July 7, 2026 • 48 mins
Andy Muir talks to Peter Gardyne, Dave Biss, Nicola Blair, Tom O'Brien, Nick Bewley and Mark Calder.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Your man Nimes Tony. That good afternoon, and welcome to
the muster on Hakanui. My name is Andy Muller here
until two o'clock. Of course, thanks to Peter's genetics, of
course you're listening to the Muster on Hakanui. You appreciate
your company. On a rather cool afternoon hearing Gore currently
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on six degrees. We'll look at the weather shortly. We're
not far away from the high. Last night I felt
like it was going to freeze like the proverbiilt. This
morning you woke up and it was a easterly or
something blowing through town. It was rather nippy, although our
thoughts are going out to everybody up the island as well,
being affected by either snow or this flooding that's going on,
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especially in the top parts of the South Island. Down
here in Gore. That was just an overcast afternoon fog
on the horizon. It looks like mustle something anyway, low
lying clouds probably the terminology. And yes it's just a
little bit nippy, but not the least. We continue Steve
verel the dunes for a hunt day man around al Whiskey.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Can Hakanu's five day forecast with twin farm teff from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So this afternoon sea showers with light south westerlies and
a high seven. Thursday cloudy you have come variable winds
minus two in six. Friday party cloud you have come
variable winds minus three and seven, and Saturday very similar
party cloudy you have come variable winds minus one and
eight and Sunday sunshine with variable winds minus one of eight.
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So it looks as though we do have a run
of frost's coming. So temperatures to hand for this afternoon.
Clinton two point three, Harriot four point six, Northern south
On five point two, Rivetons six point one, t Now
five point five, one in four point nine and Woodlands
at six point four. Peter gardin Farming and Napdale starts
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as after this afternoon. Pete was involved with the Young
Farmer of the Year competition once upon a time, and
he tells his why he thinks he's the reason it's
no longer on National TV Life. Dave Bis formerly the
Many are Toto these days stock agent based over in
Western Australia. We have our regular catch up Nikola Blair
of darien Z's on the show. Thomas O'Brien Garston, business
(02:21):
owner and just purveyor of wife in general. We catch
up with time to see what's happening today. I think
there's a bit of snow on the ground up in
his neck of the woods. And to wrap up, Nick
Bewley out of Newstalk z B. They're Blacks. The season's underway,
Dave Rennie's reign is underway. How did Nick find that
Mark Calder of PGG rights and gives a rundown from
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the balcleuse of sale very shortly. Then we'll start the
yeur after that, Pete Gardy and this is the muster
and we're here until two o'clock. Cheers to Peter's genetics.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
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in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton and Philly. Drop by your
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Speaker 3 (03:05):
Laughing in the.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Peak, Guardine Farms and Napdale and joins us this afternoon
on the Musta on a rather damp afternoon here in
the Deep South. Pete, good afternoon. Ground conditions out your
ways are pretty sticky, oh, ground conditions.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's sticky on top, but it's good underneath. And I'm
actually in my happy place right now. The kettle and
sea for all shifted this morning and we're now going
to eat digger in and the loader, and we're cleaning
out the sheepyards and we're about to rip in and
build new sheepyards. So I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's probably one of the first times I've heard of
somebody talking about building a new wallsheed on sheepyards for
a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, this will be the third set of sheepyards I've
built from scratch. And I've also got to see the
kettle yards and if you rip the internals out of
old ones and redo them. We extended the roof and
maybe yards bigger or three years ago, but we're now
getting onto redoing the internals, which we did half last
winter and we're doing the other half this winter.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
A lot of the timber from the bones of those
old buildings as well the designed to last until now
it comes again.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
The design to last. This shed here was that sort
of called a Stuart's I don't know if it was
seventies or eighty style, where they decided to run the
race straight into the tin wall and then wonder what
a sheep wouldn't run. And it's been a secondary shed
for us for a while. But yeah, we're getting in
and we're putting a curved race and we'll get it
running nicely. And I can tell you the timber and
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all that, like, it costs a weaverit of money, but
what you save in labor and animal stress and all
that going forward is just huge. And I'm a massive
fan of good yards.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, if that's not a tick towards the future of
the sheep industry, I don't know what is pete.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh yeah, no, the sheep industry is just amazing, Andy,
it's cranking.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Look at the prices yesterday they got four hundred dollars
of lawful. Everything's pretty buoyant. So yeah, I mean it
wasn't something you heard about. I mean I've heard of
people who actually got rid of their wool sheds a week.
The self sitting sheep.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeah, no, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
One, I don't think the sheating seat's gonna I hope
that wooly sheet come back, but I actually think the
shedding seat's probably gonna keep going. And why that is, is,
unless the wall thing really fundamentally shows us some long
term stuff, you know, in the positive direction. The shedding
seat thing, I think in my blook is more about
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lower cost of production and lower labor units press stock
unit rather than being anti woolf So.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You're thinking for wall to egs to have people thinking differently,
it's got to go up twice as much, three times
as much as its value at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, So we we just sent some wall into town.
So I don't have the results on that yet, but
I have done my anial accounts roughly from last season,
and we've made a small profit on our Wall account,
which is obviously cool when you compare it to the
scale of their business. It doesn't warrant any excitement yet.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No, And I think the shedding sheet thing, I think
that we even careful because we're having a wee small
play on this front. At the moment. The genetics are
not as good as the normal sheep that have been
bred in New Zealand for one hundred and fifty years.
But I think in five years time to ten years time,
it'll be really interesting to see what's out there. I
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love Wall, but I also like cool cars, and I
don't farm cool cars.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I don't think many people do.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Though well we all wish we did. But yeah, I
think that well, thing's an interesting space and I don't
think it's a done deal either way.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
How's everything on the rage anyway? Just pretty much July
being July.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, July has been July. Feel a wee bit riffed
off when you go to bed at night and there's
a frost on the deck and then you wake up
and it's raining in the morning. I like a frosty
morning and less mud. That the window crops have all
done pret well. The stock team's got the stock looking awesome.
That scanned really well, which is cool. There's probably another
thing to talk about that's interesting with the stud long
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story short, we wanted to make the hogits with the
US to keep linkages between age groups and time frames
at Lemming time, which I won't pull you on the
details for so a couple of years ago we mated
hoggits on their own use on their own and Hoggits
and use mixed together, and we had no conception differences
between those mating groups. So this year on the we
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lock up at Pyramid there we actually made it their
two dooths with their mixed age us, which is usually
considered to be a big no no, But we had
under one percent drise in that line. So yeah, I
think that sort of old old man's tail or, old
farmer's tailor, what do you want to call it. I
think that's actually not as correct as it may have
been in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Interesting as well, the Green Party's policy would touch on
this page wanting to get rid of synthetic furtile line
is yet the comparison has been made to Sheri Lanka
in twenty twenty one and April twenty one, They're then
president abruptly banned all agrichemical imports to shift to exclusive
organic agriculture and reduce pressure on dwindling foreign exchange reserves.
(08:16):
But what happened was their corrupt failure went down by
twenty percent in the first six months. They had to
actually import four hundred and fifty million dollars worth of rice,
which is a staple food. And it got to the
point that with all the protests and everything else, economic decline.
November twenty twenty one, it declined and went back to
the way it was.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Sorry, Well, what I'd say is I'd say that ninety
nine point nine percent of your listeners are very intelligent
and none of that would surprise them. But unfortunately, there
is a small percentage of their population and a high
percent of them are in the Green Party that have
no idea about the realities of life. And I'm not
(08:56):
We're definitely not organic here, and I don't want to
be organic. I respect organic people, but it's as one
organic farmer who I know well told me, he said,
it's like farming. It's one hand tied behind your back.
It's an intensification and it's a harder way of doing farming,
and on scale. Notchgreen News sensibly is just an amazing
(09:19):
tool that I tell you, I don't want to lose
it on this property.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hey, just finally as well, Tom Slae winning the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year a few days back. Now,
fantastic effort. Now you went to the big dance of
this and you reckon you're responsible for it getting taken
off the telly well a.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Couple of It's awesome that Tom won. He's a good
guy and he's from a great family. Personally, it's a
wee bit scary because I realized that I competed closer
to when his uncle and his father did than when
Tom has, So that makes me feel like a middle
aged farmer. But yeah, I was at the Grand Final
in Gore, and not many people probably noticed, but Gore
(10:01):
was the biggest Grand Final they've ever had by quite
a margin, and it was the last time it was
televised on TV. So maybe I had a face radio
and I scared them all off. Yeah, but no, that
Gore Grand Final, I mean, obviously a big fan of
Gore living ten minutes out of the town, was well
regarded as the biggest and probably one of the best
(10:25):
because a small town like Gore really got behind it,
and it was quite an event for the town.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You're saying twelve hundred people there that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Night, There's thirteen hundred people at the night show, and
it was televised live on TV one, and I was
just a young twenty two year old, And I tell
you that was probably one of the scariest nights of
the life.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Andy, Oh, you survived.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I survived, And I can tell you that the three
months with the Gore tost Masters leading up to that
made a heck of a lot easier than it would
have been beforehand, but it was quite a difference to
the thing a man's quarter that I was living on
on farm being in front of that many people, So
that's for me one thing to know. That's I heard
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Simon Hotcroft on an interview I think it might have
been on Jamie's show, where he said that it was
great to be there, but he was glad that he
didn't have to do it again. And every Grand finalist
will tell you that it is such a massive undertaking
and it's a it's such a lot of work those
guys put into it, and there's a lot of pressure,
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and it's it's something that's hard to describe unless you've
done it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Did you find it terrifying that it takes you a
couple of days to actually realize that why the reasons
for you entering the event.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I don't think it's terrifying. It's just it's just studying
for a school exam or a university exam, or your
driver's license or something like that. You know what's going
to be in the test. You know they can only
test you on things that are in the road code
or things that are in your year that you've learned
at school. When at the Young Farmer's Competition. You're rocking
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up to something where you have absolutely zero an idea
what they're going to talk about. They could be asking
you about tavy fruit or dairy farming, or aquaculture or
sheep or you know. Yeah, for example, one of the
ones I entered, and I'm a sheep farmer and I
can do most sheep farmer things really well. But I
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walked into a sheep scanning module for pregnancy scanning, and
that's one thing that I cannot comprehend. It just looks
like a bunch of bubbles on the screen. And you know,
you walk into a module like that is a sheep cockey,
and you know there's no way up to do any
good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Hey, good on repeat. We better leave it there, enjoy
the afternoon. We'll catch up again.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Sounds good and have a good.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
One, Pete. Garda and Farming a naptile and self proclaimed
the self proclaimed proclaimed reason that the Young Farmer of
the Air competition is longer on the no longer on
the TV. Nonetheless safe, We're near twice and really well, Pete.
Next we're away to Western Australia to catch up with
Dave Busy Byss formerly a many a Toto these days
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a stock agent over the ditch. Yeah, he's back a
little welcome back to the muster. We're away over the ditches.
Afternoon to Western Australia. Dave Busy Buss here is a
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stock agent over there, or I formerly of the many
A Toto Bussy. Good afternoon. It's good morning where you are.
And it sounds as though you've got southern temperatures today.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yes, good morning Andy. It's sure is a bit nippy.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It's three degrees here and I think we're going to
hit nineteen is our high. So sooner the sun comes
out in the fog rolls back, the better.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I think.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
At least it's not as cold as the many Atato.
With all that snow and wet weather they've had.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Sounds like there's a bit of a complaint happening over there,
and rightly so. Mice plagues are a real thing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yes, it is real.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Roughly about four hundred and fifty k's north of Perth
in that tower area. They've had a really bad run,
and I think they're starting to get on top of
it now. But they've had a bad run in the
respect that those the mice plague has just taken over.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And I was.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Reading some facts and figures the other day, and you know,
there's eight thousand mice per hectare, so you know they're
not just eating the tops, they're they're burrowing into sown
paddocks and eating the roots, attacking crops. Anything that's edible
is edible. And then there's the health issues with families
and kids. You know, bloody all sorts of illnesses that
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kids in that pick up, So it's a pretty.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Horrible, horrible thing to be happening.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
And then you've got all those woke UNPC people that
don't contribute to our community much and they're rallying the
big retailers not to sell poisons and baits. So it's
very hard to get on top of it. So once again,
once again it's those people sort of rattling the chain
and and pushing the rest of us around, which is
a real concern going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
So what's happening with your stock prices at the moment?
Busy over here in New Zealand, it's fear to say,
we're seeing record prices for lamb and sheep at the moment.
What's the situation there?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well, I was listening to your show the other day,
and I was listening to your local PGG rights an agent,
and I think on sheep across the board, we're pretty
much on par.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
You know, I'd say we're a bang on the money.
But our numbers and the saliards are back considerably.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
So you know, two months ago when you and I
were talking, we were doing fifteen to twenty thousand sheep
every week. Now we're down to four to five thousand
this week, so the numbers are dwindling.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You know, the U flock is low, so farmers.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Are keeping new lambs upping their female so numbers are
hard to get. So prices for sheep are up right
across the broad cattle prices are strong. I sold some
stairs this week at five ninety six cents a Q
on shoot on Monday, and that's pushing the cow price
up too for that export all that ground beef. So
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you know where we were at two dollars seventy two
dollars ninety two dollars ninety five, we're now at.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Three dollars eighty eight for the tops of fat cows
this week, so that's good money there. So yeah, it's
really pumping along nicely. But I just hope it doesn't
fall too quick.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
We just need it to sort of mallow out and
just just smell the flowers for a while, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So why are sheep numbers dwindling?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
One You've got a live export business that's changing, so
a lot of farmers have changed their changed their sheep management.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Two, we haven't got enough females.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Three we shipped a lot of sheep the last two
and three years to the Eastern States. You know, some
weeks we'd set we'd send When I say we, the
state might send fifty road trains thirty forty fifty road
trains a week.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
So it's a hell of a lot of sheep have
gone out of the state.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And if you look at processes meat companies, a couple
of the guys have done the yearly maintenance on their chains,
and one guy on one process he's he runs two factories,
two meat works.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He's just locked the door on one.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
He's done his maintenance, it's ready to go, but the
numbers aren't there, so he's only running one side.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So it's a real issue.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It's just driving the money up, and then you get
those Eastern States buyers coming.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
And that just pushes it up again. So it's pretty
it's a bit of a balancing act at the moment.
I think we just need to be a bit careful.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
But you know, hopefully there'll be new season's Lambs come
on shortly, so we'll just see how that goes.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
The talking money on.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Sorry, no, that's all good. But I was about to say,
is this probably universal across the other states?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I think so. Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
And a lot of those states are restocking as well,
so with floods and droughts and different things that happen
in Australia.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
So it's just a chain effect. It just rolls on.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
As far as fuel level was, the last time we spoke,
it was a key buzz word for a lot of people,
fuel retainment as such. What's happening now with an easing
of the price here in New Zealand, we're not hearing
as much about it in the media. What's your situation?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, we're on par with you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
So we've we've gone for a stressful time where you know,
diesel was well up around that three.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Dollars fifty three dollars seventy there and it came back
to two fifty. Well, yes, that was a dollar seventy two, so.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
It's come right back and it's now we're back to
normal now, I think, you know, if you're down a
dollar seventy for a leader, it's not an issue anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
We've come, we've ridden that storm.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So it was just a bit of hysteria at the time.
But everything seems to have gone back to normality.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Then, yeah, it is. It's a bit like when COVID came.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Well, we ran out of toilet paper, so now there's
plenty on the shelf.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So I think we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know, I'll flow this year as well. Visie regarding
five FO the industry over there in Wa, just state
how big it is for the economy.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Oh wow, it's just out of control. It's it's a juggernaut.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
I think I said to you one other time twenty
years ago there was six sixty seven thousand people a
week in and out of the Perth airport, and I
think it's one hundred and seventy thousand out of the
Perth airport and they could come from Wellington, Auckland and
Dunedin or Sydney or Fiji or wherever that that that
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business is just heaving, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It just drives the whole state.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Like I've been here twenty five years and I've never
seen a depression or at downtime.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
The rest of Australia can be in dire straits and
Western Australia doesn't miss a beat.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
That just keeps going. You know, you can roll in
here into the Western Australia.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
And want to get a job on the mines and
it's a tricky one, but if you know someone, you
can have a job a week. It's easy and that
money is pretty healthy. It's pretty tidy. Even a dump
truck driver.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The first job you get on a mind site.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know, three fifty four hundred dollars a day and
that's the base level that they all start.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
So yeah, you can save a lot of money and
it doesn't take long.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
If you've got half a brain and you've got some
good skills behind you, you can go up the food
chain pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
So the money goes up pretty quick, so it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Does rugby union like the Wallabies have much of a
post through over there, given that a f ols the
buzzword freemantles on top of the table. West Coast Eagles
they're down the bottom, but very popular. Where does union
stand during the Test season?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, when the Wallabies come out to play, Australia certainly
gets their canary gold jackets on and all their funny
and they turn the telly up.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah, it's pretty strong.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
The game has grown here in the state massively over
the last twenty years and the standard's gone up. And
if you look at that Western Forest side, now obviously
they're not homebred players, but you've got quite a few
Wallabies and good Eastern States players and that in that side.
So it's pretty strong at times, you know, when they're
when they're under pressure and they're not playing that well,
they struggle with the stadium with how many people they
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are getting in the grounds.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
But yeah, it's pretty popular. It's pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Club rugby in Perith. Would you say it's in a
boom moment for the time being or as are generally
pretty stable?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
It's generally pretty stable, I would. I would say this
year it's a bit flat of anything. I don't know
why that is, but the standard of rugby is perfectly
fine appared to what it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
It's certainly improved.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
You know that top tier two or three teams would
be able to foot the bill and christ Church or Dunedin.
I'm not saying they'd wuldn't, but they'd hold their own
and they'd play a reasonable game. The younger crowd coming
through the kids' grades are massive. My middle boy when
he was five, I think our club side had nine
teams and now we have twenty three and that's a
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general consensus.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
So rugby's really growing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Hey, get on, you're bussy. Who're better leave it there?
You wrap up warm in the Western Australia will catch
up again.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah, great to talk to you and you have a
lovely day and all the best all the Kiwis well,
have a great day back.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Dave. Missy. This our Western Australian corresponded here on the
muster coming back local next. Nicola Blair from darien Z.
We have a catchup, clean Wagan down, Jerry cool rule,
my sister.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Wagan do Jery cool rule.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Steve Earl is the music this afternoon. You're listening to
the Master on Hokanui. Nicola Blair of diarian Z joins
us once again. Nicola, good afternoon, how are you goody?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Ye're just rocking and rolling along on this rather damp afternoon.
That's hunt Dale already. It's a shorter week for Mataiki,
not of the metas on the farm. I mean, life
continues on, as does darien Z. What's been going on.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Yeah, we've been busy. We've had a busy week last week. Yeah,
we had three events. We had we started with the
people weeks both earlier in the week that was in
the cargo at the scott Hotel there and yeah, it
was such an awesome day. It was such a good
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opportunity to bring all the farmers and we're all professionals
and everyone in the industry together and sort of focused
a little bit more around people. You know, quite often
when we talk about successful dairy farming where we're sort
of you know, we're always talking about past or cows,
production and financial performance and you know, of course all
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that stuff matters, but yeah, behind every good farm system
of the you know, there's people making those decisions every
day and doing the hard work, leading the teams and
all that. So yeah, it was really really cool to
have an events focused on their people, and there was
so many key things, themes and take home moments throughout
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the day. No matter what position you are, you're in
in the industry, you know, some of the stuff that
I took home was like retention, it starts from day one,
you know. And also like if you're trying to build
a strong workplace culture, it's built through small daily actions,
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not just every now and again put some time in dutange.
You've sort of got to be consistent with that. Yeah,
so we're really lucky as well. We had the James
Laylam's he's his last name, is their headline speaker. So
he's a really well known high performance coach. He's got
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a podcast called Habits of High Performers and yeah, so
it was really cool to have him there giving us
some really good stuff about habits and backing yourself and
messages around leadership. Yeah. So no, I really landed really
well in the room. And then we had some Carving
(24:51):
Smart events as well last week through South and Enatago
and these events. Yeah, these are really cool. So vest
for a dairy training limit and yeah, it's just all
about helping farmers and their teams just getting prepared and
confidence and yeah, heading into the busiest most important time
(25:11):
of the year really in the very season. Yeah, Carving's
always a big milestone and the farming calendar, so yeah,
just it sort of sets the tone for the season,
the head so getting things right, you know, it's really important. Yeah,
so they just covered things around cow and carb care. Yeah,
looking after your springers and identifying cows that need support
(25:37):
and all that and yeah if you're if you're not sure,
how to assist, make sure you get help and all
those things. When to get a vet to Stephan. Yeah,
I thought it was really cool because what I found.
I went to the one in Winton and yeah, just
the willingness of farmers in the room actually sharing their
(25:58):
stories and ideas and yeah, just talking openly about what
works well on their farms and what doesn't. And you know,
there's a huge amount of experience in Southland in the
farming community. So yeah, I think like these it's just
a great reminder that we're gonna learned from each other.
So that was really cool midweek and then at the
(26:20):
end on Friday, we had a field day out at
the Southern Dairy Hub near Wallacetown there, so yeah, it
was really cool to go out there for a catch
up and have a bit of an update of what's
been happening. At the hub. Yeah, we're really lucky to
have their senior scientist, Storm Deli. She came down to
(26:41):
present to us sort of what they've been researching in
the cow rumination space, which was really cool. So yeah,
it was a really good reminder that our behavior, you know,
it can tell us so much about how the animals
are coping and if we need to adjust their management,
I could support the welfare and performance of these girls.
(27:05):
And yeah, it was also really really cool the hubs
putting a new stand off pad and the sort of
halfway through that project. That was really cool to go
and see that. It's pretty relevant with Southlands obviously, Yeah,
the conditions that some of their farmers have to farm
and managing through the winter periods and springs. Yeah, and
(27:30):
they also had a section about nitrogen's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Youth just yeah, don't tell the greens you're doing nitrogen goodness.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Well, I should have worried a better responsible use of nitrogen,
I should say, Yeah, and just making sure that, yeah,
your applications are targeted and timely and efficient, and yeah,
making sure that you're getting the best value from fertilizers
while also looking after the environment as well. It's always
(27:58):
really important so yeah, overall, it is a really valuable day.
It's always good to go out and see what the
hub's been up.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
To, and just to wrap up as well. I suppose
having a plan B when the weather's a bit if
he likes of it at the moment, run offs, et cetera.
It comes to mind.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just our opportunity, I guess, to just
highlight with how weather has been, especially in the past
week things. Yeah, they're getting pretty most under foot there.
And yeah, just the importance for farmers just to have
a plan B and place for their stock if things
are getting too muddy and looking a bit average. Yeah,
(28:38):
I think just if it's not looking too flash, just
follow your gap, you know, especially at the moment with
school holidays and a lot of farm owners are away
getting some time off. Yeah, just ensure that your farm
stuff or whoever's left in charge. Yeah, just that there's
a clear plan in place and make sure that they
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follow it and it happens if they needs to.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
The last thing we want to hear is family is
getting getting in trouble or having drama with the local council.
It's the last thing you want at this time of
the year. On top of everything else.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So yeah, Nicola Blair, Durryan's it always got to catch up.
You stay dry this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, we'll try and d thank you if you.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Too, Jerusasm Nicola Blair of Derryen z up. Next we're
away to Gaston to catch up and Tom O'Brien and
before the end of the Yell and News Talk zb's
Nick Bewley. You're listening to the Master to a.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Cool Room, Billy Hawk, Billy Hell.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
This is the Master on Hakani. Thomas O'Brien is a
usiness owner based app and Gaston. That time, good afternoon,
he'll Billy Highway is the name of the song. And
there's anything but that from going from Garston to and
v Cargole.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Oh yeah mate, it's yeah, it's quite a classic that tune,
isn't It's pretty cool. It's yeah, it makes you kind
of puts a spring in your step even when you're
driving or maybe I don't know, it's maybe I've just
got to take my foot off the accelerator a little
bit because.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It kind of Yeah, ground conditions, what are they like?
The snow it's fallen in various parts of the Tago
and some parts of Southland. What have you been like there?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Oh, well, we had a bit of snowfall last week
or earlier this week actually, and you know there's still
a bit of snow around the house. I went for
a bit of a trot up to the top of
the hill yesterday and there's oh there would have been
a good fifteen centimeters. Yeah. So yeah, but as I
was leaving home, I just home at about just before
(30:49):
seven o'clock this morning, and it was snowing as I left.
But as I as I headed through the south, I'm
coming into into Lawnville as we speak, and it's it's
a clear what's clearing, and it's the clouds have parted,
the roadways is clear. I'm looking forward to a strong
coffee when I get into into town. And yeah, it's
(31:11):
the best place to be at the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, and vocable the place to be. So how things be?
We haven't spoken to you for a few weeks, mate, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Well I did.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I was lucky enough to have a bit of a
chat to Olivia last time, which was which was really cool.
I think she said at the end of it it
almost sounded like we're going to have a bit of
a ted talk. With Tom, But she did touch on
a subject that you that you quite often remind me of,
and Olivia actually chimed in as well, because I think
it was I think it was Mental Health Week or
(31:43):
something like that anyway, but it was to do with
just you know, taking steps to look after yourself and
look after your body and your mind and and look
after each other as as a whole. Right, So yeah,
I had a good chat to her, to Olivia's but yeah,
we haven't spoken for a while, have we made.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
This time of year, arguably winter's a great chance for
bit of a reset game with your social media. Tom,
What it surprised me if you go for a stroll
on the snow in your jocks.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Well, you know, I was tracing through. I had been
for weeks and days and months, and you know, the cutting,
the cutting blizzard wis out like a thousand and tens
you know, already perforating my capillary skin. And you know,
I thought at one point that I would have been
better off swimming through a sea of golden syrup or.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
Worse my lasses.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
But you know, finally when I got to the point,
the mud hut greeted me and I went in and
let a little fire and contemplated my journey. So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's a pretty good description. And the only things that
missing in that sentences and as I turned to the dog.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Exactly mate. Yeah, yeah, you've been watching the wrong things
by it sounds I've.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I've watching your social channels. They're interesting, they're a good watch, nonetheless,
And you talk about the lessones of me. That's one
of the great things about winter in these still days,
thousans and stock foods across the road here in Gore,
I reckon. It's one of the joys of living in town. Actually,
the smell of usually wafting through the main streets when
the days are still, it's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Well, it's ton of synonymous of Gore, isn't it. You
know the Komoter factory across the way there, you know,
as a kid growing up and spending quite a lot
of time in Gore because my grandparents lived in Coots
Road and Gore opposite Gore High there. And yeah, my
grandfather he used to have the old fruit shop in
the main street of Gore. Yeah yeah, yeah, so so yeah,
(33:36):
they sold to Sharps many years ago. But you may
recall that there was actually a fire in the toy shop.
There used to be a toy shop in the main
street of Gore and there was a fire in there,
and yeah, it spread into our building as well and
did quite a lot of damage. So we rebuilt the
fruit shop and then we put an apartment on top
(33:57):
of the fruit shop and then we rented it up
to Woman's Refuge for many many years. So yeah, but yeah,
just that smell on my lassis, mate, you can't beat it,
you know, you just want to get get a spoonful
and get it in your Sometimes it smells there good,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The two toy shops on the main street, they're back
in the day had Toy World and the other Orlve
with the space rocket outside. The cost twenty cents to
have a go.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Oh the joys, mate, it's.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Anonymous of my youth. Coming to the big smoke putting
a coin in that rocket.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
You felt like you were literally heading to Mars, didn't you.
You know, ground controlled a major time and blasting off.
We're off to Mars, mate.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Not quite going to Mars, but nonetheless, you know, when
you're coming from the big small smoke of cattle flat
into the smoke of gore At the time it was
an achievement, but when you went in the Cargo House,
heck it was on another level.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
Oh, totally another level mate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And as I say, I'm.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Driving into town now, places looking good, heading in for
a few workshop meetings and all that jazz. But yeah, look,
I mean there's a service town. You can't really you
can't really go too far past it. Well, Goreon and
the cargo you know, are two major towns. You know
quite often travel up to Queenstown, and Queenstown is nice
(35:13):
to visit, but mate, in terms of actual you know,
goods and services and dealing with businesses and people, you
cannot beat South. And I'll tell you what it's. It's yeah,
and that's I guess that's one of our unique points.
You know. It's just good people, good business.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Very much. Doubt you can get the baiale of woolpacks
in the middle of Queenstown.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
No, I doubt it. Well, yeah, and if you do,
it's probably full of you know, you know, something that
you probably don't want, you know, it's just full of
rubbish anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So do you do you reassess goals at this time
of year?
Speaker 9 (35:49):
I do, mate, Yeah, look, I mean, I don't do
a deep dive into into my own goal setting, and
I probably should. It's something I should probably work on,
but I do kind of like daydream and fantasize a
little bit about how I can change the business. Will
not change it, but just modify it and prove it.
I'm quite big on kind of looking at what you've
already got and and you know, in terms of a
(36:12):
you know, reinvesting back into the business, like you know, financially,
reinvesting can be obviously quite quite difficult. So you kind
of take a step back and say, what can I
modify that I've already got? Can I look at maybe
some better guiding options on a on a larger area
of the property that's not necessarily established as trail or accommodation,
(36:33):
so things like that. You know, then you go sort
of onto the laptop side of things, the social media stuff,
the marketing stuff. You know, how how better can I
utilize that. I've actually got a friend who's just finished
publishing a book. I can't tell you the name of
the book because that's that's still under wraps, but it's
basically all the private walks of New Zealand that have
(36:54):
been that have been put into.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
A beautiful book with beautiful.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
Photography and literature. I really looking forward to buying a
few copies of that and giving them to friends and
family as prisons. But that's going to be distributed throughout
the country and bookshops and and so you know that's
all good marketing stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Good on your Time'll you carry on your mirror way.
He's always appreciate your time for a chin.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
Wagg Awesome mate, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
We Tom O'Brien, our Gaston correspondent here on the muster.
Before we rap up, we're catching up news Dogs.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Her B's Nick Bewley, Billy Well.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I could.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
This is the Muster on Hakanui. The song is Snake
oil Boy Steve Verrill. Still a weave at of time
till the cranks into it, So we'll crank on with
the show anyway. Before we catch up, Nick Bewley, We've
just had a message from Reese that the Riversdale Lions
forgetting the hay drive. Giving me some shout out to
all the businesses and farmers who supported the hay drive.
Twenty seven thousand dollars was raised for youth medical in
(38:07):
the community. So reached on behalf of the Riversdale line.
Sends everybody for that fantastic achievement. Some wicked numbers there
as well. Regarding hay drives being received from around the province.
Nick Bewley of New Stig ZIB good afternoon, twenty seven thousand.
That's like the capacity of your new stadium.
Speaker 10 (38:25):
Yeah, well twenty five normally twenty five thousand, but we
had thirty thousand on Saturday. Just been for the All
Blacks Cities a inst France. What a magnific test, bitch
was at our national Stadium. Can I say that even
on your radio station, Andy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But it just did?
Speaker 9 (38:41):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
You're right. I might even say it again later on,
but look, it's Yeah, it's a true place. I've been
fortunate enough to be in there but half a dozen
times now. But yeah, I've now said an All Blacks test.
There are Warriors game there, handfull of super apy games,
and yeah, you still you still take them home and
every time you step in doesn't feel like you're in
(39:03):
christ It feels like you're in Europe or America or
something like that. As a state of the art. So yeah,
I hope that buzz Never I'm sure, it probably will.
We were off one day, but I'm enjoying it for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
One complaint somebody hand regarding it probably a little bit trivial,
but they reckoned the big screen in the ground was
equivalent to a twelve inch being chucked in the corner
of a heart. Did it seem like that or does
that take away from the occasion?
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Look, I saw a bit of criticism around the big
screens when they had one of those test events. There
was a watch party. Actually put my family along to
a Warriors game where obviously the Warriors weren't there, but
you just they were trying to test all all sorts
of things like ticketing and hospi and the like. And yeah,
of course you're looking exclusively at a screen from one
(39:53):
hundred dollars meters away. It doesn't look that big. It's
probably a little bit small compared to some other stadia
around the world. But at the end of the day,
I think where we're packing, you know, picking apart something,
trying to find classic New Zealand areas where we're trying
to find something wrong with something that on the whole
(40:15):
is fantastic. So no, at the end of the day,
so sporting events and concerts in there. You're not buying
large going to watch it on a big screen. It's
more a complimentary feature.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I would say the spring Box. They were pretty devastating
against England at the weekend. Let's be honest, this is
the big focus for the All Blacks over the next
six weeks or so. How are they trekking based on
that first performance or is it too early to tell.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
Yeah, it's too early to tell for mine. Look, there's
certainly a step in the right direction. All the things
you heard out of the All Blacks camp, and then
you coach Dave for any assistance new Barnes around being
brilliant at basics, being brutal and being optimistic is probably,
you know, the the catch cry at the moment. I
don't think I've ever heard the word optimistic used so
(41:05):
much in sports vernacular that I have in the last
at a fortnite. But the way in which they played
in that intense, that lightning quickball they got against France,
albeit under a roof, but I was very impressed by
the way in which the All Blacks were willing to
attack from any parts of the field. You know, that
was my larger criticism of the previous regimes. It just
(41:27):
felt like they had to play like someone else as
opposed to play to the strengths of New Zealand rugby,
which has always been attacking, athletic, dynamic, all of the
above really, so there was certainly a step in the
right direction. Yes, conceding thirty two points and four tries
is of concern. However, there have been some very high
(41:49):
scoring games so far at the new stadium here in
christ Church, so I wouldn't read so much into that
for now. But yeah, your point around South Africa, there
is still the benchmark. You look at those First Nations
Championship tests across the board. Look, it was a little
bit tight there at one stage in South Africa and England,
but they rarely pulled away. Four of their seven tries
(42:11):
scored in the in the second half. And it's just
the depth they have Andy, which is probably the scariest thing.
You know, they can trot out a second fifteen and
you know it's still you know, seriously strong match up
against most of inter national sides. So look, obviously it's
(42:31):
a lead. This weekend for the All Blacks, there will
be you know, contemplating rotation as a you know, while
wanting to maintain some combinations. So there's some interesting selection
conundrums there ahead of the team naming tomorrow. But I
hope to see a continued step in the right direction
in terms of the way in which they want to
(42:51):
play their rugby as we build towards that greatest rivalry
tour the NRL.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
The broadcasting deal was released yesterday. It's massive. It's even
trump to AFL in terms of numbers over there, which
is a massive thing. And of course State of Origin
number three tonight New South Wales against Queensland and the
children up there in Brisbane. I think it's hard to
see anything but a reads Maroons win.
Speaker 10 (43:15):
Yeah, no, I tend to agree. Look, I don't have
any great allegiance but probably would be gone with Queensland
over the course of my time following State of Origin.
Certainly enjoyed following it when they went on that crazy
run sort of around two thousand and eight onwards with
the Slaters and Thurston's Cronks of the world. But yeah, look,
(43:39):
it was pretty disappointing and pretty meat causing it from
New South Wales in game two, and I think they've
got fairly lucky in Game one with that send off
the kayleb ponger which turned the game. So everything to
me points towards a Queensland victory, but never take anything
for granted, and state of origin or apes up nicely.
(44:00):
It's great to have another decider. I think it might
be three series in her own now where it's gone
to game three rather than having a dead rubber. So
not all on tonight. It's just a shame. It's what
ten past ten new.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Sign tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (44:14):
Starters, it's a bit brutal.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And the Warriors played the West Tigers again. This is
a baking team. The West Tigers haven't been going too
good lately, but let's not forget what they did about
a month ago.
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Yeah that's right, that's right. Yeah, it didn't feel like
all that long ago. The Tigers were fairly ensconced in
the NRL Top eight. They have had a very tough
run of injuries. See they're also without Jerome Lewie and
up He cordus Our this week. They're without their two
starting back rollers, pars Paul and fire And as well,
(44:46):
and Adam Dewey's just sort of getting back up the
speed after an injury of his own. But yeah, let's
not take away that the Tigers yet to beat the
Warriors earlier in the season. The Warriors, you think the
buy came at the right time. They've been dealing with
their own injury hues and they get back three key
pieces and James Sasha Harris, Lekahalaesima and a Lofiana can Perira.
(45:07):
They will be without Dallen Martenie Lesniak who pulled up
lame in that most recent loss to the Dolphins. But yeah,
this is a key little block for the Warriors. Off
the top of my dime, Andy, They've got the Dragons next,
and then a couple of other teams, maybe the Bulldogs
after that, a few teams outside the top eight before
(45:28):
that mouth Water and Clash and Mount Smart next month
against the Penrith Panthers which could very well be another
repeat of one the two. So these are the ones
if we're here, think him that the Warriors need to
bank give themselves the best possible chance of finishing as
high in the high up in the ladder as possible.
Of course, as most of our listeners who follow the
(45:49):
NRL will know, no team outside of the top four
has gone on to win the thing. You know, a
few outside of the four of at least gone close
and make Grand finals. But you give yourself the best
possible chant. So a big stretch of nine games to
go in the regular season, and it can't be complacent
(46:09):
because there are clubs like the Sydney Roosters, even the
Newcastle Knights all of a sudden, and the Dolphins, despite losing,
who are chomping at their heels. So now looking forward
to Friday night and an outside chance to speaking in
state of origin that Mitch Barnett and Kirk capele back
up provided they get through tonight unscathed. So Warriors closing in.
(46:31):
I'm getting close to full strength.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Nick Dearly of news stg Zebri of new Stog zimb
it is always good to chat up the wise.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
After Andy cheers mate, yeah, Chi.
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well all right, too heavy go there and what are
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as where we hid too on the muster to catch
up with Mark Kolder of PGG right send to give
us a rundown on the stock style report that occurred
this morning. Mark, good afternoon, how do we fear?
Speaker 7 (47:30):
He goot Averron. Here we go and we went good things.
It's a real wintry day here in bell Closer, but
we we got through in the en and that was good.
Smaller yarding today, one of the smaller ones of April Wall.
But there's no lo quality up front, so getting under
the process here in the prime lames turned seventy two
ninety five big hev lambs. Your mediums are two forty
(47:51):
to two sixty install aims were much the same as
your bottom primes one eighty to two hundred and twenty
dollars there, which is very good money. Indeed, your medium
storelims were one fifty to one seventy range and your
tailing store lams or one hundred, one hundred and twenty.
Getting into your prime use your big heavy prim us.
Still going very well at two hundred and forty two
hundred and seventy dollars. You got your mediums very anyway,
(48:14):
from one one fifty to two teen in your your
bottom enders there one hundred, one hundred and thirty dollars,
a couple of small pens of range and today fixture
one hundred and twenty dollars. Yeah, it was us here
in our clother. Just the heads up, we're looking at
having a kettle win in lane. You fear their cloth
on the twenty second this month, so get in touch
(48:34):
with your agent and look forward to hearing from you.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
I've been to Alved
Your man Nimes Tony. That good afternoon, and welcome to
the muster on Hakanui. My name is Andy Muller here
until two o'clock. Of course, thanks to Peter's genetics, of
course you're listening to the Muster on Hakanui. You appreciate
your company. On a rather cool afternoon hearing Gore currently
(00:25):
on six degrees. We'll look at the weather shortly. We're
not far away from the high. Last night I felt
like it was going to freeze like the proverbiilt. This
morning you woke up and it was a easterly or
something blowing through town. It was rather nippy, although our
thoughts are going out to everybody up the island as well,
being affected by either snow or this flooding that's going on,
(00:46):
especially in the top parts of the South Island. Down
here in Gore. That was just an overcast afternoon fog
on the horizon. It looks like mustle something anyway, low
lying clouds probably the terminology. And yes it's just a
little bit nippy, but not the least. We continue Steve
verel the dunes for a hunt day man around al Whiskey.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Can Hakanu's five day forecast with twin farm teff from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So this afternoon sea showers with light south westerlies and
a high seven. Thursday cloudy you have come variable winds
minus two in six. Friday party cloud you have come
variable winds minus three and seven, and Saturday very similar
party cloudy you have come variable winds minus one and
eight and Sunday sunshine with variable winds minus one of eight.
(01:38):
So it looks as though we do have a run
of frost's coming. So temperatures to hand for this afternoon.
Clinton two point three, Harriot four point six, Northern south
On five point two, Rivetons six point one, t Now
five point five, one in four point nine and Woodlands
at six point four. Peter gardin Farming and Napdale starts
(01:58):
as after this afternoon. Pete was involved with the Young
Farmer of the Year competition once upon a time, and
he tells his why he thinks he's the reason it's
no longer on National TV Life. Dave Bis formerly the
Many are Toto these days stock agent based over in
Western Australia. We have our regular catch up Nikola Blair
of darien Z's on the show. Thomas O'Brien Garston, business
(02:21):
owner and just purveyor of wife in general. We catch
up with time to see what's happening today. I think
there's a bit of snow on the ground up in
his neck of the woods. And to wrap up, Nick
Bewley out of Newstalk z B. They're Blacks. The season's underway,
Dave Rennie's reign is underway. How did Nick find that
Mark Calder of PGG rights and gives a rundown from
(02:42):
the balcleuse of sale very shortly. Then we'll start the
yeur after that, Pete Gardy and this is the muster
and we're here until two o'clock. Cheers to Peter's genetics.
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Speaker 1 (03:06):
Peak, Guardine Farms and Napdale and joins us this afternoon
on the Musta on a rather damp afternoon here in
the Deep South. Pete, good afternoon. Ground conditions out your
ways are pretty sticky, oh, ground conditions.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's sticky on top, but it's good underneath. And I'm
actually in my happy place right now. The kettle and
sea for all shifted this morning and we're now going
to eat digger in and the loader, and we're cleaning
out the sheepyards and we're about to rip in and
build new sheepyards. So I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's probably one of the first times I've heard of
somebody talking about building a new wallsheed on sheepyards for
a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, this will be the third set of sheepyards I've
built from scratch. And I've also got to see the
kettle yards and if you rip the internals out of
old ones and redo them. We extended the roof and
maybe yards bigger or three years ago, but we're now
getting onto redoing the internals, which we did half last
winter and we're doing the other half this winter.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
A lot of the timber from the bones of those
old buildings as well the designed to last until now
it comes again.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
The design to last. This shed here was that sort
of called a Stuart's I don't know if it was
seventies or eighty style, where they decided to run the
race straight into the tin wall and then wonder what
a sheep wouldn't run. And it's been a secondary shed
for us for a while. But yeah, we're getting in
and we're putting a curved race and we'll get it
running nicely. And I can tell you the timber and
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all that, like, it costs a weaverit of money, but
what you save in labor and animal stress and all
that going forward is just huge. And I'm a massive
fan of good yards.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, if that's not a tick towards the future of
the sheep industry, I don't know what is pete.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh yeah, no, the sheep industry is just amazing, Andy,
it's cranking.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Look at the prices yesterday they got four hundred dollars
of lawful. Everything's pretty buoyant. So yeah, I mean it
wasn't something you heard about. I mean I've heard of
people who actually got rid of their wool sheds a week.
The self sitting sheep.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeah, no, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
One, I don't think the sheating seat's gonna I hope
that wooly sheet come back, but I actually think the
shedding seat's probably gonna keep going. And why that is, is,
unless the wall thing really fundamentally shows us some long
term stuff, you know, in the positive direction. The shedding
seat thing, I think in my blook is more about
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lower cost of production and lower labor units press stock
unit rather than being anti woolf So.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You're thinking for wall to egs to have people thinking differently,
it's got to go up twice as much, three times
as much as its value at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, So we we just sent some wall into town.
So I don't have the results on that yet, but
I have done my anial accounts roughly from last season,
and we've made a small profit on our Wall account,
which is obviously cool when you compare it to the
scale of their business. It doesn't warrant any excitement yet.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No, And I think the shedding sheet thing, I think
that we even careful because we're having a wee small
play on this front. At the moment. The genetics are
not as good as the normal sheep that have been
bred in New Zealand for one hundred and fifty years.
But I think in five years time to ten years time,
it'll be really interesting to see what's out there. I
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love Wall, but I also like cool cars, and I
don't farm cool cars.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I don't think many people do.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Though well we all wish we did. But yeah, I
think that well, thing's an interesting space and I don't
think it's a done deal either way.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
How's everything on the rage anyway? Just pretty much July
being July.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, July has been July. Feel a wee bit riffed
off when you go to bed at night and there's
a frost on the deck and then you wake up
and it's raining in the morning. I like a frosty
morning and less mud. That the window crops have all
done pret well. The stock team's got the stock looking awesome.
That scanned really well, which is cool. There's probably another
thing to talk about that's interesting with the stud long
(07:11):
story short, we wanted to make the hogits with the
US to keep linkages between age groups and time frames
at Lemming time, which I won't pull you on the
details for so a couple of years ago we mated
hoggits on their own use on their own and Hoggits
and use mixed together, and we had no conception differences
between those mating groups. So this year on the we
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lock up at Pyramid there we actually made it their
two dooths with their mixed age us, which is usually
considered to be a big no no, But we had
under one percent drise in that line. So yeah, I
think that sort of old old man's tail or, old
farmer's tailor, what do you want to call it. I
think that's actually not as correct as it may have
been in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Interesting as well, the Green Party's policy would touch on
this page wanting to get rid of synthetic furtile line
is yet the comparison has been made to Sheri Lanka
in twenty twenty one and April twenty one, They're then
president abruptly banned all agrichemical imports to shift to exclusive
organic agriculture and reduce pressure on dwindling foreign exchange reserves.
(08:16):
But what happened was their corrupt failure went down by
twenty percent in the first six months. They had to
actually import four hundred and fifty million dollars worth of rice,
which is a staple food. And it got to the
point that with all the protests and everything else, economic decline.
November twenty twenty one, it declined and went back to
the way it was.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Sorry, Well, what I'd say is I'd say that ninety
nine point nine percent of your listeners are very intelligent
and none of that would surprise them. But unfortunately, there
is a small percentage of their population and a high
percent of them are in the Green Party that have
no idea about the realities of life. And I'm not
(08:56):
We're definitely not organic here, and I don't want to
be organic. I respect organic people, but it's as one
organic farmer who I know well told me, he said,
it's like farming. It's one hand tied behind your back.
It's an intensification and it's a harder way of doing farming,
and on scale. Notchgreen News sensibly is just an amazing
(09:19):
tool that I tell you, I don't want to lose
it on this property.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hey, just finally as well, Tom Slae winning the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year a few days back. Now,
fantastic effort. Now you went to the big dance of
this and you reckon you're responsible for it getting taken
off the telly well a.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Couple of It's awesome that Tom won. He's a good
guy and he's from a great family. Personally, it's a
wee bit scary because I realized that I competed closer
to when his uncle and his father did than when
Tom has, So that makes me feel like a middle
aged farmer. But yeah, I was at the Grand Final
in Gore, and not many people probably noticed, but Gore
(10:01):
was the biggest Grand Final they've ever had by quite
a margin, and it was the last time it was
televised on TV. So maybe I had a face radio
and I scared them all off. Yeah, but no, that
Gore Grand Final, I mean, obviously a big fan of
Gore living ten minutes out of the town, was well
regarded as the biggest and probably one of the best
(10:25):
because a small town like Gore really got behind it,
and it was quite an event for the town.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You're saying twelve hundred people there that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Night, There's thirteen hundred people at the night show, and
it was televised live on TV one, and I was
just a young twenty two year old, And I tell
you that was probably one of the scariest nights of
the life.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Andy, Oh, you survived.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I survived, And I can tell you that the three
months with the Gore tost Masters leading up to that
made a heck of a lot easier than it would
have been beforehand, but it was quite a difference to
the thing a man's quarter that I was living on
on farm being in front of that many people, So
that's for me one thing to know. That's I heard
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Simon Hotcroft on an interview I think it might have
been on Jamie's show, where he said that it was
great to be there, but he was glad that he
didn't have to do it again. And every Grand finalist
will tell you that it is such a massive undertaking
and it's a it's such a lot of work those
guys put into it, and there's a lot of pressure,
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and it's it's something that's hard to describe unless you've
done it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Did you find it terrifying that it takes you a
couple of days to actually realize that why the reasons
for you entering the event.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I don't think it's terrifying. It's just it's just studying
for a school exam or a university exam, or your
driver's license or something like that. You know what's going
to be in the test. You know they can only
test you on things that are in the road code
or things that are in your year that you've learned
at school. When at the Young Farmer's Competition. You're rocking
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up to something where you have absolutely zero an idea
what they're going to talk about. They could be asking
you about tavy fruit or dairy farming, or aquaculture or
sheep or you know. Yeah, for example, one of the
ones I entered, and I'm a sheep farmer and I
can do most sheep farmer things really well. But I
(12:24):
walked into a sheep scanning module for pregnancy scanning, and
that's one thing that I cannot comprehend. It just looks
like a bunch of bubbles on the screen. And you know,
you walk into a module like that is a sheep cockey,
and you know there's no way up to do any
good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Hey, good on repeat. We better leave it there, enjoy
the afternoon. We'll catch up again.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Sounds good and have a good.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
One, Pete. Garda and Farming a naptile and self proclaimed
the self proclaimed proclaimed reason that the Young Farmer of
the Air competition is longer on the no longer on
the TV. Nonetheless safe, We're near twice and really well, Pete.
Next we're away to Western Australia to catch up with
Dave Busy Byss formerly a many a Toto these days
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a stock agent over the ditch. Yeah, he's back a
little welcome back to the muster. We're away over the ditches.
Afternoon to Western Australia. Dave Busy Buss here is a
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stock agent over there, or I formerly of the many
A Toto Bussy. Good afternoon. It's good morning where you are.
And it sounds as though you've got southern temperatures today.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yes, good morning Andy. It's sure is a bit nippy.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It's three degrees here and I think we're going to
hit nineteen is our high. So sooner the sun comes
out in the fog rolls back, the better.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I think.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
At least it's not as cold as the many Atato.
With all that snow and wet weather they've had.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Sounds like there's a bit of a complaint happening over there,
and rightly so. Mice plagues are a real thing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yes, it is real.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Roughly about four hundred and fifty k's north of Perth
in that tower area. They've had a really bad run,
and I think they're starting to get on top of
it now. But they've had a bad run in the
respect that those the mice plague has just taken over.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And I was.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Reading some facts and figures the other day, and you know,
there's eight thousand mice per hectare, so you know they're
not just eating the tops, they're they're burrowing into sown
paddocks and eating the roots, attacking crops. Anything that's edible
is edible. And then there's the health issues with families
and kids. You know, bloody all sorts of illnesses that
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kids in that pick up, So it's a pretty.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Horrible, horrible thing to be happening.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
And then you've got all those woke UNPC people that
don't contribute to our community much and they're rallying the
big retailers not to sell poisons and baits. So it's
very hard to get on top of it. So once again,
once again it's those people sort of rattling the chain
and and pushing the rest of us around, which is
a real concern going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
So what's happening with your stock prices at the moment?
Busy over here in New Zealand, it's fear to say,
we're seeing record prices for lamb and sheep at the moment.
What's the situation there?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well, I was listening to your show the other day,
and I was listening to your local PGG rights an agent,
and I think on sheep across the board, we're pretty
much on par.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
You know, I'd say we're a bang on the money.
But our numbers and the saliards are back considerably.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
So you know, two months ago when you and I
were talking, we were doing fifteen to twenty thousand sheep
every week. Now we're down to four to five thousand
this week, so the numbers are dwindling.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You know, the U flock is low, so farmers.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Are keeping new lambs upping their female so numbers are
hard to get. So prices for sheep are up right
across the broad cattle prices are strong. I sold some
stairs this week at five ninety six cents a Q
on shoot on Monday, and that's pushing the cow price
up too for that export all that ground beef. So
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you know where we were at two dollars seventy two
dollars ninety two dollars ninety five, we're now at.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Three dollars eighty eight for the tops of fat cows
this week, so that's good money there. So yeah, it's
really pumping along nicely. But I just hope it doesn't
fall too quick.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
We just need it to sort of mallow out and
just just smell the flowers for a while, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So why are sheep numbers dwindling?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
One You've got a live export business that's changing, so
a lot of farmers have changed their changed their sheep management.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Two, we haven't got enough females.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Three we shipped a lot of sheep the last two
and three years to the Eastern States. You know, some
weeks we'd set we'd send When I say we, the
state might send fifty road trains thirty forty fifty road
trains a week.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
So it's a hell of a lot of sheep have
gone out of the state.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And if you look at processes meat companies, a couple
of the guys have done the yearly maintenance on their chains,
and one guy on one process he's he runs two factories,
two meat works.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He's just locked the door on one.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
He's done his maintenance, it's ready to go, but the
numbers aren't there, so he's only running one side.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So it's a real issue.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It's just driving the money up, and then you get
those Eastern States buyers coming.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
And that just pushes it up again. So it's pretty
it's a bit of a balancing act at the moment.
I think we just need to be a bit careful.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
But you know, hopefully there'll be new season's Lambs come
on shortly, so we'll just see how that goes.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
The talking money on.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Sorry, no, that's all good. But I was about to say,
is this probably universal across the other states?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I think so. Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
And a lot of those states are restocking as well,
so with floods and droughts and different things that happen
in Australia.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
So it's just a chain effect. It just rolls on.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
As far as fuel level was, the last time we spoke,
it was a key buzz word for a lot of people,
fuel retainment as such. What's happening now with an easing
of the price here in New Zealand, we're not hearing
as much about it in the media. What's your situation?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, we're on par with you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
So we've we've gone for a stressful time where you know,
diesel was well up around that three.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Dollars fifty three dollars seventy there and it came back
to two fifty. Well, yes, that was a dollar seventy two, so.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
It's come right back and it's now we're back to
normal now, I think, you know, if you're down a
dollar seventy for a leader, it's not an issue anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
We've come, we've ridden that storm.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So it was just a bit of hysteria at the time.
But everything seems to have gone back to normality.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Then, yeah, it is. It's a bit like when COVID came.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Well, we ran out of toilet paper, so now there's
plenty on the shelf.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So I think we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know, I'll flow this year as well. Visie regarding
five FO the industry over there in Wa, just state
how big it is for the economy.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Oh wow, it's just out of control. It's it's a juggernaut.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
I think I said to you one other time twenty
years ago there was six sixty seven thousand people a
week in and out of the Perth airport, and I
think it's one hundred and seventy thousand out of the
Perth airport and they could come from Wellington, Auckland and
Dunedin or Sydney or Fiji or wherever that that that
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business is just heaving, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It just drives the whole state.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Like I've been here twenty five years and I've never
seen a depression or at downtime.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
The rest of Australia can be in dire straits and
Western Australia doesn't miss a beat.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
That just keeps going. You know, you can roll in
here into the Western Australia.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
And want to get a job on the mines and
it's a tricky one, but if you know someone, you
can have a job a week. It's easy and that
money is pretty healthy. It's pretty tidy. Even a dump
truck driver.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The first job you get on a mind site.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know, three fifty four hundred dollars a day and
that's the base level that they all start.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
So yeah, you can save a lot of money and
it doesn't take long.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
If you've got half a brain and you've got some
good skills behind you, you can go up the food
chain pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
So the money goes up pretty quick, so it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Does rugby union like the Wallabies have much of a
post through over there, given that a f ols the
buzzword freemantles on top of the table. West Coast Eagles
they're down the bottom, but very popular. Where does union
stand during the Test season?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, when the Wallabies come out to play, Australia certainly
gets their canary gold jackets on and all their funny
and they turn the telly up.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah, it's pretty strong.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
The game has grown here in the state massively over
the last twenty years and the standard's gone up. And
if you look at that Western Forest side, now obviously
they're not homebred players, but you've got quite a few
Wallabies and good Eastern States players and that in that side.
So it's pretty strong at times, you know, when they're
when they're under pressure and they're not playing that well,
they struggle with the stadium with how many people they
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are getting in the grounds.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
But yeah, it's pretty popular. It's pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Club rugby in Perith. Would you say it's in a
boom moment for the time being or as are generally
pretty stable?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
It's generally pretty stable, I would. I would say this
year it's a bit flat of anything. I don't know
why that is, but the standard of rugby is perfectly
fine appared to what it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
It's certainly improved.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
You know that top tier two or three teams would
be able to foot the bill and christ Church or Dunedin.
I'm not saying they'd wuldn't, but they'd hold their own
and they'd play a reasonable game. The younger crowd coming
through the kids' grades are massive. My middle boy when
he was five, I think our club side had nine
teams and now we have twenty three and that's a
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general consensus.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
So rugby's really growing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Hey, get on, you're bussy. Who're better leave it there?
You wrap up warm in the Western Australia will catch
up again.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah, great to talk to you and you have a
lovely day and all the best all the Kiwis well,
have a great day back.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Dave. Missy. This our Western Australian corresponded here on the
muster coming back local next. Nicola Blair from darien Z.
We have a catchup, clean Wagan down, Jerry cool rule,
my sister.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Wagan do Jery cool rule.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Steve Earl is the music this afternoon. You're listening to
the Master on Hokanui. Nicola Blair of diarian Z joins
us once again. Nicola, good afternoon, how are you goody?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Ye're just rocking and rolling along on this rather damp afternoon.
That's hunt Dale already. It's a shorter week for Mataiki,
not of the metas on the farm. I mean, life
continues on, as does darien Z. What's been going on.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Yeah, we've been busy. We've had a busy week last week. Yeah,
we had three events. We had we started with the
people weeks both earlier in the week that was in
the cargo at the scott Hotel there and yeah, it
was such an awesome day. It was such a good
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opportunity to bring all the farmers and we're all professionals
and everyone in the industry together and sort of focused
a little bit more around people. You know, quite often
when we talk about successful dairy farming where we're sort
of you know, we're always talking about past or cows,
production and financial performance and you know, of course all
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that stuff matters, but yeah, behind every good farm system
of the you know, there's people making those decisions every
day and doing the hard work, leading the teams and
all that. So yeah, it was really really cool to
have an events focused on their people, and there was
so many key things, themes and take home moments throughout
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the day. No matter what position you are, you're in
in the industry, you know, some of the stuff that
I took home was like retention, it starts from day one,
you know. And also like if you're trying to build
a strong workplace culture, it's built through small daily actions,
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not just every now and again put some time in dutange.
You've sort of got to be consistent with that. Yeah,
so we're really lucky as well. We had the James
Laylam's he's his last name, is their headline speaker. So
he's a really well known high performance coach. He's got
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a podcast called Habits of High Performers and yeah, so
it was really cool to have him there giving us
some really good stuff about habits and backing yourself and
messages around leadership. Yeah. So no, I really landed really
well in the room. And then we had some Carving
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Smart events as well last week through South and Enatago
and these events. Yeah, these are really cool. So vest
for a dairy training limit and yeah, it's just all
about helping farmers and their teams just getting prepared and
confidence and yeah, heading into the busiest most important time
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of the year really in the very season. Yeah, Carving's
always a big milestone and the farming calendar, so yeah,
just it sort of sets the tone for the season,
the head so getting things right, you know, it's really important. Yeah,
so they just covered things around cow and carb care. Yeah,
looking after your springers and identifying cows that need support
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and all that and yeah if you're if you're not sure,
how to assist, make sure you get help and all
those things. When to get a vet to Stephan. Yeah,
I thought it was really cool because what I found.
I went to the one in Winton and yeah, just
the willingness of farmers in the room actually sharing their
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stories and ideas and yeah, just talking openly about what
works well on their farms and what doesn't. And you know,
there's a huge amount of experience in Southland in the
farming community. So yeah, I think like these it's just
a great reminder that we're gonna learned from each other.
So that was really cool midweek and then at the
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end on Friday, we had a field day out at
the Southern Dairy Hub near Wallacetown there, so yeah, it
was really cool to go out there for a catch
up and have a bit of an update of what's
been happening. At the hub. Yeah, we're really lucky to
have their senior scientist, Storm Deli. She came down to
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present to us sort of what they've been researching in
the cow rumination space, which was really cool. So yeah,
it was a really good reminder that our behavior, you know,
it can tell us so much about how the animals
are coping and if we need to adjust their management,
I could support the welfare and performance of these girls.
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And yeah, it was also really really cool the hubs
putting a new stand off pad and the sort of
halfway through that project. That was really cool to go
and see that. It's pretty relevant with Southlands obviously, Yeah,
the conditions that some of their farmers have to farm
and managing through the winter periods and springs. Yeah, and
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they also had a section about nitrogen's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Youth just yeah, don't tell the greens you're doing nitrogen goodness.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Well, I should have worried a better responsible use of nitrogen,
I should say, Yeah, and just making sure that, yeah,
your applications are targeted and timely and efficient, and yeah,
making sure that you're getting the best value from fertilizers
while also looking after the environment as well. It's always
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really important so yeah, overall, it is a really valuable day.
It's always good to go out and see what the
hub's been up.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
To, and just to wrap up as well. I suppose
having a plan B when the weather's a bit if
he likes of it at the moment, run offs, et cetera.
It comes to mind.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just our opportunity, I guess, to just
highlight with how weather has been, especially in the past
week things. Yeah, they're getting pretty most under foot there.
And yeah, just the importance for farmers just to have
a plan B and place for their stock if things
are getting too muddy and looking a bit average. Yeah,
(28:38):
I think just if it's not looking too flash, just
follow your gap, you know, especially at the moment with
school holidays and a lot of farm owners are away
getting some time off. Yeah, just ensure that your farm
stuff or whoever's left in charge. Yeah, just that there's
a clear plan in place and make sure that they
(29:01):
follow it and it happens if they needs to.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
The last thing we want to hear is family is
getting getting in trouble or having drama with the local council.
It's the last thing you want at this time of
the year. On top of everything else.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So yeah, Nicola Blair, Durryan's it always got to catch up.
You stay dry this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, we'll try and d thank you if you.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Too, Jerusasm Nicola Blair of Derryen z up. Next we're
away to Gaston to catch up and Tom O'Brien and
before the end of the Yell and News Talk zb's
Nick Bewley. You're listening to the Master to a.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Cool Room, Billy Hawk, Billy Hell.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
This is the Master on Hakani. Thomas O'Brien is a
usiness owner based app and Gaston. That time, good afternoon,
he'll Billy Highway is the name of the song. And
there's anything but that from going from Garston to and
v Cargole.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Oh yeah mate, it's yeah, it's quite a classic that tune,
isn't It's pretty cool. It's yeah, it makes you kind
of puts a spring in your step even when you're
driving or maybe I don't know, it's maybe I've just
got to take my foot off the accelerator a little
bit because.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It kind of Yeah, ground conditions, what are they like?
The snow it's fallen in various parts of the Tago
and some parts of Southland. What have you been like there?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Oh, well, we had a bit of snowfall last week
or earlier this week actually, and you know there's still
a bit of snow around the house. I went for
a bit of a trot up to the top of
the hill yesterday and there's oh there would have been
a good fifteen centimeters. Yeah. So yeah, but as I
was leaving home, I just home at about just before
(30:49):
seven o'clock this morning, and it was snowing as I left.
But as I as I headed through the south, I'm
coming into into Lawnville as we speak, and it's it's
a clear what's clearing, and it's the clouds have parted,
the roadways is clear. I'm looking forward to a strong
coffee when I get into into town. And yeah, it's
(31:11):
the best place to be at the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, and vocable the place to be. So how things be?
We haven't spoken to you for a few weeks, mate, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Well I did.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I was lucky enough to have a bit of a
chat to Olivia last time, which was which was really cool.
I think she said at the end of it it
almost sounded like we're going to have a bit of
a ted talk. With Tom, But she did touch on
a subject that you that you quite often remind me of,
and Olivia actually chimed in as well, because I think
it was I think it was Mental Health Week or
(31:43):
something like that anyway, but it was to do with
just you know, taking steps to look after yourself and
look after your body and your mind and and look
after each other as as a whole. Right, So yeah,
I had a good chat to her, to Olivia's but yeah,
we haven't spoken for a while, have we made.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
This time of year, arguably winter's a great chance for
bit of a reset game with your social media. Tom,
What it surprised me if you go for a stroll
on the snow in your jocks.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Well, you know, I was tracing through. I had been
for weeks and days and months, and you know, the cutting,
the cutting blizzard wis out like a thousand and tens
you know, already perforating my capillary skin. And you know,
I thought at one point that I would have been
better off swimming through a sea of golden syrup or.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
Worse my lasses.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
But you know, finally when I got to the point,
the mud hut greeted me and I went in and
let a little fire and contemplated my journey. So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's a pretty good description. And the only things that
missing in that sentences and as I turned to the dog.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Exactly mate. Yeah, yeah, you've been watching the wrong things
by it sounds I've.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I've watching your social channels. They're interesting, they're a good watch, nonetheless,
And you talk about the lessones of me. That's one
of the great things about winter in these still days,
thousans and stock foods across the road here in Gore,
I reckon. It's one of the joys of living in town. Actually,
the smell of usually wafting through the main streets when
the days are still, it's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Well, it's ton of synonymous of Gore, isn't it. You
know the Komoter factory across the way there, you know,
as a kid growing up and spending quite a lot
of time in Gore because my grandparents lived in Coots
Road and Gore opposite Gore High there. And yeah, my
grandfather he used to have the old fruit shop in
the main street of Gore. Yeah yeah, yeah, so so yeah,
(33:36):
they sold to Sharps many years ago. But you may
recall that there was actually a fire in the toy shop.
There used to be a toy shop in the main
street of Gore and there was a fire in there,
and yeah, it spread into our building as well and
did quite a lot of damage. So we rebuilt the
fruit shop and then we put an apartment on top
(33:57):
of the fruit shop and then we rented it up
to Woman's Refuge for many many years. So yeah, but yeah,
just that smell on my lassis, mate, you can't beat it,
you know, you just want to get get a spoonful
and get it in your Sometimes it smells there good,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The two toy shops on the main street, they're back
in the day had Toy World and the other Orlve
with the space rocket outside. The cost twenty cents to
have a go.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Oh the joys, mate, it's.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Anonymous of my youth. Coming to the big smoke putting
a coin in that rocket.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
You felt like you were literally heading to Mars, didn't you.
You know, ground controlled a major time and blasting off.
We're off to Mars, mate.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Not quite going to Mars, but nonetheless, you know, when
you're coming from the big small smoke of cattle flat
into the smoke of gore At the time it was
an achievement, but when you went in the Cargo House,
heck it was on another level.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
Oh, totally another level mate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And as I say, I'm.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Driving into town now, places looking good, heading in for
a few workshop meetings and all that jazz. But yeah, look,
I mean there's a service town. You can't really you
can't really go too far past it. Well, Goreon and
the cargo you know, are two major towns. You know
quite often travel up to Queenstown, and Queenstown is nice
(35:13):
to visit, but mate, in terms of actual you know,
goods and services and dealing with businesses and people, you
cannot beat South. And I'll tell you what it's. It's yeah,
and that's I guess that's one of our unique points.
You know. It's just good people, good business.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Very much. Doubt you can get the baiale of woolpacks
in the middle of Queenstown.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
No, I doubt it. Well, yeah, and if you do,
it's probably full of you know, you know, something that
you probably don't want, you know, it's just full of
rubbish anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So do you do you reassess goals at this time
of year?
Speaker 9 (35:49):
I do, mate, Yeah, look, I mean, I don't do
a deep dive into into my own goal setting, and
I probably should. It's something I should probably work on,
but I do kind of like daydream and fantasize a
little bit about how I can change the business. Will
not change it, but just modify it and prove it.
I'm quite big on kind of looking at what you've
already got and and you know, in terms of a
(36:12):
you know, reinvesting back into the business, like you know, financially,
reinvesting can be obviously quite quite difficult. So you kind
of take a step back and say, what can I
modify that I've already got? Can I look at maybe
some better guiding options on a on a larger area
of the property that's not necessarily established as trail or accommodation,
(36:33):
so things like that. You know, then you go sort
of onto the laptop side of things, the social media stuff,
the marketing stuff. You know, how how better can I
utilize that. I've actually got a friend who's just finished
publishing a book. I can't tell you the name of
the book because that's that's still under wraps, but it's
basically all the private walks of New Zealand that have
(36:54):
been that have been put into.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
A beautiful book with beautiful.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
Photography and literature. I really looking forward to buying a
few copies of that and giving them to friends and
family as prisons. But that's going to be distributed throughout
the country and bookshops and and so you know that's
all good marketing stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Good on your Time'll you carry on your mirror way.
He's always appreciate your time for a chin.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
Wagg Awesome mate, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
We Tom O'Brien, our Gaston correspondent here on the muster.
Before we rap up, we're catching up news Dogs.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Her B's Nick Bewley, Billy Well.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I could.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
This is the Muster on Hakanui. The song is Snake
oil Boy Steve Verrill. Still a weave at of time
till the cranks into it, So we'll crank on with
the show anyway. Before we catch up, Nick Bewley, We've
just had a message from Reese that the Riversdale Lions
forgetting the hay drive. Giving me some shout out to
all the businesses and farmers who supported the hay drive.
Twenty seven thousand dollars was raised for youth medical in
(38:07):
the community. So reached on behalf of the Riversdale line.
Sends everybody for that fantastic achievement. Some wicked numbers there
as well. Regarding hay drives being received from around the province.
Nick Bewley of New Stig ZIB good afternoon, twenty seven thousand.
That's like the capacity of your new stadium.
Speaker 10 (38:25):
Yeah, well twenty five normally twenty five thousand, but we
had thirty thousand on Saturday. Just been for the All
Blacks Cities a inst France. What a magnific test, bitch
was at our national Stadium. Can I say that even
on your radio station, Andy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But it just did?
Speaker 9 (38:41):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
You're right. I might even say it again later on,
but look, it's Yeah, it's a true place. I've been
fortunate enough to be in there but half a dozen
times now. But yeah, I've now said an All Blacks test.
There are Warriors game there, handfull of super apy games,
and yeah, you still you still take them home and
every time you step in doesn't feel like you're in
(39:03):
christ It feels like you're in Europe or America or
something like that. As a state of the art. So yeah,
I hope that buzz Never I'm sure, it probably will.
We were off one day, but I'm enjoying it for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
One complaint somebody hand regarding it probably a little bit trivial,
but they reckoned the big screen in the ground was
equivalent to a twelve inch being chucked in the corner
of a heart. Did it seem like that or does
that take away from the occasion?
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Look, I saw a bit of criticism around the big
screens when they had one of those test events. There
was a watch party. Actually put my family along to
a Warriors game where obviously the Warriors weren't there, but
you just they were trying to test all all sorts
of things like ticketing and hospi and the like. And yeah,
of course you're looking exclusively at a screen from one
(39:53):
hundred dollars meters away. It doesn't look that big. It's
probably a little bit small compared to some other stadia
around the world. But at the end of the day,
I think where we're packing, you know, picking apart something,
trying to find classic New Zealand areas where we're trying
to find something wrong with something that on the whole
(40:15):
is fantastic. So no, at the end of the day,
so sporting events and concerts in there. You're not buying
large going to watch it on a big screen. It's
more a complimentary feature.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I would say the spring Box. They were pretty devastating
against England at the weekend. Let's be honest, this is
the big focus for the All Blacks over the next
six weeks or so. How are they trekking based on
that first performance or is it too early to tell.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
Yeah, it's too early to tell for mine. Look, there's
certainly a step in the right direction. All the things
you heard out of the All Blacks camp, and then
you coach Dave for any assistance new Barnes around being
brilliant at basics, being brutal and being optimistic is probably,
you know, the the catch cry at the moment. I
don't think I've ever heard the word optimistic used so
(41:05):
much in sports vernacular that I have in the last
at a fortnite. But the way in which they played
in that intense, that lightning quickball they got against France,
albeit under a roof, but I was very impressed by
the way in which the All Blacks were willing to
attack from any parts of the field. You know, that
was my larger criticism of the previous regimes. It just
(41:27):
felt like they had to play like someone else as
opposed to play to the strengths of New Zealand rugby,
which has always been attacking, athletic, dynamic, all of the
above really, so there was certainly a step in the
right direction. Yes, conceding thirty two points and four tries
is of concern. However, there have been some very high
(41:49):
scoring games so far at the new stadium here in
christ Church, so I wouldn't read so much into that
for now. But yeah, your point around South Africa, there
is still the benchmark. You look at those First Nations
Championship tests across the board. Look, it was a little
bit tight there at one stage in South Africa and England,
but they rarely pulled away. Four of their seven tries
(42:11):
scored in the in the second half. And it's just
the depth they have Andy, which is probably the scariest thing.
You know, they can trot out a second fifteen and
you know it's still you know, seriously strong match up
against most of inter national sides. So look, obviously it's
(42:31):
a lead. This weekend for the All Blacks, there will
be you know, contemplating rotation as a you know, while
wanting to maintain some combinations. So there's some interesting selection
conundrums there ahead of the team naming tomorrow. But I
hope to see a continued step in the right direction
in terms of the way in which they want to
(42:51):
play their rugby as we build towards that greatest rivalry
tour the NRL.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
The broadcasting deal was released yesterday. It's massive. It's even
trump to AFL in terms of numbers over there, which
is a massive thing. And of course State of Origin
number three tonight New South Wales against Queensland and the
children up there in Brisbane. I think it's hard to
see anything but a reads Maroons win.
Speaker 10 (43:15):
Yeah, no, I tend to agree. Look, I don't have
any great allegiance but probably would be gone with Queensland
over the course of my time following State of Origin.
Certainly enjoyed following it when they went on that crazy
run sort of around two thousand and eight onwards with
the Slaters and Thurston's Cronks of the world. But yeah, look,
(43:39):
it was pretty disappointing and pretty meat causing it from
New South Wales in game two, and I think they've
got fairly lucky in Game one with that send off
the kayleb ponger which turned the game. So everything to
me points towards a Queensland victory, but never take anything
for granted, and state of origin or apes up nicely.
(44:00):
It's great to have another decider. I think it might
be three series in her own now where it's gone
to game three rather than having a dead rubber. So
not all on tonight. It's just a shame. It's what
ten past ten new.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Sign tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (44:14):
Starters, it's a bit brutal.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And the Warriors played the West Tigers again. This is
a baking team. The West Tigers haven't been going too
good lately, but let's not forget what they did about
a month ago.
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Yeah that's right, that's right. Yeah, it didn't feel like
all that long ago. The Tigers were fairly ensconced in
the NRL Top eight. They have had a very tough
run of injuries. See they're also without Jerome Lewie and
up He cordus Our this week. They're without their two
starting back rollers, pars Paul and fire And as well,
(44:46):
and Adam Dewey's just sort of getting back up the
speed after an injury of his own. But yeah, let's
not take away that the Tigers yet to beat the
Warriors earlier in the season. The Warriors, you think the
buy came at the right time. They've been dealing with
their own injury hues and they get back three key
pieces and James Sasha Harris, Lekahalaesima and a Lofiana can Perira.
(45:07):
They will be without Dallen Martenie Lesniak who pulled up
lame in that most recent loss to the Dolphins. But yeah,
this is a key little block for the Warriors. Off
the top of my dime, Andy, They've got the Dragons next,
and then a couple of other teams, maybe the Bulldogs
after that, a few teams outside the top eight before
(45:28):
that mouth Water and Clash and Mount Smart next month
against the Penrith Panthers which could very well be another
repeat of one the two. So these are the ones
if we're here, think him that the Warriors need to
bank give themselves the best possible chance of finishing as
high in the high up in the ladder as possible.
Of course, as most of our listeners who follow the
(45:49):
NRL will know, no team outside of the top four
has gone on to win the thing. You know, a
few outside of the four of at least gone close
and make Grand finals. But you give yourself the best
possible chant. So a big stretch of nine games to
go in the regular season, and it can't be complacent
(46:09):
because there are clubs like the Sydney Roosters, even the
Newcastle Knights all of a sudden, and the Dolphins, despite losing,
who are chomping at their heels. So now looking forward
to Friday night and an outside chance to speaking in
state of origin that Mitch Barnett and Kirk capele back
up provided they get through tonight unscathed. So Warriors closing in.
(46:31):
I'm getting close to full strength.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Nick Dearly of news stg Zebri of new Stog zimb
it is always good to chat up the wise.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
After Andy cheers mate, yeah, Chi.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
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(47:16):
well all right, too heavy go there and what are
you going again for? I'm a twenty five now closer
as where we hid too on the muster to catch
up with Mark Kolder of PGG right send to give
us a rundown on the stock style report that occurred
this morning. Mark, good afternoon, how do we fear?
Speaker 7 (47:30):
He goot Averron. Here we go and we went good things.
It's a real wintry day here in bell Closer, but
we we got through in the en and that was good.
Smaller yarding today, one of the smaller ones of April Wall.
But there's no lo quality up front, so getting under
the process here in the prime lames turned seventy two
ninety five big hev lambs. Your mediums are two forty
(47:51):
to two sixty install aims were much the same as
your bottom primes one eighty to two hundred and twenty
dollars there, which is very good money. Indeed, your medium
storelims were one fifty to one seventy range and your
tailing store lams or one hundred, one hundred and twenty.
Getting into your prime use your big heavy prim us.
Still going very well at two hundred and forty two
hundred and seventy dollars. You got your mediums very anyway,
(48:14):
from one one fifty to two teen in your your
bottom enders there one hundred, one hundred and thirty dollars,
a couple of small pens of range and today fixture
one hundred and twenty dollars. Yeah, it was us here
in our clother. Just the heads up, we're looking at
having a kettle win in lane. You fear their cloth
on the twenty second this month, so get in touch
(48:34):
with your agent and look forward to hearing from you.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
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