February 2, 2026 • 7 mins
Grant McMaster looks ahead to the southern dog trialling season which is getting underway this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Grand Disaster. McMaster joins us once again this afternoon thanks
to the team at ib Rural Grant. Good afternoon, How
are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Afternoon, Andy, good after everybody. You have very well, Thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Sounds as I's been a little bit cool up in
the basin.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I've been very cold this morning. It's just a cold
wind and I've had the woolen hat and the vest on,
so it's come out warm now and it's sitting about
twelve degrees. But earlier on there this morning, when I'm
saying here, that was about eight o'clock till just about
an hour ago, you're sitting about nine degrees and as
I say, just a cool, cool breeze and it lay cold.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So it's not a case of you're getting a bit
softer as you get older.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh that probably is half. But you always know a
cold wind when you're in one because the old lug
start the three and you got to put the world
hat on. That's a pretty good indication, especially the airs
like mine. But yeah, then twelve meals of rain yesterday,
which was, you know, a lovely gentle rain, and it
was it was quite warm. It wasn't it wasn't cold
yesterday with that rain. So you know, twelve meal is
(01:11):
good for the good for the kale and the new
grass over at the over the ourtown block or I
don't know of ushould say new grass or fat end
because it's a bit of that, but of that poking around.
But I see that, you know, the clover's struck and
the grass. So Craig Tom he tells us, in a
couple of weeks, we'll we be able to deal with
the fat end and I won't affick the clover. So yeah,
(01:33):
it's been you know that crop. It's you know, well
we put it in late, but it just needed a
drink the other day and it got that. So we've
you know, we.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Can't complain absolutely great now growing future farmers. We've talked
about this on the Muster before. It's a great initiative,
all about young people getting involved in the rural sector.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, well I didn't you know, I've heard of it,
but I've had nothing to do with it. And and
I guess, you know, if you've got none to do something,
sometimes you don't know what's happening. But it came about
last year. Friends from the North Island at their daughter
she's at school and wanted to leave at the end
of this of last year, and so she she came
down and looked at a couple of vacancies for the
(02:15):
growing future farmers to farms and won in Northern South
and one in South Otigo. And that's how I sort
of found out a little bit about it. And she
also went to Telford. They had a four day course
back then whatever it must have been, all the holidays
and then she sort of had she had job interviews
and she managed to get the job at Northern South
and so she came down on last week. She starts.
(02:37):
She started yesterday and packed up she's not quite seventeen,
and drove her car down with you know, all her
belongings in US, and you know, just her excitement about
going to a place to start working in the agricultural
sector was well, I reminded me when I was young,
you know, you couldn't wait to get into it. But so,
you know, as I said, I didn't know much about it,
(02:58):
but you know, it's she it's an opportunity for motivating
young people to enter the sheep, beef and deer industry.
So and that's something we desperately need, uh, you know,
it goes to it's the industry respected and it's employer lead,
an employer lead career path. They provide n z T
A approved on farm a program and they went in
(03:22):
there and the chart is to fly pastoral support for
a geographically isolated learners. So you know, lots of sponsors
for that that all put into it. And I know
she had a part of part of what she does.
She gets down to where she is and Bosman is
a pup ready for her, so she'll be to be
able to train and pop up this year. But she
had she had a good bag of that body black
(03:45):
hook that I've been associated with, so that was given
to her from a sponsor. But it's pretty hard going
when they when they get you know, well when I
say hard going, you know, they're into an environment and
she's you know, she's worked on farms and holidays and
what have you. But her enthusias and is just unbelievable.
But you know, they work four days a week and
then sort of on the on the on the fifth day,
(04:07):
they have a they basically do a bit of computer work,
you know, for their courses. I guess which is going
on for for the qualifications and but you know they're
not they're not paid a lot they for the four days.
I think they know the house is supplied, but they've
got to they've got to supply their own food. And
(04:28):
you know it's something like it's less than two hundred
dollars a week. And but I think where they I
think when they'll be fortunate. Obviously we know that farmers
not a four day job, so a lot of weekend work.
I think it's it's an agreement between the farmer landowners
and then you know they get paid for work on
those other two days. But it just shows that you
(04:49):
know that the dedication that young people need, so you know,
it's certainly not about the money and agriculture and that's
you know, I guess that's one of the reasons it's
it's hard to get young people in. You've got to
have that passion. You've got to be dedicated and you're
not in it for the money, which you know at
the start is is pretty tough going. When you could
you could look at a lot of your friends at are
(05:10):
starting jobs, whatever they may be, that you know, you're
working five days a week and you're getting paid for it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But if you got the passion for the industry. You
just got to start somewhere, I suppose as well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh exactly, and it's a tree year. It's a two
year program and and you know she's started with a
an experienced stop person manager and what have you. And
four days work and one day dedicated to the off
form off farm cast of course work they do, which
is reminded me back when when when I was showing
(05:40):
him at Clockhouse, they had the New Zealand Trade Certificate.
Was a was a course you could do, and we did.
We were able to do two years and one at
the clock House did the third, and then I went
on and did the Advanced National Certificate and that was
all correspondent. So you got to had a treator in
Wellington and everything was mailed down once a fortnite wherever
it was. And these assignments he had to read up
(06:02):
and then do the questions and send them back and
you were tacked on it. And I remember I went
to Gore and set the exam for the finals, which
was yeah, back probably nineteen eighty. But you know, I've
never heard of anything.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Like that since your world famous dog trial reports. Did
you get under way again? Courtesy the dog trial season
coming around very quickly.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well yeah, some you know, some people go to street,
some people go to sleep straight away, others won't be
able to go to sleep. So yeah, it starts this
weekend in South and whyw the mighty wyal down there
included to a Tafbury. It's one day trial on the
sixth of February Friday the sixth, and that's followed by
over there in the eastern so or southern south of
Waimahaka on the seventh of February. So you can go
(06:47):
to Way and then then to w I'm hacker. That's
on the that's the that's next day on the on
the on Saturday, and our trials, the walkt of trials
start this Friday and Saturday, the sixth and seventh here
at Post Bruin Station. So if anybody's around wants to
come up and run a dig, more than welcome to.
We've haven't mustered all the sheep off for the for
(07:07):
all the courses, but we've got a yarding sheep. This year.
We've had of a change here. We've been able to
get some of the been worked quite a bit, so
we're looking forward to that. That's been sort of their
Achilles he or the sheep have been bit flighty, but
we've all we've always got a winner. But this year
we're hoping it's. Yeah, we've put a bit more work
into them and we've got different sheeps, so looking forward
to seeing how that goes. So yeah, that's the season starts,
(07:29):
and we'll report each week as we'll only do any it's.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
All under control and disasters on the scene. Good on
your grant chet next week.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I like your confidence. Okay, look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
By the irony, don't stop believing, of course. Grant Disasterec
Master is brought to us weekly by the team at
Abby Rural. Up next on the Master, Hillary Copeland of
Bannerman Crookshang Pride to the Lawyers
Grand Disaster. McMaster joins us once again this afternoon thanks
to the team at ib Rural Grant. Good afternoon, How
are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Afternoon, Andy, good after everybody. You have very well, Thanks Andy.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Sounds as I's been a little bit cool up in
the basin.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I've been very cold this morning. It's just a cold
wind and I've had the woolen hat and the vest on,
so it's come out warm now and it's sitting about
twelve degrees. But earlier on there this morning, when I'm
saying here, that was about eight o'clock till just about
an hour ago, you're sitting about nine degrees and as
I say, just a cool, cool breeze and it lay cold.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So it's not a case of you're getting a bit
softer as you get older.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh that probably is half. But you always know a
cold wind when you're in one because the old lug
start the three and you got to put the world
hat on. That's a pretty good indication, especially the airs
like mine. But yeah, then twelve meals of rain yesterday,
which was, you know, a lovely gentle rain, and it
was it was quite warm. It wasn't it wasn't cold
yesterday with that rain. So you know, twelve meal is
(01:11):
good for the good for the kale and the new
grass over at the over the ourtown block or I
don't know of ushould say new grass or fat end
because it's a bit of that, but of that poking around.
But I see that, you know, the clover's struck and
the grass. So Craig Tom he tells us, in a
couple of weeks, we'll we be able to deal with
the fat end and I won't affick the clover. So yeah,
(01:33):
it's been you know that crop. It's you know, well
we put it in late, but it just needed a
drink the other day and it got that. So we've
you know, we.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Can't complain absolutely great now growing future farmers. We've talked
about this on the Muster before. It's a great initiative,
all about young people getting involved in the rural sector.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, well I didn't you know, I've heard of it,
but I've had nothing to do with it. And and
I guess, you know, if you've got none to do something,
sometimes you don't know what's happening. But it came about
last year. Friends from the North Island at their daughter
she's at school and wanted to leave at the end
of this of last year, and so she she came
down and looked at a couple of vacancies for the
(02:15):
growing future farmers to farms and won in Northern South
and one in South Otigo. And that's how I sort
of found out a little bit about it. And she
also went to Telford. They had a four day course
back then whatever it must have been, all the holidays
and then she sort of had she had job interviews
and she managed to get the job at Northern South
and so she came down on last week. She starts.
(02:37):
She started yesterday and packed up she's not quite seventeen,
and drove her car down with you know, all her
belongings in US, and you know, just her excitement about
going to a place to start working in the agricultural
sector was well, I reminded me when I was young,
you know, you couldn't wait to get into it. But so,
you know, as I said, I didn't know much about it,
(02:58):
but you know, it's she it's an opportunity for motivating
young people to enter the sheep, beef and deer industry.
So and that's something we desperately need, uh, you know,
it goes to it's the industry respected and it's employer lead,
an employer lead career path. They provide n z T
A approved on farm a program and they went in
(03:22):
there and the chart is to fly pastoral support for
a geographically isolated learners. So you know, lots of sponsors
for that that all put into it. And I know
she had a part of part of what she does.
She gets down to where she is and Bosman is
a pup ready for her, so she'll be to be
able to train and pop up this year. But she
had she had a good bag of that body black
(03:45):
hook that I've been associated with, so that was given
to her from a sponsor. But it's pretty hard going
when they when they get you know, well when I
say hard going, you know, they're into an environment and
she's you know, she's worked on farms and holidays and
what have you. But her enthusias and is just unbelievable.
But you know, they work four days a week and
then sort of on the on the on the fifth day,
(04:07):
they have a they basically do a bit of computer work,
you know, for their courses. I guess which is going
on for for the qualifications and but you know they're
not they're not paid a lot they for the four days.
I think they know the house is supplied, but they've
got to they've got to supply their own food. And
(04:28):
you know it's something like it's less than two hundred
dollars a week. And but I think where they I
think when they'll be fortunate. Obviously we know that farmers
not a four day job, so a lot of weekend work.
I think it's it's an agreement between the farmer landowners
and then you know they get paid for work on
those other two days. But it just shows that you
(04:49):
know that the dedication that young people need, so you know,
it's certainly not about the money and agriculture and that's
you know, I guess that's one of the reasons it's
it's hard to get young people in. You've got to
have that passion. You've got to be dedicated and you're
not in it for the money, which you know at
the start is is pretty tough going. When you could
you could look at a lot of your friends at are
(05:10):
starting jobs, whatever they may be, that you know, you're
working five days a week and you're getting paid for it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But if you got the passion for the industry. You
just got to start somewhere, I suppose as well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh exactly, and it's a tree year. It's a two
year program and and you know she's started with a
an experienced stop person manager and what have you. And
four days work and one day dedicated to the off
form off farm cast of course work they do, which
is reminded me back when when when I was showing
(05:40):
him at Clockhouse, they had the New Zealand Trade Certificate.
Was a was a course you could do, and we did.
We were able to do two years and one at
the clock House did the third, and then I went
on and did the Advanced National Certificate and that was
all correspondent. So you got to had a treator in
Wellington and everything was mailed down once a fortnite wherever
it was. And these assignments he had to read up
(06:02):
and then do the questions and send them back and
you were tacked on it. And I remember I went
to Gore and set the exam for the finals, which
was yeah, back probably nineteen eighty. But you know, I've
never heard of anything.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Like that since your world famous dog trial reports. Did
you get under way again? Courtesy the dog trial season
coming around very quickly.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well yeah, some you know, some people go to street,
some people go to sleep straight away, others won't be
able to go to sleep. So yeah, it starts this
weekend in South and whyw the mighty wyal down there
included to a Tafbury. It's one day trial on the
sixth of February Friday the sixth, and that's followed by
over there in the eastern so or southern south of
Waimahaka on the seventh of February. So you can go
(06:47):
to Way and then then to w I'm hacker. That's
on the that's the that's next day on the on
the on Saturday, and our trials, the walkt of trials
start this Friday and Saturday, the sixth and seventh here
at Post Bruin Station. So if anybody's around wants to
come up and run a dig, more than welcome to.
We've haven't mustered all the sheep off for the for
(07:07):
all the courses, but we've got a yarding sheep. This year.
We've had of a change here. We've been able to
get some of the been worked quite a bit, so
we're looking forward to that. That's been sort of their
Achilles he or the sheep have been bit flighty, but
we've all we've always got a winner. But this year
we're hoping it's. Yeah, we've put a bit more work
into them and we've got different sheeps, so looking forward
to seeing how that goes. So yeah, that's the season starts,
(07:29):
and we'll report each week as we'll only do any it's.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
All under control and disasters on the scene. Good on
your grant chet next week.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I like your confidence. Okay, look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
By the irony, don't stop believing, of course. Grant Disasterec
Master is brought to us weekly by the team at
Abby Rural. Up next on the Master, Hillary Copeland of
Bannerman Crookshang Pride to the Lawyers
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