April 20, 2026 • 5 mins
Jamie Brown of Manuherikia YFC talks all things around Young Farmers.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the muster. We're away up to paulbur In
this afternoon and the Young Farmer's segment catching up with
Jamie Brown of the Upper Manahura Care Club. Jamie, good
afternoon and welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, it's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Firstly, ground conditions up at Paulboro and some dodgy characters
up there name you both named me by the names
of Copeland and Nicholson, but that's another story. How are you,
guys fearing?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, not too bad. It sort of still wanting a
bit more rain, but yeah, just to waiting for the
season to come up for you. Too cold and stops
growing grass.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You were telling me before your average rainfall is four
hundred mil millimeters. How you say it? Yes, let's bugger
all you say. You adapted that pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, no, sort of have to you don't expect
too much. Don't have to worry. It's flooding around here,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now Young Farmer's up up there Upper Manahura Care tell
us about it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, So we've sort of got a club, has been
up here for a while. We just celebrated ninety years
last year, so that's good. We've sort of quite big
now we've gone up to over twenty members and yeah,
sort of a big part of the community, I think. Yeah,
I grow up here and everyone's always been a part
of it, and everyone knows who the young farmers are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So so young farmers has always been particularly strong up there, would.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You say, Yeah, it's definitely had its up and downs
and over the years, but yeah, generally it's been quite
strong and is it quite a good community backing behind it,
so I think that's what's kept it going for so long.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So about you guys and the young farmers up there
upper manahaa care? Do are you pretty active in what
you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, No, we're sort of all without doing something. This
is never a dull moment yet to quite a few
community events and barkups and barbecues and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, a lot of bar cups. That's just the nature
the beast, and they're well attended. As far as community events,
what do you guys get up to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'll usually hold a ball that we donate stuff to
community groups like Community Harbor and stuff like that. A
few children's Christmas parties in that hope that's sort of
held at local halls. Yeah, just anything anything really that
we get asked to come and help with.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So what do you do for fundraising up there, Jamie,
Because a few clubs around here have a fetish for
picking up rocks. There's a lot of rocks in Central Attago.
They wish to diversify. But what do you guys do
to get funds?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We do a lot of I've done a bit of sharing.
We sort of tower every year and the annual car
sale and omcaw. We've done that for a long time now,
so that's usually three sales, but go down to one
at the moment, so you're sort of max tailing and
sharing and sales.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I make our sales. Why just going down to one
just not the demand for it at the moment where us?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, I think there's just a lot a lot of
people are selling privately now, so they just struggling to
fill the sale yard for three sales. So pushed it,
pushed it downsize a bit.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But it's always good to get involved and be able
to do stuff like that. I suppose a as a
collective to give back.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. We sort of have out with the
AMP shows flam as well, which is always a good,
good fun catching up with all the farmers and that
picking up all their lambs and seeing who's got the
best one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Are you predominantly a farmer oriented club there, or do
you have people for more walks of life come along?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Probably in the last year was sort of opened up
and we've got people from all over and that now
a lot more contractors and sort of dairy farmers and
all sorts in town. We've got probably a handful of
just workers in town that have come and shown a
bit of interest, which is good. Always good to see.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Many dairy farms up around Paolbird.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, there's a few, sort of more than was well,
there was sort of none fifteen twenty years ago, but yeah,
there's a few here. I think they're not allowed to
put anymore in there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Right, Yeah, you've got this coming up the winter time.
Normally there's a little bit of down downtime on the
farm and the likes. So what are you guys, Anything
big on the horizon as far as group activities.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Not at the moment. Usually a lot of fogus goes
into rugby, coming up supporting the team there, so usually
take the next couple of months to slow down a
bit into a bit of social gatherings more than any
big events. But we do have a mystery van trip
that will be coming up end of winter before sort of.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Carbon in that up a Manahuracre, young farmers. Of anybody's
up that way or anybody going through just wants to
get in touch. What's the best way to get to
connect the team?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Probably Facebook or Instagram. Jump on either of those. You'll
find our page on there A missus through there in
our social media person will we'll tell you where we're
going to be or what's the next thing to come.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
To good Only Jamie appreciated the chat. All the best
of Manahurrikia, Young farmers, sweet cheers, laugh out loud with
ag proud because life on the land can be a
laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer well data working
to help the livestock farmer. I once dated a girl
(05:27):
who had one leg shorter than the other. Her name
was Eileen. That's us Ober and done with For the afternoon.
The podcast is going up shortly on my Heart Radio.
I meany Muer. The show is brought to you by
Peter's Genetics. Enjoy. The afternoon is going to be cool
and brisk, but hopefully it's not going to be anything sinister.
(05:48):
See you tomorrow.
This is the muster. We're away up to paulbur In
this afternoon and the Young Farmer's segment catching up with
Jamie Brown of the Upper Manahura Care Club. Jamie, good
afternoon and welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, it's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Firstly, ground conditions up at Paulboro and some dodgy characters
up there name you both named me by the names
of Copeland and Nicholson, but that's another story. How are you,
guys fearing?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, not too bad. It sort of still wanting a
bit more rain, but yeah, just to waiting for the
season to come up for you. Too cold and stops
growing grass.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You were telling me before your average rainfall is four
hundred mil millimeters. How you say it? Yes, let's bugger
all you say. You adapted that pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, no, sort of have to you don't expect
too much. Don't have to worry. It's flooding around here,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now Young Farmer's up up there Upper Manahura Care tell
us about it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, So we've sort of got a club, has been
up here for a while. We just celebrated ninety years
last year, so that's good. We've sort of quite big
now we've gone up to over twenty members and yeah,
sort of a big part of the community, I think. Yeah,
I grow up here and everyone's always been a part
of it, and everyone knows who the young farmers are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So so young farmers has always been particularly strong up there, would.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You say, Yeah, it's definitely had its up and downs
and over the years, but yeah, generally it's been quite
strong and is it quite a good community backing behind it,
so I think that's what's kept it going for so long.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So about you guys and the young farmers up there
upper manahaa care? Do are you pretty active in what
you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, No, we're sort of all without doing something. This
is never a dull moment yet to quite a few
community events and barkups and barbecues and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, a lot of bar cups. That's just the nature
the beast, and they're well attended. As far as community events,
what do you guys get up to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'll usually hold a ball that we donate stuff to
community groups like Community Harbor and stuff like that. A
few children's Christmas parties in that hope that's sort of
held at local halls. Yeah, just anything anything really that
we get asked to come and help with.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So what do you do for fundraising up there, Jamie,
Because a few clubs around here have a fetish for
picking up rocks. There's a lot of rocks in Central Attago.
They wish to diversify. But what do you guys do
to get funds?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We do a lot of I've done a bit of sharing.
We sort of tower every year and the annual car
sale and omcaw. We've done that for a long time now,
so that's usually three sales, but go down to one
at the moment, so you're sort of max tailing and
sharing and sales.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I make our sales. Why just going down to one
just not the demand for it at the moment where us?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, I think there's just a lot a lot of
people are selling privately now, so they just struggling to
fill the sale yard for three sales. So pushed it,
pushed it downsize a bit.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But it's always good to get involved and be able
to do stuff like that. I suppose a as a
collective to give back.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. We sort of have out with the
AMP shows flam as well, which is always a good,
good fun catching up with all the farmers and that
picking up all their lambs and seeing who's got the
best one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Are you predominantly a farmer oriented club there, or do
you have people for more walks of life come along?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Probably in the last year was sort of opened up
and we've got people from all over and that now
a lot more contractors and sort of dairy farmers and
all sorts in town. We've got probably a handful of
just workers in town that have come and shown a
bit of interest, which is good. Always good to see.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Many dairy farms up around Paolbird.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, there's a few, sort of more than was well,
there was sort of none fifteen twenty years ago, but yeah,
there's a few here. I think they're not allowed to
put anymore in there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Right, Yeah, you've got this coming up the winter time.
Normally there's a little bit of down downtime on the
farm and the likes. So what are you guys, Anything
big on the horizon as far as group activities.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Not at the moment. Usually a lot of fogus goes
into rugby, coming up supporting the team there, so usually
take the next couple of months to slow down a
bit into a bit of social gatherings more than any
big events. But we do have a mystery van trip
that will be coming up end of winter before sort of.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Carbon in that up a Manahuracre, young farmers. Of anybody's
up that way or anybody going through just wants to
get in touch. What's the best way to get to
connect the team?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Probably Facebook or Instagram. Jump on either of those. You'll
find our page on there A missus through there in
our social media person will we'll tell you where we're
going to be or what's the next thing to come.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
To good Only Jamie appreciated the chat. All the best
of Manahurrikia, Young farmers, sweet cheers, laugh out loud with
ag proud because life on the land can be a
laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer well data working
to help the livestock farmer. I once dated a girl
(05:27):
who had one leg shorter than the other. Her name
was Eileen. That's us Ober and done with For the afternoon.
The podcast is going up shortly on my Heart Radio.
I meany Muer. The show is brought to you by
Peter's Genetics. Enjoy. The afternoon is going to be cool
and brisk, but hopefully it's not going to be anything sinister.
(05:48):
See you tomorrow.
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