The Muster- Carey McKenzie: Gen Next Programme

Carey McKenzie looks at the Beef and Lamb Gen Next programme.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Muster Events Diary brought to you by Beef and
Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflambenz dot com. She's going to Funa.
Kerrie McKenzie joins us in the Beef and Lamb New
Zealand slot this afternoon. Of course, the Gin next course

(00:21):
is a big thing for Beef and Lamb, and Carrie
is a part of this and joins this afternoon to
tell us why you should be a part of it.
Good afternoon, Carrie, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is Hella helly?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Okay? Carrie? Tell us about yourself where you're from, your
farming background.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
So, I'm eighteen years old. I went to Central Southern
College and just finished your Protein last year. So I've
just spent in the year working on the family farm
at home because my dad had an injury. So yeah,
just a sheep farm running about two thousand sheep eight
hundred hogs.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Have you had a decent season to date?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, it's been pretty good. Obviously with the weaver recently
and all the trees coming down hasn't been great, but
it's been great to be working full time and really
knowing what it's like in the sector and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
You're straight out of school going unto the sheep and
beef sector. Was that always the plan or let you say,
your dad's injury kind of forced your handle it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, dad's injury definitely keeps me at home working. But
I think I'll do some study in the agricultural sector.
But I'm just not sure what sort of end of
it I'll go into.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
So you're thinking likes of Telford or Lincoln or the.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Likes maybe Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So have you always had an interest in sheep farming? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So, as I said, I grew up on a sheep farm.
Very hands on. Yeah, no, I really do enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
So what do you most enjoy about it from your perspective?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Stock work, just working stock. I love lemming. Very's just
so tired.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
You love leamming like very rewarding time. It can be
the best of jobs, yet it can be the worst
of the jobs. It depends on whether what mother nature provides.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Very's just time can be pretty awful at moments, but
then you look around and you're like, yep, I did that.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Now the gym next course, what got you involved? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
So my neighbor SI owner, she was running it and
she was like, oh, this could be quite good for you,
since like you're going to be down here anyway. So
I signed up and I got it, and yeah, it's
been really good.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So far, So tell us all about it. What's involved?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
So there's four modules free, of which in person and
just one online, so you know, there was like a
finance course, so that was really interesting, just learning about
how to manage our essets because it's four people aged
eighteen to thirty, so a younger crowd sort of getting
into that next step of farming and taking over ownership

(02:44):
as such.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
And how many days and months are you involved with us?
So what's a time frame?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I suppose, So it's over the year, but there's only
about four in person days, one of which is like
a weekend as such, like two days, and then one
online after work. So we probably started back around April
May as such.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Have you enjoyed it?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, I've enjoyed it. It's been really good, like this
knowledge like stuff I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
So what's been the most what's been your favorite part
of it? You say you're learning all the time. What's
really stood out?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
So we went up to Moscow and went to MMAS.
That was really cool.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
We did a.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Tour of the farm and like the rooms and all that.
So just seeing how they did things up there, worth
animal testing and stuff and fece account all that sort
of stuff really fascinating.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
So what are your words of advice to anybody who
wants to get involved with this?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I would say differently, sign up, Like it really chilled.
The people you mate are really cool, like everyone's sort
of like each other and such, all very farmy.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
So it's eighteen to thirty, the eighteen year olds talking
to the thirty year olds. Are they gaining and are
you gaining a lot of knowledge?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah? So like in my sense, I'm fresh out of school,
whereas they're about to take over a farm and it's
like interesting they tell stories of like the years they
were it compared to me being fresh into it. As such,
the twelve year age gap, like it's information that's knowledgeable
to all of us, like we've all learned stuffing.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Next we do a lot of interesting topics.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
So when does the next installment of next gen of
Next course take place?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
So they do start just before Christmas, like doing and
still like reaching out to people like posting about it,
but it will go through to about the few days
like decently, if you're at the y Momo field, days
like go talk to them about it. Sign up like
that's when I'll really be taking people in.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yes, certainly looks as though it's some Agriculture's got some
good young people coming through the rings. Carry Hey thinks
your time when they must have this afternoon. Always good
to catch up with the younger generation coming through with
a passion for the industry and appreciated your time.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Perfect. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Carrie mackenzie and the Beef and lambslot. If you want
to learn about gin next course, go and have a
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