February 22, 2026 • 42 mins
Andy Muir talks to Jamie King, Penny Simmonds, Dean Rabbidge, Tasha Clay and Tom O'Brien.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui, brought
to you by Peters Genellix. My name's Andy Muer. Thanks
to your company. Here until two o'clock this afternoon. After
a busy weekend, especially on the sporting front, a couple
of big stories to come out of it, of course,
the Highlanders close but no cigar against the Chiefs and
Super Rugby England getting absolutely belted by Ireland. Mortgage Green
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was pretty chuffed about that. I'll tell you that fact
for free. But I think the big one from overnight
was in the Super eight stage of a T twenty
Cricket World Cup, hosts India getting absolutely smashed by the
Protears of South Africa. So Super eights is pretty much
into full mode now. The black Caps, of course, the
game got rained off against Pakistan. They've got Sri Lanka
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and England. They've got a win basically those two games
if they want to go through, or very pretty close
to it anyway. Bob Marley, the music Bob Marley and
the Whalers. Of course, he passed away in nineteen eighty one,
which seems quite a while ago because it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is Pokanui's five day forecast with twin farm tef from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Monday afternoons is bringing cloud with breezing or easterlyes in
a high twenty five. Tuesday sunny will lights sel westerly
six and twenty. Wednesday partly cloudy, were raising northerleas twelve
and twenty sax, Thursday rain would like sal Westleys five
and thirteen. There we go, and Friday a little bit
better sunny will light sal Westley's four and fifteen. You
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just got to chuckle at this forecast. It's all over
the show, right, So it temaches to hand Clinton fifteen
northern south from fourteen point two, Riverton fifteen point one,
Tanna fourteen point Sax, Tatoroa not a lookable today, Winton
twelve point one at Woodland's thirteen point six. Jamie King
of Lake Heroko starts us off from the Sage and
Damn farming roundup Penny Simmons MP from the cargo as
(02:11):
well as being Minister for the Environment, Seeing how Penny
got on with this homewreck that I sent her a
couple of weeks ago. Regading GDP figures for Provinces of
New Zealand. Dean Ravage is on the program as well.
Farming at Glenham, seeing how things are going on the
farm and the lead up to tapping season, which Sully
(02:32):
enough isn't all that far away. Tasha Clay involved with
a Southern scooter challenge. It's happening in a few weeks time,
so Tash tells us how it's going. It's a different
route this year as well. And Tim O'Brien, business owner
based up at Garston in a regular catch up. So
I'll start the hour and next with Jamie King. This
is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peterson DTIs
(03:03):
Jamie Kating farms are Lake Heroco and joins us in
the Sergeant Dan Farming ground up. Thanks for Sergeant Dan.
Stock Foods based here and go where we go around
different parts of the province and talk to different farmers
and different aspects of agriculture. Jamie, good, afternoon. How's Lake
Heroco today?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Good mate? Good good. I imagine Heroco is probably wet
andy lock it normally is up there. That's why once
we get a big puddle of order. But I know
we're good just the FOG's only really little lifted. Andy,
it's anome settled. We had blue sky, but it's it's
just starting to claud over a little bit now. But
it doesn't beat a beany wind, so it'll be a
(03:39):
pleasant sort of a day and no rain, hopefully for us. Anyway,
some listeners won't agree with me on that one, But
I don't need any more precipitation for.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
For a bit endy rainfalls more than what you want
for this time of year, would you say?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah? Yeah, as we need the sun there and just
sort of got a few projects on the go that
sort of pretty weather reliant. So it would just be
nice if if summer would repair, you know, let's get
back to twenty degrees and some sunshine.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Now. I think summer happened that Thursday of the field
days thirty degrees and then it's gone again.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, he it's been a bit fickle more. Look in
just sort of a summer, isn't it. But oh not?
What are we not nearly interview, don't we? So I'll
get another another six weeks or so yet, Andy? So well,
I'm telling myself that, mate, because I've saw plenty of those.
Whether whether depending jobs to get ticked off.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, it's certainly been a summer with different dimensions as
far as the weather and normally about now people saying
how dry it's been. We'd still do understand certain parts
of the region still after a bit of precipitation, but
in general the feat situation looks pretty good when you
drive about.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. No, well we're humming along pretty good. We didn't
get a bit of warmth and clover and legings went
when nuts, which was good, and you can really see
lambs are moving really good. But they'll probably just stalled
a little bit. Now I learned the last of the
wooly lambs today. You're thinking then we'll be into some
dawn ones after that, so it'll be interested to see
how they go. Probably not as good as maybe we're hoping,
(05:09):
just with the lack of hate, but they've got plenty
to eat. And yeah, we'll just make it up as
we as we go.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I suppose what do you share in the way of lambs?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So everything make as soon as we can get the
shears lined up, So we just take the next draft off.
So we draft, and then the following draft comes off.
Leave them wooly, and then we share the thing. Yes,
so we're only about four to five weeks off the
shears before we'll start killing. But we share everything, mate,
So get the wool off them and get them garned
(05:41):
just for fly strike issues and all that sort of stuff.
And it's been easy to do this year financially as well,
so because it's quite a quarter an.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Invoice sometimes absolutely, and the fact that you're eliminating the
fly risk as well. Have you had issues a flyer surprise?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Nah? Not this year. Mat it's been really good, probably
because it's been a bit colder, I would imagine, But yeah,
it just comes and goes andy. There's no wrong or
reason to it. And I we're surrounded by a lot
of you've put this forestry and native bush and all
that too, so we're sort of breeding ground for it.
Last seed it was far the years out the back
of the native block and don't go near any sort
of sort of monitor in the every day. But yeah,
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the trick is just trying to get the feeders off
from as fast as you can, I suppose, and no
one locks spending any more time the sheep beds and
what you have to.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Do do they so well, that's one thing about where
you live, Jamie. It's a beautiful part of the south
of not the world, and a lot of people wouldn't
have been through that way.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you know that. It's like anywhere, and it has
it's good days and bad days. But the most part
it's quite a unique sort of climate. We don't get
a lot of wind, as I'll probably said before, but
we're right on fuel and boundaries, so we probably tend
to trend towards that Westerley rainfall quite heavily, which is
predominantly what this summer's and spring sort of been. So
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we have been. We're wetter than what we wanted to
have been. Yeah, yeah, but that goes. It grows grass
any but sort of sea class country, always falling against
weeds and gore. Awesome broom and things. But yeah, yeah, no,
I don't know, you keep I don't know, Andy will
buy another farm made moving on. But at the moment
it's so good and big enough to support support most
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of the famili starts good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, certainly in the season like this that keeps them
moved rather chipper. As far as a drenching routine, they're
all dreaching cycle. How do you work?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I was Scottie the brother in law and Kates there,
so that managed a sheep side. But no, they just
drinks when they need to. We're doing a lot more
secretly counting obviously just for because there's a little bit
of that running around there. But we sort of take
a runious approach. I've got a hig kettle ratio, mate
breeding cares soon going up in a few more de numbers,
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high numbers on surround country. And like I'd throw a
serial around in behind, you know, some petics, a little
bit of a weed bird, and then just keep breaking
stuff up Andy and and yeah, don't try not overgraze
too much. Yeah, there was a good targ in there
the other day. You know, someone was talking about sheep
worms white actually climb clover stalks. They can't physically, so
(08:12):
that was quite an interest one. So it turns a
lot of furies on its head. But whether or not
there's truth that I don't know. But so we don't
sort of any specials lamp within and crops, just a
good heavy clover rates in their permanent pastures, I suppose.
And then you keep the kels in front of lambs
and mix and rein so well it's.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A perfect senergy, the caws after the lambs.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I had upset, mate, and a lot. We do
grab a few couple of two or three unit loads
of stall lambs normally quite early, just to keep us
going through. We jump pretty quick, and they tend to
just stay on go straight into the blocks that have
been carving on and they have sort of freshened up
them six weeks spell and there's obviously no sheet worms,
and we don't want to tend to keep our own
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lambs off those picks where the trade lambs have been
as well, So that just doesn't doesn't. Yeah, try not
to hurt the mothership if we can.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
As far as stores, did you get in early for
them this year because they're like gold?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, mate, you know we've got a couple of loads
of started December I think was early December, so yeah,
I know that sort of. Yeah, the way the market's gone,
we could probably put them back on the market of
stores again, but on that notewere sort of half a
three kill them. So they always shift well on a
good local lamb, So that's it's nice and nice to
know the people where you're getting from and you're not
just getting someone's pick and mixt so and I've got
(09:27):
a couple of good relationships with goes out there, so
it's quite easy. They know how we work and we
know how they work.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So yeah, there's a lot of good news coming out
of the red meat sector at the moment, especially around
the Alliance groupe, very very well documented recently around doing
meats getting into be with them as such, but interesting
as well that Alliance is tagged up with teamed up
sorry with Rugby Southland and the Alliance logo is going
to be on the Stag shirt this year, which we
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think about it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, well hell Good said that we might have sold
most of it offshore. He but he's doing more for
local economy. The door meats are than what they the
board have be done, don't they. So it's a fantastic mate.
We all need sponsorship, but you know, all these you know,
it's great to get the name out there. We're trying
to do as much as we as much as we
sort of can or can afford to even likely, and
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but some pieces just to help the you know, we're
all set to go around. I'm sorry, And it's fantastic mate,
And it draws a bit of a weness and he's
on the right track and if they move head off
aspect in the car would be even better. And yeah,
it was good to see. Yeah, decision that people don't
shake the heads at mate. Ah. Look, we'll just take
it as we take it as well as it comes.
(10:37):
It's just probably grassroots. But like I've said, they're no
longer the elephant in the room, are they, But something
still going to have to change game forward. You know,
we're hitting wadeno fever and there's already picturement battles going
forward for the winter lambs, and well, I thought I
want to fly to weave it with a few conversions
up in Canabury with some pieces, but obviously it's there. Yeah,
that critical critical mass period we've definitely well passed, so
(11:02):
it's gonna be interesting. On that note, there's a lot
of Keble years going on the market at the moment, Andy,
and they seem to be falling homes, so they're not
getting their heads cut off, so it's a plus well
as far as I'm aware anyway, So we'll just wait
and see.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And they're worth a good coin here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And there's probably a few guys have been waiting for
a year lot this, you know, if they've been thinking
about getting out and they can probably fall too there
so but yeah, I hope look so hopefully they're all
falling homes and there they're not just getting their heads
cut off.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Good Only Jamie will let you carry. I'd always appreciate your.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Time, Hey good Man.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Thanks Andy, Jamie King of Lake Heroko and the Sergeant
Nev Farming round up. Thanks to Darrel on the team
at Sergeant den Stock Foods based here and Gore. Petty
Simmons MP from the Cargo as well as Minister for
the Environment with other portfolios. We catch up next. This
is the Muster in America. This is the Muster. Penny
(12:00):
Simmons as MP from the Cargo as well as being
Minister for the Environment amongst other portfolios. Penny, good afternoon.
How was your weekend?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Pretty good? Thanks back here for Sunday, but up in
Wellington at a Blue Greens forum before that, which was
great to be in. Amongst just showing all the innovation
that's occurring in support of our primary sector. Really lots
of things utilizing AI and just amazing the sort of
(12:31):
things that can be done. We saw some examples of
what was being done around grapes and harvesting and pruning
and AI being able to predict production and things like that.
It was pretty amazing and actually being able to predict
(12:53):
the damage that was being done with incorrect pruning as
it was occurring. So there was some Yeah, there were
some pretty interesting things that were being displayed there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You say, the Blue Greens, is there any room for
common ground with the Green Party regarding this?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Oh? Look there green stance is pretty extreme, as is
more on the pragmatic side of things that we can
do to help our environment, to improve our environment, environmental outcomes,
to improve the productivity of our primary sector. The Greens
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tend to come from the stance of banning, stopping, sending off. Sure,
that's not our green approach.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So up of Wellington has been well documented over the
past couple of weeks about the failure around mower points sawage.
What are we going to see there as a resolution? Well,
more importantly from a real perspective, are we going to
see people held accountable? Because that is what would happen
in a farm plan as such?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, and look, I am getting that feedback regularly verbally
and in writing to me about when this happens in
the rural sector. There are fines, there are court cases,
people are how to account. At the moment, we've got
these reviews going on looking into Wellington Water Limited and
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also Wellington looking at the City Council. So it's really
important that we get to the heart of what's happened there,
we get to what is factual about what happened there.
But I share the concerns that farmers bring on this
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that are people going to be held accountable? You know?
The issue I guess here is that it's the rate
payer that will be the one of theirs fines. But
certainly I'm very aware of the reviews that being undertaken.
My colleague Simon Watts has initiated these reviews to get
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to the bottom of exactly what has happened because it's
I mean, it's incredibly serious in that marine environment and
we need to look at just what decisions have been
made that have got to this point.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, if you excuse the plan at staked, yeah it does.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And with four the current ex Wellington City Council members
in Parliament at the moment, I would have thought some
of those would be lying low, but some of them
have been pretty vocal, and some of them I would
have thought might have been at the heart of decisions
that were made around this.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You'll see how those cycle lanes go up there. As
far as infrastructure spared, now, it's totally SI from a penny,
but Field Days, Southern Field Days has been gone now
and interesting to you talking about gd and how things
are looking around the region now. I spoke to you
last time regarding GDP per area. I heard an interesting
stat though, because you were telling me before that normally
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what comes out of the ports in the country isn't
a true reflection for the South, especially for the obvious.
But I heard a stat this morning regatting the port
of Los Angeles, the biggest port in the US, is
down by ten or twelve percent at the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh really, well, yes, she gave me homework on this.
We'd had this record amount of value of our primary
products going out of the country, our export value, and
you asked me to get it broken down by region,
which I had my office scurrying around trying to do
with stats New Zealand. But the best they could get
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to is by what goes out of a port, which
wasn't going to be particularly fair for Southland. That was
going to really undercount regions like Southland and then overcount
Canipy and Otago because of course of our products go
out of produce go out of both Otago and Littleton
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as well as our own south Port. So I wasn't
able to complete my homework. I'm sorry the dog didn't
eat it. I had a crack at it, but couldn't
complete it. But I am actually interested in how we
might be able to do something better on that, because
just looking at the value what goes out by Port
doesn't give an accurate pature for the likes of south
(17:31):
But having said that, what a cracker field Days was
record temperatures just about I think on Thursday, didn't it
get to over thirty degrees? Yeah, it was great. We
were pleased to have the Prime Minister down here on
that day when it was thirty one degrees doing a
few visits, and then he was at the Field Days
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on Friday morning, really enjoyed himself. We had the Minister
of Finance there on the Friday hour afternoon, went back
to Caucus the next week and both just raved about
how positive things were in the South and so it
was really good that they got to experience that, got
to talk to a lot of rural people at the
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field days and both really enjoyed their time there.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Stair seeing Zen in reality could do better though, and
just look at ports as far as what's exported regarding
gendp Co.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Didn't they Yeah, well, well we need to look into
how we can do it better because by the ports,
as I said, is going to undercount for Southland. It's
just they need to find a methodology that would work.
So I've tasked my people to keep looking for that. Now.
Having said all that, I have got a very important
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task coming up this Thursday. I have been invited to
tour Tatri, the sausage capital of New Zealand, to judge
New World's sausages from across the country and I'm really
looking forward to being out there. I think seven Sharp
are out there and the Herald and all the local
media have been invited and I just think it'll be
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great for Tour Tatree. I was out there on Fridays
in Riveton and Hotel to It was great all around there.
So it's great to be showcasing one of our townships
that's got this wonderful reputation for their sausages, and by
golly to attappery sausages are good to now be showcased nationally.
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So I will be out there on Thursday afternoon enjoying
a sausage or two.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Can you put the fears of the South to bed
and say that a base sausage or what not? Some
leak in Lemon creation.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, look, it's going to be an interesting one because
New World have their own butchers that make their sausages
in the house. I understand. I don't know if they're
going to put them up against the tour tapper sausage.
They may be too scared to do that. But in
my books, we've got some outstanding sausage is down here.
Riverton has great sausages.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Two.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
A tat Pre has great sausages. It's going to be
hard to beat them if they put them up against
the locals.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He's put Matawa and rivers Darald of that makes as well.
Penny Simmons, always appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Lovely, nice to talk and d bye.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Penny Simmons. Dean Rabbage is up next farming at Glenham.
You're listening to the muster.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dean Rabbage is based at Glenham and joins us on
this beautiful afternoon down here in the deep South.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Dino, How are you good things?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Andy? It's stunner down here today, so you just enjoying
it well?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or you can pretty much say we had a small
frost and gore this morning, or on the verge of it,
but you reckon out there it was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Perfect, just a bit of load cloud or fall or
flog or whatever you want to call it. That's all
burnt off. So yeah, sun's out. The sheep of grown
lamb grass is grown kettle heavy, so yeah, we're just
enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So how's your feed situation looking, Bearing in mind we
haven't had the summer that we'd like.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
To have, Like you've got plenty of feed around. I
think it's the general consensus with a lot of people
in this area. You can't get the used around fast
enough to try and control a bit of quality. But
the flip side of it is that everything's pumping along
really nicely. A lot of lambs are really starting to
hum now in year there's going to be plenty of
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feed around to start flashing the use up for the ram,
which is just over a month away. So yeah, we're
sitting in a pretty reasonable position, really.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Andy, So you're getting through the lambs pretty good.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, I'm just waiting on a truck to arrive shortly
to take a intload away. Yeah, we'll sort of getting
to that point now, sort of get a intload away
every ten days, so they'll soon put a pretty big
hole them. We do try and run to the pose
that we only have ten percent of the lambs left
on when the maternal ramp goes out, So that's around
the fifteenth of April, So yeah, that date's coming around
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pretty quick too, So yeah, I'm pretty sure we won't
be far away.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What did the schedule do at the weekend? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
From what I've seen, some stayed, some dropped ten cents,
But it's that time of year when funny things are
happening where I'll take ten cents off and put ten
cents sure on premium and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On so.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
N figures, I'd say it's say pretty much the same.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Really, A lot of people saying the store price, especially
last week going by the sale yards very close to
what you get at the works anyway, so the LP
procurement will get spending around, bended around again.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah, I think there's been a mess under restoration of
how many lambs aren't out there by the meat companies.
I think it's going to be going to a fright
when the season washed up, which is all right for
those who are still still in the sector. But yeah,
like I've heard people for years storing a lot and
still probably getting twenty thirty dollars ahead of what the
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budgets are on for a season without the cost so
ge for a cold weirch to to day come, it
will be a pretty technic option to take one. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Now, last time we spoke to you, you had all
that wall on hand. Did you manage to get rid
of it for a handsome price?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Look, it's all on the store, it's all been tested
up and I'm just waiting to hear back from ZnO
It's who were used to market their wall to see
what the best option is for that. So fingers crossed.
But looking at all the market reports and that, I
think it's definitely gonna more than cover sharing costs. Will see,
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which is for the first time probably three or four
years that's happened. So that's a really exciting position to
be and.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Also absolutely and long mate continue. Now, the big story
in the news over the past couple of weeks as
regarding the mower points swage, the failure that they curred
there with the infrastructure. Now all the raw surge slurry
as you call it, just going into Wellington Harbor. Fingers
are being pointed, but what action is going to happen
is going to be another matter. And you can relate
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this back to a farmer who's doing his due due diligence,
sorry about the farm and what they have to do
regarding their consents and adhering to them. It's a bit
of a contradiction.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think the hypocrisy smells more than the surge on
this one. And yeah, you've got the Green Party jumping
up and down when it was the only MP's that
voted to push money towards cycle ways instead of upgrading infrastructure.
Green pieces absent on this. All the anti agriculture warriors
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that are out there complaining about waterways and winter time
and nightrates and all that sort of stuff, which we
all know is pretty much non existence or is not
a bigger deal as what a lot of people make
it up to be. Their science is definitely over this
whole situation. So I think it's a pretty disgraceful what's
happening up there in the lack of coverage from certain
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areas of society is pretty appalling. Really.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, a lot of people have noted that this needs
to be accountability over this. Do you think we need
to press harder in the rural sector so we can
get a decent outcome?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Look, I don't that's a hard one. I think the
royal sector in advocates have made a good job of
pointing out the hypocrisy that's going on. We'll just bang
it and I'm sure that it'll come in handy one
day in the future. But I think these people that
are living in Wellington need to get their own fears
in order before they start getting out from behind their
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desks wearing their snols and stocks, coming to having us
how they run our farms.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, that's the thing. Cycle WA is wanting to get
you so far at the moment they know. But look,
the Zenda McDonald Awards are coming up soon. You're past
the lumnight you won the award but you can't remember
which year it was, around twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen or
twenty fourteen, yes, but one of them.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
But it's but poor from my behalf really years eleven
twelve years ago. So yeah, I've got the awards again
this year up in christ Church in the fortnight's time,
so we'll shoot up for a couple of days and
catch up with with some of the Terrefort people that
he made along being associated with their awards. So it's
always good to catch up. And yeah, you sort of
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don't see them for a year and you're walking to
the ram and it's you just carry on where you
left off. So I'm looking really looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
What was a big thing for your perspective winning that award?
Did it open up channels as such?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, look, just probably seek before is the mentoring stuff.
I focused on farm succession, which was obviously a bit
of a big fish and they except for a lot
of people at the moment and always will being always here,
has been, but you're just going around New Zealand Australia
talking to people about the succession process and probably learning
(26:52):
not what to do rather than what to do certainly
helped us get their farm succession across the line.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Farm succession is a It's a major topic and always
will be.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah, and that's unique to your culture for some reason,
like you don't seem to see the same same discussions
and issues associated with a family or business in Goa
and the cargo or anything or that it's the one.
I suppose it's a unique position where with farming you're
dealing with a hoighly valued sept generally multimillion dollar sept,
(27:29):
but are only getting a small return, and it's really
hard to to make things equals. I suppose being fear
at the end of the day is the biggest thing,
and just making sure that nobody's heavy forel like of
a better term, generally means it's not far away from
getting it right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Absolutely, it's a messive topic and continues to be so. Right.
Out of these three teams in rugby, who had the
worst weekend England the Crusaders or Wales.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Ah Crusaders probably.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
For the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
For the start of the sain was I wasn't too
disappointed to seeing them. Yeah, we got rug around to
watch the moment, but it was wasn't it disappointed to
wake up to the Island put one over England as
we are especially tooking them, so he has been quite entertaining.
We now have seen that have been to a few
English mates that were at the game. So yeah, enjoy
(28:25):
the working the rugby to watch. Apart from some unfortunate
calls or some unfortunate events in the Highlanders chess game
on Friday nights, they.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Were unfortunate and unfortunately it all comes down to the officials.
Now the reft of that game. Angers maybe used to
be a boss here at nz ME, but it wasn't
so much angers but the touch judges as whatever you
call them these days. A lot of calls got missed.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah there's a couple that probably could have been picked up.
There's a pretty dubious drop one drop out what do
you call it these days? But that led to a
great trial optionist try and peace for the trial, the
trial of the route to neighbors seeing those the locks
make a fantastic breakdown rugby, pure rugby, it's best. So yeah,
(29:12):
it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
As Harvey Norman putting the boots on again this year.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah yeah, he's going to be a mainstay for the
Windom sing Sees this year. So, and we're looking forward
to having him, so it'll be all good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Has he gone down to the seas well? He doesn't
know that yet.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
He doesn't know that yet.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Thank good on your dean. We'll let you carry on
that track must be do.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, look it's actually just driving past me the house.
I'll keeping.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Dean rabbits farming at Glennon about to put the lambs
on the track. You're listening to the muster up next
Tasha Clay talking the Southern Scooter Challenge. Welcome back. This
is the muster on Hawki. This other than Scooter Challenge
(30:01):
is happening once again in a few weeks time, marcha,
twenty first. But it's a change this year and to
tell us all about it, as organizer, Tash Clay, Tash,
welcome to the master once again. It has come around
quicker than not, the Southern Scooter Challenge.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It sure has. Yeah, it'll be here, as you said,
in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So there's a few changes this year. Tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yes, yes, there is.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
So it was some exciting changes and we think that
it was needed obviously. Well, we change their charity every
year to a nice local chosen charity the placemakers has
done so the Grace Street project and the route changed
that to Keratonga to Tia now which is very exciting.
(30:48):
And yeah, and then the change of year, so March.
Were sort of hoping that that might be a little
bit kinder to you on challenge day, but who would know.
The weather's been crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So now just going for by the release the other
day saying the challenge is not for the fainthearted. This
is not a relaxing day out. It's designed to be
the coldest, longest, hardest, most grueling and a comfortable right
of test of endurance on a city scooter. So arguably
the case is that you should have stayed with September
based on last couple of seasons.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, well we'll see how this goes and then
we might move it back to September or maybe even
like in the stick of winter.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
It would be really challenging.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, scooters and frost probably don't mix very well though.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
No, no, this is true. It's a challenge.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
When you looked at Tiana as your destination, were there
a number of different routes that you were thinking about
going there was?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, so there's like if anybody who's familiar with the road.
There's like three sort of routes that you can go
and to get to Tia now. But as it is
a challenge and we want to be kind to here
and make it a little bit like for visual the
coastal Road was chosen. Yeah, way to go, so we
(32:03):
think it'll be challenging, especially if that one's coming through.
We're trying to get around the coast. But yeah, good sites,
good sites run their way.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
More scooters involved this year as.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Well, Yes, yeah, so we thought we'd up the number
because I just love organized chaos. So yeah, we usually
did around or that one hundred and one hundred and twenty. Yes,
it averaged around that number for scooters, and this year
we're going up to two hundred.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So yes, So how many places are left if people
want to get involved, suppose?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, yeah, so there's still a few paces left. We're
at one hundred and ninety five riders, but we've got
one hundred and or just over one hundred and eighty scooters,
so there's stall room. And then obviously their criteria is
just to raise funds for the Gras Street projects. So yeah,
you register radio your fundraising page and then Yeah, go
from the air.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Tell us more about the Gray Spread Grace Street project.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Yeah, okay, so the Gray Street Project, it's a it's
going to be a hub in South of Chicago, so
it's going to transfer, sorry to transform south of Chicago.
It's a community hub to connect and have opportunity and
growth for all ages, young and old. So it's going
(33:22):
to be a I think just over an eight hundred
square meter facility that will have various different spaces with support, learning,
recreation from interacting workshops and social gatherings. And I think
there's even what Janet's really excited about, a state of
the art youth tech hub as well as educational studios.
(33:46):
So it's going to be a brilliant space for learning,
but also you can use it for as I said,
social gatherings and it's tailored for all individuals, so all ages,
all backgrounds. Yeah, it's gonna be great for South and
the Caagle.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now what are the expectations on the scooter riders as
far as fundraising?
Speaker 6 (34:07):
So a minimum of two hundred dollars per rider is
all we ask. So yeah, we think that's pretty manageable.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And that's all it is. And block people, I mean
last time we did it, obviously we couldn't start from
Bluff because of the weather being so hideous. We started
from the cargole going through to Queenstown or Franklin as such.
And I was wrapped up like it was the middle
of winter and it was the middle of springs. So
certainly it brings a lot of challenges.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Yeah, exactly, And that's like I see that. We thought
we'd be kind and havebit at March, but you know
what southern weathers like, who would know?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, well, we're thinking of going for the theme. Porky
was talking about going as the Flintstones or something. Coincidentally,
our team is going to be called the Musterers, these
four of us involved. So fundraising will be up on
the website on the Muster and hockeywy page very shortly.
But it's about getting into the spirit of an occasion
like this. Like you hear about these like the old
charity basses used to go through the country and they
(35:03):
maintain a thing. Are you encouraging participants to do that?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah, if you want to be a point
of difference and it's like it's a fun day out,
it's a challenge. But yeah, there's got to be a
fun factor in there as well. So yeah, want to
see all sorts of different costumes and but yeah, as
you said, make sure they're probably sensible. Is that you
can put one proof and waterproof clothing underneath would be
(35:28):
ideal because we don't want yours like to suffer hyposmia
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And that's the truth, gloves, that's the key. So if
anybody's ken to get involved, touch obviously a still places
are still a few places involved. Get in touch with
you guys, I'd.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Say, yeah, absolutely, or our website, all the informations on
your website Southern tudor sorry, Southern Scooter Challenge dot co
dot nz or if you just want to donate anything
as mutually appreciated, good on your.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
TOAs I appreciate the Chad and we keeven.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Touch awesome, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Tash Clay talking about the Southern Scooter Challenge taking place
on March twenty first, the Musters will be involved once
again with South Porky Smith, Andy Fraser and Jeff Ralphins.
So certainly looking forward to this. Like I say, the
deets will be on the Muster on hockey now. He
paid shortly Tom O'Brien wraps us up. Welcome back. This
(36:29):
as the Muster before we catch up with Tim O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
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Speaker 7 (37:17):
I'm just coming down from cloud nine at the moment.
Things have been full on. But I've had a few
days away and I got back on Wednesday last week
and yeah, back to reality. But yeah, I've had a
nice time away.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah you went up to the sail GP. They went
a bit further afield.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Yeah, went up to the sale Grand Prix very luckily
managed to get out onto the water where the racing
and all the action was happening. Yeah, friends got a
catamaran up there, so we kind of toodled our way
out into the just on the edge of the course,
out in the middle of the harbor of the air
opposite the big temporary grandstand, and watched all the sailing
(37:59):
act at high speed and high thrills and spills, and obviously,
you know, New Zealand and the French came unstuck or
got stuck. Actually they Yeah, they had a collision and yeah,
I actually heard it. I didn't see it, but I
heard the collision and yeah, you know, when those boats
are that big and they're traveling at that speed, I
(38:20):
think they were doing about ninety k an hour and
they had each other, it's found to be a bit
of a tangled mess. And that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So the event itself was as a quite the allure.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
For you, to be brutally honest, mate, it's the first
time I've ever actually been on a sailing yacht in
my life, so that was a bit of a tick
box exercise. I suppose it stands to reason no coming
from Garton, New Zealand's most inland village, so it was
a bit of a contrast. But yeah, look, I mean
(38:52):
apart from you know, the America's Cup when it comes
around and watching it on the tally, I can't say
I've ever really had too much experience it's in that area.
But man, actually being on the water and seeing those
athletes going hell for leather, you know, all trying to
squeeze around that very very small course and you've got
(39:12):
sort of forty nine ones howling through, and yeah, it's
pretty exciting and pretty nerve wrecking stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Really really great spectators.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
But no, so look at a lovely time up there.
Spent five days jam packed up there, and then sailed
up to Cawwell Island, which is about four hours north
of Auckland. You know, a bit of fishing and swimming,
and managed to go for a bit of a run
around one of the islands, which was pretty cool, enjoying
the history and the ecology of one of those islands
up there. And then back to reality last week.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
How are your sea legs?
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Oh? Pretty good?
Speaker 7 (39:43):
Actually, yeah, I mean fair to say that. You know,
it was a relatively large vessel and it was a catamaran,
so there wasn't too much in the way of pitching
and yawing. And yeah, I mean it never really got
you know, it never really got too rough. Whether it
was pretty good on the whole. So I don't know
how i'd going in a heavy swell, but yeah, who knows.
(40:06):
I'm looking forward to going out again at some stage,
but I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Look Kings and fly you're involved there to how's the
season been, I mean from a tourism perspective, I'll be honest, gool,
because I've had field days, a lot of stuff happening
and building around the district. Gore has been amping lately.
How's it been up there around your neck of the woods?
Are you seeing much of a vibe?
Speaker 7 (40:26):
Oh, there's definitely a vibe, mate, there's definitely. Yeah, if
you go back to you know, just looking at the
layer of the land, you know, everything's pretty green and
growth rates are really good, you know, whether it be
with pasture growth rates or also winter crops. You know,
the winter crops are looking really really good up in
this area. Someone said to me the other day that
they were traveling from the Key just north of Tayana
(40:47):
up to Kingston. They couldn't believe how green everything was.
You know, usually things would have started to burn off
a little bit. Kingston flies picking along. It's just got
its regular runs. I've actually got a meeting and about
well shortly actually with Agritourism New Zealand and online meetings,
so you know, we're hoping this is the national Agriturism
(41:08):
zoom call that we're having with the CEO. And we
had our first chapter o Tigo Southland chapter a few
months ago up here and we're really excited to be
bringing on board a whole lot of primary producers looking
to diversify into other areas and we're hoping that with
those a little bit of confidence in the primary sector,
(41:28):
we're hoping that a lot of people will start to
think about, you know, maybe investing into some other areas
of their farm and practice which might not be so
traditional because we have to be open to that with
changing trends in the future and looking at opportunities. So
looking forward to that in a few minutes time.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Mate, Yeah, good over a time where we won't hold
you up, you let you carry on. Always good to chat.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
Awesome mate, thanks for the calls, laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
With ag proud because life on the land can be
a laughing matter brought to us by sheer well dance
working to help the livestock farmer. So you cowards think
you're tough because you jumped me, you waited for me
to be alone in front of the tent. I still
hated all all of you, even though there are three
of you, still managed to hold my ground a beet.
(42:14):
It didn't expect me to swing back since it was
six against one on one stage. I mon't be you old,
but I'm not getting too old for this. I'm not
getting light. I was getting tired and fighty, but just
wanted to go back to my tent, but I kept
on swinging. All I have to say is you started
this and I finished it. Man, I hate mosquitoes. All right,
(42:36):
we'll leave it there for the afternoon podcast going up
surely on iHeart for radio. I mean he this has
been the muster on hock and NOI many thanks to
beat his genetics. Enjoy the afternoon, see you tomorrow.
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui, brought
to you by Peters Genellix. My name's Andy Muer. Thanks
to your company. Here until two o'clock this afternoon. After
a busy weekend, especially on the sporting front, a couple
of big stories to come out of it, of course,
the Highlanders close but no cigar against the Chiefs and
Super Rugby England getting absolutely belted by Ireland. Mortgage Green
(00:35):
was pretty chuffed about that. I'll tell you that fact
for free. But I think the big one from overnight
was in the Super eight stage of a T twenty
Cricket World Cup, hosts India getting absolutely smashed by the
Protears of South Africa. So Super eights is pretty much
into full mode now. The black Caps, of course, the
game got rained off against Pakistan. They've got Sri Lanka
(00:58):
and England. They've got a win basically those two games
if they want to go through, or very pretty close
to it anyway. Bob Marley, the music Bob Marley and
the Whalers. Of course, he passed away in nineteen eighty one,
which seems quite a while ago because it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is Pokanui's five day forecast with twin farm tef from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Monday afternoons is bringing cloud with breezing or easterlyes in
a high twenty five. Tuesday sunny will lights sel westerly
six and twenty. Wednesday partly cloudy, were raising northerleas twelve
and twenty sax, Thursday rain would like sal Westleys five
and thirteen. There we go, and Friday a little bit
better sunny will light sal Westley's four and fifteen. You
(01:47):
just got to chuckle at this forecast. It's all over
the show, right, So it temaches to hand Clinton fifteen
northern south from fourteen point two, Riverton fifteen point one,
Tanna fourteen point Sax, Tatoroa not a lookable today, Winton
twelve point one at Woodland's thirteen point six. Jamie King
of Lake Heroko starts us off from the Sage and
Damn farming roundup Penny Simmons MP from the cargo as
(02:11):
well as being Minister for the Environment, Seeing how Penny
got on with this homewreck that I sent her a
couple of weeks ago. Regading GDP figures for Provinces of
New Zealand. Dean Ravage is on the program as well.
Farming at Glenham, seeing how things are going on the
farm and the lead up to tapping season, which Sully
(02:32):
enough isn't all that far away. Tasha Clay involved with
a Southern scooter challenge. It's happening in a few weeks time,
so Tash tells us how it's going. It's a different
route this year as well. And Tim O'Brien, business owner
based up at Garston in a regular catch up. So
I'll start the hour and next with Jamie King. This
is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peterson DTIs
(03:03):
Jamie Kating farms are Lake Heroco and joins us in
the Sergeant Dan Farming ground up. Thanks for Sergeant Dan.
Stock Foods based here and go where we go around
different parts of the province and talk to different farmers
and different aspects of agriculture. Jamie, good, afternoon. How's Lake
Heroco today?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Good mate? Good good. I imagine Heroco is probably wet
andy lock it normally is up there. That's why once
we get a big puddle of order. But I know
we're good just the FOG's only really little lifted. Andy,
it's anome settled. We had blue sky, but it's it's
just starting to claud over a little bit now. But
it doesn't beat a beany wind, so it'll be a
(03:39):
pleasant sort of a day and no rain, hopefully for us. Anyway,
some listeners won't agree with me on that one, But
I don't need any more precipitation for.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
For a bit endy rainfalls more than what you want
for this time of year, would you say?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah? Yeah, as we need the sun there and just
sort of got a few projects on the go that
sort of pretty weather reliant. So it would just be
nice if if summer would repair, you know, let's get
back to twenty degrees and some sunshine.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Now. I think summer happened that Thursday of the field
days thirty degrees and then it's gone again.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, he it's been a bit fickle more. Look in
just sort of a summer, isn't it. But oh not?
What are we not nearly interview, don't we? So I'll
get another another six weeks or so yet, Andy? So well,
I'm telling myself that, mate, because I've saw plenty of those.
Whether whether depending jobs to get ticked off.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, it's certainly been a summer with different dimensions as
far as the weather and normally about now people saying
how dry it's been. We'd still do understand certain parts
of the region still after a bit of precipitation, but
in general the feat situation looks pretty good when you
drive about.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. No, well we're humming along pretty good. We didn't
get a bit of warmth and clover and legings went
when nuts, which was good, and you can really see
lambs are moving really good. But they'll probably just stalled
a little bit. Now I learned the last of the
wooly lambs today. You're thinking then we'll be into some
dawn ones after that, so it'll be interested to see
how they go. Probably not as good as maybe we're hoping,
(05:09):
just with the lack of hate, but they've got plenty
to eat. And yeah, we'll just make it up as
we as we go.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I suppose what do you share in the way of lambs?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So everything make as soon as we can get the
shears lined up, So we just take the next draft off.
So we draft, and then the following draft comes off.
Leave them wooly, and then we share the thing. Yes,
so we're only about four to five weeks off the
shears before we'll start killing. But we share everything, mate,
So get the wool off them and get them garned
(05:41):
just for fly strike issues and all that sort of stuff.
And it's been easy to do this year financially as well,
so because it's quite a quarter an.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Invoice sometimes absolutely, and the fact that you're eliminating the
fly risk as well. Have you had issues a flyer surprise?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Nah? Not this year. Mat it's been really good, probably
because it's been a bit colder, I would imagine, But yeah,
it just comes and goes andy. There's no wrong or
reason to it. And I we're surrounded by a lot
of you've put this forestry and native bush and all
that too, so we're sort of breeding ground for it.
Last seed it was far the years out the back
of the native block and don't go near any sort
of sort of monitor in the every day. But yeah,
(06:18):
the trick is just trying to get the feeders off
from as fast as you can, I suppose, and no
one locks spending any more time the sheep beds and
what you have to.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Do do they so well, that's one thing about where
you live, Jamie. It's a beautiful part of the south
of not the world, and a lot of people wouldn't
have been through that way.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you know that. It's like anywhere, and it has
it's good days and bad days. But the most part
it's quite a unique sort of climate. We don't get
a lot of wind, as I'll probably said before, but
we're right on fuel and boundaries, so we probably tend
to trend towards that Westerley rainfall quite heavily, which is
predominantly what this summer's and spring sort of been. So
(06:55):
we have been. We're wetter than what we wanted to
have been. Yeah, yeah, but that goes. It grows grass
any but sort of sea class country, always falling against
weeds and gore. Awesome broom and things. But yeah, yeah, no,
I don't know, you keep I don't know, Andy will
buy another farm made moving on. But at the moment
it's so good and big enough to support support most
(07:17):
of the famili starts good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, certainly in the season like this that keeps them
moved rather chipper. As far as a drenching routine, they're
all dreaching cycle. How do you work?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I was Scottie the brother in law and Kates there,
so that managed a sheep side. But no, they just
drinks when they need to. We're doing a lot more
secretly counting obviously just for because there's a little bit
of that running around there. But we sort of take
a runious approach. I've got a hig kettle ratio, mate
breeding cares soon going up in a few more de numbers,
(07:48):
high numbers on surround country. And like I'd throw a
serial around in behind, you know, some petics, a little
bit of a weed bird, and then just keep breaking
stuff up Andy and and yeah, don't try not overgraze
too much. Yeah, there was a good targ in there
the other day. You know, someone was talking about sheep
worms white actually climb clover stalks. They can't physically, so
(08:12):
that was quite an interest one. So it turns a
lot of furies on its head. But whether or not
there's truth that I don't know. But so we don't
sort of any specials lamp within and crops, just a
good heavy clover rates in their permanent pastures, I suppose.
And then you keep the kels in front of lambs
and mix and rein so well it's.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A perfect senergy, the caws after the lambs.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I had upset, mate, and a lot. We do
grab a few couple of two or three unit loads
of stall lambs normally quite early, just to keep us
going through. We jump pretty quick, and they tend to
just stay on go straight into the blocks that have
been carving on and they have sort of freshened up
them six weeks spell and there's obviously no sheet worms,
and we don't want to tend to keep our own
(08:53):
lambs off those picks where the trade lambs have been
as well, So that just doesn't doesn't. Yeah, try not
to hurt the mothership if we can.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
As far as stores, did you get in early for
them this year because they're like gold?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, mate, you know we've got a couple of loads
of started December I think was early December, so yeah,
I know that sort of. Yeah, the way the market's gone,
we could probably put them back on the market of
stores again, but on that notewere sort of half a
three kill them. So they always shift well on a
good local lamb, So that's it's nice and nice to
know the people where you're getting from and you're not
just getting someone's pick and mixt so and I've got
(09:27):
a couple of good relationships with goes out there, so
it's quite easy. They know how we work and we
know how they work.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So yeah, there's a lot of good news coming out
of the red meat sector at the moment, especially around
the Alliance groupe, very very well documented recently around doing
meats getting into be with them as such, but interesting
as well that Alliance is tagged up with teamed up
sorry with Rugby Southland and the Alliance logo is going
to be on the Stag shirt this year, which we
(09:53):
think about it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, well hell Good said that we might have sold
most of it offshore. He but he's doing more for
local economy. The door meats are than what they the
board have be done, don't they. So it's a fantastic mate.
We all need sponsorship, but you know, all these you know,
it's great to get the name out there. We're trying
to do as much as we as much as we
sort of can or can afford to even likely, and
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but some pieces just to help the you know, we're
all set to go around. I'm sorry, And it's fantastic mate,
And it draws a bit of a weness and he's
on the right track and if they move head off
aspect in the car would be even better. And yeah,
it was good to see. Yeah, decision that people don't
shake the heads at mate. Ah. Look, we'll just take
it as we take it as well as it comes.
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It's just probably grassroots. But like I've said, they're no
longer the elephant in the room, are they, But something
still going to have to change game forward. You know,
we're hitting wadeno fever and there's already picturement battles going
forward for the winter lambs, and well, I thought I
want to fly to weave it with a few conversions
up in Canabury with some pieces, but obviously it's there. Yeah,
that critical critical mass period we've definitely well passed, so
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it's gonna be interesting. On that note, there's a lot
of Keble years going on the market at the moment, Andy,
and they seem to be falling homes, so they're not
getting their heads cut off, so it's a plus well
as far as I'm aware anyway, So we'll just wait
and see.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And they're worth a good coin here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And there's probably a few guys have been waiting for
a year lot this, you know, if they've been thinking
about getting out and they can probably fall too there
so but yeah, I hope look so hopefully they're all
falling homes and there they're not just getting their heads
cut off.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Good Only Jamie will let you carry. I'd always appreciate your.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Time, Hey good Man.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Thanks Andy, Jamie King of Lake Heroko and the Sergeant
Nev Farming round up. Thanks to Darrel on the team
at Sergeant den Stock Foods based here and Gore. Petty
Simmons MP from the Cargo as well as Minister for
the Environment with other portfolios. We catch up next. This
is the Muster in America. This is the Muster. Penny
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Simmons as MP from the Cargo as well as being
Minister for the Environment amongst other portfolios. Penny, good afternoon.
How was your weekend?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Pretty good? Thanks back here for Sunday, but up in
Wellington at a Blue Greens forum before that, which was
great to be in. Amongst just showing all the innovation
that's occurring in support of our primary sector. Really lots
of things utilizing AI and just amazing the sort of
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things that can be done. We saw some examples of
what was being done around grapes and harvesting and pruning
and AI being able to predict production and things like that.
It was pretty amazing and actually being able to predict
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the damage that was being done with incorrect pruning as
it was occurring. So there was some Yeah, there were
some pretty interesting things that were being displayed there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You say, the Blue Greens, is there any room for
common ground with the Green Party regarding this?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Oh? Look there green stance is pretty extreme, as is
more on the pragmatic side of things that we can
do to help our environment, to improve our environment, environmental outcomes,
to improve the productivity of our primary sector. The Greens
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tend to come from the stance of banning, stopping, sending off. Sure,
that's not our green approach.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So up of Wellington has been well documented over the
past couple of weeks about the failure around mower points sawage.
What are we going to see there as a resolution? Well,
more importantly from a real perspective, are we going to
see people held accountable? Because that is what would happen
in a farm plan as such?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, and look, I am getting that feedback regularly verbally
and in writing to me about when this happens in
the rural sector. There are fines, there are court cases,
people are how to account. At the moment, we've got
these reviews going on looking into Wellington Water Limited and
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also Wellington looking at the City Council. So it's really
important that we get to the heart of what's happened there,
we get to what is factual about what happened there.
But I share the concerns that farmers bring on this
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that are people going to be held accountable? You know?
The issue I guess here is that it's the rate
payer that will be the one of theirs fines. But
certainly I'm very aware of the reviews that being undertaken.
My colleague Simon Watts has initiated these reviews to get
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to the bottom of exactly what has happened because it's
I mean, it's incredibly serious in that marine environment and
we need to look at just what decisions have been
made that have got to this point.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, if you excuse the plan at staked, yeah it does.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And with four the current ex Wellington City Council members
in Parliament at the moment, I would have thought some
of those would be lying low, but some of them
have been pretty vocal, and some of them I would
have thought might have been at the heart of decisions
that were made around this.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You'll see how those cycle lanes go up there. As
far as infrastructure spared, now, it's totally SI from a penny,
but Field Days, Southern Field Days has been gone now
and interesting to you talking about gd and how things
are looking around the region now. I spoke to you
last time regarding GDP per area. I heard an interesting
stat though, because you were telling me before that normally
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what comes out of the ports in the country isn't
a true reflection for the South, especially for the obvious.
But I heard a stat this morning regatting the port
of Los Angeles, the biggest port in the US, is
down by ten or twelve percent at the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh really, well, yes, she gave me homework on this.
We'd had this record amount of value of our primary
products going out of the country, our export value, and
you asked me to get it broken down by region,
which I had my office scurrying around trying to do
with stats New Zealand. But the best they could get
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to is by what goes out of a port, which
wasn't going to be particularly fair for Southland. That was
going to really undercount regions like Southland and then overcount
Canipy and Otago because of course of our products go
out of produce go out of both Otago and Littleton
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as well as our own south Port. So I wasn't
able to complete my homework. I'm sorry the dog didn't
eat it. I had a crack at it, but couldn't
complete it. But I am actually interested in how we
might be able to do something better on that, because
just looking at the value what goes out by Port
doesn't give an accurate pature for the likes of south
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But having said that, what a cracker field Days was
record temperatures just about I think on Thursday, didn't it
get to over thirty degrees? Yeah, it was great. We
were pleased to have the Prime Minister down here on
that day when it was thirty one degrees doing a
few visits, and then he was at the Field Days
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on Friday morning, really enjoyed himself. We had the Minister
of Finance there on the Friday hour afternoon, went back
to Caucus the next week and both just raved about
how positive things were in the South and so it
was really good that they got to experience that, got
to talk to a lot of rural people at the
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field days and both really enjoyed their time there.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Stair seeing Zen in reality could do better though, and
just look at ports as far as what's exported regarding
gendp Co.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Didn't they Yeah, well, well we need to look into
how we can do it better because by the ports,
as I said, is going to undercount for Southland. It's
just they need to find a methodology that would work.
So I've tasked my people to keep looking for that. Now.
Having said all that, I have got a very important
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task coming up this Thursday. I have been invited to
tour Tatri, the sausage capital of New Zealand, to judge
New World's sausages from across the country and I'm really
looking forward to being out there. I think seven Sharp
are out there and the Herald and all the local
media have been invited and I just think it'll be
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great for Tour Tatree. I was out there on Fridays
in Riveton and Hotel to It was great all around there.
So it's great to be showcasing one of our townships
that's got this wonderful reputation for their sausages, and by
golly to attappery sausages are good to now be showcased nationally.
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So I will be out there on Thursday afternoon enjoying
a sausage or two.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Can you put the fears of the South to bed
and say that a base sausage or what not? Some
leak in Lemon creation.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, look, it's going to be an interesting one because
New World have their own butchers that make their sausages
in the house. I understand. I don't know if they're
going to put them up against the tour tapper sausage.
They may be too scared to do that. But in
my books, we've got some outstanding sausage is down here.
Riverton has great sausages.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Two.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
A tat Pre has great sausages. It's going to be
hard to beat them if they put them up against
the locals.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He's put Matawa and rivers Darald of that makes as well.
Penny Simmons, always appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Lovely, nice to talk and d bye.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Penny Simmons. Dean Rabbage is up next farming at Glenham.
You're listening to the muster.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dean Rabbage is based at Glenham and joins us on
this beautiful afternoon down here in the deep South.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Dino, How are you good things?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Andy? It's stunner down here today, so you just enjoying
it well?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or you can pretty much say we had a small
frost and gore this morning, or on the verge of it,
but you reckon out there it was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Perfect, just a bit of load cloud or fall or
flog or whatever you want to call it. That's all
burnt off. So yeah, sun's out. The sheep of grown
lamb grass is grown kettle heavy, so yeah, we're just
enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So how's your feed situation looking, Bearing in mind we
haven't had the summer that we'd like.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
To have, Like you've got plenty of feed around. I
think it's the general consensus with a lot of people
in this area. You can't get the used around fast
enough to try and control a bit of quality. But
the flip side of it is that everything's pumping along
really nicely. A lot of lambs are really starting to
hum now in year there's going to be plenty of
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feed around to start flashing the use up for the ram,
which is just over a month away. So yeah, we're
sitting in a pretty reasonable position, really.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Andy, So you're getting through the lambs pretty good.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, I'm just waiting on a truck to arrive shortly
to take a intload away. Yeah, we'll sort of getting
to that point now, sort of get a intload away
every ten days, so they'll soon put a pretty big
hole them. We do try and run to the pose
that we only have ten percent of the lambs left
on when the maternal ramp goes out, So that's around
the fifteenth of April, So yeah, that date's coming around
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pretty quick too, So yeah, I'm pretty sure we won't
be far away.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What did the schedule do at the weekend? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
From what I've seen, some stayed, some dropped ten cents,
But it's that time of year when funny things are
happening where I'll take ten cents off and put ten
cents sure on premium and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On so.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
N figures, I'd say it's say pretty much the same.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Really, A lot of people saying the store price, especially
last week going by the sale yards very close to
what you get at the works anyway, so the LP
procurement will get spending around, bended around again.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah, I think there's been a mess under restoration of
how many lambs aren't out there by the meat companies.
I think it's going to be going to a fright
when the season washed up, which is all right for
those who are still still in the sector. But yeah,
like I've heard people for years storing a lot and
still probably getting twenty thirty dollars ahead of what the
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budgets are on for a season without the cost so
ge for a cold weirch to to day come, it
will be a pretty technic option to take one. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Now, last time we spoke to you, you had all
that wall on hand. Did you manage to get rid
of it for a handsome price?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Look, it's all on the store, it's all been tested
up and I'm just waiting to hear back from ZnO
It's who were used to market their wall to see
what the best option is for that. So fingers crossed.
But looking at all the market reports and that, I
think it's definitely gonna more than cover sharing costs. Will see,
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which is for the first time probably three or four
years that's happened. So that's a really exciting position to
be and.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Also absolutely and long mate continue. Now, the big story
in the news over the past couple of weeks as
regarding the mower points swage, the failure that they curred
there with the infrastructure. Now all the raw surge slurry
as you call it, just going into Wellington Harbor. Fingers
are being pointed, but what action is going to happen
is going to be another matter. And you can relate
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this back to a farmer who's doing his due due diligence,
sorry about the farm and what they have to do
regarding their consents and adhering to them. It's a bit
of a contradiction.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think the hypocrisy smells more than the surge on
this one. And yeah, you've got the Green Party jumping
up and down when it was the only MP's that
voted to push money towards cycle ways instead of upgrading infrastructure.
Green pieces absent on this. All the anti agriculture warriors
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that are out there complaining about waterways and winter time
and nightrates and all that sort of stuff, which we
all know is pretty much non existence or is not
a bigger deal as what a lot of people make
it up to be. Their science is definitely over this
whole situation. So I think it's a pretty disgraceful what's
happening up there in the lack of coverage from certain
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areas of society is pretty appalling. Really.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, a lot of people have noted that this needs
to be accountability over this. Do you think we need
to press harder in the rural sector so we can
get a decent outcome?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Look, I don't that's a hard one. I think the
royal sector in advocates have made a good job of
pointing out the hypocrisy that's going on. We'll just bang
it and I'm sure that it'll come in handy one
day in the future. But I think these people that
are living in Wellington need to get their own fears
in order before they start getting out from behind their
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desks wearing their snols and stocks, coming to having us
how they run our farms.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, that's the thing. Cycle WA is wanting to get
you so far at the moment they know. But look,
the Zenda McDonald Awards are coming up soon. You're past
the lumnight you won the award but you can't remember
which year it was, around twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen or
twenty fourteen, yes, but one of them.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
But it's but poor from my behalf really years eleven
twelve years ago. So yeah, I've got the awards again
this year up in christ Church in the fortnight's time,
so we'll shoot up for a couple of days and
catch up with with some of the Terrefort people that
he made along being associated with their awards. So it's
always good to catch up. And yeah, you sort of
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don't see them for a year and you're walking to
the ram and it's you just carry on where you
left off. So I'm looking really looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
What was a big thing for your perspective winning that award?
Did it open up channels as such?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, look, just probably seek before is the mentoring stuff.
I focused on farm succession, which was obviously a bit
of a big fish and they except for a lot
of people at the moment and always will being always here,
has been, but you're just going around New Zealand Australia
talking to people about the succession process and probably learning
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not what to do rather than what to do certainly
helped us get their farm succession across the line.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Farm succession is a It's a major topic and always
will be.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah, and that's unique to your culture for some reason,
like you don't seem to see the same same discussions
and issues associated with a family or business in Goa
and the cargo or anything or that it's the one.
I suppose it's a unique position where with farming you're
dealing with a hoighly valued sept generally multimillion dollar sept,
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but are only getting a small return, and it's really
hard to to make things equals. I suppose being fear
at the end of the day is the biggest thing,
and just making sure that nobody's heavy forel like of
a better term, generally means it's not far away from
getting it right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Absolutely, it's a messive topic and continues to be so. Right.
Out of these three teams in rugby, who had the
worst weekend England the Crusaders or Wales.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Ah Crusaders probably.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
For the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
For the start of the sain was I wasn't too
disappointed to seeing them. Yeah, we got rug around to
watch the moment, but it was wasn't it disappointed to
wake up to the Island put one over England as
we are especially tooking them, so he has been quite entertaining.
We now have seen that have been to a few
English mates that were at the game. So yeah, enjoy
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the working the rugby to watch. Apart from some unfortunate
calls or some unfortunate events in the Highlanders chess game
on Friday nights, they.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Were unfortunate and unfortunately it all comes down to the officials.
Now the reft of that game. Angers maybe used to
be a boss here at nz ME, but it wasn't
so much angers but the touch judges as whatever you
call them these days. A lot of calls got missed.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah there's a couple that probably could have been picked up.
There's a pretty dubious drop one drop out what do
you call it these days? But that led to a
great trial optionist try and peace for the trial, the
trial of the route to neighbors seeing those the locks
make a fantastic breakdown rugby, pure rugby, it's best. So yeah,
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it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
As Harvey Norman putting the boots on again this year.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah yeah, he's going to be a mainstay for the
Windom sing Sees this year. So, and we're looking forward
to having him, so it'll be all good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Has he gone down to the seas well? He doesn't
know that yet.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
He doesn't know that yet.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Thank good on your dean. We'll let you carry on
that track must be do.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, look it's actually just driving past me the house.
I'll keeping.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Dean rabbits farming at Glennon about to put the lambs
on the track. You're listening to the muster up next
Tasha Clay talking the Southern Scooter Challenge. Welcome back. This
is the muster on Hawki. This other than Scooter Challenge
(30:01):
is happening once again in a few weeks time, marcha,
twenty first. But it's a change this year and to
tell us all about it, as organizer, Tash Clay, Tash,
welcome to the master once again. It has come around
quicker than not, the Southern Scooter Challenge.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It sure has. Yeah, it'll be here, as you said,
in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So there's a few changes this year. Tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yes, yes, there is.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
So it was some exciting changes and we think that
it was needed obviously. Well, we change their charity every
year to a nice local chosen charity the placemakers has
done so the Grace Street project and the route changed
that to Keratonga to Tia now which is very exciting.
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And yeah, and then the change of year, so March.
Were sort of hoping that that might be a little
bit kinder to you on challenge day, but who would know.
The weather's been crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So now just going for by the release the other
day saying the challenge is not for the fainthearted. This
is not a relaxing day out. It's designed to be
the coldest, longest, hardest, most grueling and a comfortable right
of test of endurance on a city scooter. So arguably
the case is that you should have stayed with September
based on last couple of seasons.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, well we'll see how this goes and then
we might move it back to September or maybe even
like in the stick of winter.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
It would be really challenging.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, scooters and frost probably don't mix very well though.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
No, no, this is true. It's a challenge.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
When you looked at Tiana as your destination, were there
a number of different routes that you were thinking about
going there was?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, so there's like if anybody who's familiar with the road.
There's like three sort of routes that you can go
and to get to Tia now. But as it is
a challenge and we want to be kind to here
and make it a little bit like for visual the
coastal Road was chosen. Yeah, way to go, so we
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think it'll be challenging, especially if that one's coming through.
We're trying to get around the coast. But yeah, good sites,
good sites run their way.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
More scooters involved this year as.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Well, Yes, yeah, so we thought we'd up the number
because I just love organized chaos. So yeah, we usually
did around or that one hundred and one hundred and twenty. Yes,
it averaged around that number for scooters, and this year
we're going up to two hundred.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So yes, So how many places are left if people
want to get involved, suppose?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, yeah, so there's still a few paces left. We're
at one hundred and ninety five riders, but we've got
one hundred and or just over one hundred and eighty scooters,
so there's stall room. And then obviously their criteria is
just to raise funds for the Gras Street projects. So yeah,
you register radio your fundraising page and then Yeah, go
from the air.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Tell us more about the Gray Spread Grace Street project.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Yeah, okay, so the Gray Street Project, it's a it's
going to be a hub in South of Chicago, so
it's going to transfer, sorry to transform south of Chicago.
It's a community hub to connect and have opportunity and
growth for all ages, young and old. So it's going
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to be a I think just over an eight hundred
square meter facility that will have various different spaces with support, learning,
recreation from interacting workshops and social gatherings. And I think
there's even what Janet's really excited about, a state of
the art youth tech hub as well as educational studios.
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So it's going to be a brilliant space for learning,
but also you can use it for as I said,
social gatherings and it's tailored for all individuals, so all ages,
all backgrounds. Yeah, it's gonna be great for South and
the Caagle.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now what are the expectations on the scooter riders as
far as fundraising?
Speaker 6 (34:07):
So a minimum of two hundred dollars per rider is
all we ask. So yeah, we think that's pretty manageable.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And that's all it is. And block people, I mean
last time we did it, obviously we couldn't start from
Bluff because of the weather being so hideous. We started
from the cargole going through to Queenstown or Franklin as such.
And I was wrapped up like it was the middle
of winter and it was the middle of springs. So
certainly it brings a lot of challenges.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Yeah, exactly, And that's like I see that. We thought
we'd be kind and havebit at March, but you know
what southern weathers like, who would know?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, well, we're thinking of going for the theme. Porky
was talking about going as the Flintstones or something. Coincidentally,
our team is going to be called the Musterers, these
four of us involved. So fundraising will be up on
the website on the Muster and hockeywy page very shortly.
But it's about getting into the spirit of an occasion
like this. Like you hear about these like the old
charity basses used to go through the country and they
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maintain a thing. Are you encouraging participants to do that?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah, if you want to be a point
of difference and it's like it's a fun day out,
it's a challenge. But yeah, there's got to be a
fun factor in there as well. So yeah, want to
see all sorts of different costumes and but yeah, as
you said, make sure they're probably sensible. Is that you
can put one proof and waterproof clothing underneath would be
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ideal because we don't want yours like to suffer hyposmia
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And that's the truth, gloves, that's the key. So if
anybody's ken to get involved, touch obviously a still places
are still a few places involved. Get in touch with
you guys, I'd.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Say, yeah, absolutely, or our website, all the informations on
your website Southern tudor sorry, Southern Scooter Challenge dot co
dot nz or if you just want to donate anything
as mutually appreciated, good on your.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
TOAs I appreciate the Chad and we keeven.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Touch awesome, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Tash Clay talking about the Southern Scooter Challenge taking place
on March twenty first, the Musters will be involved once
again with South Porky Smith, Andy Fraser and Jeff Ralphins.
So certainly looking forward to this. Like I say, the
deets will be on the Muster on hockey now. He
paid shortly Tom O'Brien wraps us up. Welcome back. This
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Speaker 7 (37:17):
I'm just coming down from cloud nine at the moment.
Things have been full on. But I've had a few
days away and I got back on Wednesday last week
and yeah, back to reality. But yeah, I've had a
nice time away.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah you went up to the sail GP. They went
a bit further afield.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Yeah, went up to the sale Grand Prix very luckily
managed to get out onto the water where the racing
and all the action was happening. Yeah, friends got a
catamaran up there, so we kind of toodled our way
out into the just on the edge of the course,
out in the middle of the harbor of the air
opposite the big temporary grandstand, and watched all the sailing
(37:59):
act at high speed and high thrills and spills, and obviously,
you know, New Zealand and the French came unstuck or
got stuck. Actually they Yeah, they had a collision and yeah,
I actually heard it. I didn't see it, but I
heard the collision and yeah, you know, when those boats
are that big and they're traveling at that speed, I
(38:20):
think they were doing about ninety k an hour and
they had each other, it's found to be a bit
of a tangled mess. And that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So the event itself was as a quite the allure.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
For you, to be brutally honest, mate, it's the first
time I've ever actually been on a sailing yacht in
my life, so that was a bit of a tick
box exercise. I suppose it stands to reason no coming
from Garton, New Zealand's most inland village, so it was
a bit of a contrast. But yeah, look, I mean
(38:52):
apart from you know, the America's Cup when it comes
around and watching it on the tally, I can't say
I've ever really had too much experience it's in that area.
But man, actually being on the water and seeing those
athletes going hell for leather, you know, all trying to
squeeze around that very very small course and you've got
(39:12):
sort of forty nine ones howling through, and yeah, it's
pretty exciting and pretty nerve wrecking stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Really really great spectators.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
But no, so look at a lovely time up there.
Spent five days jam packed up there, and then sailed
up to Cawwell Island, which is about four hours north
of Auckland. You know, a bit of fishing and swimming,
and managed to go for a bit of a run
around one of the islands, which was pretty cool, enjoying
the history and the ecology of one of those islands
up there. And then back to reality last week.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
How are your sea legs?
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Oh? Pretty good?
Speaker 7 (39:43):
Actually, yeah, I mean fair to say that. You know,
it was a relatively large vessel and it was a catamaran,
so there wasn't too much in the way of pitching
and yawing. And yeah, I mean it never really got
you know, it never really got too rough. Whether it
was pretty good on the whole. So I don't know
how i'd going in a heavy swell, but yeah, who knows.
(40:06):
I'm looking forward to going out again at some stage,
but I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Look Kings and fly you're involved there to how's the
season been, I mean from a tourism perspective, I'll be honest, gool,
because I've had field days, a lot of stuff happening
and building around the district. Gore has been amping lately.
How's it been up there around your neck of the woods?
Are you seeing much of a vibe?
Speaker 7 (40:26):
Oh, there's definitely a vibe, mate, there's definitely. Yeah, if
you go back to you know, just looking at the
layer of the land, you know, everything's pretty green and
growth rates are really good, you know, whether it be
with pasture growth rates or also winter crops. You know,
the winter crops are looking really really good up in
this area. Someone said to me the other day that
they were traveling from the Key just north of Tayana
(40:47):
up to Kingston. They couldn't believe how green everything was.
You know, usually things would have started to burn off
a little bit. Kingston flies picking along. It's just got
its regular runs. I've actually got a meeting and about
well shortly actually with Agritourism New Zealand and online meetings,
so you know, we're hoping this is the national Agriturism
(41:08):
zoom call that we're having with the CEO. And we
had our first chapter o Tigo Southland chapter a few
months ago up here and we're really excited to be
bringing on board a whole lot of primary producers looking
to diversify into other areas and we're hoping that with
those a little bit of confidence in the primary sector,
(41:28):
we're hoping that a lot of people will start to
think about, you know, maybe investing into some other areas
of their farm and practice which might not be so
traditional because we have to be open to that with
changing trends in the future and looking at opportunities. So
looking forward to that in a few minutes time.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Mate, Yeah, good over a time where we won't hold
you up, you let you carry on. Always good to chat.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
Awesome mate, thanks for the calls, laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
With ag proud because life on the land can be
a laughing matter brought to us by sheer well dance
working to help the livestock farmer. So you cowards think
you're tough because you jumped me, you waited for me
to be alone in front of the tent. I still
hated all all of you, even though there are three
of you, still managed to hold my ground a beet.
(42:14):
It didn't expect me to swing back since it was
six against one on one stage. I mon't be you old,
but I'm not getting too old for this. I'm not
getting light. I was getting tired and fighty, but just
wanted to go back to my tent, but I kept
on swinging. All I have to say is you started
this and I finished it. Man, I hate mosquitoes. All right,
(42:36):
we'll leave it there for the afternoon podcast going up
surely on iHeart for radio. I mean he this has
been the muster on hock and NOI many thanks to
beat his genetics. Enjoy the afternoon, see you tomorrow.
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