February 10, 2026 • 44 mins
Andy Muir live from day one of Southern Fieldays at Waimumu.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Muster with Andy Meuer thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm amember, I'm a blue cormed crown.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
They can no, they can't keep me down alone.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
And welcome to the Muster on Hokkernui. My name is
Andy Muer. The show is brought to you by Peter's
Genetics and we're broadcasting live from the Southern Field Days
at way Moomoo, the twenty twenty sixth edition.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
I'll give you a tip on the weather here as well.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yesterday we were getting things organized, it was bucketing down
and it was cold. We fast forward twenty four hours
and it's actually reasonably overcast in a pleasant afternoon in prospect.
The infrastructure is holding up really well. These people everywhere.
By the way, I'm broadcasting from the Rubbobank side as well,
So fantastic to Rabobank for having us on board. And yeah,
(00:51):
lock just a hive of people around if you're coming
to the Field Days over the next forty eight hours
or saying, he's going to be a heck of a
lot for you to see and do. As we can
disjudge all the punters going through and as you'd expect, Hey,
before we go any further as well, we've got the
stock sale report courtesy of PGG, writes in the Balcluther
sale held today with Mark Calder, he sent it through
(01:12):
now stars Prime lambs price is there Large went from
two thirty to two sixty eight mediums one ninety to
two twenty two Store lambs large one forty to one
seventy five, mediums one ten to one thirty. Large usgzs
are getting up in Maney two forty to two seventy,
mediums one eighty to two twenty and smalls at one
(01:32):
seventy to one forty rams. Even this isn't too bad
one seventy to one forty. Our next cattle sail at
Balcluth's being held on the twenty fifth, and the second
U Fair on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
So the weather as.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, brought to you by twin Farm Genetics, a home
of Tefron. This afternoon sunny, were light, sou easterly is
in a high twenty three and it's starting to get muggy.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Thursday, here's the kakak cloudy.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You're like nor easterlies seventeen and twenty eight, so Monday
to sunscreen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But Rea's assured that this is Southland.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
We're back to reality on Friday morning Ray.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
With breezy westerlies seven and nineteen, Saturday afternoon showers and
Northwestern's forming seven and sixteen, and on Sunday cloudy were
breezy nor South westerlies nine and sixteen, So temperatures that
had Northern Southland sixteen rivetons sixteen point four, town now
sixteen point one, did o Tittleoa went to fifteen point
eight and Woodland's at fifteen point three. And before we
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go any further as round the peaks to see and
do here at Southern Field Days, Eco Lab there at
Site two point thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Now Eco Lab a fantastic relationship with farmers.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They've developed and nurtured this over decades regarding quality, effective
farm hygiene products.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Now what they're doing now is.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
They've got a really great competition happening here at the
Field Days. You site number two thirty, set up and
get all your season's requirements, regaining all your cleaning needs
for the sheared with Eco Lamb going to the drawer
like you say, to win back what you pay, T's
and C's applies.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
That's Echo Lab on site number two thirty.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Now we're starting the hour with Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils,
followed up by Hamish Tonkin of gw d's Jared, Stop
Me and the Dairy and Z We're going to have
a young everybody's in person he I mean, everybody's that
way movie today, which, to be honest, Master.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Regular Bruceeed Cows so we have a catch up as well.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Tell you one thing I'm seeing a lot of in
the South at the moment, that is a hell of
a lot of maze being grown. Bruce is an ever
based grower, as is the past couple of seasons and
tells us what's it like growing the crop, especially in
conditions like this. And Craig Wiggy Wiggins lean on a gate,
talk to a mate. Wiggi's down here at field days.
We have a catch up to see how things are
(03:48):
going from his perspective and probably a pleathor of other
guests as well. There's a lot of noise in the background.
It's fantastic because what happens when you're out and about
people just walking behind it is like you're in an apartment.
They're just trying to excuse himself. That's the natural of
the beast. Let's all go here at the Southern Field
days at Waye Moon Moo. Starting the hour and next
with Steve Allison Timers eight after one.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
She's a love small shows.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Saw us are on Hakanui, coming to you live from
the Southern Field Days at Wayne.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Movie Timers ten after one. I'm joined now by.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Steve Allison of Bioactive Soil. Steve, Good, afternoon, and welcome
to the show. We talked to you a couple of
days ago, but it's not until you get on the
ground here at Wai Movie.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Did you actually understand the sheer size of the event.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
How are you, brilliant Andy, enjoying it all, enjoying catching
up with our farmers and enjoying hearing all their good
stories and their successes that they're having.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean you guys who know as much as anybody,
especially on you still the mood around the center at
the moment, how would you say this?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Rant?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
I see a lot of people spending, so I think
they're in a really good.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Mood at the moment.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So, so you've been busy on site horrifically busy, horrifically busy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, that's a great Just a few of the stories.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
One of one of the farms we took over, which
is urea dairy farm. He was happy to tell us
that he's gone from four auty solars to five eighty solids. Yeah,
and that's only talking in two years, so he's quite excited.
We've also had another success in the deer industry. We've
had a few new Zealand records there, as you can
(05:29):
see by that one.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now, I'm just seeing a bit of an impressive set
of antlers here. Of course, bioective soil, so it's all contributing. Steve,
What is it that works so well with you? But
what is it that people are saying from you from
your perspectives?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
For them the missing element within our soils. We believe
in m p k s, but it's the living side
of the soils that's the kingmaker in making a difference.
And we've been ignoring it up till now, but we're
certainly turning the lights on.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Why would you say it's being ignored, Well.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You get likes of these inset where you get grass,
grub and prime and there's a reason why they are there.
And if your saws are activating at optimum level, it's
not an environment an environment.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
For them to be in.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
That's one example.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
So there's a good chance to eliminate likes at grass,
grub and pin it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Are totally gone. Our farmers today they're telling us how
they've gotten none and they haven't had any for a
few years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's a reality.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So by out of soils, just get back to the
nuts and bolts of the businesses space Steve, what you
guys are actually about.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Okay, the bases biofish and bio seaweed. We use that
as the base and then we add all the other
bits and pieces on top. So that's the living side
of it. We draw off twenty different fishing companies throughout
the South Island, you name it, where eels, anything like that.
Southern Ocean is very rich. We take the waste or
(06:52):
even total big salmon if you believe it. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So just over the years you got you've just seen
a lot of people wanting to it's look at ferred options.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And the lights.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Yeah, everyone's a winner with us. The environment, there's no
leech into the water after where they are the biology
is working. We've been doing this for a few decades.
Believe me, we've had it. We've got it wrong a
few times. It's a delicate product. If you don't have
it right, it.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is like products of old way over time and no
different view, guys.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
No, it's not a liquid fertilizer. It's a solid fish fertilizer, so.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It blends very well.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
We're sore friendly, phosphates and all those things.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Do you have trouble convincing people about fish alternative fertilizers
and such compared to the normal granular formula. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
What we enjoy is you get some pretty tough type farmers,
very dubious, but they become born again and they're used.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
In fact, they they are brilliant.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
So yeah, no trouble once they come over they you know,
they're the real deals.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So whereabouts you guys at Southern field days for people
and if they're not here today, Tomorrow, Thursday or Friday,
are in the aggres center obviously.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Top right hand corner from the road A one to one,
A one two two, you won't miss less.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So as far as field days, how many events would
you say you've been to over the past few years.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Are you a constant at these events?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
One Momoy Field Days and also one Canterbury Always what.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you most enjoyed?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
It just the vibe of the event that you travel
around and you're looking out there.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Now the day's turning, it's getting warmer, and yeah, well
I'm thinking I might need a bit of sunscreen later on.
Just shows you, though, that everybody just wants to get
out and about and experience field days.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
It's a networking the excitement that farmers. That farmers have,
and most of our farmers are very proactive, so there's
always some very deep and meaningful discussions. We enjoy that
just catching up with them all though they're good buckers, and.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And that's the big thing about the events, is about connecting.
And ideally you need two days at these events because
you're not going to see everybody in one day. Because
your neighbor from on the road and across the river
and your second cousin you haven't seen for a while,
you just tried everyone. That's the nature of the beast
and that's the brilliance of it.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
And there's a few new farmer friends of met today already.
So words out, it's getting around, so.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's working good for you guys.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So what's the catchphrase for you guys in bioactive soils?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
What's your catchphrase?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Would you say, I'll grow with BUI of soils?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Sorry but basic? But yeah, that's nice and there's nothing
wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Steve will let you carry on.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Great.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Thanks up, and I'm here Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils
here at Southern Field Days.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And like you said, there's plenty of things to see
and do.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
And Steve and the team of Bioactive Soils you may
have heard in syndathy the other day on the program,
certainly telling you about alternatives regarding fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
On the farm. This is the muster at Southern Field
Days at way Mumu.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Up next we have from GWd Motor Groups, Tomkin.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Tom has gone sixteen after.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
One the muster with any newer thanks to Peter's genetics.
Every trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's genetics.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Cause in time getting us to the.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Song track to the muster eighteen minutes after one, coming
to you live from the row Ebanks site of the
Southern Field Days at wai Mumu as I'm joined by
Hamous Tonkin of GWd Motor Group. Now we all know
about the Toyota highlux They said that world record just
on a year ago for the amount of highluxes in
one place up there at Laura Coots. They're not far
(10:31):
away from Kingston Hamers.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Welcome once again. Always good to connect.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Thanks Andy, good to see you too. It's another beautiful
field days. Well it's beautiful this time. Yesterday was anything
but as you would have known.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
But look, the forecast is really good for today and tomorrow,
at least tomorrow's thinking pot.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Yeah. I had to drag about thirty four cars on
yesterday and they all look like they've been through a
rally track but got the water last rout. This morning
they're looking good.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But the great thing is the infrastructure is pretty good
around here as well. A lot of time and effort
over the years and you know, the pals pretty much disappear.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Absolutely, the running a good ship here.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Okay, gwd's how's it been for you guys?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Here?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Has been good.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
We're right by the entrance, so we've got a massive
flurry of people through at the start of the day
and we've got a whole bunch of new things on
the yard for people to see a few challenges. We've
got the barbecue sizzling and the coffee bruin. All about
a bit of hospitality. What is the allure of the
highlax Well, we all know around here it's tough as nails.
It's dependable. It's just like your old mate you can
rely on, and has just lasted through the generations. Suppose
(11:28):
of what we've got in front of us now, it
lasted through the generations. It gets a couple of upgrades
every now and again. We've just got the latest one
on the yard now, which has got way improved driving
dynamics and new looks inside.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And now here's what is a truly one for? How
long's twyots have been in New Zealand?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Would you say?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
They have actually been in New Zealand for sixty years.
It's the sixtieth anniversary this year. So they started in
August nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Sixty six, Yeah, yeah, sixty six, all right, date second,
kisse yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
It's not a library. Look how yeah you went up
to Cred Cup, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We did. You were part of the celebration.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Absolutely, so we managed to get the first ever to
a Corona off the production line in New Zealand down
for that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What year was that? It's a sixty seven so.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Produced in sixty six, must have been registered in sixty seven.
Doesn't have a chest number on the firewalls, so it's
number zero absolute first one would have come off the
line in Stone Brothers back in Crossery, back in the day.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Stone Brothers. What Stone Brothers.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
They were an engineering firm that put together a local
assembly of a few twiter models.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Guys, over time you've last you've lasted it pretty well obviously.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I mean it's a pretty cutthroat market when it comes
to vehicles, it is.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
But you know, Toyta has always had that reputation for resilience, reliability,
depend when they hold their value and they're just you
know south on Lasa Twitter straight.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Away you go to the crumpy and scotty yads of
the eighties.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Absolutely that was a classic ground for sure, and the
bugger Rads and the cow the bulls in the front
and the lakes and you just think maybe over time
and g was the sound old but right.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So what do you guys got on site?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
On site? So new generation highlights that we just mentioned.
It's one of its first public appearances.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
They actually only came off the truck about two weeks ago,
so we're trying to get people out and about of them.
But they're on show here, so come in, have a touch,
ever feel, and give us your number and you can
humber a test drive next week.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
What's the difference between a new generation highlights and say,
what model is a few years old?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 8 (13:26):
The biggest upgrades that we've got is now from SR
five our mid range, we've now got disc brakes across
the whole range. We've now got electronic power steering, so
that's a massive improvement in the way they drive. The
old ones with their lane departure, they used to grab
the brakes and pull you roughly back into the lane.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
These ones smooth as butter do.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
They still come out of manual absolutely and still get
them with a six speed manual.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Because menials are like a diamond doesn't You can't get.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Them absolutely, And that's what's such a great thing that
we can still offer our customers a six speed manual
transmission if you still feel like run your own and.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Then are you finding people still preferring E manual.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We get a few, we get a few diehards.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
They're fund to drive, they are, and these new ones
are intelligent manual, so you can press a little button,
impossible to stall it and a rev matches.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
You're driving a manual. You need to know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Absolutely, but if you do want to show off to people,
you can just press that WEE button. Where you go.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Now, the MGU nine, what's this about?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
This is latist offering MG. I know you're thinking MG,
you're thinking small economy car. This is a behemoth of
a ute if you're thinking sort of Silverado size, Ram size.
It's five and a half meters long and over two
meters wide, and they start at sixty and ninety seven.
A lot of trucks for the money. Three and a
(14:43):
half ton towing. The cabin is huge. You get fit
about four a meter across the back seat.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Because these these big tracks, they've become a thing over
the past few years in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
These Keiwi market.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Absolutely, they're becoming quite popular. So we're jumping on the
trend with MG and GAH great value.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Now the Palisa, what's this about?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
This is the all new Palisade. It's its first public appearance.
It's just come fresh from doing a media shoot in Queenstown.
Ready for us.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Of course it has.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
It's the big new family ISSUV heaps his space. It's
a two point five liter turbo hybrid and it looks
like a classic mob boss vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's quite impressive to look at.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Do you have trouble convincing copies about a hybrid?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
You do get the occasional person saying, hey, what's this
hybrid about. Look, all we got to tell them is
that you just drive it like a normal one. You
put fuel in the charges itself. There's absolutely nothing to
worry about, and it might save you a couple of leaders.
So you know, you just save your money, no compromise, and.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Of course you've got your warranty.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Yes, this is a new, big one for all you
totter customers out there, tight to service protect So if
you come into any certified tourter dealership like ourselves at
GW Twitter, and your Twitter is under ten years old
with under one hundred and fifty thousand k's, you're gonna
get a one year, fifteen thousand k warranty on it,
which is fantastic for ownership. So once car runs out
(16:06):
of warranty, you still actually covered as long as you're
service with a toty dealer.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Fantastic. Now, as far as Field Days, how do you
find it?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Do you get a rolldow Dean ravage to stay here?
He's just been gone anyway back. Like I say, I'm
walk in the middle of the pup here, people just
squeezing past us. Brilliant, But look, Field Days, do you
need to get much of a look around?
Speaker 8 (16:27):
I will try make an escape of being a wee
bit tied to this morning, But yeah, I do like
to go around and check what the competition's up to
to make sure I'm cheap enough to scratch it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I got to keep raising the bar over you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
We came here, you want to go and buy a
hot dog and something at the same time they.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Don't, you know, well, we've got the sausages cooking it.
I don't have to get my own gorse out really
good exactly start one eighty six eighty six, all.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Going on down there?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, good on your hamers.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Hope it goes well for you guys.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
GWd Motor Group always need to.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Catch upmous Tomkin GWd Motor Group twyotas.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It's any on the same as New Zealand six years young.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Dare I say that now?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
This is the muster on Hakkanui Life from the Rabobank
at the Southern Field Days at Waie Moonmy twenty five
after one.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Up next from Derry and Z Jared Stockman.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The Muster with Andy Muir Thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Proud why eight minutes after one you're listening to the
muster on Hakkanu. He coming live from Southern Field Days.
Beautiful woy Moonmoo at the Rabobank. So I thank you
very much for a rabbit bank for your hospitality. Jared
Stockman of Darry and Z joins us. Next in Perison.
Jared House sings.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Great, Andy, what an awesome day and hasn't a fantastic
to be at the Field Days.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Hey have you been here before?
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Yeah, a number of times over the years, and just
love it, love the just the vibe that's here. And
there's a lot of smiling farmers walking around, which is awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Dennis and Muso the old lawyer in the castle.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
It's all about the but it's all about now and
that's exactly what you get at way Moving.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Oh absolutely, and like it's just it's great to see
you know, all sectors of the eggre industry doing well,
particularly important for Southend.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
And yeah, it's just just awesome to be here.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, everyone's smiling. Haven't seen a grumpy face yet. Maybe
the old kid having a bit of a malfunction, but
that's part at Bazzel.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
I think maybe it's they're not getting enough free pens
and hats and stuff, so they've certainly cleaned us out
in now stand. But that's awesome and great to see
the kids here.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
There's lots of kids and that they kids having like
a growth day whatever you call it, I don't know, but.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Getting out and about doing stuff. It's what it's about
being a kid in.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
South one hundred percent and look South and does such
a great job and showcasing all things Aggrey, which is
so I think I think the school should make it,
make it a holiday for the kids and get.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Them out of well that's what Gorche used to be
back in the day in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We had a day off the Balfo when it was
out in November and you go to the gorchows that
I was thinking about in early December actually tend to
be corrected, but certainly it was something.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was on the social calender.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Yeah, I was a young man in Taranaki in the
early eighties andies, so I'll take you weird for it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I was pretty much the same, a young man running
around cattle flair. But anyway, I'm not dairy instead, like
you said, the vibe out there talking to people, everyone's
pretty cheaper at the moment, but you'll be seeing that
any day to day activities as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
We've hit some really good turn out at our events
and again a big cross growth production is really strong
and Southend. In fact, I think Southland's leading the way
across the country and growth.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So it's extremely positive.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Just had a we rise and another we rise in
the milk christ so you know, again cautious optimism that
mid nines might be the order of the season.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, it'll be interesting as well.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
G next GDT y Ocht And we said that about
this previous one and all of a sudden it comes
into the equation heaven for big going for four in
a row after I think what was it?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Nine drops?
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Yeah, actually what I'd be a rich man if I
could predict it, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Oh, if you knew the weather and the GDT mark,
you're doing pretty well for yourself.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Yeah, I reckon, I definitely sell it. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So in general, though, I mean quite a bit on
the table at the moment, was starting to get properly
into the working year.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I mean, Kevin for Bitter in the second week of February, how.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Are you talking about the GD two results of looking
the situation, the likes like feeds not an issue around
Southland at all if you guys seem to be fitting
out a little bit of supplement, but you're not, don't
seem too concerned.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
It's been a whey that tight's probably the western seaf
and guys out to a tech red need a bit
of rain. But you know, kind of central eastern Southland
have got just enough. But I think, you know, another
thirty forty miles followed by a week of fine days
would be enough to keep things going. But again, plenty
of people cutting bailage and silent and stuff. So third
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cuts already in the way, which is again still pretty.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Positive and the team from Open Country saying yesterday the
production is still going game blusters.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Yeah, and that's really sort The last number I saw
was that south And was ten percent ahead, but really leading.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
South Island's really leading the charge.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
For production growth this year, which is yeah, which is
again on the back of a.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Poor previous spring.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I think people have taken that opportunity where they fed
out feed and just kept going.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Well, it's just relative to Togo, Southland, I mean, you know,
Richard Copeland, that's just sorry, look, just focusing so these
people every wee here, it's carnage.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
But hey, I may we talk about the GDT coming
out of the South.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I reckon like fifteen even sixteen percent out of a
tiger and Southland alone and all these politicians, especially from
the Coalition government are going to be hanging around.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Everywhere over the next couple of days, and I need
to be known, it needs to be known that this
is a honeypot of the country at the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
You know, Southland Otago is an absolute powerhouse in dairy
and you know, I think rightly so farmers will be
asking asking their politicians about how well they're being looked
after and just challenging, challenge them. They're thinking because you know,
South and very strong in dairy and I guess you know,
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like the Levy vote, our farmers wont return from the
politicians as well.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Do you think there's a lot of confidence out there
in the politicians at the moment.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I mean you think you're two looks to the Paris
Accord and all of a sudden what was it?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
What did I read the other day?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But I don't believe the Paris court and just look
after our own well.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Look, I think it's a bit like my school report card,
you know, could do better. So yeah, I think there's
more opportunity to create, to create more value for our
for our dairy farmers, and you know, hopefully we will, we'll,
we'll see that because I think again of dairy and
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she doing well in New Zealand's doing well.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
It's just just seems to be the arable sector, which
is a little bit on the fence of the moment.
It sounds as the Canterbury shout out to Canterbury listeners
as well and with thoughts with you as to try
and get the harvest off is what has been quite
an enduring season.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Yeah, pretty tough on them.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
And look they'll have a flow on effect for dairy
farmers as well in terms of feed. But also there's
you know, the how that went through South Canterbury December
is now quite a few wint to cross, so it's
going to be some challenges in this space.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I suppose down here that we talk about Southern prerogative
props are looking pretty deeper.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
They won't.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Everybody's getting organized for want of feeding, even though we're
still a wee way away.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
In driving around, what's been really pleasing is that people
are following the rules, so seeing good buffer zones, seeing
uncultivated you know, natural source areas and stuff like that.
So you know, South and farmers do it really well,
and you know, we expect that their regultary bodies really
promote their success.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
To ye has it taken a long time for the
message to get through or do you think farmers pretty
much the whole way through them been pragmatic about the situation.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Look, I think the vast majority have and continue to
do a good job.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
We're always going to have exceptions, and look, you know,
stuff's going to happen through the season if it's tap
wintering down here, if we get a really horrible winter,
but the farmers are up for it, they're prepared for it,
and yeah, we really support what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, darienzid Levy vote wins us coming up.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Yes, that's on the fourtengths, So voting picks go out
on the four inc and farmers had got just on
a month to cast their vote. And it's the key
message is we just want we just want to levy
players to actually vote.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So they can do it.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
They can do it online, they'll get a voting pick
or they can see it back in post. But look,
we just really encourage them to vote and really encourage
them to continue to give us good feedback.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Are you anticipating in good return vels regarding this?
Speaker 9 (24:56):
I really hope so, because I think, you know, I'll
be disappointed if we don't get eighty five percent of
our dairy farmers across the zeal And vote because you know,
we need to, I guess send that message to the
government that we're a strong and united organizations. So it's
really important that farmers do vote. And yeah, really hoping
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that we you know, eighty five a fantastic.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Turn OUTTA takes where movies are going to go.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
In the future, is it not so much where they're
going to go.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
I mean, look, ultimately a no vote means a disbandment
of dairy en Z ultimately if that's the majority. But look,
we're we're cautiously optimistic that the vast majority of dairy
farmers trust what daren Z do. They support adverse advocacy,
they get along to our events, they engage with their
(25:50):
science and research teams. So again, you know, cautiously optimistic
that we will do a good job. But importantly, what
we want is people to vote.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's pretty much the worst case scenario though if that
occurs here, it is.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But you never want to take things for granted.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
And I think what we are learning is that every
day is a levy day, and so we need to
be delivering value to our dairy farmers every single day,
not just every six years, but every single day. We
need to turn up, do the best for our dairy farmers,
do the best for the dairy industry, and just continue.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know, to make this industry and success.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, okay, put the shell on the other foot. Do
you hear frustrations regarding darien Z from.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
These people as well. Yeah, yeah, we do it, and
I guess I don't hear enough. And that's you know,
feedback is just the breakfast of champions. So the more
feedback we get, the more opportunity we've got to you know,
change our direction or look at research, scientists, science and
things like that. So what we're doing at the Field
Field Days is every farmer we speak to, we're asking
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them what are the key priorities you want us to
concentrate on in the lower South Island So in South
and Otago, what the dairy en z need to be
doing to provide solutions or focus or challenges for you know,
for the sector. So yeah, I look, I'm positive that
we're going in the right direction and I'm really comfortable
(27:12):
we've got the right team in South of Otago to
support a dairy farmers.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
So like to Southern Field Days for you, what's it
about for dairy and Z.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's engaging with their farmers.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
It's it's it's I guess, to put a shining light
on the industry and just get feedback. Ultimately, that's what
we want from her from the farmers that we're seeing
were getting them to fill in a very small survey
and we're getting some really good feedback in terms of
what their focus needs to be on in the next
twelve eighty months.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Can you take your particularly you're after while you're here
or you're just pretty much at the steam.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
No, I haven't any chance to look around yet. Look,
I'm just I'm just after connections with people and just
you know, just running into people. It's just so awesome,
great happy people and you know, I just I love
being here talking to farmers and you know, what a job.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
And I mean the hospitality here at Raboban for goodness, say,
your slider is going around and there's no point in
me trying to eat and talk at the same time.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But it's just it's fantastic, the vibe. It's everything just happeny,
isn't it.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Yeah, and Rabbo do a great job every year, and
as do you know, all the other competitors and things
like that. But that's what it's all about, is you know,
a good chat and you know, listening to the noise
coming out of that tent, it's you know, that's great
for Rabbo.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Absolutely, Hey, good on you jaredoids appreciate your time on
the muster and what you carry on your Mirry way best.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Andy, appreciate it, mate.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Jared Stockman of Derry and Z just one of the
many businesses here at Southern Field Days at Way Moomo.
This is the muster on HOCKINWI. My name's Andy Muwer.
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Speaker 4 (29:01):
Cozy, Welcome back to the master arm Hockey NEWI well
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Speaker 6 (29:09):
He's not too far away.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
But Craig Wiggy Wiggins is joining us next from lean
on the gate. Talk to him, mate, amongst other things. Wiggy,
good afternoon, welcome and you had nice to see you again.
So it's like we come together at these big events,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Really?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's always these big events we come together and ask
how Don Ford's doing.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Actually I spent the night on Friday night a little
wall ago and had a quiet beer with Don and Sheryl. Yeah,
the relations of yours that used to live across the
road from me, but we've shifted.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, good on your Dona share them. Know you're listening
more often than not now.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You guys here lean on the Gate yourself and Slave
McFarlane former rugby player, very good review player back in
the day as well.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
But you guys are down here doing the hard work. Yeah, definitely, mate.
We're very lucky.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
South On fel days, arsisfor would come down and talk
a little bit about what we're doing in the Lean
on the Gate space and we can announce that we
now have training module available for everybody in the Royal
service industries and farmers as well, where we can come
in and train your people to look after their people.
And so what that means is we can do a
forty five minute training for any business anywhere where it's nationwide.
(30:13):
So a big company like Rabbit Bank, for example, where
we're sitting, we can train they're front facing people regionally
and with community awareness, so that teaches them how to
have those conversations and how to approach people. And fifteen
percent of the people we put through that training end
up doing what we call safeTALK connector training and they
go through and they can facilitate help. And then those
(30:35):
that really want to get involved and put a spade
in the ground become suicide assist trained.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
And it's normally only half a percent or one percent
want to take that option. But that's top of the
notch stuff here.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Now, Shane Buck and he's just walked the links of
New Zealand. You would have heard about this. It's about
for people who had to deal with the aftermath of
suicide and the likes you've been a fantastic god too
good on your shame. It was really appreciated the people
out there doing their utmost is actually get out there
and get a bit of understanding about this about the
subject A.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Suppose, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 11 (31:06):
And you know, if you think about the stock agent
for example, and I'm an arable farmer for instance in
mid Canabury and I want a thousand lambs for the winter,
I'm going to give that stock agent one hundred and
forty thousand dollars to spend on a thousand lambs. So
I trust that person, that person I have a professional
and a personal relationship with, and nine times out of
ten they've had their feed under my kitchen table. If
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I trust them that much to do my bidding for
the year and try and make money for me, nine
times out of ten they're the one that I'm going
to say, hey, I'm not trucking too well. And if
you're a stock agent or an agronomus, or a vet
or a tr are you trained for that conversation? And
so we're offering that training and by all accounts the
companies we've done the training for now we're having really
(31:47):
really good results.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
There's also a No.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Eight hundred number and case management behind this as well.
Mates and Construction have been doing this program for the
last eight years in New Zealand and we know it works.
It reduced the side rates in construction or it puts
a lot of wraparound support around that, and we know
that agricultures in the same numbers, we can do the
same for rural New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
As far as rial suicide numbers. For the past twelve months,
what have we seen.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
It hasn't gone away and it will never go away.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
But what we want to do is to be able
to support the people, to support those and try and
get back inside the farm gate.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
So there's a lot of bottom of the cliff stuff.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
There's a lot of public speaking about mental health and
stuff like that, but we know anecdotically and we've seen
studies where if we can get those rural service industries
that deal with people day to day to have the
conversations and connect and help, we can make a big difference.
We've been trucking along the same road, catching people when
they come out to say that they need help, but
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it's more about catching the people that don't know they
need help and empowering those that see those problems.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
That's a really interesting Turritor phrase you've got there. If
you trust your age to buy you stock, then you
can trust them with a lot of things.
Speaker 11 (33:03):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of the young people
that are in the reyal service industries don't realize the
importance of the profession, of the personal relationship that leads
to a professional relationship. Like you you know yourself. You
know you have a relationship with your bank manager, your
stock agent. You're agronomous and it becomes very personal or
or you like that person. So, hey, you're a stock agent,
(33:24):
how about coming and have a look at my lambs
for me, because you've met them somewhere else. And so
moving through that, you know there is that position of
trust and connection already, and so they're in a privileged
position to be able to facilitate help as well if
they have the right knowledge and training behind that.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Now you in over to the States and you're not
not that long ago, and apparently everything went really really
top draw.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Yeah, I was really nervous about going going over there.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Talk.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Sorry, we just dropped the microphone. Are we just breaking
the player? That was the guy before me? I think,
a sure, you need a new mic stand.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We actually the wee story there bus the wild ones
weren't in there, So these ones came down carrier from
the cargos.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
I'll just hold on to it anyway.
Speaker 11 (34:06):
So I went up to do a fencing conference in
America in Indiana, and as a patron of the New
Zealand Fencing Competition. They are conference and that they asked
me to go up and we did the lean on
the gate work there over the three days. At the
end of the competition, or was the MC for the
price coming and the conference and stuff, and so they
give the winner of the singles event a handgun, they
(34:28):
give the winner of the doubles event two long lever
action forty fives, and at the end of the night
there's one gun left there, and that gun was for
the person that delivered the most to the conference, and
they gave that to me. And the mental health work
around lean on the Gate has really taken a hold
over there, And just a month or two back, there
was a young man singing at Nashville on the stage
(34:48):
wearing a lean on the Gate really top. And you know,
there's a hat that we left over there that the
fencing contractors passed from one contractor to another in each state.
And while they've got that lean on the Gate hat,
they've got a go and talk into their communities about
what that means.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
And so it's become a real thing up there. They
want me back, but we've got enough.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Work to do here.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Just quietly, see nothing wrong with a trip to the
States every day.
Speaker 11 (35:09):
And then, oh, yeah, I know, I loved I loved
it up there in Indiana was such a nice place.
We went to the graveyard, to the brickyard, I should say,
where Indian that it was five hundred is and we
got to do a lot of nice stuff.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
And rural people are the same all around the world.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
They have the same issues, they have the same stresses,
and they have the same benefit as well too. So
getting people to connect and understand how somebody's tracking at
any one time, that's a simple thing.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
But I'll tell you something. The wave you put out
as the wave you get back.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
And if you can invest and give somebody a bit
of attention and a bit of help when they need it,
they'll be there.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
And when it's your turn, well, I've got you here
as well, because you're the voice of rodeos down here,
especially in the South. And I only went to my
first radio TIA now in between Christmas and New Year,
and what if it was the hell of occasion.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
It was really really cool.
Speaker 11 (35:56):
Yeah, I did thirty five years of rodeo announcing and
you were lucky to see me and Tianna. It was
only that I know the President and his wife really
well and offered to give them a little bit or
they asked if I'd give them a little bit of help.
I'm not doing that anymore now. I'm still doing the
Royal games commentary and stuff like that. But yeah, I've
traveled internationally doing that that event. But you know, Rodeo
seems have got some pretty good crowds and put some
(36:18):
pieces now and yeah, there's there's lots of support for
it still, especially down here in the South, but even
in the North. And this year you can go to
the National Finals Rodeo at Wakawaii I think on the
fourteenth of March, so it's definitely worth turning up there.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Hey, good on you're you always appreciate your time, mate.
Now am you doing a great job? And I'll just
come into dearly. Why you're at the field days? Are
you looking to buy anything in particular, like you highlights
or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
I tell you what and I'm going to put a
shameless slug out. I've just talked to some people at
Ravens Down and a few others.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
This this.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
Training module that we have, Like I'm begging people to
take it on board. I'll put them this is the
reason or quit Rodeo announcing and don't this will make
a difference. We just need you to become partners in
the Lean on a Gate charity and we can give
you back as much as you give, but I'll put
a shameless plug in.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Mate.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
We do need a vehicle and if any of the
companies are listening to this feel like they want to
come up, come at us with a vehicle to get
around the country to do this, I'd definitely like to
see some promotional stuff done and we would like to
hook ourselves to you as well. So yeah, yeah, if
you want to help us, come and see us. We're
just right outside the main pavilion there and got the
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lean on the gate. But anybody that wants to get
involved in the training or just be a part of
what we do and help your people, we'd be privileged
to have you on board, just while you're here. Hell
is the season to make Canterbury. Oh it's not very good,
not for an arable farmer. You know, if you're a
dairy farmer or a fattening block it's going really well.
We've got grass for Africa, but getting it authopatics is
going to be the hard part. But the arable guys
are really really struggling.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
I had an arable farmer pulled me aside the other
day in one of the shops and he's worried about
succession planning. He's brought a new head and he hasn't
been able to use it. We are in trouble up there,
guys are in trouble.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Okay, well, you always appreciate your words. You're doing a
hell of a great job, mate, keep doing today.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Thanks for your supporting.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Sorry about the microphone, that's all right, we'll just put
it on the tab. Ten minutes away from two.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
This is the Muster on hock and Newie coming to
you live from the Rubbibanks site. It's a Southern field
that I'll offer to that. You're right, Southern Field Days,
of course, Rubbibank. Great to have him on board up
next before we wrap up day one of the muster
on tour pre seed.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So local.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I feel you.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Let's welcome back to the muster coming to your life
from Southern Field Days the way moving at the Rabbit
Banks site. The time is seven minutes away from two.
Just having a week chuckle there, I'll laugh out loud
and sort of for the abbey.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
You'll be pleased to know. Well, maybe not and under.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Least three seed joins us the next regular correspondent dairy
farming at Calso.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Good afternoon there, and pretty good yourself.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Field days.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
You'll be getting a good understanding of how things have
been today so far.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, it was a cool start the even the missed
and rain. But the sun's coming out now and she's
probably hot now, but lots of people out. It's got
busier as the days got on. We've just had a
good lunch here at Rabo as Ol, so big props
to them. It's always the battle who has the best lunch,
and Rabo are winning at the moment.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
So many options around baby seeps there is.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
That's right. You almost have to two or three lunches
a day.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
But when you come to an event like this, and
you know you explained it the other day, you just
can't give yourself a day to come here, to be
here because you need to come and visit all the sites.
You have much to see, but you know half the
people here.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
You come and you have a plan in your head
of things you want to look at, and you're running
to fifteen people who probably are your neighbors that you
saw last week, but you still have to talk to
them fifteen minutes each and go another ten steps and
you never actually get around it. Also, it does a
two day job.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Now. We spoke to you probably last week on the
muster actually started last week. But nonetheless, like, I just
can't believe the growth we've seen in some areas over
the past ten days. You had this rain yesterday and
then you fast forward to today and it's just it's
almost going to be some hat material shortly.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
You're sort of for that. Luckily you don't want the
chrome done getting a bit of a blister on it.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, the soul panel will get a beating all right,
pretty quick in this weather.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
But no, look, we've had I think we had twelve
meals a round there on Saturday night after the show,
and we had seven or eight yesterday, so it's almost
twenty meals in the last three.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Or four days.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Beautiful heat talking twenty five to thirty degrees tomorrow, mate,
things are bowling that solids that we'd cut it only
a week ago.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Now it's played any air ready to graee. It's amazing
how things have really balked.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, and a shout out to the team on the
gore Amp Association for the Gorse Show and worked in
with a regional final for the dunk Farmer of the
Year competition. Of course Tom Slee one day on Saturday night.
But you guys, of there's a lot of work that
goes into an event like that. It's like this on
Field Days they've been parvate committee.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
It takes a lot of time, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It was sort of a full day operation for us
as Thursday was sort of set up and then I said,
I was exhibiting and cars and out the show. So
that was Friday and Saturday and then you're doing your
exhibit a part and then the committee part as well,
and then Sundays are cleanup.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
So yeah, she's a bit of a joab all right.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So I certainly don't ven view the committee here at
the Field Days that they put on a fan task
event that draws people from all over.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
The Southland probably the country really to be honest.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
And you know, a bit of rain yesterday, a few
people will probably weave bit panicky, but she'll be dust
by the end of Friday.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Now, it's interesting we talk about the may side of things.
You've been doing Mayed for a couple of years. We
talk about this more often than not, but it's still
intriguing that we're growing amazing south and like Yeah, you
go down the back grade there to Riversdale, Northern southd
Mclintock's way, the amount of may ise being grown through
there to Balfa is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
See almost you're almost like a pioneer.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I wouldn't say pioneer, but we use pioneer. So there's
a good lead in the product, a nice segway there.
You know, it's good and I mean we've just seen
that change in the last three or four days as
well with the sun and the heat, you know, as
well as that bit of moisture. So and I think
it's going to be a part of the system for
South and dairy farms I think going forward in a
lot of years to come.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
So interesting talking to WIGGI before Craig Wiggans about rural
mental health and the likes you talk about mental health.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
We'll touch on this briefly.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
It was interesting on social media X as it's called
these days, what's for only Twitter?
Speaker 6 (42:01):
But it certainly.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
It's not what it used to be and you just
get over it pretty quickly these days unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, it'st to use it myself now just as a
as a news feed to see what's happening. For a
lot of sport and that and a bit of agriculture
and that it's got very political, I suppose, and we
don't want to get down that con route. But apologies
to there you was put off the game. We're gonna
thanks people.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
It's been nice to be on the muster and I
won't be back again.
Speaker 6 (42:28):
It's okay, continue, that's right.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, so we don't want to go down that road,
but it's running me now.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
You're throwing the yeah, we'll just say yeah, we're just
talking really really the sport and farming is what I'm
there for, you know, and it's just something that you know,
if you let it get to you at well. So
we just focused on the positives of farming and all
that sort of thing and the good bandter. There's a
corp of guys that's sort of funnily enough between Australia
and New Zealand. We have a good good bit of
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band he you know, not farming necessary and cows and that,
but cropping big stations and things like that, and it
changes the focus. So don't let that sort of thing
get down. Just do it your loves and follow it.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
So are you buying anything any big ticket items and
not a green tractor.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Perhaps No, I got an ice cream and put a
flake in it this year, so over pushed the boat out.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
Not the way to pay us. Looking at the likes,
you could bay have two flakes.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, well maybe yeah, we don't want to just get
too silly. But no, there's plenty thing.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
We've got a few things that we're just doing a
wee bit of research on and whether anything comes of it,
we'll see you. That's the best part of this sort
of the field days is everything's in the one place.
You don't have to drive all around town and things
like that to compare, so we're just having to wander
around and it's a good leisurely A couple of days could.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Own you, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Hey, we'll leave it there, fraudy and slip aside. But
look type laugh out loud because laughing life on the
farm can. But you're laughing about it. Brought to you
by Sheer We our data working to out the livestock farmer.
Oh god, I've just left it here again. I once
stated a girl who had a twin, and people always
ask why I could tell them apart it was simple.
Some painting and nails read and jury had a beat.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Actually, that's a that's a good one to wrap up
this afternoon. Bruce, always appreciate your time on the Muster.
You go around there and wash your mouth out.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yeah, that's right. You won't be hearing from me again, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Okay, So now that wraps up the first edition of
Southern Field Days at Waii Movie, the Muster Edition. My
name's Andy Mua. Thanks very much for Rabbi Bank for
hosting us, of course the Muster and hockey. Now he
is proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon.
Stay sound smart out there.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Saber, par Let's have a part.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
I love you, that's soul, Old Cup, I lift you up.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Percy the party, Broce the Part.
The Muster with Andy Meuer thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm amember, I'm a blue cormed crown.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
They can no, they can't keep me down alone.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
And welcome to the Muster on Hokkernui. My name is
Andy Muer. The show is brought to you by Peter's
Genetics and we're broadcasting live from the Southern Field Days
at way Moomoo, the twenty twenty sixth edition.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
I'll give you a tip on the weather here as well.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yesterday we were getting things organized, it was bucketing down
and it was cold. We fast forward twenty four hours
and it's actually reasonably overcast in a pleasant afternoon in prospect.
The infrastructure is holding up really well. These people everywhere.
By the way, I'm broadcasting from the Rubbobank side as well,
So fantastic to Rabobank for having us on board. And yeah,
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lock just a hive of people around if you're coming
to the Field Days over the next forty eight hours
or saying, he's going to be a heck of a
lot for you to see and do. As we can
disjudge all the punters going through and as you'd expect, Hey,
before we go any further as well, we've got the
stock sale report courtesy of PGG, writes in the Balcluther
sale held today with Mark Calder, he sent it through
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now stars Prime lambs price is there Large went from
two thirty to two sixty eight mediums one ninety to
two twenty two Store lambs large one forty to one
seventy five, mediums one ten to one thirty. Large usgzs
are getting up in Maney two forty to two seventy,
mediums one eighty to two twenty and smalls at one
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seventy to one forty rams. Even this isn't too bad
one seventy to one forty. Our next cattle sail at
Balcluth's being held on the twenty fifth, and the second
U Fair on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
So the weather as.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, brought to you by twin Farm Genetics, a home
of Tefron. This afternoon sunny, were light, sou easterly is
in a high twenty three and it's starting to get muggy.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Thursday, here's the kakak cloudy.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You're like nor easterlies seventeen and twenty eight, so Monday
to sunscreen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But Rea's assured that this is Southland.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
We're back to reality on Friday morning Ray.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
With breezy westerlies seven and nineteen, Saturday afternoon showers and
Northwestern's forming seven and sixteen, and on Sunday cloudy were
breezy nor South westerlies nine and sixteen, So temperatures that
had Northern Southland sixteen rivetons sixteen point four, town now
sixteen point one, did o Tittleoa went to fifteen point
eight and Woodland's at fifteen point three. And before we
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go any further as round the peaks to see and
do here at Southern Field Days, Eco Lab there at
Site two point thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Now Eco Lab a fantastic relationship with farmers.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They've developed and nurtured this over decades regarding quality, effective
farm hygiene products.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Now what they're doing now is.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
They've got a really great competition happening here at the
Field Days. You site number two thirty, set up and
get all your season's requirements, regaining all your cleaning needs
for the sheared with Eco Lamb going to the drawer
like you say, to win back what you pay, T's
and C's applies.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
That's Echo Lab on site number two thirty.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Now we're starting the hour with Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils,
followed up by Hamish Tonkin of gw d's Jared, Stop
Me and the Dairy and Z We're going to have
a young everybody's in person he I mean, everybody's that
way movie today, which, to be honest, Master.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Regular Bruceeed Cows so we have a catch up as well.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Tell you one thing I'm seeing a lot of in
the South at the moment, that is a hell of
a lot of maze being grown. Bruce is an ever
based grower, as is the past couple of seasons and
tells us what's it like growing the crop, especially in
conditions like this. And Craig Wiggy Wiggins lean on a gate,
talk to a mate. Wiggi's down here at field days.
We have a catch up to see how things are
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going from his perspective and probably a pleathor of other
guests as well. There's a lot of noise in the background.
It's fantastic because what happens when you're out and about
people just walking behind it is like you're in an apartment.
They're just trying to excuse himself. That's the natural of
the beast. Let's all go here at the Southern Field
days at Waye Moon Moo. Starting the hour and next
with Steve Allison Timers eight after one.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
She's a love small shows.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Saw us are on Hakanui, coming to you live from
the Southern Field Days at Wayne.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Movie Timers ten after one. I'm joined now by.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Steve Allison of Bioactive Soil. Steve, Good, afternoon, and welcome
to the show. We talked to you a couple of
days ago, but it's not until you get on the
ground here at Wai Movie.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Did you actually understand the sheer size of the event.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
How are you, brilliant Andy, enjoying it all, enjoying catching
up with our farmers and enjoying hearing all their good
stories and their successes that they're having.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean you guys who know as much as anybody,
especially on you still the mood around the center at
the moment, how would you say this?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Rant?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
I see a lot of people spending, so I think
they're in a really good.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Mood at the moment.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So, so you've been busy on site horrifically busy, horrifically busy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, that's a great Just a few of the stories.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
One of one of the farms we took over, which
is urea dairy farm. He was happy to tell us
that he's gone from four auty solars to five eighty solids. Yeah,
and that's only talking in two years, so he's quite excited.
We've also had another success in the deer industry. We've
had a few new Zealand records there, as you can
(05:29):
see by that one.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now, I'm just seeing a bit of an impressive set
of antlers here. Of course, bioective soil, so it's all contributing. Steve,
What is it that works so well with you? But
what is it that people are saying from you from
your perspectives?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
For them the missing element within our soils. We believe
in m p k s, but it's the living side
of the soils that's the kingmaker in making a difference.
And we've been ignoring it up till now, but we're
certainly turning the lights on.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Why would you say it's being ignored, Well.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You get likes of these inset where you get grass,
grub and prime and there's a reason why they are there.
And if your saws are activating at optimum level, it's
not an environment an environment.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
For them to be in.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
That's one example.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
So there's a good chance to eliminate likes at grass,
grub and pin it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Are totally gone. Our farmers today they're telling us how
they've gotten none and they haven't had any for a
few years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's a reality.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So by out of soils, just get back to the
nuts and bolts of the businesses space Steve, what you
guys are actually about.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Okay, the bases biofish and bio seaweed. We use that
as the base and then we add all the other
bits and pieces on top. So that's the living side
of it. We draw off twenty different fishing companies throughout
the South Island, you name it, where eels, anything like that.
Southern Ocean is very rich. We take the waste or
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even total big salmon if you believe it. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So just over the years you got you've just seen
a lot of people wanting to it's look at ferred options.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And the lights.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Yeah, everyone's a winner with us. The environment, there's no
leech into the water after where they are the biology
is working. We've been doing this for a few decades.
Believe me, we've had it. We've got it wrong a
few times. It's a delicate product. If you don't have
it right, it.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is like products of old way over time and no
different view, guys.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
No, it's not a liquid fertilizer. It's a solid fish fertilizer, so.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It blends very well.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
We're sore friendly, phosphates and all those things.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Do you have trouble convincing people about fish alternative fertilizers
and such compared to the normal granular formula. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
What we enjoy is you get some pretty tough type farmers,
very dubious, but they become born again and they're used.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
In fact, they they are brilliant.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
So yeah, no trouble once they come over they you know,
they're the real deals.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So whereabouts you guys at Southern field days for people
and if they're not here today, Tomorrow, Thursday or Friday,
are in the aggres center obviously.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Top right hand corner from the road A one to one,
A one two two, you won't miss less.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So as far as field days, how many events would
you say you've been to over the past few years.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Are you a constant at these events?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
One Momoy Field Days and also one Canterbury Always what.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you most enjoyed?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
It just the vibe of the event that you travel
around and you're looking out there.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Now the day's turning, it's getting warmer, and yeah, well
I'm thinking I might need a bit of sunscreen later on.
Just shows you, though, that everybody just wants to get
out and about and experience field days.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
It's a networking the excitement that farmers. That farmers have,
and most of our farmers are very proactive, so there's
always some very deep and meaningful discussions. We enjoy that
just catching up with them all though they're good buckers, and.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And that's the big thing about the events, is about connecting.
And ideally you need two days at these events because
you're not going to see everybody in one day. Because
your neighbor from on the road and across the river
and your second cousin you haven't seen for a while,
you just tried everyone. That's the nature of the beast
and that's the brilliance of it.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
And there's a few new farmer friends of met today already.
So words out, it's getting around, so.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's working good for you guys.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So what's the catchphrase for you guys in bioactive soils?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
What's your catchphrase?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Would you say, I'll grow with BUI of soils?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Sorry but basic? But yeah, that's nice and there's nothing
wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Steve will let you carry on.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Great.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Thanks up, and I'm here Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils
here at Southern Field Days.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And like you said, there's plenty of things to see
and do.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
And Steve and the team of Bioactive Soils you may
have heard in syndathy the other day on the program,
certainly telling you about alternatives regarding fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
On the farm. This is the muster at Southern Field
Days at way Mumu.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Up next we have from GWd Motor Groups, Tomkin.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Tom has gone sixteen after.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
One the muster with any newer thanks to Peter's genetics.
Every trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's genetics.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Cause in time getting us to the.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Song track to the muster eighteen minutes after one, coming
to you live from the row Ebanks site of the
Southern Field Days at wai Mumu as I'm joined by
Hamous Tonkin of GWd Motor Group. Now we all know
about the Toyota highlux They said that world record just
on a year ago for the amount of highluxes in
one place up there at Laura Coots. They're not far
(10:31):
away from Kingston Hamers.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Welcome once again. Always good to connect.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Thanks Andy, good to see you too. It's another beautiful
field days. Well it's beautiful this time. Yesterday was anything
but as you would have known.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
But look, the forecast is really good for today and tomorrow,
at least tomorrow's thinking pot.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Yeah. I had to drag about thirty four cars on
yesterday and they all look like they've been through a
rally track but got the water last rout. This morning
they're looking good.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But the great thing is the infrastructure is pretty good
around here as well. A lot of time and effort
over the years and you know, the pals pretty much disappear.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Absolutely, the running a good ship here.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Okay, gwd's how's it been for you guys?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Here?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Has been good.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
We're right by the entrance, so we've got a massive
flurry of people through at the start of the day
and we've got a whole bunch of new things on
the yard for people to see a few challenges. We've
got the barbecue sizzling and the coffee bruin. All about
a bit of hospitality. What is the allure of the
highlax Well, we all know around here it's tough as nails.
It's dependable. It's just like your old mate you can
rely on, and has just lasted through the generations. Suppose
(11:28):
of what we've got in front of us now, it
lasted through the generations. It gets a couple of upgrades
every now and again. We've just got the latest one
on the yard now, which has got way improved driving
dynamics and new looks inside.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And now here's what is a truly one for? How
long's twyots have been in New Zealand?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Would you say?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
They have actually been in New Zealand for sixty years.
It's the sixtieth anniversary this year. So they started in
August nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Sixty six, Yeah, yeah, sixty six, all right, date second,
kisse yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
It's not a library. Look how yeah you went up
to Cred Cup, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We did. You were part of the celebration.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Absolutely, so we managed to get the first ever to
a Corona off the production line in New Zealand down
for that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What year was that? It's a sixty seven so.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Produced in sixty six, must have been registered in sixty seven.
Doesn't have a chest number on the firewalls, so it's
number zero absolute first one would have come off the
line in Stone Brothers back in Crossery, back in the day.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Stone Brothers. What Stone Brothers.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
They were an engineering firm that put together a local
assembly of a few twiter models.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Guys, over time you've last you've lasted it pretty well obviously.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I mean it's a pretty cutthroat market when it comes
to vehicles, it is.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
But you know, Toyta has always had that reputation for resilience, reliability,
depend when they hold their value and they're just you
know south on Lasa Twitter straight.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Away you go to the crumpy and scotty yads of
the eighties.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Absolutely that was a classic ground for sure, and the
bugger Rads and the cow the bulls in the front
and the lakes and you just think maybe over time
and g was the sound old but right.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So what do you guys got on site?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
On site? So new generation highlights that we just mentioned.
It's one of its first public appearances.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
They actually only came off the truck about two weeks ago,
so we're trying to get people out and about of them.
But they're on show here, so come in, have a touch,
ever feel, and give us your number and you can
humber a test drive next week.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
What's the difference between a new generation highlights and say,
what model is a few years old?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 8 (13:26):
The biggest upgrades that we've got is now from SR
five our mid range, we've now got disc brakes across
the whole range. We've now got electronic power steering, so
that's a massive improvement in the way they drive. The
old ones with their lane departure, they used to grab
the brakes and pull you roughly back into the lane.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
These ones smooth as butter do.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
They still come out of manual absolutely and still get
them with a six speed manual.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Because menials are like a diamond doesn't You can't get.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Them absolutely, And that's what's such a great thing that
we can still offer our customers a six speed manual
transmission if you still feel like run your own and.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Then are you finding people still preferring E manual.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We get a few, we get a few diehards.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
They're fund to drive, they are, and these new ones
are intelligent manual, so you can press a little button,
impossible to stall it and a rev matches.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
You're driving a manual. You need to know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Absolutely, but if you do want to show off to people,
you can just press that WEE button. Where you go.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Now, the MGU nine, what's this about?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
This is latist offering MG. I know you're thinking MG,
you're thinking small economy car. This is a behemoth of
a ute if you're thinking sort of Silverado size, Ram size.
It's five and a half meters long and over two
meters wide, and they start at sixty and ninety seven.
A lot of trucks for the money. Three and a
(14:43):
half ton towing. The cabin is huge. You get fit
about four a meter across the back seat.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Because these these big tracks, they've become a thing over
the past few years in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
These Keiwi market.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Absolutely, they're becoming quite popular. So we're jumping on the
trend with MG and GAH great value.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Now the Palisa, what's this about?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
This is the all new Palisade. It's its first public appearance.
It's just come fresh from doing a media shoot in Queenstown.
Ready for us.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Of course it has.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
It's the big new family ISSUV heaps his space. It's
a two point five liter turbo hybrid and it looks
like a classic mob boss vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's quite impressive to look at.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Do you have trouble convincing copies about a hybrid?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
You do get the occasional person saying, hey, what's this
hybrid about. Look, all we got to tell them is
that you just drive it like a normal one. You
put fuel in the charges itself. There's absolutely nothing to
worry about, and it might save you a couple of leaders.
So you know, you just save your money, no compromise, and.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Of course you've got your warranty.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Yes, this is a new, big one for all you
totter customers out there, tight to service protect So if
you come into any certified tourter dealership like ourselves at
GW Twitter, and your Twitter is under ten years old
with under one hundred and fifty thousand k's, you're gonna
get a one year, fifteen thousand k warranty on it,
which is fantastic for ownership. So once car runs out
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of warranty, you still actually covered as long as you're
service with a toty dealer.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Fantastic. Now, as far as Field Days, how do you
find it?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Do you get a rolldow Dean ravage to stay here?
He's just been gone anyway back. Like I say, I'm
walk in the middle of the pup here, people just
squeezing past us. Brilliant, But look, Field Days, do you
need to get much of a look around?
Speaker 8 (16:27):
I will try make an escape of being a wee
bit tied to this morning, But yeah, I do like
to go around and check what the competition's up to
to make sure I'm cheap enough to scratch it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I got to keep raising the bar over you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
We came here, you want to go and buy a
hot dog and something at the same time they.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Don't, you know, well, we've got the sausages cooking it.
I don't have to get my own gorse out really
good exactly start one eighty six eighty six, all.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Going on down there?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, good on your hamers.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Hope it goes well for you guys.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
GWd Motor Group always need to.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Catch upmous Tomkin GWd Motor Group twyotas.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It's any on the same as New Zealand six years young.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Dare I say that now?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
This is the muster on Hakkanui Life from the Rabobank
at the Southern Field Days at Waie Moonmy twenty five
after one.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Up next from Derry and Z Jared Stockman.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The Muster with Andy Muir Thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Proud why eight minutes after one you're listening to the
muster on Hakkanu. He coming live from Southern Field Days.
Beautiful woy Moonmoo at the Rabobank. So I thank you
very much for a rabbit bank for your hospitality. Jared
Stockman of Darry and Z joins us. Next in Perison.
Jared House sings.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Great, Andy, what an awesome day and hasn't a fantastic
to be at the Field Days.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Hey have you been here before?
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Yeah, a number of times over the years, and just
love it, love the just the vibe that's here. And
there's a lot of smiling farmers walking around, which is awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Dennis and Muso the old lawyer in the castle.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
It's all about the but it's all about now and
that's exactly what you get at way Moving.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Oh absolutely, and like it's just it's great to see
you know, all sectors of the eggre industry doing well,
particularly important for Southend.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
And yeah, it's just just awesome to be here.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, everyone's smiling. Haven't seen a grumpy face yet. Maybe
the old kid having a bit of a malfunction, but
that's part at Bazzel.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
I think maybe it's they're not getting enough free pens
and hats and stuff, so they've certainly cleaned us out
in now stand. But that's awesome and great to see
the kids here.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
There's lots of kids and that they kids having like
a growth day whatever you call it, I don't know, but.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Getting out and about doing stuff. It's what it's about
being a kid in.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
South one hundred percent and look South and does such
a great job and showcasing all things Aggrey, which is
so I think I think the school should make it,
make it a holiday for the kids and get.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Them out of well that's what Gorche used to be
back in the day in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We had a day off the Balfo when it was
out in November and you go to the gorchows that
I was thinking about in early December actually tend to
be corrected, but certainly it was something.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was on the social calender.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Yeah, I was a young man in Taranaki in the
early eighties andies, so I'll take you weird for it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I was pretty much the same, a young man running
around cattle flair. But anyway, I'm not dairy instead, like
you said, the vibe out there talking to people, everyone's
pretty cheaper at the moment, but you'll be seeing that
any day to day activities as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
We've hit some really good turn out at our events
and again a big cross growth production is really strong
and Southend. In fact, I think Southland's leading the way
across the country and growth.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So it's extremely positive.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Just had a we rise and another we rise in
the milk christ so you know, again cautious optimism that
mid nines might be the order of the season.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, it'll be interesting as well.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
G next GDT y Ocht And we said that about
this previous one and all of a sudden it comes
into the equation heaven for big going for four in
a row after I think what was it?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Nine drops?
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Yeah, actually what I'd be a rich man if I
could predict it, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Oh, if you knew the weather and the GDT mark,
you're doing pretty well for yourself.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Yeah, I reckon, I definitely sell it. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So in general, though, I mean quite a bit on
the table at the moment, was starting to get properly
into the working year.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I mean, Kevin for Bitter in the second week of February, how.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Are you talking about the GD two results of looking
the situation, the likes like feeds not an issue around
Southland at all if you guys seem to be fitting
out a little bit of supplement, but you're not, don't
seem too concerned.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
It's been a whey that tight's probably the western seaf
and guys out to a tech red need a bit
of rain. But you know, kind of central eastern Southland
have got just enough. But I think, you know, another
thirty forty miles followed by a week of fine days
would be enough to keep things going. But again, plenty
of people cutting bailage and silent and stuff. So third
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cuts already in the way, which is again still pretty.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Positive and the team from Open Country saying yesterday the
production is still going game blusters.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Yeah, and that's really sort The last number I saw
was that south And was ten percent ahead, but really leading.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
South Island's really leading the charge.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
For production growth this year, which is yeah, which is
again on the back of a.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Poor previous spring.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I think people have taken that opportunity where they fed
out feed and just kept going.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Well, it's just relative to Togo, Southland, I mean, you know,
Richard Copeland, that's just sorry, look, just focusing so these
people every wee here, it's carnage.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
But hey, I may we talk about the GDT coming
out of the South.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I reckon like fifteen even sixteen percent out of a
tiger and Southland alone and all these politicians, especially from
the Coalition government are going to be hanging around.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Everywhere over the next couple of days, and I need
to be known, it needs to be known that this
is a honeypot of the country at the moment.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
You know, Southland Otago is an absolute powerhouse in dairy
and you know, I think rightly so farmers will be
asking asking their politicians about how well they're being looked
after and just challenging, challenge them. They're thinking because you know,
South and very strong in dairy and I guess you know,
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like the Levy vote, our farmers wont return from the
politicians as well.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Do you think there's a lot of confidence out there
in the politicians at the moment.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I mean you think you're two looks to the Paris
Accord and all of a sudden what was it?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
What did I read the other day?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But I don't believe the Paris court and just look
after our own well.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Look, I think it's a bit like my school report card,
you know, could do better. So yeah, I think there's
more opportunity to create, to create more value for our
for our dairy farmers, and you know, hopefully we will, we'll,
we'll see that because I think again of dairy and
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she doing well in New Zealand's doing well.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
It's just just seems to be the arable sector, which
is a little bit on the fence of the moment.
It sounds as the Canterbury shout out to Canterbury listeners
as well and with thoughts with you as to try
and get the harvest off is what has been quite
an enduring season.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Yeah, pretty tough on them.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
And look they'll have a flow on effect for dairy
farmers as well in terms of feed. But also there's
you know, the how that went through South Canterbury December
is now quite a few wint to cross, so it's
going to be some challenges in this space.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I suppose down here that we talk about Southern prerogative
props are looking pretty deeper.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
They won't.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Everybody's getting organized for want of feeding, even though we're
still a wee way away.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
In driving around, what's been really pleasing is that people
are following the rules, so seeing good buffer zones, seeing
uncultivated you know, natural source areas and stuff like that.
So you know, South and farmers do it really well,
and you know, we expect that their regultary bodies really
promote their success.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
To ye has it taken a long time for the
message to get through or do you think farmers pretty
much the whole way through them been pragmatic about the situation.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Look, I think the vast majority have and continue to
do a good job.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
We're always going to have exceptions, and look, you know,
stuff's going to happen through the season if it's tap
wintering down here, if we get a really horrible winter,
but the farmers are up for it, they're prepared for it,
and yeah, we really support what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, darienzid Levy vote wins us coming up.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Yes, that's on the fourtengths, So voting picks go out
on the four inc and farmers had got just on
a month to cast their vote. And it's the key
message is we just want we just want to levy
players to actually vote.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So they can do it.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
They can do it online, they'll get a voting pick
or they can see it back in post. But look,
we just really encourage them to vote and really encourage
them to continue to give us good feedback.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Are you anticipating in good return vels regarding this?
Speaker 9 (24:56):
I really hope so, because I think, you know, I'll
be disappointed if we don't get eighty five percent of
our dairy farmers across the zeal And vote because you know,
we need to, I guess send that message to the
government that we're a strong and united organizations. So it's
really important that farmers do vote. And yeah, really hoping
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that we you know, eighty five a fantastic.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Turn OUTTA takes where movies are going to go.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
In the future, is it not so much where they're
going to go.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
I mean, look, ultimately a no vote means a disbandment
of dairy en Z ultimately if that's the majority. But look,
we're we're cautiously optimistic that the vast majority of dairy
farmers trust what daren Z do. They support adverse advocacy,
they get along to our events, they engage with their
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science and research teams. So again, you know, cautiously optimistic
that we will do a good job. But importantly, what
we want is people to vote.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's pretty much the worst case scenario though if that
occurs here, it is.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But you never want to take things for granted.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
And I think what we are learning is that every
day is a levy day, and so we need to
be delivering value to our dairy farmers every single day,
not just every six years, but every single day. We
need to turn up, do the best for our dairy farmers,
do the best for the dairy industry, and just continue.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know, to make this industry and success.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, okay, put the shell on the other foot. Do
you hear frustrations regarding darien Z from.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
These people as well. Yeah, yeah, we do it, and
I guess I don't hear enough. And that's you know,
feedback is just the breakfast of champions. So the more
feedback we get, the more opportunity we've got to you know,
change our direction or look at research, scientists, science and
things like that. So what we're doing at the Field
Field Days is every farmer we speak to, we're asking
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them what are the key priorities you want us to
concentrate on in the lower South Island So in South
and Otago, what the dairy en z need to be
doing to provide solutions or focus or challenges for you know,
for the sector. So yeah, I look, I'm positive that
we're going in the right direction and I'm really comfortable
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we've got the right team in South of Otago to
support a dairy farmers.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
So like to Southern Field Days for you, what's it
about for dairy and Z.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's engaging with their farmers.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
It's it's it's I guess, to put a shining light
on the industry and just get feedback. Ultimately, that's what
we want from her from the farmers that we're seeing
were getting them to fill in a very small survey
and we're getting some really good feedback in terms of
what their focus needs to be on in the next
twelve eighty months.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Can you take your particularly you're after while you're here
or you're just pretty much at the steam.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
No, I haven't any chance to look around yet. Look,
I'm just I'm just after connections with people and just
you know, just running into people. It's just so awesome,
great happy people and you know, I just I love
being here talking to farmers and you know, what a job.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
And I mean the hospitality here at Raboban for goodness, say,
your slider is going around and there's no point in
me trying to eat and talk at the same time.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But it's just it's fantastic, the vibe. It's everything just happeny,
isn't it.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Yeah, and Rabbo do a great job every year, and
as do you know, all the other competitors and things
like that. But that's what it's all about, is you know,
a good chat and you know, listening to the noise
coming out of that tent, it's you know, that's great
for Rabbo.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Absolutely, Hey, good on you jaredoids appreciate your time on
the muster and what you carry on your Mirry way best.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Andy, appreciate it, mate.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Jared Stockman of Derry and Z just one of the
many businesses here at Southern Field Days at Way Moomo.
This is the muster on HOCKINWI. My name's Andy Muwer.
The show has brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Coming
up twenty one minutes away from two. If I can
find him, he's in this tent subbe, but I'm not
going to kill his name to look like a goose bruceed.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
He's up next the muster with Andy Nure.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thanks to Peter's Genetics, every drop means quite a lot
when it's from Peter's gen.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Cozy, Welcome back to the master arm Hockey NEWI well
breuceeed he just texted me.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
He's not too far away.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
But Craig Wiggy Wiggins is joining us next from lean
on the gate. Talk to him, mate, amongst other things. Wiggy,
good afternoon, welcome and you had nice to see you again.
So it's like we come together at these big events,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Really?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's always these big events we come together and ask
how Don Ford's doing.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Actually I spent the night on Friday night a little
wall ago and had a quiet beer with Don and Sheryl. Yeah,
the relations of yours that used to live across the
road from me, but we've shifted.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, good on your Dona share them. Know you're listening
more often than not now.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You guys here lean on the Gate yourself and Slave
McFarlane former rugby player, very good review player back in
the day as well.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
But you guys are down here doing the hard work. Yeah, definitely, mate.
We're very lucky.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
South On fel days, arsisfor would come down and talk
a little bit about what we're doing in the Lean
on the Gate space and we can announce that we
now have training module available for everybody in the Royal
service industries and farmers as well, where we can come
in and train your people to look after their people.
And so what that means is we can do a
forty five minute training for any business anywhere where it's nationwide.
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So a big company like Rabbit Bank, for example, where
we're sitting, we can train they're front facing people regionally
and with community awareness, so that teaches them how to
have those conversations and how to approach people. And fifteen
percent of the people we put through that training end
up doing what we call safeTALK connector training and they
go through and they can facilitate help. And then those
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that really want to get involved and put a spade
in the ground become suicide assist trained.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
And it's normally only half a percent or one percent
want to take that option. But that's top of the
notch stuff here.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Now, Shane Buck and he's just walked the links of
New Zealand. You would have heard about this. It's about
for people who had to deal with the aftermath of
suicide and the likes you've been a fantastic god too
good on your shame. It was really appreciated the people
out there doing their utmost is actually get out there
and get a bit of understanding about this about the
subject A.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Suppose, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 11 (31:06):
And you know, if you think about the stock agent
for example, and I'm an arable farmer for instance in
mid Canabury and I want a thousand lambs for the winter,
I'm going to give that stock agent one hundred and
forty thousand dollars to spend on a thousand lambs. So
I trust that person, that person I have a professional
and a personal relationship with, and nine times out of
ten they've had their feed under my kitchen table. If
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I trust them that much to do my bidding for
the year and try and make money for me, nine
times out of ten they're the one that I'm going
to say, hey, I'm not trucking too well. And if
you're a stock agent or an agronomus, or a vet
or a tr are you trained for that conversation? And
so we're offering that training and by all accounts the
companies we've done the training for now we're having really
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really good results.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
There's also a No.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Eight hundred number and case management behind this as well.
Mates and Construction have been doing this program for the
last eight years in New Zealand and we know it works.
It reduced the side rates in construction or it puts
a lot of wraparound support around that, and we know
that agricultures in the same numbers, we can do the
same for rural New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
As far as rial suicide numbers. For the past twelve months,
what have we seen.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
It hasn't gone away and it will never go away.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
But what we want to do is to be able
to support the people, to support those and try and
get back inside the farm gate.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
So there's a lot of bottom of the cliff stuff.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
There's a lot of public speaking about mental health and
stuff like that, but we know anecdotically and we've seen
studies where if we can get those rural service industries
that deal with people day to day to have the
conversations and connect and help, we can make a big difference.
We've been trucking along the same road, catching people when
they come out to say that they need help, but
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it's more about catching the people that don't know they
need help and empowering those that see those problems.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
That's a really interesting Turritor phrase you've got there. If
you trust your age to buy you stock, then you
can trust them with a lot of things.
Speaker 11 (33:03):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of the young people
that are in the reyal service industries don't realize the
importance of the profession, of the personal relationship that leads
to a professional relationship. Like you you know yourself. You
know you have a relationship with your bank manager, your
stock agent. You're agronomous and it becomes very personal or
or you like that person. So, hey, you're a stock agent,
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how about coming and have a look at my lambs
for me, because you've met them somewhere else. And so
moving through that, you know there is that position of
trust and connection already, and so they're in a privileged
position to be able to facilitate help as well if
they have the right knowledge and training behind that.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Now you in over to the States and you're not
not that long ago, and apparently everything went really really
top draw.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Yeah, I was really nervous about going going over there.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Talk.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Sorry, we just dropped the microphone. Are we just breaking
the player? That was the guy before me? I think,
a sure, you need a new mic stand.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We actually the wee story there bus the wild ones
weren't in there, So these ones came down carrier from
the cargos.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
I'll just hold on to it anyway.
Speaker 11 (34:06):
So I went up to do a fencing conference in
America in Indiana, and as a patron of the New
Zealand Fencing Competition. They are conference and that they asked
me to go up and we did the lean on
the gate work there over the three days. At the
end of the competition, or was the MC for the
price coming and the conference and stuff, and so they
give the winner of the singles event a handgun, they
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give the winner of the doubles event two long lever
action forty fives, and at the end of the night
there's one gun left there, and that gun was for
the person that delivered the most to the conference, and
they gave that to me. And the mental health work
around lean on the Gate has really taken a hold
over there, And just a month or two back, there
was a young man singing at Nashville on the stage
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wearing a lean on the Gate really top. And you know,
there's a hat that we left over there that the
fencing contractors passed from one contractor to another in each state.
And while they've got that lean on the Gate hat,
they've got a go and talk into their communities about
what that means.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
And so it's become a real thing up there. They
want me back, but we've got enough.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Work to do here.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Just quietly, see nothing wrong with a trip to the
States every day.
Speaker 11 (35:09):
And then, oh, yeah, I know, I loved I loved
it up there in Indiana was such a nice place.
We went to the graveyard, to the brickyard, I should say,
where Indian that it was five hundred is and we
got to do a lot of nice stuff.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
And rural people are the same all around the world.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
They have the same issues, they have the same stresses,
and they have the same benefit as well too. So
getting people to connect and understand how somebody's tracking at
any one time, that's a simple thing.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
But I'll tell you something. The wave you put out
as the wave you get back.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
And if you can invest and give somebody a bit
of attention and a bit of help when they need it,
they'll be there.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
And when it's your turn, well, I've got you here
as well, because you're the voice of rodeos down here,
especially in the South. And I only went to my
first radio TIA now in between Christmas and New Year,
and what if it was the hell of occasion.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
It was really really cool.
Speaker 11 (35:56):
Yeah, I did thirty five years of rodeo announcing and
you were lucky to see me and Tianna. It was
only that I know the President and his wife really
well and offered to give them a little bit or
they asked if I'd give them a little bit of help.
I'm not doing that anymore now. I'm still doing the
Royal games commentary and stuff like that. But yeah, I've
traveled internationally doing that that event. But you know, Rodeo
seems have got some pretty good crowds and put some
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pieces now and yeah, there's there's lots of support for
it still, especially down here in the South, but even
in the North. And this year you can go to
the National Finals Rodeo at Wakawaii I think on the
fourteenth of March, so it's definitely worth turning up there.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Hey, good on you're you always appreciate your time, mate.
Now am you doing a great job? And I'll just
come into dearly. Why you're at the field days? Are
you looking to buy anything in particular, like you highlights
or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
I tell you what and I'm going to put a
shameless slug out. I've just talked to some people at
Ravens Down and a few others.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
This this.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
Training module that we have, Like I'm begging people to
take it on board. I'll put them this is the
reason or quit Rodeo announcing and don't this will make
a difference. We just need you to become partners in
the Lean on a Gate charity and we can give
you back as much as you give, but I'll put
a shameless plug in.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Mate.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
We do need a vehicle and if any of the
companies are listening to this feel like they want to
come up, come at us with a vehicle to get
around the country to do this, I'd definitely like to
see some promotional stuff done and we would like to
hook ourselves to you as well. So yeah, yeah, if
you want to help us, come and see us. We're
just right outside the main pavilion there and got the
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lean on the gate. But anybody that wants to get
involved in the training or just be a part of
what we do and help your people, we'd be privileged
to have you on board, just while you're here. Hell
is the season to make Canterbury. Oh it's not very good,
not for an arable farmer. You know, if you're a
dairy farmer or a fattening block it's going really well.
We've got grass for Africa, but getting it authopatics is
going to be the hard part. But the arable guys
are really really struggling.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
I had an arable farmer pulled me aside the other
day in one of the shops and he's worried about
succession planning. He's brought a new head and he hasn't
been able to use it. We are in trouble up there,
guys are in trouble.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Okay, well, you always appreciate your words. You're doing a
hell of a great job, mate, keep doing today.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Thanks for your supporting.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Sorry about the microphone, that's all right, we'll just put
it on the tab. Ten minutes away from two.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
This is the Muster on hock and Newie coming to
you live from the Rubbibanks site. It's a Southern field
that I'll offer to that. You're right, Southern Field Days,
of course, Rubbibank. Great to have him on board up
next before we wrap up day one of the muster
on tour pre seed.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So local.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I feel you.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Let's welcome back to the muster coming to your life
from Southern Field Days the way moving at the Rabbit
Banks site. The time is seven minutes away from two.
Just having a week chuckle there, I'll laugh out loud
and sort of for the abbey.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
You'll be pleased to know. Well, maybe not and under.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Least three seed joins us the next regular correspondent dairy
farming at Calso.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Good afternoon there, and pretty good yourself.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Field days.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
You'll be getting a good understanding of how things have
been today so far.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, it was a cool start the even the missed
and rain. But the sun's coming out now and she's
probably hot now, but lots of people out. It's got
busier as the days got on. We've just had a
good lunch here at Rabo as Ol, so big props
to them. It's always the battle who has the best lunch,
and Rabo are winning at the moment.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
So many options around baby seeps there is.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
That's right. You almost have to two or three lunches
a day.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
But when you come to an event like this, and
you know you explained it the other day, you just
can't give yourself a day to come here, to be
here because you need to come and visit all the sites.
You have much to see, but you know half the
people here.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
You come and you have a plan in your head
of things you want to look at, and you're running
to fifteen people who probably are your neighbors that you
saw last week, but you still have to talk to
them fifteen minutes each and go another ten steps and
you never actually get around it. Also, it does a
two day job.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Now. We spoke to you probably last week on the
muster actually started last week. But nonetheless, like, I just
can't believe the growth we've seen in some areas over
the past ten days. You had this rain yesterday and
then you fast forward to today and it's just it's
almost going to be some hat material shortly.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
You're sort of for that. Luckily you don't want the
chrome done getting a bit of a blister on it.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, the soul panel will get a beating all right,
pretty quick in this weather.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
But no, look, we've had I think we had twelve
meals a round there on Saturday night after the show,
and we had seven or eight yesterday, so it's almost
twenty meals in the last three.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Or four days.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Beautiful heat talking twenty five to thirty degrees tomorrow, mate,
things are bowling that solids that we'd cut it only
a week ago.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Now it's played any air ready to graee. It's amazing
how things have really balked.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, and a shout out to the team on the
gore Amp Association for the Gorse Show and worked in
with a regional final for the dunk Farmer of the
Year competition. Of course Tom Slee one day on Saturday night.
But you guys, of there's a lot of work that
goes into an event like that. It's like this on
Field Days they've been parvate committee.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
It takes a lot of time, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It was sort of a full day operation for us
as Thursday was sort of set up and then I said,
I was exhibiting and cars and out the show. So
that was Friday and Saturday and then you're doing your
exhibit a part and then the committee part as well,
and then Sundays are cleanup.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
So yeah, she's a bit of a joab all right.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So I certainly don't ven view the committee here at
the Field Days that they put on a fan task
event that draws people from all over.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
The Southland probably the country really to be honest.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
And you know, a bit of rain yesterday, a few
people will probably weave bit panicky, but she'll be dust
by the end of Friday.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Now, it's interesting we talk about the may side of things.
You've been doing Mayed for a couple of years. We
talk about this more often than not, but it's still
intriguing that we're growing amazing south and like Yeah, you
go down the back grade there to Riversdale, Northern southd
Mclintock's way, the amount of may ise being grown through
there to Balfa is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
See almost you're almost like a pioneer.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I wouldn't say pioneer, but we use pioneer. So there's
a good lead in the product, a nice segway there.
You know, it's good and I mean we've just seen
that change in the last three or four days as
well with the sun and the heat, you know, as
well as that bit of moisture. So and I think
it's going to be a part of the system for
South and dairy farms I think going forward in a
lot of years to come.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
So interesting talking to WIGGI before Craig Wiggans about rural
mental health and the likes you talk about mental health.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
We'll touch on this briefly.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
It was interesting on social media X as it's called
these days, what's for only Twitter?
Speaker 6 (42:01):
But it certainly.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
It's not what it used to be and you just
get over it pretty quickly these days unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, it'st to use it myself now just as a
as a news feed to see what's happening. For a
lot of sport and that and a bit of agriculture
and that it's got very political, I suppose, and we
don't want to get down that con route. But apologies
to there you was put off the game. We're gonna
thanks people.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
It's been nice to be on the muster and I
won't be back again.
Speaker 6 (42:28):
It's okay, continue, that's right.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, so we don't want to go down that road,
but it's running me now.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
You're throwing the yeah, we'll just say yeah, we're just
talking really really the sport and farming is what I'm
there for, you know, and it's just something that you know,
if you let it get to you at well. So
we just focused on the positives of farming and all
that sort of thing and the good bandter. There's a
corp of guys that's sort of funnily enough between Australia
and New Zealand. We have a good good bit of
(42:57):
band he you know, not farming necessary and cows and that,
but cropping big stations and things like that, and it
changes the focus. So don't let that sort of thing
get down. Just do it your loves and follow it.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
So are you buying anything any big ticket items and
not a green tractor.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Perhaps No, I got an ice cream and put a
flake in it this year, so over pushed the boat out.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
Not the way to pay us. Looking at the likes,
you could bay have two flakes.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, well maybe yeah, we don't want to just get
too silly. But no, there's plenty thing.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
We've got a few things that we're just doing a
wee bit of research on and whether anything comes of it,
we'll see you. That's the best part of this sort
of the field days is everything's in the one place.
You don't have to drive all around town and things
like that to compare, so we're just having to wander
around and it's a good leisurely A couple of days could.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Own you, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Hey, we'll leave it there, fraudy and slip aside. But
look type laugh out loud because laughing life on the
farm can. But you're laughing about it. Brought to you
by Sheer We our data working to out the livestock farmer.
Oh god, I've just left it here again. I once
stated a girl who had a twin, and people always
ask why I could tell them apart it was simple.
Some painting and nails read and jury had a beat.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Actually, that's a that's a good one to wrap up
this afternoon. Bruce, always appreciate your time on the Muster.
You go around there and wash your mouth out.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yeah, that's right. You won't be hearing from me again, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Okay, So now that wraps up the first edition of
Southern Field Days at Waii Movie, the Muster Edition. My
name's Andy Mua. Thanks very much for Rabbi Bank for
hosting us, of course the Muster and hockey. Now he
is proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon.
Stay sound smart out there.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Saber, par Let's have a part.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
I love you, that's soul, Old Cup, I lift you up.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Percy the party, Broce the Part.
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