November 5, 2025 • 45 mins
Andy Muir talks to Paul Blue, Nigel Woodhead, Fiona Young, Warren Ross, Nathan Burdon and David Morrison.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on HAKANOI. I'm
Andy Mio here until two o'clock, of course, thanks to
Peters genetics. Welcome along to a mild afternoon here in
the South. Yesterday was a stunner mid twenties and some places.
I do believe. We'll talk about the weather shortly, but
before we do, the state of emergency down here in
Southland is finishing tomorrow morning, Friday the seventh of November,
(00:28):
at nine thirty am. We're talking to poor Blue from
powering it very shortly, but before we do we'll get
into the weather. Bob seekers the Chunes.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
By the way, then he was five day forecasts brought
to you by twin Farm Tefron and suff text. The
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
So this afternoon seeing showers a breezy westerlyes here in Gordon,
I have twenty degrees. Tomorrow cloudy with breezy to Bristol
westerlyes eleven and eighteen. Saturday cloudy with Bristol westerlies nine
and twenty. Sunday afternoon showers like northeasterlyies twelve and nineteen
and Monday Raymond breezy sol easterly seven and sixteen. We'll
give you Tuesday as well, morning showers a breezy to
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bristsale west winds six and sixteen, so temperatures to hand
Clinton thirteen point four, Northern South And thirteen point four,
Riveton thirteen point nine, tian Now thirteen point three, Titora fourteen,
Winton thirteen point six and Woodland's twelve point eight. As
we start the hour with Paul Blue out of Powernetti
is chief executive of course in association with the South
(01:31):
and Rural Support Trust, talking about to a few individuals
amongst various farming industries regarding the last couple of weeks
and how do you approach things looking forward and today
we talked to Paul and of course a big word
of thanks as well to the Community Trust South for
being involved with this. Nigel Woodhead Farms in South Otago.
(01:54):
We catch up. Sounds like the feeds cranking around Niger's
place now fa only young of beef and lamb New Zealand,
Warren Ross Farming and Waimemu. He's been velveting today, so
we catch up. We'll see our things are going and
a resident sporting gury Nathan Burden, the Highlanders squad is out.
How many stags are in there? David Morrison gives a
(02:16):
PGG rights and stock sale report from Charlton. Sounds pretty buoyant,
too crazy prices to be fair. And then we'll start
the hour with Paul Blue. Now we've collaborated with the
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South and Rural Support Trust here on the Mustard to
catch up with individuals regarding the weather situation. There was
experience two weeks ago. Of course, shout out Community Trust
South for sponsoring this segment. Now we're just talking about
two different individuals, different farmers, people involved in the rural industry,
about the situations, how it's unfolded. And the person I'm
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speaking to today, well, it's fair to say he's had
quote a bit on his plate in more ways than one.
Paul Blue is the chief executive of Power there and
joins us this afternoon to give us a rundown on
a rather hectic couple of weeks down here in the South. Paul,
welcome to the must Thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Ah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Firstly, how would you describe the last two weeks and
your perspective.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Would I'll go with intense. It's certainly been you know,
it's not something we've ever seen before down here. The
devastation just just widespread and just everywhere. Often you'll have
an event that might affect the power network, that can
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be that'll often be a little bit more localized. But
this was well and truly across South and to Tago
and originally all the way up into Canterbury. But South
and to Tago gotit particularly hard.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The magnitude of the wind were they underestimated.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Initially initially, and I certainly wouldn't want to be a
you know, with a person for New Zealand's it's a
hard few islands to get right. But leading up to it,
we were under the models that we saw were that
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it was going to be quite a bit less than
what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I'll also acknowledge all the workers for power nets and
everybody helping to get the province up and running again.
Did Southwest Otago how many work as if your head
on the ground down here in the south.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So we have about one hundred and fifty linesman and
we have brought in about an extra seventy or ready.
So yeah, we got up to about two hundred and
forty I think it was, but that's just you know,
people working the lines. Apart from that, there's been well
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over five hundred by the time you take into accounturists,
civil civil people and traffic management, et cetera. So the
amount of people helping in that restoration purely from us,
let alone the people that are doing things for the
councils to open roads, it's it's been a massive.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Undertaking, certainly has been. It's a massive team ethod and
shout out to everybody who's been involved. But as far
as the workers and the likes how they handle the
last couple of the ways, because it's been pretty intense,
it has, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
We have we've had everything thrown at us. You know,
obviously the winds, rain, then the Tago area particular snowed,
so the weather has been very challenging to get the
restoration on in a timely manner. But the teams are amazing.
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They they always step up. This is you know, they
they thrive in this environment and they have the the
support we've had from the surrounding distribution networks that have
just thrown whatever they can our way that we needed,
be it from gear to people, the trucks, you name it.
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We're just the support we've had has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And a lot of cafes and local businesses have got
on board as well and made food and drinks available
to the workers as they go about their job too.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No, that's right, they have.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Look that the communities and I think that's you know,
just a massive shout out to the entire region. It's
a region that people support each other. You see it.
You know, there have been people out there with extreme
hardship through not having power for two weeks and to
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help people band to get it help each other is
quite amazing. Get here now.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It is a yesterday afternoon. In the press release, around
four thirty sixty seven people in South Totago were businesses
or farms were still without power. Forty eight in the South.
This number, when you're hoping to have everything up and
running again, a lot of those.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Are Sheard's what we're doing right now is so those
are connection points, and so what we're really doing over
the next day or two is we are trying to
get in touch with everybody that we that that so,
so for example in the South and there we can
see most of smart means to go. You know, you
do you have power or not. We are Every data
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set is not perfect, so we try and verify. And
so my my request would be through this is that
if you don't have power and you don't believe that
anyone has been in touch, you know, I just don't
want anyone to slip through the cracks. If you so,
if you haven't got power and you're or you know
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of somebody who hasn't, please call us again if they've called,
or call us if they've never called us before. That
is that is the message. I don't want to leave
anybody behind. So so if if that that's probably the
message that I have.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Have you heard of are those census is going unnoticed lately?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Not that we're aware, But that doesn't mean it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Exist now regarding trees and power lines, because I think
the closest I can remember is twenty seventeen. It was devastating,
but this is certainly next level. Do you think this
would be a catalyst for change regarding how you have
to manage trees around lines and and such.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think myself and every distribution business would love that
to be the case. We would like some tree reforms.
They hairwave were looked at last year and that not
a lot happened, particularly trees which we regard as out
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of zone. Inside his own we can request a tree
be trimmed, but it really is as you can see
in this particular cases trees that can fall onto a
line from a long distance away, and that is what's
really about ninety nine after seen of the outages, and
this has been caused by trees, uh and big trees
in this case falling onto lines. So we would dearly
(09:08):
love to see some strength and regulation around tree management.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Rural connectivity has been a real problem. You'll know that
as much as anyone trying to get calms going with
your teams. Do you think this is something that has
come to the floor finally we might get some resolution,
perhaps from your perspective, I think yes.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't want to speak on behalf of the talcos.
I don't think that's fear. I think they worked really
well with us. We had we had them in the
office and we would and we would we would both
look at who was working in, what areas that were,
how fast they could get out there. So I think
that probably is more of a question for the TALCOS. I,
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you know, connectivity in rural areas is always difficult. But
the question is that couldn't be more resilient to I
think that that's a question, but probably not one for
that I should answer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So now we're at the stage we've seeing what's happened
over the past couple of weeks. Perhaps a lot of
a lot of businesses look at a plan B when
it comes to power you still it. Imagine something else
that's come up.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
You know, I think big wins like this don't often
come into Southard, you know. Is it a sign of
could it happen again? I think I think people do
need to plan for it happening again. We don't know,
of course, but you know it's happened, so could it happen?
I think from a resilience point of view, if trees
are taking out lines, particularly on your proper, and you
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can see that in generators, investing in the generator would
be a good move from a resilience point of view.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Hey, Paul Blue, Chief executive of Powering It, thank you
very much for your time and congratulations to your organization
and what you've achieved over the past couple of weeks.
You've all done a sterling job. Thanks to your time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Thank you very much, my courage, Paul Blue.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Chief Executive of Power. This Nigea ward Head's next. This
is the Muster. Welcome back to the Muster, Nigea Woodhead
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Farms in South Otago between Balcluther and Milton, and we
catch up once again. Nige. Good afternoon. It's been a
hectic a few weeks since we last spoke.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, it's he's been. He's been a bit
go on, actually it's yeah. Anyway, it's sad the out
and the grass of the ground now, so we're on
the up.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So how did you guys fear in that breeze in
the windows such I got to stop calling it a breeze.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, it was a bit of a breeze. Yeah, we
talked talk a bit of a hammering were my parents
over the last of the thirty odd years have planted
about thirty five years of pine plantation. And they took
a they took a bit of a hammering. So these
trees down all over fences and you know, through through
the blocks, like some blocks have hardly been touched apart
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from around the edge, and then other blots of you know,
these big swedes cut through the middle of them. It's
quite funny, like we have our place is sort of
flapped to rolling ridges and then gullies, and the winds
come up the gullys sort of from the sort of
sour west, come up the gullys and over through settles
and then cut a swade through trees on the other side.
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Top thing you can you can really see the path
of the wind, you know, a couple of galleys that's
just gone straight up the middle and just you know,
bold every tree at the bottom of the gally. So yeah,
but we're we're sort of quite lucky really and that
we don't have too many big hedges, and the hedges
we do have have been really relatively unaffected, you know,
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like all of all. You know, we've got probably a
couple of caves of fence, you know, underneath trees at
the moment, but it's all into forestry blocks. So we'll
still be able to you know, went waning and six
or eight weeks time, you know, it won't be a
major for us, because some odd land might push into
forestry blocks. But we don't have big hedges down, you know,
making two petics into one, if you know what I mean.
(13:11):
Like some of those guys. There's a lot of guys
and seapland and even around here up on top of
Heilend with big hedges, and they've come over and they've
squashed one fence on one side of the hedge and
they've lifted the feet off the ground on the other side.
So you know, you sort of don't really have a
pedick anymore. So we we're not quite in that position fortunately,
but yeah, big clean up a head. We'll just chip
away and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And you only got power on last night.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
We got power last night. So I've been I've been
away actually and of course in Auckland for since since Sunday.
And to be fear, I probably needed three days in
Auckland like a hole on the head. But it was
actually it's been quite good. Like, yeah, the pressure was
starting to get to us a bit thereby, but I said,
there's just so many jobs sticking up and things things,
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you know, it's just starting to start to get to us.
So getting getting out to Auckland for a few days
and you know, focusing on something else on a on
a course was quite good. And then come home last
night and dead was at the farm. So when he
left the farm about five o'clock. The pair wasn't on
quite sorry, it had just come on. So we got
at about five o'clock last night.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
So that's whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Today's two weeks since the win, so year two weeks
we were up there and the novelty was starting to
wear off, but we got through it. And yeah, it's
it's quite novelty this morning. Where could happen? It's looking
the light switch on and the light comes on.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So you're not the kind of person to hang out
on to hang out on Javoi Road having deca reason night.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, no, no, no, we were. It was it was
the final phase of a governance of course I was doing.
And yeah, so it was there. She actually quite there
was quite a bit to it, and there was you.
I wasn't overly physically texting, but it's quite mentally texting.
But it was so good. So no, there was no
you a couple of years after afterwards each night, but
(15:01):
I definitely there was no partying going on. But yeah,
I reckon and I either listeners an apology because it
was two weeks ago today, like the day of the window,
was ying to Chris and did it's a beautiful day.
It's nice and warm and calm and hopefully the storm
won't get us too bad, and all hell had broken loose.
So I don't know if anyone noticed that, but it
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was something I thought about, was the fact that I
see how good the day was, and that by the
time the interview went to ear it was anything but
a good day. So yeah, it's just something that stuck
on my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're talking about the grass situation, was going from a
femine to a feast.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yeah, Well, like I say, we left on Saturday
and things had warmed up a weaverit, but it's obviously
been beautiful and warm and good grass growing conditions and
went since where I left and there's actually grass around there.
I'm sitting I just just pre emerge on a cup
of cal and plantain pedics. I'm just sitting in a
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grass pedic next door, and he's actually his actually feet
come away underneath us, and you know, this mob, we're
right on top of things. So yeah, I'm probably gonna
have a couple of mobs of kid all to shuffle
around today, just to put some peddics that have got
away bit of grass coming away, just try and keep
on partial quality. I've got one pedic of Baler's locked up,
but it's not far away from mowing. There was just
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a spear pedic and a bull block and we'll beating
the half of it, but I'll mow the other half.
And we might have got lots of more up, So
why I belong And we'll we'll need grassou sleep because
it will be ground yet for four of eating swedes
and bits and pieces. So yeah, things things have turned
around significantly in three days.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Essentially a messive shout out to all the contractors as well,
whether they're on the tractors or they're in the tailing pain,
they're well behind at the moment, and there's only so
many errors in the day, so keep out the Friday.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Oh yeah, definitely, I was yelling into my my contract
there this morning. He yeah, I was town them last night,
any in this morning, and yeah he came and rolled
drilled this car and plan on for me on Monday.
And then he reason he only got to beat at
five o'clock this morning or something, just trying to get
a job done before the before the wee bit of
moisture that it's meant to turn up today and yeah,
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he said he's under the pump, but he's got people
ringing them all the time. So it's just that it's
that time of year and especially when you know we're
all probably a bit behind behind where we want to be,
partly because of the weather. Well probably because of the
weather really, whether it was because of the cold and
wheat or whether it's because of the win. You know,
all the contractors will be under the company have a
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big long less in front of them. So yeah, I
suppose my thing would be just keeping contact with your contractors.
Can't be respectful the fact that they've got everyone else
ringing them to and you know, if you've got a
good contractors on the ball, he'll he'll get reunpty and
eventually and you know the job will get done. We've
we've got a pic last pedic of spring and planning
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each crupt ground to going and we'll hopefully going early
next week just in the baalley and peace for solid.
So I was just chatting to him about there making
a planet just needs to batch here and roll down
and then he can come and drill it and then
we can hopefully part the trektor app or put the
loader back on and start cleaning out some treats for
a few weeks before we need to start farm pedics yet.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So the course of Auckland a governance course, did I
go into this into quite a bit of detail.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it was more of an advanced
I sort of done a couple of sort of more
introd actually courses.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Up until now.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
This was more of a sort of advanced you.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Know with Rabbits meets the road tight course. And yesterday
there was we hed boardroom simulations with a couple of
really experienced directors and he had had some really experienced
directors from all sorts of businesses in New Zealand come
and speak to us, and yeah it was it was
great actually, and you know, awesome networks and great people
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on the course. I met you on you a couple
of them, but there are a lot of them, with
a lot of them I've never met before, so it
was great to sort of experien the network. And yeah,
so we'll see like an and time, you know, if
I can head some value on the board somewhere, I
might might stick my hand up. Sort of brought on
my skill base a bit, and you see things from
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a different perspective when you're thinking about things from a
governance point of view instead of just management day to
day on the ground. So yeah, it's really good. I
really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Good on you know, I joys appreciate your time, and
good to hear that things are on the app over
in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No worries and you hope, hope he runs on the
mend and in years like I say it, don't be
too hard on yourself and don't be too hard on
the people around you. We're all under the pumforts. But
the sun's coming up. So the other day is a
day close to the heaven.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
All the mist that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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Speaker 1 (20:02):
FA Only Young of Beef and Lamb New Zealand joins
us once again this afternoon on the Muster, Fionner. We
look at the situation that we're faced on that we
were faced worth two weeks ago, and we're just trying
to I don't know, get a grass and what's ahead
for the future suppose, But from a beef and lamb lens,
how things.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Been hi andy and high listeners? Yeah, good to catch
up with you again. How have things been andy?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
I think it's been a tumultuous couple of weeks, to
be honest. We had a I don't know, an hour
or two of ones that has created quite a lot
of chaos across Southland, across south and west of Tigo,
and look, I'm just really conscious that there are still
people who are still to get power back or only
just getting power back, and it's been quite some extended
period of time. And then you know, again in our
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communities there's still quite a lot of trees down and
chaos still to contend with. So it's been a busy
couple of weeks. We've been wanting to try and get
out for those messages for our Laby payers, to our farmers,
to try and focus on what's most important and what's
thehead of you right now. For those of you that
have just got power back on, you're obviously probably like
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I was a week of back, really enjoying a hot
shower and doing a whole lot of washing and just
actually enjoying that can tend to switch on. But you know,
turning back to the farming space, we obviously know there's
a big clean up to do, and we're just along
with others, keen to make sure that people trying to
sort of think about how they're going to do that
over fron of the coming months and it could be
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an up to a year for some of those really
huge trees. So you know, again working with chainsaws, please
be safe, Please try and sort of take a break
or get back to some of your farming activities. I
know you guys have got to secure your boundaries and
get your farms working again. But actually we've got a
fantastic outlock ahead for the sheaping and based season, and
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we really want to make sure that farmers as soon
as they can can get back to focusing on the
production past and management crops in that side of it.
Big amount of work that happens through so through to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So what's the messaging you're getting from farmers at the moment?
Fiana messaging from farmers.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
So again it's mixed, depending on where you've been, where
you're located. I think everyone will be enjoying the fact
that it's been slightly warmer the last few days, and
they'll be seeing past your growth. I think people who
have only just got the power back on will be
just relieved. And others are sort of trying to get
back into a business's usual approach in getting back to
tailing and as I say, and getting back to you know,
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out on tracktors are cheddied to some guys the other
day out Milton Way, and they're all desperately trying to
get sort of you know, crops back in the ground
combined with just getting things tidied up. Look, I understand
that it's been tough and for some of them, you know,
they've lost shelter bouts, which they've lost plantation forestry, which
you know might have been part of their sort of
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pain for the future, so that we can't sort of
forget that that's happened. But nonetheless, you know, there's a
season ahead of us really strong, and we want to
get the best out of it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There seems to be the big thing at the moment.
People looking at what they're faced with as far as
a cleanup, but realizing the workload hasn't gone away as well.
So it's about putting thing into perspective. I'd say, I
think so, And look, I know, you know.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
It looks untidy. There are things. I mean, it's a
different story if you need to tidy things up. Because
for us, we had oh, I don't know, forty odd
eucalyps covering up a waterway. You know, we had to
get that out because it had created a very nasty
looking damn. But you know, where your boundaries are secure,
where you've got water supply and your electrics around your farm,
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then pets, that's just sitting down and going okay, over time,
you know, how are we going to deal with this?
The other thing is, I know there are logging companies
who are making themselves available or who have lists that
they're riding down. So you know, it might actually be
that you ring one of those companies and put your
name down to remove those macrocarpas, But you know it
might not be now, it might be sometime for the
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next six or twelve months, and just per'ps. That's just
the act of actually writing it down and making sure
you're on the list. Lets people put that out of
their mind and focus on the other things that need
to be done.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
A few people have talked about the need to get
chainsaw courses up and running just as a reminder farmers
as they go out there and clear these fence lines.
Is this something that you're considering.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Yeah, so we've we're looking at working alongside darien Z
said farmers and also potentially DIMS and some of the
other industry groups to go for these activities or events
that are common across the sectors. How is it that
worker peraps come together and coordinate either the messaging or
the events to deliver more effectively out to farmers. I'm
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pretty conscious as I heard that, you know, the chainsaws
have raced off the shelves. So you know, my plea
to everyone out there is, you know, perhaps not chainsawing
all day, maybe not every day. You know, sort of
plan it out over a period of time so that
you're not hiring yourself out, that you get more susceptible
to injury and so forth. Really, we really want farmers
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to actually be here and be able to focus on
their production over the couple of months. So you do
what you can to just prioritize what needs to happen,
manage how long you're working in that space, and make
sure you've got your right spafe few equipment in thinking
very carefully about the slick back and what the logs
might go or the truths might go once you set
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a train saw to them. But again, you know what
is important, what's the priority for now, and what's wait till.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Later, and the big thing being a Southerner as well
as being very stoic and under assuming in personas saying well,
I've had this happen, but there's already somebody out worse
off than the South. But every now and then you
just need to look at things of your situation and
understand what you need to do.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Yes, and look, that's where're getting off farm. So you know,
there are some social events and barbecues that the Rural
Support Trust are doing an awesome job of helping to
organize and facilitate. We are not keeping on business as usual.
We've got a couple of witch shops coming up andy
around growing great lambs, and we've got one we want
to have some conversations around pasture management and getting the
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condition scoring right. We're shifting kind of how long they
go for because we think it's harder at the moment
for people get off farm but the flip side of
that is we want people to be doing the best
job they can in terms of managing pasture and you know,
getting weighthold in your lamb because actually it's a it's
an outstanding looking year from a return perspective, or we
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want farmers to get the best of that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So you're urging people to get in touch. Have you
got any concerns?
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Yes, please please do so farmers. We've got the Farmer
council sits across the region, So Matt McCrae's our chair
courting in Nimmos how recently elected deputy chair of the
Farmer Council and they sit, as I say, across the
region and definitely, you know, urge you to get in
touch with either myself or clear at beef and lamb,
with Matt or with some of those Farmer councilors if
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you've got feedback or if you want to reach out
and look that with Stoic is when I've used a
few times Andy, I think there's a sense yes that
you know there are others of West offer you, but
please please, you know, like every situation is unique to
the person who's experiencing it, and I think It's really
important actually that that whatever you're going through, you know,
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is potentially as tough as whatever the next person is
going through. So just do the things that you need
to do. Get off, talk to your neighbors, you know,
do your best to eat and sleep really well, and
stay connected to people. These are the things that will
help us get through in you know, for the long
haul and for a long time, not just a good time.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Wise words for you only We'll catch up again.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Magic, Thanks Andy and take care of everyone.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
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before the end of the hour, our residence Sporting Gury
Nathan Burden the Highlanders team has been announced for twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well again and.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Front Page, thanks for joining us. You're listening to the
master on Hockanui. I'm Andy Mueller. Our next guest is
Warren Ross Farming at Way Movie also a fishing correspondent
and one of our rallying rally sport correspondents as well. Well.
Good afternoon, how things?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah after andy yet no, got good?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Thanks. Now we catch in the shed taking some velveting.
Doing the velveting today. How's it going?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You're not too bad? We've actually it's just what nights
for a change to dishing velving and when it's not blowing, sir.
We haven't had many days lately, so now it's coming
off quite good.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Is she?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What are the ideal conditions for doing velveting? I'd say
I call the day.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
It's definitely call the day. And we try to ended
it in the mornings. So yes, so the deer we've
more staid all in the morning and and everyone gets
up after lunch here tend to pull the pin, so
you know, within the mornings anyhow.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So it's the same philosophy as when you're mustering. The
earlier you get out there, the easieress to beat the heat.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah pretty much.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, then it looks freeze afternoon after and up to
you jump on a trecktor, well when you when you
need to, so do you know it's do you just
duing your work on mornings? Really revalent?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So how did you fear in the wind a couple
of weeks ago?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, there's there's been a canna dround. We didn't lose
too many trees compared to some of the other farmers
around the place, Like it didn't lose any edge lines
or such, or it was just the odd branch here
and there, and but we did have one tree fall
through the supersed so that's a that's a wreck, and
so we need to rebuild that house. And there's also
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a go goro reckon that. Yeah, so I haven't actually
go too closely to see how how that's fearing in
there actually, so yeah, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
As far as fence lines and the likes you got off, ok, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
All that FeNiS lines are fine, Yeah, no, there is,
and we sure ways you've got to phase down at
the moment. Actually, so we're only sort of running on
half air. But yeah, no, no, evening evening's sort of
come through pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Really, So when did you When did you get powered back?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Coincidentally, I think I was out to pay for about
six and a half days I think it was. So
that was Thursday afternoon until the following Wednesday night, I
think I think so. So yeah, no, but six and
a half days or so, So that's long enough.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Any help. Oh, oh, you'd have you'd have a couple
of lights hanging up out of noise. You can cook
your crayfish in space.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Oh absolutely, Yeah. I had a crookerd set out and
a few lights and some pieces. So yeah, grayfish going
around the right and and yeah, it's yeah, it was.
It wasn't too bad, but it's probably more around the
cell network when that was playing up was the was
the hardest and hardest part, so trying to arrange to
range things or anything of that, and it's just you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, reural connectivity, that's a missive issue.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, that was that was my biggest A little bit
of a path for it. It doesn't matter how long really,
but it was that cognitive Yeah, the sale network was
was hard work at time. So yeah, but that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Back to the velveting situation. Price wise there, what's it doing.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Well.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I haven't heard any prices as such as that we
were getting touch of selling something anyhow, so I'll guess
I'll find that then. From my accounts it it's not
not flash not great so but have to have you
just so good to the in the market and the
industry for a year anyhow, So yeah, hopefully it comes
right next year.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So this is yet again through career in China, playing hardball, I.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Think my belief so yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah,
just playing they do it occasionally, don't need to. There
are prices and things. I mean, yeah, farmers will just
get on.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I suppose that to flip the coin over the price
of venison, as we've talked about quite a few times
before recently. While is that venison is looking really promising?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, no, venison is looking it is looking strong, and
there's some in paying for col veven stacks. From my account,
I think there's a lot of stakes and get killed
this year, which will probably just lower the volume of
velvet that's growing in New Zealand. And I think it's
also just over supply for the velvet. So once once
they realized next year that is not the velvet and same,
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I feel that that Yeah, to prosper back up.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
It's like anything, you don't know what you've got till
it's gone.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well, that's right, absolutely absolutely, sir. So I hope it
comes right next year. And yeah, good again, so you've.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Been able to go through and do you trick the
work in the afternoons, even though it's been a bit
of a crapper of a season to coin a phrase, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Well the last we'll sort of on onto it anyhow,
to be fair, we're not sitting too but it ain't
got nothing planted in the ground yet. Hopefully sort of
early next week we'll be looking at yeah, getting a
couple of products of beaton and then in Kales and
we're sort of on top of top of things an year.
We're not super Bowl super Bowl one, which is quite
surprising really.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
As far as the feed situation, how are you looking.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
No, we we're really good for feed. We're just well,
last week we sit stocked all our hinds, so they're
sitting in their fawning pedicts and the well, as I say,
we're velveling staggs. So we're halfway through all the mid
age one. So that's once they get velvet that they
can either stack down the works or they or they
just get locked up on a sort of tighter rations
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and feed the feed of something else that we were
sitting pretty good to be feared that Baylor's locked up
ready to do and not not ready to do in
probably month time. It's sort of in the November into December,
there'll be yeah, probably five huerbels to do.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Probably well generally, you say the first of the baila's
coming off in the later stages of September that you
just haven't had the chance to this season. I suppose.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
No, September October was lectually quite durable, really considering considering
how awws in July was so. Yeah, and they we're
not We're not only trying to do bailers around the
middle of November as well, you see. But yeah, just
this year's certainly hasn't been out like that any help.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
So how's the fishing been recently? A senior boat packed
up there outside your parents place.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, no, so we got a trip away there on
the weekends. Yeah, over over Warmart Pass. It's so doubtful
on Friday and Saturday, and come home Sunday, so you know,
we are cleaning little crabs in there to to take
a winnie house. Came home with a good feed or
two seafood crabs. Yeah, seafood crabs.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Anyway back on the straight and narrows. So would you
say the fisheries through there are looking pretty good?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Absolutely? We were diving there was it was. It was
just crayfish everywhere, absolutely everywhere, and you come across the
spot and they're just parked on top of one another.
You know, there was there was another packing spot left,
you know, so that the fishery was really very very
healthy in the raw, So which is good to see.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And you're other passion that you're getting involved with is rallying.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I believe you're a while up to Auckland tonight to
go and follow the circle once again.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah, so you went to Auckland to night and driving
through to funger A tomorrow morning with the four of
us going up and uh yeah, so mate mate had
a major accident there being in October up and tear
on us. So he's spent another car to use for
for this really so with a bit of lucky he'll
fingers cross, you'll do pretty good.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
There's not a cheap exercise to do rallying, is it.
I mean, getting insurance on those vehicles is pretty much
next to nothing, is that right?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
That's correct from what from what we're we're there. They're
insured for touring stages between each each each stage and
and four on the road if they're on the trailer
or something like that, but for as as part of
the rally on the stage as there is nothing. But
you've got got a lot of costs as well. You know,
we are flying four of us up to up to Auckland,
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you know, is not a chief exercise. You know, there's
there's a been a bit of cost everywhere really, so in.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Other words, are insured for doing the speed limit pretty much?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yeah, that's that's there. I can't have a spend limit.
That's good on you.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I will leave it there. All the best up north
the rallying scene and we'll catch up again. Noise, appreciate
your time, yeap the goods got no Laurren Rossavoye movie
before you wrap up. Nathan Burd and our resident sporting
Guru and welcome back to the Musterine Hocknu those Hollywood Knights.
(36:28):
This our next guests to know all about that. Being
a former member of the print media. Nathan Burd and
our residents sporting Guru. Good afternoon, mate, how are you? Yeah,
not bad. We haven't spoken for a few weeks, but
look we get straight into this. We've got the Highlanders
squad that's been announced this morning and from a southern viewpoint,
how do you rate.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
It, Yes, I guess it's sort of the team. There's
probably not too many surprises there from a thirty eight
man squad. Most of it have been signposted well ahead
of time. You can see that Jamie Josephs look to
add a little bit of experience to the team after
taking a very young team through last year's competition, and
(37:08):
you know the likes of Thomas Love and love Anini
Angus Tabor bringing those sorts of guys into the four
pack just to beef up that that experience a little
bit more because you could tell, like yes, in terms
of those young guys last year and when they lost
a bit of experience with Hugh Renton and his injury
and a fair bit then sort of fell on Timothy
tovertaver naway that you know, they probably struggled from that
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leadership point of view.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Those outside banks look pretty dangerous, but the concern is
going to be getting the ball to the backs.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Yeah, you did right, I think you know. And they're
going to be well served at nine. And it'll be
exciting to see if Dylan Pledger can sort of take
his New Zealand and the twenties and NPC form through
a Super Rugby. You know he'll get a bit of
chance to find his feet, no doubt, but number ten
a key position in any Super rugby team and cam
(38:00):
Miller had such a great MPC as well, and I
guess for me probably one of the really positive aspects
was that he wasn't just kicking his goals, he was
also running the ball well, so you know that was
that was obviously a key basset of that successful a
Targo team, so that that boats well for the Highlanders.
I think if he could take even you know, even
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at eighty percent of that through the Super Rugby, then
you know the Highlands would be.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Much better for it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
That was a difference of cam Miller twenty twenty five
MPC he competed to other seasons. I thought, like you say,
his goal kicking was on point, but the way he
hit the line at first five is what you want.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Absolutely, And you know they've beefed it up a bit
bringing Andrew new Stub who I don't really think of
him as a number ten but obviously did a pretty
good job of Canterbury this year in the NPC and
they managed to win a title. So they've got they've
got guys that can do a job, whether it's the
you know, whether it's a Blue Ribbon number ten. You know,
I think there's plenty of opportunity there for a player
(38:57):
to put their hand up. But then by the same token,
they get one season and then Josh Jacob arrives down
from the Chiefs. So yeah, it's an interesting situation for
the Highness.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
The All Blacks. I reckon this game is a banana skin.
They've never lost to Scotland, They've drawn with them a
couple of times. But if they're ever going to lose
to Scotland, don't ask me why, but I reckon this
could be the opportunity.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Potentially the biggest problem for the Scots might be themselves,
you know. I sort of think of them as a
team that are on the rise, whether they're on the
rise enough like a like a younger Irish team. We're
a few years back when they were trying to knock
off that Hecks of never having been in the All Blacks,
Whether the Scots actually believed that they can, I mean,
they probably should. This is a this is an All
Black team that's just every game. I think it's sort
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of the more questions they answer, the more questions get
asked as well. I'd almost given that game away. I
was pretty sure the Irish were going to be able
to finish this off in Chicago. But thankfully that bench
came on for the for the second Test in a row,
that bench came on and managed to get the I've done.
And I guess the question for the All Blacks this
(40:03):
week will be they're going to have to draw on
that beach and actually start those guys rather than using
them for impact given some of the injuries they've gotten
the squad.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
And that's a concern for the Irish going forward. And
I think a few of the scribes are saying the
same thing this week. They've got no young players coming
through as such, they're all thinking about five years ago.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Yes, some question marks around Ireland and whether they're sort
of you know, running around there but on past glories,
and whether some of those players have potentially done their death.
But you know, by the same token that you know
that was the first test of the year, you know,
they definitely looked, they looked rusty, They looked like they
were trying to play a reasonably a reasonably one dimensional
(40:42):
sort of a game just to sort of get things
going and it was almost good enough to beat us.
So I wouldn't count that Irish team out just yet.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
But that first half of rugby one of the worst
hards you'll ever see. Fifty to fifty five minutes to
play forty minutes of sport that should never happen.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
That was terrible.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That was terrible.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
We've we've watched some pretty average rugby and we're Stags.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Some of the Stag's performances in.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
The NPC, and they had some good games, don't get
me wrong. They gave us some memories, but some of
their other performances were pretty average. But see that all
Blacks first half, even the first hour, was to ride
up there with some rugby that you'd want to forget
pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
T twent ty. The black Caps going down rather surprisingly
to the West Indies last night. But Jacob Duffy, his
bowling rises, his bowling stocks just seemed to be on
the up.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
This West Indies team, who I don't know, HICKI have
a lot about them, but they always seem to be
sort of lurching from one crisis and to the next.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
The Winders and obviously we sort of, you know, we.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
We sort of have our hearts open to them at
the moment with the ware the crisis has been happening
in Jamaica, but I think they arrived the very early
hours of Monday morning and then Wednesday night they're lining
up at Eden Park against the team that's already had
two series this early stage of the summer. Jacob Uppert,
you're outstanding with the ball and probably yeah, and he
(42:10):
sort of bowled some of those heavy overs as well,
and then obviously had to do a week job at
the with the bat at the end. I'd given up
on them by that stage. At that I thought they
were well and truly gone. But Mitt Centner, who's just
who can just hit a massive ball, tried, you know,
almost got us across the line of the Captain's not
just seven or on short.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
But Aden Park is not a good place esthetically to
watch first class cracket. When you're in the slips, your
two through is the way to the boundary. I mean
even Duane Kyle of all people, get at the boundary
on Eating Park, right.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
Yeah, the Windy's medium paces almost they were almost pushing
off the pushing off the side screen, weren't they last night?
So it is a it's an interesting ground. I don't
have any great love for it. I know there's a
big push on for it to be called our national stadium,
and there's a lot of people that want to make
that happen. But was up in Auckland at Labor weeks
(43:00):
end and sort of just thinking see how good it
would be to have an actual national stadium down there
on the waterfront. It seems like that ships sail though unfortunately,
But Jed, it just seems like we've missed the.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
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Speaker 1 (43:30):
What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with
the Titanic about halfway? Just remembering the state of emergency
is being lifted at nine point thirty am tomorrow morning
and we'll have some more interviews as well, courtesy of
the South and Rural Support Trusts in association with the
(43:50):
Community Trust South as well. Steve Henderson on the show tomorrow.
My name's Andy Buwer. This has been the muss ron
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Speaker 4 (44:01):
Hey, well, I'll right sure, he'll go there and where
did it go on?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Again? For I'm a twenty five again, thanks a PDG
Rights and represent stock selling action every Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday here on the Muster and the saff toned as
a turn of David Morrison to give us an update
from the Charleston sale, which is how this morning till
you're good afternoon. Those prices are sounding pretty damn good.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
Still, yeah, very good today Andy, probably happen another fifteen
to twenty dollars today, but we'll just start with the best.
The best lands three thirties, three fifty. That's very heavy dams,
of course, many of them sort of two forty two fifty,
two sixty with the light of the prime rames around
a couple hundred dollars are you sectioned? The union views
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very very strong in the matting today. The best to
use to forty to two sixty. That's heavy us Andy
millions sort of one seventy one ninety with the light
of con listened news of one sort of one twenty
five dollars, so very very strong there, and also local
read ratings that Mark was up today and they're sort
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of one hundred, one hundred ten dollars bracket and they
drifted up Andy.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yes, he practice
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on HAKANOI. I'm
Andy Mio here until two o'clock, of course, thanks to
Peters genetics. Welcome along to a mild afternoon here in
the South. Yesterday was a stunner mid twenties and some places.
I do believe. We'll talk about the weather shortly, but
before we do, the state of emergency down here in
Southland is finishing tomorrow morning, Friday the seventh of November,
(00:28):
at nine thirty am. We're talking to poor Blue from
powering it very shortly, but before we do we'll get
into the weather. Bob seekers the Chunes.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
By the way, then he was five day forecasts brought
to you by twin Farm Tefron and suff text. The
proof is in the progeny Teffron dot co dot nzie.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So this afternoon seeing showers a breezy westerlyes here in Gordon,
I have twenty degrees. Tomorrow cloudy with breezy to Bristol
westerlyes eleven and eighteen. Saturday cloudy with Bristol westerlies nine
and twenty. Sunday afternoon showers like northeasterlyies twelve and nineteen
and Monday Raymond breezy sol easterly seven and sixteen. We'll
give you Tuesday as well, morning showers a breezy to
(01:08):
bristsale west winds six and sixteen, so temperatures to hand
Clinton thirteen point four, Northern South And thirteen point four,
Riveton thirteen point nine, tian Now thirteen point three, Titora fourteen,
Winton thirteen point six and Woodland's twelve point eight. As
we start the hour with Paul Blue out of Powernetti
is chief executive of course in association with the South
(01:31):
and Rural Support Trust, talking about to a few individuals
amongst various farming industries regarding the last couple of weeks
and how do you approach things looking forward and today
we talked to Paul and of course a big word
of thanks as well to the Community Trust South for
being involved with this. Nigel Woodhead Farms in South Otago.
(01:54):
We catch up. Sounds like the feeds cranking around Niger's
place now fa only young of beef and lamb New Zealand,
Warren Ross Farming and Waimemu. He's been velveting today, so
we catch up. We'll see our things are going and
a resident sporting gury Nathan Burden, the Highlanders squad is out.
How many stags are in there? David Morrison gives a
(02:16):
PGG rights and stock sale report from Charlton. Sounds pretty buoyant,
too crazy prices to be fair. And then we'll start
the hour with Paul Blue. Now we've collaborated with the
(02:43):
South and Rural Support Trust here on the Mustard to
catch up with individuals regarding the weather situation. There was
experience two weeks ago. Of course, shout out Community Trust
South for sponsoring this segment. Now we're just talking about
two different individuals, different farmers, people involved in the rural industry,
about the situations, how it's unfolded. And the person I'm
(03:03):
speaking to today, well, it's fair to say he's had
quote a bit on his plate in more ways than one.
Paul Blue is the chief executive of Power there and
joins us this afternoon to give us a rundown on
a rather hectic couple of weeks down here in the South. Paul,
welcome to the must Thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Ah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Firstly, how would you describe the last two weeks and
your perspective.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Would I'll go with intense. It's certainly been you know,
it's not something we've ever seen before down here. The
devastation just just widespread and just everywhere. Often you'll have
an event that might affect the power network, that can
(03:47):
be that'll often be a little bit more localized. But
this was well and truly across South and to Tago
and originally all the way up into Canterbury. But South
and to Tago gotit particularly hard.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The magnitude of the wind were they underestimated.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Initially initially, and I certainly wouldn't want to be a
you know, with a person for New Zealand's it's a
hard few islands to get right. But leading up to it,
we were under the models that we saw were that
(04:22):
it was going to be quite a bit less than
what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I'll also acknowledge all the workers for power nets and
everybody helping to get the province up and running again.
Did Southwest Otago how many work as if your head
on the ground down here in the south.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So we have about one hundred and fifty linesman and
we have brought in about an extra seventy or ready.
So yeah, we got up to about two hundred and
forty I think it was, but that's just you know,
people working the lines. Apart from that, there's been well
(04:58):
over five hundred by the time you take into accounturists,
civil civil people and traffic management, et cetera. So the
amount of people helping in that restoration purely from us,
let alone the people that are doing things for the
councils to open roads, it's it's been a massive.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Undertaking, certainly has been. It's a massive team ethod and
shout out to everybody who's been involved. But as far
as the workers and the likes how they handle the
last couple of the ways, because it's been pretty intense,
it has, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
We have we've had everything thrown at us. You know,
obviously the winds, rain, then the Tago area particular snowed,
so the weather has been very challenging to get the
restoration on in a timely manner. But the teams are amazing.
(05:50):
They they always step up. This is you know, they
they thrive in this environment and they have the the
support we've had from the surrounding distribution networks that have
just thrown whatever they can our way that we needed,
be it from gear to people, the trucks, you name it.
(06:11):
We're just the support we've had has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And a lot of cafes and local businesses have got
on board as well and made food and drinks available
to the workers as they go about their job too.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No, that's right, they have.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Look that the communities and I think that's you know,
just a massive shout out to the entire region. It's
a region that people support each other. You see it.
You know, there have been people out there with extreme
hardship through not having power for two weeks and to
(06:42):
help people band to get it help each other is
quite amazing. Get here now.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It is a yesterday afternoon. In the press release, around
four thirty sixty seven people in South Totago were businesses
or farms were still without power. Forty eight in the South.
This number, when you're hoping to have everything up and
running again, a lot of those.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Are Sheard's what we're doing right now is so those
are connection points, and so what we're really doing over
the next day or two is we are trying to
get in touch with everybody that we that that so,
so for example in the South and there we can
see most of smart means to go. You know, you
do you have power or not. We are Every data
(07:24):
set is not perfect, so we try and verify. And
so my my request would be through this is that
if you don't have power and you don't believe that
anyone has been in touch, you know, I just don't
want anyone to slip through the cracks. If you so,
if you haven't got power and you're or you know
(07:44):
of somebody who hasn't, please call us again if they've called,
or call us if they've never called us before. That
is that is the message. I don't want to leave
anybody behind. So so if if that that's probably the
message that I have.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Have you heard of are those census is going unnoticed lately?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Not that we're aware, But that doesn't mean it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Exist now regarding trees and power lines, because I think
the closest I can remember is twenty seventeen. It was devastating,
but this is certainly next level. Do you think this
would be a catalyst for change regarding how you have
to manage trees around lines and and such.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think myself and every distribution business would love that
to be the case. We would like some tree reforms.
They hairwave were looked at last year and that not
a lot happened, particularly trees which we regard as out
(08:46):
of zone. Inside his own we can request a tree
be trimmed, but it really is as you can see
in this particular cases trees that can fall onto a
line from a long distance away, and that is what's
really about ninety nine after seen of the outages, and
this has been caused by trees, uh and big trees
in this case falling onto lines. So we would dearly
(09:08):
love to see some strength and regulation around tree management.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Rural connectivity has been a real problem. You'll know that
as much as anyone trying to get calms going with
your teams. Do you think this is something that has
come to the floor finally we might get some resolution,
perhaps from your perspective, I think yes.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't want to speak on behalf of the talcos.
I don't think that's fear. I think they worked really
well with us. We had we had them in the
office and we would and we would we would both
look at who was working in, what areas that were,
how fast they could get out there. So I think
that probably is more of a question for the TALCOS. I,
(09:50):
you know, connectivity in rural areas is always difficult. But
the question is that couldn't be more resilient to I
think that that's a question, but probably not one for
that I should answer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So now we're at the stage we've seeing what's happened
over the past couple of weeks. Perhaps a lot of
a lot of businesses look at a plan B when
it comes to power you still it. Imagine something else
that's come up.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
You know, I think big wins like this don't often
come into Southard, you know. Is it a sign of
could it happen again? I think I think people do
need to plan for it happening again. We don't know,
of course, but you know it's happened, so could it happen?
I think from a resilience point of view, if trees
are taking out lines, particularly on your proper, and you
(10:35):
can see that in generators, investing in the generator would
be a good move from a resilience point of view.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Hey, Paul Blue, Chief executive of Powering It, thank you
very much for your time and congratulations to your organization
and what you've achieved over the past couple of weeks.
You've all done a sterling job. Thanks to your time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Thank you very much, my courage, Paul Blue.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Chief Executive of Power. This Nigea ward Head's next. This
is the Muster. Welcome back to the Muster, Nigea Woodhead
(11:20):
Farms in South Otago between Balcluther and Milton, and we
catch up once again. Nige. Good afternoon. It's been a
hectic a few weeks since we last spoke.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, it's he's been. He's been a bit
go on, actually it's yeah. Anyway, it's sad the out
and the grass of the ground now, so we're on
the up.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So how did you guys fear in that breeze in
the windows such I got to stop calling it a breeze.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, it was a bit of a breeze. Yeah, we
talked talk a bit of a hammering were my parents
over the last of the thirty odd years have planted
about thirty five years of pine plantation. And they took
a they took a bit of a hammering. So these
trees down all over fences and you know, through through
the blocks, like some blocks have hardly been touched apart
(12:07):
from around the edge, and then other blots of you know,
these big swedes cut through the middle of them. It's
quite funny, like we have our place is sort of
flapped to rolling ridges and then gullies, and the winds
come up the gullys sort of from the sort of
sour west, come up the gullys and over through settles
and then cut a swade through trees on the other side.
(12:27):
Top thing you can you can really see the path
of the wind, you know, a couple of galleys that's
just gone straight up the middle and just you know,
bold every tree at the bottom of the gally. So yeah,
but we're we're sort of quite lucky really and that
we don't have too many big hedges, and the hedges
we do have have been really relatively unaffected, you know,
(12:50):
like all of all. You know, we've got probably a
couple of caves of fence, you know, underneath trees at
the moment, but it's all into forestry blocks. So we'll
still be able to you know, went waning and six
or eight weeks time, you know, it won't be a
major for us, because some odd land might push into
forestry blocks. But we don't have big hedges down, you know,
making two petics into one, if you know what I mean.
(13:11):
Like some of those guys. There's a lot of guys
and seapland and even around here up on top of
Heilend with big hedges, and they've come over and they've
squashed one fence on one side of the hedge and
they've lifted the feet off the ground on the other side.
So you know, you sort of don't really have a
pedick anymore. So we we're not quite in that position fortunately,
but yeah, big clean up a head. We'll just chip
away and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And you only got power on last night.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
We got power last night. So I've been I've been
away actually and of course in Auckland for since since Sunday.
And to be fear, I probably needed three days in
Auckland like a hole on the head. But it was
actually it's been quite good. Like, yeah, the pressure was
starting to get to us a bit thereby, but I said,
there's just so many jobs sticking up and things things,
(13:57):
you know, it's just starting to start to get to us.
So getting getting out to Auckland for a few days
and you know, focusing on something else on a on
a course was quite good. And then come home last
night and dead was at the farm. So when he
left the farm about five o'clock. The pair wasn't on
quite sorry, it had just come on. So we got
at about five o'clock last night.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
So that's whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Today's two weeks since the win, so year two weeks
we were up there and the novelty was starting to
wear off, but we got through it. And yeah, it's
it's quite novelty this morning. Where could happen? It's looking
the light switch on and the light comes on.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So you're not the kind of person to hang out
on to hang out on Javoi Road having deca reason night.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, no, no, no, we were. It was it was
the final phase of a governance of course I was doing.
And yeah, so it was there. She actually quite there
was quite a bit to it, and there was you.
I wasn't overly physically texting, but it's quite mentally texting.
But it was so good. So no, there was no
you a couple of years after afterwards each night, but
(15:01):
I definitely there was no partying going on. But yeah,
I reckon and I either listeners an apology because it
was two weeks ago today, like the day of the window,
was ying to Chris and did it's a beautiful day.
It's nice and warm and calm and hopefully the storm
won't get us too bad, and all hell had broken loose.
So I don't know if anyone noticed that, but it
(15:21):
was something I thought about, was the fact that I
see how good the day was, and that by the
time the interview went to ear it was anything but
a good day. So yeah, it's just something that stuck
on my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're talking about the grass situation, was going from a
femine to a feast.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yeah, Well, like I say, we left on Saturday
and things had warmed up a weaverit, but it's obviously
been beautiful and warm and good grass growing conditions and
went since where I left and there's actually grass around there.
I'm sitting I just just pre emerge on a cup
of cal and plantain pedics. I'm just sitting in a
(15:57):
grass pedic next door, and he's actually his actually feet
come away underneath us, and you know, this mob, we're
right on top of things. So yeah, I'm probably gonna
have a couple of mobs of kid all to shuffle
around today, just to put some peddics that have got
away bit of grass coming away, just try and keep
on partial quality. I've got one pedic of Baler's locked up,
but it's not far away from mowing. There was just
(16:20):
a spear pedic and a bull block and we'll beating
the half of it, but I'll mow the other half.
And we might have got lots of more up, So
why I belong And we'll we'll need grassou sleep because
it will be ground yet for four of eating swedes
and bits and pieces. So yeah, things things have turned
around significantly in three days.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Essentially a messive shout out to all the contractors as well,
whether they're on the tractors or they're in the tailing pain,
they're well behind at the moment, and there's only so
many errors in the day, so keep out the Friday.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Oh yeah, definitely, I was yelling into my my contract
there this morning. He yeah, I was town them last night,
any in this morning, and yeah he came and rolled
drilled this car and plan on for me on Monday.
And then he reason he only got to beat at
five o'clock this morning or something, just trying to get
a job done before the before the wee bit of
moisture that it's meant to turn up today and yeah,
(17:10):
he said he's under the pump, but he's got people
ringing them all the time. So it's just that it's
that time of year and especially when you know we're
all probably a bit behind behind where we want to be,
partly because of the weather. Well probably because of the
weather really, whether it was because of the cold and
wheat or whether it's because of the win. You know,
all the contractors will be under the company have a
(17:30):
big long less in front of them. So yeah, I
suppose my thing would be just keeping contact with your contractors.
Can't be respectful the fact that they've got everyone else
ringing them to and you know, if you've got a
good contractors on the ball, he'll he'll get reunpty and
eventually and you know the job will get done. We've
we've got a pic last pedic of spring and planning
(17:54):
each crupt ground to going and we'll hopefully going early
next week just in the baalley and peace for solid.
So I was just chatting to him about there making
a planet just needs to batch here and roll down
and then he can come and drill it and then
we can hopefully part the trektor app or put the
loader back on and start cleaning out some treats for
a few weeks before we need to start farm pedics yet.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So the course of Auckland a governance course, did I
go into this into quite a bit of detail.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it was more of an advanced
I sort of done a couple of sort of more
introd actually courses.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Up until now.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
This was more of a sort of advanced you.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Know with Rabbits meets the road tight course. And yesterday
there was we hed boardroom simulations with a couple of
really experienced directors and he had had some really experienced
directors from all sorts of businesses in New Zealand come
and speak to us, and yeah it was it was
great actually, and you know, awesome networks and great people
(18:49):
on the course. I met you on you a couple
of them, but there are a lot of them, with
a lot of them I've never met before, so it
was great to sort of experien the network. And yeah,
so we'll see like an and time, you know, if
I can head some value on the board somewhere, I
might might stick my hand up. Sort of brought on
my skill base a bit, and you see things from
(19:09):
a different perspective when you're thinking about things from a
governance point of view instead of just management day to
day on the ground. So yeah, it's really good. I
really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Good on you know, I joys appreciate your time, and
good to hear that things are on the app over
in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No worries and you hope, hope he runs on the
mend and in years like I say it, don't be
too hard on yourself and don't be too hard on
the people around you. We're all under the pumforts. But
the sun's coming up. So the other day is a
day close to the heaven.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
All the mist that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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Speaker 2 (19:50):
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Speaker 1 (20:02):
FA Only Young of Beef and Lamb New Zealand joins
us once again this afternoon on the Muster, Fionner. We
look at the situation that we're faced on that we
were faced worth two weeks ago, and we're just trying
to I don't know, get a grass and what's ahead
for the future suppose, But from a beef and lamb lens,
how things.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Been hi andy and high listeners? Yeah, good to catch
up with you again. How have things been andy?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
I think it's been a tumultuous couple of weeks, to
be honest. We had a I don't know, an hour
or two of ones that has created quite a lot
of chaos across Southland, across south and west of Tigo,
and look, I'm just really conscious that there are still
people who are still to get power back or only
just getting power back, and it's been quite some extended
period of time. And then you know, again in our
(20:48):
communities there's still quite a lot of trees down and
chaos still to contend with. So it's been a busy
couple of weeks. We've been wanting to try and get
out for those messages for our Laby payers, to our farmers,
to try and focus on what's most important and what's
thehead of you right now. For those of you that
have just got power back on, you're obviously probably like
(21:09):
I was a week of back, really enjoying a hot
shower and doing a whole lot of washing and just
actually enjoying that can tend to switch on. But you know,
turning back to the farming space, we obviously know there's
a big clean up to do, and we're just along
with others, keen to make sure that people trying to
sort of think about how they're going to do that
over fron of the coming months and it could be
(21:31):
an up to a year for some of those really
huge trees. So you know, again working with chainsaws, please
be safe, Please try and sort of take a break
or get back to some of your farming activities. I
know you guys have got to secure your boundaries and
get your farms working again. But actually we've got a
fantastic outlock ahead for the sheaping and based season, and
(21:53):
we really want to make sure that farmers as soon
as they can can get back to focusing on the
production past and management crops in that side of it.
Big amount of work that happens through so through to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So what's the messaging you're getting from farmers at the moment?
Fiana messaging from farmers.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
So again it's mixed, depending on where you've been, where
you're located. I think everyone will be enjoying the fact
that it's been slightly warmer the last few days, and
they'll be seeing past your growth. I think people who
have only just got the power back on will be
just relieved. And others are sort of trying to get
back into a business's usual approach in getting back to
tailing and as I say, and getting back to you know,
(22:32):
out on tracktors are cheddied to some guys the other
day out Milton Way, and they're all desperately trying to
get sort of you know, crops back in the ground
combined with just getting things tidied up. Look, I understand
that it's been tough and for some of them, you know,
they've lost shelter bouts, which they've lost plantation forestry, which
you know might have been part of their sort of
(22:53):
pain for the future, so that we can't sort of
forget that that's happened. But nonetheless, you know, there's a
season ahead of us really strong, and we want to
get the best out of it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There seems to be the big thing at the moment.
People looking at what they're faced with as far as
a cleanup, but realizing the workload hasn't gone away as well.
So it's about putting thing into perspective. I'd say, I
think so, And look, I know, you know.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
It looks untidy. There are things. I mean, it's a
different story if you need to tidy things up. Because
for us, we had oh, I don't know, forty odd
eucalyps covering up a waterway. You know, we had to
get that out because it had created a very nasty
looking damn. But you know, where your boundaries are secure,
where you've got water supply and your electrics around your farm,
(23:38):
then pets, that's just sitting down and going okay, over time,
you know, how are we going to deal with this?
The other thing is, I know there are logging companies
who are making themselves available or who have lists that
they're riding down. So you know, it might actually be
that you ring one of those companies and put your
name down to remove those macrocarpas, But you know it
might not be now, it might be sometime for the
(24:00):
next six or twelve months, and just per'ps. That's just
the act of actually writing it down and making sure
you're on the list. Lets people put that out of
their mind and focus on the other things that need
to be done.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
A few people have talked about the need to get
chainsaw courses up and running just as a reminder farmers
as they go out there and clear these fence lines.
Is this something that you're considering.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Yeah, so we've we're looking at working alongside darien Z
said farmers and also potentially DIMS and some of the
other industry groups to go for these activities or events
that are common across the sectors. How is it that
worker peraps come together and coordinate either the messaging or
the events to deliver more effectively out to farmers. I'm
(24:43):
pretty conscious as I heard that, you know, the chainsaws
have raced off the shelves. So you know, my plea
to everyone out there is, you know, perhaps not chainsawing
all day, maybe not every day. You know, sort of
plan it out over a period of time so that
you're not hiring yourself out, that you get more susceptible
to injury and so forth. Really, we really want farmers
(25:05):
to actually be here and be able to focus on
their production over the couple of months. So you do
what you can to just prioritize what needs to happen,
manage how long you're working in that space, and make
sure you've got your right spafe few equipment in thinking
very carefully about the slick back and what the logs
might go or the truths might go once you set
(25:25):
a train saw to them. But again, you know what
is important, what's the priority for now, and what's wait till.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Later, and the big thing being a Southerner as well
as being very stoic and under assuming in personas saying well,
I've had this happen, but there's already somebody out worse
off than the South. But every now and then you
just need to look at things of your situation and
understand what you need to do.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Yes, and look, that's where're getting off farm. So you know,
there are some social events and barbecues that the Rural
Support Trust are doing an awesome job of helping to
organize and facilitate. We are not keeping on business as usual.
We've got a couple of witch shops coming up andy
around growing great lambs, and we've got one we want
to have some conversations around pasture management and getting the
(26:10):
condition scoring right. We're shifting kind of how long they
go for because we think it's harder at the moment
for people get off farm but the flip side of
that is we want people to be doing the best
job they can in terms of managing pasture and you know,
getting weighthold in your lamb because actually it's a it's
an outstanding looking year from a return perspective, or we
(26:30):
want farmers to get the best of that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So you're urging people to get in touch. Have you
got any concerns?
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Yes, please please do so farmers. We've got the Farmer
council sits across the region, So Matt McCrae's our chair
courting in Nimmos how recently elected deputy chair of the
Farmer Council and they sit, as I say, across the
region and definitely, you know, urge you to get in
touch with either myself or clear at beef and lamb,
with Matt or with some of those Farmer councilors if
(26:59):
you've got feedback or if you want to reach out
and look that with Stoic is when I've used a
few times Andy, I think there's a sense yes that
you know there are others of West offer you, but
please please, you know, like every situation is unique to
the person who's experiencing it, and I think It's really
important actually that that whatever you're going through, you know,
(27:20):
is potentially as tough as whatever the next person is
going through. So just do the things that you need
to do. Get off, talk to your neighbors, you know,
do your best to eat and sleep really well, and
stay connected to people. These are the things that will
help us get through in you know, for the long
haul and for a long time, not just a good time.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Wise words for you only We'll catch up again.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Magic, Thanks Andy and take care of everyone.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
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Speaker 2 (28:11):
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Speaker 1 (28:17):
Front Page, thanks for joining us. You're listening to the
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Warren Ross Farming at Way Movie also a fishing correspondent
and one of our rallying rally sport correspondents as well. Well.
Good afternoon, how things?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah after andy yet no, got good?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Thanks. Now we catch in the shed taking some velveting.
Doing the velveting today. How's it going?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You're not too bad? We've actually it's just what nights
for a change to dishing velving and when it's not blowing, sir.
We haven't had many days lately, so now it's coming
off quite good.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Is she?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What are the ideal conditions for doing velveting? I'd say
I call the day.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
It's definitely call the day. And we try to ended
it in the mornings. So yes, so the deer we've
more staid all in the morning and and everyone gets
up after lunch here tend to pull the pin, so
you know, within the mornings anyhow.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So it's the same philosophy as when you're mustering. The
earlier you get out there, the easieress to beat the heat.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah pretty much.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, then it looks freeze afternoon after and up to
you jump on a trecktor, well when you when you
need to, so do you know it's do you just
duing your work on mornings? Really revalent?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So how did you fear in the wind a couple
of weeks ago?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, there's there's been a canna dround. We didn't lose
too many trees compared to some of the other farmers
around the place, Like it didn't lose any edge lines
or such, or it was just the odd branch here
and there, and but we did have one tree fall
through the supersed so that's a that's a wreck, and
so we need to rebuild that house. And there's also
(29:49):
a go goro reckon that. Yeah, so I haven't actually
go too closely to see how how that's fearing in
there actually, so yeah, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
As far as fence lines and the likes you got off, ok, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
All that FeNiS lines are fine, Yeah, no, there is,
and we sure ways you've got to phase down at
the moment. Actually, so we're only sort of running on
half air. But yeah, no, no, evening evening's sort of
come through pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Really, So when did you When did you get powered back?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Coincidentally, I think I was out to pay for about
six and a half days I think it was. So
that was Thursday afternoon until the following Wednesday night, I
think I think so. So yeah, no, but six and
a half days or so, So that's long enough.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Any help. Oh, oh, you'd have you'd have a couple
of lights hanging up out of noise. You can cook
your crayfish in space.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Oh absolutely, Yeah. I had a crookerd set out and
a few lights and some pieces. So yeah, grayfish going
around the right and and yeah, it's yeah, it was.
It wasn't too bad, but it's probably more around the
cell network when that was playing up was the was
the hardest and hardest part, so trying to arrange to
range things or anything of that, and it's just you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, reural connectivity, that's a missive issue.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, that was that was my biggest A little bit
of a path for it. It doesn't matter how long really,
but it was that cognitive Yeah, the sale network was
was hard work at time. So yeah, but that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Back to the velveting situation. Price wise there, what's it doing.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Well.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I haven't heard any prices as such as that we
were getting touch of selling something anyhow, so I'll guess
I'll find that then. From my accounts it it's not
not flash not great so but have to have you
just so good to the in the market and the
industry for a year anyhow, So yeah, hopefully it comes
right next year.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So this is yet again through career in China, playing hardball, I.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Think my belief so yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah,
just playing they do it occasionally, don't need to. There
are prices and things. I mean, yeah, farmers will just
get on.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I suppose that to flip the coin over the price
of venison, as we've talked about quite a few times
before recently. While is that venison is looking really promising?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, no, venison is looking it is looking strong, and
there's some in paying for col veven stacks. From my account,
I think there's a lot of stakes and get killed
this year, which will probably just lower the volume of
velvet that's growing in New Zealand. And I think it's
also just over supply for the velvet. So once once
they realized next year that is not the velvet and same,
(32:18):
I feel that that Yeah, to prosper back up.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
It's like anything, you don't know what you've got till
it's gone.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well, that's right, absolutely absolutely, sir. So I hope it
comes right next year. And yeah, good again, so you've.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Been able to go through and do you trick the
work in the afternoons, even though it's been a bit
of a crapper of a season to coin a phrase, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Well the last we'll sort of on onto it anyhow,
to be fair, we're not sitting too but it ain't
got nothing planted in the ground yet. Hopefully sort of
early next week we'll be looking at yeah, getting a
couple of products of beaton and then in Kales and
we're sort of on top of top of things an year.
We're not super Bowl super Bowl one, which is quite
surprising really.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
As far as the feed situation, how are you looking.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
No, we we're really good for feed. We're just well,
last week we sit stocked all our hinds, so they're
sitting in their fawning pedicts and the well, as I say,
we're velveling staggs. So we're halfway through all the mid
age one. So that's once they get velvet that they
can either stack down the works or they or they
just get locked up on a sort of tighter rations
(33:26):
and feed the feed of something else that we were
sitting pretty good to be feared that Baylor's locked up
ready to do and not not ready to do in
probably month time. It's sort of in the November into December,
there'll be yeah, probably five huerbels to do.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Probably well generally, you say the first of the baila's
coming off in the later stages of September that you
just haven't had the chance to this season. I suppose.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
No, September October was lectually quite durable, really considering considering
how awws in July was so. Yeah, and they we're
not We're not only trying to do bailers around the
middle of November as well, you see. But yeah, just
this year's certainly hasn't been out like that any help.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
So how's the fishing been recently? A senior boat packed
up there outside your parents place.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, no, so we got a trip away there on
the weekends. Yeah, over over Warmart Pass. It's so doubtful
on Friday and Saturday, and come home Sunday, so you know,
we are cleaning little crabs in there to to take
a winnie house. Came home with a good feed or
two seafood crabs. Yeah, seafood crabs.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Anyway back on the straight and narrows. So would you
say the fisheries through there are looking pretty good?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Absolutely? We were diving there was it was. It was
just crayfish everywhere, absolutely everywhere, and you come across the
spot and they're just parked on top of one another.
You know, there was there was another packing spot left,
you know, so that the fishery was really very very
healthy in the raw, So which is good to see.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And you're other passion that you're getting involved with is rallying.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I believe you're a while up to Auckland tonight to
go and follow the circle once again.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah, so you went to Auckland to night and driving
through to funger A tomorrow morning with the four of
us going up and uh yeah, so mate mate had
a major accident there being in October up and tear
on us. So he's spent another car to use for
for this really so with a bit of lucky he'll
fingers cross, you'll do pretty good.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
There's not a cheap exercise to do rallying, is it.
I mean, getting insurance on those vehicles is pretty much
next to nothing, is that right?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
That's correct from what from what we're we're there. They're
insured for touring stages between each each each stage and
and four on the road if they're on the trailer
or something like that, but for as as part of
the rally on the stage as there is nothing. But
you've got got a lot of costs as well. You know,
we are flying four of us up to up to Auckland,
(35:50):
you know, is not a chief exercise. You know, there's
there's a been a bit of cost everywhere really, so in.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Other words, are insured for doing the speed limit pretty much?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yeah, that's that's there. I can't have a spend limit.
That's good on you.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I will leave it there. All the best up north
the rallying scene and we'll catch up again. Noise, appreciate
your time, yeap the goods got no Laurren Rossavoye movie
before you wrap up. Nathan Burd and our resident sporting
Guru and welcome back to the Musterine Hocknu those Hollywood Knights.
(36:28):
This our next guests to know all about that. Being
a former member of the print media. Nathan Burd and
our residents sporting Guru. Good afternoon, mate, how are you? Yeah,
not bad. We haven't spoken for a few weeks, but
look we get straight into this. We've got the Highlanders
squad that's been announced this morning and from a southern viewpoint,
how do you rate.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
It, Yes, I guess it's sort of the team. There's
probably not too many surprises there from a thirty eight
man squad. Most of it have been signposted well ahead
of time. You can see that Jamie Josephs look to
add a little bit of experience to the team after
taking a very young team through last year's competition, and
(37:08):
you know the likes of Thomas Love and love Anini
Angus Tabor bringing those sorts of guys into the four
pack just to beef up that that experience a little
bit more because you could tell, like yes, in terms
of those young guys last year and when they lost
a bit of experience with Hugh Renton and his injury
and a fair bit then sort of fell on Timothy
tovertaver naway that you know, they probably struggled from that
(37:31):
leadership point of view.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Those outside banks look pretty dangerous, but the concern is
going to be getting the ball to the backs.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Yeah, you did right, I think you know. And they're
going to be well served at nine. And it'll be
exciting to see if Dylan Pledger can sort of take
his New Zealand and the twenties and NPC form through
a Super Rugby. You know he'll get a bit of
chance to find his feet, no doubt, but number ten
a key position in any Super rugby team and cam
(38:00):
Miller had such a great MPC as well, and I
guess for me probably one of the really positive aspects
was that he wasn't just kicking his goals, he was
also running the ball well, so you know that was
that was obviously a key basset of that successful a
Targo team, so that that boats well for the Highlanders.
I think if he could take even you know, even
(38:20):
at eighty percent of that through the Super Rugby, then
you know the Highlands would be.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Much better for it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
That was a difference of cam Miller twenty twenty five
MPC he competed to other seasons. I thought, like you say,
his goal kicking was on point, but the way he
hit the line at first five is what you want.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Absolutely, And you know they've beefed it up a bit
bringing Andrew new Stub who I don't really think of
him as a number ten but obviously did a pretty
good job of Canterbury this year in the NPC and
they managed to win a title. So they've got they've
got guys that can do a job, whether it's the
you know, whether it's a Blue Ribbon number ten. You know,
I think there's plenty of opportunity there for a player
(38:57):
to put their hand up. But then by the same token,
they get one season and then Josh Jacob arrives down
from the Chiefs. So yeah, it's an interesting situation for
the Highness.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
The All Blacks. I reckon this game is a banana skin.
They've never lost to Scotland, They've drawn with them a
couple of times. But if they're ever going to lose
to Scotland, don't ask me why, but I reckon this
could be the opportunity.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Potentially the biggest problem for the Scots might be themselves,
you know. I sort of think of them as a
team that are on the rise, whether they're on the
rise enough like a like a younger Irish team. We're
a few years back when they were trying to knock
off that Hecks of never having been in the All Blacks,
Whether the Scots actually believed that they can, I mean,
they probably should. This is a this is an All
Black team that's just every game. I think it's sort
(39:42):
of the more questions they answer, the more questions get
asked as well. I'd almost given that game away. I
was pretty sure the Irish were going to be able
to finish this off in Chicago. But thankfully that bench
came on for the for the second Test in a row,
that bench came on and managed to get the I've done.
And I guess the question for the All Blacks this
(40:03):
week will be they're going to have to draw on
that beach and actually start those guys rather than using
them for impact given some of the injuries they've gotten
the squad.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
And that's a concern for the Irish going forward. And
I think a few of the scribes are saying the
same thing this week. They've got no young players coming
through as such, they're all thinking about five years ago.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Yes, some question marks around Ireland and whether they're sort
of you know, running around there but on past glories,
and whether some of those players have potentially done their death.
But you know, by the same token that you know
that was the first test of the year, you know,
they definitely looked, they looked rusty, They looked like they
were trying to play a reasonably a reasonably one dimensional
(40:42):
sort of a game just to sort of get things
going and it was almost good enough to beat us.
So I wouldn't count that Irish team out just yet.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
But that first half of rugby one of the worst
hards you'll ever see. Fifty to fifty five minutes to
play forty minutes of sport that should never happen.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
That was terrible.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That was terrible.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
We've we've watched some pretty average rugby and we're Stags.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Some of the Stag's performances in.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
The NPC, and they had some good games, don't get
me wrong. They gave us some memories, but some of
their other performances were pretty average. But see that all
Blacks first half, even the first hour, was to ride
up there with some rugby that you'd want to forget
pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
T twent ty. The black Caps going down rather surprisingly
to the West Indies last night. But Jacob Duffy, his
bowling rises, his bowling stocks just seemed to be on
the up.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
This West Indies team, who I don't know, HICKI have
a lot about them, but they always seem to be
sort of lurching from one crisis and to the next.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
The Winders and obviously we sort of, you know, we.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
We sort of have our hearts open to them at
the moment with the ware the crisis has been happening
in Jamaica, but I think they arrived the very early
hours of Monday morning and then Wednesday night they're lining
up at Eden Park against the team that's already had
two series this early stage of the summer. Jacob Uppert,
you're outstanding with the ball and probably yeah, and he
(42:10):
sort of bowled some of those heavy overs as well,
and then obviously had to do a week job at
the with the bat at the end. I'd given up
on them by that stage. At that I thought they
were well and truly gone. But Mitt Centner, who's just
who can just hit a massive ball, tried, you know,
almost got us across the line of the Captain's not
just seven or on short.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
But Aden Park is not a good place esthetically to
watch first class cracket. When you're in the slips, your
two through is the way to the boundary. I mean
even Duane Kyle of all people, get at the boundary
on Eating Park, right.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
Yeah, the Windy's medium paces almost they were almost pushing
off the pushing off the side screen, weren't they last night?
So it is a it's an interesting ground. I don't
have any great love for it. I know there's a
big push on for it to be called our national stadium,
and there's a lot of people that want to make
that happen. But was up in Auckland at Labor weeks
(43:00):
end and sort of just thinking see how good it
would be to have an actual national stadium down there
on the waterfront. It seems like that ships sail though unfortunately,
But Jed, it just seems like we've missed the.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Trickby bring on the stadium and christ Church Nathan Burdon Residence,
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Speaker 3 (43:25):
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Speaker 1 (43:30):
What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with
the Titanic about halfway? Just remembering the state of emergency
is being lifted at nine point thirty am tomorrow morning
and we'll have some more interviews as well, courtesy of
the South and Rural Support Trusts in association with the
(43:50):
Community Trust South as well. Steve Henderson on the show tomorrow.
My name's Andy Buwer. This has been the muss ron
hock and nowI thanks for Peter Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon,
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Hey, well, I'll right sure, he'll go there and where
did it go on?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Again? For I'm a twenty five again, thanks a PDG
Rights and represent stock selling action every Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday here on the Muster and the saff toned as
a turn of David Morrison to give us an update
from the Charleston sale, which is how this morning till
you're good afternoon. Those prices are sounding pretty damn good.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
Still, yeah, very good today Andy, probably happen another fifteen
to twenty dollars today, but we'll just start with the best.
The best lands three thirties, three fifty. That's very heavy dams,
of course, many of them sort of two forty two fifty,
two sixty with the light of the prime rames around
a couple hundred dollars are you sectioned? The union views
(44:43):
very very strong in the matting today. The best to
use to forty to two sixty. That's heavy us Andy
millions sort of one seventy one ninety with the light
of con listened news of one sort of one twenty
five dollars, so very very strong there, and also local
read ratings that Mark was up today and they're sort
(45:03):
of one hundred, one hundred ten dollars bracket and they
drifted up Andy.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yes, he practice
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