December 15, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gee, there's a please come that's where. Good afternoon and
welcome to the Muster on Hokanui. Andy Meal here into
a two o'clock of course thanks to Peters Genetics. Welcome
along to an overcast afternoon hearing gore possible or good
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chance of rainfalling this afternoon. We'll talk weathers shortly, but firstly,
our winner yesterday and the first of our Muster Christmas
giveaways is a look to the farmers winning the Vet
South two hundred dollars voucher as well as a goodie back.
Congratulations Philippa Campbell. Philip are well done. Somebody will be
in touch with that prize and straight into For today,
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the Great Muster Christmas Giveaway, Beach Boys of the Junes
Coco Moo from the movie Cocktail featuring tom Cruise in
the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Grad Pakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Inzead Tuesday afternoon thunderstorms of breezy westerlies and a higher fifteen.
Wednesday cloudy with breezy saul west is eight and seventeen.
Thursday cloudy with northwesterlies forming ten and twenty one. Friday's
average raymer breezy sou Westerly's five and eleven and Saturday
morning showers of sou Westerly's five and eleven as well.
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Sold jempertures for Dougy and omi Cow seventeen point two
Clinton fifteen point eight, Northern Southland fourteen point nine, Rivertons
sixteen point one, tan Our fifteen point sax Tidoro of
fifteen wind and fifteen point one Gordlands at fifteen point three.
As we start the how as I get them out
of a bit of paper. Matt Ward farming at Morton Mains.
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Catching up with Matt to see how the season's going,
He texted earlier. He's on the hand piece today, just
see how situations are looking they're not far away from
Christmas Grant Disaster McMaster a close ber in station Technology
willing we catch up with disasteries and transit this afternoon.
Lucas Mills as well. Like we say, the feature on
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today's Must Have giveaway is a team from wider down,
so we catch up with Lucas Clayton. Peters are Peters
Genetics naming sponsor. Here on the muster, we have a
chin Wag and Emma Wilson Otago South and young Farmer's
Chair reflecting on the past twelve months and looking at
the next twelve as well. Sam Riley of PGG writes
them with the stock sale report the last of the
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year from Laurnville and then we'll start the yowl with
Matt Ward. This is the Muster until two o'clock thanks
to Peters Genetics get texting five double O nine, I'm
keyword Ida down was your details.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a Beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Matt Ward farms down at Morton Mainz and joins us
once again this afternoon on the Muster while he's on
the hand piece of all things Good Afternoon, Matt.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Good afternoon, Andy, how are you?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, pretty good. You sound like the You are the
opposite of Ben Dooley talking about these numbers yesterday, what
seventeen hundred dag before lunchtime. But you're there just doing
the honest toil today.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, no, we are. We're just chipping away doing
them myself. This year. I sort of thought about getting
the crutch and trailer and Andy, but Jesus, it nearly
takes the longer to get here and get up the
driveway and get set up than it does for them
to actually do the sheep. So we're just chipping away,
chipping away. It's good. I think it's a good, good
way to get a good look at all the us
and they're actually not bad. Digging a bit of shit
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on them, but they're not bad. Not bad. Guard really
is the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
League, Diggs or just pretty much around the cratch.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Nah, just around the cratch, just around the cratch. I
sort of leave all the leagues and you just give
them a good good run. Cratch just tided them up
and then I'll get them dipped. First second week of
January they will go through and then get shorn and
the start of March. So you normally they stay pretty
clean as long as you give them a good cratch.
Now they stay pretty clean right up to shearing. Won't
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really need to touch them again touch wood.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, you made the observation just before that you'd rather
be on a hand piece than an attractor.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, recent I I go crazy sitting there playing circles
and a tractor. Yeah, it's not my It's not my
cup of tea at all, and then I end up
breaking stuff And I'd rather stand there on a hand
piece for the day, any day of the week.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Have you always felt like that when it comes to
their hand piece.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, I've always enjoyed it. I do enjoy it. There
was a bit of me one day that sort of
thought I could go out and do a bit of
sharing and mack around. But that's probably about as far
as that thought got.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So you haven't been I do enjoy it. You haven't
been teamed to shear your own hoggots or anything silly
like that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
No, no, no, I'll do I do a few like
I low. We used to share all their rams up
at me and aspiring and do like stragglers and stuff.
So got pretty handy on the well, jod I wouldn't
say I'm handy on the mpiece, but I sort of
know how to get the feathers off one way or another.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I show the rams at home once here, and my
advice to the young fellow working for me was make
sure I don't get killed.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's good way to do them
through lockdown when I was up at Aspiring and then
actually last year I was up at Waning for Aspiring
and Rendell thought it would be a good joke after
a good day on the hill to bring the rams
in and we chipped away share in the Emma afternoon
as well. So yeah, no, it's good. I don't yeah,
I don't mind it. Don't mind it at all.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, So if you've got the set up to do
it well, it makes a lot of sense as well.
And jeez, I've lost count of how many years of dad,
like we had a we had a hect in at
one stage, but a lot of the time I'd just
be doing them up the race as well, And you
just got to be careful about if there's one running
back at Jen, have your wits about you. But these
new hand pieces, you know, battery charged, it's a breeze, yeah, yeah,
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I've got a.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Good I've got a good race wall here, so they
climb up. They're sort of standing at hip pipe, so
there's no bending over all day. And I've got a
young fellow from down the road. He's keeping them all
up to me. So now we're tipping well, tripping through
probably about one hundred in air, so it making a
pretty good going. Yeah, I've only got twelve to thirteen
hundred jews to do, so we'll find it tiding them
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up tomorrow morning and then we're all done on to
the next job.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, so what does the next job before the fat
man comes down the chimney?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Umm, yeah, I'm pretty well what was it? To be fair?
Hopefully get my swedes drilled this afternoon and then year.
To be fair, I don't really have weaned up the
start of last week, got on my US condition scored
and got a light more about Yeah, you get these
swedes and probably go back defensing that carry on pitching
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holes up and uh yeah, Maka is quite nice, quite nice,
normally pretty well organized. It last week before Christmas is
normally pretty cruisy for me.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So as far as lambs do the works or getting
lambs off man that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Went will Yeah, yeah, it went all right on a
well too well shake farm. I don't think you even really.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, you're not no, but it's all about right.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah. Yeah, we killed twenty five percent of their lambs
off mammut eighteen point seven KOs, so happy enough with that.
Everage waning weight was up four kilos on last year,
so I saw it. I think that sort of reflects
on how much growth we've had in that lasts sort
of six weeks. Lambs are really kicked on, kicked on
really well. And even these yew's like there's only ten
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percent of my mob are in the light moob, so
everything's everything set up pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Really, eighteen point seven off mum, that's a pretty good number.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, I was happy. I I did think about
dipping into them a wee bit harder, and like, I
try get as my goals to get as many off
Mum as I can, but I don't really see the schedule. Well,
they're not going to pull the pants out of the schedule,
I don't think so. And the rest of the lambs,
like there's a good pat of lambs there between like
thirty six and thirty eight kilos, So we have a
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draft in mid January and get them gone. Got quite
a bit. I've got about forteen fifteen. There's a red
clover in this year as well, So I sort of
want to keep a few lambs about me to chuckle Matt,
because I sort of aim for about a twenty twenty
one kilo lamb for the rest of the season. So yes,
sort of need a few lambs about me to kick
them on a bit.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So you're doing split sharing there. Do you have an
issue with fly strikers such?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Ah, not too bad to be fair, anything that any
of you that does get fly, I'll put a black
pag in her ear. She goes straight into my terminal mob.
But sometimes get a wee bit of that green fly
a wee bit later on. It can be a bit
of an issue, but nah, yeah, touch Well, I don't
really like talking about it in case it chinks myself.
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But normally the lambs they stay pretty tidy.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And the rest. You say that your black tag anything
that gets fly? Are you talking green fly up the
back or just DAGs meggets around the DAGs?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Both both. I sort of think anything well there should
be Well, I don't, yeah, I thought I sat in
the opinion that anything that gets touched up by fly
just goes straight to the terminal mob. I don't really
give it too much thought. Really, there's a reason why,
like ninety eight percent of the rest of the mob
hasn't been touched up by them. So yeah, and then god,
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if they get it again, it's not less. They're not
breeding from her.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So she's a one year U. She has one more lamb.
She's off to the works more leis Ah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, my terminal mob is probably fifty or sixty percent
of my flock is a terminal I just keep them,
keep them in. But then if they come through the
shed at lemming time or there's any other issues, if
they go to get a second black tag, then that
second black pegs down the driveway.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So your feet covers down there. They're looking pretty good
or things considered.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, well, I think we're sitting not too bad. Actually,
good share of rain last night, and I think everything's
reacted pretty well. There's a lot of seed head around,
just starting to think I'm not need to get the
top of guard. I've just mobbed on my kettle up
and slowly getting around, tiding a few pastures up. But
everything's got a good base to it. So, yeah, I
think we're sitting pretty well. I got a few petics
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of Baylor shut up now and yeah, so I think
we're sitting not too bad. I sort of think if
there's yeah, not much of a complaint about at the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Jeez, you sound like you're ready for a holiday because
you can.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, oh, there's the plan. There's the plan. I normally
have the house to myself between Christmas and New Year Andy,
so that sort of consists of a bit of golf,
watching the ashes, checking the mobs, and it's pretty much
me that's my holiday all the week. It's quite quite
cruisy really.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
More of a staycation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, so it's now try and get away later on
in January when everyone else that's going back to school
and work and stuff. But yeah, no, we're pretty tidy really.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Just before we wrap up, man, I talked to you
a couple of months ago, and you were a real
cynical about New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Will.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Given the number of you he's breeding. News over in China,
we've seen a lift, a couple of lifts regarding Will.
Are you starting to see a bit of a bit
of a change in that from your perspective.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, it's interesting now because I sort of got that
viewpoint from someone else's opinion and I sort of run
with it. But now to see the lift and the
wall prices, like Jesus satis fine, isn't it like to
see people well breaking, even if not getting a wee
bit of money extra on top of the shearing as
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the way it should be, and hopefully it holds. I'm
hoping it's not just the blip on the radar and
then we'll go back to normal again. It'll be nice
of it does hold, it's not a wee bit more
and we start getting good prices for wealth. I don't
think we're ever gonna go back to the way it
used to be, but it would be quite tidy if
we're getting decent mall checks and changes people's opinions on
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actually wanting to see sheep again for the animal health,
not just doing it because they have to. Yeah, would
be quite tidy, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Hey, good on you, Matt. Thanks for your time on
the Muster today and throughout the year. You enjoy your
staycation and we'll catch up again in January. Always appreciated
your time. Have a good break.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And and you two until your listens as well. Have
a good Cristmas and New Year, and hopefully everyone can
have a bit of a bit of downtime and catch
up on themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Matt Ward there farming at more to Mainz, remembering texts
eider Down e I d e down two five double
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team at eider Down texts five double O nine this
is the muster up. Next toss to Master.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
We come.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Johndean fa.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Round got into grab McMaster.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
A closer in station joins us for the final time
in twenty twenty five, of course, thanks to Abbie Rural
good afternoon disaster.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, Andy graft and and everybody. I know, We're not
I'm not actually on the I'm closer. At the moment
where Kiar and I tripping over to Tawanaka and just
got into the Crown Range and actually we turned off
and going up the road there was about eighty cars
trying to get back down onto the Queenstown Road. But
I wonder what's going on there. But I had missed
reading the sign that said road group for forty minutes
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delays forty minutes, So I just sat up up in
the Crown Range trying to get text out to you
to say that I may not be available, but as
usual RB Rural have got us throat.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, get on your batman and the team at RB
Rural there you always deliver to tell me. How's that
you round about the BP going for you?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, it's it's not going at all, really, it's just well,
the roundabout is still there. I think that it's been
a great thing. But the actual work itself with the
with the roads and what have you. Still another two
years to go before that's opened.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Apparently a quarter of a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It's costing god god, yeah, well it's you know, and
apparently I hear to the Grape mind that one of
the major changes is to accommodate the bus.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
May what do you do for public transport in the
area like the Wakatypic Basin though grant as buses.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The answer, well, it's certainly becoming that way because you
can't get a park anywhere in town and if you
do it, it cost you an arm and a lead.
So I think for the people that can get buses,
and you know, there's a good bus service from our
town into the into the five mile and and right
up to the fur and unfortunately it doesn't go to
Colostburn because you quite hand you going to the public
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of Friday night, get in the bus back.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh it's all about you, Granda. You're going to have
to use your ways out there, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, my living Stone won't do very much. But no,
I think it's you know, the buses are there as
the saying the good services, and they're just trying to
get more and more people on them. But you know,
in the heart of Queenstown itself, Queenstown, there is you
and I know and most of the people from the
targets south. But it's just it's just a terrace, mecha.
So everything else is out of the out of the
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five mile and, and there is good parking out there
for you know, for the various you know when when
you get out there. But as far as Queenstown goes,
I think I don't know if I told you, but
I may have, because I do repeat myself a bit.
But coming back from one of our farm discussions, it's
like drop tech Cocks and another guy from out mickels Off.
I just stopped outside the steamer wharf. They got straight
(16:00):
out and I carried on and I got an eighty
dollar parking pine and and so you know, you've been
officers to stop in the middle of the road and
let people out if if you've got to do that.
So it's yeah, no, it's it's great when you go
to Gore and the Carda and you get and you
can get you know, places apart. But the only difficulty
I had there was working out how to use the
old meters.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, there they are. That's a really valid point there.
I got caught out. Well the first time I didn't
use them. I thought, bugger, this is that confusing. I'm
just going to say ignorance. Not that they would have
said anything if I got to take it, but the
old coin and the meat has certainly got a lot
to going for it, like Gore.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh absolutely. And so when I parked and Gore the
other day on my way to Batman's to get the
three hair he gave me thanks to Opinn, we I
just I couldn't work it, but I put some money
in and it looked like something, so I felt all
right whether it worked or not. On much more. But
as you know, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So what's to focus on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
The focus on the farm at the moment, try to
get some bailage made or the grass cut and ground
that's going into the kale. It's been sprayed. But we
had another thirty eight mills of rain yesterday afternoon, so
and that was in about about four as and the
space of four as. So while it's not boggie, it's
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just the contractors are just behind schedule and trying to
get things done. So you know, it's typical as we
say every year that Christen is a great time when
during the northern hemisphere and that the days are short
and the night's along but the middle of a bit
of a well really the start of air farming calendars
will get all these things done. So it'll be nice
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to get that done, and especially for over the hills
there while we've got Trina Tucker to get that bailage off,
so get a bit of fresh stuff coming away.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So are you contemplating rice paddies at all? Has it
got to that state?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
We thought about it. And with that, you know, thirty
eight meals of rain yesterday. It's the old shot up,
dirty game. But over hope and Gully Road. We had
these massive, big ponds that we've never seen before, just
surface water. They've actually just they've just dissipated now, so
we've gone off the rice and we just prefer to
get the crop and the and the and the baylor's made.
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But we'll see what happens. We've got probly start marking
the calves next week and the ball will go out.
So that's good that that job done. The calves are
looking more right, still a lot of good a lot
of good cow feed about over at at Closeburn, not
just only on the hill but on a few fat areas.
We've gotten that that'll that will accommodate them while the
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ball goes out. So you know, the things are looking
pretty good there. But one thing I was going to
talk about was when you've got we've got a bullet,
the moment that needs to go to the works. He's lane.
But the rules and regulations now it's just about them
possible to get any animal away that that's lame and
some sort of and some aspects now I sort of
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understand it for sheep, you know, and see you've got
sheep with a crooked leg, whether you're just knocked over
the dog tucker anyway, or but you know, we've got
a ball there that he got. He got feedn up
by the other balls and a bit of a a
bit of a donny brook, so he can walk, but
he can't put a lot of pressure on his leg.
So left him for a while. Got to send a
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video to the bet. So I don't think that ball
will be I don't think he'd be accepted. So last
week with then some night the ball was actually he
was in the paddic with some cow and hadn't been
doing much, but he's able to walk around and trot around.
So I videoed that and hates him out of the paddock.
Event's coming tomorrow and to see if we can get
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the orkid to send them. So I just my point
here is that this, you know, it's a ball. At
this time of the year, it's a bit hard to
kill and put them the doll cucking freezer because you know,
there about a thousand kgs. So there must be a
lot of other people around that you have stopped, that
that are injured and that really need to be put
out of their misery. And because of these stupid regulations,
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you can't you know, and this ball can walk on
full legs, and like it's not as a different story
that leg's broken or something like that. I understand that.
But you know that that ball there mightn't even go
and he's just in the paddocks.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Are Are you hopeful that regulations will change one day
or he just pass upon their return.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't think things that will ever change it because
it's the thing of common sense, the least common of
all the senses. And you know, for all the all
these good and people that don't want bodies string crates
for takes, but don't realize that if you don't have
them there for a week or two weeks anyway that
thinks are any get squashed? And and the same with
you know, cattle or or animals that you know, you
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that can walk up the ramp, but they say, I
know it might be able to support its own weight
and what have you. It makes it very It's pretty difficult, really,
and I don't think it's not the right way to
look look at takes.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, absolutely, grant, hey will leave it there, mate, you're
in answer you Kiar and the family have a fantastic holiday.
We'll do it all again next.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Year, ye And thanks to Arby.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
We're all hat Man and the team. Don't forget you
need appreciated for Ham and see Punny but you merry
Christmas to all their fifteen listeners. We've got now, so
I hope you will have a safe and happy holiday
and kick your family close and enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Grant Disaster McMaster thanks to Batman on the team with
Abu Rural Richard'll be around for that Ham later on
this afternoon. Up next, we're speaking of fluide. Lucas Mills
from Ida Down, of course, giving us the chance today
to an adjustable woolen pillow made of one hundred percent
New Zealand ball text and Ida down with your name
to five double O nine.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
If everybody hadn't the USA, then everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Like California. It's day two of the Muster Christmas Giveaway.
A salute to the farmers. This afternoon we're catching up
with Lucas Mills of eider Down. Good afternoon, Lucas, and
welcome to the Muster.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Right we're talking douvets and pillows and the likes. I
don't know about you, but one thing I am really
retentive about this having a decent pillow in life.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Yeah, it's it's always trucky. Finding the perfect pillows pretty
hard when Yeah, but that's what we're here to help with. Really,
we've got a massive range of them, so we've got
someone that suits.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Everyone because they you can know they have a firm
or you're like a hard pillow or just the goldilocks
in between. These no real set rival reason as to
what people choose.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Right, Nah, No, that's everyone's so personal with pillows. So
you know, there's there's different cell options. You know, you're
going from your wall ones which are nice firmer that
will hold right up to a high down percentage which
are really soft and you can really snuggle and and
everything in between. And yeah, there's everyone's different. So it's
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definitely quite a tricky one to get right. And it's
an important choice as well.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Right douves you guys, obviously they're eider down. It's one
of the big things that you're about up. So where
are they? Where do you make them?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Yeah, so we make them all in our Moscow factory.
All our douvets are made here at Moscow and Dunedin,
so made in the South Island, which is always.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Great you guys have been around for quite a while too.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah, we've the brand's been around for quite a while.
As this particular one, we've been doing it for about
six or seven years, but we've got upwards of thirty
to thirty five years of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Knowledge in the industry.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
So yeah, awesome for the For the Douvets, we've got
a massive range of them now and their new Zealand
made mu Zeum designed and made for the local conditions.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, it's like the pillow talk before you talk about
the douve I mean, I remember I used to go
to boarding school. I had the lights of Douvet available.
It didn't really offer a hell of a lot when
it came to wanted time. But then I think the
first thing when I left Score was actually by a
decent douvet because it'll serve you for a very very
long time.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yep. So our Downlund in particular are really lightweight, but
they're really insulating and they can last sort of have
to well looked after. People can get thirty thirty years
plus out of them, so they're a lifetime investment for
a lot of people. And yeah, once you hate get
a quality do they there's nothing quite like it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Eider Down. You don't just talk about douvets and pillows
or produce them, but it's all about blankets and mattress
toppers as well metros toppers.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
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Speaker 7 (24:37):
So we have a range of colored feather and down
blankets which are really popular, added nice popper color and
a nice extra layer, and then our mattress toppers we
do a big luxurious down one or we make our
walls topp or underlay and they're really nice, just to
add that little bit of extra comfort to a bid.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
As far as new products are coming out with Vida Down,
what's on the horizon.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, So we've recently done a range of new Zealand
made sheet which are proving to be pretty popular, and
I think coming in the new year we're going to
be introducing some locally made mattress protectors and we've got
some new colors of blankets in the pipeline as well.
And you know we've for our duvets, we've got about
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twenty four different options, but you never know if we're
going to introduce another one in there that we think
will work as well. Yeah, I think we do four
different fill types, and then there's variations of each one
of those, and we do summer, autumn, winter, we do
four seasons one so there's there's a bit of a
broad maxim. We even do cop duvets, so do they
for children as well, So yeah, it's quite a good mix.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now your factory shops nine A, Gladstone's Roads South and Moskiew.
As far as zion line or partnering with farmers for example,
is that an option yep, yep.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So we sell online worldwide but mostly in New Zealand,
so that's iderdown dot Co, dott Dead and then we
have a partnership with farmland as well, where a few
juicy farmlands can you get a five percent rebate as well,
So that's that's been a great partnership too.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And today we're giving away an adjustable will pillow. But
the great thing about this is one hundred percent New
Zealand wall yep, that's.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
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percent New Zealand wolf and it's pearled, so it's in
little wall balls and it's got a zip opening so
you can take some fill out of it to get
it to that right height. So it can be the
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Speaker 1 (26:31):
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must of Us afternoon. Ider Down fantastic Kiwi product, always
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Speaker 7 (26:39):
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Speaker 1 (26:43):
Lucas Mills of Ida Down. So once again day two
of the Muster Christmas Giveaway, a salute to the farmers.
We have an adjustable wool pillow one hundred percent New
Zealand Wolves text Ida down to five double O nine
with your details and we're going to draw this one
of tomorrow. So iider Down, great Keywi product using renewable
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resources like wall. This is the Muster Up Next Clayton
Peters of Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
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And the were this my plays a partner. Keep those
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O nine to go on the chance to win that
adjustable ball pillow thanks to Ida Down as part of
the Muster's Christmas giveaway. Clayton Peters of Peter's Genetics naming
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sponsors here on the Muster joins us once again get
a pup.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah here are you pretty good?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I can hear a lot of bleating in the background.
It sounds as though you've managed to sneak away for
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Yeah no, I just stie, just get a gett a
b the way for the sheep bearing and waning again today.
So she's all going as usual?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is whening going? Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, I know we've well, we've had a pretty big wait.
We're just this is the first one over at the
at the bar and properly so you know, I've got
a feel available pretty every concerning all the lambs off
the hell. So you know, we've done master winning over
home and we're just kind of just to win the
studs at home on Thursday and we're sort of in there,
a bit of digging to do, and I'm hoping you
might get some use shoe for Christmas. There we go
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where it does.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You're pretty relaxed about the sharing situation. If it's not
done before Christmas, well, as long as.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I get all dayed up, I'm not too rared. They're
not like they're not that bad. But we've had a
weave with a fly touch to fly around, so I
just sort of getting cleaned up and yeah, so yeah,
we're getting done. Otherwise, we hopefull get numbertween christas New Year.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, you say you've got a bit of fly around
at the moment. How bad is it?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Oh, as we hit some late lambs, we tell that
got it quite bad with them, and wow, we've just
gone and he had just dipped away the hoged lambs
and stuff just to really get us through to the
new Year. So we're not tearing around between Chris New
Year and fixing up flying problems on it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's just frustrating getting its pretty early, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I just I was just by the way were there's
been really you know, like in today's sort of muggy
and stuff. So you're over here, but probably we have.
We've got a lot of scrubs, so a lot of
flies here around the scrub.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So how's everything looking around here?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yet you're not too bad where we need to go?
Good rain there last night, so we needed it. She's
getting quite dry. The crops all sort of plugging the
heads out of the ground. But you can see that
sort of welding a bit. But we're sposed to give
it all the South balloons, so it looks like it's
come out of its sweet So yeah, we'll be right.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So in general, you're pretty compete with where you are.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Yeah, yep, no we are yep no the land with Yeah,
lambs are looking good at home and no, we had
a good drafted. I'm early so here three weeks ago,
so I was winning hit with that, and yes we've
got a few more wounds and singles. On Sunday we
got a few of limb I was happy with that too.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You so yeah, side lambs away to the works. Compared
to other seasons, would you be on the.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Path probably yeah, But this year I didn't. I didn't
bother take a drafted on my twins. I thought, well, yeah,
there's stills a few they would have killed, But I
thought I've got I've got plenty of lamb feed in.
It's not quite ready to go yet, but I thought
those will just hold on to them and put the
put my weight on them hopefully.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So you've got that good lamb feed. Can we throw
you the clover and the likes?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I suppose yeah, yeah, Well I'm hoping it's going to be well. It'
supposed to be ready to go the first of January,
so looks like I'm going to be busy just before
New Years.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
When say you won't be taking a break over Christmas
and sight you'll just take it on January later on
something suppose.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I'll play say it later on somewhere. I just
obviously I've got a couple of staff members away from
the Bone probably over Christmas and New Year. So just
got one guy in there, so I'll probably just have
to help him out and leave it and obviously give
more stuff for the time off over the Christmas a
year too, So yeah, someone's going to be flowing around
keeping on things.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So you've got the trick to work out the date.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, we'll just got a bit of boers to do.
We're hoping to morse some more tomorrow, but I don't
know if the weather's going to allow us allow us
to do that. We're have you get what what needs
to be done at the moment, find out before Christmas.
But if white matter who will still be there later on.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It's no real rush. It's just a case in case
of case the US are at.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, it was just like, yeah, like you sort of
just want to get it off so you can get
the grass ground again to plump into something else.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Ram selling season, how's that been?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, No, we've had a really successful last two weeks
of ram selling and everyone's been really really happy with
what we've had up for off of this year. So no,
we're really happy and got gained a few new clients
which they were all very positive, so that's great. Great.
So yeah, just yeah, well I'm talking about ram selling.
Just we're just like to wish my round clients and
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ball clients merry Christmas and having new Years and yeah,
we'll see them in the new year.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I suppose when you're catching up with those clients like
you have over the past coup of the weeks, Clayton,
I do say the mood would be one of pretty
a lot of positivity.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Oh, definitely. It's just it's got to be. Things are
looking pretty good at the moment. You know. There was
a lot of talk. Was they talking about the big
ones and how we trees are down, which there's always
something to talk about at RAM selling, but you know,
it was it was it was you're really positive.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Actually, yeah, there's always something to talk about, but at
the same time, just showing the fact and getting the
vibe out there is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yep, yep, no, you did right, you know, so that
was it was good. You know, last said, we were
selling rares about five six days all together, and it
was good catching up with one. But yeah, it was
good to get back and start doing some work. And
we'll do getting weaned downe at Horn.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
So just about that December balance, I suppose yep.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yep, No, we'll just I'll be heavy when just Friday
said they gets where it comes aroun anyway, because we've
had a big last ten days, so it's be good.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, we'll see what pens out there made. Hey, well
you get back to it. I can hear those yous
yelling at you in the background. Always good to have
Petersen Inticks on board with the musters naming sponsors. Clayton
and you enjoy the break new e Jeanet and we'll
catch up with you in twenty twenty six and do
it all again.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
No ways, go man, Thank you any I love.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Clayton Peters of Peter's Genetics naming sponsor here on the muster.
Remember and get those texts rolling in. I had it
down to five double O nine with your details. Make
sure you put the details in there before wrap up.
Emma Wilson from Young Farmers Welcome back to the Muster.
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On Hakani Beach Boys are the tunes this afternoon. Next
we're catching up with Emma Wilson. She is the regional
chair for Otago Southland Young Farmers. Emma, good to catch
up once again.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Hey, thanks serving.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We look back in the last twelve months and the
young Farmer's landscape has been a pretty hictic one, but
a rewarding one at the same time, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, it's been a really busy year, but the energy
around the region has been so Awesomeilar It's some really
cool avience, So it's been super exciting for you personally.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
What would you say has been the highlight of the year.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
I don't know for me personally, as laps building all year,
the Grand Final and just to say it will come
togther in the region, get behind it and have so
much fun over those three days. Pretty big highlight for.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Me because it's a pretty big deal to have a
Grand Final when you're neck of the woods, because it
only happens every so often.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Right, Yeah, we going to get it every six years,
which I don't think a lot of people realize that's
how and frequently we get it. But yeah, everyone showed
up and we had it in massive turnout across the region,
so it was awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So as far as Grand Final week, it all went
as you imagine.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Oh, it was always enough that doesn't quite go to plan,
but I don't think there was anything that we'd lose
sleepover the other ways. It all went pretty well and
main things, we all had fun, even though even though
it was of us organizing it, which was a pretty
big deal in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Just wood's working so well for young farmers down in
this neck of the woods.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Are the same to me, just everyone's so keen to
get involved with all the neighboring clubs and everyone genuinely
enjoyed spending time with the other clubs. And that's why
those regional events are so cool, because everyone loves getting
together and it's always ends up something very unique at
each one.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
So regional events that you just talked about, then they're
a big deal for the organization.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
Yeah, definitely. I think we're pretty proud of them down here.
I think we love to sit the tone. I think
Regional weekend up in town now and generally kind of
sit the tone for the year, and then we just
keep building and building. The Grand Finals and everyone's really
excited for like the next ones next year.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So how would club numbers down the South compared to
other regions.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Everything's pretty you kind of got the five big regions
and say we're pretty close to a few of them.
We're not the biggest, but lest by certain when you're
not the smallest.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So what's the feedback you're getting from the clubs regarding things.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Early? Only a lot of it was just general help
and it's all we had, like our training nights and
that sort of stuff, just because it can be contaminating
sticking it into those clubs where I was like, I
think you run under estimate. It's how hard it is
to cheer a club because there's just so many moving
parts and you kind of don't really get much of
a break when there's just stuff happening all the on.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, going into an executive role can be intimidating, and
like you say, there's not really a lot of training
and you've kind of just loved with it and it's
trial bay Era to a degree.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Yeah, and it's definitely interesting to see other clubs all
take their own twist on it as well, which is
actually kind of cool. Like how one person cheers the
club is not how going to be someone else? Does it?
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Like?
Speaker 8 (36:17):
It's awesome to see them all taking their own spin
on stuff, because yeah, they've all been done a really
good job this year actually, and.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's a great thing about the organization. There's there's still
a lot of structure and play here's these events have planned,
but everything's above board.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yeah, well if they don't like dropping them and on
their own, it's it's nice that they kind of know
who the exec is. It's their biggest goals, just that
they've got someone to talk to. Feet even just made
a bounce some ideas around.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
So what's on the agita for twenty twenty six? I
see the regional finals being held here in Gore in February.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Yep, they're with the first regional events of the years
and I think Evan's pretty excited for it. What I
always put on a great so be exciting to see
what they come up with than debury.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
How do they pick the areas and the dates they
have for their regional finals as such? Is it drawn
from a cup or how do you work it?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
We have a bit of a pre planned rotation we
set out so we try and give each club different
events every time, and then we kind of give you
club in the regions an event every two to three
years just to men you get a bit of a gap.
But then also you still have a crack at organizing
something different every on.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Them, so you're just mixing it up more or less
as far as the competition and from the formal side
of things.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
Really, yeah, we definitely still try and target certain clubs
round certain events based on their strings, and maybe we
give them one of the least intense ones if they
haven't been so involved in the region. Is like a
way to get involved and see what it's all about
and then step it up to some of the other
ones that the more moving parts.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Well the way you say it, like Daddy, there's certain
clubs now they're starting to come up to the plate
a bit more when you put on that context.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Yeah, I feel like a tiger had been pretty quiet
the last week while, but we've heard from him so
much even just in the last six months and seeing
their faces more and more events, so it'll be pretty
exciting to see them, hopefully all at regional final. In
your own club, you're often go and get much of
a chance to enjoy it and kick your feet up.
So it's nice being able to come to these regional
events and you'll turn to like relax a little bit
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and enjoy it for.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
You personally, Emma, you've been in the role, now will
come your term. It's how have you found it? I
suppose we talk about being an executive? What's it like
from your angle?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Region? Put a whole nother ballgame. I probably enjoyed doing
the regional stuff more than the club stuff. Not everyone
to say the same, but it's been very nice. How
like contactab everyone's been this year and then great team
in the regional exec like we're all seriously we need
to be. But it's nice to see that everyone still
does enjoy themselves when it gets to the more social
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side of the events as well.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So there's still a few social events on the agenda
before Christmas whining down now.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
I feel like most people will probably at the races
if they weren't at their own club events. I think
History Club said at Christmas too, which.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Is nice, Yes, certainly is Hey good on you, Emma
always appreciate your time on the muster and yeah, lock
just congratulations to take herself and young farmers on a
whole for the way the organization's moving away, moving forward.
I should say it's always good to catch up too.
I've enjoyed the chats over the year.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Thanks for having us on all you and it's been
great at having everyone else around the region supporting as well.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
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That's us for the afternoon. Remembering text ider down E
I D E down room of the spelling with your
details to five double low nine. We've got an adjustable
will pillow to give away thanks to a team at
Ida Dale. Was part of the Muster Christmas giveaway. A
salute to the farmers. My name's Andy Mueer. You've been
listening to the Muster on Hock and Newlie thanks to
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Peters Genetics Seed Tomorrow. Thanks for PGG writes for the
final time in twenty twenty five. We've got Sam Riley
on the line to give us a rundown on a
chuck of field. Loomsville sale Yards selling still going on.
That's how hectic it is. Good afternoon, Sam, What details
have you got for us?
Speaker 9 (41:44):
Good afternoon and here mate, Yeah no, this is the
last file of the year for us, and yeah the
kettle it's fall to Boldrin to the tir So. We're
about halfway through there as we're doing this, but we'll
kick it off with the Prime Street both lambs from
me back a little bit two hundred two, one hundred
and forty dollars on the heavyes the mediums one sixty
to one ninety five into the Yu's probably back a
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back of ten dollars on those two one sixty to
one eighty five on the top, one thirty to one
fifty five on the mediums, and one hundred, one hundred
twenty dollars in a lot of stuff. A few lines
of rams in and they were fifty to sixty dollars
on those for the adding of stall lambs, and today
mate one fifty to one seventy in the tops of
those one hundred and ten to one hundred and forty
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on the mediums, and those lightering lambs are ninety to
one hundred and fifteen one hundred and five dollars. Sorry,
So that's up the lambs and cheek into the kettle.
There was just a small yarding of prime kettle. These
five hundred and thirty five kilos four dollars seventy five.
Heap is at six hundred and thirty seven kilos four
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dollars sixty two, some beef cows at seven hundred and
forty seven kilos three dollars thirty two, and gary kels
morning pals four hundred and eighty to five hundred and
fifty kilos two dollars eighty two dollars nineties. Everything's selling
pretty well there. Move on in to was a very
large yarding of school kettle Samar two anger skis at
three hundred and eighty kg's nineteen hundred dollars, Samar to
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Belgium blue Stars at three hundred and forty six kilos
sixteen hundred and ninety dollars, Samarti charlet cross balls at
four hundred and twenty five k's nineteen to fifty five.
Moving into the winners the win of freezing balls. The
good heavy winning freezing balls one hundred and twenty twe
hundred and forty kilos still selling well at six twenty
to six hundred and eighty dollars. There will one hundred
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and ten to one hundred one hundred and fifteen kilo
freezing balls. They were five eighty to six hundred and
ten and as this speak was just moved into the
beef cross balls of charlet balls one hundred and twenty
kg seven hundred and sixty dollars and some here for
cross balls at one hundred and twenty kilos seven hundred
and ninety dollars. So that wraps up Lorvil for the
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final time in twenty twenty four. Wishing everyone marry in safety,
new year, Merry Christmas, in safety the year, and we'll
see you back in twenty twenty six if I have
another voter.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I was never made a volder now by Wood
Gee, there's a please come that's where. Good afternoon and
welcome to the Muster on Hokanui. Andy Meal here into
a two o'clock of course thanks to Peters Genetics. Welcome
along to an overcast afternoon hearing gore possible or good
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chance of rainfalling this afternoon. We'll talk weathers shortly, but firstly,
our winner yesterday and the first of our Muster Christmas
giveaways is a look to the farmers winning the Vet
South two hundred dollars voucher as well as a goodie back.
Congratulations Philippa Campbell. Philip are well done. Somebody will be
in touch with that prize and straight into For today,
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we've got Ida down on board giving away an adjustable wall. Hello,
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the Great Muster Christmas Giveaway, Beach Boys of the Junes
Coco Moo from the movie Cocktail featuring tom Cruise in
the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Grad Pakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Inzead Tuesday afternoon thunderstorms of breezy westerlies and a higher fifteen.
Wednesday cloudy with breezy saul west is eight and seventeen.
Thursday cloudy with northwesterlies forming ten and twenty one. Friday's
average raymer breezy sou Westerly's five and eleven and Saturday
morning showers of sou Westerly's five and eleven as well.
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Sold jempertures for Dougy and omi Cow seventeen point two
Clinton fifteen point eight, Northern Southland fourteen point nine, Rivertons
sixteen point one, tan Our fifteen point sax Tidoro of
fifteen wind and fifteen point one Gordlands at fifteen point three.
As we start the how as I get them out
of a bit of paper. Matt Ward farming at Morton Mains.
(02:10):
Catching up with Matt to see how the season's going,
He texted earlier. He's on the hand piece today, just
see how situations are looking they're not far away from
Christmas Grant Disaster McMaster a close ber in station Technology
willing we catch up with disasteries and transit this afternoon.
Lucas Mills as well. Like we say, the feature on
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today's Must Have giveaway is a team from wider down,
so we catch up with Lucas Clayton. Peters are Peters
Genetics naming sponsor. Here on the muster, we have a
chin Wag and Emma Wilson Otago South and young Farmer's
Chair reflecting on the past twelve months and looking at
the next twelve as well. Sam Riley of PGG writes
them with the stock sale report the last of the
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year from Laurnville and then we'll start the yowl with
Matt Ward. This is the Muster until two o'clock thanks
to Peters Genetics get texting five double O nine, I'm
keyword Ida down was your details.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a Beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Matt Ward farms down at Morton Mainz and joins us
once again this afternoon on the Muster while he's on
the hand piece of all things Good Afternoon, Matt.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Good afternoon, Andy, how are you?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, pretty good. You sound like the You are the
opposite of Ben Dooley talking about these numbers yesterday, what
seventeen hundred dag before lunchtime. But you're there just doing
the honest toil today.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, no, we are. We're just chipping away doing
them myself. This year. I sort of thought about getting
the crutch and trailer and Andy, but Jesus, it nearly
takes the longer to get here and get up the
driveway and get set up than it does for them
to actually do the sheep. So we're just chipping away,
chipping away. It's good. I think it's a good, good
way to get a good look at all the us
and they're actually not bad. Digging a bit of shit
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on them, but they're not bad. Not bad. Guard really
is the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
League, Diggs or just pretty much around the cratch.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Nah, just around the cratch, just around the cratch. I
sort of leave all the leagues and you just give
them a good good run. Cratch just tided them up
and then I'll get them dipped. First second week of
January they will go through and then get shorn and
the start of March. So you normally they stay pretty
clean as long as you give them a good cratch.
Now they stay pretty clean right up to shearing. Won't
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really need to touch them again touch wood.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, you made the observation just before that you'd rather
be on a hand piece than an attractor.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, recent I I go crazy sitting there playing circles
and a tractor. Yeah, it's not my It's not my
cup of tea at all, and then I end up
breaking stuff And I'd rather stand there on a hand
piece for the day, any day of the week.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Have you always felt like that when it comes to
their hand piece.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, I've always enjoyed it. I do enjoy it. There
was a bit of me one day that sort of
thought I could go out and do a bit of
sharing and mack around. But that's probably about as far
as that thought got.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So you haven't been I do enjoy it. You haven't
been teamed to shear your own hoggots or anything silly
like that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
No, no, no, I'll do I do a few like
I low. We used to share all their rams up
at me and aspiring and do like stragglers and stuff.
So got pretty handy on the well, jod I wouldn't
say I'm handy on the mpiece, but I sort of
know how to get the feathers off one way or another.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I show the rams at home once here, and my
advice to the young fellow working for me was make
sure I don't get killed.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's good way to do them
through lockdown when I was up at Aspiring and then
actually last year I was up at Waning for Aspiring
and Rendell thought it would be a good joke after
a good day on the hill to bring the rams
in and we chipped away share in the Emma afternoon
as well. So yeah, no, it's good. I don't yeah,
I don't mind it. Don't mind it at all.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, So if you've got the set up to do
it well, it makes a lot of sense as well.
And jeez, I've lost count of how many years of dad,
like we had a we had a hect in at
one stage, but a lot of the time I'd just
be doing them up the race as well, And you
just got to be careful about if there's one running
back at Jen, have your wits about you. But these
new hand pieces, you know, battery charged, it's a breeze, yeah, yeah,
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I've got a.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Good I've got a good race wall here, so they
climb up. They're sort of standing at hip pipe, so
there's no bending over all day. And I've got a
young fellow from down the road. He's keeping them all
up to me. So now we're tipping well, tripping through
probably about one hundred in air, so it making a
pretty good going. Yeah, I've only got twelve to thirteen
hundred jews to do, so we'll find it tiding them
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up tomorrow morning and then we're all done on to
the next job.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, so what does the next job before the fat
man comes down the chimney?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Umm, yeah, I'm pretty well what was it? To be fair?
Hopefully get my swedes drilled this afternoon and then year.
To be fair, I don't really have weaned up the
start of last week, got on my US condition scored
and got a light more about Yeah, you get these
swedes and probably go back defensing that carry on pitching
(07:08):
holes up and uh yeah, Maka is quite nice, quite nice,
normally pretty well organized. It last week before Christmas is
normally pretty cruisy for me.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So as far as lambs do the works or getting
lambs off man that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Went will Yeah, yeah, it went all right on a
well too well shake farm. I don't think you even really.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, you're not no, but it's all about right.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah. Yeah, we killed twenty five percent of their lambs
off mammut eighteen point seven KOs, so happy enough with that.
Everage waning weight was up four kilos on last year,
so I saw it. I think that sort of reflects
on how much growth we've had in that lasts sort
of six weeks. Lambs are really kicked on, kicked on
really well. And even these yew's like there's only ten
(07:53):
percent of my mob are in the light moob, so
everything's everything set up pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Really, eighteen point seven off mum, that's a pretty good number.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, I was happy. I I did think about
dipping into them a wee bit harder, and like, I
try get as my goals to get as many off
Mum as I can, but I don't really see the schedule. Well,
they're not going to pull the pants out of the schedule,
I don't think so. And the rest of the lambs,
like there's a good pat of lambs there between like
thirty six and thirty eight kilos, So we have a
(08:25):
draft in mid January and get them gone. Got quite
a bit. I've got about forteen fifteen. There's a red
clover in this year as well, So I sort of
want to keep a few lambs about me to chuckle Matt,
because I sort of aim for about a twenty twenty
one kilo lamb for the rest of the season. So yes,
sort of need a few lambs about me to kick
them on a bit.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So you're doing split sharing there. Do you have an
issue with fly strikers such?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Ah, not too bad to be fair, anything that any
of you that does get fly, I'll put a black
pag in her ear. She goes straight into my terminal mob.
But sometimes get a wee bit of that green fly
a wee bit later on. It can be a bit
of an issue, but nah, yeah, touch Well, I don't
really like talking about it in case it chinks myself.
(09:11):
But normally the lambs they stay pretty tidy.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And the rest. You say that your black tag anything
that gets fly? Are you talking green fly up the
back or just DAGs meggets around the DAGs?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Both both. I sort of think anything well there should
be Well, I don't, yeah, I thought I sat in
the opinion that anything that gets touched up by fly
just goes straight to the terminal mob. I don't really
give it too much thought. Really, there's a reason why,
like ninety eight percent of the rest of the mob
hasn't been touched up by them. So yeah, and then god,
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if they get it again, it's not less. They're not
breeding from her.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So she's a one year U. She has one more lamb.
She's off to the works more leis Ah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, my terminal mob is probably fifty or sixty percent
of my flock is a terminal I just keep them,
keep them in. But then if they come through the
shed at lemming time or there's any other issues, if
they go to get a second black tag, then that
second black pegs down the driveway.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So your feet covers down there. They're looking pretty good
or things considered.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, well, I think we're sitting not too bad. Actually,
good share of rain last night, and I think everything's
reacted pretty well. There's a lot of seed head around,
just starting to think I'm not need to get the
top of guard. I've just mobbed on my kettle up
and slowly getting around, tiding a few pastures up. But
everything's got a good base to it. So, yeah, I
think we're sitting pretty well. I got a few petics
(10:36):
of Baylor shut up now and yeah, so I think
we're sitting not too bad. I sort of think if
there's yeah, not much of a complaint about at the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Jeez, you sound like you're ready for a holiday because
you can.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, oh, there's the plan. There's the plan. I normally
have the house to myself between Christmas and New Year Andy,
so that sort of consists of a bit of golf,
watching the ashes, checking the mobs, and it's pretty much
me that's my holiday all the week. It's quite quite
cruisy really.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
More of a staycation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, so it's now try and get away later on
in January when everyone else that's going back to school
and work and stuff. But yeah, no, we're pretty tidy really.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Just before we wrap up, man, I talked to you
a couple of months ago, and you were a real
cynical about New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Will.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Given the number of you he's breeding. News over in China,
we've seen a lift, a couple of lifts regarding Will.
Are you starting to see a bit of a bit
of a change in that from your perspective.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, it's interesting now because I sort of got that
viewpoint from someone else's opinion and I sort of run
with it. But now to see the lift and the
wall prices, like Jesus satis fine, isn't it like to
see people well breaking, even if not getting a wee
bit of money extra on top of the shearing as
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the way it should be, and hopefully it holds. I'm
hoping it's not just the blip on the radar and
then we'll go back to normal again. It'll be nice
of it does hold, it's not a wee bit more
and we start getting good prices for wealth. I don't
think we're ever gonna go back to the way it
used to be, but it would be quite tidy if
we're getting decent mall checks and changes people's opinions on
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actually wanting to see sheep again for the animal health,
not just doing it because they have to. Yeah, would
be quite tidy, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Hey, good on you, Matt. Thanks for your time on
the Muster today and throughout the year. You enjoy your
staycation and we'll catch up again in January. Always appreciated
your time. Have a good break.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And and you two until your listens as well. Have
a good Cristmas and New Year, and hopefully everyone can
have a bit of a bit of downtime and catch
up on themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Matt Ward there farming at more to Mainz, remembering texts
eider Down e I d e down two five double
O nine, today's price and adjustable will pillow. Thanks of
team at eider Down texts five double O nine this
is the muster up. Next toss to Master.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
We come.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Johndean fa.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Round got into grab McMaster.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
A closer in station joins us for the final time
in twenty twenty five, of course, thanks to Abbie Rural
good afternoon disaster.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, Andy graft and and everybody. I know, We're not
I'm not actually on the I'm closer. At the moment
where Kiar and I tripping over to Tawanaka and just
got into the Crown Range and actually we turned off
and going up the road there was about eighty cars
trying to get back down onto the Queenstown Road. But
I wonder what's going on there. But I had missed
reading the sign that said road group for forty minutes
(13:54):
delays forty minutes, So I just sat up up in
the Crown Range trying to get text out to you
to say that I may not be available, but as
usual RB Rural have got us throat.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, get on your batman and the team at RB
Rural there you always deliver to tell me. How's that
you round about the BP going for you?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, it's it's not going at all, really, it's just well,
the roundabout is still there. I think that it's been
a great thing. But the actual work itself with the
with the roads and what have you. Still another two
years to go before that's opened.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Apparently a quarter of a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It's costing god god, yeah, well it's you know, and
apparently I hear to the Grape mind that one of
the major changes is to accommodate the bus.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
May what do you do for public transport in the
area like the Wakatypic Basin though grant as buses.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The answer, well, it's certainly becoming that way because you
can't get a park anywhere in town and if you
do it, it cost you an arm and a lead.
So I think for the people that can get buses,
and you know, there's a good bus service from our
town into the into the five mile and and right
up to the fur and unfortunately it doesn't go to
Colostburn because you quite hand you going to the public
(15:09):
of Friday night, get in the bus back.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh it's all about you, Granda. You're going to have
to use your ways out there, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, my living Stone won't do very much. But no,
I think it's you know, the buses are there as
the saying the good services, and they're just trying to
get more and more people on them. But you know,
in the heart of Queenstown itself, Queenstown, there is you
and I know and most of the people from the
targets south. But it's just it's just a terrace, mecha.
So everything else is out of the out of the
(15:38):
five mile and, and there is good parking out there
for you know, for the various you know when when
you get out there. But as far as Queenstown goes,
I think I don't know if I told you, but
I may have, because I do repeat myself a bit.
But coming back from one of our farm discussions, it's
like drop tech Cocks and another guy from out mickels Off.
I just stopped outside the steamer wharf. They got straight
(16:00):
out and I carried on and I got an eighty
dollar parking pine and and so you know, you've been
officers to stop in the middle of the road and
let people out if if you've got to do that.
So it's yeah, no, it's it's great when you go
to Gore and the Carda and you get and you
can get you know, places apart. But the only difficulty
I had there was working out how to use the
old meters.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, there they are. That's a really valid point there.
I got caught out. Well the first time I didn't
use them. I thought, bugger, this is that confusing. I'm
just going to say ignorance. Not that they would have
said anything if I got to take it, but the
old coin and the meat has certainly got a lot
to going for it, like Gore.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh absolutely. And so when I parked and Gore the
other day on my way to Batman's to get the
three hair he gave me thanks to Opinn, we I
just I couldn't work it, but I put some money
in and it looked like something, so I felt all
right whether it worked or not. On much more. But
as you know, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So what's to focus on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
The focus on the farm at the moment, try to
get some bailage made or the grass cut and ground
that's going into the kale. It's been sprayed. But we
had another thirty eight mills of rain yesterday afternoon, so
and that was in about about four as and the
space of four as. So while it's not boggie, it's
(17:19):
just the contractors are just behind schedule and trying to
get things done. So you know, it's typical as we
say every year that Christen is a great time when
during the northern hemisphere and that the days are short
and the night's along but the middle of a bit
of a well really the start of air farming calendars
will get all these things done. So it'll be nice
(17:39):
to get that done, and especially for over the hills
there while we've got Trina Tucker to get that bailage off,
so get a bit of fresh stuff coming away.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So are you contemplating rice paddies at all? Has it
got to that state?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
We thought about it. And with that, you know, thirty
eight meals of rain yesterday. It's the old shot up,
dirty game. But over hope and Gully Road. We had
these massive, big ponds that we've never seen before, just
surface water. They've actually just they've just dissipated now, so
we've gone off the rice and we just prefer to
get the crop and the and the and the baylor's made.
(18:17):
But we'll see what happens. We've got probly start marking
the calves next week and the ball will go out.
So that's good that that job done. The calves are
looking more right, still a lot of good a lot
of good cow feed about over at at Closeburn, not
just only on the hill but on a few fat areas.
We've gotten that that'll that will accommodate them while the
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ball goes out. So you know, the things are looking
pretty good there. But one thing I was going to
talk about was when you've got we've got a bullet,
the moment that needs to go to the works. He's lane.
But the rules and regulations now it's just about them
possible to get any animal away that that's lame and
some sort of and some aspects now I sort of
(18:59):
understand it for sheep, you know, and see you've got
sheep with a crooked leg, whether you're just knocked over
the dog tucker anyway, or but you know, we've got
a ball there that he got. He got feedn up
by the other balls and a bit of a a
bit of a donny brook, so he can walk, but
he can't put a lot of pressure on his leg.
So left him for a while. Got to send a
(19:21):
video to the bet. So I don't think that ball
will be I don't think he'd be accepted. So last
week with then some night the ball was actually he
was in the paddic with some cow and hadn't been
doing much, but he's able to walk around and trot around.
So I videoed that and hates him out of the paddock.
Event's coming tomorrow and to see if we can get
(19:42):
the orkid to send them. So I just my point
here is that this, you know, it's a ball. At
this time of the year, it's a bit hard to
kill and put them the doll cucking freezer because you know,
there about a thousand kgs. So there must be a
lot of other people around that you have stopped, that
that are injured and that really need to be put
out of their misery. And because of these stupid regulations,
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you can't you know, and this ball can walk on
full legs, and like it's not as a different story
that leg's broken or something like that. I understand that.
But you know that that ball there mightn't even go
and he's just in the paddocks.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Are Are you hopeful that regulations will change one day
or he just pass upon their return.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't think things that will ever change it because
it's the thing of common sense, the least common of
all the senses. And you know, for all the all
these good and people that don't want bodies string crates
for takes, but don't realize that if you don't have
them there for a week or two weeks anyway that
thinks are any get squashed? And and the same with
you know, cattle or or animals that you know, you
(20:45):
that can walk up the ramp, but they say, I
know it might be able to support its own weight
and what have you. It makes it very It's pretty difficult, really,
and I don't think it's not the right way to
look look at takes.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, absolutely, grant, hey will leave it there, mate, you're
in answer you Kiar and the family have a fantastic holiday.
We'll do it all again next.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Year, ye And thanks to Arby.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
We're all hat Man and the team. Don't forget you
need appreciated for Ham and see Punny but you merry
Christmas to all their fifteen listeners. We've got now, so
I hope you will have a safe and happy holiday
and kick your family close and enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Grant Disaster McMaster thanks to Batman on the team with
Abu Rural Richard'll be around for that Ham later on
this afternoon. Up next, we're speaking of fluide. Lucas Mills
from Ida Down, of course, giving us the chance today
to an adjustable woolen pillow made of one hundred percent
New Zealand ball text and Ida down with your name
to five double O nine.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
If everybody hadn't the USA, then everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Like California. It's day two of the Muster Christmas Giveaway.
A salute to the farmers. This afternoon we're catching up
with Lucas Mills of eider Down. Good afternoon, Lucas, and
welcome to the Muster.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Right we're talking douvets and pillows and the likes. I
don't know about you, but one thing I am really
retentive about this having a decent pillow in life.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Yeah, it's it's always trucky. Finding the perfect pillows pretty
hard when Yeah, but that's what we're here to help with. Really,
we've got a massive range of them, so we've got
someone that suits.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Everyone because they you can know they have a firm
or you're like a hard pillow or just the goldilocks
in between. These no real set rival reason as to
what people choose.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Right, Nah, No, that's everyone's so personal with pillows. So
you know, there's there's different cell options. You know, you're
going from your wall ones which are nice firmer that
will hold right up to a high down percentage which
are really soft and you can really snuggle and and
everything in between. And yeah, there's everyone's different. So it's
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definitely quite a tricky one to get right. And it's
an important choice as well.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Right douves you guys, obviously they're eider down. It's one
of the big things that you're about up. So where
are they? Where do you make them?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Yeah, so we make them all in our Moscow factory.
All our douvets are made here at Moscow and Dunedin,
so made in the South Island, which is always.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Great you guys have been around for quite a while too.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah, we've the brand's been around for quite a while.
As this particular one, we've been doing it for about
six or seven years, but we've got upwards of thirty
to thirty five years of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Knowledge in the industry.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
So yeah, awesome for the For the Douvets, we've got
a massive range of them now and their new Zealand
made mu Zeum designed and made for the local conditions.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, it's like the pillow talk before you talk about
the douve I mean, I remember I used to go
to boarding school. I had the lights of Douvet available.
It didn't really offer a hell of a lot when
it came to wanted time. But then I think the
first thing when I left Score was actually by a
decent douvet because it'll serve you for a very very
long time.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yep. So our Downlund in particular are really lightweight, but
they're really insulating and they can last sort of have
to well looked after. People can get thirty thirty years
plus out of them, so they're a lifetime investment for
a lot of people. And yeah, once you hate get
a quality do they there's nothing quite like it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Eider Down. You don't just talk about douvets and pillows
or produce them, but it's all about blankets and mattress
toppers as well metros toppers.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Sorry, yep, yep.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
So we have a range of colored feather and down
blankets which are really popular, added nice popper color and
a nice extra layer, and then our mattress toppers we
do a big luxurious down one or we make our
walls topp or underlay and they're really nice, just to
add that little bit of extra comfort to a bid.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
As far as new products are coming out with Vida Down,
what's on the horizon.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, So we've recently done a range of new Zealand
made sheet which are proving to be pretty popular, and
I think coming in the new year we're going to
be introducing some locally made mattress protectors and we've got
some new colors of blankets in the pipeline as well.
And you know we've for our duvets, we've got about
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twenty four different options, but you never know if we're
going to introduce another one in there that we think
will work as well. Yeah, I think we do four
different fill types, and then there's variations of each one
of those, and we do summer, autumn, winter, we do
four seasons one so there's there's a bit of a
broad maxim. We even do cop duvets, so do they
for children as well, So yeah, it's quite a good mix.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now your factory shops nine A, Gladstone's Roads South and Moskiew.
As far as zion line or partnering with farmers for example,
is that an option yep, yep.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So we sell online worldwide but mostly in New Zealand,
so that's iderdown dot Co, dott Dead and then we
have a partnership with farmland as well, where a few
juicy farmlands can you get a five percent rebate as well,
So that's that's been a great partnership too.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And today we're giving away an adjustable will pillow. But
the great thing about this is one hundred percent New
Zealand wall yep, that's.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Right, and then they're really popular options. That's one hundred
percent New Zealand wolf and it's pearled, so it's in
little wall balls and it's got a zip opening so
you can take some fill out of it to get
it to that right height. So it can be the
perfect option.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Hey, good on you, Lucas, thanks to your time on the
must of Us afternoon. Ider Down fantastic Kiwi product, always
great to catch up.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Perfect Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Lucas Mills of Ida Down. So once again day two
of the Muster Christmas Giveaway, a salute to the farmers.
We have an adjustable wool pillow one hundred percent New
Zealand Wolves text Ida down to five double O nine
with your details and we're going to draw this one
of tomorrow. So iider Down, great Keywi product using renewable
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sponsors here on the Muster joins us once again get
a pup.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah here are you pretty good?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I can hear a lot of bleating in the background.
It sounds as though you've managed to sneak away for
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Yeah no, I just stie, just get a gett a
b the way for the sheep bearing and waning again today.
So she's all going as usual?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is whening going? Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, I know we've well, we've had a pretty big wait.
We're just this is the first one over at the
at the bar and properly so you know, I've got
a feel available pretty every concerning all the lambs off
the hell. So you know, we've done master winning over
home and we're just kind of just to win the
studs at home on Thursday and we're sort of in there,
a bit of digging to do, and I'm hoping you
might get some use shoe for Christmas. There we go
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where it does.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You're pretty relaxed about the sharing situation. If it's not
done before Christmas, well, as long as.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I get all dayed up, I'm not too rared. They're
not like they're not that bad. But we've had a
weave with a fly touch to fly around, so I
just sort of getting cleaned up and yeah, so yeah,
we're getting done. Otherwise, we hopefull get numbertween christas New Year.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, you say you've got a bit of fly around
at the moment. How bad is it?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Oh, as we hit some late lambs, we tell that
got it quite bad with them, and wow, we've just
gone and he had just dipped away the hoged lambs
and stuff just to really get us through to the
new Year. So we're not tearing around between Chris New
Year and fixing up flying problems on it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's just frustrating getting its pretty early, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I just I was just by the way were there's
been really you know, like in today's sort of muggy
and stuff. So you're over here, but probably we have.
We've got a lot of scrubs, so a lot of
flies here around the scrub.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So how's everything looking around here?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yet you're not too bad where we need to go?
Good rain there last night, so we needed it. She's
getting quite dry. The crops all sort of plugging the
heads out of the ground. But you can see that
sort of welding a bit. But we're sposed to give
it all the South balloons, so it looks like it's
come out of its sweet So yeah, we'll be right.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So in general, you're pretty compete with where you are.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Yeah, yep, no we are yep no the land with Yeah,
lambs are looking good at home and no, we had
a good drafted. I'm early so here three weeks ago,
so I was winning hit with that, and yes we've
got a few more wounds and singles. On Sunday we
got a few of limb I was happy with that too.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You so yeah, side lambs away to the works. Compared
to other seasons, would you be on the.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Path probably yeah, But this year I didn't. I didn't
bother take a drafted on my twins. I thought, well, yeah,
there's stills a few they would have killed, But I
thought I've got I've got plenty of lamb feed in.
It's not quite ready to go yet, but I thought
those will just hold on to them and put the
put my weight on them hopefully.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So you've got that good lamb feed. Can we throw
you the clover and the likes?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I suppose yeah, yeah, Well I'm hoping it's going to be well. It'
supposed to be ready to go the first of January,
so looks like I'm going to be busy just before
New Years.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
When say you won't be taking a break over Christmas
and sight you'll just take it on January later on
something suppose.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I'll play say it later on somewhere. I just
obviously I've got a couple of staff members away from
the Bone probably over Christmas and New Year. So just
got one guy in there, so I'll probably just have
to help him out and leave it and obviously give
more stuff for the time off over the Christmas a
year too, So yeah, someone's going to be flowing around
keeping on things.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So you've got the trick to work out the date.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, we'll just got a bit of boers to do.
We're hoping to morse some more tomorrow, but I don't
know if the weather's going to allow us allow us
to do that. We're have you get what what needs
to be done at the moment, find out before Christmas.
But if white matter who will still be there later on.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It's no real rush. It's just a case in case
of case the US are at.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, it was just like, yeah, like you sort of
just want to get it off so you can get
the grass ground again to plump into something else.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Ram selling season, how's that been?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, No, we've had a really successful last two weeks
of ram selling and everyone's been really really happy with
what we've had up for off of this year. So no,
we're really happy and got gained a few new clients
which they were all very positive, so that's great. Great.
So yeah, just yeah, well I'm talking about ram selling.
Just we're just like to wish my round clients and
(31:36):
ball clients merry Christmas and having new Years and yeah,
we'll see them in the new year.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I suppose when you're catching up with those clients like
you have over the past coup of the weeks, Clayton,
I do say the mood would be one of pretty
a lot of positivity.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Oh, definitely. It's just it's got to be. Things are
looking pretty good at the moment. You know. There was
a lot of talk. Was they talking about the big
ones and how we trees are down, which there's always
something to talk about at RAM selling, but you know,
it was it was it was you're really positive.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Actually, yeah, there's always something to talk about, but at
the same time, just showing the fact and getting the
vibe out there is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yep, yep, no, you did right, you know, so that
was it was good. You know, last said, we were
selling rares about five six days all together, and it
was good catching up with one. But yeah, it was
good to get back and start doing some work. And
we'll do getting weaned downe at Horn.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
So just about that December balance, I suppose yep.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yep, No, we'll just I'll be heavy when just Friday
said they gets where it comes aroun anyway, because we've
had a big last ten days, so it's be good.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, we'll see what pens out there made. Hey, well
you get back to it. I can hear those yous
yelling at you in the background. Always good to have
Petersen Inticks on board with the musters naming sponsors. Clayton
and you enjoy the break new e Jeanet and we'll
catch up with you in twenty twenty six and do
it all again.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
No ways, go man, Thank you any I love.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Clayton Peters of Peter's Genetics naming sponsor here on the muster.
Remember and get those texts rolling in. I had it
down to five double O nine with your details. Make
sure you put the details in there before wrap up.
Emma Wilson from Young Farmers Welcome back to the Muster.
(33:13):
On Hakani Beach Boys are the tunes this afternoon. Next
we're catching up with Emma Wilson. She is the regional
chair for Otago Southland Young Farmers. Emma, good to catch
up once again.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Hey, thanks serving.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We look back in the last twelve months and the
young Farmer's landscape has been a pretty hictic one, but
a rewarding one at the same time, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, it's been a really busy year, but the energy
around the region has been so Awesomeilar It's some really
cool avience, So it's been super exciting for you personally.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
What would you say has been the highlight of the year.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
I don't know for me personally, as laps building all year,
the Grand Final and just to say it will come
togther in the region, get behind it and have so
much fun over those three days. Pretty big highlight for.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Me because it's a pretty big deal to have a
Grand Final when you're neck of the woods, because it
only happens every so often.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Right, Yeah, we going to get it every six years,
which I don't think a lot of people realize that's
how and frequently we get it. But yeah, everyone showed
up and we had it in massive turnout across the region,
so it was awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So as far as Grand Final week, it all went
as you imagine.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Oh, it was always enough that doesn't quite go to plan,
but I don't think there was anything that we'd lose
sleepover the other ways. It all went pretty well and
main things, we all had fun, even though even though
it was of us organizing it, which was a pretty
big deal in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Just wood's working so well for young farmers down in
this neck of the woods.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Are the same to me, just everyone's so keen to
get involved with all the neighboring clubs and everyone genuinely
enjoyed spending time with the other clubs. And that's why
those regional events are so cool, because everyone loves getting
together and it's always ends up something very unique at
each one.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
So regional events that you just talked about, then they're
a big deal for the organization.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
Yeah, definitely. I think we're pretty proud of them down here.
I think we love to sit the tone. I think
Regional weekend up in town now and generally kind of
sit the tone for the year, and then we just
keep building and building. The Grand Finals and everyone's really
excited for like the next ones next year.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So how would club numbers down the South compared to
other regions.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Everything's pretty you kind of got the five big regions
and say we're pretty close to a few of them.
We're not the biggest, but lest by certain when you're
not the smallest.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So what's the feedback you're getting from the clubs regarding things.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Early? Only a lot of it was just general help
and it's all we had, like our training nights and
that sort of stuff, just because it can be contaminating
sticking it into those clubs where I was like, I
think you run under estimate. It's how hard it is
to cheer a club because there's just so many moving
parts and you kind of don't really get much of
a break when there's just stuff happening all the on.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, going into an executive role can be intimidating, and
like you say, there's not really a lot of training
and you've kind of just loved with it and it's
trial bay Era to a degree.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Yeah, and it's definitely interesting to see other clubs all
take their own twist on it as well, which is
actually kind of cool. Like how one person cheers the
club is not how going to be someone else? Does it?
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Like?
Speaker 8 (36:17):
It's awesome to see them all taking their own spin
on stuff, because yeah, they've all been done a really
good job this year actually, and.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's a great thing about the organization. There's there's still
a lot of structure and play here's these events have planned,
but everything's above board.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yeah, well if they don't like dropping them and on
their own, it's it's nice that they kind of know
who the exec is. It's their biggest goals, just that
they've got someone to talk to. Feet even just made
a bounce some ideas around.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
So what's on the agita for twenty twenty six? I
see the regional finals being held here in Gore in February.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Yep, they're with the first regional events of the years
and I think Evan's pretty excited for it. What I
always put on a great so be exciting to see
what they come up with than debury.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
How do they pick the areas and the dates they
have for their regional finals as such? Is it drawn
from a cup or how do you work it?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
We have a bit of a pre planned rotation we
set out so we try and give each club different
events every time, and then we kind of give you
club in the regions an event every two to three
years just to men you get a bit of a gap.
But then also you still have a crack at organizing
something different every on.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Them, so you're just mixing it up more or less
as far as the competition and from the formal side
of things.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
Really, yeah, we definitely still try and target certain clubs
round certain events based on their strings, and maybe we
give them one of the least intense ones if they
haven't been so involved in the region. Is like a
way to get involved and see what it's all about
and then step it up to some of the other
ones that the more moving parts.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Well the way you say it, like Daddy, there's certain
clubs now they're starting to come up to the plate
a bit more when you put on that context.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Yeah, I feel like a tiger had been pretty quiet
the last week while, but we've heard from him so
much even just in the last six months and seeing
their faces more and more events, so it'll be pretty
exciting to see them, hopefully all at regional final. In
your own club, you're often go and get much of
a chance to enjoy it and kick your feet up.
So it's nice being able to come to these regional
events and you'll turn to like relax a little bit
(38:22):
and enjoy it for.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
You personally, Emma, you've been in the role, now will
come your term. It's how have you found it? I
suppose we talk about being an executive? What's it like
from your angle?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Region? Put a whole nother ballgame. I probably enjoyed doing
the regional stuff more than the club stuff. Not everyone
to say the same, but it's been very nice. How
like contactab everyone's been this year and then great team
in the regional exec like we're all seriously we need
to be. But it's nice to see that everyone still
does enjoy themselves when it gets to the more social
(38:56):
side of the events as well.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So there's still a few social events on the agenda
before Christmas whining down now.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
I feel like most people will probably at the races
if they weren't at their own club events. I think
History Club said at Christmas too, which.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Is nice, Yes, certainly is Hey good on you, Emma
always appreciate your time on the muster and yeah, lock
just congratulations to take herself and young farmers on a
whole for the way the organization's moving away, moving forward.
I should say it's always good to catch up too.
I've enjoyed the chats over the year.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Thanks for having us on all you and it's been
great at having everyone else around the region supporting as well.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
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salute to the farmers. My name's Andy Mueer. You've been
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final time in twenty twenty five. We've got Sam Riley
on the line to give us a rundown on a
chuck of field. Loomsville sale Yards selling still going on.
That's how hectic it is. Good afternoon, Sam, What details
have you got for us?
Speaker 9 (41:44):
Good afternoon and here mate, Yeah no, this is the
last file of the year for us, and yeah the
kettle it's fall to Boldrin to the tir So. We're
about halfway through there as we're doing this, but we'll
kick it off with the Prime Street both lambs from
me back a little bit two hundred two, one hundred
and forty dollars on the heavyes the mediums one sixty
to one ninety five into the Yu's probably back a
(42:06):
back of ten dollars on those two one sixty to
one eighty five on the top, one thirty to one
fifty five on the mediums, and one hundred, one hundred
twenty dollars in a lot of stuff. A few lines
of rams in and they were fifty to sixty dollars
on those for the adding of stall lambs, and today
mate one fifty to one seventy in the tops of
those one hundred and ten to one hundred and forty
(42:26):
on the mediums, and those lightering lambs are ninety to
one hundred and fifteen one hundred and five dollars. Sorry,
So that's up the lambs and cheek into the kettle.
There was just a small yarding of prime kettle. These
five hundred and thirty five kilos four dollars seventy five.
Heap is at six hundred and thirty seven kilos four
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dollars sixty two, some beef cows at seven hundred and
forty seven kilos three dollars thirty two, and gary kels
morning pals four hundred and eighty to five hundred and
fifty kilos two dollars eighty two dollars nineties. Everything's selling
pretty well there. Move on in to was a very
large yarding of school kettle Samar two anger skis at
three hundred and eighty kg's nineteen hundred dollars, Samar to
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Belgium blue Stars at three hundred and forty six kilos
sixteen hundred and ninety dollars, Samarti charlet cross balls at
four hundred and twenty five k's nineteen to fifty five.
Moving into the winners the win of freezing balls. The
good heavy winning freezing balls one hundred and twenty twe
hundred and forty kilos still selling well at six twenty
to six hundred and eighty dollars. There will one hundred
(43:31):
and ten to one hundred one hundred and fifteen kilo
freezing balls. They were five eighty to six hundred and
ten and as this speak was just moved into the
beef cross balls of charlet balls one hundred and twenty
kg seven hundred and sixty dollars and some here for
cross balls at one hundred and twenty kilos seven hundred
and ninety dollars. So that wraps up Lorvil for the
(43:52):
final time in twenty twenty four. Wishing everyone marry in safety,
new year, Merry Christmas, in safety the year, and we'll
see you back in twenty twenty six if I have
another voter.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
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