September 2, 2025 • 47 mins
Andy Muir talks to James Edgar, Don Morrison, Keely Buckingham, Andrew Welsh, Morgan Mitchell and Warwick Howie.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. My
name is Andy Muir. Here until two o'clock this afternoon,
of course, thanks to Peter's genetics, welcome along, and what
a difference twenty four hours makes in the weather world
when we look outside over the main street here in Gore,
blue sky and abundance. Long mate, continue, we'll talk weather shortly,
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but certainly a marked improven on yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And this for honis it had to be as.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well before you only further I music for today as
a fine young cannonballs, although once upon a time they
were also known as two men, a drum machine and
a trumpet.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Five day forecasts brought to you by twin Farm, teff
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Speaker 1 (01:02):
The proof is in the progeny Tieffron dot co dot MZI.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
This afternoon sunny with breezy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Northwesterlies and thirteen Thursday cloudy were light northern leaves six
and sixteen. Friday showers of breezy west northwesterlys two and twelve,
Saturday showers breezy westerlies five and eight, and Sunday morning
showers for breezy west northwesterlyes two and ten so temperatures
Clinton six point five, Northern Southland five point nine, Riverton
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eight point four, tiad Our six point three, Tidoro seven
point eight, Oneton five point four and Woodland six point nine.
As we start off a Wednesday afternoon by catching up
with James Egger who farms out at moa flat, Doc Morrison,
Willowbank farmer and the Lions Board director joins us Keeley
Buckingham from darry en Z joins us in studio, Andrew
(01:54):
Welsh from twin Farm Genetics, the home of Tefron. We
have a chat with Snow sounds like it's all go
out there on the Lambing beat this afternoon. And Morgan
Mitchell he won the Red Frilly Shield as part of
the Stags on Sunday night. It's the day off, so
he comes in studio as well and we catch up Morgie.
We ask him what's it like a couple of days
on and I mean the buzz of having the shield?
(02:16):
What does it mean for the game on Saturday and
the first offense against Kenterbury. Warwick Howe from PGG writes
and has a stock style report from Bark Luther. Then
we'll start the yel with James Egger. This is the
muster until two o'clock. There's to Peter's Generics allway up
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to mow Flat this afternoon on the mustard James Egger
farms up that way in a beautiful blue sky riden
afternoon down here in the south, James, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
How's a lambing beat, No, it's very good.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So yeah, down in Tapanoy today. We've been driving down
there for a couple of week and I'm reasonably pleased
to see the sun, shall we say, because yeah, it's
been it's been reasonably testing, I suppose for three or
four days there. But yeah, it wasn't well just all
the all the healthy sheep that got the lambs up
straight away, We're fine, but yeah, just anything, they just
(03:19):
didn't quite get them right. We were rotten the middle
of the sleet, hail and borderline snow down here. Yeah,
didn't quite get up, which was a bit frustrating. But however,
when the blue sky's out, sort of a distant memories
in some way, So yeah, shout out to all the
guys that have been carving and lambing and slogging around
in the mud and the wet weather gear and yeah,
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enjoy the nice day.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's like this for a couple of days anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The five day forecast is talking about it getting a
little bit cooler again on Saturday and on a Sunday.
But I suppose the temperatures at the very least did
not going below minus. So the frosts are a bit
of a memory, I suppose at the moment.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, no, that's good. We're definitely I suppose early on
we looked like we were probably going to set stock
on record covers and we're probably now maybe just below average. Actually,
to be fair, we actually needed the rain, especially at
my flat wood missed out on a lot. We'd probably
been nine weeks before that without significant rain, which was
great for the winter, but also being aware that, yeah,
(04:23):
you do need some rain to get the grass growing.
We actually had to bring all their sheep off their
swedes early, which put a bit of pressure on because
we found they went sort of like rocks. They were
unbelievably hard. You drive over them in the tractor and
you just hear them popping. You pick them up and
you're not The singles they were fine, but those twin ews,
(04:43):
we're feeding them plenty of bailage but no, it just
went off them and yeah, just very very hard the sweed.
So we pulled them off early and we'll probably spread
them out a little bit earlier than usual, but there'll
be about Friday, so yeah, it'll come around fast enough.
This time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Dropping paddocks would have been as dry as what they've
been for August too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Though, Yeah, no, certainly it's not often you could drive
the well, you probably drive around in your town car
to be a shift the brakes. By the end of
it was it was amazingly dry. So yeah, and the
sheep did quite well. But then I reckon about the
fifteenth to the twentieth of August. The Swedes, they didn't
say much drop a seed here out. I've seen that
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when the sheets don't like it from there. But I
just think the hardness of them. Yeah, possibly the sheep
thought the season was bit earlier than what it was.
I don't know, but yeah, we brung them off and
had the conveyor over the other day so drenched them
and mouthed and picked away. So yeah, getting through the jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I just want to have you on there the town car.
You could have driven the town car and the paddocks it's.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Called to you.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, oh, I know, you could have driven the town
car and you probably could have. If you've got the
right dry afternoon, you could have driven it right around
the whole farm. And there's probably not many weeks in
the weeks of the year that that's even possible. So no,
it was. It was really dry. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well that's what we call the nager what he had effect,
the moving the crops, moving the crops and your crops.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, yeah, it could have been in your bare feet.
That would have been just what you needed. So no,
it has been. Yeah, every years different, isn't it. So
hopefully we get some sun and yeah, it's going to
be nice from now on, so we'll see how we go.
I actually I had the longest leming beat in my
life yesterday. My father, Budgy, he well, we bring the
hill us. So they lembed their first four years up
(06:33):
at Marslet and we don't do a lot of lemming,
but we bring them down here and they're sort of
grown up with a very intense lemming beat, you know,
often three times a day.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Of you.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
He loves it. It's his favorite time of year.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Back a punishment.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh no, he's pretty passionate. So but anyway, yeah, yeah,
bit of used to these hill us because they don't
like that. They're not used to it and they're a
bit wild. Yesterday and is to he caught one to
see the lamb and then released it out of his
trailer and it went straight through an electric fence, carried on,
went straight into the Palmaharka River and then swum to
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the other side. We had we had a process after yeah,
of course it was about five thirty after work. About
just what you need. So you know, we had to
drive around the other side and Wallace Ralston gave me
a hand and you know, got soaky wet, dragged this
thing all the way out and through the vines and
got it all the way back again. So we did.
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We did get it back again. But you know, I
was reflecting that the big tables like that all over
south and at this time of the year, because it
is it is a time when certain things happen, isn't it.
You know it can be lighthearted moments.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We had a process to get the lamb. There's something
to sender. Our sender our Durham would say.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, practicing been a politician and no, I was laughing.
I was giving giving my father some instructions that these
hill youths, you've just got to drive bit faster and
not look quite. It's hard because I've sort of help themselves.
But yeah, they put appear and I with them, and
they just just not used to the handling. So yeah,
(08:10):
he's learned his least, and hopefully hopefully we're not swimming
the potmahaker again because yeah, it wasn't actually that warm
at the summer year.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
She can be anyotic animals at stages.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I remember once at home there at Kendell Flat back
in the day, and there was a year she lambed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I had to lamb her.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
She took off across the panic. I went to get her,
went through a three reel and she crossed.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She swam the river and she stayed there.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I thought, well, buggy, you can stay there other night,
And so we had to go and get her in
the morning. I think she may have come back on
her own accord in the afternoon and we put her
in the mother up boxes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But god, she can give you drama.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, they certainly can. We have one of the blocks
in the mile Flat. We've got quite a few creeks,
so they take a while, but when they actually get
quite good at crossing them, so they not scared the
water so much. So I suppose it looked at the
pot Maharker and thought, oh, it's only a slightly bigger creek,
so a goo, Yeah, pulled that out. So but anyway,
she's taking her two lambs, so we did. We did
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get her, and the lamb price is looking good and
the sun's out, so yeah, it's a bit of a
lighthearted moment. You can't grizzle too much, can you?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now Budgie's keen on us three times a day around
the US. What philosophy? Do you take chip off the
old block?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh no, no, about twice someone's going around. This thing
was a bit more, but yeah, we sort of fit
it to the country to be fair. When we're up
and Marfley's just less you can do. We always tip
over the cast ones and yeah we do it. Do
it best on the fleats. You do make quite good
money by doing the lambing beats. Yeah. Do you take
just what what you get used to?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Andy?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Do you tag the users that are cast Some people
do that.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, Well, we sort of have all their annual draft
used down here, so they're all mouthed out and then
they get weaned and late November and sold, which has
actually been to be fair, it has actually been a
game changer for your business because the with Mark Flat
was if you weaned. Certainly when we were weaning in January,
sometimes we still had their freezers on and like March
(10:07):
if you had a bad year and the space was
a bit tight, so that was a long time. Yeah,
a long time to have extra mouths on. Whereas this
way we can get rid of them in November and
it's quite good for cash flow for a start, and
by about four months of grass, we're not eating with
animals that well. Well, the problem was even the schedule
was only gone down to when you were holding onto
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them and the freezing works didn't want them. So no,
it's actually worked out really well bringing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Them down just finally, even though you're in a tiger,
you're doing pretty chapter watching the Shield come down South
on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, it was just awesome actually, Andy, like, yeah, good
on South and it's amazing when you're getting them. I've
heard even on your show, Andy, you know a wee
bit of prodding from the sidelines and yeah, those boys
really just grew another arm, didn't they. They amazing effort
for them and good on them and hope they enjoy it.
So yeah, I do love seeing do love seeing the
(11:02):
small guy tip over the big guy. So I enjoyed that,
enjoyed that very much, which is really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I've got Morgan Mitchell and in studio later on
in the yellard James, and I'll tell them this as well.
They've reinvigorated the MPC.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, you tell them to hold on to it in
Canterbury because do they have Does Tiger have a shield
challenge if they hold hold on to it this week?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No, we've already played a tiger. You beat us on
Stag Day, remember, No, I thought there was.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Some complicated thing there I saw with where all the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah the flood chat comes out for the ram fairly
shield and about sixty different palmentations come out.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, So if the right person does the right thing,
I think it gets a challenge. But they got on
South and fingers crossed the tip over Canterbury. Absolutely nothing
better than beating Canterbury.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is there nothing better than that? And the Stags have
been there before and done that too. James Egga, thanks
for your time as always, cheers.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And I hope we've one enjoy us a nice day
and yeah, back into it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
James Egga farming at MA Flatre. Are Morrison farms at
Willowbank and an Alliance Sport director.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We catch up next. This is the Master.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
This interview brought to you by Agriss into South Branches
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Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dan Morrison farms at Willow Bank and he is an
Alliance Sport director and joins us this afternoon with his
police sky in abundance, which is certainly a change from
twenty four hours ago.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Howie hell are you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Andy, you're nice to have that blue sky again and
not quite so much mud on some of the sweat
and foder beat breaks. So yeah, well, I'm truly welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You'll be well through the breaks now, are you.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, we've yeah, we've still got good feed left. The
we're spreading everything out. The triplet's got spread out on Monday.
We did half the turns yesterday the other half today,
so they've been on foder Beat up until now. Singles
will stay on til next Monday and then just U
hobbits and ram hobbits still. But no, the crop's been good,
but we had a slight bit of stress. We've as
(13:04):
I said, the crops have been good, but we must
have had a ramblamb got out somewhere. So I've been
leaving a few years on the on the Fiddre Beat,
which hasn't been great in this weather. It's you know,
where do you get enough of them that you've got
to take them all off or do you just manage
it and catch them. So we've been able to keep
an eye on them. We haven't lost any lambs, but
(13:24):
it's just been a wee bit of stress with it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
When you say there's been a few own up how many.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Oh tina days? Not significant, but enough that there was
a ram lamb obviously there we didn't know about, but
there was nothing new this morning, so we we must
have got them out, but we just can't remember it.
So yeah, bad management there. I'll put my hand up,
Andy have.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
When you're supposed to start lambing proper a few early
is going at the moment though obviously the ram lamb
runs aside.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, we've got three or four hundred Lammy at the moment,
they've been lemming, oh the last five or six days
and they're going really well. And everything else starts on
the twelve, so oh, yeah, we've got a good ten
days now for them to really just just add the
feed after coming up the crop and yeah, be ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Plenty of grass ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh there's enough, Andy, there's always You'll always want more.
And you're sort of sit there a week ago and
thinking I haven't got enough, but it's yeah, it's there,
and it'll come.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Now a lion screpe putting your alliance head on. Here
don the proposed merger with Dawn meets. What's the feedback
you've received. They'll be positive, but they'll be negative as well.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I had some really good discussion. I would say that
the majority of people by far that have boken to
think it's a really good outcome. And I've had some
discussion with people who think that it's not a great outcome,
so are negative. And it's you know, and you respect
every view, and it's a matter of I guess talking
everybody through what the process and the structure is going
(14:49):
to be and I think that'll that'll be great greatly
aided once we get our scheme book for out, which
is really an explanation of the whole thing, valuations process,
how it will look, governance everything going forward, and you know,
an independent report and as I say, totally independent on
the value of this proposal. So I think it's a
(15:10):
bit of an education process. And I know some of
the ones that might be a bit negative, once they
actually see some of the pluses, you know, it might
turn them around. You know, it's interesting rural me. Any
media people like the sensation lies and I tend to
be reading reports from the negatives, when, as I say,
the big majority of peticle that I talk to a positive.
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So so you know, interesting, interesting what you read.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, you never get down on the muster. Hell, are
you going to get the facts?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You know, that absolute balance?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
And I would and I would hope that Andrew. So
you know, we'll look forward to some of those positive
interviews you've got lined up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But when people do say, then against what's going through?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What's the arrestion now?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I mean some people are arguing, why not sell the
whole company off and just go from there.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, if you're willing to buy a willing seller, Andy,
if you're talking selling the whole company off, you've got
to have you've got to have someone that's brought a
proposal and to do that, and that may not have
been as attractive as you know you go with as
a as a board, as directors, you've got a responsibility
to deliver the strongest proposal and the and the best
(16:17):
ones for company value, on the value of your shareholders.
And this was clearly what we've presented. So you know,
speculation is really you know, not a not a great alternative,
and the counterfactual to what we presented is very unattractive Andy,
So it's a matter for people to understand that, yeah,
we've they think we've lost elements of the co op,
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but we're actually going to have a bigger, better, more capitalized,
highly resourced alliance was still a cooperative element in it
and partnering with some really successful operators in the in
the Northern Hemisphere market.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They're a successful operator, but you're hearing of resistance from
the Irish farming community arguing us more products going on
these supermarket shells that their producers have got to contend
with as well.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, look, it's interesting, Andy, I would say once again
that's an education, you know, it's a matter of education
and for their farmers to understand what this brings. So
so alliance that's we carry on in the same structure,
same market. So it's not as though we're suddenly swinging
a whole lot of extra products into that UK market.
But what it does for us in doorn meat is
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gives the opportunity to supply grass seed lamp fifty two
weeks onto the supermarket shells. So I think whenever any
farmer can start understanding that effective of their advantage and look,
it opens up opportunities for doorn meat through some of
the lions, you know, opportunities in America, China, India. I
think it's an education process and what I've observed through
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this end you'll get a negative on either side, and
whatever the proposals, that's a matter of you know, understanding
it and then making a decision still with those movement
of views, but it's just a matter of walking through
and understanding.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
What people frustrating is a few people saying as well,
the meetings could have perhaps been a little a couple
of weeks later than what they are given there at
the end of September or is it a case of
if we just had to pick a date and go
from there.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
No, very much the struction work with Andy, So you
know this is all about seasonal finance and the appetite
of the bank to support the co op and so
you were balances the end of September. So we'll have
finance in place caring forward. But you've got to go
through that process. That that's what's the bank for signaled.
They want Alliance to take responsibility for their work capital
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and that's what this capital rose process is all about.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, how we would talk about a rugue, but you
know that's your passion. If you had to choose only
one team to win out of the Stags against Canterbury
for the Shield.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Or the your Backs against spring Boks.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Your Blacks haven't lost there in fifty games dating back
to nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I think it's either the thirty or the forties.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And some box of one and even parts. Which game
would you rather we won?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That's a tough call, Andy, but I'd go with the Stags.
You know how those boys, they they made their they
made their history on Sunday and now they've got a
chance to even make it bigger. So you know we
we finished the landing bit early, came in and watched
that and it was just an awesome performance. And how
they go out and play like that with that heart
they've got that, they've got a really good chance of
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of delivering against Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What about the Ill Blacks? Howie? What do they need
to do there?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Is it a case of perhaps they just haven't evolved
the people thought they would under Scott Robertson.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Uh, Andy I'll be consistent selection decisions. I think I
think he's given too much loyalty to those too. A
number of players and combinations that went performing. And I'll
tell you again, Andy doesn't run up the line and
Joy Barrett doesn't. There's no second five cents of combination.
So there's been players there that they could have put
into those combinations. They've been persisted with three Connie on
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the wing when he had really the great no selection
Andy and uh and actually building up those combinations.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So who would you start at ten?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Would you go d mac at ten or would you
go out the square outside the square a bit?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
God, absolutely go to d Mac at ten. And I
know he might have a tractor and he's he's uh.
He runs at the line, Andy, he runs at the
line and he creates That's what you've got to do
in this game, when when those defensive lines are so structured,
you've got to actually change the pattern or even you know,
something like that that self and then we tip over,
tip over the back line, you know, run onto it,
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not the aimless you know high techs that we give
and where we're really inferior competing in the air against
against France. We know how good the spring bots are
at it. So you know, wype assist with that plan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, the box is just going to catch the dating
the living daylight's off that rugby ball. It's just going
to be can't can't, can't cack and the agement will
come into it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
One done.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A few people have said this, how we ban the
box cack from the from the base of the scramb
orro a mall in certain instances, and it's hard to disagree.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, you know that, that's unfortunately what the games evolved into. Andy.
So you know, the the laws are what they are
at the moment. We're not going to change that. But
I think you've got it. You've got to play to
where your strengths are. And you know that game against
Argentina last week we got so little good ball and
what percent of it did we then kick away and
weren't there to compete with. It was just seen a
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crazy game plan.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Good only how we always appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Oh God, look forward to the next im Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Darl Morrison farming at Willow Bank and the Lion's Board Director.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Kelly Buckingham and studio next from Derry and Z. This
is the muster.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
This is the Muster on Hakannui. Kelley Buckingham from Daryan
Zed and Studio Kelley welcome, good to see her too.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Actually coming here and see where the magic happens.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And as we look out over blue sky on the horizon,
Geez makes a difference.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I think you're will be smiling today in the sunshine,
especially my husband.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, the early lambing has just been one of those
occasions I suppose.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah, it's all good. We'll get there mostly the way
through now, so that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And also Henry, your husband, he did their golfing feet
there a few weeks back. Now for young Haddie how's
everything been there?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Good, Yeah, he recovered. Well's beIN back on the golf course.
Hasn't put him off too much, so that's good. And
actually had some hour off to rode around on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Nice, you're excited. Good on you, darien zed. What's been happening.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
We've actually been relatively busy catching up with farmers all
over the show, I guess not those ones two hands on,
but quite a few touching base just to chicken see
how carving's going. Touching base with quite a few rps
in light of our RP a bit next week. So
you've had a really busy few weeks which has been nice.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Nice one. Now dairy training offerings.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's one of our topics today obviously, people wanting to
up skill all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What's in the offering?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah, so dairy training I think actually earlier in the
the Cee Hamish he was on air. So Dairy Training
Limited is one of the subsidiary of dear Enz and
run courses throughout the country for farmers from all levels
from basics to ices, farm managers down to farm assistants.
(23:26):
And we've got some courses that are starting in the
next the start of October that I just wanted to
make sure people were aware of. So we've got Emerging
Leadership that starts on the eighth of October and in
v Cargo that is targeted for people that are looking
to build I guess their people management through the sector,
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so to ses herd managers, and that's just looking I
guess that that people lends, you know, how do we
grow our teams, how do we communicate well with staff
on farm? We see heaps of people moving into content
milking positions and obviously with that comes a role of
leading a team. And so that that's perfect for people
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looking to I guess build further into their careers where
they will be in charge of a team. And then
the other one is that's starting so emerging leaderships and
for Cargo and then Feed for Profit is looking at
how we I guess maximize efficient use of pasture on
the platform. You know, we learn teaches people how to
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use the spring rotation planner, tools like the supplement price calculator,
an annual feed budget, and so that's targeted at people
I guess in any part of their farm and career.
Like we had people there that were just going fifty
to fifty SI milking this year that wanted to refresher
around how to maximize the use of pastor on their
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in their farm system, right down to people that you know.
We're second season in so that's kicking off the seventh,
eighth and ninth of October across Winton in Icago and
Belcluther this time. So we're stoke to be putting that
offering up into South Otago with exterians. You're actually consulting
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officer Mark Olsen. Vitlin's come on board as our tudor
up there and Winton and Vicago will be tutored by
Tessa Giddies who's a local dairy farmer near Gore.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Now you're talking about the Dairy Training Offerings team simergy
being the busy season, did you have farmers reaching out
just wanting a few tips and advice regarding getting the
team on board prior to the carving season because it's
a marathon not a sprint ultimately in the farming environment.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, I didn't, in particularly myself, I didn't, but it's
definitely the conversation that we're having probably around May each
year just how we're either on board new staff or
what we can do through that winter period to I
guess get everyone on board, and I guess with the
same mindset going into carbon like what are we all
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here for? What is our role? How do we work
together as a team to make carbon go as smoothly
as possible?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And we talk about leadership leadership roles on farm and
there's so many layers of this as well, depending on
what you want to do internally, how far you want
to grow, and what you want to expand your horizons
on as well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So a good leading I suppose.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yeah, definitely, And so I suppose that's the other thing
I wanted to touch on. So there's those two courses
happening are the side of Christmas. But after Christmas, Dairy
Training is actually rolling out four new microcredential courses and
two of them were actually going to I guess take
a step back in time with the name, but we're
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bringing back Bizz Start and Biz Grow, so deary instead
have run those oh gosh for as long as I
can remember, they've taken away hiatus and now Dairy Training
is bringing them back into the region. So that looks
I guess at you know, within BISTA and Bisgrow, we
look at the business side of people, people that are
looking to I guess go into business and it's from
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budgeting to learn it, talking with lawyers and accountants around
setting up businesses. And then there's that people side in
there as well, which is really cool, you know, around personality,
profiling of staff, just I guess, every every aspect of
the farm business, like when you're going into business that
you need to be over. So that's cool. That will
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be starting kicking off what they call Semester one next year,
so February March. And then we've also got for I guess,
new entrants in the industry targeting that space. We've got
animal health and pasture fundamental courses coming as well, so
that's I guess right back at the start, you know,
the basics of identifying lameness, mastitis, that type of thing,
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and the animal health fundamentals, and then for the past
fundamentals plate meter and three leaf stage taking it right
back to the people that even really need a basic
refresh or people that are really new in the industry,
you know, people out of school or you're fresh on farm.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Good only Keaty, thanks for coming in studio. Always good
to catch up. Cool.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Thanks Andy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Kelley Buckingham of Dairy in Zen. This is the muster
up next we're heading to the Waymere Valley.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Andrew Walsh from twin Far.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Genetics, thanks for joining us. This is the muster just
coincidentally as well from Kelly Buckingham at darien Z. A
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late note that she forgot to put in their dairy
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Speaker 2 (28:50):
Regarding those courses that Kelly was talking about away to
the way Mere Valley.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Now we hear a lot of baying in the background
or bleating or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Little sheep just on the ghost.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So we're talking to Andrew Welsh out of twin Farm
Genetics at home of Teff from and sponsors of the
five day forecast here on Hokker. He's snow good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yeah Andy, how not too bad?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You're at the cold face at the at the wolfshed.
It's been all go. How things have been lately?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Yeah pretty good. Yep, we're just having to catch up
all the stuff and yeah, see how everyone's getting. We're
into a bit of lemming now. We aid one hundred
and forty yu's that we're due to start yesterday and you,
to be fair, they've sort of been trickling on for
about three days now, so yeah, well into it and
just a week taste of what spring was like last
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year the last couple of days, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, how did you fare over the last couple of days?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Really good? Yeah, they're early stages of the lemming. It's
pretty good. You can utilize your shelder really good.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And yeah, like they're.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Getting them pretty tough now that we're going, so it's yeah,
it's as good as it can be really.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So our ground conditions we're out there because they're hearing
figure of almost likes of an excess of four or
five inches of rain in certain parts of the region.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah, it is a bit soft around you look in
the pack, but nobody good to be fear. Pretty dry winter,
so the ground slakes up a wee, but we certainly
don't want a lot more now though we'll be back
to some of those last year.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So when does the main flock crank and togear?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Oh about the eighth, So not a few days. We're
actually just all set stocking at the moment. We've we've
done all the flats and we're got most of the
us spread around the hill now and just got to
sprint tous out through the blocks with them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Now you say there's a few of them on the
hill there. What what routine do you stick to.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
On the flats, We try and get around twice a
day what we can and just go around and yeah,
and do what we can as we go. But on
the hill we leave them to it. So get set
stopped now and we won't go back through them until
about middle of October. We'll go back and start open
gates ready for tailor.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You're fee to'll be looking all right though you've had
a weaver at grove over the last four weeks, I'd
imagine we have.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
It's been really good at past Your covers are looking good.
But yeah, certainly the more you have at this time
of a year, the better they use, are more settled
in the paddocks. So yeah, we're just got to watch
we don't get cold snaps come through and they take
the top off. But that's a key that this time
of the year is just get your sex stuff and
watch paddock and be a bit flexible with what you
need in certain places.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How do you go flecs of bearings in there? Any
dramas touch wood.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
We don't have very many us. You get sort of
ten to twelve for a year, but we're probably up
to about fifteen already this year, just I think us
being better conditioned coming through the winter that we've just
had a few more.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As far as your window crops for the kettle and everything,
though they're panning out. It's pretty much just on auto
mode for the next three or four weeks.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
We are on the flats down here. We've got one
break of kale left for the late lammer use and
on the hill the dinner on their last break now
for they've probably only got about four days left and
then they'll be coming off and all on grass. So
it's worked out really good this year, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What about your targets, how are they fearing?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
They're looking all right.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I've got to run them over the conveyor and give
them their prelam vaccine and ear tags. We're going to
individually tag all the stud ones and line them up
with what number of matches in their ear just for
visually recording them at Leaming Pin. But they're looking pretty good.
The twin Hoggits have had some sort of a weir
abortion going through them and been getting one or two
slips a day in those, which is a bit frustrating.
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But somehow the single ones seem to have missed it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Well, if there's only a couple of slips, that it's okay.
I hate you think it was anything of a bigger.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Form it is, but when you when you add it up,
you get one or two for sort of yeah, twenty
odd days that it certainly adds up to be quite
a few ways. Not to think of it that way.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Absolutely, what do you reckons caused that?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
I don't know. It looks similar to sort of a
campy going through them, like the lambs are sort of yeah,
full term, got a bit of wool on them, just yeah,
just not quite cooked.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
No, that's a bugger, but it's just it's just in
that crop on that flock alone.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Nothing else it is, yep, but just to be in
that one mob we few or the U said something
go through them, but that was sort of different. More
TOCs are we going through then? The one sort of
got are we rotteney lamb coming out with them? But yeah,
you always get something each year just to take the
edge off things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Now, as far as going around the studio is how
intensive are you around doing that?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I go around twice a day and pretty much all
we're doing is tagging and recording, so we try and
I've got to try and get around twice a day
otherwise they get too fast for me to catch them.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
To be there.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
No, you're a pretty number on your feet. You're pretty
good on the wing leeve wonderers, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Oh and I had one single this morning. It was
born that gave me a fear run across the paddock.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
It's pretty good electronic tag in the rear. When they're
born and you match them up with their mum, we've
already got the mating for who the dad is at
mating time, so I quite liked leaving a look and
just seeing how the size are. It'sdally going. I can
look up and see each lamb that's born, who they're
side by for, what their survival looks like. There's any
faults I don't like with the lambs as they go,
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so it's a really good chance to have a lock
and get that accurate survival. It's it's amazing how what
a difference that makes with the sire lines.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Do you have a set crie terrier when you're going through,
assessing each lamb in that way.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Pretty much you try to do the same with all
them as you go. We're also judging all the mums
on their temperament, so we want the mum to be
a stand and defend, not a run and flee round
the paddock, so judging that, and we're also judging their
others to make sure we've got perfect other confirmation coming through.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
There is nothing more grumpy than spending five to ten
minutes lamming of you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You think you've got it all sort of.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
You drive away and the silly tart just runs up
to the other end of the paddic and that's where
she stays.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yep, that's right. They're never as easy caught the second time.
Would I always like to do the two second tests,
especially with the hobbits. If your lamb it you put
it round the front and put a foot or tail
in its mouth, it starts living in two seconds. You
can walk away, yeah not Yeah, you put it in
the trailer and take it to a you hat somewhere.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
What about feeding lambs? How many lambs would you feed
in the height of the season on a bottle you reckon.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
We'll probably get up to the US seem to create
a few spears, so we might get up to sort
of forty spears the Hobbits. The Hobbits all use them
up leading them after the US are finished, so we
end up with taking nothing through at the end of
the season, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Absolutely, Hey, we'll leave it there, so now it sounds
like it's all go at your place.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
And Twin Farm Genetics a home of Teffron, sponsors of
the five Day Forecast on a Muster as well as
Hockenui Radio. Always good to catch up mate, all the
best over the next month.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Yeah, good to go there here and you're good luck
everyone with the lemming out there. I hope the weather cooperates.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Andrew will shout of Twin Farm Genetics, the home of
tiff from Before we wrap up for the afternoon, Morgan
Mitchell prop for the South and Stags.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
We'll have a catch up next.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
In this town.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
We got supports felve miles around, we got we got
the heart. Before we wrap up for a Wednesday afternoon,
we're joined in studio by Victorious Renfrelly, shield winning self
and Staggs properly smiling when to say that. Morgan Mitchell
local Legion down here in the South Morgan, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Firstly, you've recovered from Sunday.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Thank you for having me. Yeah, you have recovered from
Sunday and Monday has been awesome. Yeah, there's a lot
of free past coming out, so I had to drink
all them. But now we had to put our heads in. Yesterday. Yeah,
took training yesterday afternoon. Yeah, you know, ready to get
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back into it for this Saturday, and near finished off
with a fitness session as a whole group. So yeah,
we'll go back to normal now. So ready to go
again for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
How did that fitness session go use today?
Speaker 8 (37:09):
I was hating it, but have once we got it done,
I actually we're all feelt better.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
I think it's the whole reason why we did it.
Just sweat out the piss and bring you.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Back to earth.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay we go back to Sunday night.
The image of sticks out for me is Jack Taylor
chanting Southland, just grabbing this leftick, grabbing the grabbing the goldens.
That that's iconic moments like that, and all you guys
and that photo there, the arguments out there, you've reinvigorated
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the MPC.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
That's just all you're.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Hearing from throughout the sporting media in the country.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Have not the media in general.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Jack Taylor is the true passionate man. And yeah he
did make a statement there messing the East on the Southland.
It's what it means to us and what it means
for selflin and yeah I did it for you guys. Yeah,
it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
How long did it take for everything to sink in
and what actually happened? Well, yes, it sunk in.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Yeah, when it really sunk in, when I got to
see mom and dad on the sideline. That's really when
I head it home. And then probably when we bought
the shield in the training room, just singing our team song,
what is.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
The tame song? Just a selflone chat.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
I've sort of lost my voice so I can't do it. Yeah,
and then it's just like we moments, like reading articles
and like seeing highlights. It just gives me good some bumps.
So yeah, it's pretty special to be.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Honest, because from a fan's perspective, right, I followed South
and Rugby since GM's sounding old house since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right, so we win the Shield in nine, we're.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Lucky enough to get it again in twenty eleven. But
for me, this one here just resonates more because we
were talking about this just before Morgan, about the low
times in South and Rugby and eventually you get rewarded,
and we've been rewarded in a big way. And the
fact I took my boys to the airport to see
the team come in there on Monday afternoon, I felt
vindicated for pulling them out of school early at two
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o'clock or everyone shooting down there because I was trying
to explain to my youngest son. He goes, so, what's
so important about the shield? And I said, you have
no idea the amount of all blacks. So Jeff Wilson
on TV on Sunday night, when you won it, like
justin Marshall Mills, myna chuckling away. But Goldi's never won
the Shield. He came close in ninety four. And just
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seeing it come through Sean Withy carrying it all you
guys coming through and just a passion in the room,
you know it was. It was brilliant and that just
vindicated being a Southern fan, like a few, as.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
You said before, if you go back to one and
eleven when they brought it home and I've seen that
and we got to do it. So it's good for
the younger generation that are coming through, you know, they
can do it as well.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Yeah, you hear a lot of people that don't want
it at all. That's what makes it so special for
the Renfolie Shields. So I'm proud to be part of
their history. Yes, this is a special thing really.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You think of the battling teams or teams that have
been battlers, like the Stags, Manow two and Northland, they
haven't had it since the late seventies. Perhaps I think
Mano two may have in the early eighties or the likes,
but they haven't seen it. So the facts the Stags
have had it three times in our lifetimes as well.
It's staggering, ex hues the pun.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
It's awesome. Yes, as you said, the Stacks don't lie.
You know, some teams don't get it for a long
time and we've had, we've had the charts and we've
actually managed to win it. So yeah, it's it's special.
Even it goes me goosebumps talking about it now. But yeah,
it's just one of those things.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
So it's Canterbury on Saturday. They're a team that is
flying along in the MPC. Look the odds are out
from the tab. They've got the stags of five dollars
head to head. That's the way you guys like it though, right.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
Oh we love it. If Tav wants to lose the
money and we win, we just love that. But all seriousness,
we all believe in ourselves and yeah Saturday four thirty,
Yeah we're up for really we're ready talking about it,
about the defense, so yeah, we can't wait to hockn
(41:52):
you defend it and hopefully do well for selfland again.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Because around Preddy Shields involved, do you grow another league?
Speaker 8 (42:01):
Oh one hunder m. We're going to full days training
tomorrow and I guarantee you there will be another league
there somewhere, so yeah, we'll be ripping and there's just
him that shield. At training last yesterday it was just
around us. We head up with us the whole time.
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So yeah, definitely grows another league for you year one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And then we fast forward to this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
You're hearing your worktop, you're out there, you're going to
go and riddle some dry use or something this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
So back to reality for a bit, Like Royal Livestock
has been so supportive, or I can't think them enough
and yeah once I get out there full time with them,
or you can't wait to give a bit to them. Yeah,
they've been awesome, So great company, great, great people to
work for.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So what's your message to the south and public ahead
of Saturday's game?
Speaker 8 (42:58):
Morgan, just keep believing us, were believe in ourselves. Get
down there on Saturday four thirty. The more people we have,
the better it is for us, just having the extra player.
And yeah, it's just an awesome to be proud to
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be proud of a Southland It's an awesome prominents and
we all love each other. Yeah, it's just what's Southland.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
It's so special and nobody wants Kennaby to have the shield.
Shout out to it, Kenny listeners, But I'm sorry, this
is totally Stags on Saturday A.
Speaker 8 (43:36):
Yeah, canna be a pretty classy team, but no, we're
going to back ourselves, go deep in our d and
you believe in ourselves and we will hook in big time.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Good only Morgan always appreciate your time. How can the
ripping and tearing on Saturday afternoon? Antler's up for the
weekend day.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much for having me.
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Speaker 2 (44:45):
Warick how is on the line to fill us in
on the details. Giddo, Warick, how do we go?
Speaker 10 (44:49):
Yes, we had a great day here in the sunshine,
and no doubt the summer shaw and will oversee the
glead enough the shield. But we are here today and
of course we have another kettle sell here on the
seventeenth September, so do get you injuries and quickly. That
will be a full yarding, and of course it will
be on better if you cannot make it. Hey, we
have you had a big yearning at primaries, the biggest
we've here for a month or so. The market is
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rocking along. It is the bigg end and there are
some very good lambs here and court a number of
them two hundred and twenty to three hundred dollars. The
good medium lambs they were one hundred and eighty to
two hundred and twenty. So then market just rocks along
and say, biggest yearling we've had in number of weeks
there onto the US just a moderate yarding you used
as you would expect this time of the year, and
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we're one hundred and forty to one hundred and seventy
four on the bigger end of the use today and
one hundred and ten to one hundred and forty on
the medium US. On the stalllarms we had a number
of those, and today the number of years shot back
up too, and the quality was very good today. Hey,
we went through one hundred and fifty five dollars yet
through to one hundred and eighty on the stall ams
that pied one hundred and eighty were some U lambs
(45:53):
that will be bought in taken through as to doo
stuff hues demanded on the top end of the stores
and one hundred to one hundred forty dollars on the
medium store lambs. The Rams had a handful of those
in today and they were sixty dollars on the tip
of the weekend. We are going to go to win
them on Thursday. We're going to erase seven and will
player pretty safe. I think this week number ten she's
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crunchy for Nathan Williamson. She's won three in a row.
I think she'll make it for she's a very good horse.
And another one out of Nathan stable there. And if
you want a bit of value, I think our number six,
mister President Clark Baron for the fay he's to bring
in the family. I think that will be up. Hey,
what last night, ladies and gentlemen. I am finishing up
in a month's time. And if you're in the lance
but who know or the chilla, you will have young
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Mark Carter, he the keen young fella he's going to
take over that run for me. And if you're in
the Milton and you will have young Russell Maloney, who
many you will know of course does Claudell Clinton for
us and a lot of auctioneering, so they will take
over is off the start of October, but we're going
to a bit of work to the next month. Anyway, we'll
say another kettle start here in the seventeen September and
one national final night this week. We had a great
week on the clear and sales last week four clear
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and sales of course in Sothak Tiger. One of my
big thanks to everyone who turned up to those, whether
you're bidding or watching, and a big thanks to the
men discussion. There were a huge amount of work going
these clear and sales and we really appreciated it and
so thank you very much for supporting our company into
pointing our sales. Have a great week.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. My
name is Andy Muir. Here until two o'clock this afternoon,
of course, thanks to Peter's genetics, welcome along, and what
a difference twenty four hours makes in the weather world
when we look outside over the main street here in Gore,
blue sky and abundance. Long mate, continue, we'll talk weather shortly,
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As we start off a Wednesday afternoon by catching up
with James Egger who farms out at moa flat, Doc Morrison,
Willowbank farmer and the Lions Board director joins us Keeley
Buckingham from darry en Z joins us in studio, Andrew
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Welsh from twin Farm Genetics, the home of Tefron. We
have a chat with Snow sounds like it's all go
out there on the Lambing beat this afternoon. And Morgan
Mitchell he won the Red Frilly Shield as part of
the Stags on Sunday night. It's the day off, so
he comes in studio as well and we catch up Morgie.
We ask him what's it like a couple of days
on and I mean the buzz of having the shield?
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What does it mean for the game on Saturday and
the first offense against Kenterbury. Warwick Howe from PGG writes
and has a stock style report from Bark Luther. Then
we'll start the yel with James Egger. This is the
muster until two o'clock. There's to Peter's Generics allway up
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to mow Flat this afternoon on the mustard James Egger
farms up that way in a beautiful blue sky riden
afternoon down here in the south, James, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
How's a lambing beat, No, it's very good.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So yeah, down in Tapanoy today. We've been driving down
there for a couple of week and I'm reasonably pleased
to see the sun, shall we say, because yeah, it's
been it's been reasonably testing, I suppose for three or
four days there. But yeah, it wasn't well just all
the all the healthy sheep that got the lambs up
straight away, We're fine, but yeah, just anything, they just
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didn't quite get them right. We were rotten the middle
of the sleet, hail and borderline snow down here. Yeah,
didn't quite get up, which was a bit frustrating. But however,
when the blue sky's out, sort of a distant memories
in some way, So yeah, shout out to all the
guys that have been carving and lambing and slogging around
in the mud and the wet weather gear and yeah,
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enjoy the nice day.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's like this for a couple of days anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The five day forecast is talking about it getting a
little bit cooler again on Saturday and on a Sunday.
But I suppose the temperatures at the very least did
not going below minus. So the frosts are a bit
of a memory, I suppose at the moment.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, no, that's good. We're definitely I suppose early on
we looked like we were probably going to set stock
on record covers and we're probably now maybe just below average. Actually,
to be fair, we actually needed the rain, especially at
my flat wood missed out on a lot. We'd probably
been nine weeks before that without significant rain, which was
great for the winter, but also being aware that, yeah,
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you do need some rain to get the grass growing.
We actually had to bring all their sheep off their
swedes early, which put a bit of pressure on because
we found they went sort of like rocks. They were
unbelievably hard. You drive over them in the tractor and
you just hear them popping. You pick them up and
you're not The singles they were fine, but those twin ews,
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we're feeding them plenty of bailage but no, it just
went off them and yeah, just very very hard the sweed.
So we pulled them off early and we'll probably spread
them out a little bit earlier than usual, but there'll
be about Friday, so yeah, it'll come around fast enough.
This time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Dropping paddocks would have been as dry as what they've
been for August too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Though, Yeah, no, certainly it's not often you could drive
the well, you probably drive around in your town car
to be a shift the brakes. By the end of
it was it was amazingly dry. So yeah, and the
sheep did quite well. But then I reckon about the
fifteenth to the twentieth of August. The Swedes, they didn't
say much drop a seed here out. I've seen that
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when the sheets don't like it from there. But I
just think the hardness of them. Yeah, possibly the sheep
thought the season was bit earlier than what it was.
I don't know, but yeah, we brung them off and
had the conveyor over the other day so drenched them
and mouthed and picked away. So yeah, getting through the jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I just want to have you on there the town car.
You could have driven the town car and the paddocks it's.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Called to you.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, oh, I know, you could have driven the town
car and you probably could have. If you've got the
right dry afternoon, you could have driven it right around
the whole farm. And there's probably not many weeks in
the weeks of the year that that's even possible. So no,
it was. It was really dry. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well that's what we call the nager what he had effect,
the moving the crops, moving the crops and your crops.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, yeah, it could have been in your bare feet.
That would have been just what you needed. So no,
it has been. Yeah, every years different, isn't it. So
hopefully we get some sun and yeah, it's going to
be nice from now on, so we'll see how we go.
I actually I had the longest leming beat in my
life yesterday. My father, Budgy, he well, we bring the
hill us. So they lembed their first four years up
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at Marslet and we don't do a lot of lemming,
but we bring them down here and they're sort of
grown up with a very intense lemming beat, you know,
often three times a day.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Of you.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
He loves it. It's his favorite time of year.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Back a punishment.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh no, he's pretty passionate. So but anyway, yeah, yeah,
bit of used to these hill us because they don't
like that. They're not used to it and they're a
bit wild. Yesterday and is to he caught one to
see the lamb and then released it out of his
trailer and it went straight through an electric fence, carried on,
went straight into the Palmaharka River and then swum to
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the other side. We had we had a process after yeah,
of course it was about five thirty after work. About
just what you need. So you know, we had to
drive around the other side and Wallace Ralston gave me
a hand and you know, got soaky wet, dragged this
thing all the way out and through the vines and
got it all the way back again. So we did.
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We did get it back again. But you know, I
was reflecting that the big tables like that all over
south and at this time of the year, because it
is it is a time when certain things happen, isn't it.
You know it can be lighthearted moments.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We had a process to get the lamb. There's something
to sender. Our sender our Durham would say.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, practicing been a politician and no, I was laughing.
I was giving giving my father some instructions that these
hill youths, you've just got to drive bit faster and
not look quite. It's hard because I've sort of help themselves.
But yeah, they put appear and I with them, and
they just just not used to the handling. So yeah,
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he's learned his least, and hopefully hopefully we're not swimming
the potmahaker again because yeah, it wasn't actually that warm
at the summer year.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
She can be anyotic animals at stages.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I remember once at home there at Kendell Flat back
in the day, and there was a year she lambed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I had to lamb her.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
She took off across the panic. I went to get her,
went through a three reel and she crossed.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She swam the river and she stayed there.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I thought, well, buggy, you can stay there other night,
And so we had to go and get her in
the morning. I think she may have come back on
her own accord in the afternoon and we put her
in the mother up boxes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But god, she can give you drama.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, they certainly can. We have one of the blocks
in the mile Flat. We've got quite a few creeks,
so they take a while, but when they actually get
quite good at crossing them, so they not scared the
water so much. So I suppose it looked at the
pot Maharker and thought, oh, it's only a slightly bigger creek,
so a goo, Yeah, pulled that out. So but anyway,
she's taking her two lambs, so we did. We did
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get her, and the lamb price is looking good and
the sun's out, so yeah, it's a bit of a
lighthearted moment. You can't grizzle too much, can you?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now Budgie's keen on us three times a day around
the US. What philosophy? Do you take chip off the
old block?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh no, no, about twice someone's going around. This thing
was a bit more, but yeah, we sort of fit
it to the country to be fair. When we're up
and Marfley's just less you can do. We always tip
over the cast ones and yeah we do it. Do
it best on the fleats. You do make quite good
money by doing the lambing beats. Yeah. Do you take
just what what you get used to?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Andy?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Do you tag the users that are cast Some people
do that.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, Well, we sort of have all their annual draft
used down here, so they're all mouthed out and then
they get weaned and late November and sold, which has
actually been to be fair, it has actually been a
game changer for your business because the with Mark Flat
was if you weaned. Certainly when we were weaning in January,
sometimes we still had their freezers on and like March
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if you had a bad year and the space was
a bit tight, so that was a long time. Yeah,
a long time to have extra mouths on. Whereas this
way we can get rid of them in November and
it's quite good for cash flow for a start, and
by about four months of grass, we're not eating with
animals that well. Well, the problem was even the schedule
was only gone down to when you were holding onto
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them and the freezing works didn't want them. So no,
it's actually worked out really well bringing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Them down just finally, even though you're in a tiger,
you're doing pretty chapter watching the Shield come down South
on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, it was just awesome actually, Andy, like, yeah, good
on South and it's amazing when you're getting them. I've
heard even on your show, Andy, you know a wee
bit of prodding from the sidelines and yeah, those boys
really just grew another arm, didn't they. They amazing effort
for them and good on them and hope they enjoy it.
So yeah, I do love seeing do love seeing the
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small guy tip over the big guy. So I enjoyed that,
enjoyed that very much, which is really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I've got Morgan Mitchell and in studio later on
in the yellard James, and I'll tell them this as well.
They've reinvigorated the MPC.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, you tell them to hold on to it in
Canterbury because do they have Does Tiger have a shield
challenge if they hold hold on to it this week?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
No, we've already played a tiger. You beat us on
Stag Day, remember, No, I thought there was.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Some complicated thing there I saw with where all the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah the flood chat comes out for the ram fairly
shield and about sixty different palmentations come out.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, So if the right person does the right thing,
I think it gets a challenge. But they got on
South and fingers crossed the tip over Canterbury. Absolutely nothing
better than beating Canterbury.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is there nothing better than that? And the Stags have
been there before and done that too. James Egga, thanks
for your time as always, cheers.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And I hope we've one enjoy us a nice day
and yeah, back into it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
James Egga farming at MA Flatre. Are Morrison farms at
Willowbank and an Alliance Sport director.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We catch up next. This is the Master.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
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Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dan Morrison farms at Willow Bank and he is an
Alliance Sport director and joins us this afternoon with his
police sky in abundance, which is certainly a change from
twenty four hours ago.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Howie hell are you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Andy, you're nice to have that blue sky again and
not quite so much mud on some of the sweat
and foder beat breaks. So yeah, well, I'm truly welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You'll be well through the breaks now, are you.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, we've yeah, we've still got good feed left. The
we're spreading everything out. The triplet's got spread out on Monday.
We did half the turns yesterday the other half today,
so they've been on foder Beat up until now. Singles
will stay on til next Monday and then just U
hobbits and ram hobbits still. But no, the crop's been good,
but we had a slight bit of stress. We've as
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I said, the crops have been good, but we must
have had a ramblamb got out somewhere. So I've been
leaving a few years on the on the Fiddre Beat,
which hasn't been great in this weather. It's you know,
where do you get enough of them that you've got
to take them all off or do you just manage
it and catch them. So we've been able to keep
an eye on them. We haven't lost any lambs, but
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it's just been a wee bit of stress with it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
When you say there's been a few own up how many.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Oh tina days? Not significant, but enough that there was
a ram lamb obviously there we didn't know about, but
there was nothing new this morning, so we we must
have got them out, but we just can't remember it.
So yeah, bad management there. I'll put my hand up,
Andy have.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
When you're supposed to start lambing proper a few early
is going at the moment though obviously the ram lamb
runs aside.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, we've got three or four hundred Lammy at the moment,
they've been lemming, oh the last five or six days
and they're going really well. And everything else starts on
the twelve, so oh, yeah, we've got a good ten
days now for them to really just just add the
feed after coming up the crop and yeah, be ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Plenty of grass ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh there's enough, Andy, there's always You'll always want more.
And you're sort of sit there a week ago and
thinking I haven't got enough, but it's yeah, it's there,
and it'll come.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Now a lion screpe putting your alliance head on. Here
don the proposed merger with Dawn meets. What's the feedback
you've received. They'll be positive, but they'll be negative as well.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I had some really good discussion. I would say that
the majority of people by far that have boken to
think it's a really good outcome. And I've had some
discussion with people who think that it's not a great outcome,
so are negative. And it's you know, and you respect
every view, and it's a matter of I guess talking
everybody through what the process and the structure is going
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to be and I think that'll that'll be great greatly
aided once we get our scheme book for out, which
is really an explanation of the whole thing, valuations process,
how it will look, governance everything going forward, and you know,
an independent report and as I say, totally independent on
the value of this proposal. So I think it's a
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bit of an education process. And I know some of
the ones that might be a bit negative, once they
actually see some of the pluses, you know, it might
turn them around. You know, it's interesting rural me. Any
media people like the sensation lies and I tend to
be reading reports from the negatives, when, as I say,
the big majority of peticle that I talk to a positive.
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So so you know, interesting, interesting what you read.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, you never get down on the muster. Hell, are
you going to get the facts?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You know, that absolute balance?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
And I would and I would hope that Andrew. So
you know, we'll look forward to some of those positive
interviews you've got lined up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But when people do say, then against what's going through?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What's the arrestion now?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I mean some people are arguing, why not sell the
whole company off and just go from there.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, if you're willing to buy a willing seller, Andy,
if you're talking selling the whole company off, you've got
to have you've got to have someone that's brought a
proposal and to do that, and that may not have
been as attractive as you know you go with as
a as a board, as directors, you've got a responsibility
to deliver the strongest proposal and the and the best
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ones for company value, on the value of your shareholders.
And this was clearly what we've presented. So you know,
speculation is really you know, not a not a great alternative,
and the counterfactual to what we presented is very unattractive Andy,
So it's a matter for people to understand that, yeah,
we've they think we've lost elements of the co op,
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but we're actually going to have a bigger, better, more capitalized,
highly resourced alliance was still a cooperative element in it
and partnering with some really successful operators in the in
the Northern Hemisphere market.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They're a successful operator, but you're hearing of resistance from
the Irish farming community arguing us more products going on
these supermarket shells that their producers have got to contend
with as well.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, look, it's interesting, Andy, I would say once again
that's an education, you know, it's a matter of education
and for their farmers to understand what this brings. So
so alliance that's we carry on in the same structure,
same market. So it's not as though we're suddenly swinging
a whole lot of extra products into that UK market.
But what it does for us in doorn meat is
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gives the opportunity to supply grass seed lamp fifty two
weeks onto the supermarket shells. So I think whenever any
farmer can start understanding that effective of their advantage and look,
it opens up opportunities for doorn meat through some of
the lions, you know, opportunities in America, China, India. I
think it's an education process and what I've observed through
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this end you'll get a negative on either side, and
whatever the proposals, that's a matter of you know, understanding
it and then making a decision still with those movement
of views, but it's just a matter of walking through
and understanding.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
What people frustrating is a few people saying as well,
the meetings could have perhaps been a little a couple
of weeks later than what they are given there at
the end of September or is it a case of
if we just had to pick a date and go
from there.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
No, very much the struction work with Andy, So you
know this is all about seasonal finance and the appetite
of the bank to support the co op and so
you were balances the end of September. So we'll have
finance in place caring forward. But you've got to go
through that process. That that's what's the bank for signaled.
They want Alliance to take responsibility for their work capital
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and that's what this capital rose process is all about.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, how we would talk about a rugue, but you
know that's your passion. If you had to choose only
one team to win out of the Stags against Canterbury
for the Shield.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Or the your Backs against spring Boks.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Your Blacks haven't lost there in fifty games dating back
to nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I think it's either the thirty or the forties.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And some box of one and even parts. Which game
would you rather we won?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That's a tough call, Andy, but I'd go with the Stags.
You know how those boys, they they made their they
made their history on Sunday and now they've got a
chance to even make it bigger. So you know we
we finished the landing bit early, came in and watched
that and it was just an awesome performance. And how
they go out and play like that with that heart
they've got that, they've got a really good chance of
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of delivering against Canterbury.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What about the Ill Blacks? Howie? What do they need
to do there?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Is it a case of perhaps they just haven't evolved
the people thought they would under Scott Robertson.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Uh, Andy I'll be consistent selection decisions. I think I
think he's given too much loyalty to those too. A
number of players and combinations that went performing. And I'll
tell you again, Andy doesn't run up the line and
Joy Barrett doesn't. There's no second five cents of combination.
So there's been players there that they could have put
into those combinations. They've been persisted with three Connie on
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the wing when he had really the great no selection
Andy and uh and actually building up those combinations.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So who would you start at ten?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Would you go d mac at ten or would you
go out the square outside the square a bit?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
God, absolutely go to d Mac at ten. And I
know he might have a tractor and he's he's uh.
He runs at the line, Andy, he runs at the
line and he creates That's what you've got to do
in this game, when when those defensive lines are so structured,
you've got to actually change the pattern or even you know,
something like that that self and then we tip over,
tip over the back line, you know, run onto it,
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not the aimless you know high techs that we give
and where we're really inferior competing in the air against
against France. We know how good the spring bots are
at it. So you know, wype assist with that plan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, the box is just going to catch the dating
the living daylight's off that rugby ball. It's just going
to be can't can't, can't cack and the agement will
come into it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
One done.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A few people have said this, how we ban the
box cack from the from the base of the scramb
orro a mall in certain instances, and it's hard to disagree.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, you know that, that's unfortunately what the games evolved into. Andy.
So you know, the the laws are what they are
at the moment. We're not going to change that. But
I think you've got it. You've got to play to
where your strengths are. And you know that game against
Argentina last week we got so little good ball and
what percent of it did we then kick away and
weren't there to compete with. It was just seen a
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crazy game plan.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Good only how we always appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Oh God, look forward to the next im Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Darl Morrison farming at Willow Bank and the Lion's Board Director.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Kelly Buckingham and studio next from Derry and Z. This
is the muster.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
This is the Muster on Hakannui. Kelley Buckingham from Daryan
Zed and Studio Kelley welcome, good to see her too.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Actually coming here and see where the magic happens.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And as we look out over blue sky on the horizon,
Geez makes a difference.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I think you're will be smiling today in the sunshine,
especially my husband.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, the early lambing has just been one of those
occasions I suppose.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah, it's all good. We'll get there mostly the way
through now, so that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And also Henry, your husband, he did their golfing feet
there a few weeks back. Now for young Haddie how's
everything been there?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Good, Yeah, he recovered. Well's beIN back on the golf course.
Hasn't put him off too much, so that's good. And
actually had some hour off to rode around on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Nice, you're excited. Good on you, darien zed. What's been happening.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
We've actually been relatively busy catching up with farmers all
over the show, I guess not those ones two hands on,
but quite a few touching base just to chicken see
how carving's going. Touching base with quite a few rps
in light of our RP a bit next week. So
you've had a really busy few weeks which has been nice.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Nice one. Now dairy training offerings.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's one of our topics today obviously, people wanting to
up skill all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What's in the offering?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah, so dairy training I think actually earlier in the
the Cee Hamish he was on air. So Dairy Training
Limited is one of the subsidiary of dear Enz and
run courses throughout the country for farmers from all levels
from basics to ices, farm managers down to farm assistants.
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And we've got some courses that are starting in the
next the start of October that I just wanted to
make sure people were aware of. So we've got Emerging
Leadership that starts on the eighth of October and in
v Cargo that is targeted for people that are looking
to build I guess their people management through the sector,
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so to ses herd managers, and that's just looking I
guess that that people lends, you know, how do we
grow our teams, how do we communicate well with staff
on farm? We see heaps of people moving into content
milking positions and obviously with that comes a role of
leading a team. And so that that's perfect for people
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looking to I guess build further into their careers where
they will be in charge of a team. And then
the other one is that's starting so emerging leaderships and
for Cargo and then Feed for Profit is looking at
how we I guess maximize efficient use of pasture on
the platform. You know, we learn teaches people how to
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use the spring rotation planner, tools like the supplement price calculator,
an annual feed budget, and so that's targeted at people
I guess in any part of their farm and career.
Like we had people there that were just going fifty
to fifty SI milking this year that wanted to refresher
around how to maximize the use of pastor on their
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in their farm system, right down to people that you know.
We're second season in so that's kicking off the seventh,
eighth and ninth of October across Winton in Icago and
Belcluther this time. So we're stoke to be putting that
offering up into South Otago with exterians. You're actually consulting
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officer Mark Olsen. Vitlin's come on board as our tudor
up there and Winton and Vicago will be tutored by
Tessa Giddies who's a local dairy farmer near Gore.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Now you're talking about the Dairy Training Offerings team simergy
being the busy season, did you have farmers reaching out
just wanting a few tips and advice regarding getting the
team on board prior to the carving season because it's
a marathon not a sprint ultimately in the farming environment.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, I didn't, in particularly myself, I didn't, but it's
definitely the conversation that we're having probably around May each
year just how we're either on board new staff or
what we can do through that winter period to I
guess get everyone on board, and I guess with the
same mindset going into carbon like what are we all
(26:03):
here for? What is our role? How do we work
together as a team to make carbon go as smoothly
as possible?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And we talk about leadership leadership roles on farm and
there's so many layers of this as well, depending on
what you want to do internally, how far you want
to grow, and what you want to expand your horizons
on as well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So a good leading I suppose.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yeah, definitely, And so I suppose that's the other thing
I wanted to touch on. So there's those two courses
happening are the side of Christmas. But after Christmas, Dairy
Training is actually rolling out four new microcredential courses and
two of them were actually going to I guess take
a step back in time with the name, but we're
(26:44):
bringing back Bizz Start and Biz Grow, so deary instead
have run those oh gosh for as long as I
can remember, they've taken away hiatus and now Dairy Training
is bringing them back into the region. So that looks
I guess at you know, within BISTA and Bisgrow, we
look at the business side of people, people that are
looking to I guess go into business and it's from
(27:05):
budgeting to learn it, talking with lawyers and accountants around
setting up businesses. And then there's that people side in
there as well, which is really cool, you know, around personality,
profiling of staff, just I guess, every every aspect of
the farm business, like when you're going into business that
you need to be over. So that's cool. That will
(27:27):
be starting kicking off what they call Semester one next year,
so February March. And then we've also got for I guess,
new entrants in the industry targeting that space. We've got
animal health and pasture fundamental courses coming as well, so
that's I guess right back at the start, you know,
the basics of identifying lameness, mastitis, that type of thing,
(27:50):
and the animal health fundamentals, and then for the past
fundamentals plate meter and three leaf stage taking it right
back to the people that even really need a basic
refresh or people that are really new in the industry,
you know, people out of school or you're fresh on farm.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Good only Keaty, thanks for coming in studio. Always good
to catch up. Cool.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Thanks Andy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Kelley Buckingham of Dairy in Zen. This is the muster
up next we're heading to the Waymere Valley.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Andrew Walsh from twin Far.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Genetics, thanks for joining us. This is the muster just
coincidentally as well from Kelly Buckingham at darien Z. A
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late note that she forgot to put in their dairy
training dot co dot in z is what you need
to go and look at.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Regarding those courses that Kelly was talking about away to
the way Mere Valley.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Now we hear a lot of baying in the background
or bleating or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Little sheep just on the ghost.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So we're talking to Andrew Welsh out of twin Farm
Genetics at home of Teff from and sponsors of the
five day forecast here on Hokker. He's snow good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yeah Andy, how not too bad?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You're at the cold face at the at the wolfshed.
It's been all go. How things have been lately?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Yeah pretty good. Yep, we're just having to catch up
all the stuff and yeah, see how everyone's getting. We're
into a bit of lemming now. We aid one hundred
and forty yu's that we're due to start yesterday and you,
to be fair, they've sort of been trickling on for
about three days now, so yeah, well into it and
just a week taste of what spring was like last
(29:38):
year the last couple of days, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, how did you fare over the last couple of days?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Really good? Yeah, they're early stages of the lemming. It's
pretty good. You can utilize your shelder really good.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And yeah, like they're.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Getting them pretty tough now that we're going, so it's yeah,
it's as good as it can be really.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So our ground conditions we're out there because they're hearing
figure of almost likes of an excess of four or
five inches of rain in certain parts of the region.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah, it is a bit soft around you look in
the pack, but nobody good to be fear. Pretty dry winter,
so the ground slakes up a wee, but we certainly
don't want a lot more now though we'll be back
to some of those last year.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So when does the main flock crank and togear?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Oh about the eighth, So not a few days. We're
actually just all set stocking at the moment. We've we've
done all the flats and we're got most of the
us spread around the hill now and just got to
sprint tous out through the blocks with them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Now you say there's a few of them on the
hill there. What what routine do you stick to.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
On the flats, We try and get around twice a
day what we can and just go around and yeah,
and do what we can as we go. But on
the hill we leave them to it. So get set
stopped now and we won't go back through them until
about middle of October. We'll go back and start open
gates ready for tailor.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You're fee to'll be looking all right though you've had
a weaver at grove over the last four weeks, I'd
imagine we have.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
It's been really good at past Your covers are looking good.
But yeah, certainly the more you have at this time
of a year, the better they use, are more settled
in the paddocks. So yeah, we're just got to watch
we don't get cold snaps come through and they take
the top off. But that's a key that this time
of the year is just get your sex stuff and
watch paddock and be a bit flexible with what you
need in certain places.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How do you go flecs of bearings in there? Any
dramas touch wood.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
We don't have very many us. You get sort of
ten to twelve for a year, but we're probably up
to about fifteen already this year, just I think us
being better conditioned coming through the winter that we've just
had a few more.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As far as your window crops for the kettle and everything,
though they're panning out. It's pretty much just on auto
mode for the next three or four weeks.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
We are on the flats down here. We've got one
break of kale left for the late lammer use and
on the hill the dinner on their last break now
for they've probably only got about four days left and
then they'll be coming off and all on grass. So
it's worked out really good this year, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What about your targets, how are they fearing?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
They're looking all right.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I've got to run them over the conveyor and give
them their prelam vaccine and ear tags. We're going to
individually tag all the stud ones and line them up
with what number of matches in their ear just for
visually recording them at Leaming Pin. But they're looking pretty good.
The twin Hoggits have had some sort of a weir
abortion going through them and been getting one or two
slips a day in those, which is a bit frustrating.
(32:22):
But somehow the single ones seem to have missed it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Well, if there's only a couple of slips, that it's okay.
I hate you think it was anything of a bigger.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Form it is, but when you when you add it up,
you get one or two for sort of yeah, twenty
odd days that it certainly adds up to be quite
a few ways. Not to think of it that way.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Absolutely, what do you reckons caused that?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
I don't know. It looks similar to sort of a
campy going through them, like the lambs are sort of yeah,
full term, got a bit of wool on them, just yeah,
just not quite cooked.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
No, that's a bugger, but it's just it's just in
that crop on that flock alone.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Nothing else it is, yep, but just to be in
that one mob we few or the U said something
go through them, but that was sort of different. More
TOCs are we going through then? The one sort of
got are we rotteney lamb coming out with them? But yeah,
you always get something each year just to take the
edge off things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Now, as far as going around the studio is how
intensive are you around doing that?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I go around twice a day and pretty much all
we're doing is tagging and recording, so we try and
I've got to try and get around twice a day
otherwise they get too fast for me to catch them.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
To be there.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
No, you're a pretty number on your feet. You're pretty
good on the wing leeve wonderers, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Oh and I had one single this morning. It was
born that gave me a fear run across the paddock.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
It's pretty good electronic tag in the rear. When they're
born and you match them up with their mum, we've
already got the mating for who the dad is at
mating time, so I quite liked leaving a look and
just seeing how the size are. It'sdally going. I can
look up and see each lamb that's born, who they're
side by for, what their survival looks like. There's any
faults I don't like with the lambs as they go,
(34:03):
so it's a really good chance to have a lock
and get that accurate survival. It's it's amazing how what
a difference that makes with the sire lines.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Do you have a set crie terrier when you're going through,
assessing each lamb in that way.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Pretty much you try to do the same with all
them as you go. We're also judging all the mums
on their temperament, so we want the mum to be
a stand and defend, not a run and flee round
the paddock, so judging that, and we're also judging their
others to make sure we've got perfect other confirmation coming through.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
There is nothing more grumpy than spending five to ten
minutes lamming of you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You think you've got it all sort of.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
You drive away and the silly tart just runs up
to the other end of the paddic and that's where
she stays.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yep, that's right. They're never as easy caught the second time.
Would I always like to do the two second tests,
especially with the hobbits. If your lamb it you put
it round the front and put a foot or tail
in its mouth, it starts living in two seconds. You
can walk away, yeah not Yeah, you put it in
the trailer and take it to a you hat somewhere.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
What about feeding lambs? How many lambs would you feed
in the height of the season on a bottle you reckon.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
We'll probably get up to the US seem to create
a few spears, so we might get up to sort
of forty spears the Hobbits. The Hobbits all use them
up leading them after the US are finished, so we
end up with taking nothing through at the end of
the season, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Absolutely, Hey, we'll leave it there, so now it sounds
like it's all go at your place.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
And Twin Farm Genetics a home of Teffron, sponsors of
the five Day Forecast on a Muster as well as
Hockenui Radio. Always good to catch up mate, all the
best over the next month.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Yeah, good to go there here and you're good luck
everyone with the lemming out there. I hope the weather cooperates.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Andrew will shout of Twin Farm Genetics, the home of
tiff from Before we wrap up for the afternoon, Morgan
Mitchell prop for the South and Stags.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
We'll have a catch up next.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
In this town.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
We got supports felve miles around, we got we got
the heart. Before we wrap up for a Wednesday afternoon,
we're joined in studio by Victorious Renfrelly, shield winning self
and Staggs properly smiling when to say that. Morgan Mitchell
local Legion down here in the South Morgan, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Firstly, you've recovered from Sunday.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Thank you for having me. Yeah, you have recovered from
Sunday and Monday has been awesome. Yeah, there's a lot
of free past coming out, so I had to drink
all them. But now we had to put our heads in. Yesterday. Yeah,
took training yesterday afternoon. Yeah, you know, ready to get
(36:56):
back into it for this Saturday, and near finished off
with a fitness session as a whole group. So yeah,
we'll go back to normal now. So ready to go
again for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
How did that fitness session go use today?
Speaker 8 (37:09):
I was hating it, but have once we got it done,
I actually we're all feelt better.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
I think it's the whole reason why we did it.
Just sweat out the piss and bring you.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Back to earth.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay we go back to Sunday night.
The image of sticks out for me is Jack Taylor
chanting Southland, just grabbing this leftick, grabbing the grabbing the goldens.
That that's iconic moments like that, and all you guys
and that photo there, the arguments out there, you've reinvigorated
(37:44):
the MPC.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
That's just all you're.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Hearing from throughout the sporting media in the country.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Have not the media in general.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Jack Taylor is the true passionate man. And yeah he
did make a statement there messing the East on the Southland.
It's what it means to us and what it means
for selflin and yeah I did it for you guys. Yeah,
it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
How long did it take for everything to sink in
and what actually happened? Well, yes, it sunk in.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Yeah, when it really sunk in, when I got to
see mom and dad on the sideline. That's really when
I head it home. And then probably when we bought
the shield in the training room, just singing our team song,
what is.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
The tame song? Just a selflone chat.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
I've sort of lost my voice so I can't do it. Yeah,
and then it's just like we moments, like reading articles
and like seeing highlights. It just gives me good some bumps.
So yeah, it's pretty special to be.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Honest, because from a fan's perspective, right, I followed South
and Rugby since GM's sounding old house since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right, so we win the Shield in nine, we're.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Lucky enough to get it again in twenty eleven. But
for me, this one here just resonates more because we
were talking about this just before Morgan, about the low
times in South and Rugby and eventually you get rewarded,
and we've been rewarded in a big way. And the
fact I took my boys to the airport to see
the team come in there on Monday afternoon, I felt
vindicated for pulling them out of school early at two
(39:27):
o'clock or everyone shooting down there because I was trying
to explain to my youngest son. He goes, so, what's
so important about the shield? And I said, you have
no idea the amount of all blacks. So Jeff Wilson
on TV on Sunday night, when you won it, like
justin Marshall Mills, myna chuckling away. But Goldi's never won
the Shield. He came close in ninety four. And just
(39:47):
seeing it come through Sean Withy carrying it all you
guys coming through and just a passion in the room,
you know it was. It was brilliant and that just
vindicated being a Southern fan, like a few, as.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
You said before, if you go back to one and
eleven when they brought it home and I've seen that
and we got to do it. So it's good for
the younger generation that are coming through, you know, they
can do it as well.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Yeah, you hear a lot of people that don't want
it at all. That's what makes it so special for
the Renfolie Shields. So I'm proud to be part of
their history. Yes, this is a special thing really.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You think of the battling teams or teams that have
been battlers, like the Stags, Manow two and Northland, they
haven't had it since the late seventies. Perhaps I think
Mano two may have in the early eighties or the likes,
but they haven't seen it. So the facts the Stags
have had it three times in our lifetimes as well.
It's staggering, ex hues the pun.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
It's awesome. Yes, as you said, the Stacks don't lie.
You know, some teams don't get it for a long
time and we've had, we've had the charts and we've
actually managed to win it. So yeah, it's it's special.
Even it goes me goosebumps talking about it now. But yeah,
it's just one of those things.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
So it's Canterbury on Saturday. They're a team that is
flying along in the MPC. Look the odds are out
from the tab. They've got the stags of five dollars
head to head. That's the way you guys like it though, right.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
Oh we love it. If Tav wants to lose the
money and we win, we just love that. But all seriousness,
we all believe in ourselves and yeah Saturday four thirty,
Yeah we're up for really we're ready talking about it,
about the defense, so yeah, we can't wait to hockn
(41:52):
you defend it and hopefully do well for selfland again.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Because around Preddy Shields involved, do you grow another league?
Speaker 8 (42:01):
Oh one hunder m. We're going to full days training
tomorrow and I guarantee you there will be another league
there somewhere, so yeah, we'll be ripping and there's just
him that shield. At training last yesterday it was just
around us. We head up with us the whole time.
(42:22):
So yeah, definitely grows another league for you year one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And then we fast forward to this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
You're hearing your worktop, you're out there, you're going to
go and riddle some dry use or something this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
So back to reality for a bit, Like Royal Livestock
has been so supportive, or I can't think them enough
and yeah once I get out there full time with them,
or you can't wait to give a bit to them. Yeah,
they've been awesome, So great company, great, great people to
work for.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So what's your message to the south and public ahead
of Saturday's game?
Speaker 8 (42:58):
Morgan, just keep believing us, were believe in ourselves. Get
down there on Saturday four thirty. The more people we have,
the better it is for us, just having the extra player.
And yeah, it's just an awesome to be proud to
(43:19):
be proud of a Southland It's an awesome prominents and
we all love each other. Yeah, it's just what's Southland.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
It's so special and nobody wants Kennaby to have the shield.
Shout out to it, Kenny listeners, But I'm sorry, this
is totally Stags on Saturday A.
Speaker 8 (43:36):
Yeah, canna be a pretty classy team, but no, we're
going to back ourselves, go deep in our d and
you believe in ourselves and we will hook in big time.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Good only Morgan always appreciate your time. How can the
ripping and tearing on Saturday afternoon? Antler's up for the
weekend day.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much for having me.
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Speaker 2 (44:45):
Warick how is on the line to fill us in
on the details. Giddo, Warick, how do we go?
Speaker 10 (44:49):
Yes, we had a great day here in the sunshine,
and no doubt the summer shaw and will oversee the
glead enough the shield. But we are here today and
of course we have another kettle sell here on the
seventeenth September, so do get you injuries and quickly. That
will be a full yarding, and of course it will
be on better if you cannot make it. Hey, we
have you had a big yearning at primaries, the biggest
we've here for a month or so. The market is
(45:10):
rocking along. It is the bigg end and there are
some very good lambs here and court a number of
them two hundred and twenty to three hundred dollars. The
good medium lambs they were one hundred and eighty to
two hundred and twenty. So then market just rocks along
and say, biggest yearling we've had in number of weeks
there onto the US just a moderate yarding you used
as you would expect this time of the year, and
(45:31):
we're one hundred and forty to one hundred and seventy
four on the bigger end of the use today and
one hundred and ten to one hundred and forty on
the medium US. On the stalllarms we had a number
of those, and today the number of years shot back
up too, and the quality was very good today. Hey,
we went through one hundred and fifty five dollars yet
through to one hundred and eighty on the stall ams
that pied one hundred and eighty were some U lambs
(45:53):
that will be bought in taken through as to doo
stuff hues demanded on the top end of the stores
and one hundred to one hundred forty dollars on the
medium store lambs. The Rams had a handful of those
in today and they were sixty dollars on the tip
of the weekend. We are going to go to win
them on Thursday. We're going to erase seven and will
player pretty safe. I think this week number ten she's
(46:15):
crunchy for Nathan Williamson. She's won three in a row.
I think she'll make it for she's a very good horse.
And another one out of Nathan stable there. And if
you want a bit of value, I think our number six,
mister President Clark Baron for the fay he's to bring
in the family. I think that will be up. Hey,
what last night, ladies and gentlemen. I am finishing up
in a month's time. And if you're in the lance
but who know or the chilla, you will have young
(46:35):
Mark Carter, he the keen young fella he's going to
take over that run for me. And if you're in
the Milton and you will have young Russell Maloney, who
many you will know of course does Claudell Clinton for
us and a lot of auctioneering, so they will take
over is off the start of October, but we're going
to a bit of work to the next month. Anyway, we'll
say another kettle start here in the seventeen September and
one national final night this week. We had a great
week on the clear and sales last week four clear
(46:57):
and sales of course in Sothak Tiger. One of my
big thanks to everyone who turned up to those, whether
you're bidding or watching, and a big thanks to the
men discussion. There were a huge amount of work going
these clear and sales and we really appreciated it and
so thank you very much for supporting our company into
pointing our sales. Have a great week.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
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