January 27, 2026 • 43 mins
Andy Muir talks to Grant McMaster, Sam Grant, Mark Dillon, Braden Smith, Keely Sullivan and Mark Calder.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good afternoon and welcome to the Muster on Hakanui. We're
hearing till two o'clock and the show is brought to
you by Peters Genelix. My name's Andy Mulla. Thanks for
your company on a hunt day afternoon with overcast skies
on the horizon. Hopefully the weather's changing. We'll find out
surely as we look at the forecast. But before we
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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best artist by Rolling Stone magazine and twenty twenty three.
She's very good, but I don't know if i'd say
should be fifth.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Paknu's five day forecast with twin farm teff from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny teff from
dot co dot Inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Nonetheless, she's got a hell of a set of singing
pipe so on. You can't deny that now. The weather
this afternoon cloudy with breezy westerley is in twenty two
Thursday rain developing of westerly seven and nineteenth. Friday partly
cloudy with breezes, cell westerlies eight and fifteen. Saturday, Sunday
with breezy westerlies eighth and twenty one, and Sunday partly
(01:47):
cloudy were like norther leaves twelve and twenty three. So
it is improving. Might get a game of crickle on Saturday.
I saw temperatures Clinton fifteen point one northern South and
fifteen point one Riverton, Tian now sixteen point one one
four nineteen point one at Woodland's fourteen point six. As
we start the y hour with Disaster Grant Disaster McMaster
out of close per Instation Disaster talks about the loss
(02:10):
of the proposed loss anyway of these New Zealand post
off branches and what it means for the rural sector
and perhaps is this just a sign of the times.
Sam Grant of Craig's Investment Partners has a chat, as
is Mark Dillon of course involved with a tractor pull
out there at Southern Field Days. He's also a plowble extraordinaire.
So we catch up at it and see how things
(02:30):
are going in the lead up the Field Days Brandon
Smith and Mount McClain plus more as a chat and
Keney Buckingham out Derry and z as well with Mark
calder A. PGG writes and talking about the bow clues
to sale how this morning. Then we'll start the your
with Disaster. This is the muster until two o'clock thanks
to Peter's.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Genetics Grant Disaster McMaster joins us once again thanks to
a team at Arby were of course he farms a
close briend station on.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The edges of Lake Wakatipu. Disaster, Good afternoon, sounds as
are you doing a bit of freighting between farms on
animals today?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah? Good and and everybody, yes, I've got my former
top contractor Ian Hutton with me and we're taking a
few lambs from smaller lamps from Closeburn over to the
Hills block. So we saw them. Obviously we've got to
go back a bit. We got weaned up on Friday
and yeah, good day for that. It was a bit overcast,
(03:33):
a little bit of rain, so that added a bit
of weight to the little lamps. No, I didn't really,
but so we got we got fifteen hundred away off
off off Mum and they were thirty cages lively this year,
so very pleased with that. That's that's three k's up
on the previous year. So you know, while it was
a tough sort of spring, the clover was there. We've
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spoken about it. It's still there. So you know, there's
the old boys to say there's two things with with farming.
It's feeding and breeding, and that's that's that stays true,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And that would have been good money as well. Those lambs,
Yeah they were so.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That was at four dollars eighty u k and so
that was you know, they were one hundred and forty
two dollars or one hundred and forty three or something
like that, which is you know, I think last year
those same lambs twenty seven they were something like eighty dollars.
So that you know, beef is looking really good. Lambs
(04:30):
looking good and has been a lamb is good. Beef
is good. There's been a bit of a lift.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
In the wall.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And you know, I very rarely you get all three
up together. And I remember twenty odd years ago and
I came here, I said, you know, we've got to
get in and get things going for when when prices
come right. So I is just sneaking in by the
skin of my piece, really, so not too many more
years to go here. And it's looking good this year,
so better late than ever, I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And that's the edge of everybody's saying ground. But because
the wall industry has been so down on his haunches
for an extended period of period of time, and a
lot of people have, Borley has given up on the
fiber they have.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
But I was reading the other day that you know
that the Chinese are back into buying the wall and
and it's you know, they're doing a lot of they're
doing a lot more. But then you know, as far
as infrastructure with you know, cosmetics and medicines and what
have you. There's a lot going there, and it's quite interesting,
(05:32):
you know, because over the years, you know, everybody said
that twice wall sort of determines what's happening in the
Chinese market, and everything started farming, the Chinese got playing
for everything like that. But I mean, it's got a
lot deeper than that. And I think at the end
of the day, what I was reading, it's a it's
a short. It's it's the real short of the wall
around the world, same in the UK and America here,
(05:54):
and people need it for the you know, not just
for the for for garments and carpets and fox.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
India is a growing market as well. I may have
told this story another time, but my wife and I
went over there once, in the city of Varanassi of
all places, and he's talking about the gentlemen about how
we're giving jost all the locals had a list of
all these wall buyers in New Zealand that he brought
from and lo and behold. I was a sheep cocky
at the time, so I wanted to ask and spoke
about how he did the process of procuring his wall,
(06:22):
but he didn't want to talk to me, and my
wife got really grumpy, she called me ignorant.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, yes, not the first time someone said that to
you Andie, and I mean I've been guilty of that myself,
but you know, you never let that, you never let
that put you back, put you down. You just got
to keep your home. But you know, so that the
stuff that goes into India, and it's this free trade
agreement that apparently you know, is we're close to signing,
is you know, it's good. And the fact that had
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a lot of our wall that goes into India is
then the Indians then they then export that themselves in
various things into into the United States. So it's some
some ways it's just a stepping time for us, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Absolutely? Hey, Grant said new He's coming out yesterday as well.
The closing by New Zealand Post of a lot of
these postal agencies. It's another kick in the guts. But
understandably you can the rest now behind it does add up.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, well it does. And you know I just heard
on the on the wireles this morning they said that
there's going to be that there's going to be in
the in the urban areas. Nobody is going to be
any further than four kilometers away from the post office.
So that's that's one positive thing. I mean, you don't
factor in the in the rural areas now because you know,
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we're lucky to get a paper and you post a
couple of days a week and I and I guess
I can. While it's sad, it's an end of an era,
it's it's inevitable ready with everything that's done online and
and you know, the old days of your bills coming
and people writing letters and cards and well gone. So
I guess I've got to look after their their core business.
(08:02):
And it just makes it harder for people like me
that aren't really that savvy and they as far as
doing everything online. But for the older generation, we you know,
that's like en Haddam beside me, Saminari bloody useless. But
it's you know, there's a lot of people that you know,
glow our generations that have that it's nothing new and
new for them. They've brought up with what's happening, and
(08:24):
I guess we've we've got to just get on with
it and and be part of that. But you know,
you think of the rural post and back to the
early days when you know, the shopkeeper delivered the gloom
and growth. You know, the real post had groceries on
it and or go back to when the actual grocers
had their own, had their own delivery and drop the
post off. So you know that's all sing of the
(08:46):
past now, but it's sort of it's progressed. And you know,
I look at the vehicles going up the road to
Minorkey and there's the Fresh Choice truck or whatever it
is delivers groceries to people in Gonorkee and all over
the place. So there's you know, there's I think there's
a lot of there's there's pros and cons, but you
know there's there's a good side to it too.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, hark back to the days. I think Wrong Waiver
was the postman when I was a young fellow. They
bring the bread, I think the bread, possibly the milk
came as well, and you had your mail seven to six,
five and a half days a week.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah. Same in the wind and Valley, get all that
the late Eddy Idio kind of the pear shaped kewboy
headwards to the hands. He got more male macked up
macked up in that valley than anyone could. But he's
always good to have a arm turn. But as he
always just to say that, Art said, the mail always
get through. I said, that's right, any but just not
necessarily the right bloody mail boxes. But so you know
(09:43):
those know, those days have certainly changed, and you know
you go back to the of all his men going
around and then all those things have five gone years.
But you know the other thing now is with with
curios and a lot of people just get stuff online.
And you spoke to me, so as places how they
know just delivered couriers. But an interesting point, there's some
(10:06):
couriers within the Queenstown area won't bring won't bring post
out out to clean out to close Burn or further
up the valley to Milnaukee because it's too far out
of the way. So yeah, it's not it's not a
perfect system, but you know it could be worse.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I was going to say, I wasn't you to your
reputation in the basin.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No, No, well we don't don't get the we don't
get the papers delivered. Now edit, because that stopped at
COVID because the vehicles that used to go up to
Minorkee was with people on board would chuck, you know,
like with the terroists or the going to the jet
boats would they would chuck the papers out. And I
think the only thing that was good about that was
(10:48):
Alis tallis every time he came down from my own
it would make sure on line my paper up and
run it over. So it stopped him doing that, and
but it's also stopped me reading the paper. But you know,
we and that and that that's us hasn't moved up again.
They said there's there's not that it doesn't warrant it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So yeah, he just finally made it sounds as though
you've had a couple of days of fine weather, which
is certainly not what the rest of the southern province
has had.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
No, it's been really good. It's twenty one of degrees
here at the moment and not very much won. The
last three days have been quite hot and a little
bit of rain over last weekend. So no, it's been
it's been the best. It's been the best we've had,
and I've put you the it's a bit darker in
the mornings at the moment, so you know, febry is
(11:34):
upon us, but no, it's you know, we really couldn't
have wished for a bit of summer well, you know,
growth wise, grass wise, and say those lambs three k's
heavy the last year, still a lot of clover and
it's all green. It hasn't died off yet and you
know feed everywhere, so it's just yeah, you didn'tize it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Good on to Grant. I'll let you carry on cutting
those lambs through the Mecca and Queenstown and make sure
that hitched doesn't come off.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Wait, wait here, we've got We've double checked that.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Grab l Master thanks to ABI Rural Up next on
the Muster, Sam Grand of Craig's Investment Partners.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The Muster Financial Segment with Craig's Investment Partners in Gore.
This information is general and nature and it's not financial advice.
Craig's Investment Partners Limited Financial Advice provider disclosure statement can
be found at craigsip dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Sam Grand and Craig's Investment Partners joins us this afternoon
on the Musta Sam.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Good, afternoon, afternoon, Andy, How are you getting you on?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, pretty good. It's the first time spoken to you
this year, so we trust you had a good breakaway.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah no, no, I managed to take about twenty days
off over that sort of Christmas New period, so to
get away and find a little bit of warm which
was nice, So no complaints for me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, well, the forecast is looking good and that's just
the positives that we're just seeing across the board at
the moment. But we'll start with this one. The housing market,
Well it's finished twenty twenty five in a rather subdued state.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, absolutely so recently had the housing mark of a
port out, so gave us a bit of wrap up
on twenty twenty five. Effectively across the board, how these
prices have been were flat effectively for twenty five and
they have been since sharp defines in twenty twenty two.
(13:33):
So housing prices haven't really done a lot in the
last three years effectively, which so we've been surprising for
some people. Given interest rates have come down quite substantially
since their peaks. That normally does drive a bit of buying.
But what we're probably seen at the moment as those
(13:53):
interest rates have it's probably stop stcks moving lot quicker
than what it used to maybe eighteen months ago, as
opposed to that sort of big rise in prices. But
I suppose the one thing that we both remember is
we did have very strong visors and property sort of
around that period as well, so it's probably just waiting
for everything else to catch it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It sounds as though Wellington, especially in the CBD where
there is a lot of apartment buildings in place, they've
really suffered.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's sea and I think Wellington's one of the hardest places.
You know. I've heard us toys of you know, people
buying houses for one point one million and sort of
the RV at the moment, yes, that was sort of
like into twenty twenty one buying one point one million,
and now it's sort of got an RV of seven fifty.
So yeah, there effectively goes to your equity it was
four years ago. You know, make sure house prices to
(14:44):
double every ten years, but you know in those cases
you'll be like if you break even in ten years
and you know you'ven't seen it and walks on there
like all the other day on I can't remember it's
a newsy on Heild or stuff, but somebody who done
a bit of an apartment development. I think it's sort
of might be like something between three to five. Harmon's
here to get rid of and he's going to sell
at a one dollars because he hasn't been able to
get rid of them, so he wanted to find out
(15:05):
what this sort of the market price was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
As far as the market down here in South and
we're always hearing about the positivity, were saying, with the
economy down here in the South, what the housing market
has such? Has that been affected?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah? I think you know, down here things have been
a lot better, a lot more sort of steady growth effectively.
You know, we did sort of see drops of text
into the maybe in the Cargill, but you know, I
think with the big thing down here, supply I think
is probably the biggest issue when you took people in
getting to quolity supply.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
As well inflation in New Zealand, it's coming in hotter
than expected.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So we had ADI and their data for December twenty five,
and effectively inflation for the year came in at three
point one percent because hiring what the market is fected
at three percent and higher than the reserve forecast at
two point seven and for those that know the reserve
thanks range that which is nearly one to three percent,
(16:08):
but sort of sitting just above that at the moment.
But what there's probably telling us, is that interest rate
cutting sight from reserve banks probably done now and markets
who are expecting there might even be a okally increase
before the year. Is that whereas previous that it's been
(16:30):
expecting an increase in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Would you say there's inflation rate at the moment reflects
business sentiment, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, so you think they are a lot more positive.
Probably the big change was coming from what you call
important inflation, so that's you know, buying stuff and from
overseas has been a lot more been a little bit
more expensive was the end of the year, and a
lot of that has can probably come down to you know,
sort of geopolitical and towers and stuff like that's disrupting
(17:02):
supply and disrupting I.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
See now the AZ Business Confidence Survey, it's out.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Yeah, it comes out, actually comes out this Thursday, so
be interesting to Yeah, so it's interesting to see we're
sort of things are sitting for the start of this
year because things changed a wee bit geopolitically and you know,
obviously the place been up slightly. But if we look
back to the end of last year, we had we
saw a big increase in the sort of headline confidence
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it was effectively at the I should have been ninety
ninety four. And I think a big drop of that is,
you know, strong agricultural pricing and interest rates going down
and sort of some of the geopolitical stuff at end
of last year. But like it was sittling down, So
I think people were feeling pretty positive, especially comparatively where
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they might have been sort of eighteen twenty four months ago.
So it'd be interesting to see if that's sort of
spilled on spilled into the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Six I suppose what goes it gets a trend here though,
although you understand the rash now are the proposed closures
that New Zealand Posts put out us today. There's various
places in the South going to be effected. But this
isn't so much about the economy, really, is it. It's
all about people have gone away from the post service.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, and I think the amount of
my children in the mailbox now are pretty pretty subdued.
And I think most of the money is in sort
of the courier side of the business for something like
Musee on post, and you know, the postal service is
probably a bit more of a civic duty as much.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
As anything now, the price of gold and silver, it's
continuing to just surge up. One way, you watch these
programs on TV about these people in the outback and
Aussie going into forty five degrees temperatures plus just looking
for little golden nuggets. But there's a ration now behind
the madness.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah, absolutely, So it's what we tend to see is
in times uncertainly clearly from a geopolitical standpoint, as we
tend to see money go towards precious metals, so like
your gold with silver. So you sort of strong run
in gold and silver last year, particularly silver had a
very strong twenty twenty five, and that seemed to have
(19:17):
continued a lot in twenty twenty six, with gold fifteen
and a half percent this year alone, silver jumping up
another forty three percent and twenty six so we're not
even at the end of January. But yeah, that sort
of shows you how much is champed, since even that'st
effectively geopolitically, you know, particularly out of the US, a
(19:40):
pretty active start of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
This might be a silly question, but can you actively
purchase an ounce of gold over a counter?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I believe you can mostly what we want to buy
physical gold, you you have to go through some type
of broker, which will normally be a major centers. That
can be a pretty expensive process and you're quite hard
to s else and Auquantics needs to prices to sell
as well, so you can might.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Just be sitting to put under the bed for a
rainy day in twenty years. Time to show the green kids.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yeah well yeah we can put on here, put it
into a white Nicholas and you can wear that for
we will.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So kick out Nicholas at that price, mate, hey said
the team at Craig's IP. How do we get in touch?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, no, we've moved to the opposite new world now,
so that one should and go or otherwise go for
court on three two zero one type one.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Good on you say, I'm always good to catch up
with the team.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Awesome, appreciate the adicacy, mate.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Sam Grand of Craig's Investment Partners. The price of gold
staggering where it's going at the moment. Up next, Mark Dylan,
Bob Dylan on Behalf Southern Field Days. He's doing the
track to pull there. You're listening to the master welcome back.
(21:04):
You're listening to the muster. Mark Dylon as involved with
Southern Field Days as well. Plow I'm an extraordinay was
spoken to Bob in the past. He seems to spend
quite a bit of the winter plowing on the other
side of the world. But today we're talking about Southern
Field Days. He's involved the tractor pull which is getting
underway in a couple of weeks time. It is the
winners the dates to look at. Mc kellen DROs should
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really know this eleventh, the thirteenth of February. There we go,
got there eventually, Bob, howse things your health? But bed firstly,
ground conditions on farm. He had a bit of rain
over the weekend. Understandably it was welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
It was we needed a bit of morture. Things are
very draw but we will need some big yellow to
come out badly. But the sun would be much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
How are your crops looking?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Debris in the process of getting organise for harvest, so yeah,
I think they would appreciate of the rain. But yeah,
you never want to comment too much, so you get
the the groin and the bin. But some of them
are looking awesome. The spring stuff for that bit of
rain and be good to helpful in them and continue
to fill them and win the crops. They already appreciate it.
So looking good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
There's some really good looking winter crops around the show.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Yeah, yeah, they're looking pretty good at the sofa and
hopefully get a favor of reward and it carries on
that way.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now the field days. You've been involved here for quite
a while. You're achievement as well for a couple of terms.
But the tractive Paul tell us about the tractor ball.
What's so popular about it?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Oh, well, I suppose it's it's uh, just people breaking
your right. Suppose people say the tractor are good, so
we'll bring along the field does put her on the
sleep and see if we can get that pair of
the ground and or where you follow?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Shit, it's not the people have got an addiction to diesel.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh you're twenty of that, Ye wee bit of addiction.
Let myself doing a bit of tinkering and getting a
bit of smoke plown out.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, the tea cary that goes into these tractors, because
there's not your standard tract if it normally goes and
what they do you do see them in there as well.
But there's some real modified Behemos to take part.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Oh yeah, definitely, Yeah, I'm not sure if we got
there's a goal on Canterbury. He's put a v we
betrod and the trainer and it's pretty awesome for the
sort like the covid A kit and but then as
Edmond and I we've just sort of aided is pretty
sort of basic trainers. But we have stoken a probably
seven times or six times more horse prawer than what
they were then they standard.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Now if you put a V twelve and a tractor
you're going to be towing. The only thing you'll be
towing is the bloody fuel take behind you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Oh you've been so many short runs only doing one
hundred meters, it's not likely going at the work one
hundred eating of the day be a different story then,
or they wouldn't handle, the trains wouldn't handle, the motor
would get out. There are only for short runs while
there does not not too.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, obviously it is modified for what it's doing. It's
certainly an event on its signs. So what's involved with
the treade to pull exactly for the un initiated.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
So we've got different classes here to this year woulds
to be standard class, which will be different weight classes
depending on the tractors that turn up. So probably underteen
Town and over maybe if somewhere around there we're modified
super modified. We're going to have a few trucks coming
along as well. It's a different classes to suit different
different treaders that turn up on the day.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So what kind of tracks are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Well, I think it's the sixth before Seemi truck turning up.
So we've got a fifth wheel drow while we built
a few years ago that hooks on the turntable so
we can hook the sleege on behind it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So likes of a Uni marg type situation perhaps as well.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Ah, they could turn up the years ago we had
one of those monster trucks for a lot. They having
the Mirican Army. We have prepared a couple of them
on the sleege that quite good? Good crab pleaseure?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh did go pretty good? Telling? Or does it all
come down to power to weight ratio when it comes
down to judging?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Yeah, pretty much? Pair of white ratio. Well they can
get that horse pair of the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the dimensions of the sledge, the weight on the sledge,
how does that work?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
So it's when we designed it. We made it so well.
I looked a few different other ones around the countryside
and we picked what sort of picked an audio, what
how much foot brought me worded? But there here is
they've got the trick demanded on it that we weighed
the tricktors in and there's a computer program in there
works on how much oil flow to put into the
sleege to how much weight to apply to the sledge
to get in theory stop the tractor before that one
(24:57):
hundred meters four pall.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It sounds very complicated.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Oh, there's a we've been involved, but we're funtally understand
that there's not too bad. But we would getting the
system sort of. But here were every year we're twinkering
with it and getting it better and better, and we've
got to going pretty good. We're pretty happy at that's running.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So how long would it take to make a sledge
of this nature?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh there was quite some time. Yeah, it was too
to us two months at least building for the engineer.
When we build it, and we got a lot of
work went into it and a lot of pod planning
before we started and designing, and.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The sledge goes round the South Island. Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
It does? Yeah, so we're we are a wheels of
one acare and had to get great event up. There
really a lot of people watching. We'll go to Mayfield
for backyard beauties. Actually the sledge of anyone also ever
practice whield does? It's going to be running it this
weekend at crank Up.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's normally a big crowd pleaser, especially for the uninitiated
to the field days too.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh here we get a lot of people. Would have
five or six people on that fence for one hundred meters,
such a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yes, for sure. Hey I we'll touch on the plowing
as well. Now your plower will extraordinary. Lest be honest,
your cats arrived home because you had to bring it
home after a couple of years. As far as getting
it back over to Europe for the next edition happening
later this year. Is it a drama or you're pretty
much part of Are you used to what you've got
to do now?
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Well, there's a bit of drama because we changed the
cano last time, but no this time we're just more
manager that's coming for this this year's and folk in
the process of talking to the shipping companies, so we
can get some dates and start breaking backwards. So when
it's got to go in the box. So I'm hoping
they've to use my here that's overseas, that this year's nationals,
and then we'll go in the box and get on
the way nix over to Croatia.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Now you say you've got a manager, break that down
a bit more. I thought you'd be pretty independent.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
No, No, we have a team manager. So any issues
and stuff like that, he looked after that, so I
can try and focus on the job atheend.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So it's not a personal manager handling public appearances or anything.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Bob. We haven't got to let sleepery stage yet.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, it's all kicking off in a couple of weeks,
and preparations are underway out there. Marquees are going up here,
there and everywhere, and just expect God to be cranking
no pun intended with what's happening in down this weekend,
but over the next three weeks it's all go, oh,
that'll be singing here.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
It would just be like it's correct for the district.
Every two years heaven Field Days are in and great
for all their local community fundraisers and groups that are
doing the fundraising on site as well.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So if anybody what looks at the tract a port
do you just register before on the day or what
do you do?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
So what we would like this year like because of
the traffic and stuff coming in a Field days perfectly world,
we want every all tractors to be on site before
by Tuesday night. It's just a real hassful of the
traffic of people try and come in on Wednesday. So
part of your eachry fee if you do get in
and get your tracker on on Tuesday, then we'll supply
gate passes to get in. That's part of your entry fee.
So there's a bit, a wee bit of incentive for
the guys to get in and then just a bit
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of cour to see for other people trying to get
into the Field days on Wednesdays. Not even tractors on
the road blocking the road.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah now fair cool Bob. How are always going to
catch up, no doubt will be in touch over the
next couple of weeks mate, And yeah the track to
Pull the Way movie were a great event.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah it will be.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah, we'll be.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Mark Dylan and Field Days talking about the tractor for real.
Crowd pleaser where are We're on the muster of course
we are up next Braden Smith from Malt McLain plus more.
(28:22):
Mariah Carey, that's the music for a Wednesday afternoon. This
is the Muster on Hock and nowI thanks for Peter's genetics.
Our next guest is Braden Smith from Malt McClain plus more. Braiden,
good afternoon and welcome.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Okay here we're going andy, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The break's been and gone. We're almost through the end
of January, and you guys here around at Melt McClain
plus more, you're beck on deck and hit the ground running.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Yeah, you know, the break feels a little bit like
a dist memory at this point. Everybody's sort of come back,
recharged and full of new ideas. It's amazing what a
bit of time away from from farm and business can
do for one's brain.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Now we're talking about stats to start off today, especially
around the sheep and beef sectors. Let's be honest, these
are looking as good as what they have for a
very very long time.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yes, no, it's been quite the bound spec for twenty
twenty five, but it was needed I say that much. Yeah,
good numbers coming through just as a general comment. As
we've been doing twenty twenty four finals with clientss and places,
we've I reckon with average thirty dollars a head on
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lamb and thirty dollars a head on news up on
the previous year. Beef, well, beef is just the value
of animals has probably just jumped another twelve, twelve months
or six months for what we used to think they
were worth. You know, a calf that might have gone
for you know, seven or eight hundred dollars is now
doing twelve or thirteen hundred bucks. It makes a heat
(29:56):
of the difference to the bottom line by the time
you get through. So year, let's give you a wee
bit of a summary. We break heads down into into
three categories. So we have, like I guess, the smaller farms,
so up to that sort of four thousand stock unit size.
We have a medium one which we call between four
and a half thousand and seven, and then we have
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the big boys, which are seven thousand plus and overall
income was all that's translated into as small and medium
guys are up thirty to forty dollars per stock unit
on the income side, which is a good lift. As
we say, much needed, puts us back a bit more
where where we need to be. And then as far
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as expenses, they've spent them on the pretty much the
same three things. Fertilizer has been the big one. We've
cut that back to a minimum for the last couple
of years. That was down as low as twelve fifteen
dollars a stock unit for those smaller ones. It's now
up around twenty five. And that's we're probably just putting
some some cafit all back in, some that we've had
(31:01):
to skimp on over the last couple of years just
to make ends meet. And yeah, it's all been going
straight back in. There's also been a fair bit going
into maintenance and the smaller guys that's jumped from about
eighteen dollars to stop in it's twenty four. All those
jobs have been putting off or just getting by or
that you know, some of those bits of equipment, all
those yards just needed that little bit of money spent.
(31:21):
That's all been spent.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Now.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
There's been a weabit and just other general farm working
stuff too. It's really just all those things we've been
putting off. In a bitter year. We can start to
start to spend the money a wee bit.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Well, it's fantastic to see those budgets are being met, Brandon,
And ultimately, if you're paying tax, it means you're making money,
which is a good thing.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's the first first conversation that's been
coming around, and everyone's I wouldn't say smiling, nobody. Nobody's
ever smiling when you get to the text bit of
the conversation, but everybody's pretty happy to see a number
on there that they have to pay because they know
that means going in the right direction. The Yeah, so
(32:02):
speaking of that, like twenty twenty six is shaping up
pretty tidy too. I've seen some really good store land
values coming out. I've seen some great first early kill
land values coming out. And beef again is just trucking
along really really well. And you've got schedules out there
(32:23):
upwards to ten dollars from the major suppliers and beef
up at about nine. We're starting now probably to have
to redo a few budgets and look at a bit
of tax because sheep and beef is in that area
where because I've only paid tax for a year, we've
got a wee bit of catch up to play. You
have last year's catch up because we've gone from paying
(32:46):
no tax to paying some. We have to pay that
all in April, but we've also got this year's provisional
tax which they've fall into as well, and so there's
the next payment of that for most sheep and beef
guys will be in March, and then we have another
one again in July. But we're probably going to have
to look at lifting some of those because there's been
some pretty strong incomes coming in so far. Yeah, positive
(33:08):
and a good thing, you know, paying text making money.
But yeah, we're going to have to do a week
bit of work around some budgets because, like I say,
I've seen some pretty impressive numbers coming through so far.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Now Southern Field Days happening at Way Moomoo. We're underway
this time in two weeks. Sprayden the team from malt
Mclaim plus more. You guys are out there once again.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Yes, yeah, we'll be. We'll be down there all three days.
We're it's site two to eight. We've even got a
we draw card into our tent. We're giving away a
three and a half thousand dollars steel package. So if
you want to pop in and come so high and
you know we'll have we'll have all of these statistics
and puts some pieces on the wall. We're also going
(33:50):
to have the team from Figured down the Figured. I've
got some national benchmarking data that they've been working hard
on that we've got the ability to use and talk
about and work through with you. So if you want
to pop in and say hi and have a bit
of a have a bit of yarns, there's nothing you know,
we're real we're real good as farmers and in Southland
where we just get in our own we we box
(34:12):
and track along and do what we do. But one
hundred one of the best thing we can do is
you know, look at look at what the district's doing
and what what's working. Where how do we sit? Yeah,
so come come along, heavy chat and we can we
can we look at some numbers.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Good on your branden. Hey, what's the best way to
get in touch with the team at Melot McLain plus.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
More You can you can look us up on our website.
So if you type on plus more dot cod or
n Z you can you can find our office and
Macargla or Gore. It's got all of their contact information
and phone numbers and bits and pieces there. But yeah,
otherwise we'll happily see you on on the eleventh or
third anh Segory and Sight twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Good on your Branden, always good to catch up.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Thanks Eddie catch letter.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Brandon Smith of Melon mcclaim plus Late Braden says the
team will be out there at Southern Field Days in
a couple of weeks time. This is the muster. Before
we wrap up, Keeley Buckingham from Derryan Z, we have
a chat. Welcome back. This is the Muster. Keeley Buckingham
(35:24):
of Darry and Z joins us. Keeley, good afternoon and
first time chatting in twenty twenty six on the program.
How Things, Yeah, good.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
Things, Andy, It's good to be back, Good to be
on air.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Sounds like you had a good break I did, yep.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Mark was one of those slackers that only got back
to work on Monday, so it's been a bit of
a shock to the system coming back after nearly well
over a month off.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Actually, the Darry and Zed some pretty cool events coming up.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
Yes, we've got heaps happening, I guess between now and
the end of the season. But in the next few
weeks as well. So now the first events that have
gone on for the season and kicking off on Tuesday
next week, and we're looking at wearables. Wearables focus on
farm and I guess we did the similar thing last year,
(36:11):
but with the just the number of farmers adopting wearable
technology that be collars, boluses or ear tags, we just
wanted to put on an event or a series of
events across Southland and Otago looking at how we can
use it more effectively in our businesses. So we've got
(36:31):
hosts that have had wearables in the system for a
number of years now and we're really looking to pull
out from those hosts just how you know, I guess
that second layer or that second or third layer deep
in their business of how they're actually using it, not
just the basics for how they're pulling more from it
(36:53):
and joining us in Southland for that as well as
adopted Stacy Hendrix as an animal behavior and how scientists
based out of Lincoln that has worked a lot in
the wearable space over the last few years. So she's
going to share some of her findings around what's coming
out of wearables data in terms of rumination, et cetera
(37:17):
and how that is having an effects on animal behavior
and health. So stoke to have her down for that.
So next Tuesday we're over in Western South and ferninand
and Stacey at Wayrio. Wednesday we're at Matt and Sierra
McKenzie's at Woodlands, and then Thursday we're at Luca Nicole
Knees up at Tapanoi. So all those details are on
(37:39):
the Dairy and Said website if you want to hit
along for those that are either still looking at investing
and wearables tech or are looking to take you know
that might have had it for a while wanting to
I guess get more from it. Yeah, we'll be in
those three locations those Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday next.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Week whereabolls be gaining the popularity all the time, Ont's.
Speaker 9 (38:02):
Say, yeah, definitely, yeah, we are more and more conversation
people are investing in them, which is really cool to
see people adopt a new technology. But I think also
the farmers that don't have them, there's a lot to
learn from the farmers that do with you know, the
data that's coming out of them, So that's cool.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Training courses that are coming up as well, what's happening
there in the training space.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
So Dairy Training Limited have got a fee for profit
course starting in Gore and Melton the tenth and twelfth
of feb So yeah, there's more information on that, and
actually next week Hamus from Dairy Training is going to
join you on here so give a bit more of
detail about that. And then we've got a course for
(38:49):
people looking to go contract milking starting in winter and
on the eleventh, So all that information can be found
on the Dairy Training Limited website. And also Homis is
actually going to join us at the Field Days the
following week to I guess you know, so we can
talk with farmers at the Field Days two about the
(39:11):
courses that Dairy Training have got coming up in the
South in the.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Southern Field Days. It's a great event as well, and
you guys know as much as anybody it's about connecting
and just having a good chin week for a couple
of days.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Yeah, definitely, yep. So we the Deeranz crew think all
of us this year are going to be there across
three days and we are going to we'll be found
inside the every Center building at Site A sixteen, so
we've got a barbecue up for grabs this year that
we give away, we're going to be asking farmers to
(39:44):
give us their thoughts around what or we could be
doing more in the region to go onto the draw
for that so that it's super easy way to maybe
get hands on a barbecue and then leading out from
Waimomo just for the rest of the season, we've got
Milk Smart happening the start of March, so the information
(40:06):
for that is on the daring z website. Really popular
at super Call course, just a one day looking at
maximum milking times if you're into that and effective cupping
techniques or looking for efficiencies within the milking shed. And
then we will be running around of genetic gain events
(40:28):
in the end of March as well some benchmarking events
coming up at the end of April, and then the
season we'll be done, with the last one on the
calendar being Market Measure running in Hamner Springs on the
fourteenth of July fourteenth or sixteenth, so there's heaps happening
(40:48):
and we're really excited to kick off events next week.
It's definitely the highlight of my job is getting out
to these events and catching up with people and sharing
other people's stories too. I guess help the industry grow,
so you can't wait.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Absolutely a big year here Keeley always got to catch up.
Thanks to your ton Thanks and loud with laugh out,
loud with ag proud because life on the land can
be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer Well
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right button. Eventually. I worked in an orange juice factory
until I got canned. They put the squeeze on me.
Apparently I couldn't concentrate. Here's a dead joke for a
hunt day. That's us over and done with for the afternoon.
I'm Andy Muir. They say it's been the muster on Hokinnui.
Many thanks to Peters and the NIX podcast going up
shortly catch you tomorrow. Hey, well all right too there
(41:48):
and what did he go on to get for him?
Mark Calder of PGG Rights and gives a rundown on
the stock selling action that occurred this morning at the
Barclays of Sale yards. Mark, good afternoon, how.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Do we go?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (42:00):
And yet very good today, very very strong. So indeed
it was with the sheep and kettle, so it was.
It was a big day. It was great. The rains
really reflected the pricing and the demand for it. And
but as sunshine and know I hopefully sort of keep
things strong, kep rolling the enthusiastic getting under the sale.
It went really well for the prime lands two hundred
and seventy two fifty dollars for the tops, middle was
(42:22):
two thirty two hundred and the bottom en were one
forty one eighty still very good money stare lands. They
were very very well sought after today one fifty one
seventy five for your topping stores, your medium medium stores
one twenty one forty in your your Tarlie industry laderborn
Lambs or ninety one twenty very strong. Indeed, youws. They
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haven't taken a step back at all. They were well
second so they were one eighty to two and fifty
dollars for the tops, one forty one seventy three middle
line in your your lottery and news or eighty to
one twenty small yard and the rams they went from
seventy to one hundred and ten dollars. And yet it
was us and the kettle went very well. Calves were
very well sought after and sold strong just year throughout
(43:06):
everything it was great, and yeah it was US and
big sale on Friday and that clothes about nine a
half thousand years Intredier soon, so yeah, be sure to
come down for a look if you if you're shortened,
looking to stop back up, you know we will be
Cheers thirty
Good afternoon and welcome to the Muster on Hakanui. We're
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Speaker 1 (01:27):
Nonetheless, she's got a hell of a set of singing
pipe so on. You can't deny that now. The weather
this afternoon cloudy with breezy westerley is in twenty two
Thursday rain developing of westerly seven and nineteenth. Friday partly
cloudy with breezes, cell westerlies eight and fifteen. Saturday, Sunday
with breezy westerlies eighth and twenty one, and Sunday partly
(01:47):
cloudy were like norther leaves twelve and twenty three. So
it is improving. Might get a game of crickle on Saturday.
I saw temperatures Clinton fifteen point one northern South and
fifteen point one Riverton, Tian now sixteen point one one
four nineteen point one at Woodland's fourteen point six. As
we start the y hour with Disaster Grant Disaster McMaster
out of close per Instation Disaster talks about the loss
(02:10):
of the proposed loss anyway of these New Zealand post
off branches and what it means for the rural sector
and perhaps is this just a sign of the times.
Sam Grant of Craig's Investment Partners has a chat, as
is Mark Dillon of course involved with a tractor pull
out there at Southern Field Days. He's also a plowble extraordinaire.
So we catch up at it and see how things
(02:30):
are going in the lead up the Field Days Brandon
Smith and Mount McClain plus more as a chat and
Keney Buckingham out Derry and z as well with Mark
calder A. PGG writes and talking about the bow clues
to sale how this morning. Then we'll start the your
with Disaster. This is the muster until two o'clock thanks
to Peter's.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Genetics Grant Disaster McMaster joins us once again thanks to
a team at Arby were of course he farms a
close briend station on.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The edges of Lake Wakatipu. Disaster, Good afternoon, sounds as
are you doing a bit of freighting between farms on
animals today?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah? Good and and everybody, yes, I've got my former
top contractor Ian Hutton with me and we're taking a
few lambs from smaller lamps from Closeburn over to the
Hills block. So we saw them. Obviously we've got to
go back a bit. We got weaned up on Friday
and yeah, good day for that. It was a bit overcast,
(03:33):
a little bit of rain, so that added a bit
of weight to the little lamps. No, I didn't really,
but so we got we got fifteen hundred away off
off off Mum and they were thirty cages lively this year,
so very pleased with that. That's that's three k's up
on the previous year. So you know, while it was
a tough sort of spring, the clover was there. We've
(03:54):
spoken about it. It's still there. So you know, there's
the old boys to say there's two things with with farming.
It's feeding and breeding, and that's that's that stays true,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And that would have been good money as well. Those lambs,
Yeah they were so.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That was at four dollars eighty u k and so
that was you know, they were one hundred and forty
two dollars or one hundred and forty three or something
like that, which is you know, I think last year
those same lambs twenty seven they were something like eighty dollars.
So that you know, beef is looking really good. Lambs
(04:30):
looking good and has been a lamb is good. Beef
is good. There's been a bit of a lift.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
In the wall.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And you know, I very rarely you get all three
up together. And I remember twenty odd years ago and
I came here, I said, you know, we've got to
get in and get things going for when when prices
come right. So I is just sneaking in by the
skin of my piece, really, so not too many more
years to go here. And it's looking good this year,
so better late than ever, I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And that's the edge of everybody's saying ground. But because
the wall industry has been so down on his haunches
for an extended period of period of time, and a
lot of people have, Borley has given up on the
fiber they have.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
But I was reading the other day that you know
that the Chinese are back into buying the wall and
and it's you know, they're doing a lot of they're
doing a lot more. But then you know, as far
as infrastructure with you know, cosmetics and medicines and what
have you. There's a lot going there, and it's quite interesting,
(05:32):
you know, because over the years, you know, everybody said
that twice wall sort of determines what's happening in the
Chinese market, and everything started farming, the Chinese got playing
for everything like that. But I mean, it's got a
lot deeper than that. And I think at the end
of the day, what I was reading, it's a it's
a short. It's it's the real short of the wall
around the world, same in the UK and America here,
(05:54):
and people need it for the you know, not just
for the for for garments and carpets and fox.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
India is a growing market as well. I may have
told this story another time, but my wife and I
went over there once, in the city of Varanassi of
all places, and he's talking about the gentlemen about how
we're giving jost all the locals had a list of
all these wall buyers in New Zealand that he brought
from and lo and behold. I was a sheep cocky
at the time, so I wanted to ask and spoke
about how he did the process of procuring his wall,
(06:22):
but he didn't want to talk to me, and my
wife got really grumpy, she called me ignorant.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, yes, not the first time someone said that to
you Andie, and I mean I've been guilty of that myself,
but you know, you never let that, you never let
that put you back, put you down. You just got
to keep your home. But you know, so that the
stuff that goes into India, and it's this free trade
agreement that apparently you know, is we're close to signing,
is you know, it's good. And the fact that had
(06:50):
a lot of our wall that goes into India is
then the Indians then they then export that themselves in
various things into into the United States. So it's some
some ways it's just a stepping time for us, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Absolutely? Hey, Grant said new He's coming out yesterday as well.
The closing by New Zealand Post of a lot of
these postal agencies. It's another kick in the guts. But
understandably you can the rest now behind it does add up.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, well it does. And you know I just heard
on the on the wireles this morning they said that
there's going to be that there's going to be in
the in the urban areas. Nobody is going to be
any further than four kilometers away from the post office.
So that's that's one positive thing. I mean, you don't
factor in the in the rural areas now because you know,
(07:39):
we're lucky to get a paper and you post a
couple of days a week and I and I guess
I can. While it's sad, it's an end of an era,
it's it's inevitable ready with everything that's done online and
and you know, the old days of your bills coming
and people writing letters and cards and well gone. So
I guess I've got to look after their their core business.
(08:02):
And it just makes it harder for people like me
that aren't really that savvy and they as far as
doing everything online. But for the older generation, we you know,
that's like en Haddam beside me, Saminari bloody useless. But
it's you know, there's a lot of people that you know,
glow our generations that have that it's nothing new and
new for them. They've brought up with what's happening, and
(08:24):
I guess we've we've got to just get on with
it and and be part of that. But you know,
you think of the rural post and back to the
early days when you know, the shopkeeper delivered the gloom
and growth. You know, the real post had groceries on
it and or go back to when the actual grocers
had their own, had their own delivery and drop the
post off. So you know that's all sing of the
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past now, but it's sort of it's progressed. And you know,
I look at the vehicles going up the road to
Minorkey and there's the Fresh Choice truck or whatever it
is delivers groceries to people in Gonorkee and all over
the place. So there's you know, there's I think there's
a lot of there's there's pros and cons, but you
know there's there's a good side to it too.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, hark back to the days. I think Wrong Waiver
was the postman when I was a young fellow. They
bring the bread, I think the bread, possibly the milk
came as well, and you had your mail seven to six,
five and a half days a week.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah. Same in the wind and Valley, get all that
the late Eddy Idio kind of the pear shaped kewboy
headwards to the hands. He got more male macked up
macked up in that valley than anyone could. But he's
always good to have a arm turn. But as he
always just to say that, Art said, the mail always
get through. I said, that's right, any but just not
necessarily the right bloody mail boxes. But so you know
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those know, those days have certainly changed, and you know
you go back to the of all his men going
around and then all those things have five gone years.
But you know the other thing now is with with
curios and a lot of people just get stuff online.
And you spoke to me, so as places how they
know just delivered couriers. But an interesting point, there's some
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couriers within the Queenstown area won't bring won't bring post
out out to clean out to close Burn or further
up the valley to Milnaukee because it's too far out
of the way. So yeah, it's not it's not a
perfect system, but you know it could be worse.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I was going to say, I wasn't you to your
reputation in the basin.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No, No, well we don't don't get the we don't
get the papers delivered. Now edit, because that stopped at
COVID because the vehicles that used to go up to
Minorkee was with people on board would chuck, you know,
like with the terroists or the going to the jet
boats would they would chuck the papers out. And I
think the only thing that was good about that was
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Alis tallis every time he came down from my own
it would make sure on line my paper up and
run it over. So it stopped him doing that, and
but it's also stopped me reading the paper. But you know,
we and that and that that's us hasn't moved up again.
They said there's there's not that it doesn't warrant it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So yeah, he just finally made it sounds as though
you've had a couple of days of fine weather, which
is certainly not what the rest of the southern province
has had.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
No, it's been really good. It's twenty one of degrees
here at the moment and not very much won. The
last three days have been quite hot and a little
bit of rain over last weekend. So no, it's been
it's been the best. It's been the best we've had,
and I've put you the it's a bit darker in
the mornings at the moment, so you know, febry is
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upon us, but no, it's you know, we really couldn't
have wished for a bit of summer well, you know,
growth wise, grass wise, and say those lambs three k's
heavy the last year, still a lot of clover and
it's all green. It hasn't died off yet and you
know feed everywhere, so it's just yeah, you didn'tize it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Good on to Grant. I'll let you carry on cutting
those lambs through the Mecca and Queenstown and make sure
that hitched doesn't come off.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Wait, wait here, we've got We've double checked that.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Grab l Master thanks to ABI Rural Up next on
the Muster, Sam Grand of Craig's Investment Partners.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The Muster Financial Segment with Craig's Investment Partners in Gore.
This information is general and nature and it's not financial advice.
Craig's Investment Partners Limited Financial Advice provider disclosure statement can
be found at craigsip dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Sam Grand and Craig's Investment Partners joins us this afternoon
on the Musta Sam.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Good, afternoon, afternoon, Andy, How are you getting you on?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, pretty good. It's the first time spoken to you
this year, so we trust you had a good breakaway.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah no, no, I managed to take about twenty days
off over that sort of Christmas New period, so to
get away and find a little bit of warm which
was nice, So no complaints for me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, well, the forecast is looking good and that's just
the positives that we're just seeing across the board at
the moment. But we'll start with this one. The housing market,
Well it's finished twenty twenty five in a rather subdued state.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, absolutely so recently had the housing mark of a
port out, so gave us a bit of wrap up
on twenty twenty five. Effectively across the board, how these
prices have been were flat effectively for twenty five and
they have been since sharp defines in twenty twenty two.
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So housing prices haven't really done a lot in the
last three years effectively, which so we've been surprising for
some people. Given interest rates have come down quite substantially
since their peaks. That normally does drive a bit of buying.
But what we're probably seen at the moment as those
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interest rates have it's probably stop stcks moving lot quicker
than what it used to maybe eighteen months ago, as
opposed to that sort of big rise in prices. But
I suppose the one thing that we both remember is
we did have very strong visors and property sort of
around that period as well, so it's probably just waiting
for everything else to catch it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It sounds as though Wellington, especially in the CBD where
there is a lot of apartment buildings in place, they've
really suffered.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's sea and I think Wellington's one of the hardest places.
You know. I've heard us toys of you know, people
buying houses for one point one million and sort of
the RV at the moment, yes, that was sort of
like into twenty twenty one buying one point one million,
and now it's sort of got an RV of seven fifty.
So yeah, there effectively goes to your equity it was
four years ago. You know, make sure house prices to
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double every ten years, but you know in those cases
you'll be like if you break even in ten years
and you know you'ven't seen it and walks on there
like all the other day on I can't remember it's
a newsy on Heild or stuff, but somebody who done
a bit of an apartment development. I think it's sort
of might be like something between three to five. Harmon's
here to get rid of and he's going to sell
at a one dollars because he hasn't been able to
get rid of them, so he wanted to find out
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what this sort of the market price was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
As far as the market down here in South and
we're always hearing about the positivity, were saying, with the
economy down here in the South, what the housing market
has such? Has that been affected?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah? I think you know, down here things have been
a lot better, a lot more sort of steady growth effectively.
You know, we did sort of see drops of text
into the maybe in the Cargill, but you know, I
think with the big thing down here, supply I think
is probably the biggest issue when you took people in
getting to quolity supply.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
As well inflation in New Zealand, it's coming in hotter
than expected.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So we had ADI and their data for December twenty five,
and effectively inflation for the year came in at three
point one percent because hiring what the market is fected
at three percent and higher than the reserve forecast at
two point seven and for those that know the reserve
thanks range that which is nearly one to three percent,
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but sort of sitting just above that at the moment.
But what there's probably telling us, is that interest rate
cutting sight from reserve banks probably done now and markets
who are expecting there might even be a okally increase
before the year. Is that whereas previous that it's been
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expecting an increase in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Would you say there's inflation rate at the moment reflects
business sentiment, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, so you think they are a lot more positive.
Probably the big change was coming from what you call
important inflation, so that's you know, buying stuff and from
overseas has been a lot more been a little bit
more expensive was the end of the year, and a
lot of that has can probably come down to you know,
sort of geopolitical and towers and stuff like that's disrupting
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supply and disrupting I.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
See now the AZ Business Confidence Survey, it's out.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Yeah, it comes out, actually comes out this Thursday, so
be interesting to Yeah, so it's interesting to see we're
sort of things are sitting for the start of this
year because things changed a wee bit geopolitically and you know,
obviously the place been up slightly. But if we look
back to the end of last year, we had we
saw a big increase in the sort of headline confidence
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it was effectively at the I should have been ninety
ninety four. And I think a big drop of that is,
you know, strong agricultural pricing and interest rates going down
and sort of some of the geopolitical stuff at end
of last year. But like it was sittling down, So
I think people were feeling pretty positive, especially comparatively where
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they might have been sort of eighteen twenty four months ago.
So it'd be interesting to see if that's sort of
spilled on spilled into the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Six I suppose what goes it gets a trend here though,
although you understand the rash now are the proposed closures
that New Zealand Posts put out us today. There's various
places in the South going to be effected. But this
isn't so much about the economy, really, is it. It's
all about people have gone away from the post service.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, and I think the amount of
my children in the mailbox now are pretty pretty subdued.
And I think most of the money is in sort
of the courier side of the business for something like
Musee on post, and you know, the postal service is
probably a bit more of a civic duty as much.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
As anything now, the price of gold and silver, it's
continuing to just surge up. One way, you watch these
programs on TV about these people in the outback and
Aussie going into forty five degrees temperatures plus just looking
for little golden nuggets. But there's a ration now behind
the madness.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah, absolutely, So it's what we tend to see is
in times uncertainly clearly from a geopolitical standpoint, as we
tend to see money go towards precious metals, so like
your gold with silver. So you sort of strong run
in gold and silver last year, particularly silver had a
very strong twenty twenty five, and that seemed to have
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continued a lot in twenty twenty six, with gold fifteen
and a half percent this year alone, silver jumping up
another forty three percent and twenty six so we're not
even at the end of January. But yeah, that sort
of shows you how much is champed, since even that'st
effectively geopolitically, you know, particularly out of the US, a
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pretty active start of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
This might be a silly question, but can you actively
purchase an ounce of gold over a counter?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I believe you can mostly what we want to buy
physical gold, you you have to go through some type
of broker, which will normally be a major centers. That
can be a pretty expensive process and you're quite hard
to s else and Auquantics needs to prices to sell
as well, so you can might.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Just be sitting to put under the bed for a
rainy day in twenty years. Time to show the green kids.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yeah well yeah we can put on here, put it
into a white Nicholas and you can wear that for
we will.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So kick out Nicholas at that price, mate, hey said
the team at Craig's IP. How do we get in touch?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, no, we've moved to the opposite new world now,
so that one should and go or otherwise go for
court on three two zero one type one.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Good on you say, I'm always good to catch up
with the team.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Awesome, appreciate the adicacy, mate.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Sam Grand of Craig's Investment Partners. The price of gold
staggering where it's going at the moment. Up next, Mark Dylan,
Bob Dylan on Behalf Southern Field Days. He's doing the
track to pull there. You're listening to the master welcome back.
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You're listening to the muster. Mark Dylon as involved with
Southern Field Days as well. Plow I'm an extraordinay was
spoken to Bob in the past. He seems to spend
quite a bit of the winter plowing on the other
side of the world. But today we're talking about Southern
Field Days. He's involved the tractor pull which is getting
underway in a couple of weeks time. It is the
winners the dates to look at. Mc kellen DROs should
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really know this eleventh, the thirteenth of February. There we go,
got there eventually, Bob, howse things your health? But bed firstly,
ground conditions on farm. He had a bit of rain
over the weekend. Understandably it was welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
It was we needed a bit of morture. Things are
very draw but we will need some big yellow to
come out badly. But the sun would be much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
How are your crops looking?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Debris in the process of getting organise for harvest, so yeah,
I think they would appreciate of the rain. But yeah,
you never want to comment too much, so you get
the the groin and the bin. But some of them
are looking awesome. The spring stuff for that bit of
rain and be good to helpful in them and continue
to fill them and win the crops. They already appreciate it.
So looking good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
There's some really good looking winter crops around the show.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Yeah, yeah, they're looking pretty good at the sofa and
hopefully get a favor of reward and it carries on
that way.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now the field days. You've been involved here for quite
a while. You're achievement as well for a couple of terms.
But the tractive Paul tell us about the tractor ball.
What's so popular about it?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Oh, well, I suppose it's it's uh, just people breaking
your right. Suppose people say the tractor are good, so
we'll bring along the field does put her on the
sleep and see if we can get that pair of
the ground and or where you follow?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Shit, it's not the people have got an addiction to diesel.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh you're twenty of that, Ye wee bit of addiction.
Let myself doing a bit of tinkering and getting a
bit of smoke plown out.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, the tea cary that goes into these tractors, because
there's not your standard tract if it normally goes and
what they do you do see them in there as well.
But there's some real modified Behemos to take part.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Oh yeah, definitely, Yeah, I'm not sure if we got
there's a goal on Canterbury. He's put a v we
betrod and the trainer and it's pretty awesome for the
sort like the covid A kit and but then as
Edmond and I we've just sort of aided is pretty
sort of basic trainers. But we have stoken a probably
seven times or six times more horse prawer than what
they were then they standard.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Now if you put a V twelve and a tractor
you're going to be towing. The only thing you'll be
towing is the bloody fuel take behind you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Oh you've been so many short runs only doing one
hundred meters, it's not likely going at the work one
hundred eating of the day be a different story then,
or they wouldn't handle, the trains wouldn't handle, the motor
would get out. There are only for short runs while
there does not not too.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, obviously it is modified for what it's doing. It's
certainly an event on its signs. So what's involved with
the treade to pull exactly for the un initiated.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
So we've got different classes here to this year woulds
to be standard class, which will be different weight classes
depending on the tractors that turn up. So probably underteen
Town and over maybe if somewhere around there we're modified
super modified. We're going to have a few trucks coming
along as well. It's a different classes to suit different
different treaders that turn up on the day.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So what kind of tracks are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Well, I think it's the sixth before Seemi truck turning up.
So we've got a fifth wheel drow while we built
a few years ago that hooks on the turntable so
we can hook the sleege on behind it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So likes of a Uni marg type situation perhaps as well.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Ah, they could turn up the years ago we had
one of those monster trucks for a lot. They having
the Mirican Army. We have prepared a couple of them
on the sleege that quite good? Good crab pleaseure?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh did go pretty good? Telling? Or does it all
come down to power to weight ratio when it comes
down to judging?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Yeah, pretty much? Pair of white ratio. Well they can
get that horse pair of the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the dimensions of the sledge, the weight on the sledge,
how does that work?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
So it's when we designed it. We made it so well.
I looked a few different other ones around the countryside
and we picked what sort of picked an audio, what
how much foot brought me worded? But there here is
they've got the trick demanded on it that we weighed
the tricktors in and there's a computer program in there
works on how much oil flow to put into the
sleege to how much weight to apply to the sledge
to get in theory stop the tractor before that one
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hundred meters four pall.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It sounds very complicated.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Oh, there's a we've been involved, but we're funtally understand
that there's not too bad. But we would getting the
system sort of. But here were every year we're twinkering
with it and getting it better and better, and we've
got to going pretty good. We're pretty happy at that's running.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So how long would it take to make a sledge
of this nature?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh there was quite some time. Yeah, it was too
to us two months at least building for the engineer.
When we build it, and we got a lot of
work went into it and a lot of pod planning
before we started and designing, and.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The sledge goes round the South Island. Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
It does? Yeah, so we're we are a wheels of
one acare and had to get great event up. There
really a lot of people watching. We'll go to Mayfield
for backyard beauties. Actually the sledge of anyone also ever
practice whield does? It's going to be running it this
weekend at crank Up.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's normally a big crowd pleaser, especially for the uninitiated
to the field days too.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh here we get a lot of people. Would have
five or six people on that fence for one hundred meters,
such a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yes, for sure. Hey I we'll touch on the plowing
as well. Now your plower will extraordinary. Lest be honest,
your cats arrived home because you had to bring it
home after a couple of years. As far as getting
it back over to Europe for the next edition happening
later this year. Is it a drama or you're pretty
much part of Are you used to what you've got
to do now?
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Well, there's a bit of drama because we changed the
cano last time, but no this time we're just more
manager that's coming for this this year's and folk in
the process of talking to the shipping companies, so we
can get some dates and start breaking backwards. So when
it's got to go in the box. So I'm hoping
they've to use my here that's overseas, that this year's nationals,
and then we'll go in the box and get on
the way nix over to Croatia.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Now you say you've got a manager, break that down
a bit more. I thought you'd be pretty independent.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
No, No, we have a team manager. So any issues
and stuff like that, he looked after that, so I
can try and focus on the job atheend.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So it's not a personal manager handling public appearances or anything.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Bob. We haven't got to let sleepery stage yet.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, it's all kicking off in a couple of weeks,
and preparations are underway out there. Marquees are going up here,
there and everywhere, and just expect God to be cranking
no pun intended with what's happening in down this weekend,
but over the next three weeks it's all go, oh,
that'll be singing here.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
It would just be like it's correct for the district.
Every two years heaven Field Days are in and great
for all their local community fundraisers and groups that are
doing the fundraising on site as well.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So if anybody what looks at the tract a port
do you just register before on the day or what
do you do?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
So what we would like this year like because of
the traffic and stuff coming in a Field days perfectly world,
we want every all tractors to be on site before
by Tuesday night. It's just a real hassful of the
traffic of people try and come in on Wednesday. So
part of your eachry fee if you do get in
and get your tracker on on Tuesday, then we'll supply
gate passes to get in. That's part of your entry fee.
So there's a bit, a wee bit of incentive for
the guys to get in and then just a bit
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of cour to see for other people trying to get
into the Field days on Wednesdays. Not even tractors on
the road blocking the road.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah now fair cool Bob. How are always going to
catch up, no doubt will be in touch over the
next couple of weeks mate, And yeah the track to
Pull the Way movie were a great event.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah it will be.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah, we'll be.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Mark Dylan and Field Days talking about the tractor for real.
Crowd pleaser where are We're on the muster of course
we are up next Braden Smith from Malt McLain plus more.
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Mariah Carey, that's the music for a Wednesday afternoon. This
is the Muster on Hock and nowI thanks for Peter's genetics.
Our next guest is Braden Smith from Malt McClain plus more. Braiden,
good afternoon and welcome.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Okay here we're going andy, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The break's been and gone. We're almost through the end
of January, and you guys here around at Melt McClain
plus more, you're beck on deck and hit the ground running.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Yeah, you know, the break feels a little bit like
a dist memory at this point. Everybody's sort of come back,
recharged and full of new ideas. It's amazing what a
bit of time away from from farm and business can
do for one's brain.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Now we're talking about stats to start off today, especially
around the sheep and beef sectors. Let's be honest, these
are looking as good as what they have for a
very very long time.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yes, no, it's been quite the bound spec for twenty
twenty five, but it was needed I say that much. Yeah,
good numbers coming through just as a general comment. As
we've been doing twenty twenty four finals with clientss and places,
we've I reckon with average thirty dollars a head on
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lamb and thirty dollars a head on news up on
the previous year. Beef, well, beef is just the value
of animals has probably just jumped another twelve, twelve months
or six months for what we used to think they
were worth. You know, a calf that might have gone
for you know, seven or eight hundred dollars is now
doing twelve or thirteen hundred bucks. It makes a heat
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of the difference to the bottom line by the time
you get through. So year, let's give you a wee
bit of a summary. We break heads down into into
three categories. So we have, like I guess, the smaller farms,
so up to that sort of four thousand stock unit size.
We have a medium one which we call between four
and a half thousand and seven, and then we have
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the big boys, which are seven thousand plus and overall
income was all that's translated into as small and medium
guys are up thirty to forty dollars per stock unit
on the income side, which is a good lift. As
we say, much needed, puts us back a bit more
where where we need to be. And then as far
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as expenses, they've spent them on the pretty much the
same three things. Fertilizer has been the big one. We've
cut that back to a minimum for the last couple
of years. That was down as low as twelve fifteen
dollars a stock unit for those smaller ones. It's now
up around twenty five. And that's we're probably just putting
some some cafit all back in, some that we've had
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to skimp on over the last couple of years just
to make ends meet. And yeah, it's all been going
straight back in. There's also been a fair bit going
into maintenance and the smaller guys that's jumped from about
eighteen dollars to stop in it's twenty four. All those
jobs have been putting off or just getting by or
that you know, some of those bits of equipment, all
those yards just needed that little bit of money spent.
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That's all been spent.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Now.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
There's been a weabit and just other general farm working
stuff too. It's really just all those things we've been
putting off. In a bitter year. We can start to
start to spend the money a wee bit.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Well, it's fantastic to see those budgets are being met, Brandon,
And ultimately, if you're paying tax, it means you're making money,
which is a good thing.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's the first first conversation that's been
coming around, and everyone's I wouldn't say smiling, nobody. Nobody's
ever smiling when you get to the text bit of
the conversation, but everybody's pretty happy to see a number
on there that they have to pay because they know
that means going in the right direction. The Yeah, so
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speaking of that, like twenty twenty six is shaping up
pretty tidy too. I've seen some really good store land
values coming out. I've seen some great first early kill
land values coming out. And beef again is just trucking
along really really well. And you've got schedules out there
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upwards to ten dollars from the major suppliers and beef
up at about nine. We're starting now probably to have
to redo a few budgets and look at a bit
of tax because sheep and beef is in that area
where because I've only paid tax for a year, we've
got a wee bit of catch up to play. You
have last year's catch up because we've gone from paying
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no tax to paying some. We have to pay that
all in April, but we've also got this year's provisional
tax which they've fall into as well, and so there's
the next payment of that for most sheep and beef
guys will be in March, and then we have another
one again in July. But we're probably going to have
to look at lifting some of those because there's been
some pretty strong incomes coming in so far. Yeah, positive
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and a good thing, you know, paying text making money.
But yeah, we're going to have to do a week
bit of work around some budgets because, like I say,
I've seen some pretty impressive numbers coming through so far.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Now Southern Field Days happening at Way Moomoo. We're underway
this time in two weeks. Sprayden the team from malt
Mclaim plus more. You guys are out there once again.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Yes, yeah, we'll be. We'll be down there all three days.
We're it's site two to eight. We've even got a
we draw card into our tent. We're giving away a
three and a half thousand dollars steel package. So if
you want to pop in and come so high and
you know we'll have we'll have all of these statistics
and puts some pieces on the wall. We're also going
(33:50):
to have the team from Figured down the Figured. I've
got some national benchmarking data that they've been working hard
on that we've got the ability to use and talk
about and work through with you. So if you want
to pop in and say hi and have a bit
of a have a bit of yarns, there's nothing you know,
we're real we're real good as farmers and in Southland
where we just get in our own we we box
(34:12):
and track along and do what we do. But one
hundred one of the best thing we can do is
you know, look at look at what the district's doing
and what what's working. Where how do we sit? Yeah,
so come come along, heavy chat and we can we
can we look at some numbers.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Good on your branden. Hey, what's the best way to
get in touch with the team at Melot McLain plus.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
More You can you can look us up on our website.
So if you type on plus more dot cod or
n Z you can you can find our office and
Macargla or Gore. It's got all of their contact information
and phone numbers and bits and pieces there. But yeah,
otherwise we'll happily see you on on the eleventh or
third anh Segory and Sight twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Good on your Branden, always good to catch up.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Thanks Eddie catch letter.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Brandon Smith of Melon mcclaim plus Late Braden says the
team will be out there at Southern Field Days in
a couple of weeks time. This is the muster. Before
we wrap up, Keeley Buckingham from Derryan Z, we have
a chat. Welcome back. This is the Muster. Keeley Buckingham
(35:24):
of Darry and Z joins us. Keeley, good afternoon and
first time chatting in twenty twenty six on the program.
How Things, Yeah, good.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
Things, Andy, It's good to be back, Good to be
on air.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Sounds like you had a good break I did, yep.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Mark was one of those slackers that only got back
to work on Monday, so it's been a bit of
a shock to the system coming back after nearly well
over a month off.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Actually, the Darry and Zed some pretty cool events coming up.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
Yes, we've got heaps happening, I guess between now and
the end of the season. But in the next few
weeks as well. So now the first events that have
gone on for the season and kicking off on Tuesday
next week, and we're looking at wearables. Wearables focus on
farm and I guess we did the similar thing last year,
(36:11):
but with the just the number of farmers adopting wearable
technology that be collars, boluses or ear tags, we just
wanted to put on an event or a series of
events across Southland and Otago looking at how we can
use it more effectively in our businesses. So we've got
(36:31):
hosts that have had wearables in the system for a
number of years now and we're really looking to pull
out from those hosts just how you know, I guess
that second layer or that second or third layer deep
in their business of how they're actually using it, not
just the basics for how they're pulling more from it
(36:53):
and joining us in Southland for that as well as
adopted Stacy Hendrix as an animal behavior and how scientists
based out of Lincoln that has worked a lot in
the wearable space over the last few years. So she's
going to share some of her findings around what's coming
out of wearables data in terms of rumination, et cetera
(37:17):
and how that is having an effects on animal behavior
and health. So stoke to have her down for that.
So next Tuesday we're over in Western South and ferninand
and Stacey at Wayrio. Wednesday we're at Matt and Sierra
McKenzie's at Woodlands, and then Thursday we're at Luca Nicole
Knees up at Tapanoi. So all those details are on
(37:39):
the Dairy and Said website if you want to hit
along for those that are either still looking at investing
and wearables tech or are looking to take you know
that might have had it for a while wanting to
I guess get more from it. Yeah, we'll be in
those three locations those Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday next.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Week whereabolls be gaining the popularity all the time, Ont's.
Speaker 9 (38:02):
Say, yeah, definitely, yeah, we are more and more conversation
people are investing in them, which is really cool to
see people adopt a new technology. But I think also
the farmers that don't have them, there's a lot to
learn from the farmers that do with you know, the
data that's coming out of them, So that's cool.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Training courses that are coming up as well, what's happening
there in the training space.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
So Dairy Training Limited have got a fee for profit
course starting in Gore and Melton the tenth and twelfth
of feb So yeah, there's more information on that, and
actually next week Hamus from Dairy Training is going to
join you on here so give a bit more of
detail about that. And then we've got a course for
(38:49):
people looking to go contract milking starting in winter and
on the eleventh, So all that information can be found
on the Dairy Training Limited website. And also Homis is
actually going to join us at the Field Days the
following week to I guess you know, so we can
talk with farmers at the Field Days two about the
(39:11):
courses that Dairy Training have got coming up in the
South in the.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Southern Field Days. It's a great event as well, and
you guys know as much as anybody it's about connecting
and just having a good chin week for a couple
of days.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Yeah, definitely, yep. So we the Deeranz crew think all
of us this year are going to be there across
three days and we are going to we'll be found
inside the every Center building at Site A sixteen, so
we've got a barbecue up for grabs this year that
we give away, we're going to be asking farmers to
(39:44):
give us their thoughts around what or we could be
doing more in the region to go onto the draw
for that so that it's super easy way to maybe
get hands on a barbecue and then leading out from
Waimomo just for the rest of the season, we've got
Milk Smart happening the start of March, so the information
(40:06):
for that is on the daring z website. Really popular
at super Call course, just a one day looking at
maximum milking times if you're into that and effective cupping
techniques or looking for efficiencies within the milking shed. And
then we will be running around of genetic gain events
(40:28):
in the end of March as well some benchmarking events
coming up at the end of April, and then the
season we'll be done, with the last one on the
calendar being Market Measure running in Hamner Springs on the
fourteenth of July fourteenth or sixteenth, so there's heaps happening
(40:48):
and we're really excited to kick off events next week.
It's definitely the highlight of my job is getting out
to these events and catching up with people and sharing
other people's stories too. I guess help the industry grow,
so you can't wait.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Absolutely a big year here Keeley always got to catch up.
Thanks to your ton Thanks and loud with laugh out,
loud with ag proud because life on the land can
be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer Well
data working to help the livestock farmer. Yeah, push the
(41:22):
right button. Eventually. I worked in an orange juice factory
until I got canned. They put the squeeze on me.
Apparently I couldn't concentrate. Here's a dead joke for a
hunt day. That's us over and done with for the afternoon.
I'm Andy Muir. They say it's been the muster on Hokinnui.
Many thanks to Peters and the NIX podcast going up
shortly catch you tomorrow. Hey, well all right too there
(41:48):
and what did he go on to get for him?
Mark Calder of PGG Rights and gives a rundown on
the stock selling action that occurred this morning at the
Barclays of Sale yards. Mark, good afternoon, how.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Do we go?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (42:00):
And yet very good today, very very strong. So indeed
it was with the sheep and kettle, so it was.
It was a big day. It was great. The rains
really reflected the pricing and the demand for it. And
but as sunshine and know I hopefully sort of keep
things strong, kep rolling the enthusiastic getting under the sale.
It went really well for the prime lands two hundred
and seventy two fifty dollars for the tops, middle was
(42:22):
two thirty two hundred and the bottom en were one
forty one eighty still very good money stare lands. They
were very very well sought after today one fifty one
seventy five for your topping stores, your medium medium stores
one twenty one forty in your your Tarlie industry laderborn
Lambs or ninety one twenty very strong. Indeed, youws. They
(42:43):
haven't taken a step back at all. They were well
second so they were one eighty to two and fifty
dollars for the tops, one forty one seventy three middle
line in your your lottery and news or eighty to
one twenty small yard and the rams they went from
seventy to one hundred and ten dollars. And yet it
was us and the kettle went very well. Calves were
very well sought after and sold strong just year throughout
(43:06):
everything it was great, and yeah it was US and
big sale on Friday and that clothes about nine a
half thousand years Intredier soon, so yeah, be sure to
come down for a look if you if you're shortened,
looking to stop back up, you know we will be
Cheers thirty
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