March 31, 2026 • 44 mins
Andy Muir talks to James Edgar, Nigel Woodhead, Steve Henderson, David Morrison, Nick Bewley and Mark Calder.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We got man in a beer.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster. I'm Hakanowe. My
name's Andy Muer here until two o'clock this afternoon. Thanks
for Peter's genetics, thanks for your company. With blue sky
overlooking the main street of Gore, a bit of cloud
on the horizon, look at the weather shortly, let's crack
straight into it, Johnny Cash. Because it's a Wednesday, so
that means Wednesday night country Here on Hakanue from seven
(00:32):
o'clock three hours of glorious country music.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was brought to you by Regional Ford. So mister
j Cash, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hell Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tef from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny teff
from dot co dot inzeed.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This afternoon sunny were like westerlys and nineteen Thursday Sunny
We're breezing, or Westly's eighteen twenty two Friday cloud you
were breathing, or Westley's ten and twenty one Saturday. It's
called Shellers of Light, sow Weasterly six and thirteen and
Sunday sunny with breezy Easterly six and thirteen again sold
temperatures to hand Clinton thirteen point nine, Harriet twelve point six,
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Northern South and thirteen, Riveton twelve point seven, tian Now
twelve point eight, Titoa thirteen point eight, Winton twelve point
three and Woodlands at thirteen point three. James Egger of
Male Flatt starts USUF this afternoon. He thinks there's a
few things to be positive about regatting the red sector,
red meat sector at the moment. Nodger Ondhead Farming in
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South Otago. It's been a busy a few weeks for
Nightge going around the countryside doing a few things.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And he talks and also looks back at.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The Balanced Farm Environment Awards that occurred for the Otaga
region last night as well, which sounds like a really
real humdigger of a competition to be fair, or it's
probably not the way to d it, but just a
really good night out celebrating positives for the rural sector.
There you go, here's a better way to spin it.
Steve Henderson farming at Abro All things down there at
(02:03):
his neck of the woods helps Steve Oben happening as
we start to get into the call the months. Dave
Morrison at PGG writes, and with the first of the
carf sale reports, which are brought to you by Waykaka
pold Here Fitz and Nick Uley had news talk ZB
should it Targo be concerned about the future of for
South Bar Stadium with this new stadium facility in christ
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Church about to be unleashed.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So to speak.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Mark calder A PGG rights and gives a rundown from
the Bark Luther sale Yards. Then we'll start the hour
with James Egger. This is the Muster until two o'clock
thanks to Peters and ddicts.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Hi, you the trainer. Come, it's we're all and around
me and the suns.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
James Egger farms at moa flat and joins us once
again on the Muster. Good afternoon, James.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Have I got the hat track? Have I got three
A Cinnaroy? Do you actually like?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Yeah, No, I actually do like Johnny Ketchy movie.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I watched the movie once and it's actually yeah. The
guy's had an incredibly interesting life involved sort of in
that real rock star sort of way of life that
only those guys have ever lived. I guess Andy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
He defies logic that members of the Rolling Stones are
still alive.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There must be a lot of luck in some of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
He lived for a very long time too, and he
was reasonably hard in the body, shall we say.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, it's probably a fair assumption. Hey, maa flat How
have things been since we spoke to you a couple
of weeks ago? Has been an evolving feast in the
rural landscape?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Yeah, absolutely it has been. From personal point of view.
On the farm, we've had forty five mills and we
were getting like really really dry, like no pasture growth
and just starting to get too long. From the point
of view, since we had any pasture growth, we've sort
of been selling down all the stuff we could and
extending their rotation through our ewes and lambs. And yeah,
(04:09):
I was thinking, oh no, this is not going very
well at all. But yeah, since then, it's gone really well.
And we've had enough hate and I suppose the rocks
underneath are dry enough, you know, and warm, so the
past has taken off.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
We put a bit of notitrogen on basically everywhere was
there maintenance fertilizer this year, and I'm really pleased we
did that. So that's all gone really well. We have
the veteran today my sister. So what we've done I
think we've talked about is a couple of times Andy.
So now we have a vet check about five times
a year on our arm stock and it just sort
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of gives us a bit of a scorecard. So today
Sam's going to be she'll put a condition score on
each mile we use. So how we do that, probably
in a perfect world you should condition score every single sheep.
We don't do that where you just conditions scored when
you're thirty at a time in each mob and then
sort of give us a mob score. Then we've done
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like selenium or mineral blood tests before, but we're not
going to do that anymore because our results are really
consistent now and we don't need any minerals. And we'll
do some effect tests. So we'll go through every mob
of use and around the place and they'll all get
fect tested today, so I'll get the results back and
we can find out what the results are really. So
(05:30):
I think it's been really good because we're more than
one location and getting someone independent that's not you, that
knows how dry it was or how you're trying to
get a bit greedy, and you know, lifted your land
weights when you shouldn't have, or however that works. It's
really good to get that scorecard. So yeah, we'll get
that done today and yeah, lets us know at scanning
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time we'll be able to get another scorecard and basically
we'll be able to look back and see how we've
gone and then the up we've got. Yeah, so it's
been good.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you say your sister's the vet.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, so my sister does just been good. Well, you'd
like to think that endy, but you know, it's it's
an expensive world at the moment, so I'm told so
we paid market rate. But I think when we had
the beef and lamb field date at my place, I
think there was a difference between maybe perfection on a
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piece of paper and efficiency. Because I've found so we
can basically get all their mobs done, you know, in
four hairs, because we just have cats of every single
marb of sheep sitting in the yard. So when the
vet turns up, we can just do it so fast
and so it doesn't it's quite cost effective, whereas if
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you're setting into seven thousand years to condition score everything,
every single one, it's just going to take too long.
And become really expensive. So you we're more looking for
a snapshot, you know, and then we can if we
know some mobs are slightly lighter than others, we can
either draft them out or we can do different things
with them or feed them better and if than other mobs.
(07:05):
So yeah, it's just really to get a snapshot for
us so we can do our feed budgets from there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I guess, of course, a hog at one fifty group
is what we're talking about. We actually spoke to the
team on their travels back down south a couple of
weeks ago. But let you say, James, putting yourself out
there can be intimidating.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah, No, I thought it was really good there. I
appreciated them coming round, some fairly sharp farmers there, and yeah,
I think it's I still believe the sheep industry some
of our metrics don't necessarily make money. So like we
put a lot of emphasis on scanning percentages, you know,
and some guys are going well north of two hundred percent,
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but I'd still argue that they don't pay any bills.
The higher scan There's still a lot of work to
do from there, and we probably don't talk enough about
cage's a hector produced, or you know kilos of lambs sold,
or you know, some of those metrics there actually make money.
Where if you have a look at the dairy industry,
you know they talk about milk solids, you know, stock
(08:08):
sales per milk solid, like some of their metrics and
costs to produce the milk solid, which are actually metrics
that how your business is running. Yeah, as I say,
and you know, I still shake my head sometimes that
the sheep farmers all they're worried about us selling all
their lambs early so they can scan higher. Well, i'd argue,
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you know, you need to do the math on it.
Could you have maybe sold your lambs heavier and scanned
a bit less and ends up at the same position
and sold the same amount of meat per hecta. I
don't know, you know, just yeah, just one probably personal
gripe I have on the sheep industry.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Talking about lamb over in Australia. Record prices at the moment.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah, we're just saying off here. I think this is
probably the most excited I've ever been coming into a season.
I think the prices are better again, Andy, and I'm
sure the normal consumer doesn't like to hear that. But
the Australian sheep flocks about the lowest it's been in
about forty years, and they're struggling to get enough stock
to process, so they're getting record prices. I see there's
(09:13):
a lot of contracts coming out over there at twelve
dollars Australian per kilo. And I think you've seen the
new zeal lamb kill. It's about eight percent back and
in my opinion, it's going to stay back. I don't
think they're forecasted. Extra lambs are there personally, and a
lot of those lambs to be now won't be seen
to October. All those lambs have gone to Canterbury, so
(09:34):
I think that's really exciting. And we've got to mate
and he's supposed to be in Australia right now seeding
grain and he's been told to stay at home and
they'll basically let him know when to come over or
if they come over, because they're actually thinking they won't
even planned to crop this year, just with the fuel
and fertilizer prices over there, which will be incredibly interesting
(09:57):
as that runs through the system because a lot of
the cattle, especially but even some lambs. They're grain fed
though they're actually feed lot finished. So what's the meat
price can do next year if all these big producers
of grain fed beef have to pay a lot more
for their grain. I mean, it's going to be quite
interesting times, very inflationary. But yeah, I still find a
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lot of reason to be positive, I guess, even with
the increase of fuel and fertilizer pricing.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So you're flying against the grain somewhat haired, James, and
you're prepared to predict that the upcoming season for real
meat producers is going to be a very good one.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Yep. Yeah, I'm willing to say that.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I've had a check at history on the show with
some of my predictions though, so it really is not.
It's a very uneducated guest. But anyway, no, I do.
That's just some of the pieces I see. They're just
with supply and demand. I see a lot lease supply
and the demand seems to be holding up, and we've
got a fantastic product. And it'd be really interesting to
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see what happens with this grain thing going forward, with
all the screen feed beef, with the fertilizer and prices especially,
and you know, you see some of that stuff with
the fuel. You can't see the crop without enough diesel,
can you. So some of these big places in Australia
and places like that, they just don't plant a crop,
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shut up shop and then come back next year. So
I think it's going to be incredibly interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, we'll go and revisit this yarn in about six
months time, James Egger, and we'll see how we're placed.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
That's very good, Andy. Hopefully it's not like I think
I called I learnt very early on, don't forecast the
weather because I've actually got literally no idea on that one.
I think I called a gymcry Lemming a few years ago,
and I think it was that really wet one. So
I've certainly got a check in history with some of these.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You've got to teck record, James, good on your mate,
Always appreciate your time on the Master, j.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
James Egg of more flat and just on that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Regarding the price of red meat, supermarkets are doing deals
in the lead up to Easter. For example, rum steak
at the moment you can pick it up for twenty
one to ninety akilo in free flow form at one
of the supermarkets here in Gore. I think there's a
sale one for Lamb as well, and yes it's not ideal,
but nonetheless it's certainly a lot better than what it's been.
(12:18):
So if you're coming into town, just do a bit
of a comparison throughout the supermarkets and see what you think.
Nigea Wad heads up next.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
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Speaker 1 (12:39):
Six six he stood on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He wed me too. Huh.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Johnny Cash is the artist six foot six, He's still
on the ground. Niga Wad here do farms in South
Attaga between Balcluth and Milton.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You're a tall rooster, Nige'll be not six. You're not
six foot six.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
I'm a long while six sick arms. Six two. I
think maybe maybe a little bit of change, but yes,
six two's enough for me, so yeah, love it. Bit
of Johnny kesh a good.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah housing South Otago. A very cold day in the
South yesterday. It is correcting itself through until the weekend
and it gets cooler again.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Hell, you're looking, We're looking pretty good.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
And yes it was. I spent the whole day in
the yard, so I wasn't all bed drenching and cratching
lambs and mucking around. So yeah, it was a little
bit sheltering from the worst of the wind.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
But yeah, it's nice day to day.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Bit of a breeze might be able to hear in
the background, but the sun's out and it's it's much warmer.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
In a nice correction of words, there or Bruce need
the second may have been on her books there for
a moment. Hey, so okay, we're into April. Now this
April fools versus card. What do you make of April fools?
You read all this crap when you wake up?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm over it.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Wow, there's an element of that daily at the moment
with social media what's truth and what's not that? Yeah, no,
you're right. There was a couple of things this morning
I could take a double look at and what is this?
It doesn't sound quite right? And then at tweaked it
was eight Pril fall. So no, I don't know, Just
go about your business and get on with life. I
didn't take too much notice of it myself.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well that's the issue though, A lot of stuff coming
through as a parody of the moment, or so, so
it seems.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But it's anything but yeah, no, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
And then yeah, there's a lot going on in the
world at the moment, isn't it. So it's right for
people to take the mickey out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Of So what's your focus at the moment?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, April time, the boys will be close to going out,
if not out already.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Uh not out.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
No, they won't go out till seventeenth there there about,
although I'll see one this morning has found his way
out of the ram Pettican was up against the fence
the side of Marbaclu, So yeah, I have to go
and sort him out. I'm not too worried if he
gets in with them, because I'm just waiting for some
space to get their heads knocked off. So yeah, so
(14:55):
you know the rams, the rams are telling you it's
at that.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Time of the year.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Lambs.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Actually, we've killed a few lambs, were handful last week,
and then a few more this week, so I think
we've got roughly one thousand and one still, which is
probably more than what I'd like to have. But we've
had them all through the yards in the last couple
of days and we've wacking em ready and probably three
week two to three weeks time, so of a lot
of those thirty eight thirty lambs. So if we can
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give them enough space and quality feed, they should take
along not too bad and be ready to go in
three weeks.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Yes, I just so.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
It was all sort of happened at once ready this week.
Like I say, we were drafting and weighing lambs and
then crashing them on Monday for the truck on Tuesday,
and then and crutching and drinching all the rest of
the lambs. Just giving them a tidy up the last
couple of days in new lambs to drink this afternoon
and that's a iding jab and they seeking campy tomorrow.
(15:56):
So plus somewhere and there, I want to run on
my big kettle through the yard figure weight on them.
So any hitmen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So space is at a premium if you're waiting for
those old g's to go.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Yeah, it's they were booked on last week and then
at the last minute they got canceled, which really pissed
me off. But you know, that's that's life. So you've
killed killed a handful lens have killed five hundred lambs
in the last week or so and they've killed really well,
really well, actually surprisingly well, so we'll yeah reason so, yeah,
it's good to get something away, even if it wasn't
(16:28):
the US. So they're actually just hanging out in the
forestry block at the moment, so they're not costed me
any any real grass, so I'm not panicking too much.
But the odd phone called the to the agent to remind.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Them that did you so nothing more than the traditional
Easter bottleneck?
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Yeah, like it.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
I think we're away, yeah, the one I could catching
up some friends and for for war birds this weekend,
and I think this will be about the fourth weekend
in a row either I've been away or years the
family have been away. Just it's just the way it
works yet. And then we've got a wedding next week
in and the week after that I'm heading the north
Land for a bit, so that's kind of reallling done
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in between all the other stuff that's going on. But
it's just the joys of it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's a case of telling somebody you're a farmer without
mentioning you're a farmer, and when they say how things are,
you just say, oh, it's a bottleneck. You're not talking
about motorways either, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, and you throw a bit are windering about
the weather and yeah, few things in there, and it's
pretty obvious what your occupation is.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
But I tell you what, Like we we were up
at the Tiger Balance Awards last night and Moscow there
and then he runs, he runs ballish obviously.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
The day at wau want a show, and then a
couple of days at c D Field, goes up north
with with resolution and everybody's bollish. And then spend last
night in the room with all the all the Balance
Awards people and you know there's ever runs, ever runs
start that It's like it's a different different conversation been
(18:00):
head this year to the last few years. That's it's awesome.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
It's it really is good to see everybody confident and
bortish about what's going on and different type of conversation
about instead of how you're going to survive and what
are you doing.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
To cut costs?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
That you know, what are you doing to you know,
what's your playing this year to make the most of
of a bit of free case running around and you know,
what's your investment decision is going to be into the survival.
Speaker 10 (18:26):
You know that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, messive regulations to Luke and Nicole Caine of Tapanui
who took the chocolates for the Otago Balance Firm Environment
Awards as well, and like you say, just celebrating the positives.
There's a lot of external stuff happening at the moment,
but when you get to these events and celebrating the
positives of the industry, you can never understate it.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Oh yeah, it's awesome. Also shed out to the Frances
from wist Otaga and the Trotters from Monaca. It was
pretty close run thing there at the end, you know. Yeah,
I couldn't picked who was going to take it out,
you know, luc and Nicole and run a pretty tight
ship then mister Tago. So you're well done to them.
And yeah, we're actually starm from this weekend on the
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on the Trotter's place opposite the earport and Monica there,
so we'll spend some time catching up with them, have
a couple of beers with being in bets over the
weekend as well. But yeah, like it was, it shows
you the quality of some of the agricultural businesses around
the place going to and a beat there, so yeah,
really really cool again along and see what's going on
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out there.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Obviously catch up with a few catch up a few
familiar faces as well.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Absolutely night's always appreciate your time. And you enjoyed the
break over easter.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Yeah, well do And yeah, I hopeful that all the
listeners out there get a dart off over the weekend
and a bit of a breeder because you know, the
winter silly seasons to be able to almost coming upon us.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Your one head farming in south of Tago between Burclother
and Milton. The Southland Balanced Farm Environment Awards there happening
tonight in the Vicago, so good luck to everybody involved
with that. Like Nigel said, the celebration of everything positive sector.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Away to Ala. Next we're going to plan Steve Henderson.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
They struggle and out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Steve Henderson farms down at Alarua and joins us once
again on the muster. Steve, O, good afternoon. How's everything
down in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
After an Indian All, well, we're going pretty good, actually
know the sneak of the woods is very good for
this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Got cold yesterday you did.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
It did actually hit the door shut with a heater
on and the director. So yeah, had certainly a bit
of a change for what we heard the last fortnight.
We just we haven't had those sort of nillow days,
so to speak. We sort of forgot what they're liked.
But yesterday was definitely one of them. It was cold
or just burn. But I suppose we're April now and
it's to be exweeted.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I think March has been the best growing months of
head for a while and a lot of parts of
the region.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
Yeah, you're definitely right. We've grown, you know, over fifty
kilo consecutively for the last three weeks, which in all honesty,
that's probably the most grass we've grown in the last
eighteen months, just with the springs we've had, and then
we dry patch we get through summer.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
So yeah, we're.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
Pushing pretty good covers ahead of us, and the coffin
as we're not making mud behind us. So here, like
a lot of guys out there, we've only got a
leap and a bit left of the round. And yeah,
you shut up itself and come back next season.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So dry off are you contemplating that at what time?
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (21:50):
So we'll go through the caws and we'll start to
dry off anything that's an early carver and a lighter
kW so that'll happen after Easter. We'll do that so
those girls have got the most time to get a
bit of weight on them. And like most seasons, you
want to go as far into May as you can
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save crop and be it's obvious milk and the vet,
which you know can pay some invoices that are going
to come through.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
So here with the dictate that though, But all in all.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
We should be yeah, around mid to late May, from
the majority of the herd, but we'll obviously picking to some.
He wants to drive up a bit.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's almost like an opportunity costs though when it comes
to dry off in a way.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
I suppose yeah, it is, and it goes really mindful
of that. You know, it's all cold and milk to
the second or third of tune, but in reality you
might see I don't know, let's say in total you
might see.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Five hundred solids a day.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
But if you can, if you can peak for you know,
ten days longer with all your cows and milk, you
will more than cover that next year. So it's often yeah,
drive off when you can, I often say to the south.
But next season starts from the first to January. Looking
after your cows and getting them into condition and everything
set up to carve down the best you can. So
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you're milking those two or three more days at the
end of the season can be quite detrimental to that
next season.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So what are you saying to the staff at the
moment the winter's getting closer, is going to be a
change in routine. How have they handled that till now,
after arguably all these early mornings possibly could start, they
could be thinking, oh, bloody hell, how long is this
going for?
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Yeah, so I suppose we go on to ten and
seven milkings post Christmas, So yeah, there's not too many
early starts. Actually there's only that Monday Wednesday for Friday.
Sorry that our early starts. And we've got enough on
board that they don't always have to do those milkings either.
So now I've all been around, but you're just just
mindful that we are. We're getting hay Rex ready, looking
(23:53):
at crops, making sure the bailage is out, and sort
of getting those plans in place. You know you want
from plans so you know which direction cows are going
to get be thinking and what your portable traps are
rather than run around at either made to get that sorted.
So and also you know, tidying up fencing and put
some pieces too. So that's what's checking right now, and
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we'll herd test and that'll be what dictates who we
dry here and how many we dry here. So now
the autumn is quite a cruisy time when the weather
is good and it doesn't give you a lot of
flexibility around that ten and seven milk and to get
those other jobs done, Like right now we're putting some
gravel around trafts and getting a bit of laying work done.
What the weather's good and we've got a bit of
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free time in ay day.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Sounds like a pretty crazy time legendaries at the moment.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Stay, yeah, there's and and you've got to make it
like that, you know, don't get me wrong. There's always
stuff to do, and you're always up at five am,
you know, either at the computer or putting cups on
cars or doing something. So but it's just you know,
you go what is time critical? That's not critical? And
what is You just go for the time critical stuff so.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
I enjoy autumn.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
There's you know, well obviously a few days is over,
so you've got a bit more time on farm and
you can get back to doing what you what you
love doing, but of fencing and those jobs that you've
been driving past for the last six months. So yeah,
it is a good year.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, I really enjoyed autumn. I've talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I reckon there was nothing better at this time of year,
the moving stock around in the early morning year it
was nice and breezy, the dogs are doing their thing
and you just stay outside and just sucking up the
early morning vibes.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
And like we said that, especially with the weather, you
know it will change and it can change, so just
being ready for that. And I suppose what else should
really touch on is you know, effluent too, So we're
busy pumping effluent ponds down too, because there will be
a point in time that we got holy heck, we
can't put our effrount on you know where at saw
watter capacity and we left to shut up shop. So
(25:52):
making the most of that, so the ponds almost at
zero coming to the season end. And then also just
thinking aloud of if anyone's got farm staff changeover for
contract milk as shoemakers, just making sure everything's getting written
down and ponds are empty and the expectations are met
for that changeover come first to Joune too, and all.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Of a sudden the first of June, isn't it far away?
Goodness me, we're looking at the change. We're looking at
the changing for a lot of people moving around on
farms yet again, so just needed to be mindful what you.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Say it is, and that could probably be you know,
at a topic for another day too. There's probably quite
a few things if you'd overlooked on farm when either
people are coming in or people are leaving too so
but now at the time, you know, there's eight weeks
still apt your sleeve to get a lot of those
things arend do on it and just go over expectations
and go out over what's hopefully a contract that's never
(26:45):
been opened in the last you know, three years when
people have been there, and just go through year what
they expected, so there's no hidden surprises come either. May
going who's done what and who hasn't done what?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So how are your sweets looking? You're backing the trend
going away from grass wintering through winter. Your sweed crops
are they as you expect?
Speaker 12 (27:05):
Yeah, they're actually better than what we expected this year.
We've head rain when we've wanted it, and yeah, the
crops are looking good. We have done one more spray
across the kales just for a bit of insect pressure,
and there's also we'll do an aphord spray either this
week or early next week. It's just a bit of
your mildew and aphords on one crop. So those those
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crops are probably yielding what we would expect them to
yield for us to jerm but we've still got another wow,
sixty odd days before we get into them, so they've
been really good. And also yeh, we've we've got a
vaialas numbers two which I think like you lower or
southern south and east and south and have probably had
a really good run at making something ementary feed.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
So all in all, I.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
Think winter is here looking pretty good at the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So you've still got a couple of opportunities to go
and get some fish.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Yeah, well, the old swell math it hasn't really been
in favor lately, so we'll keep her on that over
Easter and the next couple of weeks because yep, yep,
you can't have a frazer with that cord. When you're
this post to the coast, you must.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Check that swell map as frequently as you check the
work mat.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
Yeah, I probably do, but I probably get more disappointed
on swell met too, because when it is green and
good to go, you have to justify why you can go,
and quite often you've actually got another job to do.
So yeah, we probably don't get out as much as
we want, but we probably get out enough anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Good on you, Steve. You always appreciate your time. Eddy
Steve Henderson farming down at our ula. You're listening to
the muster Dave Morrison from PG you write Sin's up. Next,
we're talking the first of the calf sales for Chelton,
which was.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Held this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Then we got mad and this is the muster on Hock.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I know it is time for the calf Sale report
brought to you, brought to you by way Kackup hold
Hereford's for an outstanding lineup of real performance balls at
the fifty second Annual Ballsale Thursday, the twenty eighth of May.
We're going to catch up with Dave Morrison from PGG
right some give us a rundown of the Charlton calf
sale tagle good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Afternoon Andy. Yeah, look we're just sorry, we just we're
just finished. It was just a medium sized yearning I
think about seven hundred calves. We sold pretty well, certainly,
prices well up on previous years, just a real range today.
It was pretty hardy to judge on and Andy, we
had good stairs making sort of six ninety to seven dollars,
(29:40):
but then we would drop. Then we'd drop fifty cents
for of a sudden, So it was all over the
show with quite a big bench of buyers or big
big bench of people, but probably about half dozen peewety
buying mate or bidding. So that there's like I said,
there's a real range there into the heapers. The best
of the heapers were anywhere from sort of six forty
(30:01):
through the six sixty, and then then we have a
drop quality quality staying up. Then we have a drop
down a sort of six dollars ten six bucks. So yeah,
definitely how do you gauge on to say, mate? But yeah,
look great prices bestus peers seventeen eight hundred overall when
heifers anywhere from sort of thirteen hundred through the fifteen
hundred and fifteen fifty and it wraps it up ending.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, so the prices are are as expected, Yes, yeah
they are.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But like I said, it was just as an auctioneer,
it was.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It was tough. It was.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It was hard going. You know, one minute will be
right on the mark price wise, and then in the
next pen we could be two hundred dollars short or
two hundred dollars too high.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It was.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
It was hard to sell man, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, what do you put that down to?
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I don't really know. I think some people just go
obviously go to these calf sales with one in the
bay twenty or fifty, and they've got to set price
in the head and not till we rode out price
per k. They just buy. Yeah, they just buy what
they see it done them. And probably given my numbers
in the pens, we've probably said a bit of that
to day too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Now, good on your tag or catch you tomorrow for
the chilter and update day.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Thanks Anny.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Dave Morrison there from PGG writes him with an update
under Charlton calf sale. How this morning. Now I'll run
down of when these calf sales are happening. Tomorrow the
second of April Balcluther o Waka is happening, as well
as Castle Rock ninth of April's lawn Ball. Then back
to the second sale at castle Rock on the tenth
of April. Seventeenth of April part Balcluther second, the castle
(31:34):
Rock third, and we round it out on the twenty
ninth with Gore and the thirtieth at Balcluther. Of course,
the calf Sale report brought to you by Wakakapold Hereford's
for an outstanding line up of real performance balls at
the fifty second Annual Bullsale Thursday, the twenty eighth of May,
courtesy of Lourie and Sharon Patterson. And you may even
get to see Lourie do his rendition of seven Spanish angels,
(31:56):
which he.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did so well.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Nick Bulyan Newstalk zb that's up the muster, he's up
next your head.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Five well in to a burnand ring of I went down, down.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Down, and the world Johnny Cash on a Wednesday, great
scheene that ring of fire.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
As we catch out. Nick Ywley got a new storg zib.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You can hear us commentares regarding Super Rugby on gold Sport. Nick,
good afternoon, how's everything pretty Hecticinda mentioned a shorter week.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah, good afternoon to Andy into your listeners. Yeah, short
week and the Crusaders have one of the three Super
Rugby games this weekend. They host the Drawer, the final
ever Super Rugby game, finally a Crusaders game at Apollo
Projects Stadium out in Addington. It's been their home for
the last fourteen years, so it feels like it's been
(32:48):
one of the longest fearwells ever. But yeah, for the
final time, we'll soldier out there on Friday and then
all roads lead to one in Zied Stadium, Takaha in
the central set. What it would be three weeks Friday
for the beginning of Super Round cart wait for that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Now we've spoken to you over the previous couple of seasons.
You talk about being in the commentary bucks, you've got
hot water bottles. Only thing you're missing is an electric
blanket because you're freezing. I'd say the sentiment with this
old stadium is going to be very short lived.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've spoken to various people over the
last week or so about the legacy of the stadium,
and as you say, on the one hand, it won't
be missed due to its temporary nature bitterly cold and ft.
My colleague Leslie Murdock sees it's bone shillingly cold or
nose drippingly cold. But on the other hand, you know
(33:41):
where else would they have gone? This is to be
the Homecaagary Raby League. It was basically stood up post
the earthquakes in the space of one hundred days, and
there's some fantastic memories there, you know, super raky titles
and the like. So look, I probably be missed because
of what we know is ahead of us, but it
(34:03):
will hold a special place. So I'm sure there'll be
some sentimental people out there who will try and send
it off. Well come Friday.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
What's what is this going to me for?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
For South Bar Stadium missing out in all these games
for the obvious reasons being they don't have the infrastructure
in the town regading accommodations, et cetera, should be a
real concern regaining the long term viability of four Bars Stadium.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I think so, I think so andy, And look they've
had a pretty fair run of it the last decade
or so while we've missed out up here on the concerts,
all black Tests and the like. Look, there's no reason why,
you know, a big musical act couldn't play christ Church
and Eden. But I think and I did see a
(34:49):
report a couple.
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Of weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I think it was the Dunedan City Council looking at
different ways in which they can, you know, bring a
curtain down and sort of move move foresight bar around
or I'll move it around it at least to accommodate
smaller acts, because yeah, there's a real likelihood that it
is one or the other, and you'd want to be
in the shiny, brand new thing. I think in christ
(35:13):
hitch over Deneed and as you say, because of some
of those extra infrastructure issues around accommodation, primarily so we've.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Got east of the sweet Kid. What happens of a competition?
Is a business as normal or is it truncated?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Yeah, it's quite interesting this one. Andy. We've had Jack musically,
the Super Rugby Boss and our bulletins this morning sort
of explaining the reasons why in an eleven team competition
we just have the three games. The Crusaders through a
Friday night, the Chiefs have a game Saturday home game
and then just an Australian Derby on Saturday nights. So
(35:49):
five of the eleven teams have been afforded one of
their two buys this weekend and mister Mewsley's reasons for
that were stadium unavailability over the Easter period and some
teams just choosing. Whether it's due to religious reasons, I
think he might have been influencing Wina pacifica there, or
(36:10):
just the fact that usually the particularly in the big centers,
the crowd says don't show up usually over a long weekend,
bands are heading away from Auckland's and Wellington's and enjoying
a break. So it is curious that just the three
games this weekend, especially when you marry that up with
the NRL seventeen team competition. They've got a full slate
(36:32):
of games just the one team on a traditional buy
and they run right through from Tomorrow night right and
through until Easter Monday. So I don't know if it's
just the sort of giving this one up to the
NRL or there's some genuine reasons behind it, but yeah,
just three games are super aguous weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
The NRL and the AFL just business as usual. It's
a curious one. We talk about the NRL, the blit
plus weekend. Arguably they've got a three weeks ahead of them.
Cranulla definitely a banana skin game. But then they've got
their bogey teams over the last couple of years of
no longer the Storm and the Titans.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
There were Storm and the Titans. It's interesting, isn't it.
There certainly two different ends of the spectrum really in
terms of history and success. But yeah, it is an
interesting period. Look, it was a phenomenal start. Pride to
the Tigers, wasn't it, getting those wins over the Roosters,
the Raiders and the Knights. But are real not necessarily
(37:29):
back to square one? But a reality check in a way,
and if anything, I think a timely reminder that if
you're just marginally off in the NRLs, such as the
competitiveness of the competition, you're going to get found out.
And I don't think they showed up with the right attitude,
particularly on defense to ship. I was at six tries
in the space of about fifty minutes of rugby league.
(37:52):
The Tigers were on no points after half an hour,
but it will be interesting to see how they respond.
Andrew Webster unsurprisingly stuck with the same thirteen and felt
to me anyway it would have been a bit of
a knee jerk reaction to then change what he implemented
last week in terms of Luke Metcalf making that earlier
than expected return at five eight. Charles Nickel cook Star
(38:13):
remains a right centertained, so Picky remains at fullback and
serdly recently at least Andy the Shark Park or playing
games against CNALA at Cronulla has been somewhat of a
happy hunting ground, so I'm expecting a response in the
Andrew Webster.
Speaker 13 (38:29):
Era they use.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
The Warriors usually respond well after a defeat. Won't be easy.
Are coming off a pretty impressive win in their own
right last week against the Canberra Raiders, but very much
looking forward to that one. And just on the we're
talking about Stadia earlier and he quite neat here in
christ Church with that one New Zealand Stadium opening in
three weeks time now, they're actually running a test event
(38:52):
on Sunday and they're going to put the Warriors game
on the big screen at stadium and I'm going to
head along with the family. I think there's about five
six thousand of us in the South stand watching the
game on the big screen at the other end of
the stadium, so they'll be quite a neat experience.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Do you have to pay to go along to that?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Two bucks?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Two bucks? That's not bad. You live a fan for
a long weekend.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
That's right, And look for they had to be ticketed
in the sense one of the things they wanted to
test is the ticket system. There'll be you know, I
actually don't know because of Eastern but I'm guessing you
can buy a soft drink at a hot dog or
whatever they're going to offer at the stadium and enjoy yourself.
So yeah, I think I think it's a great idea.
(39:36):
Obviously there's a bit of alignment there in terms of
the sponsor of the stadium one New Zealand is the
naming sponsor of the Worries, So I think it's a
good idea. Three weeks out from the grand opening super
Round that kicks off antiqu weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Just finally make this whole T twenty scenario regarding New
Zealand cricket, it's been rather messy.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah, that's a great way of something it up, hasn't it.
It's been a week while coming. And obviously News Yelling
Cricket now at least in principle, is supporting the end
twenty privatized T twenty model. But still so many questions remain,
like we don't know who is going to own these
six franchises that have been mooted. You know, you listen
(40:20):
to Heith Mills, who's actually departing his role as he's
Yelling Cricket Players Association but still heads up the World
Cricket Players Association. He says, you know, there's interest in
as many as sort of twenty five to thirty different
potential owners, including owners of IPL teams. Where are these
scenes going to be based? Do we have enough runways
(40:41):
for a launch in January? Very sounds like the women's competition,
which was a real point of you know, insurance assurance,
sorry from New Yelling Cricket, but they wanted to make
sure it was men's and women's. But it sounds like
the women's competition has been put on the back burner
twenty seven. A lot of questions remain unanswered, and we
(41:04):
April one today, Andy, So it's there's not a lot
of time to get these things sorted. It's going to
be a fascinating watch. But locker on the whole, I
think something had to be done in terms of the
Super Smash. Yes, it's been important in terms of the
development of players advancing through to the Black Caps and
White Ferns ranks, but it really needed a shot in
(41:26):
the arm in terms of the fan experience and the
broadcast experience as well. So it'll be one to watch,
as I say, in the coming months, because before we
know it went to the over spring will be here
and summer too, so it's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I think the sporting highlight those being Jacob Duffy getting
a three foot and the z Ipr debut alongside verright Coli,
it doesn't get any bigger.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Lit'tle bit of South ad byas coming.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
In absolutely because we can't.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
He's been some story in the last twelve but eighteen
months has a he Jacob Duffy's making every post good
on them.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Nick Puly had a new stig ZB Always appreciate your
time Gold Sports where you'll hear us commentaries this weekend
regarding Super Rugby. Enjoy the long WEEKI mate.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
You too, Andy always a pleasure.
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Speaker 2 (42:24):
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Speaker 3 (42:47):
Hey, well all right too?
Speaker 9 (42:48):
Heal there and what did he.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Go on again?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
PGG writes and presents stop selling action that occurred at
the Boarcluther Si yard this morning. So we have Mark
Calder on the line to give us a rundown on prices. Mark,
good afternoon, How do we go today?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Here we go?
Speaker 13 (43:01):
Yeah, we've got today. Actually we had a smaller yarding
of crimes and they still sold. Weal for where they
were getting into the primes top lambs tur hundred to
two hundred and forty dollars, medium primes one eighty to
two hundred, and your lottering crimes were one sixty one seventy.
Getting into the stores is a regional yarding of stores,
and today and very stores they were presented as well.
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So given into the top Ford's one forty one hundred
and five dollars, mediums won twenty one thirty and your
lottering stores were fifty to ninety dollars. Smaller yarding of
use today by seat from one ninety to two twenty.
For the big girls, mediums were one forty one sixty
in your later years of seventy two hundred dollars, regonal
(43:45):
yarding of two to three's and today in older rams Bay,
Sex from seventy to one hundred and twenty dollars. That
was up in the sheet division today first of weaker
castile there for the sale yards of the tomorrow. I
hope to say us all there and coming in a
lot not it's thanks very much to Am A. P. B.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Al Con there
We got man in a beer.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster. I'm Hakanowe. My
name's Andy Muer here until two o'clock this afternoon. Thanks
for Peter's genetics, thanks for your company. With blue sky
overlooking the main street of Gore, a bit of cloud
on the horizon, look at the weather shortly, let's crack
straight into it, Johnny Cash. Because it's a Wednesday, so
that means Wednesday night country Here on Hakanue from seven
(00:32):
o'clock three hours of glorious country music.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was brought to you by Regional Ford. So mister
j Cash, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hell Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tef from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny teff
from dot co dot inzeed.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This afternoon sunny were like westerlys and nineteen Thursday Sunny
We're breezing, or Westly's eighteen twenty two Friday cloud you
were breathing, or Westley's ten and twenty one Saturday. It's
called Shellers of Light, sow Weasterly six and thirteen and
Sunday sunny with breezy Easterly six and thirteen again sold
temperatures to hand Clinton thirteen point nine, Harriet twelve point six,
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Northern South and thirteen, Riveton twelve point seven, tian Now
twelve point eight, Titoa thirteen point eight, Winton twelve point
three and Woodlands at thirteen point three. James Egger of
Male Flatt starts USUF this afternoon. He thinks there's a
few things to be positive about regatting the red sector,
red meat sector at the moment. Nodger Ondhead Farming in
(01:33):
South Otago. It's been a busy a few weeks for
Nightge going around the countryside doing a few things.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And he talks and also looks back at.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The Balanced Farm Environment Awards that occurred for the Otaga
region last night as well, which sounds like a really
real humdigger of a competition to be fair, or it's
probably not the way to d it, but just a
really good night out celebrating positives for the rural sector.
There you go, here's a better way to spin it.
Steve Henderson farming at Abro All things down there at
(02:03):
his neck of the woods helps Steve Oben happening as
we start to get into the call the months. Dave
Morrison at PGG writes, and with the first of the
carf sale reports, which are brought to you by Waykaka
pold Here Fitz and Nick Uley had news talk ZB
should it Targo be concerned about the future of for
South Bar Stadium with this new stadium facility in christ
(02:26):
Church about to be unleashed.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So to speak.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Mark calder A PGG rights and gives a rundown from
the Bark Luther sale Yards. Then we'll start the hour
with James Egger. This is the Muster until two o'clock
thanks to Peters and ddicts.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Hi, you the trainer. Come, it's we're all and around
me and the suns.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
James Egger farms at moa flat and joins us once
again on the Muster. Good afternoon, James.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Have I got the hat track? Have I got three
A Cinnaroy? Do you actually like?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Yeah, No, I actually do like Johnny Ketchy movie.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I watched the movie once and it's actually yeah. The
guy's had an incredibly interesting life involved sort of in
that real rock star sort of way of life that
only those guys have ever lived. I guess Andy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
He defies logic that members of the Rolling Stones are
still alive.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There must be a lot of luck in some of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
He lived for a very long time too, and he
was reasonably hard in the body, shall we say.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, it's probably a fair assumption. Hey, maa flat How
have things been since we spoke to you a couple
of weeks ago? Has been an evolving feast in the
rural landscape?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Yeah, absolutely it has been. From personal point of view.
On the farm, we've had forty five mills and we
were getting like really really dry, like no pasture growth
and just starting to get too long. From the point
of view, since we had any pasture growth, we've sort
of been selling down all the stuff we could and
extending their rotation through our ewes and lambs. And yeah,
(04:09):
I was thinking, oh no, this is not going very
well at all. But yeah, since then, it's gone really well.
And we've had enough hate and I suppose the rocks
underneath are dry enough, you know, and warm, so the
past has taken off.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
We put a bit of notitrogen on basically everywhere was
there maintenance fertilizer this year, and I'm really pleased we
did that. So that's all gone really well. We have
the veteran today my sister. So what we've done I
think we've talked about is a couple of times Andy.
So now we have a vet check about five times
a year on our arm stock and it just sort
(04:42):
of gives us a bit of a scorecard. So today
Sam's going to be she'll put a condition score on
each mile we use. So how we do that, probably
in a perfect world you should condition score every single sheep.
We don't do that where you just conditions scored when
you're thirty at a time in each mob and then
sort of give us a mob score. Then we've done
(05:07):
like selenium or mineral blood tests before, but we're not
going to do that anymore because our results are really
consistent now and we don't need any minerals. And we'll
do some effect tests. So we'll go through every mob
of use and around the place and they'll all get
fect tested today, so I'll get the results back and
we can find out what the results are really. So
(05:30):
I think it's been really good because we're more than
one location and getting someone independent that's not you, that
knows how dry it was or how you're trying to
get a bit greedy, and you know, lifted your land
weights when you shouldn't have, or however that works. It's
really good to get that scorecard. So yeah, we'll get
that done today and yeah, lets us know at scanning
(05:53):
time we'll be able to get another scorecard and basically
we'll be able to look back and see how we've
gone and then the up we've got. Yeah, so it's
been good.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you say your sister's the vet.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, so my sister does just been good. Well, you'd
like to think that endy, but you know, it's it's
an expensive world at the moment, so I'm told so
we paid market rate. But I think when we had
the beef and lamb field date at my place, I
think there was a difference between maybe perfection on a
(06:25):
piece of paper and efficiency. Because I've found so we
can basically get all their mobs done, you know, in
four hairs, because we just have cats of every single
marb of sheep sitting in the yard. So when the
vet turns up, we can just do it so fast
and so it doesn't it's quite cost effective, whereas if
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you're setting into seven thousand years to condition score everything,
every single one, it's just going to take too long.
And become really expensive. So you we're more looking for
a snapshot, you know, and then we can if we
know some mobs are slightly lighter than others, we can
either draft them out or we can do different things
with them or feed them better and if than other mobs.
(07:05):
So yeah, it's just really to get a snapshot for
us so we can do our feed budgets from there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I guess, of course, a hog at one fifty group
is what we're talking about. We actually spoke to the
team on their travels back down south a couple of
weeks ago. But let you say, James, putting yourself out
there can be intimidating.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah, No, I thought it was really good there. I
appreciated them coming round, some fairly sharp farmers there, and yeah,
I think it's I still believe the sheep industry some
of our metrics don't necessarily make money. So like we
put a lot of emphasis on scanning percentages, you know,
and some guys are going well north of two hundred percent,
(07:45):
but I'd still argue that they don't pay any bills.
The higher scan There's still a lot of work to
do from there, and we probably don't talk enough about
cage's a hector produced, or you know kilos of lambs sold,
or you know, some of those metrics there actually make money.
Where if you have a look at the dairy industry,
you know they talk about milk solids, you know, stock
(08:08):
sales per milk solid, like some of their metrics and
costs to produce the milk solid, which are actually metrics
that how your business is running. Yeah, as I say,
and you know, I still shake my head sometimes that
the sheep farmers all they're worried about us selling all
their lambs early so they can scan higher. Well, i'd argue,
(08:30):
you know, you need to do the math on it.
Could you have maybe sold your lambs heavier and scanned
a bit less and ends up at the same position
and sold the same amount of meat per hecta. I
don't know, you know, just yeah, just one probably personal
gripe I have on the sheep industry.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Talking about lamb over in Australia. Record prices at the moment.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah, we're just saying off here. I think this is
probably the most excited I've ever been coming into a season.
I think the prices are better again, Andy, and I'm
sure the normal consumer doesn't like to hear that. But
the Australian sheep flocks about the lowest it's been in
about forty years, and they're struggling to get enough stock
to process, so they're getting record prices. I see there's
(09:13):
a lot of contracts coming out over there at twelve
dollars Australian per kilo. And I think you've seen the
new zeal lamb kill. It's about eight percent back and
in my opinion, it's going to stay back. I don't
think they're forecasted. Extra lambs are there personally, and a
lot of those lambs to be now won't be seen
to October. All those lambs have gone to Canterbury, so
(09:34):
I think that's really exciting. And we've got to mate
and he's supposed to be in Australia right now seeding
grain and he's been told to stay at home and
they'll basically let him know when to come over or
if they come over, because they're actually thinking they won't
even planned to crop this year, just with the fuel
and fertilizer prices over there, which will be incredibly interesting
(09:57):
as that runs through the system because a lot of
the cattle, especially but even some lambs. They're grain fed
though they're actually feed lot finished. So what's the meat
price can do next year if all these big producers
of grain fed beef have to pay a lot more
for their grain. I mean, it's going to be quite
interesting times, very inflationary. But yeah, I still find a
(10:20):
lot of reason to be positive, I guess, even with
the increase of fuel and fertilizer pricing.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So you're flying against the grain somewhat haired, James, and
you're prepared to predict that the upcoming season for real
meat producers is going to be a very good one.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Yep. Yeah, I'm willing to say that.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I've had a check at history on the show with
some of my predictions though, so it really is not.
It's a very uneducated guest. But anyway, no, I do.
That's just some of the pieces I see. They're just
with supply and demand. I see a lot lease supply
and the demand seems to be holding up, and we've
got a fantastic product. And it'd be really interesting to
(10:58):
see what happens with this grain thing going forward, with
all the screen feed beef, with the fertilizer and prices especially,
and you know, you see some of that stuff with
the fuel. You can't see the crop without enough diesel,
can you. So some of these big places in Australia
and places like that, they just don't plant a crop,
(11:18):
shut up shop and then come back next year. So
I think it's going to be incredibly interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, we'll go and revisit this yarn in about six
months time, James Egger, and we'll see how we're placed.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
That's very good, Andy. Hopefully it's not like I think
I called I learnt very early on, don't forecast the
weather because I've actually got literally no idea on that one.
I think I called a gymcry Lemming a few years ago,
and I think it was that really wet one. So
I've certainly got a check in history with some of these.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You've got to teck record, James, good on your mate,
Always appreciate your time on the Master, j.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
James Egg of more flat and just on that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Regarding the price of red meat, supermarkets are doing deals
in the lead up to Easter. For example, rum steak
at the moment you can pick it up for twenty
one to ninety akilo in free flow form at one
of the supermarkets here in Gore. I think there's a
sale one for Lamb as well, and yes it's not ideal,
but nonetheless it's certainly a lot better than what it's been.
(12:18):
So if you're coming into town, just do a bit
of a comparison throughout the supermarkets and see what you think.
Nigea Wad heads up next.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
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Speaker 1 (12:39):
Six six he stood on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He wed me too. Huh.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Johnny Cash is the artist six foot six, He's still
on the ground. Niga Wad here do farms in South
Attaga between Balcluth and Milton.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You're a tall rooster, Nige'll be not six. You're not
six foot six.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
I'm a long while six sick arms. Six two. I
think maybe maybe a little bit of change, but yes,
six two's enough for me, so yeah, love it. Bit
of Johnny kesh a good.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah housing South Otago. A very cold day in the
South yesterday. It is correcting itself through until the weekend
and it gets cooler again.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Hell, you're looking, We're looking pretty good.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
And yes it was. I spent the whole day in
the yard, so I wasn't all bed drenching and cratching
lambs and mucking around. So yeah, it was a little
bit sheltering from the worst of the wind.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
But yeah, it's nice day to day.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Bit of a breeze might be able to hear in
the background, but the sun's out and it's it's much warmer.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
In a nice correction of words, there or Bruce need
the second may have been on her books there for
a moment. Hey, so okay, we're into April. Now this
April fools versus card. What do you make of April fools?
You read all this crap when you wake up?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm over it.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Wow, there's an element of that daily at the moment
with social media what's truth and what's not that? Yeah, no,
you're right. There was a couple of things this morning
I could take a double look at and what is this?
It doesn't sound quite right? And then at tweaked it
was eight Pril fall. So no, I don't know, Just
go about your business and get on with life. I
didn't take too much notice of it myself.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well that's the issue though, A lot of stuff coming
through as a parody of the moment, or so, so
it seems.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But it's anything but yeah, no, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
And then yeah, there's a lot going on in the
world at the moment, isn't it. So it's right for
people to take the mickey out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Of So what's your focus at the moment?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, April time, the boys will be close to going out,
if not out already.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Uh not out.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
No, they won't go out till seventeenth there there about,
although I'll see one this morning has found his way
out of the ram Pettican was up against the fence
the side of Marbaclu, So yeah, I have to go
and sort him out. I'm not too worried if he
gets in with them, because I'm just waiting for some
space to get their heads knocked off. So yeah, so
(14:55):
you know the rams, the rams are telling you it's
at that.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Time of the year.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Lambs.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Actually, we've killed a few lambs, were handful last week,
and then a few more this week, so I think
we've got roughly one thousand and one still, which is
probably more than what I'd like to have. But we've
had them all through the yards in the last couple
of days and we've wacking em ready and probably three
week two to three weeks time, so of a lot
of those thirty eight thirty lambs. So if we can
(15:23):
give them enough space and quality feed, they should take
along not too bad and be ready to go in
three weeks.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Yes, I just so.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
It was all sort of happened at once ready this week.
Like I say, we were drafting and weighing lambs and
then crashing them on Monday for the truck on Tuesday,
and then and crutching and drinching all the rest of
the lambs. Just giving them a tidy up the last
couple of days in new lambs to drink this afternoon
and that's a iding jab and they seeking campy tomorrow.
(15:56):
So plus somewhere and there, I want to run on
my big kettle through the yard figure weight on them.
So any hitmen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So space is at a premium if you're waiting for
those old g's to go.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Yeah, it's they were booked on last week and then
at the last minute they got canceled, which really pissed
me off. But you know, that's that's life. So you've
killed killed a handful lens have killed five hundred lambs
in the last week or so and they've killed really well,
really well, actually surprisingly well, so we'll yeah reason so, yeah,
it's good to get something away, even if it wasn't
(16:28):
the US. So they're actually just hanging out in the
forestry block at the moment, so they're not costed me
any any real grass, so I'm not panicking too much.
But the odd phone called the to the agent to remind.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Them that did you so nothing more than the traditional
Easter bottleneck?
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Yeah, like it.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
I think we're away, yeah, the one I could catching
up some friends and for for war birds this weekend,
and I think this will be about the fourth weekend
in a row either I've been away or years the
family have been away. Just it's just the way it
works yet. And then we've got a wedding next week
in and the week after that I'm heading the north
Land for a bit, so that's kind of reallling done
(17:10):
in between all the other stuff that's going on. But
it's just the joys of it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's a case of telling somebody you're a farmer without
mentioning you're a farmer, and when they say how things are,
you just say, oh, it's a bottleneck. You're not talking
about motorways either, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, and you throw a bit are windering about
the weather and yeah, few things in there, and it's
pretty obvious what your occupation is.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
But I tell you what, Like we we were up
at the Tiger Balance Awards last night and Moscow there
and then he runs, he runs ballish obviously.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
The day at wau want a show, and then a
couple of days at c D Field, goes up north
with with resolution and everybody's bollish. And then spend last
night in the room with all the all the Balance
Awards people and you know there's ever runs, ever runs
start that It's like it's a different different conversation been
(18:00):
head this year to the last few years. That's it's awesome.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
It's it really is good to see everybody confident and
bortish about what's going on and different type of conversation
about instead of how you're going to survive and what
are you doing.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
To cut costs?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
That you know, what are you doing to you know,
what's your playing this year to make the most of
of a bit of free case running around and you know,
what's your investment decision is going to be into the survival.
Speaker 10 (18:26):
You know that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, messive regulations to Luke and Nicole Caine of Tapanui
who took the chocolates for the Otago Balance Firm Environment
Awards as well, and like you say, just celebrating the positives.
There's a lot of external stuff happening at the moment,
but when you get to these events and celebrating the
positives of the industry, you can never understate it.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Oh yeah, it's awesome. Also shed out to the Frances
from wist Otaga and the Trotters from Monaca. It was
pretty close run thing there at the end, you know. Yeah,
I couldn't picked who was going to take it out,
you know, luc and Nicole and run a pretty tight
ship then mister Tago. So you're well done to them.
And yeah, we're actually starm from this weekend on the
(19:11):
on the Trotter's place opposite the earport and Monica there,
so we'll spend some time catching up with them, have
a couple of beers with being in bets over the
weekend as well. But yeah, like it was, it shows
you the quality of some of the agricultural businesses around
the place going to and a beat there, so yeah,
really really cool again along and see what's going on
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out there.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Obviously catch up with a few catch up a few
familiar faces as well.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Absolutely night's always appreciate your time. And you enjoyed the
break over easter.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Yeah, well do And yeah, I hopeful that all the
listeners out there get a dart off over the weekend
and a bit of a breeder because you know, the
winter silly seasons to be able to almost coming upon us.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Your one head farming in south of Tago between Burclother
and Milton. The Southland Balanced Farm Environment Awards there happening
tonight in the Vicago, so good luck to everybody involved
with that. Like Nigel said, the celebration of everything positive sector.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Away to Ala. Next we're going to plan Steve Henderson.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
They struggle and out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Steve Henderson farms down at Alarua and joins us once
again on the muster. Steve, O, good afternoon. How's everything
down in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
After an Indian All, well, we're going pretty good, actually
know the sneak of the woods is very good for
this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Got cold yesterday you did.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
It did actually hit the door shut with a heater
on and the director. So yeah, had certainly a bit
of a change for what we heard the last fortnight.
We just we haven't had those sort of nillow days,
so to speak. We sort of forgot what they're liked.
But yesterday was definitely one of them. It was cold
or just burn. But I suppose we're April now and
it's to be exweeted.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I think March has been the best growing months of
head for a while and a lot of parts of
the region.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
Yeah, you're definitely right. We've grown, you know, over fifty
kilo consecutively for the last three weeks, which in all honesty,
that's probably the most grass we've grown in the last
eighteen months, just with the springs we've had, and then
we dry patch we get through summer.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
So yeah, we're.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
Pushing pretty good covers ahead of us, and the coffin
as we're not making mud behind us. So here, like
a lot of guys out there, we've only got a
leap and a bit left of the round. And yeah,
you shut up itself and come back next season.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So dry off are you contemplating that at what time?
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (21:50):
So we'll go through the caws and we'll start to
dry off anything that's an early carver and a lighter
kW so that'll happen after Easter. We'll do that so
those girls have got the most time to get a
bit of weight on them. And like most seasons, you
want to go as far into May as you can
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save crop and be it's obvious milk and the vet,
which you know can pay some invoices that are going
to come through.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
So here with the dictate that though, But all in all.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
We should be yeah, around mid to late May, from
the majority of the herd, but we'll obviously picking to some.
He wants to drive up a bit.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's almost like an opportunity costs though when it comes
to dry off in a way.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
I suppose yeah, it is, and it goes really mindful
of that. You know, it's all cold and milk to
the second or third of tune, but in reality you
might see I don't know, let's say in total you
might see.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Five hundred solids a day.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
But if you can, if you can peak for you know,
ten days longer with all your cows and milk, you
will more than cover that next year. So it's often yeah,
drive off when you can, I often say to the south.
But next season starts from the first to January. Looking
after your cows and getting them into condition and everything
set up to carve down the best you can. So
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you're milking those two or three more days at the
end of the season can be quite detrimental to that
next season.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So what are you saying to the staff at the
moment the winter's getting closer, is going to be a
change in routine. How have they handled that till now,
after arguably all these early mornings possibly could start, they
could be thinking, oh, bloody hell, how long is this
going for?
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Yeah, so I suppose we go on to ten and
seven milkings post Christmas, So yeah, there's not too many
early starts. Actually there's only that Monday Wednesday for Friday.
Sorry that our early starts. And we've got enough on
board that they don't always have to do those milkings either.
So now I've all been around, but you're just just
mindful that we are. We're getting hay Rex ready, looking
(23:53):
at crops, making sure the bailage is out, and sort
of getting those plans in place. You know you want
from plans so you know which direction cows are going
to get be thinking and what your portable traps are
rather than run around at either made to get that sorted.
So and also you know, tidying up fencing and put
some pieces too. So that's what's checking right now, and
(24:15):
we'll herd test and that'll be what dictates who we
dry here and how many we dry here. So now
the autumn is quite a cruisy time when the weather
is good and it doesn't give you a lot of
flexibility around that ten and seven milk and to get
those other jobs done, Like right now we're putting some
gravel around trafts and getting a bit of laying work done.
What the weather's good and we've got a bit of
(24:36):
free time in ay day.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Sounds like a pretty crazy time legendaries at the moment.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Stay, yeah, there's and and you've got to make it
like that, you know, don't get me wrong. There's always
stuff to do, and you're always up at five am,
you know, either at the computer or putting cups on
cars or doing something. So but it's just you know,
you go what is time critical? That's not critical? And
what is You just go for the time critical stuff so.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
I enjoy autumn.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
There's you know, well obviously a few days is over,
so you've got a bit more time on farm and
you can get back to doing what you what you
love doing, but of fencing and those jobs that you've
been driving past for the last six months. So yeah,
it is a good year.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, I really enjoyed autumn. I've talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I reckon there was nothing better at this time of year,
the moving stock around in the early morning year it
was nice and breezy, the dogs are doing their thing
and you just stay outside and just sucking up the
early morning vibes.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
And like we said that, especially with the weather, you
know it will change and it can change, so just
being ready for that. And I suppose what else should
really touch on is you know, effluent too, So we're
busy pumping effluent ponds down too, because there will be
a point in time that we got holy heck, we
can't put our effrount on you know where at saw
watter capacity and we left to shut up shop. So
(25:52):
making the most of that, so the ponds almost at
zero coming to the season end. And then also just
thinking aloud of if anyone's got farm staff changeover for
contract milk as shoemakers, just making sure everything's getting written
down and ponds are empty and the expectations are met
for that changeover come first to Joune too, and all.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Of a sudden the first of June, isn't it far away?
Goodness me, we're looking at the change. We're looking at
the changing for a lot of people moving around on
farms yet again, so just needed to be mindful what you.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Say it is, and that could probably be you know,
at a topic for another day too. There's probably quite
a few things if you'd overlooked on farm when either
people are coming in or people are leaving too so
but now at the time, you know, there's eight weeks
still apt your sleeve to get a lot of those
things arend do on it and just go over expectations
and go out over what's hopefully a contract that's never
(26:45):
been opened in the last you know, three years when
people have been there, and just go through year what
they expected, so there's no hidden surprises come either. May
going who's done what and who hasn't done what?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So how are your sweets looking? You're backing the trend
going away from grass wintering through winter. Your sweed crops
are they as you expect?
Speaker 12 (27:05):
Yeah, they're actually better than what we expected this year.
We've head rain when we've wanted it, and yeah, the
crops are looking good. We have done one more spray
across the kales just for a bit of insect pressure,
and there's also we'll do an aphord spray either this
week or early next week. It's just a bit of
your mildew and aphords on one crop. So those those
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crops are probably yielding what we would expect them to
yield for us to jerm but we've still got another wow,
sixty odd days before we get into them, so they've
been really good. And also yeh, we've we've got a
vaialas numbers two which I think like you lower or
southern south and east and south and have probably had
a really good run at making something ementary feed.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
So all in all, I.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
Think winter is here looking pretty good at the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So you've still got a couple of opportunities to go
and get some fish.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Yeah, well, the old swell math it hasn't really been
in favor lately, so we'll keep her on that over
Easter and the next couple of weeks because yep, yep,
you can't have a frazer with that cord. When you're
this post to the coast, you must.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Check that swell map as frequently as you check the
work mat.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
Yeah, I probably do, but I probably get more disappointed
on swell met too, because when it is green and
good to go, you have to justify why you can go,
and quite often you've actually got another job to do.
So yeah, we probably don't get out as much as
we want, but we probably get out enough anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Good on you, Steve. You always appreciate your time. Eddy
Steve Henderson farming down at our ula. You're listening to
the muster Dave Morrison from PG you write Sin's up. Next,
we're talking the first of the calf sales for Chelton,
which was.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Held this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Then we got mad and this is the muster on Hock.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I know it is time for the calf Sale report
brought to you, brought to you by way Kackup hold
Hereford's for an outstanding lineup of real performance balls at
the fifty second Annual Ballsale Thursday, the twenty eighth of May.
We're going to catch up with Dave Morrison from PGG
right some give us a rundown of the Charlton calf
sale tagle good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Afternoon Andy. Yeah, look we're just sorry, we just we're
just finished. It was just a medium sized yearning I
think about seven hundred calves. We sold pretty well, certainly,
prices well up on previous years, just a real range today.
It was pretty hardy to judge on and Andy, we
had good stairs making sort of six ninety to seven dollars,
(29:40):
but then we would drop. Then we'd drop fifty cents
for of a sudden, So it was all over the
show with quite a big bench of buyers or big
big bench of people, but probably about half dozen peewety
buying mate or bidding. So that there's like I said,
there's a real range there into the heapers. The best
of the heapers were anywhere from sort of six forty
(30:01):
through the six sixty, and then then we have a
drop quality quality staying up. Then we have a drop
down a sort of six dollars ten six bucks. So yeah,
definitely how do you gauge on to say, mate? But yeah,
look great prices bestus peers seventeen eight hundred overall when
heifers anywhere from sort of thirteen hundred through the fifteen
hundred and fifteen fifty and it wraps it up ending.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, so the prices are are as expected, Yes, yeah
they are.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But like I said, it was just as an auctioneer,
it was.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It was tough. It was.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It was hard going. You know, one minute will be
right on the mark price wise, and then in the
next pen we could be two hundred dollars short or
two hundred dollars too high.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It was.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
It was hard to sell man, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, what do you put that down to?
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I don't really know. I think some people just go
obviously go to these calf sales with one in the
bay twenty or fifty, and they've got to set price
in the head and not till we rode out price
per k. They just buy. Yeah, they just buy what
they see it done them. And probably given my numbers
in the pens, we've probably said a bit of that
to day too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Now, good on your tag or catch you tomorrow for
the chilter and update day.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Thanks Anny.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Dave Morrison there from PGG writes him with an update
under Charlton calf sale. How this morning. Now I'll run
down of when these calf sales are happening. Tomorrow the
second of April Balcluther o Waka is happening, as well
as Castle Rock ninth of April's lawn Ball. Then back
to the second sale at castle Rock on the tenth
of April. Seventeenth of April part Balcluther second, the castle
(31:34):
Rock third, and we round it out on the twenty
ninth with Gore and the thirtieth at Balcluther. Of course,
the calf Sale report brought to you by Wakakapold Hereford's
for an outstanding line up of real performance balls at
the fifty second Annual Bullsale Thursday, the twenty eighth of May,
courtesy of Lourie and Sharon Patterson. And you may even
get to see Lourie do his rendition of seven Spanish angels,
(31:56):
which he.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did so well.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Nick Bulyan Newstalk zb that's up the muster, he's up
next your head.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Five well in to a burnand ring of I went down, down.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Down, and the world Johnny Cash on a Wednesday, great
scheene that ring of fire.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
As we catch out. Nick Ywley got a new storg zib.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You can hear us commentares regarding Super Rugby on gold Sport. Nick,
good afternoon, how's everything pretty Hecticinda mentioned a shorter week.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah, good afternoon to Andy into your listeners. Yeah, short
week and the Crusaders have one of the three Super
Rugby games this weekend. They host the Drawer, the final
ever Super Rugby game, finally a Crusaders game at Apollo
Projects Stadium out in Addington. It's been their home for
the last fourteen years, so it feels like it's been
(32:48):
one of the longest fearwells ever. But yeah, for the
final time, we'll soldier out there on Friday and then
all roads lead to one in Zied Stadium, Takaha in
the central set. What it would be three weeks Friday
for the beginning of Super Round cart wait for that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Now we've spoken to you over the previous couple of seasons.
You talk about being in the commentary bucks, you've got
hot water bottles. Only thing you're missing is an electric
blanket because you're freezing. I'd say the sentiment with this
old stadium is going to be very short lived.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've spoken to various people over the
last week or so about the legacy of the stadium,
and as you say, on the one hand, it won't
be missed due to its temporary nature bitterly cold and ft.
My colleague Leslie Murdock sees it's bone shillingly cold or
nose drippingly cold. But on the other hand, you know
(33:41):
where else would they have gone? This is to be
the Homecaagary Raby League. It was basically stood up post
the earthquakes in the space of one hundred days, and
there's some fantastic memories there, you know, super raky titles
and the like. So look, I probably be missed because
of what we know is ahead of us, but it
(34:03):
will hold a special place. So I'm sure there'll be
some sentimental people out there who will try and send
it off. Well come Friday.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
What's what is this going to me for?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
For South Bar Stadium missing out in all these games
for the obvious reasons being they don't have the infrastructure
in the town regading accommodations, et cetera, should be a
real concern regaining the long term viability of four Bars Stadium.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I think so, I think so andy, And look they've
had a pretty fair run of it the last decade
or so while we've missed out up here on the concerts,
all black Tests and the like. Look, there's no reason why,
you know, a big musical act couldn't play christ Church
and Eden. But I think and I did see a
(34:49):
report a couple.
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Of weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I think it was the Dunedan City Council looking at
different ways in which they can, you know, bring a
curtain down and sort of move move foresight bar around
or I'll move it around it at least to accommodate
smaller acts, because yeah, there's a real likelihood that it
is one or the other, and you'd want to be
in the shiny, brand new thing. I think in christ
(35:13):
hitch over Deneed and as you say, because of some
of those extra infrastructure issues around accommodation, primarily so we've.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Got east of the sweet Kid. What happens of a competition?
Is a business as normal or is it truncated?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Yeah, it's quite interesting this one. Andy. We've had Jack musically,
the Super Rugby Boss and our bulletins this morning sort
of explaining the reasons why in an eleven team competition
we just have the three games. The Crusaders through a
Friday night, the Chiefs have a game Saturday home game
and then just an Australian Derby on Saturday nights. So
(35:49):
five of the eleven teams have been afforded one of
their two buys this weekend and mister Mewsley's reasons for
that were stadium unavailability over the Easter period and some
teams just choosing. Whether it's due to religious reasons, I
think he might have been influencing Wina pacifica there, or
(36:10):
just the fact that usually the particularly in the big centers,
the crowd says don't show up usually over a long weekend,
bands are heading away from Auckland's and Wellington's and enjoying
a break. So it is curious that just the three
games this weekend, especially when you marry that up with
the NRL seventeen team competition. They've got a full slate
(36:32):
of games just the one team on a traditional buy
and they run right through from Tomorrow night right and
through until Easter Monday. So I don't know if it's
just the sort of giving this one up to the
NRL or there's some genuine reasons behind it, but yeah,
just three games are super aguous weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
The NRL and the AFL just business as usual. It's
a curious one. We talk about the NRL, the blit
plus weekend. Arguably they've got a three weeks ahead of them.
Cranulla definitely a banana skin game. But then they've got
their bogey teams over the last couple of years of
no longer the Storm and the Titans.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
There were Storm and the Titans. It's interesting, isn't it.
There certainly two different ends of the spectrum really in
terms of history and success. But yeah, it is an
interesting period. Look, it was a phenomenal start. Pride to
the Tigers, wasn't it, getting those wins over the Roosters,
the Raiders and the Knights. But are real not necessarily
(37:29):
back to square one? But a reality check in a way,
and if anything, I think a timely reminder that if
you're just marginally off in the NRLs, such as the
competitiveness of the competition, you're going to get found out.
And I don't think they showed up with the right attitude,
particularly on defense to ship. I was at six tries
in the space of about fifty minutes of rugby league.
(37:52):
The Tigers were on no points after half an hour,
but it will be interesting to see how they respond.
Andrew Webster unsurprisingly stuck with the same thirteen and felt
to me anyway it would have been a bit of
a knee jerk reaction to then change what he implemented
last week in terms of Luke Metcalf making that earlier
than expected return at five eight. Charles Nickel cook Star
(38:13):
remains a right centertained, so Picky remains at fullback and
serdly recently at least Andy the Shark Park or playing
games against CNALA at Cronulla has been somewhat of a
happy hunting ground, so I'm expecting a response in the
Andrew Webster.
Speaker 13 (38:29):
Era they use.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
The Warriors usually respond well after a defeat. Won't be easy.
Are coming off a pretty impressive win in their own
right last week against the Canberra Raiders, but very much
looking forward to that one. And just on the we're
talking about Stadia earlier and he quite neat here in
christ Church with that one New Zealand Stadium opening in
three weeks time now, they're actually running a test event
(38:52):
on Sunday and they're going to put the Warriors game
on the big screen at stadium and I'm going to
head along with the family. I think there's about five
six thousand of us in the South stand watching the
game on the big screen at the other end of
the stadium, so they'll be quite a neat experience.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Do you have to pay to go along to that?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Two bucks?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Two bucks? That's not bad. You live a fan for
a long weekend.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
That's right, And look for they had to be ticketed
in the sense one of the things they wanted to
test is the ticket system. There'll be you know, I
actually don't know because of Eastern but I'm guessing you
can buy a soft drink at a hot dog or
whatever they're going to offer at the stadium and enjoy yourself.
So yeah, I think I think it's a great idea.
(39:36):
Obviously there's a bit of alignment there in terms of
the sponsor of the stadium one New Zealand is the
naming sponsor of the Worries, So I think it's a
good idea. Three weeks out from the grand opening super
Round that kicks off antiqu weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Just finally make this whole T twenty scenario regarding New
Zealand cricket, it's been rather messy.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah, that's a great way of something it up, hasn't it.
It's been a week while coming. And obviously News Yelling
Cricket now at least in principle, is supporting the end
twenty privatized T twenty model. But still so many questions remain,
like we don't know who is going to own these
six franchises that have been mooted. You know, you listen
(40:20):
to Heith Mills, who's actually departing his role as he's
Yelling Cricket Players Association but still heads up the World
Cricket Players Association. He says, you know, there's interest in
as many as sort of twenty five to thirty different
potential owners, including owners of IPL teams. Where are these
scenes going to be based? Do we have enough runways
(40:41):
for a launch in January? Very sounds like the women's competition,
which was a real point of you know, insurance assurance,
sorry from New Yelling Cricket, but they wanted to make
sure it was men's and women's. But it sounds like
the women's competition has been put on the back burner
twenty seven. A lot of questions remain unanswered, and we
(41:04):
April one today, Andy, So it's there's not a lot
of time to get these things sorted. It's going to
be a fascinating watch. But locker on the whole, I
think something had to be done in terms of the
Super Smash. Yes, it's been important in terms of the
development of players advancing through to the Black Caps and
White Ferns ranks, but it really needed a shot in
(41:26):
the arm in terms of the fan experience and the
broadcast experience as well. So it'll be one to watch,
as I say, in the coming months, because before we
know it went to the over spring will be here
and summer too, so it's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I think the sporting highlight those being Jacob Duffy getting
a three foot and the z Ipr debut alongside verright Coli,
it doesn't get any bigger.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Lit'tle bit of South ad byas coming.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
In absolutely because we can't.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
He's been some story in the last twelve but eighteen
months has a he Jacob Duffy's making every post good
on them.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Nick Puly had a new stig ZB Always appreciate your
time Gold Sports where you'll hear us commentaries this weekend
regarding Super Rugby. Enjoy the long WEEKI mate.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
You too, Andy always a pleasure.
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Speaker 3 (42:47):
Hey, well all right too?
Speaker 9 (42:48):
Heal there and what did he.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Go on again?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
PGG writes and presents stop selling action that occurred at
the Boarcluther Si yard this morning. So we have Mark
Calder on the line to give us a rundown on prices. Mark,
good afternoon, How do we go today?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Here we go?
Speaker 13 (43:01):
Yeah, we've got today. Actually we had a smaller yarding
of crimes and they still sold. Weal for where they
were getting into the primes top lambs tur hundred to
two hundred and forty dollars, medium primes one eighty to
two hundred, and your lottering crimes were one sixty one seventy.
Getting into the stores is a regional yarding of stores,
and today and very stores they were presented as well.
(43:23):
So given into the top Ford's one forty one hundred
and five dollars, mediums won twenty one thirty and your
lottering stores were fifty to ninety dollars. Smaller yarding of
use today by seat from one ninety to two twenty.
For the big girls, mediums were one forty one sixty
in your later years of seventy two hundred dollars, regonal
(43:45):
yarding of two to three's and today in older rams Bay,
Sex from seventy to one hundred and twenty dollars. That
was up in the sheet division today first of weaker
castile there for the sale yards of the tomorrow. I
hope to say us all there and coming in a
lot not it's thanks very much to Am A. P. B.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
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