The Muster- Courtenay Nimmo: Beef and Lamb

Courtenay Nimmo looks at upcoming Beef and Lamb events in the south.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The Muster Events Diary brought to you by Beef and
Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflambendz dot com. Courtney Nemo's wife's
chair of Beef and Lamb in the Southern South Island
Council and joins us this afternoon. Get a Courtney, good
to chat once again?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, get a How are you getting on?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Pretty good? We've got blue sky. It's a thing of beauty, dear.
I say it two days in a row. It's almost
like a treat.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Honestly, I would go as far as saying it feels tropical,
so I'll keep it coming.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I know what you're saying. It's certainly been a trying season.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Right, Oh, definitely, And I think you know, I think
I'm trying to train my brain to focus on the
small wind, so I'm sticking with it's tropical.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Is that what you're finding at the moment when you're
speaking to people, they're just having to break I don't know,
You've got your goals you want to obtain, but you're
having to break them down to little cycles.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh totally. And I think, especially like in in our sector,
it's natural to be like going to the next thing,
going to the next thing, going to the next thing. But
it's actually really important to kind of take stock and
you know, look at you know, like the graph, you know,
it largely is growing, you know, really well everywhere now
and we're getting some of that you know good where
that attractor work and you know, there's a lot of

(01:16):
that happening. So I think it's just you know, taking
away moment, as corny as it is, to just focus on,
you know, what is going well, and because we're really
good at focusing on what needs to be done.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's exactly it, Cordy. Now, as far as Beef and
Lamb is quite a bit going on at the moment
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, we've got awesome events going on through the extension team,
and then we have the Beef and Mamon Awards coming
up as well.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Right, the Beef and Lamb.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Awards, it's all about celebrating the people, the innovation and
the technology that make our red meat sector you know,
world leading, because it really is world leading, and it's
the entries are now open to the awards and it's
a really good opportunity to say, think about your farm staff,
fellow farmers, you know, leaders in our sector, teachers, innovators, mentors, scientists, markets,

(02:11):
you know, basically anyone who's involved in our sector, in
the red meat sector, and nominate them for award. There's
eight just talk to you. Yeah, there's eight categories that
four of them are focused on people and four of
them are industry focused, and they're all categories that reflect
befon NAM strategy and and you know what we're all
trying to achieve in the sector.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
So who's that open to.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
So it is open to anyone in the sheep and
beef including dairy beef. And it's really easy to you nominate.
So you just you just go to the beefon Name
website and right on the homepage there'll be a link
and then you just follow through and then you place
the nomination.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
And this is the great thing about the rural sector.
We've got these awards ceremonies to celebrate the positives that
are going on. And it is an ever evolving landscape,
a landscape at the moment regarding technology, regarding people, and
regarding just work ethics as such as well. And so
we need to sit there and just have a bit
of a moment and appreciate what the sector is doing.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Absolutely and you know, we really want to see the
Lower South represented in all of these categories. So you know,
I just encourage people to just take that little bit
of time to nominate. It only takes a few minutes,
but there are so many people in our sector down
here in the Lower South that are so worth celebrating.
And you know, not everyone can win, but the feedback

(03:37):
that I've had before is just people getting you know,
the fact that they were nominated. It just means so
much to them. So you know, it would be great
to see people to take the time to do that.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
May I just say those twoi's in the background are fantastic.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh they are quite aggressive at the moment. We've got
a Chilean fire tree and they just are relentless.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
But yeah, very grateful to have been Louis Beckery and
Noise is fantastic. Now other events that are coming up,
there's a couple of things growing great Lambs and Winter Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So that workshop focuses on the key drivers of lamb
production and profitability, and the I think the key court
call out for that workshop is that the average growth
land growth rates is I think it's less than one
hundred grams per day in New Zealand, but the potential
is to be over three hundred grams. So this workshop

(04:28):
will focus on you know, practical things that you can
do and what you can influence and it's facilitated by
doing Carson. So it'll be an awesome, awesome event.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now, the other one coming up worm was workshops. Is
that as that time of year again talking about warrem burdens,
about drenching programs. We need to get on top of
this situation, right.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh, definitely, And I think some people, you know, the
feedback we get is some people, you know, I did
this one a few years ago and I know, but
actually there's always new content in them. And this one
also focuses on you know what the obviously the worm
part of it as well, but also the second part

(05:10):
of the day is focusing on body condition scoring for
years after waning, so incredibly relevant to what we're about
to go through down here.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now that's happening on the at the Gore Golf Club
next Thursday. You're next Thursday, the twenty seventh.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yes, exactly, and sorry I should have mentioned, but be
the name awards. So the awards dinner is held on
the twentieth of May, so that you know that is
a wee way out, but the entries for this close
on the eighth of December.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So it's not that far away. Really. Hey, as far
as the Southern Farmer Council, how things be?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yes? Could we had we? Obviously I caught up with
you after the AGM, and right now is kind of
the busy timing year for everyone on the Farmer Council,
so everyone's busy tailing, some people starting waning and that
there's a lot of track to work happening. So yeah,
well we're catching up in December again and we'll just

(06:05):
get a bit of an overview of what's happening in
the region for coming into into the next year.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Final question, are you managing to keep Graham Evans in line?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I have known Graham for so long and I think
you know the answer to that question. That's never going
to happen, and he just loves to wind up.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Good eye you Graham if you're listening. Always good to
catch up mate, as it is of you Courtney and
the team of Beef Lair New Zealand, you enjoy the
ov you too, Thanks Andy, Courtney Nemo of Beef and
Lad New Zealand. Beeflamenz dot com slash events to get
the inbox, and you're to get the e Diary into
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(06:46):
goury Nathan Burden, joins us next to wrap the hour.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
He said bye, said bye that ride