October 12, 2025 • 7 mins
Bruce Eade looks back at one of the better Bathurst 1000 car races that has occurred for a few years.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Free seed Farms at Cowso in South Totago and joins
us in the Sergeant Dan Farming round up each every Monday,
we speak to various farmers in different parts of the region.
Of course, thanks to Sergeant Dan stock foods here and Gore.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy. How are you pretty good yourself?
You survived, Beth stay.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
K Yeah, no we did. It was quite nerve wreaking.
It was a hell of a race. But yeah, night,
we're going good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So how are you looking out there?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Likes the growth in there, speaking to a lot of
people that's taking the check obviously with the way the
temperatures have been all over the show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How are you fearing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, well, I'd probably say we've turned a corner in
the last ten days. It was looking pretty bleak probably
into last month and the beginning of this one, and
we were all sort of the only thing that got
us through that thirty five mills of rain we got
about ten days ago, with the hope that we were
going to get nineteen to twenty degrees for three or
four days last week, which thankfully wet and you can
(01:01):
just see the grass waving in the wind there. So
it was welcome change.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So the tick is starting to grow over your way
now more released.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Then, yeah, it's done too. We're not certainly flushed with
it or anything, but you know, you can certainly see
a few days in front of you now, Whereas it
was a wee bit of where we put in the
cows next scenario, but brought a bit of extra supplementary
feed to bridge the gap in that, which we're slowing
down on that at the moment. So probably not out
(01:30):
of the woods yet. I think it's a bit weak
again next week by the stand of things, but to
be expected. But yeah, I know it's been it's been
a bit of a bit of a struggle I think
for most people feedwards, just in the last bloody six weeks.
So it's down south, you know, around I've been in
the Cargo once or twice, I think, over carving and
(01:50):
sort of around the Edendale and parts of that have
a lot more grass than we did earlier on and
that haven't been down there lately, so I'm not sure
how they're fearing. But yeah, it just seems to be
up here in West Targo we're a little bit bloody
short or slower to get going.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It was interesting yesterday, Bruce, the government coming out in
the media announcing is current twenty fifteen twenty fifty sorry,
methane target of twenty four to forty seven percent is
going to be reduced to what they're saying is a
more realistic target of fourteen to twenty four percent. Interesting
bringing out news releases on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, especially on beath Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Especially on Bethursday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I first I heard of it because I was fully
engrossed in the race yesterday till the very end. Was
this morning, come to the Kioski in the radio and
I said, well, that's quite unusual for it to be
a Sunday thing. But yeah, it's good news. I suppose
they've pushed things out in that, But at the end
of the day, we're just carrying on farming here, doing
what we do. When we'll worry about that sort of
(02:50):
rubbish when the squeeze really comes on.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, you're pretty pragmatic in that sense, Bruce, saying that
whatever the case RASA, whatever will be, will be.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But do you just get I don't know, grumpy, the.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Fact that all these extra taxes get lamped on the
real sector at the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, it's a tough one. I mean, if you've got
grumpy and pissed off excuse my language, after one at
all this, every single one of those stupid things that
they dream up, you'd give the game away. So, you know,
will we do it? Because we love the cares, being
outside and farming in general, the pleasure that you get
from a bit of success and fruits of your labor
and all those other cliches. So not only that stuff
(03:29):
sort of get me down too much. That's for the
guys with shiny asses sitting and officers to work through.
And we're out on the on the ground floor, at
the grassroots, so doing our job. And yeah, I sort
of ignolmost that white noise until it really needs to
come to the crunch. You know, you can say you
can get your your neckers in a twist over it,
(03:51):
and that you look what happened with groundswell, you know,
going back I don't know how many years that was
now the big protest twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, Yeah, right,
that long ago line in the sand. At right, farmers
have had enough now, And I think that probably send
a message to the hierarchy that if you're anoyous enough
or you go down the wrong track far enough. There
is plenty of numbers, and we will get up and say, hey,
(04:11):
we've had enough. So I think we have that a
little a little bit of power in their back pocket
and the sense of the year, we'll we'll stand up and
say hey, this isn't good enough if it gets to
that point.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And the reating you talk about individuals and ivory tellers
and the likes but likes of federated farmers be for Lamb,
Dairy and Z etc. You're quite happy to support their
work they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I guess, so they do what they do. At
the end of the day, they're not going away. I'm
obviously paying a levy to Beef and Lamb and paying
a levy to Dairy and Z. I'm not a member
of feeds in that, but more power to them. It's
just because it's I don't have a problem with those guys.
Good on them for standing up for us.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
All in that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, sometimes you wonder where that levy goes for some
of that stuff, but that's another story for another day.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What is the story today though, is bet to Bathurst.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Depending on how you're supposed to pronounce that I suppose,
But like you say, you're an avid fan of the event,
and I'll be honest, I watched a hell of a
lot more yesterday than I imagined that I would. But
just that finishing there those that last five or six
laps doing two hundred and fifty clocks or whatever. It
was side by side and somebody right behind you. You
don't know what's ahead of you because of the weather.
(05:21):
It was just riveting TV and sported for that too.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh it was you know, as I said, I've been
watching it since I was a part, so I've grown
up with it and yesterday. Last year was a bit
of a procession. It was reasonably boring, but the qualifying
that on Friday was the closest have been for a
long time, so it was quite exciting. And a few
big names, well most of the big names actually didn't
either make the finish or certainly weren't in the top
(05:46):
ten due to mechanicals and other bits and pieces. I
think mom of the day apart from the wind for
Matt paying from MW Zealand's chairs, most it's Mustang expiring
on the straight, jumped the fence and went and had
a can of beer. With the crowd. You know, it's
it's just as Bathirst as it comes. But like the
last probably twenty laps, the rain was coming in, felting
(06:08):
down those boys. As you say, they're doing easy two
hundred and fifty clicks in a lot of those places
and in close quarters combat a lot of faith and
the guy next to you hoping that he's not going
to draw into the fence because the lead changed hands
probably five or six times. Cars that were out of contention,
all of a sudden, we're into contention. Old mate went
(06:28):
for a last or went for a lunch pass there
and got a five second penalty, so he did actually
win the race, but he ended up third because of
the penalty, so you know, it had all the drama
that Bathurst usually has. So yeah, it was even though
it was a Ford one. It's against my religion. It
should have been a Sheeved, but anyway, that's how it rolls.
It's good to see Matt Pain get up there and
(06:50):
do it and yeah, great day.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah key, he's a fly once again. Bruce Sai. You
always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
No worries. We'll see you next time, howso.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And the sergeant Dan farming roundup, thanks for Sergeant Dan
Stock foods right here in Gore.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Dean ravages up. Next, you're listening to the Must
Free seed Farms at Cowso in South Totago and joins
us in the Sergeant Dan Farming round up each every Monday,
we speak to various farmers in different parts of the region.
Of course, thanks to Sergeant Dan stock foods here and Gore.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy. How are you pretty good yourself?
You survived, Beth stay.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
K Yeah, no we did. It was quite nerve wreaking.
It was a hell of a race. But yeah, night,
we're going good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So how are you looking out there?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Likes the growth in there, speaking to a lot of
people that's taking the check obviously with the way the
temperatures have been all over the show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How are you fearing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, well, I'd probably say we've turned a corner in
the last ten days. It was looking pretty bleak probably
into last month and the beginning of this one, and
we were all sort of the only thing that got
us through that thirty five mills of rain we got
about ten days ago, with the hope that we were
going to get nineteen to twenty degrees for three or
four days last week, which thankfully wet and you can
(01:01):
just see the grass waving in the wind there. So
it was welcome change.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So the tick is starting to grow over your way
now more released.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Then, yeah, it's done too. We're not certainly flushed with
it or anything, but you know, you can certainly see
a few days in front of you now, Whereas it
was a wee bit of where we put in the
cows next scenario, but brought a bit of extra supplementary
feed to bridge the gap in that, which we're slowing
down on that at the moment. So probably not out
(01:30):
of the woods yet. I think it's a bit weak
again next week by the stand of things, but to
be expected. But yeah, I know it's been it's been
a bit of a bit of a struggle I think
for most people feedwards, just in the last bloody six weeks.
So it's down south, you know, around I've been in
the Cargo once or twice, I think, over carving and
(01:50):
sort of around the Edendale and parts of that have
a lot more grass than we did earlier on and
that haven't been down there lately, so I'm not sure
how they're fearing. But yeah, it just seems to be
up here in West Targo we're a little bit bloody
short or slower to get going.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It was interesting yesterday, Bruce, the government coming out in
the media announcing is current twenty fifteen twenty fifty sorry,
methane target of twenty four to forty seven percent is
going to be reduced to what they're saying is a
more realistic target of fourteen to twenty four percent. Interesting
bringing out news releases on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, especially on beath Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Especially on Bethursday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I first I heard of it because I was fully
engrossed in the race yesterday till the very end. Was
this morning, come to the Kioski in the radio and
I said, well, that's quite unusual for it to be
a Sunday thing. But yeah, it's good news. I suppose
they've pushed things out in that, But at the end
of the day, we're just carrying on farming here, doing
what we do. When we'll worry about that sort of
(02:50):
rubbish when the squeeze really comes on.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, you're pretty pragmatic in that sense, Bruce, saying that
whatever the case RASA, whatever will be, will be.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But do you just get I don't know, grumpy, the.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Fact that all these extra taxes get lamped on the
real sector at the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, it's a tough one. I mean, if you've got
grumpy and pissed off excuse my language, after one at
all this, every single one of those stupid things that
they dream up, you'd give the game away. So, you know,
will we do it? Because we love the cares, being
outside and farming in general, the pleasure that you get
from a bit of success and fruits of your labor
and all those other cliches. So not only that stuff
(03:29):
sort of get me down too much. That's for the
guys with shiny asses sitting and officers to work through.
And we're out on the on the ground floor, at
the grassroots, so doing our job. And yeah, I sort
of ignolmost that white noise until it really needs to
come to the crunch. You know, you can say you
can get your your neckers in a twist over it,
(03:51):
and that you look what happened with groundswell, you know,
going back I don't know how many years that was
now the big protest twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, Yeah, right,
that long ago line in the sand. At right, farmers
have had enough now, And I think that probably send
a message to the hierarchy that if you're anoyous enough
or you go down the wrong track far enough. There
is plenty of numbers, and we will get up and say, hey,
(04:11):
we've had enough. So I think we have that a
little a little bit of power in their back pocket
and the sense of the year, we'll we'll stand up and
say hey, this isn't good enough if it gets to
that point.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And the reating you talk about individuals and ivory tellers
and the likes but likes of federated farmers be for Lamb,
Dairy and Z etc. You're quite happy to support their
work they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I guess, so they do what they do. At
the end of the day, they're not going away. I'm
obviously paying a levy to Beef and Lamb and paying
a levy to Dairy and Z. I'm not a member
of feeds in that, but more power to them. It's
just because it's I don't have a problem with those guys.
Good on them for standing up for us.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
All in that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, sometimes you wonder where that levy goes for some
of that stuff, but that's another story for another day.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What is the story today though, is bet to Bathurst.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Depending on how you're supposed to pronounce that I suppose,
But like you say, you're an avid fan of the event,
and I'll be honest, I watched a hell of a
lot more yesterday than I imagined that I would. But
just that finishing there those that last five or six
laps doing two hundred and fifty clocks or whatever. It
was side by side and somebody right behind you. You
don't know what's ahead of you because of the weather.
(05:21):
It was just riveting TV and sported for that too.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh it was you know, as I said, I've been
watching it since I was a part, so I've grown
up with it and yesterday. Last year was a bit
of a procession. It was reasonably boring, but the qualifying
that on Friday was the closest have been for a
long time, so it was quite exciting. And a few
big names, well most of the big names actually didn't
either make the finish or certainly weren't in the top
(05:46):
ten due to mechanicals and other bits and pieces. I
think mom of the day apart from the wind for
Matt paying from MW Zealand's chairs, most it's Mustang expiring
on the straight, jumped the fence and went and had
a can of beer. With the crowd. You know, it's
it's just as Bathirst as it comes. But like the
last probably twenty laps, the rain was coming in, felting
(06:08):
down those boys. As you say, they're doing easy two
hundred and fifty clicks in a lot of those places
and in close quarters combat a lot of faith and
the guy next to you hoping that he's not going
to draw into the fence because the lead changed hands
probably five or six times. Cars that were out of contention,
all of a sudden, we're into contention. Old mate went
(06:28):
for a last or went for a lunch pass there
and got a five second penalty, so he did actually
win the race, but he ended up third because of
the penalty, so you know, it had all the drama
that Bathurst usually has. So yeah, it was even though
it was a Ford one. It's against my religion. It
should have been a Sheeved, but anyway, that's how it rolls.
It's good to see Matt Pain get up there and
(06:50):
do it and yeah, great day.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah key, he's a fly once again. Bruce Sai. You
always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
No worries. We'll see you next time, howso.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And the sergeant Dan farming roundup, thanks for Sergeant Dan
Stock foods right here in Gore.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Dean ravages up. Next, you're listening to the Must
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