July 6, 2026 • 47 mins
Andy Muir talks to Grant McMaster, Graham Butcher, Tori Tremaine, Bruce Ford, Isla Edgecombe and Sam Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Godhead jokes.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. I'm
Andy Mioa. We're here until two o'clock and the show
is brought to you, of course by Peter's genetics. Welcome
along to a blue sky field afternoon and gore seven degrees.
We'll look at the forecast shortly, quite a bit to
get through for the your so straight into it. Neil
Diamond is the music, and we learn about why it's
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Neil Diamond as we catch up a disaster this afternoon.
He's a big fan of this s guy.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you pardon me, I'd like to se.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot co dot inzeed. This afternoon sunshine of breezy easterlys
and seven. Wednesday showers of calm variable winds one and seven.
Thursday cloud you have calmed variable winds minus three and seven.
Friday sunshine have calmed variable wins once again minus two
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in sacks and rins and repeats. Saturday sunshine become variable
wins minus three and seven. Here we go. We can't
sing dance such a cool song. If you're not aware
of it, it's called Forever and blue jeans. So temperatures
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as we carry on Clinton two point one, Harriet four
point nine, Northern south On five point one, Riveton eight
t and now four point one, Wynton four point one
of Woodland's at six point eight as Grant Disaster McMaster
a close friend station starts us off for the hour.
Graham Butcher farm consultant talking about you pregnancy, which is
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pretty relevant at the moment. A lot of scanning going
on around the province. Tory Tremaine, Abannamin Crookshank Pride, the
lawyers talking Will's power of attorneys and the likes Bruce Ford,
our Stewart Island correspondent. We have a catch up from
the bottom of New Zealand and see what's been happening
down there quite a bit as well, both sounds of it.
(02:02):
And in our Young Farmer's Chair Eyla Edgkin, she's just
got back from a few days up at the Young
Farmer of the Year competition and tells us all about
it herself. She had a prestigious award as well, so
always got to catch up with people in the Young
Farmer's Chat and Sam Riley at PGG writes and gets
us underway. Shortly. He texted before and said, stop prices.
(02:25):
They've gone to record levels. You think it's good when
you're in the three hundreds. How about he reckons we
go a little bit higher than that yet, So they'll
get us underway, then we'll catch up with disaster after that.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Zach Kim seeing see.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is the muster on Hakauie as we head up
to the Wakatovy Basin and the edges of Lake Rocket
Food a close bar in Station Grant Disaster McMaster joins
us once again. Of course, thanks for a team at
Arby Rural. Greg, good afternoon, off the bat Neil Diamond.
That song there, Holly Holy from the movie that came
out last year song sung Glue. I actually seen us
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a couple of weeks ago, featuring Hugh Jacks Hugh Jackman
not Hugh Jackson. I keep confusing you. He's last year's
Young Farmer's Winner and Kate Hudson. Fantastic movie. You're a
Neil Diamond fan, you'll dig.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
This and everybody I actually saw that Neil Diamond film
on the on the plane when we hit it away
there a few weeks ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A great a great story and a true one. So yeah,
I mean naked. I mean there's been a lot of
people playing Neil Diamond, but that guy, that guy that
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the film was about, really really good and a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How's life on the basin?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, life breaking today. It's been a bit trying over
the weekend and last week, but it's it's a lovely
day to day. Very cold this morning seven degrees at
the moment, sun shining, snows well down, but there's been
a bit of a thaw on. We had fifty meals
of rain on Saturday and Sunday Saturday from Saturday morning
to Sunday morning, so that's made the track of it
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slippery and with the frost coming out at least and
get the electric fence standards and over the hills. But
he had better wasted there with the crops. So yesterday
I actually took the took the hog its off and
put them on a really sacrificed bat it, but one
that had a bit of grass and it was easy
to do so back there this morning, and it's you know,
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it's dried out a lot better now. And that's the
thing when when it does rain here and we get
their rain, it doesn't take a long time to it
doesn't make much to dry it out. So a lot
better this morning. So put a bit of a couple
of bales of failures out and the feeders for them,
and you break and they're all good there. But as
I say, fifty miles of rain and yeah, I got
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bloody wet.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So you'll have a plan B in place of need
be though I'd imagine I'll work that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Out when it comes to it. Yea, I suppose I'll
have to know. No, that's all good there at the moment,
and we've got a couple of paddlets we can run
off and just listening to the weird I was also
known as the Greens on the television last night. No
pregmatism there whatsoever. So I mean, they're not wanting fertilizer
now and fanning winter crops and grays. And this is
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what we've heard before. So tell you what, who everyon
that's listening, I said, if we need to, you know,
we're having a pretty good patch at the moment, and
it's been well proven that this country needs the agricultural sector,
so people will be careful who you vote for.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Of course, the Green Party a bit of context around this,
coming out yesterday saying they want to be in synthetic
fertilizer and get rid of these cow numbers that they
can sort as the problem with their waterways. There's a
lot of other issues that play here, Grant, but got
to stay relevant somehow. I suppose an election.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You're right, well, I guess you have, but you know
you can't. You can't substitute for stupidity, can you at
the end of the day, if they want to fall
around and bloody sandals and eating bean sprouts and being
a third world country, which you know we're not far
off at times with a lot of things we can't do.
So you know, it's pretty it's pretty scary, and I
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think it's yeah, it's something, you know, it's this last term,
with this last parliamentary term that's been good. You know,
we've got back to what we've good at doing and
people get on with the jobs and then they start
banging on about the waterways again. Well, we've never been
over swimming all the waterways. I've been too bloody cold
most of the time. That's one point. And you know
they've gone about that, but you know, no mention of
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all the surroge that's going into the end of the
Wellington Harbor, of the Kipra Harbor. It just it just
gives me the time.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Last time we caught else, Yeah you had the rock
going in and all over and done with.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No, we're still finishing off there. But you know, it's
when you get when you get machine, you're on a
place and there's a bit of rotten rock, you just
there's so many there's so many possibilities you can do
with and as farm as we tend to get away
bit carried away. So no, we've got a little bit
that's that's settled down really well. And that two inches
of rain that was in a really short time. I
was I was quite pleased to go there and see
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that nothing had changed, which was you know, it looks
to be we spent a lot of time and a
lot of money on getting this right, so I think
that's all right. So just finishing off there and then
there's some fence lines at the boundary dock that that
creeks come through, and you know, these rainfalls all of
a sudden, the fences of level with the top of
the rock. So figure's got to go along there and
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try and clean that again. And it's sort of a
it's a catch twenty two between how many floodgates do
you put in and and and how you keep monitoring it.
But at the end of the day, it's smother nature,
as we know from the last week, and very hard
to control, isn't that way? You can't just got to
go with it. So we've got the fences that's still here,
so well while the diggers there will try and put
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a few put a few more floodgates in and hopefully
that'll that'll alleviate us having to get back every every
six months to fix up what's coming back down out
of these hills that just you know, rule when it
does get wet.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I suppose that's the issue when you've got a digger
or a dozer on the farm and while you're here,
just what about that? What about this? But it just
makes sense if they're there, it just doesn't really work
with the operator's time frame sometimes. But shout out to
those guys too, they're pretty accommodating. It must be frustrating.
But while you're there on a coffee span, it's all
about getting a job done.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Of space, well it is, and it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Costs a bit to establish getting a digger there and
especially well anywhere really, but you know, once you've got
them there, they've got to walk around the walk to
where the job is it. You know, you can't actually
get it through a transport or anything like that, and
that's all times. So when you've got it there, you've
got to make the most of it. And as you
say that, you know the contract. There's only a lot
of pressure at times and they get hailed up with
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weather and people that are not organized, and once you
got them there, you sort of want to keep them.
And you know how the next foor bugger behind you
feeling because you've been feeling that way for six months,
waiting from the get here in this first place, so
you're not keen to let them go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Andy now Tom Slade doing the self proud one in
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition recently, You've
got a bit of a story with Tom working in
the basin.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, no, congratulations to Tom, and well done. He was
a proud member of the dog Troll Club when he
was up there. He worked across the lake at Walla
Peak for a season and I'd like to say we
caught him a lot of things, and we did, but
I can tell you there's probably nothing that helped with
the Young Farmers Club. But no, congratulations Tom. We're all
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very proud of you up here, and you'll have to
come back and be get part of our Dog Troll
Club and carry on in the form that we got
you to for, especially at the after Mets functions. I'm
sure you've got something to think us there for mate.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's great to listen under these stories though regarding the
rural sector ground, I mean, like you say, you talk
about the synthetic fertilized debacles that's wanting to be implemented,
but then you look at the other side of the
spectrum in the industry and celebrating the positives and this
is just a story we can't talk enough about.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
No, you're right, and you know, I take my head
off to all the young people that go into the
Young Farmers that are members of Young Farmers and likes
of time he's gone on through and one of with
a great team behind him and his old I think
the two Chattery farm whoever, they were all up there supporting,
and you know, it makes your rest of it easier
knowing that there's good young guys and girls that are
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out there that at the cutting edge of what's happening,
and now the people that are going to keep us going.
And when old Bagger's like you know me and the
rest of the bloody sixty five year olds hang up,
the hang up the shepherd's crop for the last time,
and you know, the average age is getting up there.
So I think we are very fortunate enough to have
the Lincoln and the Messes and I have to say
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the flockhouses in the nineteen seventies just for them being
in there. But yeah, I think that we're very fortunate
as country to have all these young people coming through
and and just keeping agriculture to the floor and very
good at what they do. So congratulations time and congretsulations
everybody that has involved in that We.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Chucked Telford and there as well. Disaster, good on your mate,
and do it the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'll do that. Take care.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Grant Disaster McMaster. Thanks to ABI Rural Always ready to
catch up and see what's happening up there in the basin,
and certainly a good news story in the South young farmers. Coincidentally,
we do have Eyler chkinbe on the show later on
in the Yellow But up next Graham Butcher farm consultant.
(11:59):
You shame, Welcome back to the muster fun Consultant. Graham
Butcher joins us once again.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Good vo afternoon.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Our things pretty good. This is arguably when the winter
starts after the winter solstice.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well you often hear that after the shortest day it
turns to winter.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Probably has in a way.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We've had some couple of decent frosts, I suppose, and
then you snow around the hoku.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But you wouldn't have known for two weeks, and some are.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well that was We've been back nearly a fortnite. Now
we flew back into Vicago. We're from twenty one degrees
to four degrees.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Welcome back to South. And like you say, Matan's well
and truly gone. But look straight onto the matter at hand. Today.
It's a time at the moment a lot of sheep
scannings getting into full mode. Firstly, sheep scanning results. Are
you hearing much at the moment?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Vary between the reports I've had back between one hundred
and seventy one hundred and ninety five, so probably pretty good.
But we had a pretty good ordum. You probably accounsel that,
so probably he makes the management over pregnancy just a
bit more critical if you've got more lambs to look after.
So I just thought to have a quick talk about
not taking your eye off the ball during pregnancy, because
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you can't really, because every day during pregnancy something quite
important is happening. So if we take a ram out
date of in Southen of about fifth of April, which
reasonably typical generally speaking, fifteenth of April would be about
your average sort of mating date is about ten days
between when your RAM goes out and when things really
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get hoped into speed. So taking fifteenth of April is
the start data for the average start data pregnancy for
the first twelve days. Also, once a U is mated,
the egg doesn't implant until about twelve days later, and
during that period she's pretty vulnerable. So from when she's
made it, if anything unusual a few days off feed
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or whatever it is, that egg probably won't I plants,
so she's going to miss it cycle and going to
the second cycle. So the first twelve days is pretty critical.
From day twelve to about day thirty is probably about
the only time you can take a breather. We've still
got to feed the maintenance, of course, so we don't
lose the hard earned body condition score we put on
over summer. But from about day thirty the placenta really
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starts getting into gear and growing, and that's quite a
critical part of the whole pregnancy because if we've got
multiple bearing ues, we've got to have a decent sized placenta,
so we get a couple of decent sized lambs, or
even three decent sized lambs. So day thirty things start
to really happen. We've got to start looking after feeding.
Where we're at now, we're bang on middle of pregnancy,
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about day seventy seventh of July, so we're middle of pregnancy.
The placenta is really about halfway through its growth. It's
taken away quite nicely the implanted embryo, the fetus is
starting to think about growing pretty quickly from about now on,
and the memory tissue is sort of wondering whether it
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should start growing or not. Probably hasn't got under wage
just yet. By the end of this month, the percent's
probably fully grown, so you've lost the opportunity to go
good percenter. So right from the start of mating right
till the end of this month, there's things we've got
to look after pretty well, so we need to ensure
that maintenance feeding. And from about the end of the
month the twins, singles, and triplets start to diverge in
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their requirements. So by the end of this month, the
fetus really kicks into gear and grows pretty quickly, as
does the memory tissue. The placenta has fully grown and
just sits there. So by about one hundred and forty
seven days we can expect the first lambs coming. And
by about eight weeks prior eight weeks prior yeah, to
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the actual first lambs appearing, we get this divergence in twins, singles,
and triplets, so we've got to start considering that now feeding.
So really the whole point is every day during pregnancy
is quite important. There's something happening. You can't just assume
that going to up our feeding months out of lambing
and things that were sweet, we don't want to underfeed,
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it's going to affect the placenter in the memory tissue.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So we've got to be on our toes.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
And feed at least the maintenance and start lifting our
nutrition requirements, particularly your multiples, probably a bit earlier than
we mostly do.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I've heard of a few people who stop scanning because
they're lamb numbers. They knew they were going to get
messive numbers over two hundred percent, and they just treated
all their use with the same way like you would
back in the early nineties. Do you think that's a mistake.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
When you say treating the same as the nineties, that
that's not quite feeding to maintenance.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, well, that's just treating everything as a twin bearing.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
You are supposed well, okay, if you're treating everything at
twin bearing, new, isn't it two hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's probably right.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You've probably only got i don't know, twelve percent single,
so not worth a separate mob I suppose. But if
you're two hundred percent, most of them going to be multiple,
so long as you're feeding to the multiple ration, that's fine,
no problem at all.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Good money for drys at the moment, still, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, it is really so, yeah, we need to keep
our pregnancy rate down so we get good money for dryes.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
No, no, we've got to get as many lambs as
we can because lambs are pretty valuable now too. So anyway,
as I said, we've got to keep on our toes.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Absolutely. Phil Duncan of weather Watch, we're a correspondent here
on the Musta every Friday talking about the southern annular
mode and one of the rains this week.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah, I thought that was I've never heard of that before.
And that's just the westerly flows around Antarctica. How big
it is, whether it miles out from Antarctica or closes
into Antarctica. Apparently now it's positive, so the westerly wins
that circle Antarctica are closer to Antarctica, so all the
high pressure systems float down.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And I'd never.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Heard of that before, but apparently it's a pretty significant
sort of driver of our climate in New Zealand. And
everyone seems to be focused on al Nino and Larnina,
but this one appears to be quite important. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I've got a.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Client over Western South and he said two really wet springs.
So I went back through thirty odd years of rain
records monthly rain records for the area and picked out
all the al Nino years and said, okay, wat's the
rainfall pattern for those strong al Nino years And there
was no pattern at all. So there's obviously other things
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driving the weather patterns down here. And that's sam one
looks pretty interesting, so I might do a bit more
work on that one. There's another one, the Indian Ocean dipole,
which can affect our weather down here. So she's a
pretty complicated things trying to protict the weather a month out.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, the acronyms the acronym for al Nino and La
Nina's and so our Nino southern oscillations. So yeah, acronyms
are over the show.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well there is well that's Southern oscillation. It's at one
end of the oscillation, and the other end of the
oscillation that's La Nino.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So put together, and so there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You ever thought of being a meteorologist.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No, I just put up with the weather.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Just wake up in the morning and see what's in
front in front of you, orrest listen to Phil Duncan
on weather Watch.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's the best forecast you'll get.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Good on you enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
You too, Seeucky Warm Graham Butcher farm consultant and not
a meteorologist, but nonetheless very interesting regarding the southern annular
mode and all these acronyms regarding the weather.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Please go in the afternoon out here in Gorge. Just coincidentally,
you're listening to the muster on Hakannui. Up next, Toy
Tremaine of Benaman Crokshank Pride, the lawyers, you get to
know you.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
The story is the same one, but I got an
emptynst deep inside.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is the muster as we can't hup with Tory
Tremaine of Benaman Crookshank Pride, the lawyers based and Gore
and their new officers in a nice and warm at
this time of you. Good afternoon, Tory.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
By the ending, how are you?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You're going very well? Firstly, the new office, you must
be wrapped with it.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yes, No, it's fantastic, a new space to be in.
So it's very bright and malcoming. So it's a nice
place to be each day.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now we're talking today about a couple of topics Tory. Firstly,
purchasing property. You're hearing about the ad instance at the
moment people got a bit of extra money from the
Fontira sale or whatever we got in their capital brands,
saying what am I going to do? So perhaps I'm
going to run off block. So if you're going to
go and purchase something, there's always a bit of admin
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to go with it as such.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I suppose, yes, that's right, it's I guess. The key
takeaway around when you're looking at purchasing property is to
make sure you've got your ducks in a row, essentially
in knowing what you're buying and doing your due diligence
and your homework around the property that you're buying, and
you know what the implications are that go with it. Obviously,
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the one's finance and most people will know, you know,
talk to your finance, you know, your lender, or you know,
figure out how that's all going to work. But the
other part of it really is, I guess the structuring
behind it, how that sits with your longer term goals
you're planning, and also around I guess council requirements and
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whether you know there's some resource consent issues or you know,
everything like that. That sort of feeds into can I
use the property how I want to use it? Is
everything lined up as it should be. So there are
a few boxers to tick when you're looking at you
purchasing a property, especially a rural property, but also a
residential property. There's you know, people keen to invest off
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some in some other assets. There's similar due diligence that
needs to go on behind the scenes for practicing residential
property as well.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Does the resource consents side of things catch people out
when they're buying new property.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It can do.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I mean, these days there's some fairly good resources around,
you know, checking in what consents there are, and most
people who are selling their properties will you have some
good disclosure around what existing consents there are. So it's
just making sure that you are familiarizing yourself with what
they are and what's necessary and obviously what's there is
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sufficient to carry on the operation that you want to
carry on. So most people are well across that, but
it is something that can often be I guess put
to one side and everyone thinks, yep, she'll be right
on the odd occasion it's not. So that's just something
to add onto your list of things to just make
sure you check in on as part of any property.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Purchase these days. It comes down to the should be
right mentality as you talked about. Then Torri, you've just
got to put that on one side and do your
due diligence. Do you backed around checks and just make
sure everything aligns. That's what I'd use.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Absolutely, that's one hundred percent correct, because we do find
that it's when you know, people run into issues when
they're you know, signing up to buy properties. It's it's
because something just hasn't quite happened as it should have,
and it can be you know, it's not always the
end of the world, but it is something that can
be relatively important, and it needs to be something that
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is resolved, you know, so that you can go on
and actually complete your purchase. Usually, so it's really just
about making sure that you've filled all those things through
and down your i u's proper homework around what what
it all entails. Because yeah, it used to be that
you could sort of get away with this, you'll be
right and it'll you know, it'll fill itself out. But
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the red tape and things that exist now that there's
a lot harder, and yeah, if there are things that
are going to catch you out, they can have some
you know, bigger consequences than historically they have had. So
we're just very much full of you know, a number
one takeaway I guess around that is don't find anything
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before we've run it past us, because often we've been
there and seen that and we can pick those things
up that ordinarily you know people won't. So that's really
important to remember.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
A state planning is something else to consider. Wills and epas.
Now EPAS doesn't stand around the Environment Protection Agency, although
William's instances not in this one though, it is indeed
the enduring powers of attorney. We've talked about this before,
but you think it's something that you can't talk about
enough just to get the message through regarding what this
is about.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
That's right, and look at it sits alongside every bit
of work we do for a client is we've always
got our turn our mind too, all right, what's their
long term plan? What's our long term structure? Here in
nine times out of ten or nineteen nine percent of
the time, wills end enduring powers of attorney set on
alongside that as well, because you know, if your own property,
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even if it's not a significant or none of property,
one day it could be quite significant. So it's one
of those things that wills are relatively cheap and easy
to put in place. There are situations where they can
be a bit more complicated, of course, but for the
most part, they are relatively straightforward, and it's a really
key piece of your I guess long term planning and
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structure to know what is going to happen with your
property once you're no longer around, and there's a variety
of options about what might happen with your property or
what you might want to see heaven with your property,
so it's always good to have a discussion around that too,
to make sure that all the work you're putting into
generate your assets and wealth that is transferred to the
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next generation or whoever you want it to be transferred
to in a well structured and I guess, well intentioned manner.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
What would be one key message around enduring powers of
attorney that you give to.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
People, so it'd be not necessarily for our older generation,
a lot of people would traditionally think, were you and
we need to keep there when you're getting.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
You know, a bit longer in the truth, so to speak,
so they definitely are you know, something that is very
valuable for any age group, because it's you know, if
you're going to lose mental capacity, it can happen.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
At any point.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
It's you know, if an accident happens to you on
the farm, if you're a vehicle accident, if you develop dementia,
or you know, have some other medical condition that affects your.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Brain capacity, and that can you know, those things can
happen to people at any age. So the process is
the same regardless of whether you're a twenty one year
old or whether you're a seventy year old. If you
don't have powers of attorney in place, your family can't
automatically step in too. I just make decisions and manage
things for you. It's a process going through the family
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court essentially to get permission to be able to deal
with with your air sets and things, which is you
know costly a time, takes time to do that and
probably adds a bit more stress to what is probably
already a very you know, stressful and emotional time for people.
And then you add on or you've got to go
to the family court. That's just you know, upping it
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up a notch for people. So how's the attorney, It's
you know, an investment and knowing, you know, giving you
your family us some certainty about what would happen. Especially
if you've got you know, a mess, you know, a
decent amount of capital and a set base, then you
want to know that you've got the right people making
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the decisions around that. If you ever can't.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Tory the team at Banaman Crokshank Pride, the lawyers. Where
do people get in touch?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Sure so they can find us on the internet CP
law dot co dot MZ or they can just give
us a call. Three two nine one eight three.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Tory Tremaine always got to catch up on the muster
us Tory Tremaine of Bannerman Crookshank Pride, the lawyers based
here in Gore. This is the muster up. Next, we're
a way down to the deep south of New Zealand,
Stuart Island. We're catching up with Bruce Ford.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We even love me.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes, we're away down to Stuart Island this afternoon on
the muster, catching up with our correspondent down those ways,
Bruce Ford, former South Industrict councilor these days resides on
the at the island at the bottom of New Zealand. Bruce, Good, afternoon,
do you get frustrated when people called the need in
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the Deep South.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Ah, sometimes we do you, but of course we usually
try and refute that it's we get off better than
lots of other places. You know. Then you've got floods
and all swat things at the moments, and you know
they have our sympathy. But for all us, we don't
get flood so much. It's about six degrees at the moment.
We're a wee bit climate control here.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, talking about the climate. How's it been over winter?
Has it been cooler than usual or a bit more mild?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Wow, it's only just this last few days and it's
the col's head us a lieve bit and it's been
very mild. The lots of the stuff in the garden,
there's roses and currents that all got buds on them,
and you know it's we've been how to kill them.
But I suppose that's climate change. Will be ready for
economic flanntings anytime.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Everything's just a little bit out of whack at the
moment you reckon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Well, I think everywhere everybody's having a different season. Blos
the out of.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It, Yeah, for sure. Now the big issue down there
has been regarding the price of electricity, the soul of
farmers on the horizon. What's happening around this?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I know the.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Nigrant from our government to established the solar farm and
that's being on the competed on the road to the
Estra former gun sight or rather former gun club site
where a lot of people around south and won't be
familiar with. And that's all cleared off now. The contractors
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been peared or a bush offered and supposedly be operating
by January. So there's quite a lot of work to
do yet, but certainly the site's all nicely cleared and
we'll be very pleased about that because the electricity currently
has been changed out at ninety three cents per unit,
which is at least three four times more than what
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you people might be paying.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
So it's fair to say this will be a game
changer for electricity on the island.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Well, it's certainly going to help. And of course all
the electricty we use, it's only lights and fringes, so
it's not as if you have water heating and electric
stones and things. We still have. You know, we've got
the LPG and cold ranges and likes. But certainly it'll
be a big help, but I'm suspecting that people will
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just use a bit very electricity. It may not change
the total bills, but will be a bit easy to
get on with.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Now we spoke to you last time the task sailing
was going on around the island. This is all be completed.
I understand.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yep. It's taking them for six weeks or so to complete.
And the contractor has done all that. It's all looking
pretty tidy. And we get that about every fifteen years
or so, and they because our loadings are not as
great as they are on the other side, with heavy
trucks and things, we make it last a bit longer.
So it's all tied up now. It's been remarked, and
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I'm very conscious now that the parking tickets and any
road rules we reached the coper him on his toes,
and it could well be some tickets around.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Did get parking tickets down there?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yes we do. And there's no point having complacency if
you're driving around here, because the first thing has happened
with you go to the other side and you get
caught for doing something you shouldn't have. And of course
it could be worse than that. You could have an accident.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Now, as far as senior cottages, this is something that's
been on the horizon for a while for the elderly
members of your community and fundraising to get new digs.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes, there's been on the agenda for many many, well
quite a long time now, and it's been a pet
of mind. And of course it's been such that we
have a trust set up and we've bought some land
and we have all plans are drawn up. We've been
fundraising for that. We've got about one point three million
lined up. We need a couple of million overall. So
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each time I ride off to various politicians in Wellington
and beyond, they all come back. So what a great idea,
But we can't help you today, but this election year
might be a bit more useful. But we don't hold
your bread yet.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Now. The pub down there at the South Seas Hotel
turned one hundred years old.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah, so that's been a bit of a celebration weekend
because we like celebrations and it's another reason to get
the community moving and doing things. And they've been insisting
with part of the anniversary arrangements. There's lots and lots
of photographs come out and they've had a scavenger hunt
just to get people motivated, and that look pretty successful.
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Lot of fun and of course they all culminated on
the Sunday night for quiz Night, so they had prizes
for all those things. But a great fun day or
fun weekend. And I expect the photographs are still there
for a few days yets. So a lot of memories
to be to come forward, just to remind people of
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those that have been here before. And we did get
a lot of verses out of it. It's been part
of the encouraging bonus.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You do hear a lot about this quiz nice it's
almost gone down as infamous.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Well it is, yes, and we've had lots of occasion
and different quiz masters, and of course the bigger one
was when Prince Harry was here and all his security team,
so that that was a massive night. So that's been
a major part of the publicity. And would you believe it,
there were fifty security people on scene by that night. Yeah.
(34:30):
I didn't think it were that bad, but somebody else did.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I think he's pretty it's pretty sedate down a steard island.
Fifty fifty starts a bit of overkill wouldn't you suggest.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well, there was a fear all sorts of cops talking
into the sleeve and they probably had a nice weekend
out of it on that occasion. But of course it
carries on. That's quite a week while ago now and
we have lots of people from far and wide that
have heard about quiz and they just keep turning up
on Someday night. They're all getting into the publicar least,
so you get the table and it's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Now the South Island, South Island, the Stuart Island Players
Group Repertory Society is such as suppose sounds like there's
something occurring there.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, we've got an amateur of playing group that put
on a show over now and then, and that's progressed
over time for about the last soon thirty forty years,
I suppose, and we keep replacing the young new people
and they are going to show coming up off and
can't tell you what the show has bring me, but
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they've been in practice in the meantime and I won't
be part of it. I'll have to be a spectator,
which would certainly just fine. But it's great fun, keeps
everybody out there and increases the confidence and their public
speaking and the performance on stage. That's a great event
for the community as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And just finally, Bruce, because time is the year since
the doctor service or the health services rud Island. What's
happening there?
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In recent times we've been short of a GP service
and the Luft Medical Center have recently introduced once a
month service to bring a doctor over to go around
the customers here. And of course we say there are
ailments up for a month at a time and the
local nurses clinic here will cater for that. We do
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have nurses here all the time that are very very
good and handle most of our ailments. But that's a
new service and we're very pleased about that because it
does save a lot of money for a lot of
people that not having to buy a ticket to town
and the consequent costs that go with that. So the
doctor has one cost and we just pay them at
the door here.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Good to hear, Bruce, Hae. Always good to catch up
on the mustard to see what's happening at the deep
South of New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Charlie good thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Any Bruce Ford based down at Stuart Island, the muster
ISIL prnkles up next to Young Farmers Welcome back to
(37:16):
the muster on Hakanui. Eiler Edgekimb joins us next and
the Young Farmers chat for a Tuesday and it's fair
to say it's been a phenomenal couple of days for
young farmers in the South. Of course Tom Slee winning
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year award, but a
lot of the other awards came South as well. Now
Isler Edgekimb is going to fill us in on what
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actually went down with these awards up in New Plymouth
over the weekend. Eilther, congratulations as well to the just
Otago Southland for everything that occurred. But you personally, you
picked up the Emerging Member award.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
Yes I did. I was pretty stoked with it. But yeah,
it's just nice to be rewarded for the hard work
that goes in.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
But obviously you don't strive so.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
That at the end of the day, you do it
because you enjoy it. So yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But the fact you're being recognized by your peers in
the organization says you must be doing something right. So
well done. Yeah, no thing, andy, So tell us all
about you Plymouth it sounds like a pretty hectic five
or six days.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Well it was pretty good. Like I don't think any
of us had actually been up there, so it was
really cold to just see another part of New Zealand.
And yeah, we flew into Wellington, so we had a
four and a half hour drive ahead of us on
the Thursday. On the Wednesday, so it was good to
get up there and absolutely stunning views and obviously Mount
(38:41):
Egmont was the premost scene in the background. So yeah,
and the weather was good and a wee b bit
warmer than down here, but yeah, no, we had a
really good time.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Just go over the awards that we got down here
in the South. You got Region of the Year, Tom
won the big Accolade Emerging Member. What else was? If
there was something else, wasn't there.
Speaker 10 (39:03):
Clinton Young Farmers got the best District coition.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
And yeah, we had a couple awards at the tournaments,
which was held on the Thursday. We had three from
Young fart Well, two from t Farmers, one from Waitan,
one from Thornbury, one from upper Man and two from
West to Tago competing in that and Robert Wilson from
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Thornbury came first in the threat shooting, so that was
pretty cool. Back to back when that Shane Sanders came
second from upper Man which was really awesome as.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Well, and Meghan White and has A Macazza got third
in the fencing. Hope they were in arguing too much
during it.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
No, they were pretty good.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
It was pretty awesome to see Megan out there because
she was the only female competitor and yeah, they held
their call which was good and had a couple of
beverages after, so yeah, no, it was really cool to see. Yeah,
we area out there competing, so.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, ye're now fantastic it was. So it was a
pretty good environment up there. I mean that goes about
saying young farmers as such. We talk about how how
good it's going down here in the South. What's happening
around the rest of the country. Do you get the
same vibe.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Yeah, there's a few other regions that are trying to
get on far with the Targo Southland, so we've definitely
set the standard is because they're bringing up new people
to help change the areas and get a bit more
involvement right around the country. So yeah, no, it's nice
to meet other people from other regions and see what
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they're doing. And yeah, no, it was really good.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So what is it that to Targo South that is
doing so well to win Region of the Year two
years in succession.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
I think we've got a lot of club backing, like
we've got involved, like within our regional exec we've got
someone from almost every club in the region that is
in that role, so we're able to communicate a lot
better with things going on, and there's no double booking
and I don't know, we've just got a really good
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I guess backbone to Otago's outland.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
So and membership just seems to be growing as well.
I mean numbers wise, how much would you say it's
gone up in the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
Oh, I wouldn't have any idea, but it's definitely growing. Yeah,
just people keep coming through and realizing, oh, you know,
it's a good, good environment to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
And yeah, and of course Tom Slee winning the overall
accolade too, so there's a fair few of you's out
there supporting him. To be fair, it was awesome.
Speaker 10 (41:45):
Yeah, no, there's about fifty fifty to sixty of US
members plus Tom supporters, so it was really awesome and
great vibes around.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
No, it was really good to see. Now as far
as Tiana Young farmers, I mean, this has been your
focus over the past. We were what happens now, I mean,
carving's coming up not far away from landing, but there'd
be a few events on the horizon i'd say around
the province.
Speaker 10 (42:08):
Definitely. We've got We've just had our bark up planning
meeting last night with the sub committee. We've locked on
the tenth of October for that and that's always a
primo night, so yeah, that'll be there'll be some colms
around that coming out very shortly. And then we've got
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a few inter club events, the car trail which is
early August, and then we're looking at heading up to
Terrace for their bark up.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
At the end of.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
August as well, so we have to put the dog
trailer that we've brought to use, which will be pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
So well, I know, we everything's in pretty good steed though,
just regarding the organization, I mean, you guys must have
been buzzling as you came home. We saw heads over
the past couple of days.
Speaker 10 (42:58):
Yeah, No, we were absolutely thriving.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
So okay, Tiana Young Farmers. Anybody around that region thinking, yeah,
I want to get a part of a zayla. What
do they do?
Speaker 10 (43:09):
Check our socials out and yeah, we usually hold our
our meetings on the first Wednesday of each month. We've
actually got our meeting tomorrow night instead, purely because a
few of us were away last week for Grand Finals
and it's usually at the Tiana Club. But everything's posted
up on the on our socials.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Tyler Edgcombe Emerging Member winner for twenty twenty six for
New Zealand Young Farmers. Thanks for your chat. Always good
to catch up with the team and just in general congratulations.
I mean, go and enjoy the afterglows deserved.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Thanks Andy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
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Speaker 7 (43:50):
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Speaker 6 (44:42):
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Speaker 2 (44:42):
Now that's sober and done with for the afternoon. Great
to catch up with Eiler. A great weekend for take
you south and young farmers, I mean im you. This
has been the muster on Hakanui of course thanks to
Peter's genetics podcast will be up shortly in iHeartRadio. Catch
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Speaker 11 (45:03):
Well all right, sooy heybical there and what did he
go on again?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
For hey? Gg Rison once again presents stock selling action
which occurred at the Lord will say we add this morning.
So we are a man on the ground with Sam
Riley once again. Sam are good afternoon, these lamb values.
Are we breaking records?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (45:18):
Mate, good afternoon to you, and yeah, breaking records today,
those good heavy lambs top the four hundred dollar mark,
which is yeah, our standing really to see, and hopefully
it continues for some time. But so those good heavy
lambs over three hundred to four hundred dollars, the medium's
two sixty to two ninety and the lighter and stuff
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at two hundred and two forty. Into the years, those
good heavy years two thirty to two hundred and sixty dollars,
the medium's one seventy to two hundred and ten, and
the lighter and use at one hundred and twenty one
hundred and fifty dollars. The good heavy rams and today
were sixty to eighty dollars, in the mediums at forty
to fifty, just a four yarning of store lambs intoday
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tops of those two hundred and two thirty, the mediums
one eighty to one ninety. In the lottery stores at
one thirty to one and fifty, and a peer of
fn Fum Scannon Lamb breeding us they were two hundred
and eighty dollars mate. So still a good number of
stall of prime lambs coming in the store lambs and
in prime use dropping off with it and numbers there
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into the into the cattle section. They just a very
small yarding of prime kettle in today. Quotes there four
hundred and sixty kilo stairs at four dollars seventy to
four dollars seventy eight heavs at four hundred and sixty
kg's four dollars seventy. He was at three hundred and
sixty five kilos. They were poured dollars forty and a
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handful of cows and best of those five hundred and
six kilo cows three dollars twelve and four hundred and
sixty kilo cows two dollars eighty to three dollars. Into
the store market. We move just a very small way
outing of store kettle some R two here for cross
stairs at three hundred and eighty kg's eighteen hundred dollars marty.
The angus cross heafer is at four hundred and sixty
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two kilos twenty one twenty g it's marty here for
across days at three hundred and twenty eight kg. He's
there were fourteen seventy. So yeah, small numbers of prime
kettle a store kettle coming in today, but that wraps
up one moment, had to buy a plane to get
around
Godhead jokes.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. I'm
Andy Mioa. We're here until two o'clock and the show
is brought to you, of course by Peter's genetics. Welcome
along to a blue sky field afternoon and gore seven degrees.
We'll look at the forecast shortly, quite a bit to
get through for the your so straight into it. Neil
Diamond is the music, and we learn about why it's
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Neil Diamond as we catch up a disaster this afternoon.
He's a big fan of this s guy.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you pardon me, I'd like to se.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot co dot inzeed. This afternoon sunshine of breezy easterlys
and seven. Wednesday showers of calm variable winds one and seven.
Thursday cloud you have calmed variable winds minus three and seven.
Friday sunshine have calmed variable wins once again minus two
(00:59):
in sacks and rins and repeats. Saturday sunshine become variable
wins minus three and seven. Here we go. We can't
sing dance such a cool song. If you're not aware
of it, it's called Forever and blue jeans. So temperatures
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as we carry on Clinton two point one, Harriet four
point nine, Northern south On five point one, Riveton eight
t and now four point one, Wynton four point one
of Woodland's at six point eight as Grant Disaster McMaster
a close friend station starts us off for the hour.
Graham Butcher farm consultant talking about you pregnancy, which is
(01:41):
pretty relevant at the moment. A lot of scanning going
on around the province. Tory Tremaine, Abannamin Crookshank Pride, the
lawyers talking Will's power of attorneys and the likes Bruce Ford,
our Stewart Island correspondent. We have a catch up from
the bottom of New Zealand and see what's been happening
down there quite a bit as well, both sounds of it.
(02:02):
And in our Young Farmer's Chair Eyla Edgkin, she's just
got back from a few days up at the Young
Farmer of the Year competition and tells us all about
it herself. She had a prestigious award as well, so
always got to catch up with people in the Young
Farmer's Chat and Sam Riley at PGG writes and gets
us underway. Shortly. He texted before and said, stop prices.
(02:25):
They've gone to record levels. You think it's good when
you're in the three hundreds. How about he reckons we
go a little bit higher than that yet, So they'll
get us underway, then we'll catch up with disaster after that.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Zach Kim seeing see.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is the muster on Hakauie as we head up
to the Wakatovy Basin and the edges of Lake Rocket
Food a close bar in Station Grant Disaster McMaster joins
us once again. Of course, thanks for a team at
Arby Rural. Greg, good afternoon, off the bat Neil Diamond.
That song there, Holly Holy from the movie that came
out last year song sung Glue. I actually seen us
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a couple of weeks ago, featuring Hugh Jacks Hugh Jackman
not Hugh Jackson. I keep confusing you. He's last year's
Young Farmer's Winner and Kate Hudson. Fantastic movie. You're a
Neil Diamond fan, you'll dig.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
This and everybody I actually saw that Neil Diamond film
on the on the plane when we hit it away
there a few weeks ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A great a great story and a true one. So yeah,
I mean naked. I mean there's been a lot of
people playing Neil Diamond, but that guy, that guy that
(04:01):
the film was about, really really good and a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How's life on the basin?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, life breaking today. It's been a bit trying over
the weekend and last week, but it's it's a lovely
day to day. Very cold this morning seven degrees at
the moment, sun shining, snows well down, but there's been
a bit of a thaw on. We had fifty meals
of rain on Saturday and Sunday Saturday from Saturday morning
to Sunday morning, so that's made the track of it
(04:28):
slippery and with the frost coming out at least and
get the electric fence standards and over the hills. But
he had better wasted there with the crops. So yesterday
I actually took the took the hog its off and
put them on a really sacrificed bat it, but one
that had a bit of grass and it was easy
to do so back there this morning, and it's you know,
(04:49):
it's dried out a lot better now. And that's the
thing when when it does rain here and we get
their rain, it doesn't take a long time to it
doesn't make much to dry it out. So a lot
better this morning. So put a bit of a couple
of bales of failures out and the feeders for them,
and you break and they're all good there. But as
I say, fifty miles of rain and yeah, I got
(05:10):
bloody wet.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So you'll have a plan B in place of need
be though I'd imagine I'll work that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Out when it comes to it. Yea, I suppose I'll
have to know. No, that's all good there at the moment,
and we've got a couple of paddlets we can run
off and just listening to the weird I was also
known as the Greens on the television last night. No
pregmatism there whatsoever. So I mean, they're not wanting fertilizer
now and fanning winter crops and grays. And this is
(05:37):
what we've heard before. So tell you what, who everyon
that's listening, I said, if we need to, you know,
we're having a pretty good patch at the moment, and
it's been well proven that this country needs the agricultural sector,
so people will be careful who you vote for.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Of course, the Green Party a bit of context around this,
coming out yesterday saying they want to be in synthetic
fertilizer and get rid of these cow numbers that they
can sort as the problem with their waterways. There's a
lot of other issues that play here, Grant, but got
to stay relevant somehow. I suppose an election.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You're right, well, I guess you have, but you know
you can't. You can't substitute for stupidity, can you at
the end of the day, if they want to fall
around and bloody sandals and eating bean sprouts and being
a third world country, which you know we're not far
off at times with a lot of things we can't do.
So you know, it's pretty it's pretty scary, and I
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think it's yeah, it's something, you know, it's this last term,
with this last parliamentary term that's been good. You know,
we've got back to what we've good at doing and
people get on with the jobs and then they start
banging on about the waterways again. Well, we've never been
over swimming all the waterways. I've been too bloody cold
most of the time. That's one point. And you know
they've gone about that, but you know, no mention of
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all the surroge that's going into the end of the
Wellington Harbor, of the Kipra Harbor. It just it just
gives me the time.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Last time we caught else, Yeah you had the rock
going in and all over and done with.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No, we're still finishing off there. But you know, it's
when you get when you get machine, you're on a
place and there's a bit of rotten rock, you just
there's so many there's so many possibilities you can do
with and as farm as we tend to get away
bit carried away. So no, we've got a little bit
that's that's settled down really well. And that two inches
of rain that was in a really short time. I
was I was quite pleased to go there and see
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that nothing had changed, which was you know, it looks
to be we spent a lot of time and a
lot of money on getting this right, so I think
that's all right. So just finishing off there and then
there's some fence lines at the boundary dock that that
creeks come through, and you know, these rainfalls all of
a sudden, the fences of level with the top of
the rock. So figure's got to go along there and
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try and clean that again. And it's sort of a
it's a catch twenty two between how many floodgates do
you put in and and and how you keep monitoring it.
But at the end of the day, it's smother nature,
as we know from the last week, and very hard
to control, isn't that way? You can't just got to
go with it. So we've got the fences that's still here,
so well while the diggers there will try and put
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a few put a few more floodgates in and hopefully
that'll that'll alleviate us having to get back every every
six months to fix up what's coming back down out
of these hills that just you know, rule when it
does get wet.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I suppose that's the issue when you've got a digger
or a dozer on the farm and while you're here,
just what about that? What about this? But it just
makes sense if they're there, it just doesn't really work
with the operator's time frame sometimes. But shout out to
those guys too, they're pretty accommodating. It must be frustrating.
But while you're there on a coffee span, it's all
about getting a job done.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Of space, well it is, and it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Costs a bit to establish getting a digger there and
especially well anywhere really, but you know, once you've got
them there, they've got to walk around the walk to
where the job is it. You know, you can't actually
get it through a transport or anything like that, and
that's all times. So when you've got it there, you've
got to make the most of it. And as you
say that, you know the contract. There's only a lot
of pressure at times and they get hailed up with
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weather and people that are not organized, and once you
got them there, you sort of want to keep them.
And you know how the next foor bugger behind you
feeling because you've been feeling that way for six months,
waiting from the get here in this first place, so
you're not keen to let them go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Andy now Tom Slade doing the self proud one in
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition recently, You've
got a bit of a story with Tom working in
the basin.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, no, congratulations to Tom, and well done. He was
a proud member of the dog Troll Club when he
was up there. He worked across the lake at Walla
Peak for a season and I'd like to say we
caught him a lot of things, and we did, but
I can tell you there's probably nothing that helped with
the Young Farmers Club. But no, congratulations Tom. We're all
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very proud of you up here, and you'll have to
come back and be get part of our Dog Troll
Club and carry on in the form that we got
you to for, especially at the after Mets functions. I'm
sure you've got something to think us there for mate.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's great to listen under these stories though regarding the
rural sector ground, I mean, like you say, you talk
about the synthetic fertilized debacles that's wanting to be implemented,
but then you look at the other side of the
spectrum in the industry and celebrating the positives and this
is just a story we can't talk enough about.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
No, you're right, and you know, I take my head
off to all the young people that go into the
Young Farmers that are members of Young Farmers and likes
of time he's gone on through and one of with
a great team behind him and his old I think
the two Chattery farm whoever, they were all up there supporting,
and you know, it makes your rest of it easier
knowing that there's good young guys and girls that are
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out there that at the cutting edge of what's happening,
and now the people that are going to keep us going.
And when old Bagger's like you know me and the
rest of the bloody sixty five year olds hang up,
the hang up the shepherd's crop for the last time,
and you know, the average age is getting up there.
So I think we are very fortunate enough to have
the Lincoln and the Messes and I have to say
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the flockhouses in the nineteen seventies just for them being
in there. But yeah, I think that we're very fortunate
as country to have all these young people coming through
and and just keeping agriculture to the floor and very
good at what they do. So congratulations time and congretsulations
everybody that has involved in that We.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Chucked Telford and there as well. Disaster, good on your mate,
and do it the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'll do that. Take care.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Grant Disaster McMaster. Thanks to ABI Rural Always ready to
catch up and see what's happening up there in the basin,
and certainly a good news story in the South young farmers. Coincidentally,
we do have Eyler chkinbe on the show later on
in the Yellow But up next Graham Butcher farm consultant.
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You shame, Welcome back to the muster fun Consultant. Graham
Butcher joins us once again.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Good vo afternoon.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Our things pretty good. This is arguably when the winter
starts after the winter solstice.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well you often hear that after the shortest day it
turns to winter.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Probably has in a way.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We've had some couple of decent frosts, I suppose, and
then you snow around the hoku.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But you wouldn't have known for two weeks, and some are.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well that was We've been back nearly a fortnite. Now
we flew back into Vicago. We're from twenty one degrees
to four degrees.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Welcome back to South. And like you say, Matan's well
and truly gone. But look straight onto the matter at hand. Today.
It's a time at the moment a lot of sheep
scannings getting into full mode. Firstly, sheep scanning results. Are
you hearing much at the moment?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Vary between the reports I've had back between one hundred
and seventy one hundred and ninety five, so probably pretty good.
But we had a pretty good ordum. You probably accounsel that,
so probably he makes the management over pregnancy just a
bit more critical if you've got more lambs to look after.
So I just thought to have a quick talk about
not taking your eye off the ball during pregnancy, because
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you can't really, because every day during pregnancy something quite
important is happening. So if we take a ram out
date of in Southen of about fifth of April, which
reasonably typical generally speaking, fifteenth of April would be about
your average sort of mating date is about ten days
between when your RAM goes out and when things really
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get hoped into speed. So taking fifteenth of April is
the start data for the average start data pregnancy for
the first twelve days. Also, once a U is mated,
the egg doesn't implant until about twelve days later, and
during that period she's pretty vulnerable. So from when she's
made it, if anything unusual a few days off feed
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or whatever it is, that egg probably won't I plants,
so she's going to miss it cycle and going to
the second cycle. So the first twelve days is pretty critical.
From day twelve to about day thirty is probably about
the only time you can take a breather. We've still
got to feed the maintenance, of course, so we don't
lose the hard earned body condition score we put on
over summer. But from about day thirty the placenta really
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starts getting into gear and growing, and that's quite a
critical part of the whole pregnancy because if we've got
multiple bearing ues, we've got to have a decent sized placenta,
so we get a couple of decent sized lambs, or
even three decent sized lambs. So day thirty things start
to really happen. We've got to start looking after feeding.
Where we're at now, we're bang on middle of pregnancy,
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about day seventy seventh of July, so we're middle of pregnancy.
The placenta is really about halfway through its growth. It's
taken away quite nicely the implanted embryo, the fetus is
starting to think about growing pretty quickly from about now on,
and the memory tissue is sort of wondering whether it
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should start growing or not. Probably hasn't got under wage
just yet. By the end of this month, the percent's
probably fully grown, so you've lost the opportunity to go
good percenter. So right from the start of mating right
till the end of this month, there's things we've got
to look after pretty well, so we need to ensure
that maintenance feeding. And from about the end of the
month the twins, singles, and triplets start to diverge in
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their requirements. So by the end of this month, the
fetus really kicks into gear and grows pretty quickly, as
does the memory tissue. The placenta has fully grown and
just sits there. So by about one hundred and forty
seven days we can expect the first lambs coming. And
by about eight weeks prior eight weeks prior yeah, to
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the actual first lambs appearing, we get this divergence in twins, singles,
and triplets, so we've got to start considering that now feeding.
So really the whole point is every day during pregnancy
is quite important. There's something happening. You can't just assume
that going to up our feeding months out of lambing
and things that were sweet, we don't want to underfeed,
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it's going to affect the placenter in the memory tissue.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So we've got to be on our toes.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
And feed at least the maintenance and start lifting our
nutrition requirements, particularly your multiples, probably a bit earlier than
we mostly do.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I've heard of a few people who stop scanning because
they're lamb numbers. They knew they were going to get
messive numbers over two hundred percent, and they just treated
all their use with the same way like you would
back in the early nineties. Do you think that's a mistake.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
When you say treating the same as the nineties, that
that's not quite feeding to maintenance.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, well, that's just treating everything as a twin bearing.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
You are supposed well, okay, if you're treating everything at
twin bearing, new, isn't it two hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's probably right.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You've probably only got i don't know, twelve percent single,
so not worth a separate mob I suppose. But if
you're two hundred percent, most of them going to be multiple,
so long as you're feeding to the multiple ration, that's fine,
no problem at all.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Good money for drys at the moment, still, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, it is really so, yeah, we need to keep
our pregnancy rate down so we get good money for dryes.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
No, no, we've got to get as many lambs as
we can because lambs are pretty valuable now too. So anyway,
as I said, we've got to keep on our toes.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Absolutely. Phil Duncan of weather Watch, we're a correspondent here
on the Musta every Friday talking about the southern annular
mode and one of the rains this week.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah, I thought that was I've never heard of that before.
And that's just the westerly flows around Antarctica. How big
it is, whether it miles out from Antarctica or closes
into Antarctica. Apparently now it's positive, so the westerly wins
that circle Antarctica are closer to Antarctica, so all the
high pressure systems float down.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And I'd never.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Heard of that before, but apparently it's a pretty significant
sort of driver of our climate in New Zealand. And
everyone seems to be focused on al Nino and Larnina,
but this one appears to be quite important. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I've got a.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Client over Western South and he said two really wet springs.
So I went back through thirty odd years of rain
records monthly rain records for the area and picked out
all the al Nino years and said, okay, wat's the
rainfall pattern for those strong al Nino years And there
was no pattern at all. So there's obviously other things
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driving the weather patterns down here. And that's sam one
looks pretty interesting, so I might do a bit more
work on that one. There's another one, the Indian Ocean dipole,
which can affect our weather down here. So she's a
pretty complicated things trying to protict the weather a month out.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, the acronyms the acronym for al Nino and La
Nina's and so our Nino southern oscillations. So yeah, acronyms
are over the show.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well there is well that's Southern oscillation. It's at one
end of the oscillation, and the other end of the
oscillation that's La Nino.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So put together, and so there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You ever thought of being a meteorologist.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No, I just put up with the weather.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Just wake up in the morning and see what's in
front in front of you, orrest listen to Phil Duncan
on weather Watch.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's the best forecast you'll get.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Good on you enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
You too, Seeucky Warm Graham Butcher farm consultant and not
a meteorologist, but nonetheless very interesting regarding the southern annular
mode and all these acronyms regarding the weather.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Please go in the afternoon out here in Gorge. Just coincidentally,
you're listening to the muster on Hakannui. Up next, Toy
Tremaine of Benaman Crokshank Pride, the lawyers, you get to
know you.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
The story is the same one, but I got an
emptynst deep inside.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is the muster as we can't hup with Tory
Tremaine of Benaman Crookshank Pride, the lawyers based and Gore
and their new officers in a nice and warm at
this time of you. Good afternoon, Tory.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
By the ending, how are you?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You're going very well? Firstly, the new office, you must
be wrapped with it.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yes, No, it's fantastic, a new space to be in.
So it's very bright and malcoming. So it's a nice
place to be each day.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now we're talking today about a couple of topics Tory. Firstly,
purchasing property. You're hearing about the ad instance at the
moment people got a bit of extra money from the
Fontira sale or whatever we got in their capital brands,
saying what am I going to do? So perhaps I'm
going to run off block. So if you're going to
go and purchase something, there's always a bit of admin
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to go with it as such.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I suppose, yes, that's right, it's I guess. The key
takeaway around when you're looking at purchasing property is to
make sure you've got your ducks in a row, essentially
in knowing what you're buying and doing your due diligence
and your homework around the property that you're buying, and
you know what the implications are that go with it. Obviously,
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the one's finance and most people will know, you know,
talk to your finance, you know, your lender, or you know,
figure out how that's all going to work. But the
other part of it really is, I guess the structuring
behind it, how that sits with your longer term goals
you're planning, and also around I guess council requirements and
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whether you know there's some resource consent issues or you know,
everything like that. That sort of feeds into can I
use the property how I want to use it? Is
everything lined up as it should be. So there are
a few boxers to tick when you're looking at you
purchasing a property, especially a rural property, but also a
residential property. There's you know, people keen to invest off
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some in some other assets. There's similar due diligence that
needs to go on behind the scenes for practicing residential
property as well.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Does the resource consents side of things catch people out
when they're buying new property.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It can do.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I mean, these days there's some fairly good resources around,
you know, checking in what consents there are, and most
people who are selling their properties will you have some
good disclosure around what existing consents there are. So it's
just making sure that you are familiarizing yourself with what
they are and what's necessary and obviously what's there is
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sufficient to carry on the operation that you want to
carry on. So most people are well across that, but
it is something that can often be I guess put
to one side and everyone thinks, yep, she'll be right
on the odd occasion it's not. So that's just something
to add onto your list of things to just make
sure you check in on as part of any property.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Purchase these days. It comes down to the should be
right mentality as you talked about. Then Torri, you've just
got to put that on one side and do your
due diligence. Do you backed around checks and just make
sure everything aligns. That's what I'd use.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Absolutely, that's one hundred percent correct, because we do find
that it's when you know, people run into issues when
they're you know, signing up to buy properties. It's it's
because something just hasn't quite happened as it should have,
and it can be you know, it's not always the
end of the world, but it is something that can
be relatively important, and it needs to be something that
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is resolved, you know, so that you can go on
and actually complete your purchase. Usually, so it's really just
about making sure that you've filled all those things through
and down your i u's proper homework around what what
it all entails. Because yeah, it used to be that
you could sort of get away with this, you'll be
right and it'll you know, it'll fill itself out. But
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the red tape and things that exist now that there's
a lot harder, and yeah, if there are things that
are going to catch you out, they can have some
you know, bigger consequences than historically they have had. So
we're just very much full of you know, a number
one takeaway I guess around that is don't find anything
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before we've run it past us, because often we've been
there and seen that and we can pick those things
up that ordinarily you know people won't. So that's really
important to remember.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
A state planning is something else to consider. Wills and epas.
Now EPAS doesn't stand around the Environment Protection Agency, although
William's instances not in this one though, it is indeed
the enduring powers of attorney. We've talked about this before,
but you think it's something that you can't talk about
enough just to get the message through regarding what this
is about.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
That's right, and look at it sits alongside every bit
of work we do for a client is we've always
got our turn our mind too, all right, what's their
long term plan? What's our long term structure? Here in
nine times out of ten or nineteen nine percent of
the time, wills end enduring powers of attorney set on
alongside that as well, because you know, if your own property,
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even if it's not a significant or none of property,
one day it could be quite significant. So it's one
of those things that wills are relatively cheap and easy
to put in place. There are situations where they can
be a bit more complicated, of course, but for the
most part, they are relatively straightforward, and it's a really
key piece of your I guess long term planning and
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structure to know what is going to happen with your
property once you're no longer around, and there's a variety
of options about what might happen with your property or
what you might want to see heaven with your property,
so it's always good to have a discussion around that too,
to make sure that all the work you're putting into
generate your assets and wealth that is transferred to the
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next generation or whoever you want it to be transferred
to in a well structured and I guess, well intentioned manner.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
What would be one key message around enduring powers of
attorney that you give to.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
People, so it'd be not necessarily for our older generation,
a lot of people would traditionally think, were you and
we need to keep there when you're getting.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
You know, a bit longer in the truth, so to speak,
so they definitely are you know, something that is very
valuable for any age group, because it's you know, if
you're going to lose mental capacity, it can happen.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
At any point.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
It's you know, if an accident happens to you on
the farm, if you're a vehicle accident, if you develop dementia,
or you know, have some other medical condition that affects your.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Brain capacity, and that can you know, those things can
happen to people at any age. So the process is
the same regardless of whether you're a twenty one year
old or whether you're a seventy year old. If you
don't have powers of attorney in place, your family can't
automatically step in too. I just make decisions and manage
things for you. It's a process going through the family
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court essentially to get permission to be able to deal
with with your air sets and things, which is you
know costly a time, takes time to do that and
probably adds a bit more stress to what is probably
already a very you know, stressful and emotional time for people.
And then you add on or you've got to go
to the family court. That's just you know, upping it
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up a notch for people. So how's the attorney, It's
you know, an investment and knowing, you know, giving you
your family us some certainty about what would happen. Especially
if you've got you know, a mess, you know, a
decent amount of capital and a set base, then you
want to know that you've got the right people making
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the decisions around that. If you ever can't.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Tory the team at Banaman Crokshank Pride, the lawyers. Where
do people get in touch?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Sure so they can find us on the internet CP
law dot co dot MZ or they can just give
us a call. Three two nine one eight three.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Tory Tremaine always got to catch up on the muster
us Tory Tremaine of Bannerman Crookshank Pride, the lawyers based
here in Gore. This is the muster up. Next, we're
a way down to the deep south of New Zealand,
Stuart Island. We're catching up with Bruce Ford.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We even love me.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes, we're away down to Stuart Island this afternoon on
the muster, catching up with our correspondent down those ways,
Bruce Ford, former South Industrict councilor these days resides on
the at the island at the bottom of New Zealand. Bruce, Good, afternoon,
do you get frustrated when people called the need in
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the Deep South.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Ah, sometimes we do you, but of course we usually
try and refute that it's we get off better than
lots of other places. You know. Then you've got floods
and all swat things at the moments, and you know
they have our sympathy. But for all us, we don't
get flood so much. It's about six degrees at the moment.
We're a wee bit climate control here.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, talking about the climate. How's it been over winter?
Has it been cooler than usual or a bit more mild?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Wow, it's only just this last few days and it's
the col's head us a lieve bit and it's been
very mild. The lots of the stuff in the garden,
there's roses and currents that all got buds on them,
and you know it's we've been how to kill them.
But I suppose that's climate change. Will be ready for
economic flanntings anytime.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Everything's just a little bit out of whack at the
moment you reckon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Well, I think everywhere everybody's having a different season. Blos
the out of.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It, Yeah, for sure. Now the big issue down there
has been regarding the price of electricity, the soul of
farmers on the horizon. What's happening around this?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I know the.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Nigrant from our government to established the solar farm and
that's being on the competed on the road to the
Estra former gun sight or rather former gun club site
where a lot of people around south and won't be
familiar with. And that's all cleared off now. The contractors
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been peared or a bush offered and supposedly be operating
by January. So there's quite a lot of work to
do yet, but certainly the site's all nicely cleared and
we'll be very pleased about that because the electricity currently
has been changed out at ninety three cents per unit,
which is at least three four times more than what
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you people might be paying.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
So it's fair to say this will be a game
changer for electricity on the island.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Well, it's certainly going to help. And of course all
the electricty we use, it's only lights and fringes, so
it's not as if you have water heating and electric
stones and things. We still have. You know, we've got
the LPG and cold ranges and likes. But certainly it'll
be a big help, but I'm suspecting that people will
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just use a bit very electricity. It may not change
the total bills, but will be a bit easy to
get on with.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Now we spoke to you last time the task sailing
was going on around the island. This is all be completed.
I understand.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yep. It's taking them for six weeks or so to complete.
And the contractor has done all that. It's all looking
pretty tidy. And we get that about every fifteen years
or so, and they because our loadings are not as
great as they are on the other side, with heavy
trucks and things, we make it last a bit longer.
So it's all tied up now. It's been remarked, and
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I'm very conscious now that the parking tickets and any
road rules we reached the coper him on his toes,
and it could well be some tickets around.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Did get parking tickets down there?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yes we do. And there's no point having complacency if
you're driving around here, because the first thing has happened
with you go to the other side and you get
caught for doing something you shouldn't have. And of course
it could be worse than that. You could have an accident.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Now, as far as senior cottages, this is something that's
been on the horizon for a while for the elderly
members of your community and fundraising to get new digs.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes, there's been on the agenda for many many, well
quite a long time now, and it's been a pet
of mind. And of course it's been such that we
have a trust set up and we've bought some land
and we have all plans are drawn up. We've been
fundraising for that. We've got about one point three million
lined up. We need a couple of million overall. So
(32:54):
each time I ride off to various politicians in Wellington
and beyond, they all come back. So what a great idea,
But we can't help you today, but this election year
might be a bit more useful. But we don't hold
your bread yet.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Now. The pub down there at the South Seas Hotel
turned one hundred years old.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah, so that's been a bit of a celebration weekend
because we like celebrations and it's another reason to get
the community moving and doing things. And they've been insisting
with part of the anniversary arrangements. There's lots and lots
of photographs come out and they've had a scavenger hunt
just to get people motivated, and that look pretty successful.
(33:35):
Lot of fun and of course they all culminated on
the Sunday night for quiz Night, so they had prizes
for all those things. But a great fun day or
fun weekend. And I expect the photographs are still there
for a few days yets. So a lot of memories
to be to come forward, just to remind people of
(33:56):
those that have been here before. And we did get
a lot of verses out of it. It's been part
of the encouraging bonus.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You do hear a lot about this quiz nice it's
almost gone down as infamous.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Well it is, yes, and we've had lots of occasion
and different quiz masters, and of course the bigger one
was when Prince Harry was here and all his security team,
so that that was a massive night. So that's been
a major part of the publicity. And would you believe it,
there were fifty security people on scene by that night. Yeah.
(34:30):
I didn't think it were that bad, but somebody else did.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I think he's pretty it's pretty sedate down a steard island.
Fifty fifty starts a bit of overkill wouldn't you suggest.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well, there was a fear all sorts of cops talking
into the sleeve and they probably had a nice weekend
out of it on that occasion. But of course it
carries on. That's quite a week while ago now and
we have lots of people from far and wide that
have heard about quiz and they just keep turning up
on Someday night. They're all getting into the publicar least,
so you get the table and it's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Now the South Island, South Island, the Stuart Island Players
Group Repertory Society is such as suppose sounds like there's
something occurring there.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, we've got an amateur of playing group that put
on a show over now and then, and that's progressed
over time for about the last soon thirty forty years,
I suppose, and we keep replacing the young new people
and they are going to show coming up off and
can't tell you what the show has bring me, but
(35:33):
they've been in practice in the meantime and I won't
be part of it. I'll have to be a spectator,
which would certainly just fine. But it's great fun, keeps
everybody out there and increases the confidence and their public
speaking and the performance on stage. That's a great event
for the community as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And just finally, Bruce, because time is the year since
the doctor service or the health services rud Island. What's
happening there?
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In recent times we've been short of a GP service
and the Luft Medical Center have recently introduced once a
month service to bring a doctor over to go around
the customers here. And of course we say there are
ailments up for a month at a time and the
local nurses clinic here will cater for that. We do
(36:25):
have nurses here all the time that are very very
good and handle most of our ailments. But that's a
new service and we're very pleased about that because it
does save a lot of money for a lot of
people that not having to buy a ticket to town
and the consequent costs that go with that. So the
doctor has one cost and we just pay them at
the door here.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Good to hear, Bruce, Hae. Always good to catch up
on the mustard to see what's happening at the deep
South of New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Charlie good thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Any Bruce Ford based down at Stuart Island, the muster
ISIL prnkles up next to Young Farmers Welcome back to
(37:16):
the muster on Hakanui. Eiler Edgekimb joins us next and
the Young Farmers chat for a Tuesday and it's fair
to say it's been a phenomenal couple of days for
young farmers in the South. Of course Tom Slee winning
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year award, but a
lot of the other awards came South as well. Now
Isler Edgekimb is going to fill us in on what
(37:37):
actually went down with these awards up in New Plymouth
over the weekend. Eilther, congratulations as well to the just
Otago Southland for everything that occurred. But you personally, you
picked up the Emerging Member award.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
Yes I did. I was pretty stoked with it. But yeah,
it's just nice to be rewarded for the hard work
that goes in.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
But obviously you don't strive so.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
That at the end of the day, you do it
because you enjoy it. So yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But the fact you're being recognized by your peers in
the organization says you must be doing something right. So
well done. Yeah, no thing, andy, So tell us all
about you Plymouth it sounds like a pretty hectic five
or six days.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Well it was pretty good. Like I don't think any
of us had actually been up there, so it was
really cold to just see another part of New Zealand.
And yeah, we flew into Wellington, so we had a
four and a half hour drive ahead of us on
the Thursday. On the Wednesday, so it was good to
get up there and absolutely stunning views and obviously Mount
(38:41):
Egmont was the premost scene in the background. So yeah,
and the weather was good and a wee b bit
warmer than down here, but yeah, no, we had a
really good time.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Just go over the awards that we got down here
in the South. You got Region of the Year, Tom
won the big Accolade Emerging Member. What else was? If
there was something else, wasn't there.
Speaker 10 (39:03):
Clinton Young Farmers got the best District coition.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
And yeah, we had a couple awards at the tournaments,
which was held on the Thursday. We had three from
Young fart Well, two from t Farmers, one from Waitan,
one from Thornbury, one from upper Man and two from
West to Tago competing in that and Robert Wilson from
(39:29):
Thornbury came first in the threat shooting, so that was
pretty cool. Back to back when that Shane Sanders came
second from upper Man which was really awesome as.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Well, and Meghan White and has A Macazza got third
in the fencing. Hope they were in arguing too much
during it.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
No, they were pretty good.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
It was pretty awesome to see Megan out there because
she was the only female competitor and yeah, they held
their call which was good and had a couple of
beverages after, so yeah, no, it was really cool to see. Yeah,
we area out there competing, so.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, ye're now fantastic it was. So it was a
pretty good environment up there. I mean that goes about
saying young farmers as such. We talk about how how
good it's going down here in the South. What's happening
around the rest of the country. Do you get the
same vibe.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Yeah, there's a few other regions that are trying to
get on far with the Targo Southland, so we've definitely
set the standard is because they're bringing up new people
to help change the areas and get a bit more
involvement right around the country. So yeah, no, it's nice
to meet other people from other regions and see what
(40:39):
they're doing. And yeah, no, it was really good.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So what is it that to Targo South that is
doing so well to win Region of the Year two
years in succession.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
I think we've got a lot of club backing, like
we've got involved, like within our regional exec we've got
someone from almost every club in the region that is
in that role, so we're able to communicate a lot
better with things going on, and there's no double booking
and I don't know, we've just got a really good
(41:12):
I guess backbone to Otago's outland.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
So and membership just seems to be growing as well.
I mean numbers wise, how much would you say it's
gone up in the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
Oh, I wouldn't have any idea, but it's definitely growing. Yeah,
just people keep coming through and realizing, oh, you know,
it's a good, good environment to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
And yeah, and of course Tom Slee winning the overall
accolade too, so there's a fair few of you's out
there supporting him. To be fair, it was awesome.
Speaker 10 (41:45):
Yeah, no, there's about fifty fifty to sixty of US
members plus Tom supporters, so it was really awesome and
great vibes around.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
No, it was really good to see. Now as far
as Tiana Young farmers, I mean, this has been your
focus over the past. We were what happens now, I mean,
carving's coming up not far away from landing, but there'd
be a few events on the horizon i'd say around
the province.
Speaker 10 (42:08):
Definitely. We've got We've just had our bark up planning
meeting last night with the sub committee. We've locked on
the tenth of October for that and that's always a
primo night, so yeah, that'll be there'll be some colms
around that coming out very shortly. And then we've got
(42:29):
a few inter club events, the car trail which is
early August, and then we're looking at heading up to
Terrace for their bark up.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
At the end of.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
August as well, so we have to put the dog
trailer that we've brought to use, which will be pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
So well, I know, we everything's in pretty good steed though,
just regarding the organization, I mean, you guys must have
been buzzling as you came home. We saw heads over
the past couple of days.
Speaker 10 (42:58):
Yeah, No, we were absolutely thriving.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
So okay, Tiana Young Farmers. Anybody around that region thinking, yeah,
I want to get a part of a zayla. What
do they do?
Speaker 10 (43:09):
Check our socials out and yeah, we usually hold our
our meetings on the first Wednesday of each month. We've
actually got our meeting tomorrow night instead, purely because a
few of us were away last week for Grand Finals
and it's usually at the Tiana Club. But everything's posted
up on the on our socials.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Tyler Edgcombe Emerging Member winner for twenty twenty six for
New Zealand Young Farmers. Thanks for your chat. Always good
to catch up with the team and just in general congratulations.
I mean, go and enjoy the afterglows deserved.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Thanks Andy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Laugh out loud.
Speaker 7 (43:50):
With ag Proud because life on the land can be
a laughing matter.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. A woman found out that I have
been telling his coworkers that he's lactose and tolerant. He's not.
He just doesn't want to participate in the office of
ice cream socials because he thinks that they're forced fun
being He's been doing this for three years, but then
the company just spent four thousand dollars installing a dedicated
(44:15):
dairy free freezer in the break room. There's a ribbon
cutting ceremony next week. The CEO is coming down. They're
naming it after our husband, Dave's inclusive freezer freezer initiative.
It is going to be used as a case study
in their diversity training. All of a sudden, her husband
is spiraling. He's in too deep. She's told him to
come clean. He's considering just becoming lactose and tolerant through
(44:38):
sheer force of will.
Speaker 6 (44:42):
Reaching.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Now that's sober and done with for the afternoon. Great
to catch up with Eiler. A great weekend for take
you south and young farmers, I mean im you. This
has been the muster on Hakanui of course thanks to
Peter's genetics podcast will be up shortly in iHeartRadio. Catch
it in my ro Hey.
Speaker 11 (45:03):
Well all right, sooy heybical there and what did he
go on again?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
For hey? Gg Rison once again presents stock selling action
which occurred at the Lord will say we add this morning.
So we are a man on the ground with Sam
Riley once again. Sam are good afternoon, these lamb values.
Are we breaking records?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (45:18):
Mate, good afternoon to you, and yeah, breaking records today,
those good heavy lambs top the four hundred dollar mark,
which is yeah, our standing really to see, and hopefully
it continues for some time. But so those good heavy
lambs over three hundred to four hundred dollars, the medium's
two sixty to two ninety and the lighter and stuff
(45:38):
at two hundred and two forty. Into the years, those
good heavy years two thirty to two hundred and sixty dollars,
the medium's one seventy to two hundred and ten, and
the lighter and use at one hundred and twenty one
hundred and fifty dollars. The good heavy rams and today
were sixty to eighty dollars, in the mediums at forty
to fifty, just a four yarning of store lambs intoday
(46:00):
tops of those two hundred and two thirty, the mediums
one eighty to one ninety. In the lottery stores at
one thirty to one and fifty, and a peer of
fn Fum Scannon Lamb breeding us they were two hundred
and eighty dollars mate. So still a good number of
stall of prime lambs coming in the store lambs and
in prime use dropping off with it and numbers there
(46:22):
into the into the cattle section. They just a very
small yarding of prime kettle in today. Quotes there four
hundred and sixty kilo stairs at four dollars seventy to
four dollars seventy eight heavs at four hundred and sixty
kg's four dollars seventy. He was at three hundred and
sixty five kilos. They were poured dollars forty and a
(46:42):
handful of cows and best of those five hundred and
six kilo cows three dollars twelve and four hundred and
sixty kilo cows two dollars eighty to three dollars. Into
the store market. We move just a very small way
outing of store kettle some R two here for cross
stairs at three hundred and eighty kg's eighteen hundred dollars marty.
The angus cross heafer is at four hundred and sixty
(47:03):
two kilos twenty one twenty g it's marty here for
across days at three hundred and twenty eight kg. He's
there were fourteen seventy. So yeah, small numbers of prime
kettle a store kettle coming in today, but that wraps
up one moment, had to buy a plane to get
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