some quite nice paddocks here. They're all about
three and a half hect here, and two of them
are right beside the road, and you know, the first
ones we put turnips in and grass and really good paddocks.
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But since they started the air burned development across which
the main Lake Hays Ourtown Road and the muck around
with putting sort of passing lanes in, and all of
a sudden, we're getting big. We're not getting any drainage
in these two paddocks. And in fact, and so it's
about three and a half hec there's probably a hectare
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in each paddock that's absolutely got these big poems in them,
and it hasn't gone anywhere. So that trying to get
the county onto that have a lot, but that's a
bit like pulling teeth. So yeah, that and I think
that's you know, because it's there's good soil over there,
and you get down and it's you know, it's good
alluvial gravel. But where these where these drains have originally
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gone out, and I'm not too sure of that that
something's happened, and you know, because it's never pulled before,
and and it's you know, there's still bloody big ponds
out there with in those paddocks. It's never happen before,
so it's not getting away anywhere. And down on these
other intersections as well. There's where there's a bit of
ground the you know, there's there's there's water just pulling
there with nowhere to go. So you know, we haven't
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any rains for a while and still there. So it's
it's a bit of a bit worrying.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, you're talking about rules and regulations and talking to
the council about certain issues. Something you want to comment
on today.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Yeah, I just think, you know, we're just nowadays everybody
well it seems to be the councils and the and
the roading crews that they're they're more, everyone's more. The
actives can proactive. So an example in the Moat Lake
Road that I spoke about a while ago, that it
got washed out and there's a couple of big springs
in the middle that when they when their contractor went
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through and was, you know, fixing things, and I stopped
and had a lock and they were putting putting cloth
down to try and put gravel on, and I said,
what about that bloody spring there? And I said needs
a bit of they will never flow in it. So
this is right in the middle of the road, and
he should it does, he said, But he said, I've
got to wait to get permission from the council. So
someone was having to drive out from the from the
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from the council all down as it would have been,
and given the permission to put the put you know,
to put the drainage pipe in. And I just know
years ago the contractors all went around they had pipe
on the back and bloody tools and everything, and but
nowadays you've just got to you know, you've got to
wait and get the tackle. I said, just why don't
you just do it? So I know he said, they
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don't like that. He said, because you know, might put
an next one hundred dollars on something or or whatever
the amount is, and they've all got to be you know,
it's all going to be it's all going to be accountable,
which is fine, but you look at everything else around
the country and it's millions and millions of dollars run over.
So and an example going up there with with the
colvit you know, they don't keep clean the colds. Until
it rains and it's flooding, they don't clean them. So
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it's all asked about face and I was just I
was just reading one of the papers about the storm
clean ups that are happening within a target on the
south and quite an interesting article about down at the
whacker there where the farmer asked, you know you could
he has to contact the Regional Council to get consent
to get trees out of his waterways and the reply
(16:37):
was that the shiny art that aren't that? It said
that you're any if you're unsure whether any activities were permitted,
they should contact the RC and staff would provide advice
as regard to the organizations, we can't get permission to
break them rules. Well, you know, proactive and reacted. What
a load of crap. You know, it's just no wonder
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the country's bugged and and things don't get done. So
you know you've just got to I think you've just
got to take the ball by the horns and get
in and beg for forgiveness afterwards, because otherwise nothing will
bloody happened.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
But I'll tell you what, if he's a right cone
that needs to go somewhere, boonfire, it's there and there
are numbers.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well I was I don't know if I mentioned this before,
but speargrass flat like it's the longest straightest road in
the basin up here and go out towards our town
and it's they have there's all these pink pinek there's
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all these cones up there up there from time to time,
nothing happening, and they have they practice their training those
putting pine cone, putting cone and bloody cone.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
He is i'd say, but.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean, this shows you the hell hell how
far things have gone, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I see that in a couple of times a year
on our street it turned up one down the street
was closed and what's going on? They're training people to
get their papers so they can do road management. I mean,
why not go and do it somewhere at five am
in the morning or seven thirty at night where there
isn't an issue. But no, they've got to do it
at three o'clock in the afternoon near the middle of Gore.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Why don't you just do it when in the place,
in your workplace where it's happening. I mean, it's not
like you're doing bloody they're not performing brain surgery. So
just get out there and do it. And if you
have too far on the road and get run over,
you'd only do it once. But I mean that's been
a little bit flatt because you know, one thing you've
got to do is keep the speed of it while
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they've got cones up. But you know having a training
day to put them up well to is that's just
that's just taking a bit far.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The greatest thing of road cones is somebody got a
road cone and put the put it up the top
of a tree last year. It must have been as
for a few beers. He even knows how they managed
to do it, but it looked out standing.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, they've done that, and they do that in Queenstown
all the time. There's a down by the steam a wolf,
there's a canoe or a wok or whatever they call it,
and it gets filled up road cones all the time.
And I was driving back the other kneath on the
block over at our town, coming up through Gorge Rows,
and there's this great big tree sort of must be
somewhere near the Celtics service stage somewhere, and right at
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the top of it their.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Own road cone.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
So I had a good old larve brother. Sure it
must have been an arboris that put that up or
some of that? Said? You wasn't scared of heights because
it just stands like stands out like the proverbial and.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A special honorable mention to the individual to put a
shopping trolley at the top of the arch on the
Bowclouth Bridge.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Those people can't out much to do with it. They'd
be better putting that into sort of that's working or something.
But you know it's some You know, some people go
to all sorts. They must have a lot of time
on hands.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Andy, they mustard. Not that we can condain that activity nonetheless, disaster,
but hey, it's always good to catch up. Enjoy the ovo, mate,
I will.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
And I'll have a report back about how tailing goes
and how the crew perform on next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You no pressure on Tubby in the team, right know.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
And as long as Honey remembers to bring the rubber,
that'll be a good start.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Grand Disaster McMaster Thanks to Abby Rural. You're listening to
the muster. Alan McCleary is up next from Sheerwell, New
Zealand and studio Shine Shine. This is the muster on Hakanui.
(20:29):
I am joined in studio this afternoon by Alan McCleary
out of Sheerwell, New Zealand. Good afternoon, Hey mate, how
are you today? Not bad? Just bring that microphone to
you a little bit closer, or get you hit your
petite little frame in there behind the chair as we
call it.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Been a busy couple of months. Busy month, Yeah, no,
it has been andy. It's been full on. We've we've
had a few things, a few things happening. Actually had
to write a list, brought notes studio. Nothing's rehearsed, nothingsten
thing out either, you know, right, So you got your
list there, it's it's important.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
What do you got.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
We helped with the Belfer bark up with the Young Farmers,
which was a really entertaining night. It was really well
attended and the and the Yeah, it was really entertaining.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Emma booms on the show actually later on, so it'll
be interesting to see her take on it too. But
a lot of barkups, the bow for one than one
was recent as well, and just great events and the
money's always going back into local causes.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It did, it went into the local Scouts, So being
an old Scout leader, I had to go to that one.
But I do think and some of the Scouts got
up to do the barking and I honestly, you know,
you just wet yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
The human bark is almost more popular than the dog bark.
That's the stirring thing about it.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
The kid's got right into it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It was funny as So how were you a Scout
leader for me?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Or many years? You know, I don't know, but I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So you had the knee high beige socks to go
with the boots, and then and the khaki green shorts.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, and my hands. I can't do the Scouts because
they're so so full of out.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I was called the claw.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
That was my name.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
There was your nickname here.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The kids called me the claw.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So well, you learned something new every day.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I gave the kids a lot of nightmares. But and
what else have I been there? I've been up at
College Downs with the Cadet farm up there, did the
day's day's tailing up there, which was once again really
enjoying it was. The kids were really they're great kids
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're up there every year doing a couple of days tailing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah, I actually tried to. I think I should do
two or three, to be fear, but I don't know
if they'll have me. I think I hold the telly
up a wee bit I think did a day at
the christ Church Show, had to wander around. It was
quite well attended for the number of sheep there, so
it was good.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So there's quite a strong cheap influence at the christ
Church show.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well not so much, not so much the standardball your
main breeds, but more a lot of lifestyle breeders there,
your valleys and there was Kerry Hills from England there.
They were a dying breed, so they were there so
it was interesting because I haven't seen them since I
saw in England, so so.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It'd be quite a shaky breed, are they No, they're short.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
But they've got a very pricked years and quite the
black and white faces. They're beautifully marked. So yeah, so
there's a bit more of your hobby farmer sort of
sheep there than mainly your mainstream ones, but but still
well attended. What else we do The owners came over
for a few days.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, shout out share we are UK. They listening to
it what we're saying here at the court.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Pretty sure I've got a new job, but they did
tell me I had to find some more customers or
you might have to be looking for a new job.
So Come on, guys, get on, get on the ordering.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Get those she were, go and order them. How's it
been at the how's it going at the moment though,
you'll be flat out like a lizard.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Well, I'm like a broken down record. I keep saying
every month's getting better and better, but but honestly it is.
It's just and the phone hasn't been going so much
this this month. But we're doing a record month again.
And what else we don't know we've got We've got
the new yellow tag. We promised new colors, so we've
got a new green, and new orange and a brighter yellow.
So we are listening and they are delivering.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Is there what cockies asked for? Brighter tags? Yeah, yep o.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Our colors were a bit dull. But what I've learned
is the brighter the color, the more likely or quicker
they'll fade. So there's quite a rigmarole getting a brighter
color that holds fast. But the guys are pretty dedicated
and they seem to be working so and it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Works well when you're drafting and you're at the gate
and you can tell what's what. That's a simplistic part
about having us.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We get a little bit older too. We're just not
quite so quick in the old.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Vision made of our glasses. So I was fifteen. No
pinsion hold me with that crap.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I got mine laser, so people don't know I'm blind.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Really, I can't get mine laser anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Anyway, what else I've been I did? I went and
crauhed the rams at Nidal for the ram fear, which
they don't need a dag. That's just a waste of time. Muzzle.
Just make me a donation because I got a look.
There's no daggs on them. You just turn up and
every under Russell basically he is looked there. They're clean
as he's doing a great job there. So that was
don't tell the boss though, I was doing a bit
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of outside work, will you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, I won't tell the boss to share where Alan
was doing work outside of what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, and getting ready for the Golden Shears. We're sponsoring
up there because it's the World's again. So this is
our third year sponsoring part of the Golden Shares. So
I'm getting myself organized to go up there for that.
So that's a bit of a perk.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Do you go up there every yet.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Didn't go up last year, but I have ye been
up the couple of years before that, and we're sponsoring
Jack Fagans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well I've seen that this morning on his zostera post. Yeah, man,
he was.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
He was pretty pumped about the waggle woggle, aren't he.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Seventeen seconds to get them? Yeah, get the feathers off?
He got more.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I think he got them all off.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, oh no, but he was pumped.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
So how do you share an animal in seventeen seconds?
I mean, geez, when you're crunching it tasted that long.
Just a bloody stretch here, Emmy's out.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Well, I suppose when that sort of money is involved
to in the prestige, it gives you a wee bit
of an edge, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, it's big money, it is, and it's speedsheer circuits, lucrative.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, yeah it is. Yes, Yeah, we do the one
that Oh no, I think we do it at the
way the way moomoo one. But I don't you do
the way umu one. Don't you know you do the way?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You We won this effects in Southern Field days.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yes, so yeah, we sponsored at last well, I helped
sponsor it last year so we'll be doing the same
this year, I presume I and.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Rays flat out with the tags we're forgetting them printed
and the likes.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
He is looks like we're going to have to get
another one, another printer in to keep up. It's just
it's getting too much for him.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So so you're still going up driveways yelling to cockies
and the likes, you're still doing a lot of very much.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
So yeah, I think that's The farmers seem to be
happy with that. I don't try not to spend too
much time and annoy them too much, but it does
seem to be working. So it sort of shows too
that even if they've bought the tags, I'm I'm happy
to line up for any or a or a bit
of praising.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Maybe do you get a bit of your besh?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
No, no, you know we do sometimes.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, but that's the whole that's the whole thing about it.
Going up there and they see your tags, and the
chances are people are like, oh, I've got to get tags.
The two d say I, well, I want to tag
the hogg. It's early boomfo these your option right.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, and tags aren't high on our radar. Really like
her fertilizer and seed and everything else, but tags you're
liable to forget. So it's I think it is good
that I just turn up and it prompts them along.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yes, sure right, Alan McCleary s, Shearwell, New Zealand,
how do people get in touch?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, you better give us a tingle on two seven
two three two double four double eight? Are you checking?
And I got the number right?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And no, I'm just doing my due diligence. Here are
you and or ray on.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
The eight hundred numbers? So that's eight hundred seven triple
nine eight nine. I think I got that right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Go to Serwell Inzen on social media channels, go and
google Sheerwell ins it as well. Details come up there too,
So Alan McCleary, always a pleasure to have you come
into studio for a bit of a chim wag.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Next Alan McCleary of Donaldson's Dairy, who also moonlights, it's
she were New Zealand. Always good to catch up with
the great man himself, as it is our next guest.
We're away at Garston catching up with Tom O'Brien. There
was a recreation of a classic New Zealand ad at
the weekend, Tom tells us all about it. That's okay,
(28:45):
welcome back to the muster on Hokinnui. That music they're
a synonymous of only one thing. It is the great
crunchy train robbery of course, that occurred on the Kingsdom
Flyer back in the I think it might have been
the late seventies or possibly the early eighties. So Brian,
good afternoon, No, you know a bit more about.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
This good afternoon Andy, journey out West and the way
to make a stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's one of the great ads.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I was just singing along to that then I remember
all the words so that I can't believe it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic.
It was a fun add that one.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So what happened at the weekend exactly tell us about
this because this is recreated.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So the Birchwood Hunt Club, which is basically an organization
which is made up of a whole lot of people
who are into into horse tricks, doing lots of horse
tricks around the countryside. Yeah, they gathered on Sunday. There
was eighty horses and their riders and we bought the
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Kingston Flyer into fear light, or about two hundred minutes
before we got into fear Light. Riders would ride four
abreast approaching the train and as they got closer, we
to our horror. We realized that we were going to
get robbed. So they so they held us up the gunpoint.
We brought the train to a stop. There was stockworks
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crack cracking and women guns going off. And yeah, they
rode up to the side of the carriages and they
dismounted and went onto the carriages and we started stealing
everyone's jewelry and money and got one of them even
had a mobile f poss machine. They said, we'll get
it out of you somehow. So they were tying people
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to the side of the bloomen gates, and yeah, it
was a real ruckers. It was a real whoha going on.
So yeah, but a bit of excitement got the old
got the old heart racing mate.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So how long did this go on for?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Probably, I don't know, sort of thirty or forty minutes.
Of course, you know the big ring leader of the group,
George Bought and he I could tell it was Sam
even though he was a masked he was a masked robber.
As soon as I saw him. I was hiding in
the bushes, you see, and I jumped out.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
And he said, oh, I know you, I know you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And I said, I know you, and you're not going
to get me. So you sort of chased me around
the side of the local blunderbus and yeah, and then
we jumped up, jumped up on the engine and yeah, yeah,
I had a grand old time. So yeah, no George,
he was leading the charge so to speak, with the group,
with the Birchwood Hunt group, and yeah, we had loads
(31:37):
of fun. There was a real sort of mutual kind
of respect for all things vintage and you know, sort
of pioneering.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Really. It's great.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You hear about the lot overseas recreating battles and the
way they fought, but likes to do in the train robbery.
You can only even do that with the Kingsdom Flyer.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, that's right, and we used to do it on
a regular basis years ago.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
We used to a few of the local guys would
be sort of half a dozen of them, and we'd
slow the train right down. But back in those days,
we actually didn't stop the train. We keep the train going.
And the guys a couple of the skilled guys whose
horses got used to actually doing this would be riding
next to the old first class bird cage carriage and
they'd jump out of their saddle onto the saddle and
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then actually literally jump onto the train while it was
cruising along, and then and then hold everyone up. But
of course holding everyone up meant going through the through
the carriages with a with a chest full of country
bars and handing them out to the passengers. So yeah,
I'd love to re it'd be awesome to be able
to actually do that on a regular basis again, because
I think people nowadays would really, really really cherish it
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and love it, and young and old would get a
real buzz out of that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We catchure this afternoon at the top of Welcome Rock.
Describe what you're saying at the moment. With some pretty
good views, i'd imagine, mate, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Looking straight out towards the knock of Ey have the
magnificent Knockameye Valley, out towards the Garby Mountains. I can
see my old friend East Dome, I can see my
old friend mid Dome, and I can see the old
friend West Dome out towards the Takatimos and the air mountains.
I'm just heading over the other side of the farm
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down to what's called the mud Hut to drop some
bags off for some people. And yeah, the slate Hut
and the mud Hut, they're pretty busy at the moment
and getting lots of bookings. And yeah, down at the
farm we're getting pretty busy as well. So yeah, she's
all going between sort of the train runs and Welcome
Rock and also council. You know, we've got a council
meeting tomorrow as well. Yes, yeah, it's kind of the
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Bermuda or triangle of madness for tom really.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yes, what was it looking like up there? Grass wise?
You guys having an ok season?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Good?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, good, good good. No, things have come pretty well now,
Like yeah with a shells talking to the old mate
Skippy Chris McNamee. Last night we had a quiet beer
on the porch last night. We could have been bloody
whittling stick with our pocket knives, you know, in our
rocking cheers, and we were sitting there and we were
just commenting, how good, you know, the amount of grass
growth that's happened just this past week. You know, we
(34:10):
had that nice bit of rain, but yeah, having the
heat now, you know, getting that heat is really crucial
to just give that, you know, just to sort of
bulk everything up a little bit. But yeah, no, it's yeah,
it's good. Things are looking much better than what they
were a month ago, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Absolutely, Tom. I will leave it there, mate, Thanks for
your time and we'll have a bit of a crunchy
head to see us out, shall we.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Let's go for it.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's on and so Brian based up at Garston. This
is the muster up. Next we'll catch up with Emma Bloom.
This is a muster and hakanui before we catch up
with Emma Blum. The Muster Events diary brought to you
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Beef and Lamb New Zealand's latest word wise workshop for
Milk to Meat is happening this Thursday, November the twenty
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of Belfer Young Farmers, joins us in this week's Young
(35:35):
Farmers round up. Good afternoon, Emma, Hello, how are you?
I'm going pretty well. I was speaking to you, you see,
I'm pretty busy. You're helping the appearance of the Milkings
in the morning, then doing an Ai run.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
No, she's been flat out. It's been an awesome season
so far.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
So it's going good.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Is the grass starting to grow around Belfer?
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Yep, No, it's been pretty steady. We've just cut for
Baylor yesterday and then we've even got some psylogen So no,
pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, this way you'd hope to have at the end
of November. Anyway, now Belfer, young Farmer's quite a bit
going on that straight off the bat. It's all happening
at the Balfer Hall this Saturday evening. Miss Belfer tell
us about it. Awesome.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Yeah, so it's a drag show, so we're encouraging all
of our lads to get dressed up and support a
good cause. So our local hall needs a bit of
a revamp and then this is just such a great
way to get everybody together, have such a fun night
and then raise some money for the club and then
for the local Balfa Hall.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
And I can tell you exactly when that hall opened.
I think it was about this time in nineteen eighty three? Really, yeah,
well what's on the phone?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Who would have thought in nineteen eighty three that the
boys will be dressing as girl?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Pretty much? But I'll be honest, there's a plark as
you walk in there saying it was opened by the
latest Erskine Boe Mass So that's how I understood that one.
But did rite? Who would have thought all those years
ago these events will still be going on abouth that
they've been held before. And let you say, the money's
all going towards restorations of the Balfa Hall, right yes.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Yeah, yeah, so it was about ten fifteen years ago.
And talking to people in the community again, I'm excited
about this event. They still remember that night in detail,
Like you ask what somebody was wearing and they can
even name the color of the dress and what their
talent was. Like It's going to be such an unforgetable night.
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, straight off the cuff, Michael Lee or Brett Dylan
for goodness sake. For a funny story about that night,
My wife went along to it, went along with her
mate from Walkland who is a corporate high flyer, and
her one night out in Balfa went she went to
a drag show.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Oh that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, it was something suddenly deviated from the norm. So
like ticket numbers and the likes. Have you got numbers?
You've got a capead obviously yes.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
So our kepe is one hundred and seventy five people.
We've still got tickets available, so if get interested, please
come take a lot. It'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But yeah, so as far as take of details, what
are they worth? How do you pay for one?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Sweet?
Speaker 8 (38:07):
So you just literally just google the Baufer Drag Show
and it will come up. It's fifty dollars a ticket.
Otherwise you can also on the Facebook page for the
young Farmers and then there's a ticket link on there
and sufferers included. Doors open six point thirty and it'll
go till late.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Is there a courtesy coach locally?
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah, there's a courtesy coach brilliant.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's nice to the driver, be nice to always nice
to the driver. Goodness meet when the people not nice
to the driver. Yeah, and there's also something around cell
phones as well. Have no cell phone use on the night.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Yeah. We want to just let the boys just go
wild and then have no regrets later on. I think
Captain twenty years ago. Then the boys didn't have to
worry about it. There were just pixiland photos, but now
there'll be quite a lot of phones and videos that
could get out.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
So yeah, and there'll be reminders of the night around
looking forward to the event as well, going to be
a part of it, so other things about the young
farmers though. Has this been the core focus lately?
Speaker 8 (39:07):
No, We've just had our bark Up which was a
great success. I think there were a thirty odd working
dog entrance which was really cool. It was a really
really cool event. And then yeah, our focus now is
on Miss Balfour and then we'll get Christmas out of
the way and then get all these other events cranking through.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Just speak to miss Belfer. How many entrants have you got?
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Are we about seventeen?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Do you need more or is that enough?
Speaker 8 (39:32):
I think we've got enough, but we won't say no
to people volunteering.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I reckon if we like a crowd source enough money,
Bleared Drysdale could could go back and do a role
we did a few years ago on the Belfer Show.
What do you reckon? We've got a couple of days
to do this.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Oh, we have been trayed. We've got Hopefield him on board.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Yeah, but we haven't got Blocker up there strutting the stuff.
I reckon, we can do it. He's out of it, No,
but I think we can right right out.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
What's our game plan?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Well, we just need people to donate money. If we
can reach I don't know, one hundred and fifty bucks,
I reckon, we'll go two hundred dollars. There we go,
fair figure. We can source that on the night from
whoever that I reckon. Block has got a front up.
What do you reckon?
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I love that. So on the night he just gets
forced up there.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
He gets forced up there and is regally absolutely. But look,
we're getting towards a Christmas season with you guys. Fundraising wise,
you've been doing anything else? A bit of crutching coming up?
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Yeah, we've been.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
Doing a bit of crutching and then the odd jobs
around the district. Whatever people need help with, we're happy
to help. We've been doing a bit earlier on the
year with some fodderbeat sorting and then yeah, a lot
of crutching.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
As far as the one situation is it, have you
been helping it all? Like members regarding trees or tree lanes.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
To be fair, no, I think people have been quite
busy on their own farms sorting it out. But if
anybody has got wind damage, we're more than happy to
go out for a weekend or a day and clear
up some trees.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
So you still getting out and about on your thirsty thursdays.
Speaker 8 (41:02):
Sure, yeah, it was way kaya last week and I
think this coming week is Riversdale. It's a bit of
a shame that the Balfer Pub is closed, but we
may do that's.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
That's what you've got to do, I suppose. So where
do you hold your meetings.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
Then we've been holding.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
Them at the Riversdale Pub and then when we can,
we do it at the Rugby.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Club in Belfer, so you stay pretty local with the
meetings more or less. So you're going down, you've got
a tent at the races or anything.
Speaker 8 (41:33):
Are we're tagging along with Thornberry.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
I thank everyone is young farmers in general, though it
seems to be in a pretty good place down here
in the in the south THEMA, I'd say, oh, definitely.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
Like when I was at UNI, my brother NICKI was
chair of the Belfer Young Farmers and there was a
handful of people that would come and people were really keen.
And then I went away and then I've come back
and it is such a cool group of people, like
people really want to do it's really actively involved. That's
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
How's the finespot going?
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Oh, the fines book is going pretty strong?
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
What do we have this month? What have we had?
Give us some details? Taylor wasn't too keen on last time,
but here's a chance. Em what's been going on? I'm
not going to give to you don't have to give
much detail. Have you got to give us something? But
what's been happening? Like is it somebody just taking out
strainers or what's been the general gifts lately?
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:28):
I think somebody got a bit rowdy at the barkhouse
And yeah, that's that's all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Oh, that's a that's a fair call, Emma. Look and
you're meeting dates? Of course, when are they the first
Monday of every month? Good on you, Emma, always got
to catch up. All the best for miss Belfer this weekend.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Awesome, Thank you Andy.
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Speaker 1 (43:02):
Did you know the statistically six out of seven dwarfs
aren't happy. We'll leave it there for the afternoon. I'm
Andy Muey. You've been listening to the muster on Hakawi
thanks to Peters generis. Enjoy the afternoon podcast going up.
Surely I'm away tomorrow. Chuck Wilson is in the driver's
seat and we'll catch you on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Hey, well, i'll that too, hea' go there? And what
did he go on again for?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Thanks for pgg right. Senator's timed for the stock sale
report this afternoon, coming out of lawn Bull with Sam
Riley on the line to give us an update on prices.
Get a Sam, the sausages sizzled during summer. What about
those lamb prices?
Speaker 5 (43:41):
You know they're actually.
Speaker 7 (43:42):
Getting up them, mate, which is good to see. As
long as it holds on and for the rest of
the season, it'll be quite nice. We will kick it
off of the prime lambs, the best of those three
Sidney to three teen. Still a handful of old seasons
lambs coming in there, but start the run out. The
medium's two forty two sixty and the lottery prime to
two hundred and two thirty. The year will he use
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with a bit of a lift from last week on
Mos two twenty to two fifty for the tops of
those mediums one eighty to two teen and the lottery
end used one to one twenty to one seventy con
cod dem under the rams, the good heavy rams one hundred,
one hundred and thirty dollars and the medium's eighty to
one hundred dollars into the store years just tops of
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those store lambs one hundred and sixty one hundred and seventy,
the mediums one fifty one to fifty five and the
lighter end score lambs at one thirty to one forty
news The lambs all counted one pen of O's at
one hundred and thirty nine dollars into the kettle, and
we had prime kettle stears four eighty to six hundred
and fifty kilos four dollars sixty to four dollars, eighty
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heaths at five hundred and fifty kgs four dollars sixty
gary head is at four sixty to five hundred kgs
four fifty eight to four sixty three into the cows
as good heavy cows at four hundred and fifty plus
kilos two dollars eighty three dollars and balls at four
ninety five kilos at four dollars forty two and then
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move into the stoore kettle just a small yarding of
stoo kettle today to quote two year old here for
cross heavers at twenty four hundred dollars a two year
old beef cross stairs at nineteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Two.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
Here for cross balls at three hundred and ninety three
kilos seventeen thirty into. The winner is the win of
free from balls one hundred, one hundred and twenty kgs.
They were six hundred and six hundred and fifty dollars.
Winning here for a cross balls at one hundred and
one hundred and thirty kgs seven hundred, seven hundred and
fifty and the winner here for cross heavers at one
hundred and twenty kg's they were six hundred and fifty.
So that wraps up long the wait we do have
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coming up on Thursday, the twenty seventh ateen thirty the
spring calf sale. There is approximately fifteen hundred beef across
ball balls heapers and freezing balls, and that it is
on bitter. So that's ten thirty on Thursday. But you
know I'm looking for a few calves, good dillarly calves
in the season, come along on Thursday and Honkin Delos.
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The grass growing should be a good market.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
I have another booter, and I was on the day
to hold now bo
With the shak.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Take my hand, It'll.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Be all right, surrounder.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Are your dreams nice?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Don't controlling?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon and welcome to the Muster on Hokanui. My
name is Andy Muller here until two o'clock thanks of
Peter's Genetics. Thanks for your company. As we look outside
over the main street of Gtown Central, it is overcast.
The sun is trying to peek through. It's not that cool.
Actually we'll talk with its shortly. But before we go
any further, remember this Thursday the Southern Storm Shout happening
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in nigel Woodheads Farm at Levels Flat, halfway between Milton
and Bealcluther from three o'clock onwards on Thursday. The Emerson's
Tiny Pub and Spates Bar are going to be in attendance.
The Milton Lions are mending the barbecue with silverf and
Farms providing the meat. Milton Lions have got a courtesy
coach for people around the South of Targo region, and
(01:01):
of course Ay and Zen are running a coffee cart
with the ice cream on the side as well, so
that everybody involved with this. Thank you very much and
to everybody who wants to go along to this. I
urge you to go and do it. And you go
and chill out for a couple of hours, have a bevy,
have a bit of have a snag a bit of
a bit of a steak sandwich if you will, and yeah,
just get off farm, take that chance to connect and
(01:22):
this is going to be awesome at the Woodheads on Thursday.
Thank you very much for hosting. Indeed, Pat Benatar, that's
our Jones. It's Silla.
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we're breezing nor westers seven and eighteen. On Saturday sunny,
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we're breezing all bastilely seven and twenty sold temperatures ahead
Clinton thirteen point three, northern south from thirteen point two,
Riveton thirteen point one to now thirteen point eight, tidor
row I was twelve point five, Winton twelve point one,
and Wood was dragging the chain at eleven point eight.
Jeff Grant starts us off this afternoon on the Muster.
We're talking red meat prices normally around now they dropped,
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but Jeff's going to tell us how he thinks the
season's going to pen out. Grant McMaster, a close friend station,
talks about bureaucracy, road cones, why we just can't get
on and get things done. Alan McClary from Sheerware, New
Zealand he's popping by the studio for a bit of
a chat time. O'Brien our Garston correspondents as correspondent singular,
(02:44):
we're talking about the Great Crunchy Train robbery and something
that was re enacted along these lines last week at
Garston and Emma Bloom from Balfa Young Farmers as he
am with Sam Riley from PGG Rights and giving an
update from the Low Sale Yards and will start the
yawl with Jeff Grant. You're listening to the Muster until
two o'clock thanks to Peters Genetics names Mystery. Jeff Grant
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is a Northern Southland business owner. He's worn a lot
of hats over the years, but he joins us this
afternoon once again on the muster. Good AJF, how are
you good?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Straight off the cuff.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We've seen a correction and the the GDT over the
past few months. I think it might be like seven
options in our arts drop. We've seen a correction in
the milk payout. Still nine point fifty is a midpoint range,
is pretty darn good. We correlate that to the red
meat sector as well, and I think Boat, it's fair
to say both sides of the coin are looking pretty
sweet at the moment.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, look, I think this is just a continuation post
COVID is. The economies are picking up. They tend to shift,
you know, in their diets from camohydrates to white protein
and then to red protein, and especially in the Asian countries.
So it's still a bit slow out of China, but
without any doubt, you know, the underlying aspects seems to
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be that the total consumption of meats growing by sense
of the dairy products are probably just a bit of
a flip, while there's a bit of a recalculation about
production out in North America and Europe. But long term
you're still looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, just speaking to various people and a lot of
optimism as to where the red beat schedule is going
to be at the peak of the season.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So I think, having said that, it has to be
very careful, you will start We're already starting to see
in terms of the restaurant trade internationally, but also in
New Zealand where taking the topping cuts out of their
restaurant menu because they can't compete with pork and chicken
on a price. So you're starting to see a lower
cut being news which pushes ironically pushes the overall price
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up anyway, and there is a ceiling and the end
of the day where if lamb gets too far above
where the other protein market prices are, it does slow
down the consumption.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, you just got to look in the supermarket. It's
just about seventy five to eighty dollars for a league
of lamb. Now where is a couple of years ago
at this time coming into Christmas, perhaps a last leader,
but twenty three dollars.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, without any doubt it's expensive to bio months or
anything at the moment, but beef is also going to
be likely to show some shortage internationally for at least
the next three years until you see some restocking on
some of the major players in terms of the number
of cattle on feed lots, and that's going to hold
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the price up for some time.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Speaking of red meat, the free trade agreement with Indi,
you that's something we'd love to get under there, but
whether that occurs or not it's another matter.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah, Look, it seems were ever closer after ten years.
These things take a long time. I wasn't convinced the
last round that we're going to get there easily, but
the Promister seems to be much more confident about it.
I always say the devils in the detail, because the
last two we did were UK and Europe, and the
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UK one was really good. In the European one in
terms of the major commodities was nothing really So if
we inch away in the Indian market, both in the
dairy products will be hard. It'll be easier on sheep
and beef, but you know, I think there's an opportunity
in horticulture as well quite significantly.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Then are you pretty positive that will get an FTO
with India that's going to agree with.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
What we sell, as I said, the devils in the detail,
how much we give away and compromising what is the
free trade agreement will decide. If we decide for a
quick one and we give away too much on dairy
and the major commodities like we did in Europe, then
you sort of think, well for a long time before
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we get a real benefit from us. But it is
a big market. It's a market that New Zealand exporders
have been looking at for over the last fifteen years,
you know, as the next big steam outside of China.
So it would be good to see it now.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Artificial meat, we talk about the real thing, and there
used to be an ad for buddy, you can't beat
the real deal, and that's what we're seeing with red
meat use. The prices are high, but artificial meat is
still something that's on the horizon, right.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They've been a range of attempts around the world by
different companies. Probably the ones that are sticking out more
at the moment is Mossle Meat at a hundred meetable,
which is another European company. They've been around since the
early two thousands. My understanding is muscle Meat have now
said that they've got success with the reditary authorities in
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Europe where they can publicly sell artificial meat. But you
gain you go and see their website, classic stuff. It's
all about the warm and fuzzies, you know, how it
helps the environment, how it helps the animals, how it
helps you. But nothing about the ingredients, genetically modification or
anything like that. And so I think, again, it's going
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to struggle. The price is high. I don't think it's
going to be something in the market in the foreseeable future.
You know, these companies will keep attempting, but the reality
is the ingredient is the problem for them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, we think of it beyond mate, we think of
impossible foods and the likes you see them in the
supermarket's okay, Goore's probably not their target audience been more
often than not is reduced. But you look at the
ingredients that goes into them. It's scary, yes.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And that's where I think, you know, long term, in
terms of red protein, they're always going to be able
to have a market edge around a natural product. And
that's something that New Zeal benefits more so than in
many countries because we're grass for you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And just finally, Jeff, you want to give a shout
out to the Young Farmers Clubs.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah. Look, I've just noticed, especially in the last few
years that they've strengthened again in terms of the activities
in the communities. I put it all down to the
female gender that have become active members of Young Farmers
and have changed the way Young Farmers operate. I see
even in our local example, BELFO has got now thirty
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odd members doing some really big fundraisers for the community.
You see, they've got another one this Saturday, which is
the Drag Queen one. I think they raised about eleven
thousand for the Scouts in the community hall at the
last bar Cup, just in a one night event. It's
really good to see. But I just I find it
intriguing as somebody who sponsored some of these programs they
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do that it's always the females that approach us about
what they're doing and what they want to achieve in
terms of sponsorship, etc. And it's really great to seem
great communities, young people out there listening and well worth joining.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Emma Bloom's on the show promoting with Spoufi. You're not
making a special appearance up on stage because I know
you're a thespian at heart.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I think we're sponsoring a Frenchman.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You've been working for it, Hey, just talking you farmer.
You part of that infamous Balford trip to the mid
Dome all those years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
No, I was the only one that I was responsible for.
Was to where things went wrong was the minorkey and
I drove a four wheel are over a three wheel
are over a crust, which I had to report tomorrow. Man.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh well, some things we just got to get over
in life, I suppose Jeff Grant always appreciate your time
on the Buster.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Jes.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Jeff Grant not a fan of three wheelers by the
sounds of it, you like, I say Emma Blom from
Balfa Young Farmers on the show at the getting towards
the end of the hour. But up next though Grant
disaster McMaster. This is the muster grunts as mcmassa we
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catch up once again. He is farming at close Briands
Station on the edges of lake like a tippo when
it comes courtesy of the team at Arby Rural. Good afternoon, Grunt.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Good afternoon, Andy, good afternoon. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You got the tailing now at the weekend.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
No, no, that's just coming week.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh this weekend we hit him myself.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
D Yeah, I was down at Kaki last weekend at
the celebrating at the fiftieth Golf Club. So that was
that was a great night. So we've got we've got
the sort of round the horse paddock's done here last week.
I want to mention that went over the hills yesterday
and one hundred and forty two gs that are there
with the singles we tailed those. Took them longer to
get them in then tell them. But so that's all done,
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and yeah, just start putting a few sheep around on
probably Friday, ready for the kick off six a m.
Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How's the fade looking up your way? Is it starting
to move?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Yeah, it's gone from a feast to a famine. It
all doesn't, don't we forget quickly? But yeah, it's it's
still good here at Clothes Burn, it's good. It's as
I said, it's been green all the way through. But
there's paddocks now that are just just really a few
paddics are starting to someone that's under bolt into it.
And so that that's good. The hell's still and good.
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It's still in good settle. Really it hasn't hasn't gone
to seed, so that's that's good and quite quality feed.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
At the moment.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Lambs, you know, lambs driving around. They look to be
enjoying life and cars are doing well. So you know,
we've we've we're looking pretty good. In fact, over at
the Hell's block, there's yeah, it's just about got a
woon being a couple of blocks, so might even might
even lock one paddic up for a bit of bailage
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and then try and contain the rest. So it's it's
a good way to be. But yeah, there's still you know,
there's still water flowing pretty pretty freely around place is
and that you know, it would normally be dried up
by now, so that's you know, that's that's quite that's good.
Oppose we get to Christmas without you know, well, it's
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still got water going, it's good. But all the rain
over the pocket at our town it's and this is
probably due to the development there is we've got a
couple of some quite nice paddocks here. They're all about
three and a half hect here, and two of them
are right beside the road, and you know, the first
ones we put turnips in and grass and really good paddocks.
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But since they started the air burned development across which
the main Lake Hays Ourtown Road and the muck around
with putting sort of passing lanes in, and all of
a sudden, we're getting big. We're not getting any drainage
in these two paddocks. And in fact, and so it's
about three and a half hec there's probably a hectare
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in each paddock that's absolutely got these big poems in them,
and it hasn't gone anywhere. So that trying to get
the county onto that have a lot, but that's a
bit like pulling teeth. So yeah, that and I think
that's you know, because it's there's good soil over there,
and you get down and it's you know, it's good
alluvial gravel. But where these where these drains have originally
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gone out, and I'm not too sure of that that
something's happened, and you know, because it's never pulled before,
and and it's you know, there's still bloody big ponds
out there with in those paddocks. It's never happen before,
so it's not getting away anywhere. And down on these
other intersections as well. There's where there's a bit of
ground the you know, there's there's there's water just pulling
there with nowhere to go. So you know, we haven't
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any rains for a while and still there. So it's
it's a bit of a bit worrying.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, you're talking about rules and regulations and talking to
the council about certain issues. Something you want to comment
on today.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Yeah, I just think, you know, we're just nowadays everybody
well it seems to be the councils and the and
the roading crews that they're they're more, everyone's more. The
actives can proactive. So an example in the Moat Lake
Road that I spoke about a while ago, that it
got washed out and there's a couple of big springs
in the middle that when they when their contractor went
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through and was, you know, fixing things, and I stopped
and had a lock and they were putting putting cloth
down to try and put gravel on, and I said,
what about that bloody spring there? And I said needs
a bit of they will never flow in it. So
this is right in the middle of the road, and
he should it does, he said, But he said, I've
got to wait to get permission from the council. So
someone was having to drive out from the from the
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from the council all down as it would have been,
and given the permission to put the put you know,
to put the drainage pipe in. And I just know
years ago the contractors all went around they had pipe
on the back and bloody tools and everything, and but
nowadays you've just got to you know, you've got to
wait and get the tackle. I said, just why don't
you just do it? So I know he said, they
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don't like that. He said, because you know, might put
an next one hundred dollars on something or or whatever
the amount is, and they've all got to be you know,
it's all going to be it's all going to be accountable,
which is fine, but you look at everything else around
the country and it's millions and millions of dollars run over.
So and an example going up there with with the
colvit you know, they don't keep clean the colds. Until
it rains and it's flooding, they don't clean them. So
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it's all asked about face and I was just I
was just reading one of the papers about the storm
clean ups that are happening within a target on the
south and quite an interesting article about down at the
whacker there where the farmer asked, you know you could
he has to contact the Regional Council to get consent
to get trees out of his waterways and the reply
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was that the shiny art that aren't that? It said
that you're any if you're unsure whether any activities were permitted,
they should contact the RC and staff would provide advice
as regard to the organizations, we can't get permission to
break them rules. Well, you know, proactive and reacted. What
a load of crap. You know, it's just no wonder
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the country's bugged and and things don't get done. So
you know you've just got to I think you've just
got to take the ball by the horns and get
in and beg for forgiveness afterwards, because otherwise nothing will
bloody happened.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
But I'll tell you what, if he's a right cone
that needs to go somewhere, boonfire, it's there and there
are numbers.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well I was I don't know if I mentioned this before,
but speargrass flat like it's the longest straightest road in
the basin up here and go out towards our town
and it's they have there's all these pink pinek there's
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all these cones up there up there from time to time,
nothing happening, and they have they practice their training those
putting pine cone, putting cone and bloody cone.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
He is i'd say, but.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean, this shows you the hell hell how
far things have gone, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I see that in a couple of times a year
on our street it turned up one down the street
was closed and what's going on? They're training people to
get their papers so they can do road management. I mean,
why not go and do it somewhere at five am
in the morning or seven thirty at night where there
isn't an issue. But no, they've got to do it
at three o'clock in the afternoon near the middle of Gore.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Why don't you just do it when in the place,
in your workplace where it's happening. I mean, it's not
like you're doing bloody they're not performing brain surgery. So
just get out there and do it. And if you
have too far on the road and get run over,
you'd only do it once. But I mean that's been
a little bit flatt because you know, one thing you've
got to do is keep the speed of it while
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they've got cones up. But you know having a training
day to put them up well to is that's just
that's just taking a bit far.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The greatest thing of road cones is somebody got a
road cone and put the put it up the top
of a tree last year. It must have been as
for a few beers. He even knows how they managed
to do it, but it looked out standing.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, they've done that, and they do that in Queenstown
all the time. There's a down by the steam a wolf,
there's a canoe or a wok or whatever they call it,
and it gets filled up road cones all the time.
And I was driving back the other kneath on the
block over at our town, coming up through Gorge Rows,
and there's this great big tree sort of must be
somewhere near the Celtics service stage somewhere, and right at
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the top of it their.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Own road cone.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
So I had a good old larve brother. Sure it
must have been an arboris that put that up or
some of that? Said? You wasn't scared of heights because
it just stands like stands out like the proverbial and.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A special honorable mention to the individual to put a
shopping trolley at the top of the arch on the
Bowclouth Bridge.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Those people can't out much to do with it. They'd
be better putting that into sort of that's working or something.
But you know it's some You know, some people go
to all sorts. They must have a lot of time
on hands.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Andy, they mustard. Not that we can condain that activity nonetheless, disaster,
but hey, it's always good to catch up. Enjoy the ovo, mate,
I will.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
And I'll have a report back about how tailing goes
and how the crew perform on next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You no pressure on Tubby in the team, right know.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
And as long as Honey remembers to bring the rubber,
that'll be a good start.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Grand Disaster McMaster Thanks to Abby Rural. You're listening to
the muster. Alan McCleary is up next from Sheerwell, New
Zealand and studio Shine Shine. This is the muster on Hakanui.
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I am joined in studio this afternoon by Alan McCleary
out of Sheerwell, New Zealand. Good afternoon, Hey mate, how
are you today? Not bad? Just bring that microphone to
you a little bit closer, or get you hit your
petite little frame in there behind the chair as we
call it.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Been a busy couple of months. Busy month, Yeah, no,
it has been andy. It's been full on. We've we've
had a few things, a few things happening. Actually had
to write a list, brought notes studio. Nothing's rehearsed, nothingsten
thing out either, you know, right, So you got your
list there, it's it's important.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
What do you got.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
We helped with the Belfer bark up with the Young Farmers,
which was a really entertaining night. It was really well
attended and the and the Yeah, it was really entertaining.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Emma booms on the show actually later on, so it'll
be interesting to see her take on it too. But
a lot of barkups, the bow for one than one
was recent as well, and just great events and the
money's always going back into local causes.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It did, it went into the local Scouts, So being
an old Scout leader, I had to go to that one.
But I do think and some of the Scouts got
up to do the barking and I honestly, you know,
you just wet yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
The human bark is almost more popular than the dog bark.
That's the stirring thing about it.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
The kid's got right into it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It was funny as So how were you a Scout
leader for me?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Or many years? You know, I don't know, but I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So you had the knee high beige socks to go
with the boots, and then and the khaki green shorts.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, and my hands. I can't do the Scouts because
they're so so full of out.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I was called the claw.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
That was my name.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
There was your nickname here.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The kids called me the claw.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So well, you learned something new every day.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I gave the kids a lot of nightmares. But and
what else have I been there? I've been up at
College Downs with the Cadet farm up there, did the
day's day's tailing up there, which was once again really
enjoying it was. The kids were really they're great kids
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're up there every year doing a couple of days tailing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah, I actually tried to. I think I should do
two or three, to be fear, but I don't know
if they'll have me. I think I hold the telly
up a wee bit I think did a day at
the christ Church Show, had to wander around. It was
quite well attended for the number of sheep there, so
it was good.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So there's quite a strong cheap influence at the christ
Church show.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well not so much, not so much the standardball your
main breeds, but more a lot of lifestyle breeders there,
your valleys and there was Kerry Hills from England there.
They were a dying breed, so they were there so
it was interesting because I haven't seen them since I
saw in England, so so.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It'd be quite a shaky breed, are they No, they're short.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
But they've got a very pricked years and quite the
black and white faces. They're beautifully marked. So yeah, so
there's a bit more of your hobby farmer sort of
sheep there than mainly your mainstream ones, but but still
well attended. What else we do The owners came over
for a few days.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, shout out share we are UK. They listening to
it what we're saying here at the court.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Pretty sure I've got a new job, but they did
tell me I had to find some more customers or
you might have to be looking for a new job.
So Come on, guys, get on, get on the ordering.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Get those she were, go and order them. How's it
been at the how's it going at the moment though,
you'll be flat out like a lizard.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Well, I'm like a broken down record. I keep saying
every month's getting better and better, but but honestly it is.
It's just and the phone hasn't been going so much
this this month. But we're doing a record month again.
And what else we don't know we've got We've got
the new yellow tag. We promised new colors, so we've
got a new green, and new orange and a brighter yellow.
So we are listening and they are delivering.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Is there what cockies asked for? Brighter tags? Yeah, yep o.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Our colors were a bit dull. But what I've learned
is the brighter the color, the more likely or quicker
they'll fade. So there's quite a rigmarole getting a brighter
color that holds fast. But the guys are pretty dedicated
and they seem to be working so and it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Works well when you're drafting and you're at the gate
and you can tell what's what. That's a simplistic part
about having us.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We get a little bit older too. We're just not
quite so quick in the old.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Vision made of our glasses. So I was fifteen. No
pinsion hold me with that crap.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I got mine laser, so people don't know I'm blind.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Really, I can't get mine laser anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Anyway, what else I've been I did? I went and
crauhed the rams at Nidal for the ram fear, which
they don't need a dag. That's just a waste of time. Muzzle.
Just make me a donation because I got a look.
There's no daggs on them. You just turn up and
every under Russell basically he is looked there. They're clean
as he's doing a great job there. So that was
don't tell the boss though, I was doing a bit
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of outside work, will you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, I won't tell the boss to share where Alan
was doing work outside of what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, and getting ready for the Golden Shears. We're sponsoring
up there because it's the World's again. So this is
our third year sponsoring part of the Golden Shares. So
I'm getting myself organized to go up there for that.
So that's a bit of a perk.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Do you go up there every yet.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Didn't go up last year, but I have ye been
up the couple of years before that, and we're sponsoring
Jack Fagans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well I've seen that this morning on his zostera post. Yeah, man,
he was.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
He was pretty pumped about the waggle woggle, aren't he.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Seventeen seconds to get them? Yeah, get the feathers off?
He got more.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I think he got them all off.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, oh no, but he was pumped.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
So how do you share an animal in seventeen seconds?
I mean, geez, when you're crunching it tasted that long.
Just a bloody stretch here, Emmy's out.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Well, I suppose when that sort of money is involved
to in the prestige, it gives you a wee bit
of an edge, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, it's big money, it is, and it's speedsheer circuits, lucrative.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, yeah it is. Yes, Yeah, we do the one
that Oh no, I think we do it at the
way the way moomoo one. But I don't you do
the way umu one. Don't you know you do the way?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You We won this effects in Southern Field days.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yes, so yeah, we sponsored at last well, I helped
sponsor it last year so we'll be doing the same
this year, I presume I and.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Rays flat out with the tags we're forgetting them printed
and the likes.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
He is looks like we're going to have to get
another one, another printer in to keep up. It's just
it's getting too much for him.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So so you're still going up driveways yelling to cockies
and the likes, you're still doing a lot of very much.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
So yeah, I think that's The farmers seem to be
happy with that. I don't try not to spend too
much time and annoy them too much, but it does
seem to be working. So it sort of shows too
that even if they've bought the tags, I'm I'm happy
to line up for any or a or a bit
of praising.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Maybe do you get a bit of your besh?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
No, no, you know we do sometimes.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, but that's the whole that's the whole thing about it.
Going up there and they see your tags, and the
chances are people are like, oh, I've got to get tags.
The two d say I, well, I want to tag
the hogg. It's early boomfo these your option right.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, and tags aren't high on our radar. Really like
her fertilizer and seed and everything else, but tags you're
liable to forget. So it's I think it is good
that I just turn up and it prompts them along.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yes, sure right, Alan McCleary s, Shearwell, New Zealand,
how do people get in touch?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, you better give us a tingle on two seven
two three two double four double eight? Are you checking?
And I got the number right?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And no, I'm just doing my due diligence. Here are
you and or ray on.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
The eight hundred numbers? So that's eight hundred seven triple
nine eight nine. I think I got that right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Go to Serwell Inzen on social media channels, go and
google Sheerwell ins it as well. Details come up there too,
So Alan McCleary, always a pleasure to have you come
into studio for a bit of a chim wag.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Next Alan McCleary of Donaldson's Dairy, who also moonlights, it's
she were New Zealand. Always good to catch up with
the great man himself, as it is our next guest.
We're away at Garston catching up with Tom O'Brien. There
was a recreation of a classic New Zealand ad at
the weekend, Tom tells us all about it. That's okay,
(28:45):
welcome back to the muster on Hokinnui. That music they're
a synonymous of only one thing. It is the great
crunchy train robbery of course, that occurred on the Kingsdom
Flyer back in the I think it might have been
the late seventies or possibly the early eighties. So Brian,
good afternoon, No, you know a bit more about.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
This good afternoon Andy, journey out West and the way
to make a stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's one of the great ads.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I was just singing along to that then I remember
all the words so that I can't believe it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic.
It was a fun add that one.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So what happened at the weekend exactly tell us about
this because this is recreated.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So the Birchwood Hunt Club, which is basically an organization
which is made up of a whole lot of people
who are into into horse tricks, doing lots of horse
tricks around the countryside. Yeah, they gathered on Sunday. There
was eighty horses and their riders and we bought the
(30:02):
Kingston Flyer into fear light, or about two hundred minutes
before we got into fear Light. Riders would ride four
abreast approaching the train and as they got closer, we
to our horror. We realized that we were going to
get robbed. So they so they held us up the gunpoint.
We brought the train to a stop. There was stockworks
(30:24):
crack cracking and women guns going off. And yeah, they
rode up to the side of the carriages and they
dismounted and went onto the carriages and we started stealing
everyone's jewelry and money and got one of them even
had a mobile f poss machine. They said, we'll get
it out of you somehow. So they were tying people
(30:45):
to the side of the bloomen gates, and yeah, it
was a real ruckers. It was a real whoha going on.
So yeah, but a bit of excitement got the old
got the old heart racing mate.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So how long did this go on for?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Probably, I don't know, sort of thirty or forty minutes.
Of course, you know the big ring leader of the group,
George Bought and he I could tell it was Sam
even though he was a masked he was a masked robber.
As soon as I saw him. I was hiding in
the bushes, you see, and I jumped out.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
And he said, oh, I know you, I know you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And I said, I know you, and you're not going
to get me. So you sort of chased me around
the side of the local blunderbus and yeah, and then
we jumped up, jumped up on the engine and yeah, yeah,
I had a grand old time. So yeah, no George,
he was leading the charge so to speak, with the group,
with the Birchwood Hunt group, and yeah, we had loads
(31:37):
of fun. There was a real sort of mutual kind
of respect for all things vintage and you know, sort
of pioneering.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Really. It's great.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You hear about the lot overseas recreating battles and the
way they fought, but likes to do in the train robbery.
You can only even do that with the Kingsdom Flyer.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, that's right, and we used to do it on
a regular basis years ago.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
We used to a few of the local guys would
be sort of half a dozen of them, and we'd
slow the train right down. But back in those days,
we actually didn't stop the train. We keep the train going.
And the guys a couple of the skilled guys whose
horses got used to actually doing this would be riding
next to the old first class bird cage carriage and
they'd jump out of their saddle onto the saddle and
(32:22):
then actually literally jump onto the train while it was
cruising along, and then and then hold everyone up. But
of course holding everyone up meant going through the through
the carriages with a with a chest full of country
bars and handing them out to the passengers. So yeah,
I'd love to re it'd be awesome to be able
to actually do that on a regular basis again, because
I think people nowadays would really, really really cherish it
(32:45):
and love it, and young and old would get a
real buzz out of that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We catchure this afternoon at the top of Welcome Rock.
Describe what you're saying at the moment. With some pretty
good views, i'd imagine, mate, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Looking straight out towards the knock of Ey have the
magnificent Knockameye Valley, out towards the Garby Mountains. I can
see my old friend East Dome, I can see my
old friend mid Dome, and I can see the old
friend West Dome out towards the Takatimos and the air mountains.
I'm just heading over the other side of the farm
(33:17):
down to what's called the mud Hut to drop some
bags off for some people. And yeah, the slate Hut
and the mud Hut, they're pretty busy at the moment
and getting lots of bookings. And yeah, down at the
farm we're getting pretty busy as well. So yeah, she's
all going between sort of the train runs and Welcome
Rock and also council. You know, we've got a council
meeting tomorrow as well. Yes, yeah, it's kind of the
(33:40):
Bermuda or triangle of madness for tom really.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yes, what was it looking like up there? Grass wise?
You guys having an ok season?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Good?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, good, good good. No, things have come pretty well now,
Like yeah with a shells talking to the old mate
Skippy Chris McNamee. Last night we had a quiet beer
on the porch last night. We could have been bloody
whittling stick with our pocket knives, you know, in our
rocking cheers, and we were sitting there and we were
just commenting, how good, you know, the amount of grass
growth that's happened just this past week. You know, we
(34:10):
had that nice bit of rain, but yeah, having the
heat now, you know, getting that heat is really crucial
to just give that, you know, just to sort of
bulk everything up a little bit. But yeah, no, it's yeah,
it's good. Things are looking much better than what they
were a month ago, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Absolutely, Tom. I will leave it there, mate, Thanks for
your time and we'll have a bit of a crunchy
head to see us out, shall we.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Let's go for it.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's on and so Brian based up at Garston. This
is the muster up. Next we'll catch up with Emma Bloom.
This is a muster and hakanui before we catch up
with Emma Blum. The Muster Events diary brought to you
(35:14):
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of Belfer Young Farmers, joins us in this week's Young
(35:35):
Farmers round up. Good afternoon, Emma, Hello, how are you?
I'm going pretty well. I was speaking to you, you see,
I'm pretty busy. You're helping the appearance of the Milkings
in the morning, then doing an Ai run.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
No, she's been flat out. It's been an awesome season
so far.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
So it's going good.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Is the grass starting to grow around Belfer?
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Yep, No, it's been pretty steady. We've just cut for
Baylor yesterday and then we've even got some psylogen So no,
pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, this way you'd hope to have at the end
of November. Anyway, now Belfer, young Farmer's quite a bit
going on that straight off the bat. It's all happening
at the Balfer Hall this Saturday evening. Miss Belfer tell
us about it. Awesome.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Yeah, so it's a drag show, so we're encouraging all
of our lads to get dressed up and support a
good cause. So our local hall needs a bit of
a revamp and then this is just such a great
way to get everybody together, have such a fun night
and then raise some money for the club and then
for the local Balfa Hall.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
And I can tell you exactly when that hall opened.
I think it was about this time in nineteen eighty three? Really, yeah,
well what's on the phone?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Who would have thought in nineteen eighty three that the
boys will be dressing as girl?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Pretty much? But I'll be honest, there's a plark as
you walk in there saying it was opened by the
latest Erskine Boe Mass So that's how I understood that one.
But did rite? Who would have thought all those years
ago these events will still be going on abouth that
they've been held before. And let you say, the money's
all going towards restorations of the Balfa Hall, right yes.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Yeah, yeah, so it was about ten fifteen years ago.
And talking to people in the community again, I'm excited
about this event. They still remember that night in detail,
Like you ask what somebody was wearing and they can
even name the color of the dress and what their
talent was. Like It's going to be such an unforgetable night.
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, straight off the cuff, Michael Lee or Brett Dylan
for goodness sake. For a funny story about that night,
My wife went along to it, went along with her
mate from Walkland who is a corporate high flyer, and
her one night out in Balfa went she went to
a drag show.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Oh that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, it was something suddenly deviated from the norm. So
like ticket numbers and the likes. Have you got numbers?
You've got a capead obviously yes.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
So our kepe is one hundred and seventy five people.
We've still got tickets available, so if get interested, please
come take a lot. It'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But yeah, so as far as take of details, what
are they worth? How do you pay for one?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Sweet?
Speaker 8 (38:07):
So you just literally just google the Baufer Drag Show
and it will come up. It's fifty dollars a ticket.
Otherwise you can also on the Facebook page for the
young Farmers and then there's a ticket link on there
and sufferers included. Doors open six point thirty and it'll
go till late.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Is there a courtesy coach locally?
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah, there's a courtesy coach brilliant.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's nice to the driver, be nice to always nice
to the driver. Goodness meet when the people not nice
to the driver. Yeah, and there's also something around cell
phones as well. Have no cell phone use on the night.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Yeah. We want to just let the boys just go
wild and then have no regrets later on. I think
Captain twenty years ago. Then the boys didn't have to
worry about it. There were just pixiland photos, but now
there'll be quite a lot of phones and videos that
could get out.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
So yeah, and there'll be reminders of the night around
looking forward to the event as well, going to be
a part of it, so other things about the young
farmers though. Has this been the core focus lately?
Speaker 8 (39:07):
No, We've just had our bark Up which was a
great success. I think there were a thirty odd working
dog entrance which was really cool. It was a really
really cool event. And then yeah, our focus now is
on Miss Balfour and then we'll get Christmas out of
the way and then get all these other events cranking through.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Just speak to miss Belfer. How many entrants have you got?
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Are we about seventeen?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Do you need more or is that enough?
Speaker 8 (39:32):
I think we've got enough, but we won't say no
to people volunteering.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I reckon if we like a crowd source enough money,
Bleared Drysdale could could go back and do a role
we did a few years ago on the Belfer Show.
What do you reckon? We've got a couple of days
to do this.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Oh, we have been trayed. We've got Hopefield him on board.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Yeah, but we haven't got Blocker up there strutting the stuff.
I reckon, we can do it. He's out of it, No,
but I think we can right right out.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
What's our game plan?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Well, we just need people to donate money. If we
can reach I don't know, one hundred and fifty bucks,
I reckon, we'll go two hundred dollars. There we go,
fair figure. We can source that on the night from
whoever that I reckon. Block has got a front up.
What do you reckon?
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I love that. So on the night he just gets
forced up there.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
He gets forced up there and is regally absolutely. But look,
we're getting towards a Christmas season with you guys. Fundraising wise,
you've been doing anything else? A bit of crutching coming up?
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Yeah, we've been.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
Doing a bit of crutching and then the odd jobs
around the district. Whatever people need help with, we're happy
to help. We've been doing a bit earlier on the
year with some fodderbeat sorting and then yeah, a lot
of crutching.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
As far as the one situation is it, have you
been helping it all? Like members regarding trees or tree lanes.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
To be fair, no, I think people have been quite
busy on their own farms sorting it out. But if
anybody has got wind damage, we're more than happy to
go out for a weekend or a day and clear
up some trees.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
So you still getting out and about on your thirsty thursdays.
Speaker 8 (41:02):
Sure, yeah, it was way kaya last week and I
think this coming week is Riversdale. It's a bit of
a shame that the Balfer Pub is closed, but we
may do that's.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
That's what you've got to do, I suppose. So where
do you hold your meetings.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
Then we've been holding.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
Them at the Riversdale Pub and then when we can,
we do it at the Rugby.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Club in Belfer, so you stay pretty local with the
meetings more or less. So you're going down, you've got
a tent at the races or anything.
Speaker 8 (41:33):
Are we're tagging along with Thornberry.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
I thank everyone is young farmers in general, though it
seems to be in a pretty good place down here
in the in the south THEMA, I'd say, oh, definitely.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
Like when I was at UNI, my brother NICKI was
chair of the Belfer Young Farmers and there was a
handful of people that would come and people were really keen.
And then I went away and then I've come back
and it is such a cool group of people, like
people really want to do it's really actively involved. That's
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
How's the finespot going?
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Oh, the fines book is going pretty strong?
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
What do we have this month? What have we had?
Give us some details? Taylor wasn't too keen on last time,
but here's a chance. Em what's been going on? I'm
not going to give to you don't have to give
much detail. Have you got to give us something? But
what's been happening? Like is it somebody just taking out
strainers or what's been the general gifts lately?
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:28):
I think somebody got a bit rowdy at the barkhouse
And yeah, that's that's all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Oh, that's a that's a fair call, Emma. Look and
you're meeting dates? Of course, when are they the first
Monday of every month? Good on you, Emma, always got
to catch up. All the best for miss Belfer this weekend.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Awesome, Thank you Andy.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
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Speaker 1 (43:02):
Did you know the statistically six out of seven dwarfs
aren't happy. We'll leave it there for the afternoon. I'm
Andy Muey. You've been listening to the muster on Hakawi
thanks to Peters generis. Enjoy the afternoon podcast going up.
Surely I'm away tomorrow. Chuck Wilson is in the driver's
seat and we'll catch you on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Hey, well, i'll that too, hea' go there? And what
did he go on again for?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Thanks for pgg right. Senator's timed for the stock sale
report this afternoon, coming out of lawn Bull with Sam
Riley on the line to give us an update on prices.
Get a Sam, the sausages sizzled during summer. What about
those lamb prices?
Speaker 5 (43:41):
You know they're actually.
Speaker 7 (43:42):
Getting up them, mate, which is good to see. As
long as it holds on and for the rest of
the season, it'll be quite nice. We will kick it
off of the prime lambs, the best of those three
Sidney to three teen. Still a handful of old seasons
lambs coming in there, but start the run out. The
medium's two forty two sixty and the lottery prime to
two hundred and two thirty. The year will he use
(44:04):
with a bit of a lift from last week on
Mos two twenty to two fifty for the tops of
those mediums one eighty to two teen and the lottery
end used one to one twenty to one seventy con
cod dem under the rams, the good heavy rams one hundred,
one hundred and thirty dollars and the medium's eighty to
one hundred dollars into the store years just tops of
(44:28):
those store lambs one hundred and sixty one hundred and seventy,
the mediums one fifty one to fifty five and the
lighter end score lambs at one thirty to one forty
news The lambs all counted one pen of O's at
one hundred and thirty nine dollars into the kettle, and
we had prime kettle stears four eighty to six hundred
and fifty kilos four dollars sixty to four dollars, eighty
(44:50):
heaths at five hundred and fifty kgs four dollars sixty
gary head is at four sixty to five hundred kgs
four fifty eight to four sixty three into the cows
as good heavy cows at four hundred and fifty plus
kilos two dollars eighty three dollars and balls at four
ninety five kilos at four dollars forty two and then
(45:10):
move into the stoore kettle just a small yarding of
stoo kettle today to quote two year old here for
cross heavers at twenty four hundred dollars a two year
old beef cross stairs at nineteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Two.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
Here for cross balls at three hundred and ninety three
kilos seventeen thirty into. The winner is the win of
free from balls one hundred, one hundred and twenty kgs.
They were six hundred and six hundred and fifty dollars.
Winning here for a cross balls at one hundred and
one hundred and thirty kgs seven hundred, seven hundred and
fifty and the winner here for cross heavers at one
hundred and twenty kg's they were six hundred and fifty.
So that wraps up long the wait we do have
(45:49):
coming up on Thursday, the twenty seventh ateen thirty the
spring calf sale. There is approximately fifteen hundred beef across
ball balls heapers and freezing balls, and that it is
on bitter. So that's ten thirty on Thursday. But you
know I'm looking for a few calves, good dillarly calves
in the season, come along on Thursday and Honkin Delos.
(46:11):
The grass growing should be a good market.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
I have another booter, and I was on the day
to hold now bo
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